Thread by @originalspin

Biden on gun violence is emotional, empathetic, moving, powerful. It's amazing how we've allowed our American pandemic of out-of-control guns to totally fall off of our national radar, because of the social paralysis from the mishandled Covid-19 pandemic.

I'd be a little more convinced by this climate change leadership segment if the DNC hadn't quietly backed off of its "no fossil fuel subsidies" platform pledge until environmental activists rightly flipped out. Biden says they're just as committed as ever. Let's hold him to that.

Kerry Washington talking about being from elsewhere, yet being American, was incredibly beautiful. Would have loved it if the DNC had brought Asian and Hispanic voices on stage for this live moment too—to share their personal histories.

This recorded segment is dead-on though.

Hill looks good. A lot better than I would after having to watch almost four years of everything I'd predicted coming true and worse, knowing that a perfect storm of Dem overconfidence, Russian interference, media weaselry and racism/misogyny had prevented me from becoming POTUS.

SHE’S ON!

So @ewarren is talking about childcare—hugely important in this time of COVID catastrophe. But I still wish they’d let her go full bore against Trump admin corruption and billionaire self-dealing.

Her speech is almost over. I want more.

I WANT MORE.

#DBFH

I gotta say this Obama Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction presentation to Joe does make me tear up a little.

HE’S ON!!

“We should expect a president to be the custodian of our democracy.”

Damn straight, Mr. Still My President.

Obama going harder at Trump than we’ve ever heard...in that calm, empathic, reasonable way he uniquely has, it sounds more compelling than if it were shouted at the top of his lungs.

Literally every person the Dems have put on stage is a smarter and more eloquent speaker than the man currently in the White House

I'd like to see @realDonaldTrump say "political props to deploy on peaceful protesters" without mangling it
#PoeticalPoopsToDelayPenileProstaters

The emotional catch in Obama's voice when talking about the late John Lewis

I'm not crying, you're crying

There's never going to be another @BarackObama. He was imperfect; all presidents are. He fell short of our dreams for him. But he was the finest man in the office we could've have hoped for, that the Founding Fathers could have imagined—had they imagined a Black man as President.

And now, the soon to be first Asian American Vice President, first Black woman Vice President, @KamalaHarris.

"My mother—who raised us to be proud of our Indian American heritage." Also: Whoever thought we'd hear a VP candidate refer to "her chithis" in her acceptance speech in our lifetime?

So incredibly weird to see the candidates waving to sticks representing the 50 states in an empty room, as people clap in little boxes on screen. But this is where we are.