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

xxxpost From the Mississippi River to the Great Lake

Guys, guys, just five dollars can get us some Peeps and a bottle of Gatorade

If the Dems weren't so inherently hapless most of the time, I would honestly be wondering if the last several weeks weren't part of an intricately-plotted long game. Like way too much has just slotted so neatly into place with such casual, effortless grace, it's hard to believe there isn't some grandmaster moving pieces around behind the curtain

it's wild + the Repubs are wayyyy off their game

They are so STUCK with Trump. It's honestly hilarious.

vs. Trump with his cybertruck + Beach Boys hellscape video from yesterday

tbf Vance would have also said Shapiro was Hamas

i made an obama version.

https://scontent-bos5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/454405160_10162050650217137_816391059556197020_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=127cfc&_nc_ohc=u-Rt34Sx6F4Q7kNvgG256lU&_nc_ht=scontent-bos5-1.xx&oh=00_AYCEymsDZtczFbiXog_OrDzSh_YcZ-4_rqaQfriyCM13Uw&oe=66B82967

bravo! Send it to her campaign

One thing I learned reporting on Walz’s teaching years is that when he coached middle school basketball he secretly lowered a hoop and convinced his team that he could dunk

— Ben Terris (@bterris) August 6, 2024

If I heard correctly on TV, Amy Klobuchar just said her mother in law gave the Walz family a chicken parmesan bake when their son was born. absolutely violent levels of midwestern.

— Amy A (@lolennui) August 6, 2024

Nice, Skot!

Can just imagine Trump raging Bruno Ganz style to his aides, "Why couldn't you find me someone like that guy? Now I'm stuck with this weirdo Vance".

Now we need Dark Walz memes

alright, memers, go nuts with this one.

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Tim Walz's first teaching job was on my tribe's reservation (Pine Ridge).

has no one seen the 1994 Little Rascals? i always assumed Walz's reference had something to do with this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUlEr8ec8Ao

HARRIS/WALZ: Runnin' Against the Wind 2024

Minnesota may be blue, but the House district in which @tim_walz won 6 straight elections is rural and Republican. W Bush won by 4%, Obama by 4% & 2%, and Trump by 15% & 10%—but in 5 of his 6 House elections 2006-16 Walz’s winning margins ranged from 5% to 30%. cc: @SteveKornacki

— Kurt Andersen (@KBAndersen) August 6, 2024

Harris/Walz '24: Turn the Page

@andy

It's kind of amazing to see the US Politics thread posters riding so hard for a Democratic presidential ticket. Not that it can last, but for now it's nice to shed our hard-earned cynicism just long enough to take a brief refreshing bath in optimism. We'll have to sober up eventually, but this feels free and loose, and I like it. The sullen fear of more Trump years has been incredibly depressing.

southern MN is as trumpy as anywhere, maybe a little less factoring in Rochester (decent sized city, Mayo Clinic company town) and Mankato (home of Minnesota State), but I believe my home county of Faribault was the largest Trump margin in the state.

but also my town is about 8 miles from Iowa so it's all just the classic flat cornfields etc

'rocks and cows' you mean

Man, I had the best dish of ice cream I've ever had at a Bridgeman's in Faribault.

GOP strategy in a nutshell right now

Lmfao pic.twitter.com/iLeIzMxUBk

— ettingermentum (@ettingermentum) August 6, 2024

haha so here's the funny thing, for some reason Faribault is not in Faribault county, but a nice town, the Faribault Woolens factory outlet store there is worth a stop

https://www.faribaultmill.com/

Oh yah, love their blankets.

xp Tie-Dye & Birkenstocks... very telling

somewhat balanced out by the basketball shorts tho

oh snap!

Appointing Tim Walz, who praised Ilhan Omar, is like appointing the head of Sister Souljah's record label to run the Federal Communications Commission.

— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) August 6, 2024

haha so here's the funny thing, for some reason Faribault is not in Faribault county

What's with MN having so many examples of this, like an entire state using the Led Zeppelin "Houses of the Holy" song/album naming convention?

Joey Salads is such a clown

a sister souljah reference in 2024...they've got their finger on the pulse.

this is our sister souljah moment and i condemn it

What's next, Democrats, Crystal Waters for VP?

What's with MN having so many examples of this, like an entire state using the Led Zeppelin "Houses of the Holy" song/album naming convention?

― Front-loaded albums are musical gerrymandering (Prefecture), Tuesday, August 6, 2024 2:00 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

It is so we can correctly identify people who were born here and carpetbaggers

Whoever was running Epic Records in 1992 is going to be very angry at that jibe

sounds like that dude has never tried Omar's hotdish

What's with MN having so many examples of this, like an entire state using the Led Zeppelin "Houses of the Holy" song/album naming convention?

― Front-loaded albums are musical gerrymandering (Prefecture), Tuesday, August 6, 2024 2:00 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol my town (Blue Earth) is not in Blue Earth County (which is the next county over), it's in Faribault County. Faribault is in Rice County.

okay, i had to check:

Rice is a city in Benton County, Minnesota.

Buck Walzin'

Waltz does indeed seem like my dreem pick, but still wonder about this:

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.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Someone pointed out that getting a point or two bump in PA is so important that Shapiro must have had a lot of liabilities in order to not get picked.

Well hopefully Shapiro will still campaign for the ticket, one would assume

i think Shapiro will still ride hard for Harris and Walz, and PA seems to be a state that would react well to the Walz pick. I'm feeling more and more like Vance is an incredible liability on the Trump campaign, everything people thought Palin was in 2008 and then some.

I went to college in Rice County (not the fancy mini-Harvard).

a sister souljah reference in 2024...they've got their finger on the pulse.

Not gonna go back to check, but I believe Jonathan Chait blew the dust off this classic today, too.

little by little, but it's starting to happen

Among recent national head-to-head polls, SurveyUSA put Harris up three points ahead of Trump, 48%-45%; Morning Consult put her up four points, 48%-44%; YouGov and CBS News made it a one-point Harris lead, 50%-49%; and University of Massachusetts Amherst put Harris up three, 46%-43%.

Those results were mostly within the margin of error.

i think someone might have posted about this upthread but this is crazy

https://x.com/DavidAstinWalsh/status/1820812690622644510

Tim Walz is the first non-lawyer on a Democratic Party ticket since 1980.

— David Austin Walsh (@DavidAstinWalsh) August 6, 2024

Donald's already admitting defeat. pic.twitter.com/jDq6U865x4

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) August 6, 2024

If it doesn't embed for you it's a Lincoln Project tweet reading, "Donald's already admitting defeat." with a screenshot of a fundraising email reading, "TIM WALZ WILL BE THE WORST VICE PRESIDENT IN HISTORY!"