For those of us who have had a front row seat to some of Walz’s machinations and political decision-making in Minnesota for the past several years, reconciling the current media narrative around Walz with what we’ve seen with our own eyes has been disorienting.
Tim Walz originally decided to run for office as a Democrat after being denied entry to a George W. Bush rally in 2004. He flipped a longtime red Congressional District in 2006, and then proceeded to be one of the most conservative Democrats in the U.S. Congress, ironically aligning himself with many of the Bush Administration policies. He had an ‘A’ rating from the NRA, voted for the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline, supported the big agriculture industry, and was obviously pro-military after serving in the Minnesota National Guard for 24 years.
Alternate headline:
‘return2ozma hates Biden, Harris and Walz so who do they like?’
Or, read the article.
I did.
I don’t even have to look to see who posted such stupid shit when the headline reads like this…
Eh, dude posts damn near everything except pro-trump shit.
You can’t really try to claim they’re pushing a narrative when they post a lot of pro Harris/Walz articles because they also post a few that aren’t positive.
To be clear tho. This article is straight garbage from the quoted part alone, I don’t know why someone would de ide to post this specific article.
Their comments on posts show them to be VERY biased to one side of the political spectrum
It’s almost like people can grow and evolve in a nearly two decade span of time.
I grew up in a Conservative Christian household and was taught to be homophobic, not to trust anyone who wasn’t a Christian because they could be “activated by the devil to work against me at any time”, and grew up with parents who casually used racial, sexist, and other hateful slurs about people.
Now I’m a very strong LGBTQA+ advocate, actively volunteer for my local Democrat’s office doing phone banking, and am extremely left leaning in all of my views.
I’m not saying that’s what happened to Walz, but he seems like someone with a big heart who’s trying to do the right thing. If he’s lying about who he is, I’ll be damned if I can tell. He’d have to be exceptionally good at it to seem as genuine as he is. I’m not saying he’s a saint, though. He is human. He’s going to have flaws.
and am extremely left leaning in all of my views.
What’s your most far left view?
Probably UBI or my belief that anything over several million dollars in income should be taxed at or near 100%
Should landlords exist?
Landlords are fine. Corporations should be banned from owning single-family homes and be forced to stick with apartments. Apartments should have rent control.
Landlords should not exist. They need to stop leeching off the labor of others. Get a real job.
In your mind, though, who would own and operate apartments, townhouses, and single family homes that are for rent?
I’m open to an opposing argument and curious about what solution you’d propose.
Ozma, bruh. You really need to pick and choose to have an actual discussion. All you’re doing is bringing minor gripes to a larger discussion. We have an existential crisis in this election, but there just isn’t enough time in the day for any candidates to cover EVERY FUCKING THING conceivable to get whatever your vote looks like.
Shit is fucked up. People are trying to fix it. They’re also trying to defeat a tyrant who aims to run rampage on the country as a whole. Baby steps.
Still vote Dem but stop pretending Harris and Walz are saints. You can still be informed about their records.
No one thinks they are saints. Give us a minute to celebrate having a non-geriatric candidate with a vp pick that isn’t an incel, abuser, robot, or anti-lgbt closeted homosexual.
This. This all day. Like, read the fucking room.
It’s like showing up to somebody’s childhood birthday party and going, “Great party. It’s a shame your parents are getting a divorce.” We have all had to survive four years of Trump followed by a geriatric president people were lukewarm about and also more Trump.
I think it’s okay to have some excitement, as a treat.
wonder what tyrant will be propped up next so the Democrats will again have to be voted in to stop it
and what are the Democrats focusing on? just Trump/fascist tyrants?
and what are the Democrats focusing on? just Trump/fascist tyrants?
Tell us you haven’t bothered to read anything without telling us. There’s answers to those questions, if you’d bother to look. Like, at all.
You act like Trump has happened in every election cycle since the start of the country. Fuck off with your bad faith bullshit.
Harris Walz campaign is aging like milk
No matter how much you say it, it doesn’t make it reality.
Goddamn the “any critique of a democrat means you’re a trump supporting russian bot” crowd really is out in force here. Majorly supporting Keystone XL, supporting the violent police response to the George Floys protests, and supporting the genocidal regime of Israel are all reprehensible things and it is a joke that they’re trying to paint this man as a progressive.
They did the same thing during Hillary’s 2016 run. They refused to listen to the left. Look how that turned out.
Tim Walz originally decided to run for office as a Democrat after being denied entry to a George W. Bush rally in 2004.
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While true, it’s kind of important that he was there as a teacher taking his class on a school trip, one student wasn’t let in because the student had a shirt on for the Dem candidate, and Walz decided to run as a Dem because of that.
Other than that tho, I agree we shouldn’t pretend their perfect and progressive.
They’re “good enough” and they’ll only stay that way with sustained pressure from the left because the right never stops applying pressure.
I don’t feel like that’s what this article is trying to do, and I’m not giving them the click to find out.
and this is why our “democracy” is in shambles
nobody bothers to read articles because they automatically assume it will paint their candidate in the wrong light even when there is a fact checking bot to let you if it is worth the read
When the summary includes such a gross misrepresentation of the facts, it’s counter productive to reward them with page views to see if maybe some of the other stuff they said wasn’t bullshit…
