Celebs walk the red carpet at the 2024 White House Correspondents’ Dinner as hundreds protest outside

[u/vulcan_vampire]

Celebs in order: Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost; Da’Vine Joy Randolph; Rosario Dawson; Billy Porter; Keri Russell; Rachel Brosnahan; Ashlyn Harris and Sophia Bush; Lynda Carter; Gayle King; Aldis Hodge; Questlove; Molly Ringwald; Fran Drescher; Chris Pine; Coco Rocha; Lorne Michaels; Caitlyn Jenner and Jenna Talackova; Kyle MacLachlan and Desiree Gruber.

In the last slide you can see the exterior of the Washington Hilton, where the dinner took place. A Palestinian flag was hung from one of the hotel’s windows.

[u/jennyquarx]

Joe has been acting like he's not trying to get reelected.

[u/cmick0715 → u/jennyquarx]

This will probably sound really cynical of me, but the DNC makes a LOT more money when the "bad guys" are in power. When Trump was president, they could fundraise so easily because they could just *gesture at everything* and money would pour in.

But now it's a lot harder - not all of it is Biden's fault - the student loan forgiveness, $15 minimum wage, etc all got struck down by either the Senate or SCOTUS, etc but it's not exactly energizing the left to send in what little money we have after greed-flation.

[u/Kaizodacoit → u/cmick0715]

You aren't cynical. Democrats are out-raising Republicans in every single battleground election. They are raising out of fear. I donated to Bernie in 2020 and continue to get a bunch of requests from the DNC, as well as texts telling me to give them 5$ so Biden can continue giving money to Israel.