The GOP is scrambling to find a line of attack against Kamala Harris’s VP pick — and it’s not going well
Tim Walz has made his debut as Kamala Harris’ running mate, and Republicans are struggling to apply their standard villainization playbook to the Minnesota governor.
Walz has been making waves for weeks now as a good-natured, relatable politician with a particular aptitude for dressing down the Republican agenda in terms that any voter can understand — and the GOP hates it.
Republicans are scrambling to paint the governor-turned-VP candidate as a devilish Marxist hellbent on running the country into the ground — their usual stuff — while leveling a bunch of other really weird attacks. Here are some of their most pathetic attempts to turn voters against Walz.
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Excellent thumbnail. It looks like he’s laughing at the Republicans.
Believability is the nemesis of the GOP this cycle.
Walz is a villain? Not believable
Vance fucked a couch? Believable
Trump took illegal funds from Egypt? So believable
Dude is so likable and squeaky clean seeming that it makes me worry his crawlspace is full of human remains or something
Honestly would still vote for him. Maybe we can give him the orange menace and his couch fucking enabler.
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I saw an attempt: https://www.voat.xyz/viewpost?postid=66b48351b0c7a
“I hope Tim Walz sexually assaulted teenage boys so we can use it against him” would be such an eye opener if these people had the ability to think about what they were posting.
Isn’t voat almost cheating?
Well yeah. I mean look at this man. Free breakfast AND lunch. Sounds like the devil’s work to me. You have to be a good Christian like Sarah Huckabee and remove child labor laws.
I mean, who hugs kids like this anyway?
The kids in the top one are so excited about their newfound Freedom™ to toil away in the mines.
Look at those kids. They’re wearing little suits and have right-wing political connections. Those kids are going to be running the mines.
Looks like the kids are doing the hugging, and he’s just basking in the pure joy of it
That’s exactly right, the full video is adorable.
Bombarded with love and huge genuine smiles from the kids, hands visible? Yeah dude is doing something right
Yeah obviously those kids should be picking themselves up by their boot straps. Sorry kids there’s no such thing as a free lunch /s
There is in Minnesota if you are a kid.
I love the contrast this is painting between the far-left and far-right. On the one hand, you got fascists carrying tiki torches and chanting “jews will not replace us,” and on the other you got people saying “let’s make sure no children are starving.” And talking heads on Fox are super pissed about the latter.
There is no far left in mainstream US politics. That is nothing more than republican fear mongering.
This has been the contrast since the early 80s…
To be clear neither Harris or Walz are “far left”…
This is what actual moderates looked like.
I’m happy to have them, but we lose if we call what they’re doing “far left”.
We desperately need to bring the Overton Window back where it should be.
Oh, only the Wrong Wing calls them far left. Normal people know better. For one thing, they have a chance of being elected.
That’s what I’m saying. Right wing talking heads are priming people to start thinking “The far left doesn’t seem so bad.”
Normal people know better.
We’ll see. I suspect we’re going to get a full-court press against Walz, particularly after the DC media circuit was shilling so hard for Shapiro and didn’t get what they wanted.
He’s going to get the same tarring and feathering as the Sanders campaign did, back in 2020, after Chris Matthews nearly had a heart attack on air when Bernie won Nevada.
To be clear neither Harris or Walz are “far left”…
Policies that were considered centrist compromise planks back in the 70s and 80s are now “Fringe Leftist Views” in the modern media, because so much of our information is owned and manufactured by right wing extremists.
Who love to scream that the liberal media isn’t right enough… the right is the absolute scum of the earth, they can shove their Fuck you I got mine attitude right up their ass
As far as I understand, far left is anti-capitalism (communism), and/or anti-authority (anarchism), and/or maybe more recently radical ecologists who are ready to destroy property.
Some info about the stolen valor comments:
Left national guard after two decades to run off public office
Eustice says he remembers Walz struggling with the timing of wanting to serve as a lawmaker but also avoiding asking for a deferment so he could do so.
"He had a window of time. He had to decide. And in his deciding, we were not on notice to be deployed. There were rumors. There were lots of rumors, and we didn’t know where we were going until it was later that, early summer, I believe,” Eustice told ABC News.
Also, he did carry weapons of war and “in war”, unless someone wants to correct this.
Walz deployed with the Minnesota National Guard to Italy on Aug. 3, 2003, to support Operation Enduring Freedom, according to the Minnesota Guard. The battalion supported security missions at various locations in Europe and Turkey, according to the Guard, and Walz was stationed in Vicenza, Italy, until returning to Minnesota in 2004. He did not deploy to Iraq or Afghanistan.
On operation enduring freedom, part of war on terror
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Enduring_Freedom
So, in fact he did carry weapons in war. Why are people saying he didn’t?
I find that hard to believe. If they can’t find something true they’ll just make up something horrific and make him a villain out of that
This is true. If in doubt, just make shit up.
How about spending some of that energy coming up with popular solutions to some of our country’s problems instead?
You mean like protecting reproductive rights, eliminating non-competes, free breakfast and lunch in schools, free community college for low income, legalizing weed and giving people convicted of marijuana crimes to participate in the new industry, sick time requirements?
That’s just part of what he’d done in the past two years.
Aren’t they your country problems? Should they try solving themselves?
If Jesus were her running mate they’d find some way to double down on ‘Democrats bad’ by making a new hyper Christianity that’s even more theocratic and fascist.
tbf, jesus is a woke brown middle eastern refugee who hates bankers and thinks food, shelter, and water should be free. they would hate him
You mean modern Christianity?
Fair.
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What. A. Monster.
Someone needs to stop this guy
Only so he could harvest their adtenochrome
It’s aaaaall coming together, the sinister plot revealed at least, how could we not have seen
What is this communist germany? -republicans, soon
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Say what you you will about Hitler, but he provided food and tanks for everyone.
*For everyone that liked him
There were probably a few fools who liked Hitler and then wound up in concentration camps themselves.
Maybe don’t make your whole political strategy about tearing people down and try to actually run candidates who are better in some measurable way
Their entire strategy since the 80s at least was to basically shit on their adversaries and never offer any real policy or anything.
Still waiting on that Trump health plan
Is it infrastructure week yet?
Next up: Is Santa Claus a devil worshipping pedophile communist?
Thats when you murder Santa in front of kids like this guy
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/12/evangelical-groomer-assassinated-santa-claus/
Glad they are unable to do so.
Also Republicans: screaming themselves hoarse about an Algerian woman boxer.
The weird get weirder and I’m loving this VP pick.
