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Republicans are struggling to paint Tim Walz as a villain
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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
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.
If I put my conspiracy hat on for a split second I want to say this is a machiavellian (sp?) move by the DNC. I'm reluctant to give them that much credit though.
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...
I mean, I've also heard them parrot Russian propaganda that Zelensky is a nazi despite being, you know, jewish. Logic doesn't really enter their minds.
Yes, Harris, whose husband is Jewish, hates Jews.
I know reality means nothing to them, but it makes their floundering all the more funny.
They call Bernie Sanders antisemitic. Factual reality is absolutely irrelevant to the shit spewing from their mouths.
From the same folks who were just calling Kamala Harris a "DEI pick."
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
The fundraising spam writes itself!
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He stopped his speech in WI today when someone (nearly?) passed out from the heat and made sure they were being attended to. He also asked if there was more water to hand out.
SOCIALISM! SOCIALIZED HEALTH CARE! He wants to take the water that others paid for and redistribute it!
That's literally their argument against him. SoCiaLIsM!
True, but if only the deep maga cultists are buying your attacks, then it is not changing the election result
The goal of the attacks is either to motivate some kind-of-conservative that doesn’t care that much about the election and might not vote to vote; or to demoralize a democrat voter into not voting
In this case, it's not landing because they were already being called weird for similar behavior, and that is landing. It's easy to dismiss the entire attack with a deadpan "that's a weird thing to say".
Well, that’s the base locked in. Now they need to get the swing voters.
all true. and +1 for calling out doublethink
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.
Exactly. And I love how they got the whole burning down thing from main stream media that they bitch so much about.
So how's the ghost life treating you?
Being able to fly is pretty cool. But I get terrible restaurant service now. 7/10
What's the rocks and cows?
At one point when he was talking about voting districts. He had referred to red districts as "mostly rocks and cows". And well.... Rural conservatives took offense to it like they do for everything. I still see billboards with that quote when I'm in the middle of nowhere.
I'm the middle of nowhere with rocks and cows?
I'm sorry, I thought not having all that "big city bullshit" (imagine that was said with a comically over the top southern accent) was a point of pride?
Like, literally, I've had family in rural Missouri and Minnesota and shit and heard that exact line before
They're only offended because a (D) said it
I believe he was talking about a political map and how the state was a lot of red counties/ Land area and he said something like, "there's not a lot of people there. It's mostly rocks and cows. "
Didn't you know tampons ruin a young girls 'purity?'
I'm sad to say that's probably why conservatives are upset about it. They probably still think you can lose your virginity to a tampon...
I mean Vance lost his to a couch
I say we all give away tampons. At least we're not wearing them on our ears
"Hey, maybe you can use them to patch all these gunshot injuries that keep happening..."
Seems like the GOP are doing everything else to alienate the votes of women. That criticism from them wouldn't surprise me in the least.