Barbra Streisand was the marquee star on Thursday night time’s (Aug. 15) Jewish Girls For Kamala on-line Zoom rally in help of the presumptive Democratic presidential ticket. The most recent in a collection of comparable digital rallies which have introduced collectively white dudes, Deadheads, Swifties, Black women and men and several other different area of interest voting demos drew greater than 16,000 attendees in accordance with organizers, many, little doubt, tuning in to listen to what the Oscar-winning legend needed to say about Vice President Kamala Harris and her VP choose, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
“It’s been stated that Jewish ladies are identified to talk out and inform you what they suppose and I’m considered one of them,” stated Streisand, seated in a bespoke library. “I’m so bored with listening to [former President Donald] Trump put down America, saying ‘Make America Nice Once more’ as a result of America has been nice since 1776. And it’s nonetheless nice in 2024.”
Streisand stated she’s supporting Harris/Walz as a result of she needs a president who believes we are able to “do something if we work collectively.” She praised the alternative Democratic ticket for bringing a brand new sense of “optimism, power and pleasure” to the marketing campaign since Harris stepped in for President Biden greater than two weeks in the past in an unprecedented swap on the high of the ticket with lower than 100 days to go within the neck-and-neck race.
The singer referred to as Harris a “terrific mixture of each compassion and energy, a joyful warrior who will struggle for the values that so many people maintain pricey.” She went on to reward the Vice President for being a constant advocate for packages that help gender equality, social justice and voting rights, whereas noting that in a current look at a rally with evangelical voters Trump promised that in the event that they voted for him simply this one time, “you don’t should vote once more,” a line some took as the newest try from the previous one-term president to erode democratic norms.
“Are you able to think about?” Streisand stated. “In distinction, Kamala Harris understands simply what a privilege it’s to have the ability to vote! And her dedication to well being care, Social Safety, schooling and to combatting local weather change are the insurance policies of somebody who cares about the way forward for our nation, our kids and our planet… and never simply the earnings from huge oil.”
Streisand famous that ladies are nurturers who care for others and might suppose “past themselves,” whereas tagging Trump as somebody who cares “solely about himself” whereas insulting “any girl who questions him” by calling them “nasty.” This week, Trump — now the oldest particular person to ever run for president at 78 and who has lengthy sough to belittle his rivals by coining schoolyard-style nicknames for them — stated throughout a press convention that he was “entitled to non-public assaults” on Harris as a result of, “I don’t have lots of respect for her intelligence.”
“I don’t suppose he even respects ladies,” Streisand stated as a pivot to Trump’s appointment of a number of conservative Supreme Court docket justices who erased half a century of precedent by overturning Roe v. Wade. “I don’t know of any equal legislation giving the federal government management over males’s our bodies,” she stated of the choice that eradicated the federal proper to abortion.
“Clearly in some folks’s eyes ladies don’t rely… oh however we’ll in November after they rely the votes!,” she added with a sly smile earlier than doing essentially the most Barbra factor doable and taking a quick pause to take a sip of water from a flowered tea mug via a straw earlier than leaning into Trump’s VP choose, Senator and Ohio native JD Vance. She lambasted the first-termer for what she stated are his stances that “ladies ought to keep at residence,” in addition to her description of what she stated was his perception that ladies’s careers are accountable for the nation’s “ethical decline.”
“However Vance’s ethical compass appears off, as a result of he sees nothing unsuitable along with his operating mate — a convicted felon who talks about legislation and order — however doesn’t suppose it applies to him,” she stated of Trump, who along with his 34 felony convictions in New York in his porn star hush cash trial, is dealing with at the least three different main court docket instances tied to his hoarding of presidency paperwork at his Florida residence and federal election interference tied to his try and invalidate the outcomes of the 2020 election he misplaced to President Biden.
She warned that Trump and Vance had given a preview of what they take into consideration by way of their embrace of the Challenge 2025 blueprint from the ultra-conservative Heritage Basis, a doc that seeks to switch 1000’s of non-partisan federal employees with political appointees loyal to Trump whereas injecting conservative Christian values into authorities in addition to eliminating the Division of Training and the Head Begin program for younger kids residing in poverty. Calling it a “bare seize for energy… a blueprint for a dictatorship,” Streisand stated the 900-page doc is stuffed with issues that needs to be alarming to anybody who cherishes the Structure.
Trump has claimed he has “nothing to do” with the controversial Challenge 2025, regardless of Heritage Basis president Kevin Roberts telling the Washington Submit that he personally briefed the previous president on it, in addition to current hidden digicam footage by which one of many doc’s co-authors talked extensively about his work behind-the-scenes to organize coverage for a possible second Trump administration.
Decrying the usage of “worry and hate” to pit folks in opposition to one another, Streisand described nice presidents reminiscent of Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson working to deliver Individuals collectively and alter the world. “That is how we make progress, not with hateful, divisive management,” she stated, praising Harris’ compassion “for all human beings,” whereas criticizing Trump for what she stated was his lack of “intelligence, judgement and coronary heart.”
“Our society will flourish with a wise, skilled girl,” Streisand stated in conclusion to her two-minute-plus endorsement. “Who will defend our rights and ship Trump again to the place he belongs… in his golf cart, mendacity about his scores.”
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