US Politics, August 2024 -- "Unburdened By a Has-Been"

I’ve seen the popular image of Tim Walz being hugged by the kids when signing the bill for free breakfast and lunch at schools, but this is my first time seeing the video and it’s very sweet.pic.twitter.com/PXEToDoG8v

— Erick Fernandez (@ErickFernandez) August 6, 2024

oh my god!

how long until JD Vance calls Walz a pedo

I'm sure Vance, Elon and the tech bros are coming up with a theory about how Walz emasculated himself by agreeing to have a female boss.

lol at Walz being a “dangerous liberal extremist.” It’s always interesting to research who gets paid to write this stuff. She fits the young blonde Fox News type perfectly. Points docked for using “positionality” in her bio.

https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/directory/karoline-leavitt/

last three nat polls came out today all have Kamala ahead

ow my eyes, and my legs too

ive seen enough dems are winning im calling it

The hashtag getting amplified on Twitter is #TamponTim because, god forbid, he advocated for free tampons in all restrooms.

xxxxpost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l3OOpBPI8c

I'm Karoline Leavitt and I'm here to say
I love squinting in a major way

The hashtag getting amplified on Twitter is #TamponTim because, god forbid, he advocated for free tampons in all restrooms.

― bratwurst autumn (Eazy), Tuesday, August 6, 2024 11:24 AM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

oh my god what a bunch of pathetic losers

The thing about the argument that Shapiro would've been more reassuring to swing voters who are worried that the ticket is too far left is that it doesn't take vibes/affect into consideration at all. Regardless of their policy positions, Shapiro comes across as a slick big-city lawyer, while Walz is a folksy Midwestern dad. If voters are worried that Harris is a wacky San Francisco liberal, feel like Walz would be more reassuring than Shapiro.

― jaymc, Tuesday, August 6, 2024 12:16 PM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

agree with all this also the idea that the their politics are far left enough to cost them votes is ridiculous

Glad that the GOP thinks a bunch of dudes making fun of tampons is a winning PR strategy

so weird that it is a battle of the diet dew lovers.

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/kamala-harris-vp-tim-walz-diet-mountain-dew/

never forget

difficult listening hour wrote this on thread Democratic (Party) Direction on board I Love Everything on Sep 18, 2017

this country's going so far to the left you're not going to recognize it

...from the party that attached maxipads to their ears in solidarity at their convention. (xxp)

The only downside I see to this veep pick is that I can see is everybody eight years from now feeling very torn about the prospect of a septuagenarian Walz presidency

so weird that it is a battle of the diet dew lovers.

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/kamala-harris-vp-tim-walz-diet-mountain-dew/

― scott seward, Tuesday, August 6, 2024 12:36 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

I guess this means Walz is a racist.

I don't make the rules.

I think there was a legitimate electoral argument for Shapiro (murder coverup and other oppo notwithstanding) but the centrist pundit “policy” argument for him (like all their arguments) was completely vacuous and defined solely in opposition to a group of people who believe something and who they don’t like.

Here's a sleeper ticket: Walz/Harris or Harris/Walz.

— Phoenix Woman 🍩🪷 (@PhoenixWomanMN) November 8, 2018

Tim Walz is Waldo Weatherbee?

There were waaaaaay too many Republicans on t.v. saying that KH should pick Shapiro. i didn't trust it.

just like they thought ourPrez should be Tulsi Gabbard

They cannot comprehend why a party would place a Californian atop their ticket, let alone someone from such an exotic place as (chekcs notes) Minnesota.

Most of the pundits we see on major cable news shows haven't left the northeast corridor since Covid, to them Minnesota may as well be Mars

think about the walz "weird" video that is stuck in my head is him describing trump etc as the "woman-hating he-man club" - perfect!

Walz is a true head, holding out for a Lifter Puller reunion with Dillinger 4 opening

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, August 6, 2024 10:29 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

yes! we're re-opening the Triple Rock as a campaign office, fellas

Harris was also taken with Walz’s biography — a former high school teacher, a football coach and a veteran who flipped a Republican-leaning district in 2006 — which she believes will play well in all three of the Blue Wall states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, including his win as a House member in a Republican district.

Walz is seen by Harris’ camp as a deft messenger, popularizing “weird” as a messaging framework to describe former President Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance — a cutting and clear tagline that went viral over the last two weeks.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, another finalist, avoided the green-room circuit and instead touted Harris and his own record at a series of events throughout the state. A pro-Harris event in Philadelphia turned into a Shapiro-for-VP party.

His style was seen by at least some in Harris’ world as showboating. One senior Democrat in touch with Harris’ team called it “counterproductive.”

And there was a sense within Shapiro’s team that, unlike Walz, his interview with Harris did not go as well as it could have. There was “not a great feeling” coming out of it, according to a person in touch with his advisers.

After their meeting on Sunday, Shapiro called Harris’ team and made clear that he was “struggling with the decision to leave his current job as governor of Pennsylvania, in order to seek the vice presidency,” according to a person familiar with the selection process.]

The hashtag getting amplified on Twitter is #TamponTim because, god forbid, he advocated for free tampons in all restrooms.

― bratwurst autumn (Eazy), Tuesday, August 6, 2024 11:24 AM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

oh my god what a bunch of pathetic losers

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, August 6, 2024 11:27 AM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

He seems like the kind of guy who would welcome the nickname and wear it as a badge of honor

Tampaxtivist

Timpax

welp actblue got $5 out of me ;_;

The only downside I see to this veep pick is that I can see is everybody eight years from now feeling very torn about the prospect of a septuagenarian Walz presidency

If god willing we get to that point, I think that, despite recent history, Walz might well bow out, or might lose a primary -- you're gonna have Whitmer, you're gonna have Buttigieg, you're gonna have Shapiro whose profile is now much higher, you're gonna have 42-year-old AOC...

"the "woman-hating he-man club" - perfect!"

a classic. i must have seen this one 50 times when i was a kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7NY4PWwGTI

feel like i read somewhere that he's not interested in running for the big P

and good luck running against Big Gretch in a few years

haa! xxp

MN VPs don't have the best record going for the top job

I think this whole protracted VP debate has had the positive side effect of elevating numerous future presidential candidates to public awareness, and it gives them some viability for further down the road. And it's also assembled a loose knit unofficial team of strong advocates in key states. It's been really good how the vibes have been almost wholly positive too, some Shapiro stuff aside. I think that's bc everyone is pretty excited these days, and KH has been able to shockingly and skillfully bring so many sides together.

"woman-hating he-man club" is such a regular guy with regular guys early morning at the diner line.

he got the nod because of one weird thing

― lag∞n, Tuesday, August 6, 2024 10:00 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Walz is seen by Harris’ camp as a deft messenger, popularizing “weird” as a messaging framework to describe former President Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance — a cutting and clear tagline that went viral over the last two weeks.

― Jersey Devil Vance (President Keyes), Tuesday, August 6, 2024 12:52 PM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

it's "he-man woman hater's club" as per the little rascals lol

There were waaaaaay too many Republicans on t.v. saying that KH should pick Shapiro. i didn't trust it.

― scott seward, Tuesday, August 6, 2024 12:44 PM (thirty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Starting with Morning Joe.

The He-Man Woman-Haters Club was a neighborhood boys club founded by Spanky and comprising nearly all the boys in the club. Spanky had founded the exclusive club as a defense against girls and Valentine's Day, but Alfalfa's heart was just not in it. His love for Darla keeps him from taking it seriously, but Spanky soon forces him to realize the bonds of brotherhood. Spanky later restores the club as an act of revenge after none of the boys gets invited to the MacGillicuddy Girls' party, and institutes Alfalfa as president. However, when Alfalfa learns the club rules to never fraternize with the girls again, he is forced to rush back and get back a love note he sent to Darla, later trapping the club members there, but he gets busted when the love note is discovered.

democrats, the party for lover boys!

lovin every minute of it

also, alfalfa ends up in drag in that episode.

a la bugs bunny.

https://www.lordheath.com/web_images/mail_and_female_icon2.jpg

A favorite from my Walz archive. pic.twitter.com/IXOzUnRne1

— Matt Wagenius (@mattwagenius) August 5, 2024

vice presidential car care pro tips!!

also lol he had a Ford Edge, just perfect