#coach Walz

[backtonormallife]

[vaspider]

This is very thorough. Give it a listen. Walz isn't perfect - no one is - but he's a damn good choice.

[embodiedinscribed]

I don't know if it's because I voted in the morning and usually I go after work, but there were more people than I have ever seen. More than that, there were more young people, more Queer folx, more people of color. Cried all the way to work.

[progressive-memes]

[solarbird]

Holy crow, "Coach Walz" actually sticks, doesn’t it?

I mean, it helps that he actually was a coach, and for years. Football, even, on top of all that. He looks like a football coach – the good kind, the one who teaches you how to win but also teaches you sportsmanship and tenacity and all the good things high school sport is supposed to teach.

Probably helps that he was a teacher, and at the same time.

Before Coach caught on, though, he was also kinda instantly “Dad.” Coach took over, for obvious reasons, but even with that, he’s… he’s very Dad. He’s very Midwestern Dad in particular, but regardless of how you pronounce it, there’s a lot of Dad vibes in him and they’re not subtle and he’s not exactly playing them down.

Which is kinda funny, but in a good way, right?

Because for years now, the media (and the Republicans) have been leaning hard on the idea that the GOP were the “dad party” and the Democrats were the “mom party,” and using misogyny and resentment of mothers to push the electorate right. The fundamentalist movement – today’s Christofascists – really fed on that, as all fascists do, with their absolute hatred of women.

It really breached the waters hard earlier this past year, particularly amongst the base. There was forthright talk about it, and there were memes, cartoons of sneering, vengeful Trump striding across the US, captioned things like “Daddy’s coming home,” about how he’s going to punish you (liberals, women, queers), and put you in your place for all the things you did (like exist).

Basically, Daddy’s coming home and he’s going to beat you into line like you deserve, while they – daddy’s little sycophants – will get to watch and sneer along.

Sure, that’s near-zero-content vibes, rather than policies – other than the threats of course – but the Republicans haven’t been about policies for a long, long time, and Trump wiped what policy there was clean away.

And the media have never, not once, not seriously, held them to account for it – which is why no one should give a fuck about their whinging now about the Democrats doing a “vibes” convention.

Particularly not now that Coach is coming home. Because yeah, Coach Walz… Coach Walz is also a Dad. But Coach Walz Dad isn’t coming home to punish you. He’s not here to beat you into line.

Coach knows you’ve had a rough time of it lately – but Coach knows you’ve kept going, that you’ve stuck to it, that you’re still in there slugging away.

He’s not going to fix everything, obviously, nobody can do that. But if you want some help, he’s more than happy to bring some, because…

…because you haven’t given up…

…and he is so goddamn proud of you.

He the Dad who says, “No, no, it’s okay. Let’s clean up this mess – and then let’s go win this thing.” Because he’s also Coach.

If you’re someone who really wants to pick a Dad, if that’s how you pick who you want to elect… which one are you gonna pick? If you want a vibes election, fine, let’s have one: couch-molesting psychopath Vance vs. Coach Walz.

Trump and Trumpism have absolutely no idea what’s about to happen… no, what’s already happening to them.

So while it may not be the most sportmanlike thing to do… let’s run up the score.

Let’s absolutely blow them out, on every level, shall we?

74 days remain.

[deadpresidents]

"He was remarkable in the House [of Representatives]. He came [to Congress] winning a Republican seat. So he was a red to blue candidate. He came as the longest-serving noncommissioned officer in the military ever to serve in the Congress. So he was on a path of veterans affairs and the rest. He came having worked in farming as a child and so rural America was a big priority for him.

He's very popular in the House. Members are so excited about him because he's a wonderful person. He called me right after this, shall we say, opportunity arose. Told me: 'I know how to make this case. I know how to differentiate. I can get this done. I'm putting myself out there.' And, you know, here he is, governor of Minnesota, and he's putting himself out there.

And then he comes up with 'weird,' which becomes viral, and here he is. So, I have to give him a lot of credit for not only being a great governor, and values-based, and visionary, and all that,, but being quite an adept politician."

-- Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, on presumptive Democratic Vice Presidential nominee and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, in an interview with the New York Times.

I haven't done the research to confirm what Speaker Pelosi said, but that's a pretty fascinating historical tibdbit if Tim Walz really was the longest-serving noncommissioned officer in the military to serve in the 235-year history of the United States Congress! I've reached out to the Office of the Historian of the House of Representatives to see if they can confirm that fact.

[democracyunderground]

[tomorrowusa]

The vice presidential debate is on October 1st – next Tuesday.

Weird Donald picked J.D. Vance to appeal to the more misogynistic bro culture types who worship influencers like Jordan Peterson and Andrew Tate.

But soon afterwards, President Biden withdrew from the presidential race and was replaced by Kamala Harris. So whatever electoral benefit there was to stimulating misogynist support for Trump has been more than offset by increased women's support for the Democratic ticket.

[normalcyisfake]

[lemonbombsfjl]

“Walz delivered a passionate, several-minute-long defense of LGBTQ+ rights, including transgender healthcare. He outlined his vision for the administration’s role in protecting these rights.”

[backtonormallife]

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I took tumblr off of my phone today. It's still on my iPad and I'm typing this on the web version. I'm so tired of the conservative people in the royal fandom. 45 has stated that he wants to be a dictator on day 1. Project 2025/Agenda 47/Transition Project whatever is a blueprint for turning the US into a fascist state.

So, I'm still here, and will leave my blog up, but I just can't with the right wing anymore. The current GOP is not your (grand)father's GOP. Even Reagan had aspects of the Heritage Foundation playbook in his administration.

Project 2025 will take away your Social Security/Medicare, bring back the draft, get rid of FDIC insurance and the weather service. Abortion is the least of the issues that will be affected by another GOP administration.

[queenvlion]

🚨📣📢🛑⚠️➡️ THAT MONSTER #JDVANCE LIED ON #Immigrants HIS MOTHERS ADDICTION HAD NOTHING TO W/ #Immigrants SHE STOLE FROM HER PATIENTS & GOT HOOKED ON THAT STUFF. BLAMING #Immigrants FOR THE CURRENT ILLS OF OUR CURRENT STATE OF SOCIETY IS DANGEROUS ⚠️🚫 BE CAREFUL WHO FEEDS THE LIE ON NATIONAL TELEVISION 📸(consciouslee nbc4i rawstory @queenvlion)

[lenbryant]

Yes, gimme those "far left" ideas please.

[thevitalportal]

Gamers in the White House, I can get with this.

[notesfromachair]

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