The Tim Walz thread.

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[Will B Good]

3 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

Trump: fake hair color, fake tan and a racist felon.

 

Give him a break.....he's got earache and his bone spurs are killing him.

[susanlea]

38 minutes ago, WDSmart said:

Oh, no! I'll be voting AGAINST Trump. I'd vote for anyone who runs against him.

I like some parts of Thailand, but, of course, I'm not a citizen. I'm retired and don't have to worry about an income. I like living in the mountains here, playing golf twice a week, and taking care of the gardens and orchards around by house. 

Hypocritical. Go live in Germany, more like Harris.

[susanlea]

20 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

Trump: fake hair color, fake tan and a racist felon.

Younger looking,better economy.

[spidermike007]

He is an absolutely delightful man who has had a great deal of success in his lifetime and he makes both Trump and Vance look like very minor players and very average human beings. 

 

Walz’s constituents in Minnesota’s first district re-elected him, often by a considerable majority every two years. When he ran for governor in 2018, he came away with 53.9 percent of Minnesota’s vote – the largest margin a Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party candidate won by in more than 30 years. In 2022, he was re-elected with 52 percent of the vote.

 

His re-elections are often tied to a respectable approval rating. A January 2024 approval rating poll, conducted by local Minnesota news outlet KAAL-TV, found that 55 percent of respondents thought Walz was doing a good job.

 

But voters across the nation seem less passionate about Vance as a vice president candidate. Polling from NPR, PBS and Marist College found that Vance has a 33 percent disapproval rating – a drop from 28 percent when he was first made Trump’s running mate.

 

FiveThirtyEight, which compiles polling from across the nation and creates an average, puts Vance at a 40.6 percent unfavorable rating.

 

He will present his Republican counterpart, JD Vance, with a gratifyingly large problem. That problem is one of authenticity, one of the major absurdist planks of Trump’s campaign, in which the scion of a New York real estate empire accuses his rivals of being “east-coast elites”. Walz, unlike almost every other high-profile Democrat going back decades – including Hillary Clinton’s affable and somewhat Walz-like 2016 running mate, Tim Kaine – is not a lawyer. He did not go to Harvard or Yale, a fact he is proving happy to weaponise. If Walz has the energy of a dad reminding his grown-up kids to stay hydrated, he is also, on the evidence of the first day of campaigning, still very much the high school coach running the cafeteria at lunchtime, using all the modes – sarcasm, booming aggression, sudden, sharp mockery – that traditionally keep feral adolescents in order.

 

Walz said to the crowd in Philadelphia: “Like all regular people in America’s heartland, JD Vance studied at Yale, had his career funded by Silicon Valley billionaires, and wrote a bestseller trashing that community … COME ON!”

 

He was named the ranking member of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs in 2017. He focused on issues such as veterans’ mental health, suicide and pain management. He also called for funding to research medical cannabis treatment for veterans struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder and chronic pain.

 

Walz served 24 years in the Army National Guard before retiring from a field artillery battalion in 2005 as a command sergeant major, one of the military’s highest enlisted ranks.

 

[WDSmart]

5 minutes ago, susanlea said:

44 minutes ago, WDSmart said:

Oh, no! I'll be voting AGAINST Trump. I'd vote for anyone who runs against him.

I like some parts of Thailand, but, of course, I'm not a citizen. I'm retired and don't have to worry about an income. I like living in the mountains here, playing golf twice a week, and taking care of the gardens and orchards around by house. 

Hypocritical. Go live in Germany, more like Harris.

I've lived in Thailand for over 20 years now and never intend to return to the USA. If I ever did, I think I'd try to find a place in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, that string of islands that curve south and west towards Russia. I'd try to find a nice, cozy isolated cabin there.

I hope Harris does get elected and helps move the USA more to the left, but I know if that happens, the movement will be very slow.

[Fat is a type of crazy]

8 minutes ago, susanlea said:

Younger looking,better economy.

I'm same age as Kamala and Tim. Look younger than one older than the other. That's life baby. 

[Yellowtail]

1 minute ago, spidermike007 said:

He is an absolutely delightful man who has had a great deal of success in his lifetime and he makes both Trump and Vance look like very minor players and very average human beings. 

 

Walz’s constituents in Minnesota’s first district re-elected him, often by a considerable majority every two years. When he ran for governor in 2018, he came away with 53.9 percent of Minnesota’s vote – the largest margin a Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party candidate won by in more than 30 years. In 2022, he was re-elected with 52 percent of the vote.

 

His re-elections are often tied to a respectable approval rating. A January 2024 approval rating poll, conducted by local Minnesota news outlet KAAL-TV, found that 55 percent of respondents thought Walz was doing a good job.

 

But voters across the nation seem less passionate about Vance as a vice president candidate. Polling from NPR, PBS and Marist College found that Vance has a 33 percent disapproval rating – a drop from 28 percent when he was first made Trump’s running mate.

 

FiveThirtyEight, which compiles polling from across the nation and creates an average, puts Vance at a 40.6 percent unfavorable rating.

 

He will present his Republican counterpart, JD Vance, with a gratifyingly large problem. That problem is one of authenticity, one of the major absurdist planks of Trump’s campaign, in which the scion of a New York real estate empire accuses his rivals of being “east-coast elites”. Walz, unlike almost every other high-profile Democrat going back decades – including Hillary Clinton’s affable and somewhat Walz-like 2016 running mate, Tim Kaine – is not a lawyer. He did not go to Harvard or Yale, a fact he is proving happy to weaponise. If Walz has the energy of a dad reminding his grown-up kids to stay hydrated, he is also, on the evidence of the first day of campaigning, still very much the high school coach running the cafeteria at lunchtime, using all the modes – sarcasm, booming aggression, sudden, sharp mockery – that traditionally keep feral adolescents in order.

 

Walz said to the crowd in Philadelphia: “Like all regular people in America’s heartland, JD Vance studied at Yale, had his career funded by Silicon Valley billionaires, and wrote a bestseller trashing that community … COME ON!”

 

He was named the ranking member of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs in 2017. He focused on issues such as veterans’ mental health, suicide and pain management. He also called for funding to research medical cannabis treatment for veterans struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder and chronic pain.

 

Walz served 24 years in the Army National Guard before retiring from a field artillery battalion in 2005 as a command sergeant major, one of the military’s highest enlisted ranks.

 

 

Walz served 24 years in the Army National Guard. True

Before retiring from a field artillery battalion in 2005 as a command sergeant major. False

 

The command sergeant major was a temporary position that would have required he finish him to finish his six-year reenlistment which he quit two years early when he decided to retire rather than be deployed to Iraq with the rest of his unit. 

 

He retired as a Master Sergent. 

 

 

[Fat is a type of crazy]

Just now, Yellowtail said:

 

Walz served 24 years in the Army National Guard. True

Before retiring from a field artillery battalion in 2005 as a command sergeant major. False

 

The command sergeant major was a temporary position that would have required he finish him to finish his six-year reenlistment which he quit two years early when he decided to retire rather than be deployed to Iraq with the rest of his unit. 

 

He retired as a Master Sergent. 

 

 

You really gonna worry that he said he finished up with the position that he was in fact acting in even though it wasn't permanent. Bloody hell. 

[spidermike007]

7 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

 

Walz served 24 years in the Army National Guard. True

Before retiring from a field artillery battalion in 2005 as a command sergeant major. False

 

The command sergeant major was a temporary position that would have required he finish him to finish his six-year reenlistment which he quit two years early when he decided to retire rather than be deployed to Iraq with the rest of his unit. 

 

He retired as a Master Sergent. 

 

 

Jacob Thomas, communications director and a spokesperson for the progressive veterans’ group Common Defense, said it was “weird and desperate” to attack a fellow veteran’s military record.  

 

“That just doesn’t seem like a winning message,” he said. “We don’t need to spend this time hitting each other on things that don’t matter. We all served. And like I said, frankly, it just reeks of desperation.” 

 

And I totally concur and agree with that, but since both Trump and Vance are very desperate men at this point they will resort to desperate measures, and they will cling to rather hollow arguments. After all Vance never saw active combat, he was a photographer not a soldier. But Trump's has always been a coward, and I suspect Vance has always been one too, so this will be the nature of their arguments. 

Edited August 8 by spidermike007

[Yellowtail]

3 minutes ago, Fat is a type of crazy said:

You really gonna worry that he said he finished up with the position that he was in fact acting in even though it wasn't permanent. Bloody hell. 

No, I care that he is a hard leftist. I was just pointing out the hypocrisy of the left not caring that their guy is a liar, or that he cut and ran rather than be deployed with his unit. 

 

[Yellowtail]

1 minute ago, spidermike007 said:

Jacob Thomas, communications director and a spokesperson for the progressive veterans’ group Common Defense, said it was “weird and desperate” to attack a fellow veteran’s military record.  

 

“That just doesn’t seem like a winning message,” he said. “We don’t need to spend this time hitting each other on things that don’t matter. We all served. And like I said, frankly, it just reeks of desperation.” 

But he did not say it was untrue, correct? 

 

I think it safe to say the "progressive veterans’ group Common Defense" supports the progressive candidate, and that the group is dependent on public money, yes? 

[susanlea]

13 minutes ago, Fat is a type of crazy said:

I'm same age as Kamala and Tim. Look younger than one older than the other. That's life baby. 

Not hard to look younger than Tim. He looks worn out. Socialism eats your soul.

[susanlea]

5 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

No, I care that he is a hard leftist. I was just pointing out the hypocrisy of the left not caring that their guy is a liar, or that he cut and ran rather than be deployed with his unit. 

 

Biden was racist - they played the racist card against Trump. 

[BigStar]

On 8/7/2024 at 12:26 PM, Will B Good said:

Islamic state of Minnesota....?

 

The Muslim population in Minnesota is estimated to be around 2% of the state’s total population, which translates to roughly 114,590 individuals  . Minnesota’s Muslim community is notably diverse, including a significant Somali population, which is among the largest Somali communities.

 

Yup, in the Islamic State of Minnesota, Walz has to give the most love to the Somalis.

 

As Somali Gangs Waged War and Trafficked Children In Minnesota, Tim Walz Asked for More Somali Refugees

 

Whatta dud. Vance quite rightly calls Harris/Waltz a good tag team.  

 

[Fat is a type of crazy]

1 minute ago, susanlea said:

Not hard to look younger than Tim. He looks worn out. Socialism eats your soul.

You gotta drop this socialism stuff. You come from Australia and both parties are left of the democrats on most things including tax. Is it so bad to want to tax the very wealthy a bit more to provide services we take for granted in Australia? I don't think so. But even if you do it's not correct to say those that do not go along with low tax low government assistance Republicans become socialist. 

[susanlea]

1 minute ago, Fat is a type of crazy said:

You gotta drop this socialism stuff. You come from Australia and both parties are left of the democrats on most things including tax. Is it so bad to want to tax the very wealthy a bit more to provide services we take for granted in Australia? I don't think so. But even if you do it's not correct to say those that do not go along with low tax low government assistance Republicans become socialist. 

Says a guy in Jomtien cause Australia is expensive. 

[Fat is a type of crazy]

Just now, susanlea said:

Says a guy in Jomtien cause Australia is expensive. 

I'm actually in Melbourne working  but I did spend a month there recently. Going back too for a while. Like it. But I'll mostly be in Australia. 

[spidermike007]

8 minutes ago, susanlea said:

Not hard to look younger than Tim. He looks worn out. Socialism eats your soul.

So what? He has devoted his life to hard work. A lot more than you can say about the grifter. And Trump looks about 85, and is at the beginning of very serious cognitive decline. 

[spidermike007]

4 minutes ago, Fat is a type of crazy said:

You gotta drop this socialism stuff. You come from Australia and both parties are left of the democrats on most things including tax. Is it so bad to want to tax the very wealthy a bit more to provide services we take for granted in Australia? I don't think so. But even if you do it's not correct to say those that do not go along with low tax low government assistance Republicans become socialist. 

Ignore her. The whole socialist and communist thing is a very juvenile name calling action that conservatives engage in, when they don't have a solid intellectual argument to back themselves up. 

 

It is really just the same level of petulance that their political Master displays on a daily basis. Embarrassing, actually. 

[Yellowtail]

2 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

So what? He has devoted his life to hard work. A lot more than you can say about the grifter. And Trump looks about 85, and is at the beginning of very serious cognitive decline. 

What hard work? He was a high school teacher, yes? 

[spidermike007]

7 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

What hard work? He was a high school teacher, yes? 

Have you ever taught High School? It's very hard work, so is coaching a team to a state championship, and 24 years in the National Guard is not easy work either, and 12 years in congress is not a slouch. 

 

I realize that conservatives are desperate to find something, with some traction, that they can use to criticize this man, but that's going to be a very difficult job. He's an impressive man, he's a great orator, he's energizing the crowds and right now Harris and Walz are doing something that Trump and Vance just simply cannot seem to be able to do. Get people excited about progress. Both Trump and Vance now appear to be very dull and humorless compared to Harris and Walz. 

[novacova]

Walz such of an honorable character…

 

[susanlea]

30 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Have you ever taught High School? It's very hard work, so is coaching a team to a state championship, and 24 years in the National Guard is not easy work either, and 12 years in congress is not a slouch. 

 

I realize that conservatives are desperate to find something, with some traction, that they can use to criticize this man, but that's going to be a very difficult job. He's an impressive man, he's a great orator, he's energizing the crowds and right now Harris and Walz are doing something that Trump and Vance just simply cannot seem to be able to do. Get people excited about progress. Both Trump and Vance now appear to be very dull and humorless compared to Harris and Walz. 

He is crazy. 

[susanlea]

44 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

So what? He has devoted his life to hard work. A lot more than you can say about the grifter. And Trump looks about 85, and is at the beginning of very serious cognitive decline. 

Trump looks younger.

[susanlea]

44 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Ignore her. The whole socialist and communist thing is a very juvenile name calling action that conservatives engage in, when they don't have a solid intellectual argument to back themselves up. 

 

It is really just the same level of petulance that their political Master displays on a daily basis. Embarrassing, actually. 

You abuse Trump all the time. 

[susanlea]

12 minutes ago, novacova said:

Walz such of an honorable character…

 

43yo then looks 52. All the lies has aged him.

[spidermike007]

5 minutes ago, susanlea said:

Trump looks younger.

Very subjective. Trump not only looks very old, he acts like it too. Extreme mental inflexibility, and real cognitive decline. 

[susanlea]

Vance will rip Walz a new one in a debate. Got so much material. Drunk driver, speeding, lies about military, 3 day riots, boy tampons, sex changes for kids.

 

Walz will be smashed.

Edited August 8 by susanlea

[retarius]

Walz didn't last long did he....ran away when he was supposed to do a tour of duty in Iraq.....very brave....then tells lies about his record.

Walz looks like an old man; he's 18 years younger than Trump and looks 6 years older. 

We are not allowed to say what he really looks like....maybe a priest, a scoutmaster. I wonder if him and Biden exchange stories about the smell of Harris' hair.