I find the nature of the attacks on Tim Walz to be very telling. He’s being excoriated for a master’s thesis he wrote decades ago and words he said about his military service.
It’s all about words.
The dude actively prevented state officials from stopping the BLM rioting in Minneapolis. His pro-gender-bender initiatives are so aggressive, Gavin Newsom refuses to consider them. During COVID, Walz set up snitch hotlines for people to narc on their neighbors. He’s so far to the left of, say, Biden that he’s already in the stratosphere.
But all we hear is “he said, he said, he said.”
All we care about is not what people do but what they say. We are obsessed with words and utterly uninterested in actions.
Criticisms of Trump have been like this for years.
We get nothing from our elected representatives except for words because we pay no attention to anything but words.
Serves us right.
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It’s the first attack, just days after he was announced. There’ll be more, I’m sure. I’m not too concerned about this. Stolen valor is serious business, politically. Remember Kerry?
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Somebody said today that Trump bragging about the size of crowds at his rallies is scarier than eliminating requirements in college science courses.
I just honestly.
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…scarier than establishing snitch lines to turn in your neighbors for germ noncompliance…
people have weird priorities.
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That’s what I’m saying, they sincerely care about words more than actions. When I ask what they disliked about the Trump presidency, they always cite what he said (or they think he said). Always. It’s something I can’t understand.
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Well, yeah, these are the same people who gave us a dementia patient for president because “mean tweets” and “the dignity of the office”. If they’d ever heard any of Churchill’s jokes, they’d be mortified that we won WWII.
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These people are crazy. I think we have to reevaluate our assumptions about debating our political opponents, learning from each other, and coming to a middle ground. This seems no longer possible in our current state. Debate can only smooth out second order differences. It only works when there’s some sense of shared values, ethos, culture, and ethics. Then we can quibble about details.
You can’t meet at the middle when you are so far apart. The only way is to get power and implement your vision, the way our opponents do.
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Like, how do you even “argue” against a person who’s straight up calling for the ritual humiliation of white people?
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Debate… come to a middle ground… is a quaint cultural tradition that the left have exploited relentlessly for decades, to ratchet legislation and institutional change inexorably in their direction, and only in their direction. The entire strategy depends upon both parties wanting the best outcome for everyone, and nobody acting in bad faith. That has never been the case.
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Did you hear what Walz did to his elderly mom during COVID? I was separated from my parents for 1,5 years because of politicians like him. And now I get it. They hate their own relatives, so they don’t see a problem with the measures that make normal people miserable.
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Sounds about right.
I’m still not seeing ANYBODY talk meaningfully about inflation, and the absurd distortion of the real estate market.
It’s damn near the only thing politically that matters to me right now, and I’m tempted to just check out of the whole thing.
Until somebody starts making proposals that make actual sense, about how we get out of this hole where normal people with median household incomes cannot dream of owning even the most modest of homes… I’m not sure I care. They’re probably all investing in residential real estate, which means they should all be taken out back and summarily shot.
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(/sarc) not advocating actual violence.
But this is the biggest thing going *right now* for probably more than half of voters. SO WHY ISN’T ANYONE TALKING ABOUT IT?
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Kamala is saying she’ll stop inflation right after she’s elected. Gosh, if only she’d been in the WH this whole time. Now we’ll have to wait until January.
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Oh, sure, her party is super enthusiastic about getting inflation under control. I can’t wait.
I’d be personally delighted if anybody anywhere in politics would actually say, out loud, that inflation, caused by the FED overprinting money and lending it out to their buddies at lower rates than you and I can borrow it, is the direct cause of normal working people not being able to buy a house, to live in.
So far, now and then you get a brief mention of inflation, and then… what? Then they blame rising grocery prices on greedy retailers like it’s *totally unconnected*. And AFAICT connecting policy to the housing thing is completely taboo for both sides. And that means they’re all guilty.
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I observe housing prices where I live in shocked disbelief. I’ve been here 15 years, and I distinctly remember when a single acquaintance with a modest job and a young couple with a baby bought houses with no help from anybody. Yes, these were small, not fancy houses. Today, it would be a joke even to suggest it. It’s a dramatic change and we are all sitting here, listening to these liars on TV pretend that this isn’t happening.
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The lies of omission are…
Well, it’s Ellul, right? It’s not just what the media *says*, it’s that the media determine what everybody is permitted to think and talk about. There are no other issues than the ones in the news, right? Everything that actually matters has been disappeared.
Can’t afford a house even though your parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents all had one by your age, without two sizable incomes?
Well, clearly that’s just you. Loser. Better not bring attention to it. If it’s not in the news, it doesn’t exist. We’re just going to take the biggest immediate problem affecting millions of Americans, and pretend that every single one of them is just suffering all alone. Not happening to anybody else. Mute and isolate.
Now let’s throw out a hot-button issue so the proles can all go after it like greyhounds after a mechanical rabbit.
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