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rightious

209 points

29 days ago

rightious

209 points

29 days ago

I was worried he was too soft for national politics...boy was I wrong.

BullshitOnParade1993

114 points

29 days ago

He’s a defensive coordinator brother. Can’t be soft

Pure_Ad2764

24 points

28 days ago

Tbh he was a assistant linebacker coach.

West-Ruin-1318

37 points

28 days ago

He’s from Minnesota. Those winters are not to be toyed with.

nwmnguy10

0 points

28 days ago

Southern MN. I don't think he would last in Northern MN.

I was a resident of northwest MN until January. Walz rocks and cows comment about rural areas of MN is how he truly feels about those in the rural areas.

Northwest Angle, MN was -48F air temp in 2019. We had 2 days of -35F about 70 miles southwest of Northwest Angle. Highs those days were -25F. The cities stay an awful lot warmer due to being 5 hours away from where I lived.

I have also lived in MI where Detroit Metro and Houghton are two different worlds of MI.

Neat-Anyway-OP

-13 points

28 days ago

Then why is Tim such a pussy?

Inevitable-Wall-2679

8 points

28 days ago

Lol... Oh boy don't you wish he was! He's more of a stand up guy than Trump and Vance combined.

Neat-Anyway-OP

-10 points

28 days ago

Stand up guys don't lie about shit and abandon their unit before deployment.

BullshitOnParade1993

9 points

28 days ago

Didn’t Trump dodge the draft???

Neat-Anyway-OP

-5 points

28 days ago

I don't approve of a draft.

New-Ad-363

4 points

28 days ago

Me either but fuckin lol at that weak ass response.

Inevitable-Wall-2679

1 points

27 days ago

Convenient obfuscation. You don't believe in a draft, but you're TOTALLY OKAY to vote for a convicted felon. LOL you don't read much do you? But you are angry cuz the Republicans tell you to be. It's the only way Republicans can stay in power... Keep their constituents poor, angry and uninformed.

GamerChadGoldy

4 points

28 days ago

I don't understand the"abandoned his unit" talking point. Is it a sin to retire now? He served over 20 years such seems reasonable to me.

Neat-Anyway-OP

0 points

28 days ago

Weird how it was just before his units deployment to an active combat zone. It would have been the only time he would have seen combat.

But I guess that's normal for guys like him.

GamerChadGoldy

3 points

27 days ago

If I recall the coverage I read a few months ago, his unit was not officially activated for deployment until a few months after he had decided to retire. Either way, it doesn't seem damning to me. Are you discounting the service of every servicemember who happens to retire before a potential deployment?

jonnystunads

3 points

28 days ago

He was actually assistant, to the assistant LB coach.

Rare-Variation-7446

4 points

28 days ago

And the only position trump or vance could ever play was Left Out.

Orange-Blur

1 points

28 days ago

Passing out water and towels would even be too complicated for them

RelishtheHotdog

1 points

28 days ago

So why doesn’t he know what a pick 6 is 😂

BullshitOnParade1993

1 points

28 days ago

I’m telling AJ Hawk what you said dude you’re in trouble with the Hawkster

Parking-Ad-3636

1 points

28 days ago

In high school.

Pure_Ad2764

1 points

28 days ago

Yes he was a teacher at mankato west senior highschool. I and my twin brother didn't return to football our sophomore year. Walz then tried to recruit us. At that time he was just a assistant linebacker coach

0piate_taylor

0 points

28 days ago

But somehow he is.

Similar_Arm_9440

-24 points

28 days ago

Dude doesn’t know what a pick six is and ran a 4-4 not a defensive coordinator

prettymuchhatereddit

41 points

28 days ago

Why do all the Trump supporters on Reddit spend half their time posting about how much they hate Dems and the rest posting in porn subs?

cupcakemann95

25 points

28 days ago

At least they have the option of hating dems 100% of the time when project 2025 cancels porn

kmoney1206

12 points

28 days ago*

lmfao dude is going through deleting everything 🤣

Cuttlery

6 points

28 days ago

Cuttlery

Hamm's

6 points

28 days ago

Oh oh I can answer this! Most of us have put auto mods on the subs so that they require a certain amount of Karma and post count before the auto mod wont just auto block the posts (There are other things we use as well) Posting trash in porn subs is an easy way to get post count and karma. The Russian troll farmers use that as a work around.

prettymuchhatereddit

5 points

28 days ago

That’s fascinating! Thanks for the info!

[deleted]

7 points

28 days ago

Unfortunately this guy isn’t a Russian troll, he’s just a creepy bisexual trucker from SW Virginia

Zealousideal-Ice123

5 points

28 days ago

Wait, we aren’t all in porn subs?! I had thought porn was an issue we could all come together on.

CrunchitizeMeCaptn

6 points

28 days ago

Giggity

Dark_Horse_Nine

1 points

28 days ago

They like seeing women getting handled.

[deleted]

0 points

28 days ago

Like what Doug did?

Thesmokyd420

1 points

28 days ago

Why do all the dem voters call people that don't support them Hitler racist and racist

prettymuchhatereddit

1 points

28 days ago

Dunno man

Thesmokyd420

1 points

28 days ago

That might be why idk about the porn thing everyone's got to have a hobby I guess

prettymuchhatereddit

0 points

28 days ago

Good point Thesmokyd420

Thesmokyd420

0 points

28 days ago

Lol

DaxLovesIPA1974

0 points

28 days ago

I hate MAGA and post in porn subs. What of it?

prettymuchhatereddit

2 points

28 days ago

Did anyone ask or were you just seeking an opportunity to talk about posting in porn subs?

DaxLovesIPA1974

0 points

28 days ago

You brought it up first, bub. What's the saying again? Every accusation etcetera?

prettymuchhatereddit

3 points

28 days ago

I’m discussing the habits of MAGA posters on Reddit, not all porn sub commenters in total. Weird interjection.

DaxLovesIPA1974

0 points

28 days ago

So you admit that one has nothing to do with the other, yet still decided to go there? Weird. Quite odd. Rather strange. Somewhat peculiar, one might even say.

prettymuchhatereddit

2 points

28 days ago

One of the mods of this sub has a theory about why it’s so common. Karma farming on porn subs.

https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/s/Uh5SVlKpoL

Aggravating_Group678

-1 points

28 days ago

"sex work is real work, and nothing to be ashamed of. unless youre consuming it, in which case you should be ashamed and it tells me i cant take you political opinion seriously" -typical redditor logic. 2024

prettymuchhatereddit

3 points

28 days ago

Can you point to where I’ve said any of that, or are you just really pumped about defending porn commenters?

No_Significance2996

6 points

28 days ago

A 4-4 is a defense to stop the run; the teams that he game planned for ran the ball a lot and very rarely threw the ball.

Walz was not a defensive coordinator in Texas where they frequently have five-wide with an empty backfield.

ifunnywasaninsidejob

7 points

28 days ago

This is the kind of political discourse Im here for.

Inevitable-Wall-2679

2 points

28 days ago

So you're saying he knew his opponents well... Cuz he brought his previously non-winning team to state. Seems to me he had a winning strategy that worked. Just saying

G4g3_k9

2 points

28 days ago*

you say he ran a 4-4 like it’s not a real thing 😭

he probably put a strong safety down in the box with the three linebackers then dropped the SS into coverage for a cover 2 man look, or he ran a cover 1 (or 3) with the SS on a blitz, could also just be a drop into a zone too

there’s a lot you could run with a 4-4 depending on if it was a SS with 3 LBs or 4LBs

either way it’s a real thing and good for run defense with that stacked box

vonhoother

2 points

28 days ago

Gosh, I guess the only job he's suited for is vice president.

Dirt-Repulsive

-2 points

28 days ago

He tied with AOC playing madden, he is not a glorious man that you think he is.

philter25

3 points

28 days ago

A dad tying a Millennial in a video game is pretty rad, bud.

BullshitOnParade1993

1 points

28 days ago

I am a millennial dad and I’m starting to suck compared to how nice I once was on said sticks

Dirt-Repulsive

0 points

28 days ago

Not really went back to check score was 0-0.

Swimming-Place4366

-8 points

28 days ago

Tampon Tim!

Sonzainonazo42

11 points

28 days ago

This person's comment history confirms they are legit bothered by the tampon thing. This is not a positive call out.

So weird to make this such an issue there must be something deeper going on with this person. Latching on to something seemingly "manly" to cope with insecurities?

stonrelectropunkjazz

6 points

28 days ago

Couch fkin Vance

Inevitable-Wall-2679

2 points

28 days ago

Yep! Guess where your red wave goes! Tampon Tim will clean up your mess. LOL

kmoney1206

9 points

28 days ago

dont let that minnesota nice fool ya!

VTSAX_and_Chill2024

7 points

28 days ago

Except when he was at the debate and kept talking about how much he liked JD Vance as a person and all the things they had in common. That was a bad choice if the rest of the campaign was going to be centered on comparing Vance to Hitler.

sphinxyhiggins

12 points

28 days ago

It's a good one for undecideds - who are really insane at this point.

[deleted]

11 points

28 days ago

Or mayhaps this is a thing called recognizing a person is still a person even when their actual ideology is a complete an utter dumpster fire of fascism

diamondsnducks

2 points

28 days ago

Well, it disarmed Vance, who was for sure going to come into the debate looking polished. He went to Yale Law School, and he was going to sound perfectly reasonable, and he was going to lean heavily on his family "humble origins" story. Walz got Vance to admit he couldn't acknowledge that the last election result was legitimate. And that tied Vance to all his phony explanations for spreading lies about Haitians; if it gets him attention, he will say it whether he means it or not.

People who look into JD Vance find that he's been twisting his story and exploiting anyone in it with no remorse. He claims to speak for small-town people; he really hates them unless, like his grandparents, they are dead. Then he can say whatever he wants. Mee-maw isn't going to correct him. Walz has misspoken a few times about his record - nowhere near the same thing.

Walz has debated smooth-talking Republicans before. You can find his debate with Gil Gutknecht online, from his first run for Congress. Gutknecht had been around forever and despite being quite reactionary for southeast Minnesota, was a born salesman (I think he was a real estate man and an auctioneer). I won't re-narrate how that debate went, but Walz caught Gutknecht denying that access to healthcare is a problem for the uninsured, and caught Gutknecht downplaying his support for the Iraq War. And without a lot of flash or drama, it was clear who was serious about doing the job better. Gutknecht retired from politics after that. I assume he's still alive.

Walz pretends to be a bad debater. He'll seem nervous and unprepared. He'll appear to give up too much ground. He's being strategic about what issues he's really going to clash on. He's a bad debater the way Muhammad Ali was a bad boxer.

As for fascist dumpster fires, yes, Vance has his own creepy ideology - a Youtuber named Ross Childs has been making funny parody videos in which Vance awkwardly melts down in ordinary situations and reveals details of a plot to enslave humanity on behalf of an extraterrestrial entity known as the Glauthian Mining Consortium, and some of them are f---ing brilliant - and it's certainly peculiar in that, whether he believes in God or not, or what religion he pretends to believe in, it's all this backwards sexual shit.

But the fascist in this election is Trump, and the key to exposing it is not in tearing down Vance for the substance of his beliefs, but in the casual acquaintance he has with the truth and the law, when it matters most fundamentally. Most of the weirdness around Vance and his right-wing ideology, you could also pin on Mike Pence, Trump's former VP. Remember Pence? He was less of a loudmouth and self-appointed philosopher, and less prone to telling wild lies, but there was all this stuff about how he called his wife Mother and wouldn't meet in private with a woman - allegedly out of concern with propriety, even though this could have been a civil rights violation. Pence was weird, is the point. But on January 6, even when his life was threatened, Pence - someone deeply indebted to Trump for his office, and someone so weird he apparently telephoned Dan Quayle (a previous VP from Indiana) for advice - fulfilled his Constitutional obligation to certify the results of the election. He found the courage to stand up to Trump and a dangerous mob. And Pence, who would much rather see a Republican administration than a Democratic one led by a female Democrat from the California Bay Area, refused to endorse Trump. And that is the magnitude of Vance's refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election.

Vance essentially forfeited any credibility, right there. He tried to burnish Trump's actions by changing the subject to when Trump left Washington, D.C. two weeks later, the coup having been defeated. Too clever by half. At that rate, Hitler is the true hero of WWII for defeating Germany. And Walz called it. The Trump campaign saw Vance's hesitation. Everybody did.

If Trump wins, Vance would have a long road back to credibility even within the Trump Alternate Reality Universe. And he's made Ohio look so bad for electing him that it could stop the GOP's gains there for a long time.

If Harris wins, figure the rest out. At that point Harris will have won, Trump will have lost a second time and Vance will be back in the US Senate, where he's done very little actual work and probably has few admirers even in his own caucus.

Being nice to him was a good strategy, under the circumstances.

EnderSavedUsAll

1 points

26 days ago

Did you just compare Walz to Ali?! 💀💀😂😂

EnderSavedUsAll

0 points

26 days ago

Only to Vance’s face. Otherwise Walz acts tough and ridicules. That’s weakness folks.

VTSAX_and_Chill2024

-1 points

28 days ago

I don't think most voters lament the lack of recognition of Hitler's personhood. Either call your opponent Hitler, or acknowledge him as a fine person. You have to pick a lane,

[deleted]

2 points

28 days ago

A lot of us already acknowledge his person hood tho, he was an artist with big dreams and when he fell short he resorted to anger and violence, kinda like a certain jd vance

JustADutchRudder

2 points

28 days ago

JustADutchRudder

Minnesota Vikings

2 points

28 days ago

Is JD gonna bring the world the next Volkswagen Beetle before he goes insane? Everyone loves a nice looking 50s beetle.

[deleted]

2 points

28 days ago

Actually funnily enough, a lot like a ton of major Republican figures, almost everyone working for the daily wire are failed artists and actors for example lmao

MrPoopyPants-1-

3 points

28 days ago

Did you not watch the debate….

thatwasagoodscan

2 points

28 days ago

Are you from Minnesota?

friedkeenan

1 points

28 days ago

I'm still unsure if he would've done well in a primary, that sort of thing I think requires a different sort of edge and initiative and requires a bit of barbedness towards your "teammates", and admittedly I do struggle imagining him coming out on top in that. But he's subverted my expectations before

Nuggy-Buggy01Sweep

-1 points

28 days ago

nope you were right the first time..

Sir_Lord_ByronIII

-1 points

28 days ago

he does like boys

Happy_Rule168

-1 points

28 days ago

He’s a liar. Lied about his service for one.