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Trot out the Taunts and Tater Tots – Trail Mix

Trot out the Taunts and Tater Tots

Attribution: Tear down the Walz by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com

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112 thoughts on “Trot out the Taunts and Tater Tots”

  1. but first, the prize-winning hot dish tater tots

    Want to know more about Tim Walz? Try his hot dish recipe (startribune.com)

    This hot dish photo, posted by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, stirred up culinary controversy for the cook’s use of peas. (Gov. Tim Walz/Twitter)

    […]
    Walz already took Washington by storm a decade ago as a three-time winner of the Minnesota Congressional Delegation Hotdish Off for his versions of the quintessential Minnesota casserole. But can a politician even cook without controversy? A photo he posted in 2022 of a half-eaten hot dish was heavily criticized on social media for his use of peas.

    Still, his attention to detail around food is lauded among colleagues. Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan recently praised him for cutting her daughter’s pancakes into little squares.
    Here on the Star Tribune Taste team, we’re confident that the quickest way to get to know someone is to eat their food. So, if you’re new to Walz, or hot dish, give it a try. We promise, it doesn’t taste “weird.”
    Turkey Trot Tater Tot Hotdish
    Serves 4 to 6
    Note: From Rep. Tim Walz, who won the 2014 Minnesota Congressional Delegation Hotdish Off with this (peas-less) recipe.

    1 lb. ground turkey
    1 garlic clove, finely chopped
    ½ tsp. dried sage
    1 egg
    ½ c. chopped green onions
    1 tsp. freshly ground pepper, plus more as needed
    2 tsp. salt, divided
    1 tbsp. olive oil
    1 lb. of fresh green beans, stems removed and chopped into bite-sized pieces
    4 slices bacon
    6 tbsp. butter, divided
    1 ½ c. chopped baby bella mushrooms
    5 to 6 tbsp. flour
    2 ½ c whole milk
    ½ c. half and half
    ¼ c. chopped onions
    3 c. shredded sharp Cheddar cheese, divided
    1 (32-oz.) pkg. Tater Tots
    Directions
    Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a medium bowl, combine turkey, garlic, sage, green onions, egg, pepper and 1 teaspoon salt. In a skillet over medium heat, heat olive oil and then brown the turkey mixture. Remove from stove and transfer mixture to a large bowl.
    In a pot of boiling water, blanch green beans for 2 to 3 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, remove beans and plunge them into ice water. Once cool, drain completely and add to turkey mix.
    In a skillet over medium heat, fry bacon until crisp. Remove from pan, and cool bacon on paper towels. Chop bacon into ¼-inch pieces and add to turkey mix. Gently combine turkey mix, beans and bacon and spread in an even layer in a 9- by 13-inch baking pan.
    In a large skillet over medium-high heat, heat 2 tablespoons butter. As soon as foam begins to subside, add mushrooms and cook, stirring continuously, until mushrooms are browned, about 4 to 6 minutes.
    In a medium saucepan over medium heat, melt remaining 4 tablespoons butter. Slowly and evenly sprinkle flour into the butter. Cook for 2 minutes, then slowly whisk in the milk and half and half. Cook for 2 more minutes, then add diced onions, remaining 1 teaspoon salt, and pepper to taste. After 1 minute, stir in 2 ½ cups cheese and cook, stirring, until melted. Pour cheese mixture evenly over casserole. Scatter Tater Tots over the top, then scatter remaining shredded cheese. Bake until golden brown, about 45 minutes. Remove from oven and serve.

  2. Michael Kosta gets to know Tim Walz, the Minn. governor Kamala Harris chose as her running mate. While the Trump campaign claims the vice presidential candidate will “unleash hell on earth,” Democrats love his political record and “Midwestern dad af” vibes. Plus, Josh Johnson weighs in on why Walz is the “right type of white guy” for this race.

  3. note:  that photo of tater tots hotdish doesn’t jibe with the recipe the star trib printed.  it has what looks like *peas and carrots, not “fresh green beans.”

    *most likely leftovers or from a bag of frozen peas and carrots.

  4. That’s the kind of dinner i grew up on!
     
    i wonder what dinner Trump likes to cook for his family when he wants to give Melania the night off 
     
    Wait, that’s not fair.  Maybe he does most of the cooking and she’s on dishes 🤔 

  5. “We are the underdogs here “.—-Kamala.Every day for 90 days we must realize we are underdogs and do whatever we can to upset Trump.
    This country is chock full of Neanderthals and racists and Trump sycophants.  We must crush their movement.

  8. Hello August! Best Dem polls all year this month. But in keeping with the underdog theme, these margins aren’t enough for certain Electoral College victory. Biden won in 2020 with about a 4 point popular vote lead. So for true comfort I’d hope for a solid 5 point lead after the convention, and the momentum in these polls are heading in the right direction.

    Something remarkable in the latest Marist: “Harris is up 9 points with independents (53%-44%). She was down 14 points with them last month.” WOW! But independents are fickle. They can quickly swing back and forth.
    https://www.npr.org/2024/08/06/g-s1-15701/election-poll-harris-trump?s=03

  10. It really is not to soon to think about a Harris Cabinet and other key positions. This isn’t misplaced hubris about the campaign outcome. I’ve always believed voters have a right to a least a few clues about how a nominee might populate an administration.

    Some opening thoughts:
    Doug Jones for Attorney General
    Eric Holder for Chief of Staff (I noticed she had him run the VP vetting, often a sign that person in the mix for chief of staff)

    And what to do with Pete Buttigieg? He’s ready for a promotion.

  11. Bizarre. Given how Trump events backfire, gotta wonder if they’re ramping down his appearances. But he is still going to his safe places on TV — this morning at 7:30am on FOX — where there are still chances he’ll say something self-defeating.

  13. Kamala and Tim have very good speech writers, and terrific delivery. They remind us that politics isn’t just hate, insults and grievance hand wringing. 

  14. This post yesterday was more unhinged than ever. Is he suffering what experts call a Narcissistic Collapse?

    Psychology Today: “Narcissists can experience a narcissistic collapse when faced with a situation resulting in public humiliation and failure. During a narcissistic collapse, the narcissistic defenses that keep them confident are no longer working. In a narcissistic collapse, they feel extremely anxious, depressed, ashamed, and may be unable to keep functioning.”

    Stuart Stevens (@stuartpstevens on X)

    If there are Republicans who still care about the country, they should be demanding that Donald Trump get out of the race. He’s not a well man, a danger to America and the world. He appears to be melting down and is deeply unwell. So much so his campaign has taken him off the trail. 
    It is a serious issue.

  15. “We are NOT going back!” My last comment on the Shapiro snub is that I agree with Donny Deutsch in that I was really disappointed that Walz was selected, but like Deutsch, I get it, and I like that guy, Coach Walz.  He absolutely killed in Philadelphia last evening.  He’ll be 68 when Harris is through and already says he is not going to be angling for his own future presidency. He is a drone bee to his queen now. That is what Harris wanted and that is what she has.  Trump is freakishly demented, Kamabla? That stupid f-( l<. !

  17. pogo and dexter,  he probably meant to say “kamablah-blah” but due to his diminishing capacity (or lingual laziness) left off the last “blah”

  18. one of Coach’s best lines yesterday:

    Tim Walz Burns Ex-President in Stirring Speech: ‘Crime Was Up Under Donald Trump – That’s Not Even Counting the Crimes *He* Committed’ (msn.com)

    Walz then drew a contrast with Trump and punctuated it by reminding the crowd that the former president is a convicted felon:
    Now, Donald Trump sees the world a little differently than us. First of all, he doesn’t know the first thing about service. He doesn’t have time for it because he’s too busy serving himself. Again and again and again, Trump weakens our economy to strengthen his own hand. He mocks our laws. He sows chaos and division. And that’s to say nothing of his record as president. He froze in the face of the Covid crisis. He drove our economy into the ground.
    And make no mistake. Violent crime was up under Donald Trump – that’s not even counting the crimes he committed.
    Not surprisingly, the crowd cheered wildly before breaking out into a chant of “Lock him up!” Walz extended his arms as if to tell the audience to cool it.

  19. Old Berman:
     
    “After apparently deciding to power through on what is also hands down the worst attempt to tag an opponent with an insulting nickname, the Biden fanfic was the highlight of the Trump social media day. Face it, the nicknames are perhaps Trump’s only true political skill. Other than the fire hose of lies that makes checking each lie impossible.
     
    And he has decided after years of success at political nicknames, that putting a B, the letter B, in the middle of Kamala Harris’ name, is the greatest idea he’s ever had. Kamala with a B, K-A-M-A-B-L-A.
     
    I have spent more time than I care to admit over the course of two full days now, trying to figure out what the hell it means, what the hell it’s supposed to mean, how he is hearing it sound in the big cobweb filled attic that is his head. Kamabla? Kamable?
     
    Kamabla? Kamabla? Kamabl?
     
    I see the word able in there, Donnie. Sorry. Punt on this one.”
     
    From Countdown with Keith Olbermann: KAMALA’S SECRET WEAPON: PEOPLE REALLY LIKE TIM WALZ – 8.7.24, Aug 7, 2024
    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/countdown-with-keith-olbermann/id1633301179?i=1000664555448
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  21. Once again, his empty rhetoric is so over the top he misses the target…

    “This is a ticket that would want this county to go communist immediately if not sooner … he’s very heavy into transgender. Anything transgender he thinks is great … I think it’s very insulting to Jewish people” — Trump this morning on Fox & Friends.

  23. I haven’t had much time to pay attention to politics this week… but I am reading this blog.  FOE is definitely going crazy…  thanks for the laughs!
     
    I am glad that Walz got the nod.  From what little I’ve read about him… methinks that “Minnesota Nice” will eat weirdo Vance for breakfast…

  25. This level sets the starting gate for defining Walz for “unsure” 35%. Like with Harris we’ll know in 10 days who won the first round.

    The YouGov survey, released Tuesday night, found 35 percent of Americans believe Walz is either a “good” pick or the “best possible” pick for Harris’s presidential ticket, while 35 percent were not sure. Just 16 percent called the Minnesota governor a “bad pick” or the “worst possible” pick.

    Independents and undecideds dramatically moved toward Harris in her first 10 days, but many rounds to go.

  29. “immediately if not sooner ” – one of my favorite nonsensical sayings – right up there with “I need this yesterday.”
     
    Sturg, getting tired of the cooler weather yet?
     
    Snaughling – so that’s what it’s called.

  30. The thing about one liners – they’re cute but lose their impact if repeated too often – case study is SFB – he’s perfected the art of overuse of stupid one liners.  I think he’s confused it with “repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth.”

  31. Pogos….its been a great big nothing burger
    Hardly rained yesterday, today just a drizzle.  

    As for nonsense sayings, “If you need my help, just hesitate to ask”.

    As for stump, he really ceases to amaze me.

  32. Slovenia food. 
    Idrijski žlikrofi 
    These dumplings are specific to the Idrija region and have protected geographic status. They are filled with potatoes, pork fat, onions, and herbs

    The Slovenians call it Beebaast

  34. I just dredge my egg coated tomatoes in flour then fry in a flat skillet with about a 1/4 in of grease. Cook until the down side is brown, flip and repeat. I do the same thing with squash, morel mushroom, coral mushrooms, hens nest mushrooms.  BTW never cook more than you can eat, they don’t keep well and the trouble it takes to revive them is as much work as just starting with fresh ones and aren’t near as tasty. I don’t use corn meal, I’m not that Southern. 
    Jack

  35. Take the leftover eggwash add 2 more eggs and a little cream beat and prepare your favorite omelet stuffing and have omelets with the fried veggies.
    Jack

  36. There is no such thing as a recipe for fried green tomatoes. It is a technique passed down from one cook to another or mother to child.
    Jack

  37. This launch, this rollout, used up so much energy ,the convention at The United Center will seem an after-thought.
    Uh-oh…I knew they would do this: Vance just said Walz abandoned his unit just before his battalion deployed to The Region. Vance trotted out the old “Stolen Valor” trope.  Governor Wes Moore (D-MD) is trying to cover this up by saying anyone who donned the uniform is to be respected.  Yeah, Walz won awards for meritorious conduct battling floods and tornadoes, but dammitt, showing Walz in full combat gear holding an M16 is wrong, as Walz never saw a day of combat.  I get it, hell, I am a disabled Viet Nam war veteran, but given the chance to resign upon receiving orders for war, I woulda grabbed that pen and scribbled my name as big as John Hancock.  The old saying, “little things mean a lot” won’t play here.  I hate to have to say, Vance has a valid point there.  –

  38. One thing I’m noticing about the coverage of Walz. The gentle self deprecating humor of the northern midwest changes when it comes out of the mouths of coastal hipsters. It could become a problem if it reminds us of what we really hate about coastal culture. The condescending attitude toward the “quaint” folks in flyover land.
    Jack

  40. What Don-Old tRUMPsky meant by “Kama-b-la” was this: Don’t talk about Project 2025!

    Every misspelling/mispronunciation of a name, every crazy rant about sharks or windmill cancer or fictional cannibals is so we, and the media, will not be talking about the MAGAt agenda.
     
    ps – Tater tot casserole is just Americanized shepard’s pie.

  43. jack – I think Coach Tim’s demeanor is a good thing.   A lot of those who live on the coasts or in large cities came from the Midwest, or their parents did and they visited the grandparents in summertime.   Like many of my friends from high school and the majority of those from college, we ventured away from home. Entitled toddlers like Orange Adolf will put it down, but not most Americans.
     

    Sturg – I wonder if Melania calls Adolf “Beebaast,” as he is also filled with potatoes and pork fat?

  44. I bet Doug Jones for AG is already a done deal, under wraps now of course, but in place.  
    Tim Miller just concluded an MSNBC appearance, not thrilled with the Walz selection as he said he only was strong in Minneapolis, and Minnesota is a big state.  He then deferred to the fact it was Harris’s decision, and it means nothing what we Shapiro backers wanted.
    Honestly, I hope this photo the Dems are showing every hour with Walz in combat gear holding an M-16 does not become Dukakis on the tank with the cartoonishly huge helmet.  I hope Walz gets on top of this NOW.

  45. Dexter
    It is an honest photo, that makes the difference. To insult him is to insult every reservist out there. He did his time as a reservist when it wasn’t a sexy thing to be in the military. In other words basic quiet midwestern values. Or at least the part of flyover country on the edge of the Great Plains. I can’t speak for Ohio.
    Jack

  46. Dexter – Many will have not seen the PA rally live, so I there will be plenty of televised energy for the DNC.   Just being the room will generate energy; the difference between going to a concert v listening to a live album.    Plus, we get to say thank you to POTUS Joe on night one, and we get to show America how things can be going forward.    Joy is not a finite resource.   There’s no need to hold back.  Every rally can be filled with hope and good vibes.   

    Question: How much time do we spend on Project 2025 at the DNC? This is a chance to let the truth be known. Maybe in the middle, so we begin and end the convention in a positive note.

  47. Tim Miller suffers from the same problem most of the Bulwark crew do. They are coastal, they really think Shapiro , a career politician, would have been a hit here in flyover  country. 
    Jack

  48. BiD
    The convention is the chance to change the narrative. To  shine a spotlight on just how much good the Biden administration has done. When I went through Cairo, Ill the other day and then east It seemed like they were working on all the bridges in that area. A lot of infrastructure work being done and this was in solid red districts. Not a Republican voted for it. They need to hammer home on this.
    Jack 

  49. I’m convinced that Walz’ will have broader appeal and help in multiple states, while Shapiro would’ve helped only in PA, and would’ve been a drag on the ticket in Michigan.   Fetterman and Shipiro can work to pull PA over the finish line.
     
    All of the things happening in MN, the things MAGAts want to call “commie,” are very popular and benefit their day-to-day lives. 
    Project 2025 Never! 

  50. Somebody remind Vance that he’s bootlicker to the bone spur coward.  

    But Dex is correx….that photo and situation has to be assessed and addressed. They have to get on top of that and quick. Can’t have no Kerry’s in the swift boat or Dukakis in a tank

  51. I recall great patriotic respect for military personnel and veterans after 9-11.  Walz was in the National Guard, not the USAR, from 1981 to 2005.  Anti-military sentiment we Viet-vets experienced had waned considerably by 1981, 6 years post-USA involvement in Southeast Asia.  Walz was posted at various locations in The National Guard around the CONUS, and also The Arctic Circle ( I wonder what the hell his unit was doing up there?).  How the campaign could make this mistake, giving the enemy fodder to bring up “stolen valor” is beyond me, for posing with a rifle such an an M-16 indicates they want people to believe Walz was in combat…what, shooting seals in the Arctic Ocean? 
    Tim Miller, from Denver, went to George Washington U, living now in New Orleans…is that “coastal”?  I bet James Carville would crack up if someone called him “coastal”.

  53. Fetterman and Shipiro can work to pull PA over the finish line.

    they can team up on that and maybe repair their relationship. 

  54. They have to get on top of that and quick

     
    another opportunity to showcase what hypocritical assholes republicans have become. 

  55. jack – The Republicans will blame Democrats for longer commutes due to road/bridge construction. LoL

    Yes, POTUS Joe is one the greatest.   He hands it off to his VP/mentee who has made her first act of picking a VP as perfect a choice as could be.

    Now, there are definitely folks up here who believe what they’ve been told, that the border is being continuously invaded by millions and they are taking good jobs and being given free everything.   Those, I believe, will be the hardest to convince that Project 2025 is a danger.  They are looking for a savior and think he’s spray-tanned orange.   

    You can’t fix racism and misogyny over the corse of our convention, but you can plant a seed that lets them know  that they will be worse off.  They probably can’t comprehend what would happen to democracy, but you can play to their own self interest.  

    ps – There are a lot of preppers around here.  So much perpetual gloom and doom.  It’s sad…and weird.

  56. Last call
     

    Aside — some people find FGTAWSCproblematic. If this is you and you’re about to go off on me in the comments section for daring to discuss such a dreadful work of literature thereby violating your delicate sensibilities, I humbly suggest you write a piece about it where you lay out your arguments and I’ll be happy to read it. This is an article about other elements of the book, and not only is delving into racial politics entirely beyond the scope of the piece, it’s a romance novel that happens to be important to a lot ofmembers of a marginalized group, lesbians. Lesbians deserve to have some things that are for them without having to carry the banner for every other marginalized group at the same time. And this is true even if certain things in the book may be a teensy bit dated and Fannie Flagg totally forgot to write a scene in which Wonder Woman comes through a portal to smite the KKK.

    https://ordinary-times.com/2020/01/26/fried-green-tomatoes-and-the-husband-problem/

  57. It is the flinger who has the power now.

    Weirdness has always been formidable, literally so in centuries past. Before it was an insult (flinged or reclaimed), weirdactually signified power — and before it was an adjective, “weird” was a proper noun. In Anglo-Saxon Britain,Wyrd was a pre-Christian personification of destiny, who governed the fate of all things. She is invoked early in “Beowulf,” as the title hero prepares for battle with the monster Grendel. “Fares Wyrd as she must,” says Beowulf to Hrothgar, the king of the Danes. Do not mourn me if I die. The weird is the lord of man.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/arts/tim-walz-trump-weird.html

  58. Ivy
    About Tim Miller true, but! He went to college in Washington DC, and has worked out of there with various Republican political campaigns. He recently moved to New Orleans from California. His reason from what I gather from his pod casts were for the hipster cache of the place. Not because he is a native of the region.
    Jack
     

  60. https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/07/style/campaign-hat-harris-walz-lotw/index.html

    “Producing what is perhaps the only item of merch in existence that could simultaneously speak to the hunting community and Gen-Z hypebeasts is, in itself, a message: that the Democratic ticket is a broad church.”

    “At first glance, their “Harris-Walz” capspresented a classic outdoorsy combination of camo (every hunter’s pattern of choice) and bright orange (used for visibility and avoiding mistaken identity).   However, online commentators were quick to highlight the striking similarity between the design and Roan’s own merchandise — specifically her “Midwestern Princess” trucker hats…”
     
    “While officially unintentional, the twinning of Walz’ hat and Roan’s merch comes hot off the heels of Harris’ embrace of Charli XCX’s “Brat” green, and appears to some as another instance of her campaign reacting quickly to the Gen-Z zeitgeist.”

    “The Democratic Party’s alignment — even if inadvertent — is in keeping with two of the themes we have already seen in Harris’ short campaign: appearing cool by association and feeding the viral meme-makers who are burnishing her credentials among young voters.”

  61. from Wiki:

    After graduating from Middletown High School in 2003,Vance enlisted in the US Marine Corps and served in Iraq as a combat correspondent for six months in late 2005. He was part of the Public Affairs section of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing and said that his service “taught me how to live like an adult” and that he was “lucky to escape any real fighting”. His decorations included the Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal and Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal.

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/16/was-jd-vance-marine-military/74411600007/

    Vance’s military career
    Born to a working-class family in Middletown, Ohio, Vance enlisted in the military directly out of high school. He joined the Marines in 2003 and served as a combat correspondent – or military journalist – until 2007, according to military news site Task & Purpose.
    In his 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy, as excerpted by Military.com, Vance described the press as “the holy grail of the Marine Corps public affairs: the biggest audience and the highest stakes.”
    For the last nine months of his service, Vance was the media relations officer for the Marine Corps Air Station in Cherry Point, North Carolina, one of the largest military bases on the East Coast.
    Vance’s time in Iraq
    Iraq for six months in late 2005. Based on his memoir, he would “attach to different units to get a sense of their daily routine,” escort civilian press, and write stories about individual marines.
    On a mission into Iraqi territory, Vance said he experienced a pivotal moment when he and his unit interacted with local school children. As they handed out school supplies to the children, Vance gave a small eraser to a boy.
    After the boy received the eraser, Vance said, “His face briefly lit up with joy before he ran away to his family, holding his two-cent prize aloft in triumph. I have never seen such excitement on a child’s face.”

    so would a photo showing JD in full military combat gear be out of place and disrespectful since according to his own words doesn’t look like he was ever in combat either ?

  63. Dex
    Yeah my bad, I gave him a demotion all a reservist has to do is their monthly weekend, wonder where their summer deployment will be and in times of war what war zone they may be deployed. National Guard have to do all that and also, get out of a warm bed without notice to deal with some local crises. 
    As to the popularity of the military in 1981, your memory differs from mine.
    He served 24 years, he planned his retirement well before his deployment was announce. BTW this whole manufactured controversy isn’t news. A little google search gets you the facts. 

  64. BiD
    On the felons voting, I think a proper way to frame it is that the right to vote is sacred no one should be denied the right to vote. 
    Jack

  67. She stopped ‘Lock him up” chants: “No, wait. The courts are gonna handle that part of it. What we’re gonna do is beat him in November” 

  68. “Someone who said we should terminate the Constitution should never be allowed to stand behind the Seal of the President of the United States”

    I noticed the TV ad camera crew down front really fixated on her for that line 

  70. As it stands, Dishonest Donald should not be allowed to vote.

    Felony disenfranchisement is defined as the loss of voting rights on the basis of a felony conviction — whether that loss only applies during the time of incarceration or for differing periods after a prison sentence is completed varies from state to state. We covered the basics of these laws and their current status across the country last week in “Felony Disenfranchisement Explained,” but now we ask, how have felony disenfranchisement laws changed over the years? Are the voting laws we know today really the status quo? In today’s piece, we look at the history of felony disenfranchisement laws, how they have developed over the past few decades and the legal environment surrounding them to get a better understanding of the path forward for reform.

    https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/what-can-we-learn-from-the-history-of-felony-disenfranchisement/

  71. jack – Agreed, but it was lost in Adolf that he is, in fact, a felon. 

    Soooo many white faces at that rally on a Wednesday afternoon .  That’s gotta worry the MAGAts.  They’ve got trouble in the entire Midwest, with a capital T and that stands for Tim.

  73. BiD, I’ve been bringing up the irony (in this case hypocrisy) in SFB’s “convicted felon” voting complaint from the first time I heard it after he became one. Says Mark Early, Leon County, FL Supervisor of Elections, “If you are convicted of a felony, you lose the right to vote in Florida.”  He might as well be criticizing L’Oréal for making hairspray, hair color and self-tanning products.  So inquiring minds want to know – Can SFB even vote for himself?
     
    Dissing Tim for getting out before his unit was deployed ain’t gonna play well for Bonespurs and the Hillbilly Eli. Wiki notes that Tim was deployed post-9/11 for half a year to Europe to support Operation Enduring Freedom. He remained in the Guard until 2005.  His training included heavy artillery. His list of awards in the service are pretty impressive for an NCO.  Vance on the other hand “enlisted in the US Marine Corps and served in Iraq as a combat correspondent for six months in late 2005. He was part of the Public Affairs section of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing and said that his service “taught me how to live like an adult” and that he was “lucky to escape any real fighting” (again, Wiki).He received 2 awards during his service, Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Award and a Good Conduct Medal.  I don’t think he wants to compare his service record with Tim’s.

  74. [He]…should never be allowed to stand behind the Seal of the President of the United States

    They are conjuring up some awesome rhetoric and images to make the case against Disenfranchised Donald. Powerful speechwriting. 

  75. Skump seems to be trying his best to get even for the way McCarthy and Roy Cohn were treated.     
    He may have developed his little penchant for nicknames directly from McCarthy who used to utilize the same little trick.
    I’ve known quite a few good bestowers of nick names….some are created out of meanness and some others from origins more smile inducing.
    Maliciously nicknames are enjoyed mostly by twisted broken people.

  76. Maliciously nicknames are enjoyed mostly by twisted broken people.

    Sturge: It’s their calling card and a symptom of deep self-loathing. Learned all about it in my grad studies. 

  78. Political malpractice of the day.

    Vance tries to belittle Walz military service, but this became the story of the day… “Vance served a single four-year enlistment in the public affairs section. In Hillbilly Elegy, he wrote that he was “lucky to escape any real fighting,” and he admitted in an interview today that he never saw combat.”

  79. This post not really any worse than dozens I’ve seen for months, but for some reason it is really ringing the bells. 

    As Trump fumes, Republicans wince at ‘public nervous breakdown’. https://politi.co/3Yzbm2X

    Matthew Bartlett, a GOP strategist and former Trump administration appointee;

    “This is a guy who cut through the Republican primary like a knife through butter. This is a guy who pummeled a semi-conscious president in a debate and literally out of a race. And now this is a guy who cannot come to grips with a competitive presidential race that would require discipline and effective messaging. And we’re seeing a candidate and a campaign absolutely melt down.’

  80. he’s just another shit-poster with a phone, people read too deep into his bullshit

    it’s funny to me that there are a few, possibly more, senior republican leaders, your Mike Johnsons and Kevin McCarthies, that could make a play for control of the party, but everyone of them is just so craven

    They must look at Nancy like she’s Babe Ruth

  81. With a Groucho-like waggle of the cigar……”and I mean an ACTUAL shit-poster”.

  83. At risk of ruining my evening, I inadvertently got exposed to a thread that was forwarded by a “friend” revealing her maga-ism that I was unaware of the extent of. Couldn’t get off of there fast enough and hit the snooze button on that person’s feed. What little I saw was viciously false and probably only a tiny window into the horrors about to be unleashed by the stuck pig magas. 

  84. What’s with JD  creeping around VP Harris’ plane?    MAGAt Republicans are incompetent at everything except grifting and lying and bullying.
     
    Project 2025 Never! 

    ps – President Biden is not “crashing” the convention. He will be given heartfelt thanks for everything he’s done FOR our country. Nobody loves tRUMPsky. Nobody. His kids might seek the affection they never got from him, but that’s not love. He will never know love. That is his hell, and that’s why he’s such a miserable POS.

  86. Ivy – One of the Project 2025 mouthpieces said there were things in store for us, but he wasn’t going to give it all away.  
    I hope the folks who were able to suss out the terror plot that forced Taylor Swift to cancel concerts in Vienna, are also able to find any actual planned, MAGAt nastiness and prevent it from happening.    I’m guessing the red state governors are in on it, as they can direct their state’s national guard units to ~officially~ terrorize the country.  
    Everyone should remember what happened in the Philippines and how long they were under Marshal Law (Order 1081), to keep Project 2025 from going into effect. 

  87. BiD, thanks for that. My impulse is to “sass back” at them but honestly, at this stage, I’m not sure I have the willpower, and for all the good it can do which is probably not much.  They are too far gone. Some people I just don’t care about enough to “set straight.” My sanity is more important. 

  89. BiD, got the beverage going. Mr. Ivy making fish tacos. Lots to be grateful for. Namaste.
    ❤️

  91. There is nothing wrong with the photo Tim Walz in uniform. Anyone who says otherwise is a sicko and a traitor. 

  92. I’m speaking.  
    Love it! 
    Can imagine her shutting down tRUMPsky in a debate…and if he’s too chicken, imagining may be all there is. 

  93. JD giving off strong wife-beater vibes trying to corner Kamala on her plane

    get a restraining order, Kamala

    Oh and he bragged IN THE MEDIA that he yelled at his very young son to “shut the hell up” when he took trump’s call, guy’s your typical toxic prick

  94. I finally got an explanation about Walz in full combat uniform holding an M-16. Until  Velshi revealed it, I didn’t know that Walz had been in Italy training troops. That explains the war gear, the hard helmet and the M-16 rifle.  Velshi  did speak out of turn, however, saying Vance was never in combat either. Vance was in Iraq as a driver and doing other things which was not specified. If any soldier or a marine or sailor are in a combat zone, they are declared combat veterans. After 24 years in The Guard, if Walz resigned to run for Congress, That’s fine. If he resigned to avoid combat, that is fine also.  Nothing illegal there.  Nothing dishonorable  about refusing going to Bush43’s horrible war. So I am done with this issue.  I watched the Eau Claire rally. Verbatim text from yesterday.  Walz showed his humanity by pausing his remarks when a man went into heat distress and Walz asked people to get water to the victim and others roasting in the Wisconsin sunny beating down heat.  $36 million raised in the past 24 hours!  Keep those cards and letters coming. Stuff those envelopes with benjamins.

  95. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/book-project-2025-jd-vance-delayed-heritage-foundation-rcna165632

    “Book with ties to Project 2025 and JD Vance delayed until after the election
    Dawn’s Early Light,” written by Kevin D. Roberts, had been scheduled to be published Sept. 24. But following a public uproar over Project 2025’s policy proposals for a future Republican administration, Roberts said in a statement that he will postpone the book until after Election Day.”

    “Vance literally, literally wrote the foreword for the architect of the Project 2025 agenda,” Walz said.

    “The Harris campaign is also training volunteers in battleground states “to highlight the most extreme aspects of Project 2025” when they talk to voters, according to a memo issued Wednesday, including those about abortion, Social Security and Medicare.”
     

  96. Dex, on the way home I heard him and you are right. Plouffe, et al need to make sure the patter stays fresh.

  97. So the shit kept coming. I said “Stop it.” No reply. Next comes “unfriending.” Anybody is free to post anything on their own page. I don’t have to look at it. It’s nasty stuff.

  98. https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/project-2025-trump-medicare-advantage-rcna160896
    “While he was in office, each of Trump’s budgets called for Social Security and Medicare cuts.”
     

    “Trump himself encouraged enrollment in Medicare Advantage, while his Department of Health and Human Services, the agency responsible for the program, sent out promotional emails during one sign-up period with headlines like “Get more benefits for your money.”
    This statement is, again, a lie.”
     
     
    “Project 2025 recommends making Medicare Advantage — the private insurance offering in Medicare — the default option for enrollment.
    But this plan, should it come to fruition, will likely degrade not only Medicare, but health care for all Americans, no matter our age.
    Medicare Advantage costs the government billions of dollars more annually than the traditional offering, while delivering less in the way of necessary care. Giant health care insurers game the Medicare system, profiting at the expense of taxpayers and patients alike. The government pays insurers a minimum fee per enrollee based on each enrollee’s health — something done to discourage companies from cherry-picking the healthy. But insurance companies do their darndest to make their enrollees appear as sick as possible to the federal government, so they can collect more money for them. As a result, the government spends more than 20% more for people enrolled in Medicare Advantage than they do the traditional program.”

     
    “In traditional Medicare, patients can see almost any doctor and few services need prior authorization. Neither is true under Medicare Advantage. Medical networks are narrow and limited, while everything from an MRI of the aching knee to chemotherapy for recommended cancer treatment — not to mention doctor-recommended nursing home and rehab stays — can be subject to insurance company second-guessing. While only a little more than 10% will appeal if they do not receive pre-authorization, if they do, four out of five will see the decision overturned.”

    “Medicare Advantage plans seem simpler, and also frequently offer enticements like gym memberships and dental care. The downsides aren’t as obvious until the enrollee needs lifesaving medical care — when it can be cost-prohibitive to seniors to switch back to the traditional government program. Given that lifesaving care is hardly an uncommon need for the elderly, it’s little wonder the program has acquired the nasty nickname “Medicare Disadvantage.”

    “You would think an outfit like the Heritage Foundation, which complains regularly about both the federal budget deficit and supposed restrictions on economic freedom, would want to do the exact opposite of a program that increases government spending and reduces Americans’ choices. But many conservatives have a way of going quiet about government spending when it fattens the bottom lines of big corporations. And Medicare Advantage is excellent at that. Insurers are so flush with profits that they’re using this excess federal money to create vertical monopolies, hoovering up everything from physician practices to pharmacy benefit managers and stymying competition by steering their customers to their own, not infrequently higher priced, offerings. The result is that the worse care and reduced choice of Medicare Advantage spills over to the rest of America.”
     
     

  100. Ivy – Every platform has guidelines of some sort, and you can report them as violent or containing false info or even spam, and then block them.   
    Pogo – As for keeping the patter fresh, we are the folks listening to stump speech after stump speech.  For many, they will not have heard the same lines time after time.  (And at least our candidates aren’t riffing on windmill cancer or some other nonsense.) Rest assured, some other MAGAt weirdness will present itself to keep things fresh. 

  101. “What I took it as was an attack on Kamala Harris being a chameleon,”

    -big-tech/Russian plant James David Bowman James Hamel JD Vance
     
    guy has more fake names than a fly-by-night contractor

  102. we are the folks listening to stump speech after stump speech

    we’re also 3 days ahead of the political the news cycle, trailmix.cc advantage 😎 

  104. oops i deleted it to keep the forum clean but glad you enjoyed it 🥂 
     
    Such videos weren’t widely-available “back in the day”

  105. Well, I guess those paying attention for the past 20 minutes will know what we’re talking about. The others are poorer for not seeing it. 

  106. i’m still trying to decide how to work-in youtube fun without drowning-out important messaging, because we still got work to do, eh? 

    Nice to see everyone coalescing here for the big philosophical showdown, let’s win hearts and minds 🇺🇸
     
    …and try not to alienate acquaintances, if you can avoid it, the MAGA-brand of political insanity may all be over in a few months (if we don’t lose focus). It ain’t always easy, i know
     
    trust me, I KNOW 😪 
     

    (i’m still mad that trump stole my all-caps emphasis technique, and as a hack will do, ABUSED and RUINED it)

  107. Just watched Charlemagne tha god on The Daily Show. That’s one really funny, really insightful, really talented guy. YouTube him if you aren’t familiar. You’ll be snaughling your ass off if you have any sense of humor (IMHO). 

  108. Bink, Dumbass’ ALL CAPS ALL THE TIME psycho Xing means nothing is emphasized although he thinks it’s all brilliant. He reminds me of my favorite philosophy prof holding court at the Chukker in a drunken haze thinking all his stuporous rants were deeply insightful looks into the ethos of man when in fact they were ETOH fueled rants and even his most ardent hangers on were rolling their eyes half the time. 

    And I have to go back to LZ. They really nailed it then, with Plant at his best, JPJ and Bonzo showing what a rhythm section is all about and Jimmy wringing sounds out of a guitar like no one could or had done before or since. Ok, personal bandwidth limit exceeded. Manana.

  110. But how the hell did Peter Frampton make it talk? It was my brother who paid for his Ball State education by playing lead guitar in a rock and roll band while I just collected vinyl and played records all the time.
    OK , I just researched how Frampton did it. The 48 year mystery is revealed.
    The night owl watchman never rests. Time for coffee , eggs, and corned beef hash browned to a crisp. Minnesota hot dish concoctions ? Well… somebody’s gonna have to make that for me.

  111. It appears The Region, including the Gaza targets, will still be a hotbed of war when Harris is inaugurated.  All Presidents of The United States support Israel unconditionally.  I don’t expect President Harris to curtail the support of firepower to Israel.  Harris shut down Palestinian supporters yesterday in Detroit with a few words and a stare.  Will she listen to the people when the protests get louder and louder? Will the invincible Netanyahu continue his actions against Palestinians using our USA provided ordnance?

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