Listening to Gov Walz speak at the PA rally where he was just introduced as the VP pick.... this dude is legitimately funny.
it's exactly how I feel as well. Is it illegal or harming anyone? No? Well then why should I give a fuck? Also loved his "I would love to debate Vance, if he would get off the couch" line as well as the "crime went way up under trump and that's not including the crimes he committed!" If those lines were pre-planned, I couldn't tell. Sounded off the cuff to me.
That's midwestern charm for you! I joke around with the whole "ope" thing but I'm not that proud of being from the midwest...or I didn't think I was until Walz showed up.
yeah he's got that "I wanna have a beer with him" vibe that got Bush Jr elected. Except he strikes me as actually smart. And just knowing myself, I'm pretty quick to call people fucking idiots even if it isn't really deserved. Can they switch places and we put this dude top of the ticket instead? At this point Kamala just need to sit back and let him get in front of a microphone every few days. The media is gonna eat this up. Found their new clicks/cash cow.
I'm good with Kamala as the frontrunner. Perhaps because I myself am some equivalent of a wine mom, perhaps because I love that she laughs a lot, perhaps because I find it funny that some old white men (not all old white men) are scared of her for some unknown reason, perhaps because it's ironic as hell that she was a prosecutor and is running on the democratic ticket, perhaps I could go on and on and on but I'm annoying myself. I remember catching flack for hoping for a candidate that was a woman last time around. Was she my choice back then? She wasn't. Was I happy to see her step up this time around? I was. As perhaps the most cynical person on this earth, I'm letting myself get a little hopeful. I hate it and I love it..
1) old white men are scare of her because she's a smart black woman 2) the bigger funny is that she's a former prosecutor running against a convicted criminal
He has Midwest dad vibes for days. Just perfectly reasonable and comes across as trustworthy. Like Hank Hill to a certain degree.
Without trying to sound like I have a pulse on the people, because I promise you I do not, I don't think you realize how confusing a democrat who also hunts is to people in red states. I'm very clearly in rural Missouri, I grew up here and I've lived here my entire life. I own guns. I'll be honest and say I haven't gone hunting for probably close to 15 years, because if I'm deer hunting I'm doing it at dawn and I was going to work Monday through Friday at 3:45 in the morning so I wasn't about to get up that early on the weekend and I just never picked it back up. It seems like anymore people are so entrenched in black and white that they just can't imagine someone who doesn't vote the way they do also owning guns and enjoying hunting. They don't realize that you can appreciate firearms as a sport without thinking that there shouldn't be any laws regulating them. I took a hunter's safety course at the youngest age it was allowed, because I've literally hunted since it was legally allowed. I've killed more deer than a lot of men. I promise you my parents hate that I vote the opposite of them. So I absolutely love that you have a man's man in Tim Walz who hunts and does all the things a good old midwestern boy is supposed to do running as VP on the democratic ticket.
I like to think of myself as a realistic optimist, but I was feeling REALLY NOT GOOD about the election a few weeks ago. I don't love the way they pushed Biden out (yes it needed to happen, no it didn't need to feel so messy and in-fight-y) but I am all in for this surge of hope and excitement. Harris is clearly rising to the occasion, Walz is a fucking delight, I'm ready to fill my polling-place-adjacent yard with every sign I can get my hands on. After a year of bullshit infertility treatment I'm finally like 5 minutes pregnant. I was super not looking forward to rawdogging it with reality for the rest of the election cycle, wondering what sort of blows my bodily autonomy might take in another trump administration. But my feelings of dread and desire to drown that dread in buckets of wine has really dissipated. Cheers to feeling a little hope again (knock on wood).
I know, right? I'm amazed at just how much things seem to have changed in just 3 weeks. And I'm honestly enjoying the fuck out of the GOP implosion being caused by calling them "weird". Trump is just fucking losing his mind, in public... more than normal.
I really hope they have Kamala practicing her public speaking. When she had to go off-script previously things got awkward fast. If she can just come off as genuine rather than trying to fit in/pander to whatever group she's speaking to things will go a lot better. I don't think a basement campaign is going to work this time like it did in 2020.
In my area (Texas, but more generally the southern US) the gun owners call them "Fuds," as in "Elmer Fud" and they use it as a highly derogatory term. They don't consider them to be "real" gun owners or advocates. The more I'm learning about midwestern Dems, the more I'm realizing that I 100% fall into that category, especially when it comes to 2A. Walz's ideology is almost mine to a T, change some bits like the union stuff, though I do understand where that comes into play for larger groups like auto workers. Y'all really sound like good people.
You ain't kidding. https://www.reddit.com/r/democrats/...mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
What. The. Hell. That will always be more funny than ANY of the upcoming parodies that are going to be made of it. Holy shit, talk about “you can’t write comedy like that”. Maybe he DID have plastic surgery— to disguise the Down syndrome.