{"id":57610,"date":"2024-08-07T14:44:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T21:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=57610"},"modified":"2024-08-07T15:19:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T22:19:49","slug":"tim-waltz-versus-jd-vance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2024\/08\/07\/tim-waltz-versus-jd-vance\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Walz versus JD Vance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Oh great. It\u2019s that high school football coach calling everyone a little different from him and his \u201cweird\u201d. But, you can\u2019t stick to that \u2014 he was the guy who spear-headed the school\u2019s new \u201cGay Straight Alliance\u201d<\/em>. Oh, great. He\u2019s the high school football coach who thinks all the \u201cweird\u201d kids are gay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a limit to the \u201cweird\u201d line. It encompasses too much, somewhat predictably overlapping Clinton\u2019s \u201cBasketful of deplorables\u201d, gets shoved into the policy matters as he lays down some absolutes. We can\u2019t clutch too many pearls on it, going up against some clown who defenders always dismissed problems with as \u201cmean tweets\u201d, Bringing in early JD Vance promoter and superfan Rod Dreher to this parade:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yeah, this is a guy who had (still is?) for the past decade or so been posting to \u201clibs of tik tok\u201d and Andy Ngo various bizarre and self centered terminally online sexual micro-minorities, specializing in ever so exotic and meaningless pronouns. This is presented as though it is bigger than it is, and the main problem with most is a terminally online nature. His response to them is to shout that they are weird. Dhrer\u2019s guy, meantime, does his terminally online act, spouts his mouth off for\u2026 Um\u2026 podcaster \u201cBronze Age Pervert\u201d, and Dreher is horrified that some peoples outside of the political and cultural mainstream but in his direction (with certain contradictory caveats on that) are called \u201cweird\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope we can somewhat shuffle from this line, but it is hardly a concern. More irksome is that the man threw out a line about \u201ccouch\u201d, a premise of immaturity I don\u2019t know what I am supposed to do with and whose proliferation moves me away from having any strong attachment to this Harris \/ Walz cause beyond my bottom line \u201cthey\u2019ll do\u201d. The problem of presidential campaigns is everyone becomes irritating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gee. I don\u2019t kniw, Rod Dreher. Must be something endemic to Trump\u2019s thinking, you know the mastermind of the \u201cBeer Belly Putsch\u201d of January 6, 2021?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yeah must be horrible. But have to wait and see when this madness begins before we demand that it stops. I have not been watching a second of Olympic Action, but apparently the big right-wing cause celebre is against the big dominant winner in woman\u2019s boxer who was born with two \u201cx\u201d-chromosomes and never at any minute transitioned, and who despite have two x chromosomes could pass by the eye test as being a man \u2014 which, strictly speaking, might indeed benefit her in the world of woman\u2019s boxing \u2014 but today instead of early 80s un-pc jesting at some female abnormally heavy-set athletes as \u201cthat\u2019s a man!\u201d, they just declare her an ex-man anyways. I knew something was off here when I saw the nationality of the boxer \u2014 oh, sure. Algeria. Okay, yes, I know it is not the end point for Matt Walsh\u2019s search for \u201cWhat is a Woman?\u201d \u2013 \u2013 and then I would just dumping the Massai people’s with the nation of Algeria, but you know — we are not terribly progressive here on this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trump is plucking his way into weird Internet streamers — accidentally a 23 year old kid whose trademark is that he smells the chairs of the peoples he interviews after they leave. Also he apparently can’t define fascism — to be sure I can’t give a straight forward definition either — and has trouble reading it off the Internet and has never heard of Mussolini. Trump is evidently making an appearance in Montana — big Senate seat available, I guess he may be thinking down-ticket and figure his niche targeting will lift him up in the swing states? JD Vance — not too much to say on this — the friendly network has dropped the image out lest the only visible word you get is “Kamala” — and looking over the tens of people in this crowd — I do highlight the woman, third from the right, too row, floof of hair, looks a week away from dying her hair green, looks like she should own a number of cats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well that’s super.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oh great. It\u2019s that high school football coach calling everyone a little different from him and his \u201cweird\u201d. But, you can\u2019t stick to that \u2014 he was the guy who spear-headed the school\u2019s new \u201cGay Straight Alliance\u201d. Oh, great. He\u2019s the high school football coach who thinks all the \u201cweird\u201d kids are gay. There is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57610"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57620,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57610\/revisions\/57620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}