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Taking aim at his opponents, Walz told the audience of union members that “the only thing” Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, know about “working people” is “how to take advantage of them.”
While Republicans are still trying to come up with a goofy nickname for Harris, Walz is openly discussing class consciousness.
I don't even think Harris has a nickname for trump. She just says he's old and has to go. It's very matter of fact. "We're not going back".
I prefer politicians that don’t stoop to name calling.
Politicians that act like children by using nicknames in attempts to disparage others is just plain weird.
It really is, isn't it. And I'm so glad we're finally saying so out loud. It's peurile, it's immature, it's disrespectful... But it's also astonishingly weird. It's a weird thing to do. It's a grown man behaving like the most annoying of schoolyard bullies. And that is just plain weird.
It's weird that a thrce-married, multiply-affaired man is the head of the party of "family values."
It's weird that a man who lived in a gold-plated penthouse in NYC is considered to represent the "common man."
It's weird that a 34-time convict is supported by the "law and order" party.
It's weird that a "billionaire" has to solicit donations from regular Americans.
It's weird that the man who can't quote even the most well-known bible verses is supported by religious organizations.
It's just... weird.
It's especially weird that a man who embodies every single deadly sin is supported by those Christian religious organizations.
Fascism is full of contradictions. By design.
No ideology other than acquiring power and control by any means necessary.
It's just… ~~weird~~ hypocrisy.
The party of hypocrisy. Their only consistent value.
I don’t even think Harris has a nickname for Trump.
As it should be. Let comedians and random people on the internet call him things like Fuckface Von Clownstick.
She's got it right, Biden maximized trump, Kamala minimizes
Does "Weird" count?
I can’t imagine Trump lasting a full day in any customer-facing jobs, especially not retail or food service. It’s amazing people think he’s qualified for any job, much less the top job in the nation.
He did last a term in a public facing job - the Presidency. His term review came in and looks like he was fired for bad performance
More than 25% of his time was spent golfing.
Imagine what your boss would say about you if you spent 10 hours out of every 40 for four years on the links.
It's a disgrace that he made it to the end of his term. He should've been convicted and removed.
And he only lasted the whole term due to the corrupt GOP.
I'd argue that customer service experience isn't that relevant to a job running a country, that there is other experience I'd consider much more relevant.
Sure. I'd bet trump doesn't have any of that experience either
From an international observer, this walz guy is looking like a fantastic pick
during the 1948 presidential election campaign. In Bremerton, Washington, Truman delivered a speech attacking the Republicans. During the speech, a supporter yelled out, "Give 'em Hell, Harry!" Truman replied, "I don't give them Hell. I just tell the truth about them, and they think it's Hell."
Walz is the same type of guy.
It’s the correct direction for USA. Labor protection, women’s rights, care for children, taxes on corporations and 1%, not Trump. The last one this month, oddly became the least important to me. Biden was a solution to a problem (Trump) and now he’s out of the way, some of us are very excited that it’s looking like “not Trump” is the easiest and those other issues will be our running platform.
Walz also just has a joyous charisma. Which is a welcome change from the last decade.
Going from Biden to a campaign with actual energy behind it is incredibly refreshing.
I know there's a lot of work to be done but Harris picking Walz gave me a lot of confidence in both her advisors and her own decision-making. If this was Clinton, she would've picked Shapiro or even like... Joe Manchin or something.
Every single major media operation was holding their breath and stomping their feet to demand Shapiro, I was shocked when she picked Walz.
Really? Since when do Democrats want that whiny brat who can't even get a woman wet? The Republicans can keep him.
/s
Different Shapiro. (Well, maybe him also, but not Ben Shapiro, the one infamous for this.) They're talking about Josh Shipiro (no relation), the Democrat governor of Pennsylvania.
Merrick Garland, somehow
Now here me out: Schiff
haha point taken but I confess I have a soft-spot for Schiff which may be an unpopular opinion. I think he's one of the best rhetoricians in the party up there with Buttigieg. I gained a lot of respect for his leading one of the impeachment hearings and his remarks on the January 6th hearings. Also how he was one of the few Senators to publicly call for Biden to step down.
Edit: Sorry, self-correction: Schiff is currently a US House Rep (but pretty high in seniority) but running for a CA US Senate seat.
During the impeachment, I wished he was my rep instead of one of the ones proving that you can indeed barge into a scif and hold a pizza party then not go to jail immediately, you just have to be important enough.
He's got a point, but now that he's said it, I would be very happy to see him do a shift in McDonalds. Not as a manager, but as a regular dude, full uniform. We'll find one of the busy ones for him too.
Goddamn that would be entertaining.
Get him to do a church crowd shift
show him looking over a paycheck after a late shift in Oakland
Tell him that's all the money he has for two weeks.
Imagine if the judge in his recent felony conviction were to sentence him to a few hundred hours of community service working the counter at a fast food joint….
That might literally kill him. He'd be confronted by an endless supply of his favorite food.
As funny as it is to imagine, you've got enough problems over there with for-profit prisons. Giving companies like McDonalds incentive to lobby for more arrests to get free labor from community service sentences would not be pretty.
I can't imagine a McFlurry machine actually working.
Tim is such a sharpshooter. Finally we get to see the Dems taking clever potshots while actually making good points.
How is anyone supposed to make any dessert there when the frozen yogurt machine is broken?
He's the kind of person who would get someone to make him ice cream, and then he'd break it in purpose so nobody else can enjoy it, and then crap in the machine so it needs to be replaced
Publicly, he'd probably call ice cream woke to appear macho