Rock the Vote '24: update (09/10) - It's "Debate Night" - do yourself a favor and play a video game instead

[skillzdadirecta]

5 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

look at that loose nussy (neck pusy)

[legend]

I donated when Harris started her campaign and I just donated again.

 

 

[Chris-]

I threw in $25, I'm coconut pilled.

[Brick]

I don't think I've seen this kind of energy and excitement about politicians since Obama ran for President. 

[legend]

Just now, Brick said:

I don't think I've seen this kind of energy and excitement about politicians since Obama ran for President. 

 

Feels good man. I'm so tired of the despair. 

[thewhyteboar]

Walz kicks ass. This ticket makes me feel excited to vote. 

[CayceG]

I say this with some caution....

 

But I have never EVER been THIS excited about a presidential ticket in my life. And it isn't just because we have to beat Donald Trump. Take him out of the equation, and the vibes are just off the charts. Walz is so good. Harris has what it takes. 

 

16 More Years. 

[PaladinSolo]

Same venue 2 weeks ago. 

[GeneticBlueprint]

I missed all of the Obama hype in 2008 because I wasn’t in the country at the time. Also didn’t have a TV or computer. But people are saying this feels like then. And it’s awesome. 

[PaladinSolo]

I'd she upsizes to a football stadium for a speech then we've hit Obama levels. But yeah, dems are ready to go. 

[Reputator]

I was smiling EAR TO EAR through Walz entire speech.

 

I couldn't believe he invoked the couch meme. 

 

This guy is GOOD. Harris made a good choice, and it only shows how good her judgement is in picking him.

 

Every one of Harris' rallies has had a sense of magic to it. This rally had that, with HOPE. I don't remember when I've felt this patriotic.

[stepee]

Just now, Reputator said:

I was smiling EAR TO EAR through Walz entire speech.

 

I couldn't believe he invoked the couch meme. 

 

This guy is GOOD. Harris made a good choice, and it only shows how good her judgement is in picking him.

 

Every one of Harris' rallies has had a sense of magic to it. This rally had that, with HOPE. I don't remember when I've felt this patriotic.

 

speaking of ears, I can’t believe that I truly did think when that right wing gun nut kid shot at trump it was all going to be over, but tbf I had mostly subsided on that by morning 

[johnny]

loved everything i’ve heard from walz leading up to this. to people who pay closer attn, what’s supposed to be the downside to him politically? 

[Chris-]

9 minutes ago, GeneticBlueprint said:

I missed all of the Obama hype in 2008 because I wasn’t in the country at the time. Also didn’t have a TV or computer. But people are saying this feels like then. And it’s awesome. 

 

I wouldn't say this hits quite the same high, but the vibe is definitely close.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

5 minutes ago, johnny said:

loved everything i’ve heard from walz leading up to this. to people who pay closer attn, what’s supposed to be the downside to him politically? 

 

See this post for the coming GOP lines of attack against him:

 

 

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

[Air_Delivery]

5 hours ago, Jason said:

 

At least this Tim doesn't have the charisma of wet cardboard.

Tim Kaine in retrospect was not a good pick.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

I gotta imagine that there's a GOP opposition research specialist who is looking at a thick dossier titled "Ellen Greenberg" somewhat regretfully that he/she won't get the chance to use it.

[5timechamp]

I hope that this energy is reflected at the voting booth… that the voting loss by Trump is so big that even his acts of “fraud” barely make a ripple in him being thoroughly and completely beaten… however unlikely that is…

 

how great would it be that the things that the MAGAts demonize endlessly females, minorities, and educators are the ones building a ticket to beat back the Trump cult..

[stepee]

On one hand, the baton of momentum does truly seem like it has changed hands for the dems to run with, on the other hand

 

[thewhyteboar]

23 minutes ago, johnny said:

loved everything i’ve heard from walz leading up to this. to people who pay closer attn, what’s supposed to be the downside to him politically? 

Apparently he ran a 4-4 defense as a high school coach. That kinda fancy-pants defense might not play well in SEC country. 

[Air_Delivery]

Trump is big mad that he actually has to work to win the presidency. He thought he was gonna just shit on Biden's age and cruise to victory. 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

The ‘Blue Walz’: How a low-key Midwestern governor shot to the top to be Harris’ VP pick | CNN Politics

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Tim Walz was in the midst of his interview with Vice President Kamala Harris’ vetting team when he told them there was something important they needed to know.

 

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Asked how he saw his role as VP, Walz said he would perform the job however Harris wanted him to. Asked if he wanted to be the last person in the room before Harris made a decision, Walz said only if she wanted him to be there.

 

And asked if he had ambitions to run for president himself one day, Walz said he did not, a point that sources said was not lost on a team looking to minimize the potential for any internal drama in a future Harris administration.

 

“He had a very clear understanding that it was to be a partner, but to support the president, go out and connect with America and be that governing partner,” said Cedric Richmond, a former Louisiana congressman and Biden White House adviser who was deeply involved in the selection process. “It’s not the easiest of positions, but it’s a very important position.”

 

 

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Beyond the personal chemistry Harris and her team felt toward Walz, people familiar with the interview process said that Walz was also someone Harris felt could attract the kinds of voters that Democrats have lost to Donald Trump— voters that Harris may not be able to connect with on her own.

 

“He hunts, he fishes, you want to have a beer with him,” said the source familiar with Walz’s meeting. “He will play in Michigan, Wisconsin, Western Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina.”

 

A longtime Democratic operative who has known Walz for years agreed, saying: “He talks and looks like a lot of the voters we’ve lost to Trump.”

 

[Air_Delivery]

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

[Air_Delivery]

1 minute ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

 

Funny how they are within a year of each other in age. Genetics are a bitch

[Uaarkson]

2 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

based

[thewhyteboar]

1 minute ago, Air_Delivery said:

 

Funny how they are within a year of each other in age. Genetics are a bitch

What a teaching career will do to you. 

[skillzdadirecta]

38 minutes ago, GeneticBlueprint said:

I missed all of the Obama hype in 2008 because I wasn’t in the country at the time. Also didn’t have a TV or computer. But people are saying this feels like then. And it’s awesome. 

My mother LITERALLY just said this to me ten minutes ago 

[Kal-El814]

Still occasionally weird to see conservatives go totally mask off and say shit that boils down to, “can you believe this little freak made sure girls in school had access to tampons and kids in school had free lunch???”

[skillzdadirecta]

16 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

I gotta imagine that there's a GOP opposition research specialist who is looking at a thick dossier titled "Ellen Greenberg" somewhat regretfully that he/she won't get the chance to use it.

To be fair, I'm hearing that Shapiro conducted his one on one interview in such a manner that he basically took himself out the running. He didn't really want to be the number two and wasn't really ready to give up his Governorship. Also people are saying that it's good we don't have two lawyers at the top of the ticket. So yeah, this may have been the best choice out of those available.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

3 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said:

To be fair, I'm hearing that Shapiro conducted his one on one interview in such a manner that he basically took himself out the running. He didn't really want to be the number two and wasn't really ready to give up his Governorship. Also people are saying that it's good we don't have two lawyers at the top of the ticket. So yeah, this may have been the best choice out of those available.

 

According to the CNN article I posted, Shapiro allegedly seemed to be "negotiating" what his role as VP would be which probably didn't go over all that well

 

But that case just seems like a political nightmare waiting to happen. 

 

Harris -- like Shapiro -- is a prosecutor, so I could well imagine herself imagining what she'd do if confronted with that situation and evaluating Shapiro's actions accordingly.

[skillzdadirecta]

10 minutes ago, Air_Delivery said:

 

Funny how they are within a year of each other in age. Genetics are a bitch

"Black don't crack" yo.

[stepee]

I do like how right now there are rooms of super serious political strategists discussing how they can move past the “couch sex problem”

 

My opinion? He has to do it. Livestream it. It’s really the only way, he has to take ownership of it and create his own narrative. 

[finaljedi]

1 minute ago, stepee said:

I do like how right now there are rooms of super serious political strategists discussing how they can move past the “couch sex problem”

 

My opinion? He has to do it. Livestream it. It’s really the only way, he has to take ownership of it and create his own narrative. 

 

The best tactic would be just to lean into it and get in on the joke to take the teeth out.  But Trumpism is against any kind of self deprecation or self mocking to an idiotic level.