Summary
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’s running mate, suffered a personal setback in the 2024 election as he lost his home county, Blue Earth, to President-elect Donald Trump.
Trump won 49.6% of the vote there, while Harris received 48.3%, marking a symbolic defeat for Walz, who built his political career in the area.
Walz, a former teacher and congressman known for his moderate stance, had previously turned a Republican seat Democratic and won Minnesota’s governorship by a large margin in 2018.
His campaign faced challenges, including scrutiny over past statements about military service, which the Trump campaign leveraged as a “Stolen Valor” issue.
The hits really keep coming today
I’m not even lying yall I just got home and cried for a while sitting in the work van
I also looked at some guns today
This is rough
Edit: I feel I should make it clear, I’m not a risk to myself or anyone, I’m just fucking terrified
We should have just turned the convention into a mini-primary, like Obama wanted. Maybe this was the reason why he was so hesitant to endorse Kamala. He wanted her to earn it because thats how you get people to vote for you.
Jesus christ someone couldn’t have just pushed Biden down some stairs in like, February? Not like a bunch, but maybe 3-4? Just enough for us to have had some kind of testing of the candidates?
It’s mind-blowing how badly the DNC fucked this all up. They learned nothing from history, theirs or their opponent’s. If that party doesn’t actually crumble as a result of this, both from internal and external pressures, I’ll be amazed.
I’m so angry. And scared. All at once. Just miserable really.
Oh the Irony, this is exactly what I thought would happen to the Republicans.
We could hope but the fact is, the right wing in America is organized and the left just isn’t. Evangelical conservatives have been working for this for years, and it’s gotten them results - no Republicans would give up power to voice their actual dissent meaningfully. They bought the ticket, they’re taking the ride.
The Democrats are just a flimsy mishmash of corrupt manipulators. They haven’t had a coherent plan for ages. And now, they’ve got nothing, and a man is about to retake office who’s threatened to use the State against his political opponents.
If I were a top Democrat right now, I’d be thinking real hard about whether the party even has a future, long-term.
I think Pete Butigeg would have been a stronger candidate.
Don’t kill yourself
If you decide to buy a gun, I suggest a 1911, they’re fun to shoot!
Are the non .45 variants just as fun?
They’re also fun, but I just like 45. It’s a nice chunky round.
I did my training on the Beretta M9 and the Mausberg 500.
Neat, the M9 is a good choice, and 9mm is plentiful and cheaper than 12 gauge.
Meh. Its just what I was trained on. I’ve never been an enthusiast.
Hold on, you were trained on a shotgun and a handgun? No rifle? Are you a cop?
No, we trained M16 as well, but spent way more time on M9/ shotgun. My assumption was always that our job was just to be targets in the case something actually happened. I also trained 50 cal.
I’m interested if you can figure out what service I was in based on what I’ve told you so far.
Without going into profile history, and assuming American, I’m guessing a land based service, either the Army or Marines. Seeing as the Marines had M16s longer than the Army did. I’m going with Marines.
That said, I have a hunch you might be European somehow. Maybe Germany from how you misspelled Mossberg? You’d have to be NATO, but I’m not super knowledgeable about the German services.