You started it, baby face
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Inflation and housing and healthcare are huge issues which no one is addressing amidst the name calling and virtue signaling.
I don’t care about military records from any candidate! Address the issues, talk about what matters.
The annoying thing is that people interested in policy issues have already committed to a party. What’s left are swing voters who (when polled) come up with the most ridiculous reasons for voting for/against a candidate.
What's left are how many people are going to bother with voting.
Agreed, but again I would argue that pro interested in policy are likely to vote no matter what.
Harris and Walz address those issues in their speeches.
What you're missing is that the media isn't covering those statements. The silly schoolyard BS drives clicks and, for far too many people, it affects their voting choices.
Walz, who spent years as a school teacher, understands the mindset of T**** and Shady Vance and is using their tactics against them in a very efficient way.
If you look at it from a teachers POV, T**** is the school bully and Vance is the nose picking stooge who desperately wants the same power and attention.
Thank you for not using that arsewipes name. Wish more people would do the same.
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Sure, but the media serves up what gets clicks. Why don’t people ask for better?
Edit: also this is something the candidates should say, that the media needs to bring attention to the issues. Enough with the schoolyard stuff.
Ah yes, we simply need people to ask for better!
I mean, I definitely agree with you - we should have an educated, engaged population that is able to critically assess what they're being told and realize when people are trying to distract them from important issues. Of course! That's still the destination, though, and it's a ways off.
Why don't people ask for better?
Because education funding is too low.
Because grocery bills are too high.
Because folks are working multiple jobs just to try to get by.
Because we've had to watch Trump/the GOP be weird little gremlins while pretending to have the moral high ground and GOD does it feel good to watch them melt down over being called on it.
"Asking for better" is a healthy salad, and watching someone get dunked on is a greasy fast food burger.
Sure, everyone should pick a healthy salad... but this is America.
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SPOT-FUCKING-ON! Thank you.
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As a veteran, fuck Sgt Scribbles.
Corporal Crayon?
Private Parts In A Sofa.
I have to wonder if Vance would’ve had the same reaction if the anchor was a man, and not a woman?
Huh. When I get asked about mine, I'm very up-front about all of it.
Weird.
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Walz served for 24 years, was deployed during operation enduring freedom, was a the ranking member of Veteran Affairs, has been key to bipartisan legislation for veteran suicide prevention, and he retired a year before he would’ve been deployed to Iraq.
Vance slimy weirdo who knows his base would rather eat up lies than confront the fact that they’ve been conned by a billionaire huckster for a decade.
Also, 4 years is a pretty standard enlistment period for the guard. He did an extra 4 years after finishing his 20, and instead of doing 28 years he retired and ran for Congress, which also required him to retire due to the Hatch Act.
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“When were you ever in war?” Vance demanded at a Michigan rally on Wednesday. “What bothers me about Tim Walz is this stolen valor garbage. Do not pretend to be something that you’re not.”
How do you consistently fuck up this bad every time?
Easy, it's called being a republikkklown
It does look like Walz misspoke years ago when he was making a point about how some weapons only belong in war and not anywhere else. I don't think it's that big of a deal to make, especially coming from someone else who also didn't see combat but more importantly doesn't seem to understand that service is far more than combat.
I don't think that's a misstatement at all. Nobody needs an M2 Browning in their backyard, as cool as they are.
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Weird
What a weird coward
I mean....if you don't want people asking questions about your military service, maybe, just maybe, don't question the military service of your opponent.
This is just me, never served but have relatives who did...
If you don't have a purple heart and the dude you're talking about isn't claiming to have one, maybe stfu about Stolen Valor.
Snowflake.
Weird snowflake.
Weirdflake.
Weird
Here we have distillation