She picked Tim

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Anonymous wrote:He's just plain good.

and shows empathy.

I’m voting down ballot and leaving the top of the ticket blank or writing in Biden, so I have no horse in this race, but the whole chest clutching, guffawing thing comes off as really fake and performative to me. Sorry.

I've said this before: people who don't vote for one of the two main candidates are making a statement only to themselves. This literally helps nothing. In the race before us, there is a clearly better choice and whatever your reason for "writing in Biden," it will not be advanced by doing so.

These kind of people are self-important drama queens. PP was just using it as an opportunity to take a dig at Walz. It’s just an inauthentic post.

Different undecided voter here. People who are concerned about this far left ticket, who also refuse to vote for Trump, will just stay home.

I know it’s just a small subset of us, and the Dems are going after special interest groups with a large number of voters. So basically we are unhoused at the moment.

When the choice is wannabe dictator who already encouraged his followers to attack the Capitol and ANYONE ELSE, why would you not vote for anyone else? So stupid.

This. Goes way beyond policies. He doesn’t believe in democracy and the rule of law. He doesn’t believe in being governed by the constitution. That’s all I need to know. The rest is noise.

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Anonymous wrote:He's just plain good.

and shows empathy.

I’m voting down ballot and leaving the top of the ticket blank or writing in Biden, so I have no horse in this race, but the whole chest clutching, guffawing thing comes off as really fake and performative to me. Sorry.

I've said this before: people who don't vote for one of the two main candidates are making a statement only to themselves. This literally helps nothing. In the race before us, there is a clearly better choice and whatever your reason for "writing in Biden," it will not be advanced by doing so.

These kind of people are self-important drama queens. PP was just using it as an opportunity to take a dig at Walz. It’s just an inauthentic post.

Different undecided voter here. People who are concerned about this far left ticket, who also refuse to vote for Trump, will just stay home.

I know it’s just a small subset of us, and the Dems are going after special interest groups with a large number of voters. So basically we are unhoused at the moment.

Look, I understand. I'm a RINO that is now a registered Independent. I'm a Bush-41 republican who thinks that Reagan and Bush-41 are spinning in their graves after what Trump has done to the GOP.

The difference is that not only do I refuse to vote for Trump, I refuse to let him worm his way back into office just to pardon himself from his crimes. I disagree with a lot of the DNC platform, but I will vote for Harris-Walz because I refuse to allow him to get back into office and further erode our government. I think the damage that Trump would cause is far worse than anything that Harris can do in one term. The same as Biden, we can recover from the things that Harris can do. We cannot recover from changes that Trump would do.

Examples? Trump would take us out of NATO which would have world-wide repercussions. Such as changes which would allow Putin to continue his imperialistic ways. Putin wants to reconstitue the Soviet Union under the Russian flag. Trump would allow Russia to become the dominant superpower in the world. Trump would continue to make the court system more and more conservative allowing the court system to deny more and more human rights to women and minorities. Returning to the 1950s before the civil rights era is a terrible idea. Women are and would die from the Republican system of denying health care to pregnant women because doctors are afraid of legal percussions should they treat their pregnant patients as their medical training suggests. So they have to choose between their Hippocratic oaths and their legal obligations. Families of LGBTQ parents will get torn apart since Thomas has already said he is targeting Obergefell and more conservative judges on lower courts will push up cases that will test that ruling to the SCOTUS.

Sorry, but I, too, long for a more reasonable Republican party, like we had when we were younger, but that will not happen as long as the MAGA movement have a stranglehold on the GOP. To kill this monster, we need to cut off its head and keeping him from public office is paramount and the first step. The ultra-conservatives have taken over the Republican party and the only way to get them out of power is to keep them from being elected. If they cannot get a candidate elected, then they will lose power and maybe the more reasonable minded can regain power by showing that they can win in a general election.

Thank you for this post. One that actually helps those of us RINOs put things into perspective. I have never seen Trump as ultra-conservative and other than the conservative appointments to SCOTUS, I am unable to identify what he did that destroyed the country to the level that the left insists he did. As I just said in my last post, Trump really isn't an extreme conservative. He acts like one in his speech and performance, but his actions are not. In any event, can you help me understand how you can feel confident in the safety of our country with a Harris/Walz ticket? I truly feel like we won't really know who is actually running the country if we elect them. Neither of them are fit or capable of doing so. Their intellect is so low, with literally zero foreign policy experience that I just don't see how it's possible. With what happened to Biden, it is more clear than ever that we have a shadow government. Don't you want to know who that is?

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Anonymous wrote:He's just plain good.

and shows empathy.

I’m voting down ballot and leaving the top of the ticket blank or writing in Biden, so I have no horse in this race, but the whole chest clutching, guffawing thing comes off as really fake and performative to me. Sorry.

I've said this before: people who don't vote for one of the two main candidates are making a statement only to themselves. This literally helps nothing. In the race before us, there is a clearly better choice and whatever your reason for "writing in Biden," it will not be advanced by doing so.

These kind of people are self-important drama queens. PP was just using it as an opportunity to take a dig at Walz. It’s just an inauthentic post.

Different undecided voter here. People who are concerned about this far left ticket, who also refuse to vote for Trump, will just stay home.

I know it’s just a small subset of us, and the Dems are going after special interest groups with a large number of voters. So basically we are unhoused at the moment.

When the choice is wannabe dictator who already encouraged his followers to attack the Capitol and ANYONE ELSE, why would you not vote for anyone else? So stupid.

This. Goes way beyond policies. He doesn’t believe in democracy and the rule of law. He doesn’t believe in being governed by the constitution. That’s all I need to know. The rest is noise.

See, this is weird to me. He is far more committed to the Constitution than anybody on the left. Why do people always say this?

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Anonymous wrote:If it was up to JD Vance, I wouldn't have a family because of IVF.
Walz:

“Democrats are investing in prenatal care. We're the ones that are for universal pre-K. We're the ones that are providing school meals. I'm not gonna back down one bit on this whole family values thing. We're making it more affordable to have children by having paid family and medical leave. Where is JD Vance's program?”

Damned straight, Tim. This is why people like him & not the that freak, Vance.

The fed gov is supposed to be protecting our borders and funding and training our military. That’s its number one priority.

How about we do both? It's not a small government.

We don’t have the money to do both. The constitution says nothing about funding or investing in pre-k.

One in three families can’t afford basic school supplies for their kids. The economy stinks on ice. Why should the government take tax dollars to fund pre-k when taxpayers can’t afford school supplies?

The government has no mandate to fund so many things they are funding. Whatever personal challenges Walz or any other government official has faced, it’s their personal issue. Every single American has personal struggles and issues. The government should not be the answer to these personal issues and cannot be. The government cannot legislate personal issues. Walz is not speaking about the issues government has a duty to address; he’s speaking about his private fertility issues and those have no intersection with government.

The Republicans interpret the 14th amendment as protecting embryos, which will make IVF illegal. The GOP is the one intersecting private fertility issues with government.

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Anonymous wrote:He's just plain good.

and shows empathy.

I’m voting down ballot and leaving the top of the ticket blank or writing in Biden, so I have no horse in this race, but the whole chest clutching, guffawing thing comes off as really fake and performative to me. Sorry.

I've said this before: people who don't vote for one of the two main candidates are making a statement only to themselves. This literally helps nothing. In the race before us, there is a clearly better choice and whatever your reason for "writing in Biden," it will not be advanced by doing so.

yep. and it's cowardly and narcissistic.

Just listen to yourself. Disparaging people who don’t agree with how you vote isn’t helping your cause.

Newsflash - people can vote any way they want. Doing so does not make them cowardly or narcissistic.

You have to admit that a person who can’t be bothered to vote in a way that helps protect their friends and neighbors from the greater evil is pretty self-centered.

Once again, anyone who doesn’t vote the way you do is evil and self centered.

This is a huge part of the reason I left the democratic party.

What is the democratic party forcing on you? Babies? Religion? Please do tell.

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Anonymous wrote:He's just plain good.

and shows empathy.

I’m voting down ballot and leaving the top of the ticket blank or writing in Biden, so I have no horse in this race, but the whole chest clutching, guffawing thing comes off as really fake and performative to me. Sorry.

I've said this before: people who don't vote for one of the two main candidates are making a statement only to themselves. This literally helps nothing. In the race before us, there is a clearly better choice and whatever your reason for "writing in Biden," it will not be advanced by doing so.

These kind of people are self-important drama queens. PP was just using it as an opportunity to take a dig at Walz. It’s just an inauthentic post.

Different undecided voter here. People who are concerned about this far left ticket, who also refuse to vote for Trump, will just stay home.

I know it’s just a small subset of us, and the Dems are going after special interest groups with a large number of voters. So basically we are unhoused at the moment.

When the choice is wannabe dictator who already encouraged his followers to attack the Capitol and ANYONE ELSE, why would you not vote for anyone else? So stupid.

This. Goes way beyond policies. He doesn’t believe in democracy and the rule of law. He doesn’t believe in being governed by the constitution. That’s all I need to know. The rest is noise.

See, this is weird to me. He is far more committed to the Constitution than anybody on the left. Why do people always say this?

The GOP is literally trying to impose Christianity on to the country, both through book banning, the display of the ten commandments in the classroom and their weird anti abortion stance.

Add to it the disrespect of a peaceful transfer of power and it is all totally disqualifying.

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Anonymous wrote:If it was up to JD Vance, I wouldn't have a family because of IVF.
Walz:

“Democrats are investing in prenatal care. We're the ones that are for universal pre-K. We're the ones that are providing school meals. I'm not gonna back down one bit on this whole family values thing. We're making it more affordable to have children by having paid family and medical leave. Where is JD Vance's program?”

Damned straight, Tim. This is why people like him & not the that freak, Vance.

The fed gov is supposed to be protecting our borders and funding and training our military. That’s its number one priority.

How about we do both? It's not a small government.

We don’t have the money to do both. The constitution says nothing about funding or investing in pre-k.

One in three families can’t afford basic school supplies for their kids. The economy stinks on ice. Why should the government take tax dollars to fund pre-k when taxpayers can’t afford school supplies?

The government has no mandate to fund so many things they are funding. Whatever personal challenges Walz or any other government official has faced, it’s their personal issue. Every single American has personal struggles and issues. The government should not be the answer to these personal issues and cannot be. The government cannot legislate personal issues. Walz is not speaking about the issues government has a duty to address; he’s speaking about his private fertility issues and those have no intersection with government.

Alabama Supreme Court said differently. Idaho is going after a banning of IVF. Project 2025, heritage foundation and JD Vance, all strong Donald supporters have vowed to go after a federal ban of abortion, followed by IVF and birth control.

Trump himself has said he does not want to ban abortion and he fully supports IVF.

Yes. U know he has flip flopped on that issue now that he has been losing at the ballot box, even in deep red states on the issue. He was for it before he was against it, and since he lies so damn much, which lie do you believe.

That is simply not true. Trump is and always has been, right of center. He has never been conservative. He's a horrible, disgusting sexist creep, but he is a moderate conservative, not anti-abortion or IVF. That's just the facts. I know they don't fit the left's desire, but it's true.

Yes, but he has risen to power by consolidating extremists within the Republican party together under an extreme umbrella. He has made a coalition of Republicans with extreme views who are almost religiously faithful to him. He makes catcalls and sidewise winks to let them know that he understands them and they feel included for the first time ever. Groups that have been used to be ignored, suddenly feel that they have a voice for them. He has collected evangelical and militant Christians, white supremacists, gun right extremists, anti-government militant groups, and the misogynistic under his MAGA umbrella. Essentially primary rights for white males and secondary rights for white females. a return to the 1950's. He uses comments like "stand back and stand by" to the gun and anti-government militants. He says there are good people on both sides to the white supremacists and antisemites (who were yelling "We will not be replaced"). He makes overtures to the evangelical Christians about their abortion clause.

Trump has always been good about not letting his own values step in the way of his political momentum. So, while he himself is not overly conservative, he will support conservative measures as long as it consolidates his power. He is the worst of opportunists and he doesn't care what happens to others, as long as it serves himself. Note why he will be very complimentary and kind to those who support him but if they show one slight bit of concern about what he is doing or dare to say anything against him, he will turn on them like an angry cobra and bite them bad. The only good Republican to him is the one that supports him. If they dare to step out of line, he will treat them like the many former Trump advisers (Cohen, Pence, General Kelly, Barr, Mattis, Esper, etc) and the many politicians that have disagreed with him (Haley, DeSantis, Kemp, McConnell, McCarthy, and so on)

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Anonymous wrote:He's just plain good.

and shows empathy.

I’m voting down ballot and leaving the top of the ticket blank or writing in Biden, so I have no horse in this race, but the whole chest clutching, guffawing thing comes off as really fake and performative to me. Sorry.

I've said this before: people who don't vote for one of the two main candidates are making a statement only to themselves. This literally helps nothing. In the race before us, there is a clearly better choice and whatever your reason for "writing in Biden," it will not be advanced by doing so.

These kind of people are self-important drama queens. PP was just using it as an opportunity to take a dig at Walz. It’s just an inauthentic post.

Different undecided voter here. People who are concerned about this far left ticket, who also refuse to vote for Trump, will just stay home.

I know it’s just a small subset of us, and the Dems are going after special interest groups with a large number of voters. So basically we are unhoused at the moment.

When the choice is wannabe dictator who already encouraged his followers to attack the Capitol and ANYONE ELSE, why would you not vote for anyone else? So stupid.

This. Goes way beyond policies. He doesn’t believe in democracy and the rule of law. He doesn’t believe in being governed by the constitution. That’s all I need to know. The rest is noise.

See, this is weird to me. He is far more committed to the Constitution than anybody on the left. Why do people always say this?

The GOP is literally trying to impose Christianity on to the country, both through book banning, the display of the ten commandments in the classroom and their weird anti abortion stance.

Add to it the disrespect of a peaceful transfer of power and it is all totally disqualifying.

I didn't say the GOP, I said Trump.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He's just plain good.

and shows empathy.

I’m voting down ballot and leaving the top of the ticket blank or writing in Biden, so I have no horse in this race, but the whole chest clutching, guffawing thing comes off as really fake and performative to me. Sorry.

I've said this before: people who don't vote for one of the two main candidates are making a statement only to themselves. This literally helps nothing. In the race before us, there is a clearly better choice and whatever your reason for "writing in Biden," it will not be advanced by doing so.

These kind of people are self-important drama queens. PP was just using it as an opportunity to take a dig at Walz. It’s just an inauthentic post.

Different undecided voter here. People who are concerned about this far left ticket, who also refuse to vote for Trump, will just stay home.

I know it’s just a small subset of us, and the Dems are going after special interest groups with a large number of voters. So basically we are unhoused at the moment.

When the choice is wannabe dictator who already encouraged his followers to attack the Capitol and ANYONE ELSE, why would you not vote for anyone else? So stupid.

This. Goes way beyond policies. He doesn’t believe in democracy and the rule of law. He doesn’t believe in being governed by the constitution. That’s all I need to know. The rest is noise.

See, this is weird to me. He is far more committed to the Constitution than anybody on the left. Why do people always say this?

Because he refused to admit that he had lost a free and fair election. He begged the officials in Georgia to “find” him the votes he needed to win. He pressured his own VP to not do his constitutional obligation. He continues to spout the very big lie that the 2020 election was stolen, despite losing 60 election challenges in the courts, including under judges he appointed. Not to mention, J6. Even now, he is attempting to find ways to get himself appointed President if he loses in the fall.

Peaceful transfer of power is the cornerstone to a functioning democracy. Anyone that attempts to subvert it is not fit to hold office.

-DP

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Anonymous wrote:He's just plain good.

and shows empathy.

I’m voting down ballot and leaving the top of the ticket blank or writing in Biden, so I have no horse in this race, but the whole chest clutching, guffawing thing comes off as really fake and performative to me. Sorry.

I've said this before: people who don't vote for one of the two main candidates are making a statement only to themselves. This literally helps nothing. In the race before us, there is a clearly better choice and whatever your reason for "writing in Biden," it will not be advanced by doing so.

These kind of people are self-important drama queens. PP was just using it as an opportunity to take a dig at Walz. It’s just an inauthentic post.

Different undecided voter here. People who are concerned about this far left ticket, who also refuse to vote for Trump, will just stay home.

I know it’s just a small subset of us, and the Dems are going after special interest groups with a large number of voters. So basically we are unhoused at the moment.

When the choice is wannabe dictator who already encouraged his followers to attack the Capitol and ANYONE ELSE, why would you not vote for anyone else? So stupid.

This. Goes way beyond policies. He doesn’t believe in democracy and the rule of law. He doesn’t believe in being governed by the constitution. That’s all I need to know. The rest is noise.

See, this is weird to me. He is far more committed to the Constitution than anybody on the left. Why do people always say this?

Is this a joke? The orange felon tried to overturn the constitution on Jan 6.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He's just plain good.

and shows empathy.

I’m voting down ballot and leaving the top of the ticket blank or writing in Biden, so I have no horse in this race, but the whole chest clutching, guffawing thing comes off as really fake and performative to me. Sorry.

I've said this before: people who don't vote for one of the two main candidates are making a statement only to themselves. This literally helps nothing. In the race before us, there is a clearly better choice and whatever your reason for "writing in Biden," it will not be advanced by doing so.

These kind of people are self-important drama queens. PP was just using it as an opportunity to take a dig at Walz. It’s just an inauthentic post.

Different undecided voter here. People who are concerned about this far left ticket, who also refuse to vote for Trump, will just stay home.

I know it’s just a small subset of us, and the Dems are going after special interest groups with a large number of voters. So basically we are unhoused at the moment.

To be clear, you identify as a self-important drama queen? “Look at me! I’m unhoused and will just stay home and pout.” You do you. You don’t matter.

DP
Sadly, you really think that. Talk about someone thinking they’re self important. You really can’t see it, can you?

Pp is saying that person doesn’t matter because they literally do not matter. They are opting out of voting and telling us why- it doesn’t matter. When you make yourself irrelevant you don’t matter.

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Anonymous wrote:If it was up to JD Vance, I wouldn't have a family because of IVF.
Walz:

“Democrats are investing in prenatal care. We're the ones that are for universal pre-K. We're the ones that are providing school meals. I'm not gonna back down one bit on this whole family values thing. We're making it more affordable to have children by having paid family and medical leave. Where is JD Vance's program?”

Damned straight, Tim. This is why people like him & not the that freak, Vance.

Sounds good on the surface, if you are fine with increased taxes, increased gas and electricity prices, increased crowding of cities and schools. A huge no for many.

So the Republican plan is to force birth and, at this point, the babies can pull themselves up by their bootstraps. And they wonder why polls are reversing.

I am pro choice but posts like this don’t help. There is another option that too many pro choice advocates ignore when screaming about how awful republicans are. If a woman gives birth to an unwanted baby she is not forced to raise it. Plenty of Americans would love to adopt a newborn.

Yes, that much more convenient "domestic supply of infants" your SC justice was so intent on producing.

[Anonymous]

I'm new to this thread, so I haven't read the whole thing. I came looking for a place to ask this. I saw a WSJ article comparing the finances of both VP candidates. It was just another thing about Walz that left me feeling uneasy. How is a man his age so completely incapable of taking care of his family and himself financially? And with that in mind, how could anybody feel good about him being next in line for the presidency (not that the president is actually running the country, as we now know). I ask this sincerely. I am an independent voter who almost always voted Republican until Trump. Sat out the last election. But cannot see myself voting for this Harris/Walz ticket either. I live in DC, so my vote doesn't matter either way. But of course, almost all my friends are Dems, so I don't talk politics outside the home. When others impose their feelings onto me, they seem just blindly to be so excited about Harris/Walz and I truly find it baffling. She just doesn't engender confidence. And believe me, I want a woman president!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He's just plain good.

and shows empathy.

I’m voting down ballot and leaving the top of the ticket blank or writing in Biden, so I have no horse in this race, but the whole chest clutching, guffawing thing comes off as really fake and performative to me. Sorry.

I've said this before: people who don't vote for one of the two main candidates are making a statement only to themselves. This literally helps nothing. In the race before us, there is a clearly better choice and whatever your reason for "writing in Biden," it will not be advanced by doing so.

These kind of people are self-important drama queens. PP was just using it as an opportunity to take a dig at Walz. It’s just an inauthentic post.

Different undecided voter here. People who are concerned about this far left ticket, who also refuse to vote for Trump, will just stay home.

I know it’s just a small subset of us, and the Dems are going after special interest groups with a large number of voters. So basically we are unhoused at the moment.

When the choice is wannabe dictator who already encouraged his followers to attack the Capitol and ANYONE ELSE, why would you not vote for anyone else? So stupid.

This. Goes way beyond policies. He doesn’t believe in democracy and the rule of law. He doesn’t believe in being governed by the constitution. That’s all I need to know. The rest is noise.

See, this is weird to me. He is far more committed to the Constitution than anybody on the left. Why do people always say this?

Is this a joke? The orange felon tried to overturn the constitution on Jan 6.

See, but he didn't. A bunch of weirdos did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm new to this thread, so I haven't read the whole thing. I came looking for a place to ask this. I saw a WSJ article comparing the finances of both VP candidates. It was just another thing about Walz that left me feeling uneasy. How is a man his age so completely incapable of taking care of his family and himself financially? And with that in mind, how could anybody feel good about him being next in line for the presidency (not that the president is actually running the country, as we now know). I ask this sincerely. I am an independent voter who almost always voted Republican until Trump. Sat out the last election. But cannot see myself voting for this Harris/Walz ticket either. I live in DC, so my vote doesn't matter either way. But of course, almost all my friends are Dems, so I don't talk politics outside the home. When others impose their feelings onto me, they seem just blindly to be so excited about Harris/Walz and I truly find it baffling. She just doesn't engender confidence. And believe me, I want a woman president!

So very, very concerned.