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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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.
What. A. Monster.
Someone needs to stop this guy
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?
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.
He’s borderline the ideal version of what a family man looks like even in their own version of reality. He’s a white independently successful retired military, churchgoing, family man. Good luck with that one, couch fuckers.
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 don’t think they’ll struggle to attack him, it’s just a question of whether it will stick and how much it will matter since he’s only the VP pick. In some ways it’s useful because it distracted them from Harris.
The attacks seem pretty obvious: he’s a pedophile, he eats babies, Minneapolis burned under his watch, he retired from the national guard to avoid combat, he supported LGBTQ groups in high schools, he lived in China, he facilitated sending children to China, say China a lot, say Marxist a lot, say communist a lot, highlight Bernie and Hillary’s support of him, etc.
Remember, they only need to villainize him to people that already think he’s a villain, so nothing needs to be true or especially devastating. It’s like the Fox cut-down that people responded to by being like “the reasons Fox says he’s bad are all the reasons I like him!”
It’s like, well, yes. Fox isn’t trying to convince you. They’re trying to make sure republican voters don’t stay home.
This doesn’t make sense to me. They need to villainize him for those low info voters on the fence of voting. Most Republicans are voting for Trump, not against Kamala.
Their problem is they want to energize their base to vote while not encouraging a wider turnout. That’s the point of attacks, not to change opinions. Unfortunately for them, their attacks end up energizing their opponents base because they’re so fucking stupid or actually pointing out things the opponents base wants.
“Kamala picks the vp endorsed by Sanders. This Democratic ticket is a horrible vehicle for progressive change that we must stop.” That’s the sort of attack that actually helps your opponent. If they let Kamala’s campaign paint them as both radical and not looking for real change, they’re cooked. And so far that’s what they’re doing.
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?
it’s hard to paint someone as a villain when you’re literally supporting donald trump.
… because he’s not a villain
Just from what I heard of him now he really seems like a chill dude. I had no idea who he was before now.
Republicans: “LeEbRuHL!!!”
Waltz: “Thanks!”
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
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.
I lived downtown during the protests
So how’s the ghost life treating you?
Being able to fly is pretty cool. But I get terrible restaurant service now. 7/10
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
What’s the rocks and cows?
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. "
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
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
Exactly. And I love how they got the whole burning down thing from main stream media that they bitch so much about.
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.
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
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
all true. and +1 for calling out doublethink
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!
Tim Walz believes in REDISTRIBUTING WEALTH and ENCOURAGES FREELOADERS to TAKE HANDOUTS and not take PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY for their problems.
PS, Please send $$$ donations immediately!
Dear leader Trump has asked my why you have not been supporting him lately. Donate now to help him fight the freeloaders.
That’s literally their argument against him. SoCiaLIsM!
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!
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.
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…”
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.”
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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how long before the inevitable “national guard isn’t real army men!!!” talking point is flying around?
The original image is so much better. No need to add a dipshit, just the VP nominee with a baby pig.
I dunno, I liked the one with the sleepy Trumplet.
I don’t like the whole “down to earth politician I could get a beer with” thing, but I legitimately don’t think I can picture trump or vance looking happy with a farm animal, and I think that says something about them as peoplecin a way that’s different than just “down to earth”.
You should look like that if you’re at a fair and someone hands you a piglet. It’s just a funny, cute thing that’s supposed to make people happy.
The “get a beer with” thing is about trust and being comfortable. Sounds like, “handing him a piglet” is your version of this. His reaction makes you trust and be comfortable with him as a decent human.
I vote, you now use the phrase, “I’d hand that guy a piglet.” And make it your own.
I think the range of clothing I can picture them in is suit or golf polo. They just exude the energy of rich boys who don’t want to do anything “beneath their station”.
I bet neither has ever made their own bed.
Vance probably has as he was in the military. Even a cushy press job has to make his own bed. But I’m sure he’s put that all behind him and now thinks of that as work for the servants.
The closest was when Trump tried to pose for a photo op with a bald eagle and the eagle attacked him
I love it so much that this was real. The joke writes itself
If we were in a novel or a movie the critics would have called that symbolism too heavy-handed. Of course they also would have said it is too unrealistic to have millions of dimwits voting for a con man because they are all racist.
Seeing this for the first time was the best part of my day.
Trump couldn’t pull off holding a book for fuck’s sake. And this guy, he’s just charming. He’s a big lovable oaf.
Damn, Walz made CSM?
You see, Republicans saying that exact thing would’ve been smart. It’s both true (as an acronym for his rank), but also dangerously close to “CSAM” that idiots would be up in arms about the guy being a predator.
Still would be an incredibly scummy thing to do to attack opponents, but that might have actually achieved something for those amoral fuckwits.
Republicans don’t know what the fuck CSAM is. “CSAM” is just the leftist euphemism treadmill for CP.
I never said the idiots had to be Republicans. “Both sides equally bad” centrists would do just fine for spreading misinformation.
Good point.
By far, the most perfect VP pick:
Jerry “eggs-bacon-and-toast” Gergich. Dude is wholesome as fuck.
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
