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"And make no mistake, violent crime was up under Donald Trump," Walz continued. "That's not even counting the crimes he committed!"

THIS right here, this is the hammer, when the crowd roared it's approval of this statement by Walz. I laughed so hard I scared my cats. It was even funny to watch Harris behind him, trying to look Presidential and keep a straight face; she failed, in a good way, and finally smiled. Wow. I have not been this excited since 2008, and, in reality, I'm actually even more excited!

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the only thing funnier was his line about Vance getting off the couch to debate him

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“See what I did there?” He said. I did.

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In my mind I could "see" him playfully elbowing his children and saying that after a lame "Dad Joke." I know he does it, because I do that with my children. What a great human.

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I had exactly the same thought!!

Did you see the PSA he did with his daughter about hands-free driving? It's a hoot!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvegSy5HfrI

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They have such a wonderful relationship! Boy, is it nice to see a political parent and child interacting like normal people!

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Thank you for sharing the video. Funny and smart.

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lol that is funny. Except hands free sounds like you don’t use yr hands to drive. Thx 4 sharing.

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That was SUCH a dad joke moment!

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That’s the mark of the dad joke!

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Watching Kamala stifle her laugh when he said that was priceless. And then again with the "crimes he committed" line.

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That line slipped right past my wife and elderly mother. I wasn't about to bring it up, but I can tell it's gonna be a heluva fun campaign. I can feel the vibes!

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Definitely getting all the feels!

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There's "Coach"...Hi, Tim Walz! And there's "Coach"...Tommy Tuberville, oy vey!

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MAJA--Make America Joyful Again!

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And thank you, Joe Biden, for willingly stepping down and handing the torch not just to VP Harris, but to all of us.

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Because he gets it. He too is a coach who knows it's not about him, but all of us. 😭 I'm just so dang grateful right now.

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How many times has Joe Biden looked out via a camera at us and said, “It’s about you!” Thanks for highlighting that message.

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We actually owe all this to Joe. He started by beating tRUMP in 2020 and giving us Harris as VP. He has now proven, not only what a goddamn decent human being he is, but by doing what a true democratic leader does — passing the torch to someone eminently capable. Thank you Joe, for giving us Kamala Harris. Thank you Kamala, for bringing us Tim. I have faith and joy once again. And a lot of ugly, but VERY happy, crying. #HarrisWalz2024 #TedLasso #Believe

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Absofrickinglutely. The best president and public servant. 🥰 The song "One Last Time" from Hamilton keeps running through my head when I think about him. 🥰

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Yes! Thank you to Joe for his selfless act.

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@Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop, I’m sure the doting, great-grandfatherly, doddering, Contra-Aryan, DEMOCRAT President, who is kind, gentle and wise, had “willingly stepped down” and “hand the torch” to not only the racially indeterminate, vacuous, goofy (there, I said it!) VP, but “to all of us,” especially after the Deep Democrat Cabal offered him $100 million for a Joe Biden Presidential Library, and full pardons for him and every member of his crime syndicate family. To sweeten the deal, the Deep Democrat Cabal also told him that unless he stepped down, the next nerdy shooter they hire will not miss, as Crooks fracked up and missed “Agent Orange.”

This was an offer Biden could not, and dared not refuse. Thank you Mr. President, and Godspeed.

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That was deeply weird.

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Seriously, what the hell did I just read?

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@insert_something_creative, you just read a snippet of what few, if any, of us doctrinaire Left-Liberal, Climate Change Religionist, Democrat Loyalist have ever read (or believe). Namely, THE TRUTH.

Maybe it’s time we at least hear what these Conservative, Republican lying, hateful scumbags have to say. We don’t have to agree with their lies and distortions, but at least we can take the moral high ground, and say we gave them “equal time,” and respected their so-called First Amendment right to free speech, yes?

We will certainly honor and please President Biden when we do this. What do you say?

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Are you a Russian bot or just a MAGAt?

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Just an FYI, no one who is actually a liberal speaks this way lol so you're not really fooling anyone. You must be deep down the right-wing rabbit hole to think there is a Democratic cabal, that Biden was offered $100 million to step down, or that his family is a crime syndicate (that's the Trumps you're thinking of). That's not THE TRUTH.

Among other things, this is a dead giveaway you're full of shit because, again, this is how right-wingers think liberals talk about ourselves and it's comically absurd: "Doctrinaire Left-Liberal, Climate Change Religionist, Democrat Loyalist"

We also would never describe VP Harris as "vacuous" or "racially indeterminate" because that makes no sense. Why is it so hard for you guys to comprehend that bi-racial people exist?

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And creepy

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@Clay Bennett, I thank you for reading my reply as does J.D. “Weird” Vance.

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@Alton Lee, I couldn't tell whether you were using quotation marks for emphasis or sarcasm, so I couldn't guess whether this reflected your support for Richard Nixon or Bernie Sanders. I recommend you edit for two kinds of readers: those who take everything at face value and those who draw inferences from every gap or contradiction. I'd rather understand your point.

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Just report and block, not worth anyone’s precious time here!

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@Clay Bennett, excuse me, but what quotation marks did I use, except to enclose Bernie Sanders’ campaign battlecry, “Feel the Bern”? And I assure you that my support for Mr. Nixon and Mr. Sanders is undying.

I also assure you that I always try to write as plainly and concisely as I can. As such, I think you can take my writing (or “prattle,” as some consider) at “face value,” and you need not expend excess cerebral energy or effort to “draw inferences from every gap or contradiction,” in my writings, as hopefully I include none in my writings.

Just the same, I thank you for your reply, and for your seemingly helpful, though misplaced, advice.

And lest I forget, it’s not “@Alton Lee,” as you got wrong, but “@Alton Yee.”

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Whether it was me or autocorrect that got your name wrong, I apologize. And although I have edited many books, including those by engineers and non-native speakers, I still can't divine your meaning. Oh, well. You tried.

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Lest you dear readers are confused, Mr. Bennett’s remarks stemmed from my short bio, and not from my reply to Ms. Alsop’s original comment.

Thanks for reading this thread, just the same.

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🤬

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Weirdoes gotta weird. “Contra Aryan?” In those times to come there will be trolls and rumors caused by trolls…

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See? Perfect example. The haters don't have anything intelligible to say, so they are glitching.

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Go fuck off, dipshit. And when you're through fucking off there, go over there and fuck off, and then over there, and keep fucking off till you fuck yourself off the fucking cliff, you braindead fuckhead.

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Weird comment. Are you sure you are in the right place?

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That has to the dumbest, most vacuous and conspiracy filled screed of gobbledygook Iive ever read from someone who supposedly supports the Dems. You’d fit right in with the Trump campaign!

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Mr. Yee, If you are serious about any of that, then you seriously need a better news source. The source(s) you have now are lying to you. For one thing, there isn’t a “Biden crime family” — it was all a fiction created to kick up dust and distract from the former president who was found liable for sexual assault and fraud, who has 34 felony convictions with a few indictments still pending.

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Creepy. Weird. Troll.

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“Democrat President?” “Deep Democrat Cabal?” Sigh. Yet another MAGAt that doesn’t know the difference between a noun and an adjective.

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Súper weird.

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What a weird conspiracy theory.

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😡

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After months of walking through the dark, it feels like we just broke through the gloom and into the bright sunshine! The Lasso analogy is perfect!

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I got my brother a similar t-shirt one months ago, but it said "VOTE" in the middle of the bulls eye. He said the Repubs he knew either didn't get it (or pretended not to) but that it otherwise got quite a few chuckles!

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That's a great T-shirt.

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I was JUST thinking this today - how the coaches are the ones who inspire and empower us, and it's no coincidence that shows like Ted Lasso and Friday Night Lights are the ones that give you Maximum Feelz 4eva. You can't work directly with young people like he did and not be able to hold both small-town and liberal values simultaneously, and that's what saves us. As a Minnesotan, I can say that Walz is the exactly as genuine and amazing as he appears to be, and I am just bursting with joy. Believe! 🤩

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Hope you don't mind sharing him with rest of us. 😀

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Love is meant to be shared, not hoarded. 🥰

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Let's make it 5eva because 4eva's too short!

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Couldn't agree four! 5eva it is! 😃

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I really wanted Sec Pete but this choice actually is the best given the biases of the general population! I am very excited for the election - I want a resounding victory so that we never have to see or hear the mean spiritedness ever again!!!!!!!!

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I'm hopeful that Pete will be Secretary of State. And then he'll be our President in the future.

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That was my first thought also; however I think that if Blinken will stay that would be good transition. But Pete does need another step on the way to the top. I guess we stay tuned, and if Secy of State opens up, absolutely!

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That was my response too. He is so attuned to diplomacy and negotiation that he is a natural for that position.

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That would be awesome❣️💙💙💙

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While I like Pete a lot I saw him as a distraction because of the biases against him and his family. It's not just MAGA that has those biases. Unfortunately, there are some Democrats who still hold such values as well. He would still be a great asset as part of her administration though.

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Imagine a world where Trump’s braying mouth is shut

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As a Texan, reared in a small town VERY similar to West Point, NE (birthplace) and Valentine, NE(hometown) for Tim Walz, I am the son in law of a small town Texas teacher, coach and school superintendent (like Tim Walz’s dad was in Nebraska). I agree 1 million percent with everything you said! My father in law was born in 1925, and at age 19 was a Marine Corps veteran of the most bloody battle in Marine Corps history, Iwo Jima. He loved kids, he loved people, he was a good and decent man, and I get Wayne Cornelius(my late father in law) vibes from Tim Walz. That is a VERY good thing. I honestly think it will take “normal” to beat the cancer that is Trump and Trumpism. I was fearful Harris and Shapiro could be mischaracterized as the R’s are so good at doing as evil “liberals” and “Communists” and “coasters.” To do that with Walz is ludicrous on its face, and I think the normies in the heartland and elsewhere may finally begin to see through the cruelty and evil that is Trump.

Great column and I pray the fever we are living through will finally break and we will return to sanity. We can all only hope and pray and work to see this happen.

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Yes, we all need to work to see this happen. Do whatever you can. There are so many opportunities to get involved. Let’s get to work! 💙💪🏼

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🙏

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They’re trying to tear our country apart, and who benefits? (Looks toward Moscow.)

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While I don't expect it is love to see super majorities in both houses that can push through Constitutional amendments that make it tougher from Trump-like candidates to get into the Oval Office. We need to shore up the flaws and overturn Citizens United and the other terrible SCROTUS decisions.

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Kyle Rittenhoise should not be allowed to own a gun period he got away with murder

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Agreed 💯. He, and his MAGA supporters, are morally bankrupt.

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If Dems win the White House and the House, and keep the Senate, hopefully it won't be too many years before the likes of Kyle won't have access to any guns at all.

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I'm scared of the access he already has as well as those of his fellow MAGA crowd.

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He applied to be a Marine and he failed that test so badly that they told him he could never apply again. Can you imagine failing the application process? I can't imagine any of the other branches of the military being welcoming if the Marines tell you, “Don't come back.”

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Also can I just say that the hope and elation I felt watching Harris and Walz in Philadelphia last night was like being lifted from the dark wow I am loving the energy they are bringing LFG

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Jay--I am an Emergency Room doctor in Minneapolis. I drove through the day time demonstrations and the night time fire and smoke to and from work. As did so many of us docs and nurses. If anyone needs to hear first hand testimony to how well Walz did on such short notice, we are always available. Stories in which we are told that the mayor and the Minneapolis Police were appealing early for help and not getting a timely response are about the abject failure of the police department and the failed relationship with the mayor.

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Bringing up the BLM protests also reminds us of the context: people were angry because of racist policing as well aa releasing pent up tension over covid restrictions. If they want to go there, respond with what they were protesting about NEEDED to be protested. We still have issues but it's now a lot harder for things to get swept under the rug. So we will keep George Floyd as a martyr and not allow the rioting (much of it instigated or exacerbated by right-wing actors) to mask the real message: racist, violent policing needs to be eradicated.

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Thank you, there was also a "justice delayed" aspect that should be brought to the forefront, BLM was blamed for acts they were not responsible for in Summer '20 & that narrative needs to be corrected;

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/self-described-member-boogaloo-bois-pleads-guilty-riot

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This view is fascinating and valuable. Probably nobody outside Minnesota (or even Mpls-St Paul) has heard or read it that way, so MAGA's "everybody but us is a loser and criminal" message gets through. This needs serious re-reporting in depth, before the convention.

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I wonder which city was more burned to the ground, Portland or Minneapolis. To hear the screeching of these brain-fever birds, neither city exists anymore. Not one stick standing. Makes Berlin ‘45 look like Disneyland.

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Well, maybe not share a beer with Gov. Walz, but certainly a pop! Then he'll invite you over for hot dish and coffee before sending you home with leftovers.

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True. He’s sober!

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I don’t know if you’d call it a drinking problem, more like the unwritten law: if you get popped with a DUI, you sort of have to quit

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I needed to learn more about Walz as I didn’t have time to think about the options very well this past couple of weeks. I spent two hours looking at everything I could find and I must say, seems like an excellent choice by Harris. I’m very happy about where we are right now. I can only hope people don’t get complacent. We must overwhelmingly win at all levels of government so that significant safeguards can be put into place.

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And as we vote we must remember to vote for "moderate" candidates for congressional and state candidates. Even if these great people are elected, they need support in congess and in state legislatures to make the big changes we want, especially nationwide reproductive rights, reducing child poverty, and changes to the Supreme Court. As Joyce Vance says, "we are all in this together"!

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🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

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That above was for KC

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I'm a Minnesotan, and no kidding--he's the real deal. Very effective governor and all-around good, regular guy. Happy to share him with the rest of the country!

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thank you !

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"Shapiro was the guy the Trump campaign was most afraid of for this very reason." In the contrary, I think. Shapiro was the guy Trump wanted to run against, and who he *pretended* to be afraid of but actually was ready for. Picking Walz was a brilliant move. Just as Biden stepping aside for Harris, picking Walz neuters a lot of his negative campaigning.

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They have given us back our mojo, and I wish I could generate a great acronym from that, but I cannot....

I also think Tim Walz has a schmidge of Roy Kent in him, just enough to bring it, and, perhaps, be here, be there, be every-freakin'-where..... MAGA has no answer to him, but are left slobbering and caught up in their cushions....

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LOVE me some Roy Kent!!!

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"Harris picked Walz, and all we can do is smile ear to ear as he helps lead the team to victory." And yet, victory won't happen if people don't vote. In two important local elections here, only 1/3 of people voted in each, even with only mail-in ballots: the pro-democracy candidate lost by 23 votes, while the recall of a MAGA library censor succeeded. We must remind people that every vote counts and that everyone must Be a Voter!

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If we are doing TV character comparisons, I think this is Ted Lasso vs. Lucifer.

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Lasso vs Rupert

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Or Ted Lasso vs Ted Bundy

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I think Ted Bundy was a real person. ;)

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Ha! I jumped right to the worst Ted I could think of and forgot we were doing tv characters! My bad. 🤣

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I love it!!

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