I know Walz/Harris was impossible given the Biden lead-up and Harris running the show after, but if Walz was the ticket leader I think Trump would have lost.
Trump is a dark triad personality wearing a working-man’s death mask, and his base sees it and marvels at how “real” he is. But Walz knows how to actually be real, actually communicate like a regular guy, and is just good in the way middle America likes to imagine itself.
His Harris campaign bounce following “weird” would likely have held the swing state firewall, until Harris decided she wanted to bring in Liz Cheney and put a muzzle on Walz to not offend (or inspire) anyone. Given our poor Democrat name recognition options (Harris, Newsom…Jefferies?), maybe Walz is our best hope, if we somehow make it to a fair election in 2028.
Exactly, what made the democratic party think a biracial woman was a good candidate against Trump of all people, like clearly the country is not ready for that, all they needed was another old white guy and they just handed Trump the election instead
if Walz was the ticket leader I think Trump would have lost.
Setting aside the fact that he’s got more charisma than a tree stump, he’s also a middle aged white guy in a country that reflexively defers to that kind of person.
I don’t think Walz solves for Trump’s biggest advantage - Silicon Valley broke for him and turned social media fully against the Democratic Party. He would have done less bad than Harris, particularly in the Midwest. But winning? Idk, still feels like a coin toss to me. He’s not flipping Arizona or Georgia like Biden managed.
I voted for Harris because of Walz. If she had picked another wallpaper running mate like Tim Kaine it would have been a lot harder.
For real?
It’s just that hard to actively trust fascism or what?!
For real, I had major, major issues with Harris, she was an awful candidate and had it literally been anyone but Trump I would not have voted for her:
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article233375207.html
ACAB - Including (especially?) Harris.
Walz put her over the top for me.
Yeah, she’s an authoritarian cunt.
Still, wasn’t hard to care against Mango Mussolini.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
wasn’t hard to care against Mango Mussolini.
Liberals keep saying this, because they weren’t out in the trenches stumping for Harris while getting actively spit on.
Like, this isn’t just a matter of voting. It’s a matter of staffing campaign offices and galvanizing low info voters in Midwestern swing states.
Who is going to canvas the neighborhoods once you’ve told all those Penn State freshman with Bernie Sanders bumper stickers and watermelon flags to fuck off? Who is going to phone bank? Who is going to knock doors and host rallies?
Harris shed fifteen million votes in no small part because she told her activist party base she didn’t need them to win.
Yeah, when she nominated Walz I was like “Oh, thank god!”
“thank god I can vote against the Nazi now, him being a Nazi wasn’t enough”
No shit. I’d have crawled across glass to vote for Harris. Fuck Trump and stop blaming Biden for people supporting that nazi ass bitch.
Not if the alternate was solely a Nazi in sheeps clothing.
Same problem as Clinton, really. If either Clinton or Harris had been elected, we never would have known where the bottom was, they’re better at hiding it than Trump.
Marginally better than Trump is a low fucking bar, but no other viable alternatives so…
Don’t worry, they’ll do some mental gymnastics to assure you that Harris was somehow just as bad.
Usually walking back to Palestine. Like, we get, it but the current regime was understood to be worse for everyone, including Palestine.
Oh, for sure. I mean, the lemming I replied to is quite infamous… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It was really hard to vote for a woman and not an fascist dictatorship
Edit: Sorry, black woman… because sexism isn’t enough, you got to be racist also
What if I told you Harris has a fascist track record?
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article233375207.html
ACAB - Including Harris.
What if I told you they are all fucking terrible people? But somehow, for a majority of it, they follow the laws set forth before them… at least they have been pretending. Until trump, none of them decided to wage war by sending military troops to states in the country they are supposedly leading…
Do you know what acab means? I’m not sure what that has to do with any of it…
Just a quick note - He’s human excrement who has cankles. He’s not human excrement BECAUSE he has cankles. :)
Ditto Greg Abbott. He’s a waste of space in a wheelchair, he’s not a waste of space BECAUSE he’s in a wheelchair.
I’m just saying… He was useful before getting crushed by that tree. Had he not been there to cushion the blow, something or someone of value could have gotten really badly hurt.
My dude, why are you denigrating human excrement?
Sorry, you’re right, there’s always a chance excrement can grow something. 😜
Tbf he’d probably grow something if you put him in the ground too
God give me the strength to test this hypothesis.
Ol’ Tim “I agree with everything JD Vance said during our debate” Walz over here.
I actually don’t blame him for that, really. The campaign started off great and then they got too scared. Instead of leaning into what was working, they backed off and neutered Walz.
Walz reminisced about his former running mate, Kamala Harris, stating she “would have been a fantastic president,” and that if she had won, “we would wake up to an adult with compassion and dignity and leadership doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell.” His audience broke into a round of raucous applause.
omg that headline 😙🤌
Second one I read that nearly had me running for the champagne.
