Kamala / Walz 2028

[BusinessGenius]

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[Yuv]

Racist

[BusinessGenius]

I don’t see color

[LFS]

Lenny Kravitz is still all about being celibate as he waits for the right...

[ChrisV]

Vibes are definitely great here. Of course reality check, the VP’s politics do not matter at all in terms of what policy actually gets enacted, but Walz’s record is really hard to fault. You can of course argue that it doesn’t go far enough, but pretty much all of it is right direction, he achieved a lot and he did it in a purple state.

It’s hard to see how the Kamala campaign could possibly have gone better thus far, this is at the upper edge of what I thought was achievable. It’s not just the results, it’s that I have not seen the GOP struggle this hard for a narrative that has any purchase since the dying days of the Mitt Romney candidacy.

[TrollyWantACracker]

Just read a story in the Post that suggests that Waltz drank Diet Mountain Dew when he was a teacher. Sounds like the Harris camp might not have vetted him properly.

[Rugby]

My dream of a Walz Vance debate is 90% Walz saying

“Haha. Okay buddy.” Then pivoting back to healthcare, abortion and school meals.

[Koss]

@TrollyWantACracker

Just read a story in the Post that suggests that Waltz drank Diet Mountain Dew when he was a teacher. Sounds like the Harris camp might not have vetted him properly.

stop stop I can only get so erect (diet mtn dew is the GOAT pop and I won’t listen to any other arguments).

[TrollyWantACracker]

@Koss

diet mtn dew is the GOAT pop and I won’t listen to any other arguments

[Chippa58]

Market is getting a little bounce-back. Is that because of Walz choice?

[Koss]

Will it still be racist tomorrow? Asking for a friend.

[ChrisV]

It’s because the Japanese markets recovered overnight.

[BusinessGenius]

Do you have proof he wasn’t in Japan

[econophile]

Walz the first Democratic vice presidential (or presidential) nominee since 1980 that didn’t attend law school

Ben Kamisar

Walz is the first person on the Democratic presidential ticket since 1980 to never have attended law school.

Every Democratic presidential and vice presidential candidate between present time and Jimmy Carter in 1980 has a law degree — the only exception being future Vice President Al Gore, who left Vanderbilt’s law school without a degree to run for Congress. But Walz is the only one who never sought a law degree.

[Marksman]

F the lawyers!

[Huehuecoyotl]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2024/08/02/tim-walz-kamala-harris/

Kim Hermer, a longtime teacher at Mankato West, recalls that during Walz’s first autumn in town, a group of teachers decided it would be funny to pull a lighthearted prank on the newbie. They printed out a fake gift certificate for a free turkey — a supposed welcome gift from the community that could be collected at the grocery store in town.

“He went down there and left with a free turkey,” Hermer says.

How was he able to pull that off?

“I have no idea,” she says. “That’s just Tim Walz.”

Tim Walz arrives at an October 2006 campaign event in Owatonna, Minn., featuring former vice president Walter Mondale. (Jim Mone/AP)
Walz quickly earned the reputation as a guy who could get the most out of people. His love of history was infectious in the classroom where he would host “Jeopardy!”-style tournaments and invite other teachers to debate him on current events.

“Sometimes he would remind me of the Chris Farley character Matt Foley from SNL,” says Blake Frink, who says he became a geography teacher in part because he had been in Walz’s class. “Our school didn’t have air conditioning, and he would just get all sweaty and really passionate about whatever he was talking about. And it was just, you know, his shirt would get disheveled, but the passion would transfer over to us.”

[TrollyWantACracker]

The bit about him turning a winless public school football team into state champs was a little eye opening. I don’t know much about high school football, but isn’t that kind of impossible?

[TrollyWantACracker]

Dunno. I don’t make the rules here

[econophile]

Harris pick cements a matchup of Ivy educated versus public and HBCU grads

Ginger GibsonSenior Washington Editor

Republicans frequently assail the nation’s most elite universities, arguing that affluent schools like the Ivy League are trying to brainwash students to think like liberals. But it would be hard to guess that by looking at the educational backgrounds of the candidates on the Republican and Democratic presidential tickets.

Trump and Vance both attended Ivy League schools. Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s degree. Vance attended Ohio State University as an undergrad and then went to Yale for law school.

Harris attended Howard University, an HBCU, for undergrad and then went to law school at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law (since renamed University of California College of the Law, San Francisco).

Walz was entirely a product of the public school school system. He attended Chadron State College, a public school in Nebraska for undergrad, and he got a master’s degree from Minnesota State University, Mankato.

So which party is for the elites again?

[LKJ]

@TrollyWantACracker

The bit about him turning a winless public school football team into state champs was a little eye opening. I don’t know much about high school football, but isn’t that kind of impossible?

In three years? It’s wild. Winless high school teams are generally going to just be completely talentless, since the X’s and O’s aren’t at all complicated and a team with any talent is probably going to win some on talent alone.

It’s the sort of trajectory you would see in a sports movie.