Are you kink shaming me?What's with the fawning over a 60 yo white bloke? Seems a bit creepy.
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Are you kink shaming me?What's with the fawning over a 60 yo white bloke? Seems a bit creepy.
True, needs to be 18 years older to justify the fawning.What's with the fawning over a 60 yo white bloke? Seems a bit creepy.
That's also a bit creepy.True, needs to be 18 years older to justify the fawning.
NoAre you kink shaming me?
I am just pleasantly surprised and really happy the dems have made what I believe is a great choice for VP. A guy who gets shit done, and will fight and defend his positions.
What's with the fawning over a 60 yo white bloke? Seems a bit creepy.
That's cool. It just seems weird to see some posters on this site up and about for a 60 yo white bloke.I am just pleasantly surprised and really happy the dems have made what I believe is a great choice for VP. A guy who gets shit done, and will fight and defend his positions.
I'm sick of dems who get terrified whenever said to be progressive, who run back to the centre trying to prove how moderate and similar to the corporate dems/republicans they are.
Sorry questioning them makes you so upset. You guys really can't handle any sort of opposition. Echo chambers and groupthink is all you're emotionally capable of. Any outside noise and you wet the bed like you just did.Where did the progressives touch you?
Thanks for the informative response. He sounds like a bloke many posters on this site would normally despise. That was my point. The way you described him sounds like a good bloke.He’s the running mate Kamala needs to appeal to the Midwest states.
For instance in 2008 Obama carried Indiana and Ohio (now solid red) and took PA, WI and MI by 10%, 14%, and 16% margins. These were considered solid blue states.
Then Trump came and took the white working class vote in those states. For whatever reason his message of coastal elites not caring about the fortunes of the Midwest and rust belt states resonated. The Democrat’s option of establishment Clinton and whoever her forgettable running mate was was not appealing.
Cut to 2020, things have changed and the election becomes a pseudo referendum on Trump. Biden is a bit better than Hillary, resonates a bit better with the white working class but mostly didn’t recapture those votes. His scrape over the line win in the rust belt was more to slightly higher anti Trump turnout in cities.
Now this time around the Dems have automatically nominated their VP. She’s from San Francisco, literally the number one enemy city of the GOP. They’d be licking their lips to run ads about Kamala imposing “San Francisco Values” on the Midwest. To counter that she REALLY needed a candidate who was the utter opposite of her and who resonates well in the Midwest with the white working class.
Walz’s competition was Josh Shapiro. Why not pick him, it locks up Pennsylvania does it not? Well not really. Shapiro is very much a typical career politician, Georgetown educated lawyer, DC operative, straight into the Penn state house and fast track to Governor. Despite notionally being from PA he really doesn’t exude the “Midwest man” the Dems need to resonate with the white working class.
To really know what the Midwest is about, and to best explain it to Australians, is to look at the movies and TV that have come out of that region. This is where a lot of the “typical suburban middle America family and high school” pop culture is set. Think Home Alone, American Pie, That 70s Show, Happy Days, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club…..
Catch my drift? It’s “mom and pop and apple pie” territory. In Tim Walz they have a guy born in Nebraska with moved to a small city of 30,000 in Minnesota to be close to his wife of 30 years family. Was in the army, became a high school football coach and took a team of misfits (they’d previously lost 27 games in a row) and within 3 years won them a state championship. Went into politics (after his social studies class was kicked out of a Bush rally) and wins a traditionally GOP district. Became a popular governor. Hunts, fishes, makes dad jokes, eats corn dogs at the state fair, plays frisbee with his dog.
How more Midwest Middle American Dad can you get? This is the candidate who’ll hopefully appeal to that lost demographic
TD...?I'm now fluent in TD...... you know the thing!
Also someone who is positive and cheery with it.I am just pleasantly surprised and really happy the dems have made what I believe is a great choice for VP. A guy who gets shit done, and will fight and defend his positions.
I'm sick of dems who get terrified whenever said to be progressive, who run back to the centre trying to prove how moderate and similar to the corporate dems/republicans they are.
Thanks for the informative response. He sounds like a bloke many posters on this site would normally despise. That was my point. The way you described him sounds like a good bloke.
Miserable and melty seems to go hand in hand with the ones that are openly left.
I know it is a re-post, but the above reminded me of this:There isn't a company in the world which would hire Donald Trump to do anything.
Hey Dems - is this really the best you've got to offer?:
Kommola - the cackling wokester
"Stay Woke" - LeadbellyLol people on right being triggered by the word woke.
What's with the fawning over a 60 yo white bloke? Seems a bit creepy.
"The left" isn't a monolith.Walz is, what we Australians would call, a “good bloke”.
Maybe the only thing that people on the left may find objectionable is the hunting and maybe the military stuff. He supports gun background checks which is standard Democrat policy.
The rest of him is very progressive (for America). Pro social welfare, pro using taxes to help people, pro LGBT (as a Midwest high school football coach he joined a Gay Student’s group as an ally in the 90s), pro cannabis, pro choice, pro Gaza ceasefire and pro Worker.
Seems he doesnt just have looking like Dick Cheney in common.Walz is, what we Australians would call, a “good bloke”.
Maybe the only thing that people on the left may find objectionable is the hunting and maybe the military stuff. He supports gun background checks which is standard Democrat policy.
The rest of him is very progressive (for America). Pro social welfare, pro using taxes to help people, pro LGBT (as a Midwest high school football coach he joined a Gay Student’s group as an ally in the 90s), pro cannabis, pro choice, pro Gaza ceasefire and pro Worker.
LolSeems he doesnt just have looking like Dick Cheney in common.
That's also a bit creepy.as distinct from fawning over a fat, 78 yo, orange, diaper-wearing, rapist, convicted criminal, with dementia and who has a bird’s nest on his head. now that’s creepy.
Kamala isn't really left wing imo, she's a politician chameleon.I’m not sure. Kamala likes to smile, laugh and dance doesn’t she?
It’s the right wingers who are miserable with all their “commies are trying to trans the kids and steal my money” stuff.
A slightly better shot.Seems he doesnt just have looking like Dick Cheney in common.
Hey Dems - is this really the best you've got to offer?:
Kommola - the cackling wokester