But you only call out one side even though it is coming from both. @GOATuve brought up a great example you just tried avoiding *raises hand* this is exactly me. I'm a 2008 era Obama Democrat still, yet called crazy by people in here because that kind of Democrat aligns with RFK Jr.
When Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz showed up on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” last week to blast Donald Trump and JD Vance as “weird” — part of a recent media blitz — the line of attack quickly gained traction among Democrats. Key among them was de facto presidential nominee Kamala Harris, who days later started using the same word in her campaign messagingagainst the GOP ticket, including at a fundraiser in Massachusetts on Saturday. The simple phrase quickly highlighted why Walz — a popular two-term Midwestern governor, former congressman, military veteran and former public school teacher — had suddenly landed on Harris’ short list of prospective running mates. But Walz’s allies, friends and current and former colleagues note that his canny folksiness is just one of the attributes that make him uniquely suited to be the Democratic vice presidential nominee. In addition to a relatable personal story, they say, the 60-year-old Walz has a background representing rural communities that is needed in the party, as well as a record of progressive policy accomplishments. These Democrats argue that Walz’s background and resume would translate to broad appeal across the critical nearby “blue wall” states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania — something few other VP contenders can offer. “If you’re looking for balance on the ticket in terms of life experience, and who’s going to bring that life experience to the administration with a whole series of credentials in solving problems for middle class and American families, Tim Walz has a pretty damn good resume,” said former Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., who became close friends with Walz during the time they overlapped in Washington, D.C. She added that Walz prompts voters, particularly across the upper Midwest, to think, “Hey, I know that guy,” and to feel “a comfort level you have with a shared human experience, a shared lived experience.” A veteran, teacher and red-district Democrat Walz, a Nebraska native, enlisted in the Army National Guard when he was 17, and served for more than two decades with both domestic and overseas deployments. He later worked as a high school social studies teacher and football coach in Mankato, about 80 miles south of Minneapolis, before shifting to politics. In 2006, he successfully ran for a congressional seat in a largely rural and agricultural district in southern Minnesota. He represented the 1st Congressional District for 12 years, and has been the only Democrat to represent what has typically been a red-leaning district — which spans the entire southern chunk of the state — in nearly 30 years. “He’s highly capable of reaching out to and connecting with the voters in small towns and rural places in the Midwest — that’s where he’s from, that’s where he was [representing] as a member of Congress,” said Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn. “Those are the voters that Democrats need to do better with, voters where we have to demonstrate that we understand what’s going on in their lives, and that we understand that we should be working to make their lives work better.” Central to that ability, Smith and others said, is Walz’s service in the Army National Guard — at the time of his swearing-in in 2007, he became the highest-ranking retired noncommissioned officer to serve in Congress — as well as his record in the House advocating for veterans issues. “Tim was actually an historic member of Congress,” said former Rep. Patrick Murphy, who before serving as the undersecretary of the U.S. Army under President Barack Obama represented a district in the Scranton, Pennsylvania, area. Murphy, a Democrat, entered Congress the same year as Walz and the two shared a small apartment together as freshmen. “He was my partner in repealing ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ he authored most of the post-9/11 GI Bill,” Murphy said. “And he was winning [in] a congressional district that Democrats don’t usually win.” Harris’ current VP short list is filled with governors as she seeks to potentially balance the ticket with a voice outside Washington. Walz has built a robust network of influence across several states in his role as chair of the Democratic Governors Association, a job he took on last year. But he also has 12 years of congressional experience that could be put to use in the White House. “Think about what Joe Biden brought to Obama. In essence, all those relationships in Washington,” said Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., who is openly advocating for Harris to select Walz. “He’s got all those relationships with members of Congress, including on the other side.” Progressive and working-class appeal Minnesota has been consistently Democratic at the statewide level in recent elections, but it’s a place where Republicans are competitive. Still, Walz has overseen the enactment of a bevy of progressive priorities as governor, particularly during his second term, with Democrats controlling both chambers of the Legislature. He signed laws protecting abortion rights,legalizing recreational mar1juana, restricting gun access and providing legal refuge to transgender youths whose access to gender-affirming and other medical care has been restricted elsewhere. “He’s got the progressive receipts to bring it home to a more broad appeal across the Democratic base,” Craig said. Walz also enacted several laws geared toward farmers and the working class, including bills that expanded paid family leave, banned most noncompete agreements, provided universal school meals for students, expanded public child care support programs and capped the price of insulin in Minnesota (three years before Biden did so nationally). “If you want to raise up examples of where Democrats have governed successfully, especially around working family and economic issues, he has a great story to tell,” said Jeff Blodgett, a St. Paul-based Democratic strategist who worked as a campaign manager for the late Sen. Paul Wellstone and was the state director for both of Obama’s campaigns. Walz would “give the ticket some real weight in terms of the economic arguments they want to make to voters,” Blodgett said. Reinforcing the ‘blue wall’ Of course, the prospect of putting Walz on the ticket with Harris presents some downsides. He’s not well known nationally and may not bring the same youth or energy as other potential running mates. He’s also not from a battleground state, like Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro or Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, that could tip the presidential election. But Walz’s allies say he could still help the Democratic ticket in other critical states — Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania — that are home to many of the same types of voters he’s won over in Minnesota. “He speaks farm, suburban and urban,” joked Rep. Betty McCollum, D-Minn., who haspublicly urged Harris to select Walz. She and others noted that Walz is not reluctant to go on Fox News — a recent appearance even drew a complaint from Trump — to reach more conservative voters. Some Democrats said Walz could also counter Trump’s efforts to make further inroads in the Rust Belt with his selection of Vance as his running mate. “What I know is that people like JD Vance know nothing about small-town America,” Walz said on “Morning Joe” on Tuesday. “My town had 400 people, 24 kids in my graduating class, 12 were cousins. And he gets it all wrong.” “It’s not about hate. It’s not about collapsing in,” he said. “The golden rule there is mind your own damn business.”
Hmm, that might be fair enough except for the fact that Trump, and anyone who condones him, is so lost as to probably never be found again. Republicans are going down, hard. They dug their own grave.
link will work for you and for everyone else https://www.wsj.com/articles/whos-a...xgptevd6k8j&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink Who’s Afraid of Project 2025? Democrats run against a think-tank paper that Trump disavows. Why? By The Editorial Board July 28, 2024 at 5:01 pm ET Americans are learning more about Kamala Harris, as Democrats rush to anoint the Vice President’s candidacy after throwing President Biden overboard. Ms. Harris wasted no time saying she’s going to run hard against a policy paper that Donald Trump has disavowed—the supposedly nefarious agenda known as Project 2025. But who’s afraid of a think-tank white paper? “I will do everything in my power to unite the Democratic Party—and unite our nation—to defeat Donald Trump and his extreme Project 2025 agenda,” Ms. Harris tweeted shortly after President Biden dropped out. She’s picking up this ball from Mr. Biden, and her campaign website claims that Project 2025 would “strip away our freedoms” and “abolish checks and balances.” *** Sounds terrible, but is it? The 922-page document doesn’t lack for modesty, as a wish list of policy reforms that would touch every part of government from the Justice Department to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The project is led by the Heritage Foundation and melds the work of some 400 scholars and analysts from an eclectic mix of center-right groups. The project is also assembling a Rolodex of those who might work in a Trump Administration. Most of the Democratic panic-mongering has focused on the project’s aim to rein in the administrative state. That includes civil service reform that would make it easier to remove some government workers, and potentially revisiting the independent status of agencies like the Federal Trade Commission. The latter isn’t going to happen, but getting firmer presidential control over the bureaucracy would improve accountability. The federal government has become so vast that Presidents have difficulty even knowing what is going on in the executive branch. Americans don’t want to be ruled by a permanent governing class that doesn’t answer to voters. Some items on this menu are also standard conservative fare. The document calls for an 18% corporate tax rate (now 21%), describing that levy as “the most damaging tax” in the U.S. system that falls heavily on workers. A mountain of economic literature backs that up. The blueprint suggests tying more welfare programs with work; de-regulating health insurance markets; expanding Medicare Advantage plans that seniors like; ending sugar subsidies; revving up U.S. energy production. That all sounds good to us. Democrats are suggesting the project would gut Social Security, though in fact it bows to Mr. Trump’s preference not to touch the retirement program, which is headed for bankruptcy without reform. No project can profess to care about the rising national debt, as Heritage does, without fixing a program that was 22% of the federal budget in 2023. At times the paper takes no position. For example: The blueprint features competing essays on trade policy. This is a tacit admission that for all the GOP’s ideological confusion on economics, many conservatives still understand that Mr. Trump’s 10% tariff is a terrible idea. As for the politics, Mr. Trump recently said online that he knew “nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it.” That may be true. The chance that Mr. Trump has read any of it is remote to nil, and he doesn’t want to be tied to anyone’s ideas since he prizes maximum ideological flexibility. The document mentions abortion nearly 200 times, but Mr. Trump wants to neutralize that issue. The project’s chief sponsor, Heritage president Kevin Roberts, also gave opponents a sword when he boasted of “a second American revolution” that would be peaceful “if the left allows it to be.” This won’t help Mr. Trump with the swing voters he needs to win re-election. By our lights the project’s cultural overtones are also too dark and the agenda gives too little spotlight to the economic freedom and strong national defense that defined the think tank’s influence on Ronald Reagan in 1980. *** But the left’s campaign against Project 2025 is reaching absurd decibels. You’d think Mr. Trump is a political mastermind hiding the secret plans he’ll implement with an army of shock troops marching in lockstep. If his first term is any guide, and it is the best we have, Mr. Trump will govern as a make-it-up-as-he-goes tactician rather than a strategist with a coherent policy guide. He’ll dodge and weave based on the news cycle and often based on whoever talks to him last. Not much of the Project 2025 agenda is likely to happen, even if Republicans take the House and Senate. Democrats will block legislation with a filibuster. The bureaucracy will leak with abandon and oppose even the most minor reforms to the civil service. The press will revert to full resistance mode, and Mr. Trump’s staff will trip over their own ambitions. Democrats know this, which is why they fear Trump II less than they claim. They’re targeting Project 2025 to distract from their own failed and unpopular policies. Appeared in the July 29, 2024, print edition as 'Who’s Afraid of Project 2025?'.
whole video, but especially starting at the 4:50 mark man, Walz vs JD Vance in a debate would be a massacre Remember when Thanos beat the brakes off Hulk so badly at the start of Infinity War, dude refused to show up the rest of the movie? That’s what Walz would do
I don't know, kimosabe, anarchy is cool conceptually but I don't actually think laws are a terrible thing.
Kamala Harris’s election campaign said yesterday it has raised $200 million and signed up 170,000 new volunteers in the week since she became the favorite to be the Democratic presidential nominee
LOL. It's a sad attempt to portray a party where only white men are deserving of certain positions like President and VP as a party that isn't sexist or racist.
