LOL if "he gives away tampons" is the only thing you can find to criticize about your opponent, then you're in pretty deep fucking shit
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Holy shit. They're struggling to find stuff so they default to "he put tampons in schools", "let Minneapolis burn to the ground" (which it didn't, I lived downtown during the protests) or "rocks and cows" quote.
That's about it.
What's the rocks and cows?
At one point when he was talking about voting districts. He had referred to red districts as "mostly rocks and cows". And well.... Rural conservatives took offense to it like they do for everything. I still see billboards with that quote when I'm in the middle of nowhere.
I'm the middle of nowhere with rocks and cows?
I love the contrast this is painting between the far-left and far-right. On the one hand, you got fascists carrying tiki torches and chanting "jews will not replace us," and on the other you got people saying "let's make sure no children are starving." And talking heads on Fox are super pissed about the latter.
To be clear neither Harris or Walz are "far left"...
This is what actual moderates looked like.
I'm happy to have them, but we lose if we call what they're doing "far left".
We desperately need to bring the Overton Window back where it should be.
Oh, only the Wrong Wing calls them far left. Normal people know better. For one thing, they have a chance of being elected.
Normal people know better.
We'll see. I suspect we're going to get a full-court press against Walz, particularly after the DC media circuit was shilling so hard for Shapiro and didn't get what they wanted.
He's going to get the same tarring and feathering as the Sanders campaign did, back in 2020, after Chris Matthews nearly had a heart attack on air when Bernie won Nevada.
To be clear neither Harris or Walz are “far left”…
Policies that were considered centrist compromise planks back in the 70s and 80s are now "Fringe Leftist Views" in the modern media, because so much of our information is owned and manufactured by right wing extremists.
NPR broke the news about the Walz endorsement this morning by interviewing a bunch of Republicans from his original House district.
Everyone in the DC news circuit was furiously insisting that Shapiro had to be the guy and Harris didn't listen. So now expect this guy to get absolutely dragged in the press for the next three months.