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Elizabeth Ratkovich's avatar

This is the first time I’ve read that Walz was a substitute teacher. My understanding is that he was the geography/social studies teacher, as well as coach at the high school. A substitute teacher would likely not be selected to be a faculty advisor to any student group.

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sixmorecharacters's avatar

It is so nice to see genuine joy on young faces and spontaneous, unforced hugs. And to see it after a decade of nearly daily insults towards women, accounts of forced sex with minors, and demeaning speech in general about gender diversity, minorities, women and immigrants is nearly overwhelming.

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Torrance Stephens's avatar

Harris Selection for VP Shows that the 2020 Minnesota Summer of Love, Immigration and Transgender Policy is Coming to a Theater Near You Soon. https://shorturl.at/ku52w

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Mary  Murray's avatar

❤️❤️❤️

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AJ Milne's avatar

Okay, but Trump—and the actually somehow more twisted shits backing him—actually are still an existential threat to democracy. And I’m pretty sure a huge part of people just fucking sleepwalking into that is plain ole normalcy bias.

... but, hey, of course they are also fucking weird as hell. And if that’s what people get—enough they don’t stick their dicks in the meatgrinder here—hell, works for me I guess.

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lower case's avatar

I'm so glad she went with Walz. I'm in MN. I'm a little further left than him, but I like him. I think he's honest, principled, and willing to listen to people. If it had been Shapiro, it would have been really demoralizing to have to hold my nose and vote blue yet again. I guess that's because all of us "Bernie Bros" are so antisemitic (sarcasm obviously). I'll admit Biden is a lot better president than I had expected, but in 2020, I was not excited about the election. This year, maybe I'll get a t-shirt or something. I'm happy with the ticket.

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Torrance Stephens's avatar

Harris Selection for VP Shows that the 2020 Minnesota Summer of Love, Immigration and Transgender Policy is Coming to a Theater Near You Soon.

https://shorturl.at/diXge

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Jason Liegois - Author's avatar

You see, I think you are getting the idea all these opinionators from the National Corporate Media (NCM rather than the MSM) should be disregarded. Which is a good thing.

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Pere Ubu's avatar

I think this was around the same time Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed her child labor bill and the kids surrounding her looked uneasy in her official picture. The story of American 21st century politics in two photos.

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Vincent J's avatar

Spocko makes this point in this post. Genuine love from the children for Walz vs the props they bribed (or threatened) to be in the same room as Huckabee Sanders.

https://mastodon.online/@spocko/112916529216491735

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Linda1961 is woke and proud's avatar

𝑱𝒐𝒉𝒏 𝑲𝒆𝒓𝒓𝒚’𝒔 𝒓𝒖𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒓 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑵𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒉 𝑪𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒂, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑮𝒆𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆 𝑾. 𝑩𝒖𝒔𝒉 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒃𝒚 𝒅𝒐𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒕𝒔.

Good point, and presidential candidates who won their running mate's state were going to win it anyway. I can think of only one VP pick who delivered his state to the presidential candidate - LBJ. Where did the idea that a running mate needs delivers their state come from?

As for Shapiro, he seems fine with not being the VP candidate, and will campaign for the ticket in PA. But all of those trolls' concern have been noted.

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Greg's avatar

"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Joe Manchin both praised Walz’s selection, and that’s probably the first time they ever agreed on anything."

Democrats in array - oh wait, Manchin? He's not a Democrat anymore >.<

But we'll take the endorsement from that asshat.

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Jesse S.'s avatar

I just wanna crush some beers with Walzy and talk about the Twins wildcard chances down the stretch.

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llamaspit's avatar

I love the smell of MAGA desperation in the morning!

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Bridget Collins's avatar

The MSM's problem is we had an embarrassment of riches to pick from.

Republican choices were extremely curtailed by Trump's bigotry and delicate ego.

He couldn't pick Nikki or DeSantis because they ran against him.

He couldn't pick DeSantis or Marco because they live in Florida and Donnie can't risk moving back to NJ.

He couldn't pick a woman or a black person because he despises them.

My guess is he couldn't pick Burgum because he knew he'd be out of office three seconds after he was sworn in.

But we have several governors, Senators, cabinet secretaries to choose from. And Harris could have worked with all of them.

So until MSM starts looking at politics realistically instead of covering it like a cafeteria food fight, they're useless.

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ArgieBargie's avatar

In MAGA Land, Kamala Harris is somehow both a Jew and white man hater who is married to a Jew and surrounds herself with old white men.

Their brains are fucked.

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ArgieBargie's avatar

Coach Walz vs Couch Vance.

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