LOL if "he gives away tampons" is the only thing you can find to criticize about your opponent, then you're in pretty deep fucking shit
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Bet they wanted a Shapiro VP pick so bad. It would've been antisemitic space laser conspiracy theory bullshit 24/7 until the vote. Now all they've got is "how dare this man ensure school children have full bellies and necessary sanitary supplies every day."
as it turns out, the strategy of "lets force everyone to have more babies, and then when kids go hungry, blame the parents specifically for having too many babies" isn't panning out the way they hoped
I've always felt that "have more babies but also fuck you for ever having sex" was a bit of wildly contradictory policy stance.
No, I actually get it. You ever seen a toddler jump in a puddle and then get upset that their legs got wet and dirty? It's like that
Fucking toddler logic.
That's giving them far too little credit for their cruelty.
This tactic of picking someone that the Republicans didn't expect and haven't had time to build a narrative about is working extremely well.
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But hey, now they can claim that not picking Shapiro was antisemitic! 🙄
Never mind the tiki torches and chants of "Jews will not replace us" in the distance...
Isn't antisemitism a hard sell to Harris who is a Presidential candidate that is married to a Jewish man?
You would think so, but I've heard it on talk radio already. Verbatim: "Harris didn't pick Shapiro because Democrats hate Jews!"
Uh, there's one major party that is so hard-up for votes that they now welcome neo-Nazis to their convention, and it's not the Democrats...
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Conservatives don't give a shit about what's actually getting criticized – if they're told that they need to think Walz is bad, then anything he does can be used as an example of him being a "villain". Could be fucking "he donates to charity" and they'd find a way to doublethink that into being a bad thing
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Holy shit. They're struggling to find stuff so they default to "he put tampons in schools", "let Minneapolis burn to the ground" (which it didn't, I lived downtown during the protests) or "rocks and cows" quote.
That's about it.
Yeah, that was weird how they kept on telling me the city had burned down and shit when I could turn my head 90° and see the skyline same as it ever was, nary a cloud or indeed plume of smoke in the sky
Luckily we have Fox News and random strangers on the internet who are willing to magnanimously inform us about the desolation of our own city.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go scavenge for hot dish in the smouldering ruins of Saint Paul.
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I lived downtown during the protests
So how's the ghost life treating you?
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I say we all give away tampons. At least we're not wearing them on our ears
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Well yeah. I mean look at this man. Free breakfast AND lunch. Sounds like the devil's work to me. You have to be a good Christian like Sarah Huckabee and remove child labor laws.
I mean, who hugs kids like this anyway?
Looks like the kids are doing the hugging, and he's just basking in the pure joy of it
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I love the contrast this is painting between the far-left and far-right. On the one hand, you got fascists carrying tiki torches and chanting "jews will not replace us," and on the other you got people saying "let's make sure no children are starving." And talking heads on Fox are super pissed about the latter.
To be clear neither Harris or Walz are "far left"...
This is what actual moderates looked like.
I'm happy to have them, but we lose if we call what they're doing "far left".
We desperately need to bring the Overton Window back where it should be.
To be clear neither Harris or Walz are “far left”…
Policies that were considered centrist compromise planks back in the 70s and 80s are now "Fringe Leftist Views" in the modern media, because so much of our information is owned and manufactured by right wing extremists.
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Oh, only the Wrong Wing calls them far left. Normal people know better. For one thing, they have a chance of being elected.
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The original image is so much better. No need to add a dipshit, just the VP nominee with a baby pig.
I don't like the whole "down to earth politician I could get a beer with" thing, but I legitimately don't think I can picture trump or vance looking happy with a farm animal, and I think that says something about them as peoplecin a way that's different than just "down to earth".
You should look like that if you're at a fair and someone hands you a piglet. It's just a funny, cute thing that's supposed to make people happy.
The closest was when Trump tried to pose for a photo op with a bald eagle and the eagle attacked him
Seeing this for the first time was the best part of my day.
If we were in a novel or a movie the critics would have called that symbolism too heavy-handed. Of course they also would have said it is too unrealistic to have millions of dimwits voting for a con man because they are all racist.
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I think the range of clothing I can picture them in is suit or golf polo. They just exude the energy of rich boys who don't want to do anything "beneath their station".
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how long before the inevitable "national guard isn't real army men!!!" talking point is flying around?
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Watched a video of him explaining how to fix a headlight connector and immediately know he is my man. Dude didn't need to explain to the world how to do it. He wanted to help us, in his own little way.
I don't think they'll struggle to attack him, it's just a question of whether it will stick and how much it will matter since he's only the VP pick. In some ways it's useful because it distracted them from Harris.
The attacks seem pretty obvious: he's a pedophile, he eats babies, Minneapolis burned under his watch, he retired from the national guard to avoid combat, he supported LGBTQ groups in high schools, he lived in China, he facilitated sending children to China, say China a lot, say Marxist a lot, say communist a lot, highlight Bernie and Hillary's support of him, etc.
Remember, they only need to villainize him to people that already think he's a villain, so nothing needs to be true or especially devastating. It's like the Fox cut-down that people responded to by being like "the reasons Fox says he's bad are all the reasons I like him!"
It's like, well, yes. Fox isn't trying to convince you. They're trying to make sure republican voters don't stay home.
Edit: oh, and tampons, I forgot they were attacking him about tampons.
This doesn't make sense to me. They need to villainize him for those low info voters on the fence of voting. Most Republicans are voting for Trump, not against Kamala.
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Believability is the nemesis of the GOP this cycle.
Walz is a villain? Not believable
Vance fucked a couch? Believable
Trump took illegal funds from Egypt? So believable
Republicans: "LeEbRuHL!!!!"
Waltz: "Thanks!"
If Jesus were her running mate they'd find some way to double down on 'Democrats bad' by making a new hyper Christianity that's even more theocratic and fascist.
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By far, the most perfect VP pick:
Jerry “eggs-bacon-and-toast” Gergich. Dude is wholesome as fuck.
Also Republicans: screaming themselves hoarse about an Algerian woman boxer.
The weird get weirder and I'm loving this VP pick. What a 180 from just a few weeks ago, when a lot of us thought the Democrats were just going to march into a very likely loss with Biden as the nominee...most people now laugh when JD is the topic and a couch reference is made and the Republicans are proving themselves to a bunch of creepy weirdos on the daily.
it's hard to paint someone as a villain when you're literally supporting donald trump.
NPR broke the news about the Walz endorsement this morning by interviewing a bunch of Republicans from his original House district.
Everyone in the DC news circuit was furiously insisting that Shapiro had to be the guy and Harris didn't listen. So now expect this guy to get absolutely dragged in the press for the next three months.
Just had a conversation with someone about it… apparently he thinks that the reason she went with walz over Shapiro is that Shapiro tried to negotiate roles/responsibilities where Walz was like “what can I do?”
Don’t know if that’s just a rumor or fairly accurate, so don’t quote me on that.
In the paper world that is the DC circuit, Shapiro might have been the “smart” choice of political wonks.
In the real where people actually live… Walz makes more sense.
Really, the thing is that Shapiro might have helped deliver PA, where the effect Walz is having is immediate and obvious- he’s bringing a certain kind of optimism, joy, and grit.
NYT says that an insider told them the Shapiro thing. To summarize, Shapiro wanted to know his responsibilities and how they'd share the leadership, etc. Walz by contrast asked how he can help and told Harris not to pick him if he won't strengthen her chance of winning.
Ultimately, Harris told the source after the Walz interview that she liked him a lot. And to be fair, her team told her after multiple focus groups and everything that all three final choices would have a path to winning so she went with her gut. Plus, research they had suggested that Kelly nor Shapiro would guarantee their states, anyway.
The article does suggest that this won't be the last we hear of Shapiro as he does have higher ambitions.
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Dude is so likable and squeaky clean seeming that it makes me worry his crawlspace is full of human remains or something
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