Look, I'm just trying to give you our perspective here. You guys can learn, or you can do the Principal Skinner meme.
And I’m trying to do the same, but you’re very set in your ways. I understand you’re very into the conspiratorial side of…basically everything, but as others pointed out earlier, sometimes it’s just confirmation bias, not a conspiracy.
The left painted Walz as “American’s Dad”, a down to earth, long-serving veteran, former football coach that was willing to “sling mud” to get his political message across.
The right painted Walz as a cowardly vet that fled at first hint of combat and was obsessed with getting kids transitioned into opposite genders. And somehow a Communist because of a fling he had with an Asian woman 20+ years ago.
Odds are good that neither one of those are the truth. As I showed earlier, the attacks against his military career is demonstratively false. He had filed paperwork to run for Congress almost a year before his unit received deployment orders, and retired completely a month before they even got a hint that they MIGHT be deployed within the next 2 years.
So I wasn't pleased with him being picked. I wanted Tulsi. But his Sunday morning talk shows and the debate performance impressed me, ngl.
But the big L to be taken here is the whole narrative that he was "weird". "Fake", sure. But the playbook was "weird". From a party that literally champions being weird so hard that they deliberately appointed a menagerie of freaks to high level positions in the government and to cavort around the White House. Yet we were supposed to believe a bland white guy in a suit from Ohio was "weird"
Once again, just trying to give some perspective here, for educational purposes.
And again, for educational purposes, here’s a few reasons why Vance was labeled as “weird.”
- He was OBSESSED with women having children. I’ve never seen a person have so many quotes about how a woman’s worth is only for having kids. He called childless women “disturbing”, “deranged” and “sociopathic.” He believed the votes of parents with children should count more. He said “Universal day care is a class war against normal people”, implying that if a woman isn’t a stay-at-home mom, she’s not “normal.” There were so many of these quotes coming out, Trump (allegedly) asked his team how Vance was vetted.
- I’m sure you saw his disastrous trip to the donut shot in Georgia. If not, here you go:
That entire interaction was Weird with a capital “W”. Now, obviously, it’s a campaign stop fluff piece that was supposed to make him “relatable.” And it didn’t work out as planned for a number of reasons. I’m assuming his team didn’t check with the shop before doing it, since almost immediately, the employees talk about not wanting to be on camera. But even if it’s off to a bad start, it’s not that hard to fake a good interaction. Order a donut, chat it up with the staff, talk about how good the food is, maybe throw in a fake story about going to a donut shop when you were younger, it’s basic stuff. Vance couldn’t make it past step 1. He couldn’t order a donut, his idea of chatting with the staff was asking a stilted question and responding with “good”, no matter what the answer, it was very weird.
