Making his debut as a vice presidential candidate on Tuesday, Tim Walz staked his claim to Middle American values and argued that former President Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, are “weird” and “creepy as hell.”

Walz, the governor of Minnesota, also got the packed arena laughing with a reference to a meme about Vance having relations with a couch.

“I can’t wait to debate the guy,” Walz said. “That is, if he’s willing to get off the couch and show up.”

“In Minnesota, we respect our neighbors and the personal choices they make, even if we wouldn’t make the same choice for ourselves,” he said. “There’s a golden rule. Mind your own damn business.”

  • @[email protected]
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    1 month ago

    Whats happening. The dems are bantering. This isn’t how this works, they’re supposed to roll over and disappoint us. They know that. That’s been their entire strategy. Is this what optimism feels like?

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      They’ve been doing so unbelievably well…I can almost hear the other shoe whistling as it falls through the air. When the Dems fuck this one up it’s gonna hurt.

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            331 month ago

            They didn’t. They got a super majority and passed the most comprehensive healthcare bill in history. And pulled the economy out of the biggest recession since the Great Depression. And approved Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor who created a 5/4 Democratic slant to the Supreme Court, allowing gay marriage to be legalized.

            And then in 2011 Osama Bin Laden was killed in his home in front of his grandchildren. All that sounds successful to me.

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            They wasted their supermajority by passing a right wing healthcare bill.

            Instead of ending the wars as promised, they did a troop surge.

            They bailed out wall street while doing little to help working americans.

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              81 month ago

              Democrats are more for the people than Republicans but they’re still not great.

              The ACA is miles better than what we had before and the supermajority was supermajority in name only.

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        61 month ago

        When Shapiro looked like they might be the VP pick I thought that was done.

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      I’ve always hated how Dems try to keep decorum and fight with one arm tied behind their back, while Republicans shit sling and fight dirty. I’m glad Dems are finally growing some balls and calling out these idiots with their own attack strategies

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        601 month ago

        And yet, unlike Republicans, they aren’t resorting to dirty tricks and grotesque lies. It’s really nice to see this middle ground where they aren’t just sucking it up but they also aren’t going down to the Republicans’ level.

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        161 month ago

        I don’t remember Kamala being this way when she was campaigning in 2020. It seems she’s fucking fed up with the GOP’s bullshit like the rest of us.

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        I don’t think he’s fighting dirty. He’s just being clever and on the attack. Using their own attack strategies would be using racial slurs, political violence, and theocratic-fascist dog whistles. Harris and Waltz are just punking them, and it’s great.

        It really highlights how decrepit and often inept the Biden campaign was.

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      361 month ago

      With project 2025, the stakes are higher than the rich getting richer.

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        It’s about damn time. The difference between Hillary’s meme attempts and Walz’s is crazy. I’m not sure who handled them, whether it was the candidate or a team for each, but Walz’s are so much better it’s insane. Chillin in cedar rapids and Pokemon go were so hard to watch. I know an election like this so much more than that, but get with the times if you rely on a younger voting pool. Walz’s reminds me of Biden VP memes to a certain extent. Maybe more timeless and less fad based. Not sure but seems much more genuine this time.

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    711 month ago

    GOP’s collective brain cell might implode over whether to be sad that walz is savagely roasting their guy, or wtf to even do, because they hate vance too

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      371 month ago

      You mean like Donnie Jr?

      Eric might LOOK more dumb, but Junior is definitely the biggest idiot of the two…

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      161 month ago

      When I first saw the ticket together, I thought Vance was chosen because they were able to convince Donald Trump that Vance was one of his kids after all. Trump did get around back in the day, maybe JD’s mom was a Miss America contestant or something.

      But it’s also likely that Trump’s brain is mush, and he is convinced Vance is Eric Trump with a beard.

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        81 month ago

        I think that Vance got chosen because it’d be the fewest letters you’d have to change on your Trump pence 2020 flag

        PEVANCE

        • @[email protected]
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          71 month ago

          No joke, I think Trump thinks single-syllable names are more powerful, and ruled out anyone with more than one syllable in their name.

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            51 month ago

            That and Nikki Haley is an Indian woman. That would be awkward considering how Trump talks about Harris.

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            21 month ago

            Alternate theory: he won’t run with anyone who has more letters in their name than him, because their name would take up more room on the signage.

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    JD Vance: “This is an immature lie. We would never target the sexuality of other people in such a demeaning fashion. I am a Christian man, and I have only had reproductive sex with my Indian wife, who may not look like a proper American but that is not a problem because she is, believe me. The lie needs to stop, we would never lie.”

    (God I hope this happens. I really do)

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    501 month ago

    I loved watching this speech not only for Walz, but also for Kamala’s proud face and reactions. She knows she made the best possible choice, and her happiness was palapable.

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    281 month ago

    Someone please make sure JD knows that Walz said “get off the couch” and not “get the couch off”.