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andrewjweinstein on Threads: "Donald Trump’s obvious inability to maintain a regular campaign schedule should be a much bigger story."

Which: totally. He either pants-shittingly terrified or clearly impaired/failing/not well or both. Goddamn, this is fun.

But also: I am so fucking sick of how many things you could fill in this MadLib with: "Donald Trump’s [....... ] should be a much bigger story." Do better, MSM.

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Pardon any misspellings or grammatical errors, I'm drunk af right now. BUT...on our way home from the pub tonight, our Uber driver (sounded Eastern European) noticed my American accent and asked what I thought of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. I nearly cried, describing how much I love both of them. I said I'm from Minnesota (like Walz) and he said he'd been to Minnesota last year to visit his brother, who now lives there, and loved it. He said he's soooo happy about the Democrat ticket for this election, he loves Kamala and he's watched Tim Walz and thinks their election to the White House would be the greatest thing to happen to the world since Obama, and that having trump back in office would be "the end of the world."

He got a £3 tip.

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Vance: These kids' parents died of fentanyl overdoses 5 years ago... Um, who was president 5 years ago?

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Gotta wonder what Vance was thinking because weird standing next to normal multiples the weird.

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Sorry. The risk of accidentally seeing and hearing Vance is too damned high. I'll wait for the comments and summations of the Harris/Walz rally.

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Let's put that stollen valor crap to bed, shall we...this is what Vance did in the Marines:

"He joined the Marines in 2003 and served as a combat correspondent – or military journalist – until 2007, according to military news site Task & Purpose."

In other words, he was a journalist...I haven't found anything about actually being shot at though...wanna retract that comment about "stolen valor" JD, hmmm....????

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He was in Iraq for only six months out of those four years.

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'Its I before E, or don't they have vowels in Appalachia Jim-Bob?'

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"Get your shit wired, Joker and come on the Team"...

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Just tell him to highlight and delete, save as a new file

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Oh my god... the part where Walz stops for several minutes to care for someone who needed help for heat exhaustion... I'm crying right now at this wonderful man's kindness and caring.

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Aug 7·edited Aug 7

President Pussy-Grabber: 'When they drop, grab their wallets and check their pockets for cash!'

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And not even one single person from their own party tried to assassinate them! The difference couldn't be more stark!

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A lot of us on the left have guns and don’t make them our whole personality.

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yikes. Lightning just struck here that was so powerful I heard a little *click!* come through the wire on my headphones.

Also, thank fuck it's finally raining. One more heat wave coming up next week, and then I think we're done for the summer. Then I can finally start planning some section-hikes again.

Who was it here who was talking about me coming to the US to do some thru-hikes? On my bucket list are several I still want to do here in Europe:

Tour du Mont Blanc. A loop hike around a beautiful massif on the French/Swiss/Italian border. One of the most popular of the mid-length hikes.

The GR20, across the island of Corsica. Supposedly one of the most difficult thru-hikes in Europe.

However, I don't think anybody really thinks about the E-Trails, some of which are massive and (afaik) have never been done in their entirety. Including:

E1: The best known, and one of the most challenging. From Nordkap at Norway's northernmost point down across the Alps, down Italy, and into Sicily. 6kkm

E3: From Santiago de Compostela in Spain, across the Pyrenees, across the trans-European mountain ranges into Romania and Bulgaria, eventually down into Greece. 8kkm.

Right now I'm working on the E10, which runs from the German island of Rügen southward around Berlin, into Czechia across Prague, thence across Austria and into the Italian Alps, where it terminates on joining the E5 at Bolsano.

So much hiking to do, and my life is short and money is lacking :(

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Joonyer and the other weirdo flying monkeys are spreading the lies about Walz's military service. Someone posted this meme with the facts, which they'll dismiss like the assholes they are.

https://x.com/dhpdesign/status/1821255693829054532

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"He joined the Marines in 2003 and served as a combat correspondent – or military journalist – until 2007, according to military news site Task & Purpose."

In other words, he was a journalist...I haven't found anything about actually being shot at though...wanna retract that comment about "stolen valor" JD, hmmm....????

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Hmm. Makes me curious about JD Vance's military record, which I wouldn't have thought to question, until they start to smear Walz...

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Vance spent his military career w one eye open so he wouldn't get fragged.

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Wasn’t he a PR guy? Fighting paper cuts in the Press office.

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101st Chairborne.

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Aug 7·edited Aug 7

Same thing they did to John Kerry. It’ll be their #1 talking point.

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Let's just compare the military service of Uday and Qusay next to what Walz has done.

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or PABonespurs

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Meanwhile, the weirdo behind Project 2025 is attacking dog parks in his new book.

https://www.rawstory.com/news/project-2025-architect-rails-against-birth-control-and-dog-parks-in-now-delayed-book/

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My advice to fuckstick here is to never visit Istanbul.

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The Dominionists just can't stop punching dogs. And cats. And people who love cats. And people who love dogs.

Because if you can't fuck, kill or eat it, then what's the point?

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Gets me every time when he talks about little kids not worrying about being shot to death at school.

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smoking lamp is lit!!

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This cottonmouth is making me thirsty.

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Miata drivers for Harris/Walz: https://www.reddit.com/r/Miata/comments/1emd8vz/vp_nominee_tim_walz_dui_arrest_in_1995_driving_a/

Not the dui part (it was a wake up call for him and he stopped drinking) - he managed to get a first edition Miata to go *96MPH*!

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Kick one out of a plane. Be surprised how fast it will go then.

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When you've lost the Mormons ...

"Latter-day Saints poised to support Harris 'more than any other' Dem ticket in 60 years"

https://www.rawstory.com/news/kamala-harris-mormons/

And no, Scientologists, don't even think about it.

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I've thought this for a while - the Mormons are just too inherently (and oddly) kind to ride or die for the orange crush.

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They just dropped by my house the other day, I should've quizzed them on their stance on Harris before I dismissed them

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I just grin and say, “well, not what I expected from the Escort Service but come on inside and make yourself at home “.

They haven’t been back

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And I thought my trick of showing up in my boxers with a beer in my hand in the morning, inviting them to follow me inside to pray was clever.

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TFG failed the personality test.

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Wanting access to IVF trumps any loyalty to the repub party.

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I think so. Mormon's like big families.

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The Scientologists are planning to write-in Xenu.

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The $cientologists are firmly in the convicted felon's camp. Because their entire "religion" is based on grifting.

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Talk about weirdos.

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It's Zeno or bust for that crowd...

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