Don Lemon post-CNN is so free. lololol pic.twitter.com/ZdqPpy6L56

— Vanessa Jaye (@vanessajaye) February 24, 2025

ABOVE: Don Lemon is just plain right. Here is Joy's tearful sign-off after being canned by MSNBC (which seems to think its viewers are right-wingers?)

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(Image via DominicAlbano.com)

ABOVE: If only they could sell that tanline. And that waist.

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Thank you, Joe! (Image via video still)

Night 1 of the DNC was lit. AOC, Jasmine Crockett and Hillary Clinton were the best of the bunch — and that was all before President Joe Biden took the stage at 11: 25 p.m. to rapturous applause and copious tears. “America, I love you!” he exclaimed forcefully, before delivering a sharp, focused and yet warm speech.

So much for Trump's statement that Joe was being buried on Monday night — what an effective rollout this was for Night 1 of the convention. (And thank GOD we did not have an open convention like some wanted.)

Jasmine Crockett calls Trump "a career criminal, with 34 felonies, two impeachments and one porn star to prove it." #DNC #jasminecrockett pic.twitter.com/Dh0ALa0kAI

— Matthew Rettenmund (@mattrett) August 20, 2024

I was impressed with Night 1, not just because of its strong rhetoric, but also for its adherence to various vote-getting themes — patriotism, doing what's right, fighting for reproductive freedom, giving the working class a fair shake.

Good grief, we have three more nights and Night 1 was this uplifting? Kamala's getting a fucking bounce. Book it.

I might add Jasmine to this, too, but AOC really struck me as a future president tonight. (Images via video still)