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Let me guess, the whole thing is made up because Tim Walz dared to volunteer to be part of the controlled opposition side…and of course that pathetic wimp is going to lie there and take it.
My bet is that Walz tries as hard as he can to do an Obama by giving a "This is not who we are" speech. It's filled with emotion but it is not impassioned. After all - he needs to appeal "moderate" GOP voters. It's full of soaring yet entirely empty rhetoric. Of course - it has zero actionable plans. In fact - he doesn't even hint at what his state and the dems could do.
Bluesky libs are furious with him so he retreats to Twitter. His Bluesky activity becomes an autopilot afterthought. Some months later he tries to do a Clinton by appearing on a talk show with a winning yet consolatory vibe. Slick Willie was unctuous but he had winning charm and could play the saxophone. Unslick Timmy tries to capture that magic by "surprising" his host by bringing out a melodica and the host - don't you know - asks the audience "Do you wanna hear him play? Dontcha? I do!" Somehow the house band already perfectly knows the parts of the song he plays. It's some current crappy and generic pop hit. He makes a few flubs. The mistakes are supposed to be endearing. The applause is surprisingly tepid.
He says both of his kids love the song. Actually they don't love it at all. It was picked by his consultants as being most "appropriate". His second effort at capturing old-school and dated dem glory is also a big failure. Reddit sleuths discover his kids don't even know the name of the singer they are suppose to love. Walz is roasted all over social media as a ginormous phony. All his social media account posts become mechanical and stale.
Daily he checks in with his consultants who are forced to tell him his metrics are "challenging". They are lying to him and he knows they are but he thanks just the same for every update. His numbers are in the effing toilet! For months on end he is not seen in public anywhere. He's too busy crying into his soup about his nearly non-existent 2028 presidential nom chances. How did thing go so wrong? Why didn't his consultants' advice work? They sure get paid enough - hand-over-fucking-fist.
You are being extremely optimistic with the whole Walz becoming unpopular thing. Progressive libs have locked onto him and will not give him up unless he like slaughters a puppy on live TV or something. Trump praising his fascist use of the National Guard during BLM wasn't enough to turn them off. And they'll gladly look the other way when he does it again, talk show appearances or no.
I remember watching the VP debate on the hextube, and Tim was just doing “yes, and” to JD’s ethnic cleansing plans for 90 minutes. Libs truly have the memory of cheez whiz.
They'll give up on him the second it looks like he's gonna lose, and they'll all rally behind Gruesome Newsom
LOL. Yeah, fair. With two reactionary fucks who just happen to still keep the mask on, how to choose?
the thing about tim walz is he could have carried kamala harris to victory. i think if he picked the right vp he could totally be president by 2036. 2028 is totally gonna be gruesome newsom tho
Meet Potential Man for Walz