Well, it’s official now. Kamala has the official party nomination for President, and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is her newly minted running mate. And now we’re off to a 91 day sprint to the electoral finish line.
As if Traitor Tot didn’t already have so many troubles he’s ready to open up a trouble outlet store, now he has one more. As former GOP strategist and Lincoln Project co-founder Stuart Stevens said on MSNBC today, Trump has a problem. The minute Tim Walz opens his mouth, he’s a walking John Mellencamp lyric, something like “Small town boy.” He is everything JD Vance wishes he was.
Here’s Traitor Tot’s newest problem. Starting with the rollout today Harris and Walz are starting a whirlwind tour of battleground states to capitalize on their newfound momentum. And Trump can’t leave the bunker at Mar-A-Slobo without taking incoming from Kamala Harris while he immediately scurries back into his hole.
With only 91 days left, Trump simply can’t cede this kind of nonstop airtime to the Democrats, but he no longer has either the fire or the juice for a campaign tour schedule. And don’t kid yourself, every time His Lowness steps out on a rally stage, he does a mental head count, and realizes the rooms just aren’t what they used to be.
But who does he send? None of the normal sycophants, the way it works in Trumpmenistan is that his rally crowds are what they go out and warm up for him. Left to their own devices, they couldn’t fill up a McDonald’s at lunch hour.
JD Vance? really? Beggar Vance is why El Pendejo ex Presidente is now running around screaming to the ceiling that He’s not WEIRD! Vance is like an unruly four year old. You can’t take him out in public or he embarrasses you, and you can’t leave him at home or he pulls the drapes down and drinks out of the toilet. But you got to go with what you’ve got, and he never promised Vance roses.
Here’s Il Douche’s new secret plan for dealing with Harris and Walz. You know who else is in Philadelphia today? That’s right, the hillbilly imbecile. Trump has him there tonight to give a Trump-Vance counter rally to the rollicking tent revival we just saw today. And the current battle plan is that Vance will follow them around on their tour, like toilet paper on their shoe, trying to hold rebuttal rallies at every stop.
At this point, I can’t quite decide whether Traitor Tot has become self destructive, or skipped straight to political suicide. Think about this for a moment. We just saw the political equivalent of a Taylor Swift concert, and it’s going to get heavy air time on the local and national news tonight. And in a couple of hours, the faux hillbilly is going to go out somewhere in Philly, get behind the microphone, grin like Billy Bob Thornton in Slingblade, laugh over everything that happens, then idiotically step on his few applause lines. Which will also get air coverage on national and local news.
And if they hold to plan, that will happen in every city the Harris-Walz tour goes to. They will blow the doors off, and then a couple of hours later Vance will take the stage like some kind of drunken Marcel Marceau trying to walk against a nonexistent stiff wind.
I can’t wait for the VP debate, if they can’t get Vance hogtied and sedated. Hell, Walz already neatly pigeonholed Vance and his phony hillbilly street creds in one devastating line today, I grew up in a small Nebraska farm town of 400 people. And just like JD vance, all of my classmates went to Yale Law school, had their careers financed by a billionaire, wrote a bestselling book, and then trashed the community he wrote about. They have a word for it in politics, authenticity.
I can’t wait for the next two weeks. Later this week, we’ll get some polling results taken after Harris’s apparent nomination kicked in. And next week we’ll see some poll results taken after today’s Walz rollout. Truth be told, the way things are going, I think maintenance at Mar-A-Slobo have done a Mona Lisa, and put a sheet of clear Lucite over it, to keep a Trumper tantrum throwing a plate through the Walmart 75″ television. Don’t touch that dial.
I thank you for the privilege of your time.
Walz was terrific today and seems to have ad libbed a few elbows to the scripted criticism in the speech on his teleprompter. Then he showed us the Tim Walz version of Dark Brandon and it was brutal. He of course said he’d love to debate Vance. Then added “If he can get off his couch!” But he wasn’t done. Walz twisted the knife and made sure everyone knew it wasn’t an “oops – didn’t mean to go there” quip. After the crowed reaction settled (Harris’ reaction was a sight to behold too) someone shouted something and Walz pointed their way and said “See what I did there?” Bear in mind Walz spent a career teaching high school kids, and no doubt while coaching setting a few idiots too taken with themselves straight. A couple of decades dealing with smart-assed high school kids means Vance is in really, REALLY deep shit in a one-on-one sit down live on national TV. We’ve all been salivating over the thought of Harris slicing and dicing Trump but a Walz/Vance debate? I think it will get ratings Trump could only dream of. Of course Trump won’t like how it goes down but that will be icing on the cake.
Walz is authentic. Through and through. I’m sure he’s got flaws like anyone but I’m a naative midwesterner myself and I think it’s still admired back there that when people make mistakes and own up to them and promise to do better even folks who don’t like them much respect the hell out of it. Waltz is small town heartland America. And I know the perfect walk-on music for his campaign appearances. I’m sure John Mellencamp will gladly give him permission and if he’s still got (performance) “game” even show up a few times to play/sing it himself:
Sorry. it took me a few minutes to stop crying. Since only a small handful of people would be glad to see me the fact is I’ve long since ceased to be welcome in my small, southern Illinois hometown. Maybe, just maybe a Harris/Walz administration can turn the tide and the ugly orange wave of Trump/MAGA will recede. Walz can I think perhaps break the fever and get through. Maybe I’ll live long enough to somehow find the means to travel back home and see so many places with so many memories one last time and have enough people if not be glad to see me back at least not give me any shit. I suddenly have that hope again.
But back to the video, I’d think the DNC can easily afford (with Mellencamp’s permission) to swap out some of the photos of Indiana for Minnesota and the town where Walz taught and coached all those years. It would make one hell of an introduction on the big screen before Walz takes the stage at the Convention for his acceptance speech!
Lyndon Johnson graduated from Texas State teachers college and worked as a teacher in rural South Texas. he was the only teacher president we have had. passed voters rights act, civil rights act, teachers are powerful and amazing people. walz is a good example of that.