I have an aversion to any group built around white men — more like white male privilege, am I right? — but I tuned in to bits and pieces of this 3 hour live stream, White Dudes for Kamala Harris, because hey, I recognize that I am a white dude. It turned out to be pretty reassuring, because it’s a parade of white men stating that the patriarchy has to die, that MAGA is a hateful cult, and that we have to ally ourselves with every citizen of the USA. It’s an inclusive message.
Also, it features interesting people: Tim Walz, JB Pritzker, Mark Hamill, Pete Buttigieg, and most importantly, the Dude himself, Jeff Bridges, with a message of growth and transformation. There’s even a black dude and a white woman dude! I think I can get behind the promotion of unity to defeat evil.
Also, they raised $4 million for the Harris campaign.
Fun. Now I’d like to see a (topic)bro I could get along with.
I’m curious. I RSVP’d with each of my email addresses, but never got an email with a zoom code. Nor was there one on the RSVP confirmation. How did you get one?
I recognize most of those names. Luke Skywalker is on VP Harris’s side. Not surprising.
Jeff Bridges? No idea.
I wondered if he was Lloyd Bridges son or grandson.
Son.
Boomers might recognize Lloyd Bridges from the late 1950s TV show, Sea Hunt. For some reason, I always found that TV program fascinating.
X/Twiitter hss suspended White Dudes for Harris account, apparently for the very thing you’re writing about. This is according to Huffington Post.
“White dude” is less about some immutable characistic, it’s a state of being, a frame of mind, to be one with the dudeness. In short it is the state of rocking, dudes rock.
Hamill and Bridges?
So, Harris is backed up by both the Light Side of the Force and User Power now?
OK, time for some serious boot-quaking from those Sith scum on the GOP ticket. :)
PZ… I’m curious about your thoughts on Gov. Walz as a potential VP pick. I know you have had reservations about him in the past, me too, but wow he’s had a week.
Raven, @ #: Jeff Bridges is THE Dude, from the film, The Big Lebowski. I admit I’ve never seen the film, but the character delivered some meme-ified lines; one paraphrased, I see, by crimsonsage in comment #5.
White Women for Harris
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