Yesterday it was mentioned that during his Eau Claire, WI campaign event, not a rally, that Vance was asked about connecting with everyday people and why would someone want to have a beer with him. And he couldn’t come up with anything beyond “I like beer. I like to drink beer. Sometimes too much.” (h/t Kavanaugh much?)
The reporter was from the local CBS affiliate.
During the 10 PM news, that question was shown and the anchors and reporter joked about it and his lack of response. All I could think of was Bugs Bunny. “What a maroon! What an igno-RAmus.”
The old shoe salesman is cashing in on his followers’ loyalty to make money. He likes money a lot. Anyway, his whole life has pretty much been about getting money by any means short of actually earning it. The only reason he wants to get back into the WH is to be able to grift on a much higher level. Every enemy of our nation knows he will do their bidding if the price is right.
I’ve been thinking about the possible “reset” they will trot out. Given the members of their “brain trust” perhaps “the border” will return?
Convoys are headed for Duluth, encouraged by the open border policies of Tim Walz and Kamala Harris! These convoys of Venezuelan addicts and lunatics are coming to force your children to read Judy Blume books until they turn into transgender boxers! They will take all the black jobs, which are really any jobs (I just call them “black” as a sign of respect), except not the presidency which is historically not a black job as far as I remember. That Kamabla Harris wants to be president is proof she is not black at all! She knows she can only win if migrant criminals are imported via Canada through Minnesota to vote in larger numbers than anyone has ever seen! Which is why she chose Tim Walz!
Walz was a Command Sgt Major. When he put in for retirement. Period. He got his military pension based on that rank. That’s the way it works. He was active, in the National Guard, for 24 years.
Now, let’s look at this crap about Vance’s “valor.” He served in the Marines for 4 years. His unit got deployed to Iraq, and worked in the Public Affairs Office, coordinating press releases and media relations. He lived in pretty decent quarters in a non-combat position. He was rear echalon (administrative.) He was what Mr. Hatmama referred to as a “RAMF” – rear area mother fucker. That’s how much combat soldiers respected them.
[BTW. Mr Hatmama was a Command Sgt. Major who took a bust in rank to First Sgt, because he wanted to be with working with this old infantry unit. CSM was just not his thing – too much paperwork. That infantry unit then got called up and got deployed to the First Sandbox War (Desert Storm.) They lived in canvas tents with the sand flies and the camels in the middle of the desert, and the middle of the plumes of the demolisions of the ammunitions facilities and dumps. And his unit was one of the units responsible for patrolling the Highway of Death. Yeah. He came home after eight months, sicker than a dog. He went to the VA, and they said. “you’ve got private health insurance – use that. We got no room for you here.” He was medically retired after 32 years service. And he’s now 100% disabled, T & P (total and permanent.) If you add up his actual disability ratings, it is 250%, but, army math only counts up to 100. And he was retired at the rank he was last serving at – First Sgt. I call that valor.]
Fuck you, Shillbilly Vance. You are as phony as phony can be.
I didn’t go to UW, so I don’t really know (we were on the Minnesota side of things, as that’s where dear Hubby did his two+ years before going into the hospitality industry when his dad died and his college money dried up).
I don’t get the animosity I’ve been seeing. TPM has been trying to fix some pretty big software limitations, precisely in order to make the user (and the staff!) experience better. They’re a small operation, and I can guarantee they’re plenty far down the priority list for the third-party who actually controls how and when errors get fixed. They’ve been trying to get ahead of the expected wave of comments during the campaign season and the expected shit-show of breakages that always happens when the system is stressed. They obviously care about comments, or we wouldn’t even have these forums.
I love y’all, but, reading what you have to say RIGHT NOW about the news is not going to make or break my day.
For those who don’t know, the way to notify TPM about these issues is talk@talkingpointsmemo.com. If they see a lot of posts in their inbox, they’ll probably let us know at least what is going on.
Not just Fat Elvis and Mini Me having total meltdowns. Goebbels wannabe has lost what few marbles he may ever have had and trying to resuscitate Comet PingPong Pizza:
Apparently all they have in their toolbox are retreads of old strategies.
I agree that the H-W campaign needs to muster some sort of rebuttal, but one that remains respectful of all types of military service. Perhaps something along the lines of, “We honor and respect Mr. Vance’s military service, as we do all those who serve our country in the military, at home and abroad.”
Sure, and one of the time-honored principles of a business relationship, is that when a paying customer isn’t getting the service they’ve been paying for, they have a right to complain about it.
FWIW I don’t think animosity is an accurate description. It’s more “Get your act together, will 'ya?”
KYIV, Ukraine — In a brazen attack that caught Russia off-guard, Ukraine’s military has sent a large ground force across its border and into western Russia.
The Ukrainian soldiers crossed the country’s northeastern border Tuesday and now appear to be several miles inside Russia’s Kursk region, where they are operating in several villages.
Gen. Valery Gerasimov, the chief of Russia’s general staff, said in a Kremlin briefing Wednesday that some 1,000 Ukrainian troops were taking part, backed by dozens of armored vehicles. Russia has sent reinforcements in an attempt to drive the Ukrainians back across the border.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin listened to the assessment with a look that appeared to be a mixture of impatience and disgust. He called the Ukrainian incursion a “large-scale provocation.”
Ukraine has previously backed Russian exiles who carried out limited cross-border raids, but has never conducted its own operation on such a scale.
Ukraine is not commenting on the current developments, and many details remain sketchy. In an interview with NPR, Mykhailo Podolak, one of the top advisers to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, declined to provide any specifics.
But in general terms, he seemed to provide the rationale for the operation, saying Ukraine needed to drive Russia away from border areas where it’s launching so many attacks.
“We have to push them back in some areas if we want to make those areas safe for us. We are creating this buffer zone," said Podolyak.
Yet it’s far from clear that Ukraine can carve out and hold a buffer zone on Russian territory.
…that was a joke, but today’s Morning Memo features a NYT article about Walz’s Machiavellian rise (archived link), which reports that Walz began using the “Weird” word last February!
It just so happens that on February 3 Joe Ragazzo wrote this:
Something I wonder about a lot is if there is, for lack of a better term, a Weirdness Threshold, beyond which a political movement just dies. It seems like there is but it moves a lot. It used to be that just one erratic yell could do the job. There’s a whole Wikipedia page dedicated to the Dean Scream. Taylor Swift seems to be provoking a lot of right wing operatives into testing the Weirdness Threshold. And I wonder what, if anything, it means, for the weirdness of the online right to be exposed to a mainstream audience.
[gives examples of MAGA Swift/Kelce weirdness]
I could be wrong, but I don’t think most people ever think about these things. They think it’s weird shit. They also think it’s kinda weak and loserish. It may be the case that the online right is immune to being too weird, but it also may be the case that Taylor Swift helps inadvertently highlight just how crazy things are getting over there to people who otherwise wouldn’t believe it was possible.
