The GOP is scrambling to find a line of attack against Kamala Harris’s VP pick — and it’s not going well

Tim Walz has made his debut as Kamala Harris’ running mate, and Republicans are struggling to apply their standard villainization playbook to the Minnesota governor.

Walz has been making waves for weeks now as a good-natured, relatable politician with a particular aptitude for dressing down the Republican agenda in terms that any voter can understand — and the GOP hates it.

Republicans are scrambling to paint the governor-turned-VP candidate as a devilish Marxist hellbent on running the country into the ground — their usual stuff — while leveling a bunch of other really weird attacks. Here are some of their most pathetic attempts to turn voters against Walz.

  • @[email protected]
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    1684 months ago

    Bet they wanted a Shapiro VP pick so bad. It would’ve been antisemitic space laser conspiracy theory bullshit 24/7 until the vote. Now all they’ve got is “how dare this man ensure school children have full bellies and necessary sanitary supplies every day.”

    • @[email protected]
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      984 months ago

      as it turns out, the strategy of “lets force everyone to have more babies, and then when kids go hungry, blame the parents specifically for having too many babies” isn’t panning out the way they hoped

      • @[email protected]
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        774 months ago

        I’ve always felt that “have more babies but also fuck you for ever having sex” was a bit of wildly contradictory policy stance.

        • @[email protected]
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          674 months ago

          No, I actually get it. You ever seen a toddler jump in a puddle and then get upset that their legs got wet and dirty? It’s like that

          Fucking toddler logic.

          • Ech
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            194 months ago

            That’s giving them far too little credit for their cruelty.

    • @Cryophilia
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      274 months ago

      This tactic of picking someone that the Republicans didn’t expect and haven’t had time to build a narrative about is working extremely well.

      • @Tom_Hanx_the_Actor
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        54 months ago

        If I put my conspiracy hat on for a split second I want to say this is a machiavellian (sp?) move by the DNC. I’m reluctant to give them that much credit though.

    • @[email protected]
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      204 months ago

      But hey, now they can claim that not picking Shapiro was antisemitic! 🙄

      Never mind the tiki torches and chants of “Jews will not replace us” in the distance…

      • partial_accumen
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        184 months ago

        Isn’t antisemitism a hard sell to Harris who is a Presidential candidate that is married to a Jewish man?

        • @[email protected]
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          174 months ago

          You would think so, but I’ve heard it on talk radio already. Verbatim: “Harris didn’t pick Shapiro because Democrats hate Jews!”

          Uh, there’s one major party that is so hard-up for votes that they now welcome neo-Nazis to their convention, and it’s not the Democrats…

          • Pelicanen
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            84 months ago

            I mean, I’ve also heard them parrot Russian propaganda that Zelensky is a nazi despite being, you know, jewish. Logic doesn’t really enter their minds.

          • @samus12345
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            44 months ago

            Yes, Harris, whose husband is Jewish, hates Jews.

            I know reality means nothing to them, but it makes their floundering all the more funny.

        • @grue
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          84 months ago

          They call Bernie Sanders antisemitic. Factual reality is absolutely irrelevant to the shit spewing from their mouths.