Let's haver some fun with the VP nomination. Who would be your choice? Feel free to post the rationa

I know some White guys like this, they're a couple of degrees removed from folks I was in a rock band with. This one guy sounded like Mr. Haynie from Green Acres and looked like Yosemite Sam. I'd been around him seven or eight times in three different places before I saw him sober. I was at a party where he literally dragged himself over to a grill, took a pattie off it with his bare hands, bit into it, and put it back. The grill was kind of cooled down at that point, else he would have burned hands and mouth. Decent enough guy. I'm surprised he's still alive.

 

Hey, someone has to be the food-tester at the party.

 

I recently read the novel "Dalva" and it takes place around Chadron -- so I did a little research and it sounds just like you describe.

 

Hey, Jim Harrison rep!

 

Minnesota Nice!

 

This is a pretty small thing, and maybe I’m just imagining it, but having watched several of the past week’s Harris-Walz campaign events, I’ve noticed in Walz that he purposefully tones down the physicality of his on-stage greetings/celebrations with women. Or maybe he’s just not a hugger. Or this is all so new, and he doesn’t really know these people very well. In any event, he often approaches a women onstage with an outstretched hand, and ends up on the receiving end of a hug, which he somewhat awkwardly returns with one arm, leaving the other dangling at his side. To be clear, I’m not in any way saying this is either good or bad, or even relevant (okay, I think it is, a bit). I just think it’s purposeful. There have been instances where older male politicians have gotten touchy-feely in circumstances where it’s either seemed odd, or at least picked up by the media. Bush’s bizarre neck massage of Merkel (a true classic memory of the Bush years, in my opinion). Biden very much is an unsolicited hugger, which fell particularly out of fashion in recent years. This could be a rather long list.

Obviously, he’s running with a woman, and one he doesn’t yet know all that well. Every move the two of them make over these three months will be recorded. Like a defender who, without thinking, locks his hands behind his back whenever defending in the penalty area, I think Walz is being very careful not to express himself physically around the women he’s seen with on stage, especially Harris, in order to avoid some still image that appears to show a hand out of place, and presumably out of respect and decorum. Over time, I’m sure that he and Harris will develop and polish their dual stage persona. But for now, I’m seeing someone who’s aware that he’s under a microscope and who’s being thoughtful and cautious, even if doing so looks a little awkward at times.

 

So long as he doesn't start sniffing their hair...

 

The daily show did have me laughing when they said Walz will be out on the white house lawn changing the oil in a predator drone. Going "why call the D.O.D, I just need to ..."

After seeing his Ford headlight thing, I totally believe him.

 

Serial killers like to keep a low profile!

 

A server with a subpoena has been dispatched to find Charlie 15. His illegal appropriation of the family name in the title of this thread is an anathema [that means no good]. If he's still on the MTA...we'll find him!

 

@bigredfutbol Walz is making play for the vote of your parents. This joke is so Nebraska, I have no idea what he is talking about. He did go to college in Nebraska so maybe that's something.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTN7Rr6Ju/

 

So what is a Rumza?

I was telling my wife that I guess this quintessential Midwestern dad thing that people are saying about him is working. Also on the Chadron State thing, he and Harris will make the second straight non-Ivy league ticket for the Dems. And yet still the Dems are the elites according to the Red Hats.

 

Not in the same way as his GOP VP opponent, hopefully.

https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/trump-supporters-carrying-cups-jd-651280

 

Ah, to have a base that committed on OUR side...

 

Well, I'm a committed labour supporter but I think even I might... er, pause at that. I was gonna say 'gag' but that could have given the wrong idea, so...

 

There is a difference between committed and should be committed.

 

Not really relevant to the VP pick but interesting watch anyway...