Honestly the whole situation is a perfect analogy for the Democratic party -- they picked somebody who checked the obvious boxes (White/Male) without realizing that simply checking the obvious boxes isn't enough. They literally thought that white men would vote for Tim Walz because Tim Walz is a white man - end of story.
This is a dude who went to the Minnesota/Michigan game AND ROOTED FOR MICHIGAN.
Exactly! Thinking of himself first and foremost. Not about the country. Not his countrymen. Himself and only himself, but wanting credit for being brave.
And besides 30 China visits, he expresses his loving masculinity, his gentle kindness, in helping children be lovingly "affirmed" with health-destroying hormones and surgeon's knives, and his protective fatherly intention to keep us away from dangerous "misinformation".
He protected autoimmune patients in 2020, so the deplorable HCQ-hoarders couldn't use up their medicines (the covid doctors say that's a bullshit excuse, but they're misinformation spreaders).
He protects the right to bodily autonomy (umm, in whatever narrow sense they mean).
He defended his state against the misinformation spreader with audacity to run for governor, Dr Scott Jensen, who believed the conspiracy theory that covid is treatable, and the other conspiracy that there's more than a few vaccine injured around.
His tender fatherly energy helps young children think of themselves as sexual beings, who deserve the right to decide for themselves if they were born in the wrong body or not.
And if they (feel like) they were born in the wrong body, as children often are, they deserve affirming care, from a huggable man also willing to Defend them from the attacks of the hateful right-wing, who spread the dangerous lie that children are too young to consent -especially when being lied to - to a pipeline of life-altering, health-destroying interventions to attempt the impossible.
He also protects children from abusive parents, who object to their choice to begin a pipeline of life-altering, health-destroying interventions to attempt the impossible.
He is perfect, almost as if formed by the silly-putty of the blob itself.
I don’t know anything about Doug Emhoff, other than he married Kamala Harris. Frankly, that’s two and one-half strikes against him. But I do know about Tim Walz. Walz, the senior NCO leader in his FA Battalion, deserted his troops on the eve of their deployment to combat. He did it in a sneaky way to keep his chain of command out of the loop so that they couldn’t stop him. He did this dastardly and cowardly thing because he wanted to run for Congress. Fulfilling his obligations came secondary to his personal ambition. Compare that to Tulsi Gabbard who withdrew from a race to deploy with her troops. As Governor he has been similarly defective, refusing to call out the National Guard to protect Minneapolis during the riots until the city burned, putting tampons in the boys bathroom and supporting other nefarious behavior. That’s not manhood. It is the opposite.
American men are descending upon the ravaged Southeast and taking care of... everything. Food, water, rescue, lost animals found, floods redirected. How these guys earn a living is irrelevant, they are American men, and beautiful.
Give me the Marlboro Man every day of the week. Or, my Dad. Dad's best.
Speaking of floods, my dad had prostate cancer surgery in September of 96 and in May of 97 he was out slinging sandbags in neighbourhoods in which he did not reside, helping people he did not know, during the Red River Flood of the Century.
Stepping back from the spectacle of these two buffoons, remember that changing the meanings of words is a deliberate tactic of the Left. These Marxists have lots of practice and the old media is their handmaiden. It is one of the tools they are trying to use to reshape society.
Tim Walz my governor can work on a car I guess, and he wants to trans your kids, while encouraging your daughters to abort, while flooding the country with migrant cartel, rapists, murderers and terrorists, while he locks down on free speech and limits your access to guns.
That's one of the reasons that vocatIonal classes in high school were canceled. When a skilled laborer reaches Master level(approx 10000 hours) their salary is pushing high 4 figures through lower six figures. Politicians don't want these types in too great a number because they have worked for what they own and understand what it took to get it, and how easily it can go the wrong direction.
Thus they can't be ruled over like the politicians are want to do. Te easiest way to make the master laborers go away is to kill the courses and slander the occupation in lieu of a university degree.
I return to school tmrw for construction technologies. Basically in 4-6 quarters I'll learn how to build a house foundation up. I graduated HS in 87, and the trades were (implicitly at best, explicitly when their guards were down) were only for the lessers. Those in the smoking section (we had a smoking section for students in 1983-85ish), you know, the dummies.
I feel like a child waking up Christmas Day. I am actually, at 55, going to learn something functional--and according this article--if I keep my mouth shut, work area clean, and humbly apply my new trade--one step closer to being a man.
I don't know why it has taken me so long to see the importance of this for my brain, spirit, soul. I best demonstrate my knowledge (to myself, my own understanding) of something when I can make a sports metaphor.
I recently thought that wisdom isn't really possible until it is embodied, acted out in the world. The peak of this is to create something in the material world. Knowledge applied through the brain, hands, tools.
And an air filter that had not seen any miles, supposed to be the sign of a good mechanic. Though that is always a push of the shysty, you need to replace your air filter!
Any man (or woman) who, after considering Kamala Harris’ lack of qualifications for the presidency, can support her candidacy is not serious, sober, thoughtful or independent.
Real, and simple, competence, is the true enemy that must be purged from manhood. Man must be conforming before all else - then they can decide what he will conform to.
What is terrifying is how limp Tim’s wrists are. What does the CCP have on the baizuo Manchurian candidate during his 30 trips there? Is that going to be the October surprise?
In 2024, you achieve “masculinity” by repudiating the behavior of the preceding 117,000 generations since homo sapiens emerged in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley, and in its place become Pajama Boy, whose greatest physical task is pressing keys on his laptop. Such people richly deserve the short-term extinction they will cause.
Currently reading “the western way of war” by Victor Davis Hanson about the evolution of the Greek Phalanx and combat from primary sources. The phalanx was just like that group at Lexington. Men from your family, neighborhood, tribe. You did your best in order to not let them down. This is 3,000 years of tradition and the DNC is attempting to rewrite it? LOL
This past Labor Day I went to Lexington and Concord to walk the sites for the first time. Not being from New England, the thing that impressed me most was how intensely local it was. Houses and fields and towns so close together, neighbors who knew and relied upon each other, no one expecting someone else to show up and fix things. What a difference from today.
That Bloomberg article about Walz being "terrifying" to Republicans lives down to its insulting, strawmanning premise.
The subhead, taken from its last paragraph, insists that, unlike Republicans, Walz isn't "frightened of women, afraid of Black people, or terrified of the future."
This cartoon version of MAGA -- who, didn't you know, want to "reverse-engineer the 21st century" -- is matched by the description of Walz as a real man because he coached football and won bipartisan sharpshooting contests while in Congress.
Whatever points Walz gets for competence at marksmanship is undercut by his unmanly trash talk that he can shoot pheasants better than Vance. Which the article thinks makes him just dreamy.
Walz is the progressive's cosplay version of a manly man. All the signifiers, but little of the substance.
He's a loudmouth who, like his fellow lefties, has volume and passion where an argument should be.
Honestly the whole situation is a perfect analogy for the Democratic party -- they picked somebody who checked the obvious boxes (White/Male) without realizing that simply checking the obvious boxes isn't enough. They literally thought that white men would vote for Tim Walz because Tim Walz is a white man - end of story.
This is a dude who went to the Minnesota/Michigan game AND ROOTED FOR MICHIGAN.
The governor of Minnesota. Yes.
To be fair they both start with M so it’s easy to get confused.
I suppose we're lucky he didn't break into a rendition of "MMMBop".
He looks more like one of Heaven's Gate Hale Boppers.
😂😂😂😂
A man who took the money training, and easy duty stations but ran off when he was really asked to serve
Exactly! Thinking of himself first and foremost. Not about the country. Not his countrymen. Himself and only himself, but wanting credit for being brave.
And besides 30 China visits, he expresses his loving masculinity, his gentle kindness, in helping children be lovingly "affirmed" with health-destroying hormones and surgeon's knives, and his protective fatherly intention to keep us away from dangerous "misinformation".
He protected autoimmune patients in 2020, so the deplorable HCQ-hoarders couldn't use up their medicines (the covid doctors say that's a bullshit excuse, but they're misinformation spreaders).
He protects the right to bodily autonomy (umm, in whatever narrow sense they mean).
He defended his state against the misinformation spreader with audacity to run for governor, Dr Scott Jensen, who believed the conspiracy theory that covid is treatable, and the other conspiracy that there's more than a few vaccine injured around.
His tender fatherly energy helps young children think of themselves as sexual beings, who deserve the right to decide for themselves if they were born in the wrong body or not.
And if they (feel like) they were born in the wrong body, as children often are, they deserve affirming care, from a huggable man also willing to Defend them from the attacks of the hateful right-wing, who spread the dangerous lie that children are too young to consent -especially when being lied to - to a pipeline of life-altering, health-destroying interventions to attempt the impossible.
He also protects children from abusive parents, who object to their choice to begin a pipeline of life-altering, health-destroying interventions to attempt the impossible.
He is perfect, almost as if formed by the silly-putty of the blob itself.
That doesn't work. I didn't vote for Obama because he was black. I refused to vote for Obama because he didn't have a voting record.
Looking at people as individuals instead of part of a collective? What are you, some kind of racist?
Nope, just an individual. I don't vote for groups, just individuals.
WTF? That's just wrong.
That's like Gov. Kemp pulling for Allbarn or Bammer or Clempsun or any team in FloriDUH. I get it he has to pull for the dwags. #THWg
The interesting this is -- if the game were in Minnesota, who would he root for?
I think the Gophers, because it's more about pleasing the crowd than politics.
AYO FUCK MICHIGAN
sorry ohioian reflex
😏😁🤣
^^^This!^^^
Well, by the sounds of it, he'd cheer for China against the USA in ping pong.
He's the Sarah Palin of the Dems.
Sarah could whip his butt easily.
So this implies the dems really are trying to turn whites into a “voting bloc”.
THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITTH
Under a spreading chestnut-tree
The village smithy stands;
The smith, a mighty man is he,
With large and sinewy hands,
And the muscles of his brawny arms
Are strong as iron bands.
His hair is crisp, and black, and long;
His face is like the tan;
His brow is wet with honest sweat,
He earns whate'er he can,
And looks the whole world in the face,
For he owes not any man.
Week in, week out, from morn till night,
You can hear his bellows blow;
You can hear him swing his heavy sledge,
With measured beat and slow,
Like a sexton ringing the village bell,
When the evening sun is low.
And children coming home from school
Look in at the open door;
They love to see the flaming forge,
And hear the bellows roar,
And catch the burning sparks that fly
Like chaff from a threshing-floor.
He goes on Sunday to the church,
And sits among his boys;
He hears the parson pray and preach,
He hears his daughter's voice
Singing in the village choir,
And it makes his heart rejoice.
It sounds to him like her mother's voice
Singing in Paradise!
He needs must think of her once more,
How in the grave she lies;
And with his hard, rough hand he wipes
A tear out of his eyes.
Toiling,—rejoicing,—sorrowing,
Onward through life he goes;
Each morning sees some task begin,
Each evening sees it close;
Something attempted, something done,
Has earned a night's repose.
Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend,
For the lesson thou hast taught!
Thus at the flaming forge of life
Our fortunes must be wrought;
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
Each burning deed and thought.
This poem is in the public domain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It's so perfect
Yes! I had to memorize that in 6th grade.
I had to memorize it in 8th. I apparently edited out a bunch of lines in the intervening decades, but it is still a great one.
Huh! I had trouble memorizing my name.
Different generation. My kids memorized nothing at school, they're finishing college now.
We had to memorize The first 5 stanzs of thi s poem in. The 5th grade
So the same people who can’t define what a woman is can define masculinity? Why am I skeptical?
Snap.
All part of the plan, Jeff.
I don’t know anything about Doug Emhoff, other than he married Kamala Harris. Frankly, that’s two and one-half strikes against him. But I do know about Tim Walz. Walz, the senior NCO leader in his FA Battalion, deserted his troops on the eve of their deployment to combat. He did it in a sneaky way to keep his chain of command out of the loop so that they couldn’t stop him. He did this dastardly and cowardly thing because he wanted to run for Congress. Fulfilling his obligations came secondary to his personal ambition. Compare that to Tulsi Gabbard who withdrew from a race to deploy with her troops. As Governor he has been similarly defective, refusing to call out the National Guard to protect Minneapolis during the riots until the city burned, putting tampons in the boys bathroom and supporting other nefarious behavior. That’s not manhood. It is the opposite.
Emhoff married Kamala Harris, but first, he knocked up the nanny when he was married to his other wife.
He is, literally, a weenie.
Is having an affair with the nanny and getting her pregnant part of the new masculinity or the old or just memory holed?
Links, please!
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/03/politics/doug-emhoff-acknowledges-affair-during-first-marriage/index.html?cid=ios_app
Ask and ye shall receive. I love it when folks can back up their assertions. Thanks for asking.
Um, maybe Kamala likes manlier men ?
Just saw report that he slapped a former girlfriend. Very manly. Ugh
Zing!
American men are descending upon the ravaged Southeast and taking care of... everything. Food, water, rescue, lost animals found, floods redirected. How these guys earn a living is irrelevant, they are American men, and beautiful.
Give me the Marlboro Man every day of the week. Or, my Dad. Dad's best.
Speaking of floods, my dad had prostate cancer surgery in September of 96 and in May of 97 he was out slinging sandbags in neighbourhoods in which he did not reside, helping people he did not know, during the Red River Flood of the Century.
Your Papa is a good man, Tim. A great example to all the little boys watching (and maybe some older ones too).
Like!
too!
Stepping back from the spectacle of these two buffoons, remember that changing the meanings of words is a deliberate tactic of the Left. These Marxists have lots of practice and the old media is their handmaiden. It is one of the tools they are trying to use to reshape society.
Colorblindness is racism, speech is violence, free speech is Nazism, men are women… literally Orwellian
Exactly. Orwell had so much to say about how manipulation of language can be used to make critical thinking impossible.
and Orwell was right. The Democrats have no ability to use critical thinking, probably from their constant manipulation of the language.
Even “critical thinking” now means “using Critical Theory to examine something.”
hah, perfect example! and of course, its a theory that isn't falsifiable, which means it's not a theory in the scientific sense.
This nail just got hammered.
Like!
Tim Walz my governor can work on a car I guess, and he wants to trans your kids, while encouraging your daughters to abort, while flooding the country with migrant cartel, rapists, murderers and terrorists, while he locks down on free speech and limits your access to guns.
If Tim Walz can fix my car (can he though, really?), maybe I can get my mechanic to fix the economy.
That's one of the reasons that vocatIonal classes in high school were canceled. When a skilled laborer reaches Master level(approx 10000 hours) their salary is pushing high 4 figures through lower six figures. Politicians don't want these types in too great a number because they have worked for what they own and understand what it took to get it, and how easily it can go the wrong direction.
Thus they can't be ruled over like the politicians are want to do. Te easiest way to make the master laborers go away is to kill the courses and slander the occupation in lieu of a university degree.
I return to school tmrw for construction technologies. Basically in 4-6 quarters I'll learn how to build a house foundation up. I graduated HS in 87, and the trades were (implicitly at best, explicitly when their guards were down) were only for the lessers. Those in the smoking section (we had a smoking section for students in 1983-85ish), you know, the dummies.
I feel like a child waking up Christmas Day. I am actually, at 55, going to learn something functional--and according this article--if I keep my mouth shut, work area clean, and humbly apply my new trade--one step closer to being a man.
I don't know why it has taken me so long to see the importance of this for my brain, spirit, soul. I best demonstrate my knowledge (to myself, my own understanding) of something when I can make a sports metaphor.
I recently thought that wisdom isn't really possible until it is embodied, acted out in the world. The peak of this is to create something in the material world. Knowledge applied through the brain, hands, tools.
bsn
Inspirational - thanks.
There is a commercial out, him working on his International truck, though I am dubious he had ever seen it before.
Shown with clean hands...so maybe he learned how to open the hood and pose.
And an air filter that had not seen any miles, supposed to be the sign of a good mechanic. Though that is always a push of the shysty, you need to replace your air filter!
Also aren't the air cleaners in those old Internationals oiled?
I had a '77 Scout II, the 304 v8, nit the 345 v8 in the Walz machine. It was old school paper, at least that is what we ran it on.
If they are, then this is a fraud.
If you can stomach his fakeness:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N-B0_OKkeg
Looked brand new to me
That's the crap they used to always try to push on me at Grease Monkey or Jiffy Lube.
As a senior NCO, he also deserted his troops on the eve of deployment. Cowardly.
If you brought him your car and asked him to put in new trans fluid, he'd pop open a fresh Bud Light.
Not my governor, but yeah, you got it in a nutshell.
Any man (or woman) who, after considering Kamala Harris’ lack of qualifications for the presidency, can support her candidacy is not serious, sober, thoughtful or independent.
You're describing half the country.
I debate many of them every day.
you're right.
Real, and simple, competence, is the true enemy that must be purged from manhood. Man must be conforming before all else - then they can decide what he will conform to.
What is terrifying is how limp Tim’s wrists are. What does the CCP have on the baizuo Manchurian candidate during his 30 trips there? Is that going to be the October surprise?
Who honeymoons in China with students. Very strange
I expect it was something that was created so he could use D.E.I. gor funding
Maybe shenanigans with the Cream of Sumyungai
In 2024, you achieve “masculinity” by repudiating the behavior of the preceding 117,000 generations since homo sapiens emerged in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley, and in its place become Pajama Boy, whose greatest physical task is pressing keys on his laptop. Such people richly deserve the short-term extinction they will cause.
OMG I had forgotten about pajama boy. Need to bring him back.
Don’t forget “Julia,” the exemplar in Obamacare ads who receives lifelong freebies under a seeming President-for-Life Obama.
🤣🤣🤣
Currently reading “the western way of war” by Victor Davis Hanson about the evolution of the Greek Phalanx and combat from primary sources. The phalanx was just like that group at Lexington. Men from your family, neighborhood, tribe. You did your best in order to not let them down. This is 3,000 years of tradition and the DNC is attempting to rewrite it? LOL
Supposedly, Socrates was a soldier who served his family and city with distinction.
This past Labor Day I went to Lexington and Concord to walk the sites for the first time. Not being from New England, the thing that impressed me most was how intensely local it was. Houses and fields and towns so close together, neighbors who knew and relied upon each other, no one expecting someone else to show up and fix things. What a difference from today.
That Bloomberg article about Walz being "terrifying" to Republicans lives down to its insulting, strawmanning premise.
The subhead, taken from its last paragraph, insists that, unlike Republicans, Walz isn't "frightened of women, afraid of Black people, or terrified of the future."
This cartoon version of MAGA -- who, didn't you know, want to "reverse-engineer the 21st century" -- is matched by the description of Walz as a real man because he coached football and won bipartisan sharpshooting contests while in Congress.
Whatever points Walz gets for competence at marksmanship is undercut by his unmanly trash talk that he can shoot pheasants better than Vance. Which the article thinks makes him just dreamy.
Walz is the progressive's cosplay version of a manly man. All the signifiers, but little of the substance.
He's a loudmouth who, like his fellow lefties, has volume and passion where an argument should be.
"All the signifiers, but little of the substance."
Exactly. Performance of a misunderstood thing. An empty posture.
Teddy Roosevelt summed it up in his speech on the man in the arena.
"...fraught with great responsibilities."
Teddy was shot by a would be assassin and then gave a 45 minute speech after the attempt on his life failed, before seaking medical attention.
That is what a "man" would do