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    It was hard for Republicans to compete with The Onion’s devastating exposé alleging that Walz’ “aw, shucks” persona is merely a facade concealing his true “gee whiz” tendencies.

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    According to a poll I saw a while ago he’s MORE POPULAR THAN TAYLOR SWIFT.

    I was not aware such a feat was possible.

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    A friend of mine was telling me about it, said Fox News was going on about how they “don’t like the way he moves.” Whatever that means.

    “Twitchy Tim” is what Fox News decided on.

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      Why do these people always have to have some stupidass nickname for someone that’s not based on anything related to their platform or policies?

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        Because they don’t want to talk about truth, the programs, policies etc.

        Also how the hell do you sell Trump otherwise? He can’t even align a coherent phrase to explicit anything.

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        Because some of them mentally never left high school. So they pick 'insults" that were “funny” and made them “cool”, back when they peaked, and those appeal to the rest of the faux-news followers who did the same.

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          Yeah it was a rhetorical question. I wonder if anyone has ever attempted to point out to them that the “other side” doesn’t use these kinds of nicknames?

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            There’s many such nickname based on trumps fake tan. We can’t really claim superiority on the nickname thing. It IS funny though.

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              Right online and in memes. Are those used by cable news networks and candidates at their rallies?

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    BUT…. HE FED HUNGRY CHILDREN!!!😡😡😡

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      The other argument I saw against him was he admitted when he made a mistake one time. I just remember it cause that struck me as so strange. Like… Yeah that’s awesome. Admitting you were wrong and trying to fix your mistake is a pretty damn good quality. It would be so annoying if he thought he knew everything about everything and never ever admitted he was wrong about anything even when he- oooooh it makes sense now.

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      When I first saw it, I thought it was in suport of him until I realized who was posting it

      Same thing for “all lives matter” where I thought it was someone agreeing with black lives matter the first time I heard it. Didn’t realize someone could get so close to the point and miss it there

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        Same, I didn’t get why All Lives Matter was a bad thing at first. I’m like “yes! we’re all humans and everyone matters!” Then I saw who was posting it and had to reaccess.

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      Anecdotal, but relevant: I had forgotten what the “smears” were supposed to be until I saw this and went “oh, right, they did that”.

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    not that great still maybe Democrats should stop acting like Republicans

    would not have to put out so much effort to make themselves look good if they would just support the people

    Tim Walz: 40% positive, 33% negative

    Taylor Swift: 33% positive, 27% negative

    Kamala Harris: 48% positive, 45% negative

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      It’s nice to be able to rely on having dog shit stupid takes from the same username all the time. Consistency is key. Keep it up.

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      ? Walz has gotten tons of progressive policies through with a single seat majority in his state

      Gauranteed paid family and medical leave, universal free lunches, passed protections for trans people, put over a billion into affordable housing development, taxes corporations more, expanded union protections, and more

      Not only that, but

      He was a faculity advisor of a gay-straight alliance in the 90s when that was not very socially acceptable at all

      He’s got a strong pro-union background

      He has not acted like a republican