I thought it was already established those videos were pulling claims out of their ass without anything substantial to back it up? JFC why do Dems keep acting like this right wing noise has any weight?
They have to, their entire electoral strategy revolves around them participating in the kayfabe
Question is, do they get that they’re playing the Washington Generals to the Republicans’ Harlem Globetrotters? Or do they think the kayfabe is tit for tat and they keep getting blindsided by the Republicans not playing along in return?
They know. Their voters don't but they do
This is the point. Same how AI videos about crowd in Venezuela cheering right now are making the rounds on social media, same how it was claimed that Bernie hates disabled people, even though his political hero is someone who was in a a wheelchair, how there were stories about Marianne Williamson shitting on AIDS patients, even though she was one of the few voices speaking for the HIV patients in the 80s. Politics is a dirty game, played by a lot of dirty rotten bastards.
Jesus Christ, they are born to lose.
Born to lose
means test em all
410,757,864,530 hanging chads
I am democrat man
New site tagline plz
Fucking pissed. He's a shitlib lile all of them but at least he had the back of trans people. I'm not so sure about whoever comes next.
I hear people floating Amy Klobuchar, and if there's any MN dem more wrong for this moment in politics, I can't think of who that might be.
It's Klobberin' time. She'll make sure all forms AND foreheads are properly stapled.
Feeling comb-over? Klobuchar will brush aside your problems! 
is already shouting about how people shouldn't criticize AIPAC Amy if they don't want to turn the state red. Even before they've announced their candidacy, it's too late to criticize.
If a democrat is even considering running - it is not the time to criticize. Wait until they run, lose, and then it still isn't the time to criticize because it never is. Vote blue no matter who!
Now that Walz isn't running, can we finally criticize him?
Oh wait no because that might damage the reputation of the Party, which might hurt any and all future candidates. So no sorry sweaty it's still not time
I keep waiting for some excellent "Vote blue on matter who!" Bluesky posts for c/slop because the midterms are the most important election of our lifetime. Surely they'll start popping up in the next couple months. This is - after all - an election year.
Mr. President, sir, Mr Donald J Trump, with all due respect, for all the evil you have done I only have one thing to say to you:
spoiler
I wonder how your hair would fare in a blizzard?
It's gonna be Klobuchar. She's one of those Lifers, she's gonna have a stranglehold on the state until she's a mummy.
God, Dems are so useless. I haven't really looked very deeply into this situation other than that original video was just full of spurious claims of Somali daycares fraudulently taking a bunch of government money while not having any children that they are serving. The Democrats can't just point out that this is using racism to put forward all these fake claims without any real evidence, their response has just been "actually, we hate fraud, so we are immediately auditing everyone and everything to stop fraud".
And that has left Walz and the Dems in a no-win situation. The Republicans have been calling for Walz's resignation for overseeing all of this fraud and waste of taxpayer money. But the Dems answer is that they will step in and stop all this fraud going on, because we will treat these accusations as having merit to show that "we also hate people getting taxpayer money", but that gives credence to the premise that they oversaw massive amounts of Somalis defrauding the government.
On the contrary, they sound very useful to their sponsors.
I don't know why anyone expects anything from Democrats. How many
do people need?
Tom I get your an old man and campaigning sucks but you gotta be aware of how bad the optics are on this man
This is such an insane way to handover a win to the Republican and Right Wing Media Ecosystem, just straight up making up lies and then earning the dividends.
I genuinely want to give him the benefit of the doubt, and I even believe his reasoning.
But does he not realize that the timing of this will embolden his opponents and make the harassment of his family worse? He's legitimately opening himself up for bogus lawfare by appearing to capitulate on charges of corruption.
I genuinely want to give him the benefit of the doubt, and I even believe his reasoning.
What is his reasoning?
Like, if it’s that he wants to not deal with the bogus claims, then I wouldn’t say there was much reasoning involved here
Does anyone have a read on this situation? I can't think of a way to interpret it besides "Yes that project veritas shit was true, the state runs fake daycare facilities you got me"
The dems are folding faster than Superman on laundry day
Before spring we're going to see a bill to make it illegal for a Somali person to run a daycare, by the next election season the Republicans will be running on hunting Somali immigrants for sport.
Yeah, its extremely poor timing and he's potentially throwing the Somali community under the bus because Im sure the right will take this as "he can't defend himself so he's dropping out before he has to".
At any other point it'd be understandable and I wish more of these ghouls would step away when its clear they can't keep up anymore.
There is no way his entire family isn't swimming in credible death threats right now, and after those state reps got got I wouldn't be surprised if he's scared of that.
But it absolutely looks like a "you got me" thing.
I've already seen libs spin this as "Trump ratfucked him". Of course, the spineless actions of Democrats are never their own fault.
Proving once again that Democrats are spineless and will always back away from any attacks from the right.
Worst VP candidate ever, somehow worse than Tim Kaine and Sarah Palin.
wasn't he the guy that sent in the national guard to attack the George Floyd protestors?
The very same
He's friends with school shooters which is pretty cool
TIM KAINE IN THE MEMBRANE :hamilton-guy:
I don't think that's correct, He didn't lose them the election, chasing the Cheneys (and so on) did.
Palin was way worse in effect, and i'd say Lieberman and Kaine were worse strategic choices.
He didn't lose them the election
Harris's poll numbers vs Trump made a U turn literally the day after the Waltz - Vance debate. It was the turning point where Trump built his momentum from.
McCain was always going to lose 2008, so throwing Palin out there didn't cost them much. Kaine was meh, it's not like Pence, his direct opponent, was that great either.
How much of that was Walz and how much of it was the Kamala's campaign and the Dem party establishment? I seem to remember that debate being the moment it became clear that they had told him to toe the party line on every issue, turning what was a dynamic and progressive (relatively speaking for a Dem) VP candidate into a mouthpiece for the status quo.
I'm beginning to think that Tim Walz was not the brilliant tactician i thought he was.
Dumb piece of shit
Runs failed chat
ah, finally he can go build greater pisrael 
Awesome new self-humiliation technique employed by the Democrats, they always cook up a new one!
I came to the conclusion that I can’t give a political campaign my all
MOOOOM the Republicans aren't playing nice!!! 
Walz's response to the George Floyd protests was so brutal that Trump praised him for it. Given that and being the standard genocidal liberal, I'd be surprised if there weren't some massive skeletons in his closet. I wonder if he's about to show up in the epstein files
"the political gamesmanship we’re seeing from Republicans is only making that fight harder to win. But as I reflected on this moment with my family and my team over the holidays, I came to the conclusion that I can’t give a political campaign my all," he said. "Every minute I spend defending my own political interests would be a minute I can’t spend defending the people of Minnesota against the criminals who prey on our generosity and the cynics who prey on our differences."
This is the most incoherent shit. Just say you got your bag and are retiring to go be a lobbyist or work on a corporate board.
who?
RIP HARRIS/WALZ camo hat
shitbag piece of shit. Democrats love to play by the rules, written or unwritten.
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