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Trump Is Already Losing It Over Kamala Choosing Tim Walz as V.P.

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has only just been named as Kamala Harris’s running mate, but Donald Trump is already mad.

The Republican presidential nominee and convicted felon’s campaign immediately fired off a fundraising email Tuesday morning with some over-the-top but unspecific attacks, with an insane subject line not likely to gain traction beyond the MAGA faithful.

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... Trump and the GOP now have the difficult task of taking on the Democrat who coined the very effective “weird’ attacks against them. And compared to J.D. Vance, Walz is likeable, a great communicator, and has a compelling story.

We’ll have to see in the coming days whether Republicans and Trump will have any effective attacks against Walz, but if their flailing attacks on Harris are any indication, they may not have anything good.
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Fox News' Anti-Tim Walz Supercut Sure Makes Him Look Good

... Fox News personality and former Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany tried to help the GOP’s fearless leader after the announcement, first by telling Fox News hosts that there was probably “a lot of cheering at Mar-a-Lago” over Walz’s nomination.

Later, she introduced an 80-second supercut designed to make Walz look as bad as possible to the network’s viewers.

First, she pointed out that one of Walz’s first acts as governor was to promote DEI, a term meaning “diversity, equity and inclusion” that many conservatives have used pejoratively.

McEnany also falsely stated that Walz wanted open borders by showing a clip from a CNN interview where he pointed out the folly of building a border wall.

“If it’s 25 feet, than I’ll invest in a 30-foot ladder factory,” he jokingly told Anderson Cooper late last month.

She also pointed out that Walz once said that one’s person socialism is another person’s neighborliness and signed bills protecting gender-affirming care in his state.

You can see the complete supercut below, but spoiler alert: You may be triggered if you are not used to a politician taking responsibility for their own mistakes.

Although the purpose of the supercut was to make Walz look bad, many people on social media had the opposite reaction.

A compilation of a politician taking care of people while also taking accountability for any issues during his leadership?

Oh, the horror...
Gee thank you @kayleighmcenany for highlighting everything good about @Tim_Walz and for the added blue indie votes.
So uh, Fox News just undercut the argument that he was fine with the riots in 2020… while also showing that when he makes a mistake he admits it?

Is that what I just saw?

Well done guys. You definitely got him.
Thank you @kayleighmcenany for the info! Very helpful! I'm voting for @Tim_Walz
They would much rather a VP pick that attacks childless women and is into Diet Mountain Dew.
How dare the governor do things to try and bring all people to the table, make sure your neighbor is helped in a time of need, and took responsibility for a response at the state level. The horror.

Also, wait until they learn he signed a bill for free lunches in schools.
They absolutely do not understand compassion, inclusion, and accepting blame. These are foreign concepts to them. Ergo, this is a gotcha video when actual good people nod their heads and think, "Yes. Of course."

Keep this up, assknuckles.
Imagine going after a guy for *checks notes* being a good neighbor.

Jake from State Farm, I hope you watch your back around maga.
Yeah he's a bad guy 🤣 kids get to eat!
Look at the difference between governors!

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Gov. Tim Walz (D) gets a huge hug from students at Webster Elementary in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after he signed into law a bill that guarantees free school meals (breakfast and lunch) for every student in Minnesota's public and charter schools on March 17, 2023.




So far, not bad for a first presidential decision, Kamala :thumbup:
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The wingnuts are wasting no time Swiftboating him.
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GoCubsGo wrote:
Wed Aug 07, 2024 8:25 pm
The wingnuts are wasting no time Swiftboating him.
I've seen headlines. Anything to it?
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Vrede too wrote:
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Wed Aug 07, 2024 8:25 pm
The wingnuts are wasting no time Swiftboating him.
I've seen headlines. Anything to it?
I think the swiftboating attempt is based on one guy who obviously was no fan of Walz, who claimed Walz "quit" the night before their unit was to be deployed. Actual story seems to be that after 20-something years of service and rising to Command Sergeant Major, Walz retired to run for Congress - and it wasn't as close to their deployment as the disgruntled one claimed. And he's won 6 elections to Congress and 2 to governor since then. I doubt they can make much of it.
According to records by the National Guard, the 1st Battalion of the 125th Field Artillery received an alert order on July 14, 2005, – two months after Walz retired. The mobilization order came in August and the unit mobilized in October.

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I'm sure they'll find some out of context quote and blow it way out of proportion.
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I'm sure they'll find some out of context quote and blow it way out of proportion.
Give him another week of being America's Dad, cat pics and clever quips and every petty insult attempted by Vance et. al. will offend more voters. The man is genuinely likeable, and that goes a long way.

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GoCubsGo wrote:
Wed Aug 07, 2024 9:24 pm
I'm sure they'll find some out of context quote and blow it way out of proportion.
Give him another week of being America's Dad, cat pics and clever quips and every petty insult attempted by Vance et. al. will offend more voters. The man is genuinely likeable, and that goes a long way.

And as if having all the Swifties loving him isn't enough, I read today that there is a "Mormons for Harris/Walz" group starting up, legit as far as I could tell.

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Wed Aug 07, 2024 9:41 pm
Give him another week of being America's Dad, cat pics and clever quips and every petty insult attempted by Vance et. al. will offend more voters. The man is genuinely likeable, and that goes a long way.

And as if having all the Swifties loving him isn't enough, I read today that there is a "Mormons for Harris/Walz" group starting up, legit as far as I could tell.
Thanks, guys. Walz can hit them back with a:
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Winner, winner, vegetarian Turkey leg dinner!

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Winner, winner, vegetarian Turkey leg dinner!

https://x.com/freyjja5/status/1819432399786115524
I think he enjoyed the Slingshot more than she did :thumbup:
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The Right-Wing Attacks On Tim Walz Are Weird
Voters have repeatedly signaled that this is not a winning electoral strategy.


For the last four years, conservative and right-wing activists and pundits have been engaged in a culture war that demonizes racial justice, the LGBTQ community and progressive ideals. So, when presumptive Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris announced Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) as her running mate on Tuesday, the culture warriors immediately dusted off their old playbook to attack Walz.
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Walz, a veteran and former teacher, has been a champion of LGBTQ rights, public education and racial equality — a platform that is anathema to Republican ideology.
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... The Republicans’ problem is now twofold. They seem to be unable to come up with attacks that can stick — especially to a politician who is white, Midwestern and moderate.

Then there’s the fact that the Republican Party has abandoned any pretense of having a policy platform and has chosen to double down on its ever-growing list of white grievances. And while making deranged claims about Walz’s record may satisfy its base, the culture war-style attacks are becoming more inscrutable to the average voter with each passing day.
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You gotta kinda love how every little special interest group has their own indignant thang.

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"Haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate hate..."

Nice headlamps on the kicker, though.

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GoCubsGo wrote:
Fri Aug 09, 2024 11:40 am
You gotta kinda love how every little special interest group has their own indignant thang.

https://x.com/WLOS_13/status/1821916864835911856
The whiners need to propose replacing the statues with Italian and Italian-American heroes who aren't genocidal.
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Weird.
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I might be mistaken, but I think the Republicans might be a little skeered and are perhaps flailing a bit.
Chairman James Comer has launched an investigation into Minnesota Governor Timothy Walz, Kamala Harris’s recently announced vice-presidential running mate, following reports detailing the Governor’s longstanding connections to Chinese Communist Party entities and officials.

Mr. Walz has visited China 30 times, served as a fellow at a Chinese institution that maintains a devotion to the CCP, and spoke alongside the President of a Chinese organization the State Department exposed as a CCP effort to influence and co-opt local leaders.

FBI briefers recently informed the Committee that the Bureau’s Foreign Influence Task Force investigates CCP activity that is similar to China’s engagement with Governor Walz.

In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, Chairman Comer is now requesting information, documents, and communications related to the CCP-connected entities and officials Governor Walz has engaged and partnered with.
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