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Anonymous wrote:Kamala's first decision, and they did not properly vet Walz. Were blindsided by the National Guard retirement, and now had to edit their bio and video of him.

It absolutely was vetted. In fact, Walz had multiple House and Governor races where the media vetted the issue and it had long since been resolved. The MAGA revived a bitter former colleague to lie about walz's record and here we are. It is a total nothingburger. He enlisted and served for 20 years. Then he retired, then came back after 9/11 and then retired again after 24 total years of service, and month before his unit had word of deployment. 24 years as an enlistee is more than enough service from one individual, and certainly more than Trump or Vance gave. At least Vance served as well. But anyone trying to begrime a 24 year careers is an ass.

The fact that the Harris campaign introduced him as a CSM on their website makes me wonder whether they decided to deliberately provoke these attacks. If they figure that the attacks on Walz bring attention that creates a net benefit by contrasting his background to that of Trump and Vance, then it may be a good strategy.

Anonymous wrote:He came back out of military retirement after 9/11, just to serve again?

I really like this guy.

DCUM liberals who generally hate the military are gah-gah over a man who spent a few weekends a month and a few weeks in the summer playing soldier.

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I don't think you all know what a faculty adviser is. Normal people do, though.

They are desperate and reaching for anything they can, any defamation or innuendo or nastiness they can come up with.

This is because they don’t have any policies that the American people want.

100% that's it.

He came back out of military retirement after 9/11, just to serve again?

I really like this guy.

Anonymous wrote:Kamala's first decision, and they did not properly vet Walz. Were blindsided by the National Guard retirement, and now had to edit their bio and video of him.

It absolutely was vetted. In fact, Walz had multiple House and Governor races where the media vetted the issue and it had long since been resolved. The MAGA revived a bitter former colleague to lie about walz's record and here we are. It is a total nothingburger. He enlisted and served for 20 years. Then he retired, then came back after 9/11 and then retired again after 24 total years of service, and month before his unit had word of deployment. 24 years as an enlistee is more than enough service from one individual, and certainly more than Trump or Vance gave. At least Vance served as well. But anyone trying to begrime a 24 year careers is an ass.

Anonymous wrote:Kamala's first decision, and they did not properly vet Walz. Were blindsided by the National Guard retirement, and now had to edit their bio and video of him.

Just stop. This is making very little impact with swing voters and undecideds. All of the people who have a problem with Walz's retirement are ones that were already voting for Trump. They are making a big deal about everything that the hope would matter, but in fact, almost none of their partisan attacks are having much sticking power with undecided and swing voters. Those voters continue to drizzle over to the Harris/Walz ticket.

Trump and company are desperate to find any way to stop the momentum. They were quite a bit ahead against Biden and in just 3 weeks, they are back to a toss-up. And, so far, Trump has not been able to find anything that will even slow down the momentum. He's lost ground with so many critical demographics with no sight of anything that is making a difference.

Trump got no bump from the RNC and has lost ground with his VP pick. Harris picked up a bunch by taking over the ticket from Biden, then got another bump as the Black, Latino and Asian voters, seniors, young voters, that had been sliding to the Trump side turned around and jumped back to the Harris ticket. Trump had made a lot of progress over the last year with most of those groups, and Harris recouped the losses in 3 weeks. She got a bump from the Walz selection. And she is expecting another bump for the DNC convention. Then another potential bump when Trump in sentenced in September.

Right now, there's a fair amount of good news on the horizon for Harris and only bad news on the horizon for Trump. You can smell the Trump camp desperation and it is not pretty.

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the people who know him, love him

the people who know trump say that they will never go near that pus-filled boil of a human being ever again

hmmm

Trump can't even get his former VP or former senior officials to endorse him.

40 of 44 people who served in his cabinets or as his staff during his term in office refuse to endorse him. Less than 10% of the people who he hired as his inner circle are willing to endorse him for returning to office.

And one of the 4 that will endorse him is Nikki Haley. We know just how much she loves and trusts him as POTUS. She's only done that to help with her huge political ambition. She feels hitching her wagon to the old mule one more time is the way to get ahead for 2028.

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Anonymous wrote:I will answer this in good faith. Between Gwen and Tim, they have 4 pensions (army, teacher, teacher, congressman). Between that and social security, their retirement is secure.

For a very long time, they were a dual income teacher/teacher household. You know how much money they make. For a long time, they tried IVF to have children. You know how much that costs. He has put money into his children’s 529 plan. They had a house that they sold when he moved into the governor’s mansion. Until his decision to run for office, the Walz family had a perfectly middle class life.

This is not a failure, it’s a good thing. He didn’t sell himself out and make himself beholden to special interests, which means that he could actually work on behalf of his constituents without external pressures. I think we have became so used to corruption in politics that when we see someone who is not, it seems like a bad thing.

He actually has 5 pensions. You’re not counting his pension as current gov, which will allegedly be $60,000 a year.

I tried to figure it out, I think with a single term probably half of that. But

What he has not done, is to enrich himself while in office.

Saving money and wisely investing them is not illegal enrichment, it is indicative of financial education and wisdom. I am an immigrant and I don't know anyone who does not own a house by the age of 40 and who does not have at least a million in various investments by the age of 40. To be old as Tim and not to own a house and not to have any investments other than government pensions is very concerning. If he cannot manage his own money and his own spendings, how we can trust him with our money?

This is such a bizarre take, and I say this as an immigrant with investments and a home. If you have enough of a pension to support you for the rest of your life, what exactly is the problem?

He owned a house. He sold it, when he moved into the governor's mansion. He will surely buy a new house.

Surely? He might be outpriced now to buy the house.

He has investments - they don’t show up on the financial disclosure forms because certain types of investments don’t have to be listed. He has multiple pensions and no debt so has a positive high enough net worth. Managing money well means having enough coming in to cover expenses and having enough extra for emergencies. Wall more than meets that definition. And either you know that and are just trying desperately to make Walz look bad (but aren’t fooling anyone) or you have zero understanding of finances. This dog won’t hunt with middle America who would LOVE to be in Walz’s financial shoes.

DP. Stop spreading misinformation. He has NO investments, other than the very modest pensions.

Walz's net worth comes from his and his wife's salary and pensions.
The couple do not own stock or have any real estate investments.

https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/2024-election/tim-walz-net-worth/#:~:text=A%202019%20disclosure%20estimated%20the%20pensions%20to%20be,a%20federal%20retirement%20benefit%20of%20%2455%2C000%20per%20year.

DP. You’re the one spreading misinformation. You’ve been told multiple times that he didn’t have to disclose his 401(k)s. Those usually contain stocks.

Although 401ks do usually "contain stocks" that is not the same as owning stock, i.e., ownership of shares in individual stocks.

??? What are you talking about? It is absolutely the same thing.

Not really, because you don't buy and sell individual stocks in a 401k. You can have self-directed brokerage account within a 401k, I realize, but how many people even do that?
Aside from the fact that Walz is highly unlikely to have a 401k since his employment was not in the private sector, AFAIK he went right into teaching (one year in China before teaching in the US)

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She admitted lying. Give it up, PP. This is tiresome and weird.

"I was in the command post and I heard it. I heard the governor say, 'Give it up,'" Hedberg, a Minneapolis Police Federation director, told senators. "Wasn’t directly to me. It was through a phone call of how the governor says, 'Give up the precinct.'

In an interview after her testimony, Hedberg told FOX 9 she heard the information "third-hand." She declined to name her source.

https://www.fox9.com/news/walz-refutes-police-union-claim-he-ordered-third-precinct-abandoned-in-riots

So, tell us.... What did Walz do to stop the violence? What did he do to stop the take over of the police station?
Because he spent hours twiddling his thumbs while the city burned and while the mob took over the police station.
And, his wife seems to enjoy the smell of burning tires since she opened her windows so she could smell it.

He didn't call in the National Guard for hours like the Democratic mayor was begging him to do. So, what did he do?

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/walz-slammed-hesitating-send-guard-his-daughter-tipped-off-rioters-via-social-media

Yeah, let's have you (or other PP) tell us first why that was quoted as if it were true.

Did you not know, or did you know but still want to fling it? How unprepared is your party to govern this country if you have to rely on lies and slander?

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PP, did you know you were wrong when you posted?

My god MAGA is uninformed. Keep reaching.

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Why are you so bothered by people liking the guy who Harris picked to be VP? We like how normal he is. He DOES seem like he could be our neighbor.

Remember what normal looks like?

I don't think it's normal for a coach in high school to volunteer to be advising girls on sex.

Indeed it would not be, but that's not what a faculty advisor does, and you are weird and creepy for insinuating it is. Normal people know what the job entails.

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the people who know him, love him

the people who know trump say that they will never go near that pus-filled boil of a human being ever again

hmmm

Trump can't even get his former VP or former senior officials to endorse him.

This. So much this.

Which is the best reminder ever to keep up the work to get it all the way home on election day.

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I don't think you all know what a faculty adviser is. Normal people do, though.

They are desperate and reaching for anything they can, any defamation or innuendo or nastiness they can come up with.

This is because they don’t have any policies that the American people want.

I don't think you all know what a faculty adviser is. Normal people do, though.