Although I likewise don't care politically, this is absolutely not a flaw that makes a person more "likable."
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Lanyap
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I would expect Walz to hit it head on with the facts and no excuses. People will respond positively to how he responded to that incident.
What to Know About Tim Walz' 1995 Drunk Driving Charge
He has said the moment changed his life, prompting him to quit drinking.
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Not to be out-trumped, Donny and his daughter likewise have cool family photos.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnythingGo...trump_confesses_he_was_sexually_attracted_to/
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No it can be.
Older guy I work with mentioned at his first job out of college he came in late because the night before police picked him up for driving drunk and put him in the old school drunk tank to sober. This made him late for his new job, when he got into work he said I had to stay overnight at the police station because I had too many last night. Everyone was shocked, he ask if anyone else had done that and they all were like NOPE. Everyone he knew were regularly picked up by the police for being drunk. He told me that’s the moment he knew he had a problem, he thought almost everyone was picked up occasionally by the police for being drunk.
Regarding the VP pick sounds like nobody was harmed and he has amended his ways. That is likable to me.
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BoomerD
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A DUI, even 30 years ago is not a character plus…however, if it did indeed get his attention and he stopped drinking…not so terrible.
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30 years ago, many people didn't care about it unless you wrecked. Cops would often tow the car if it couldn't be securely parked and give you a ride home.
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this is good.
he can talk about the flip-flopping NRA that has actually been funded by some Putin oligarchs for like...2 decades now. The most well-planted Russian spy of the last 3 decades was an "NRA rep" that had cosied up to Republican, and then MAGA power brokers for like, 7 years.
I mean, these are plain fucking facts, lol. When you just spell it out, as it is well known, it's just fucking comical how dangerous and abjectly weird the fucking GOP has been for decades. Fucking decades. And this circus freak has truly brought them all out to bear. How easily they are infiltrated and controlled, from the foundations of their money line to decades of influence, they have been completely imbedded. It's effing nuts.
...anyway, yeah, bring it on with this guy. He can probably wax on in a crowd full of GOP conspiracy nutters, give them the real truth, and they will fucking shut up and a significant number of them will probably dig the real conspiracy, once spoken to them plainly. I can't talk to such people like he can and nail in on their obsessions, but do it respectfully on their insult level and still drill the message in, and this is fucking impressive. And very important these days.
Me likes.
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oh god damn, he dropped Bob Seger already.
Reeling in the mid GenXer-late dad and solid Boomer fence-sitter demos in like, hours.
This is assassin level, fo sho.
(shit he even tossed in the speaker wire comment...fuck man, even cheeze approves of this guy..also, is this guy like, stalking ATOT? What kind of VP talks about...speaker wire quality?)
Not a character plus and why? In a world full of self haters self destruction among young adults has been, is and will become more rampant. We are all forced to face the demons within that become for many maturing sensitive thinkers more and more visible. A fucked up culture produces fucked up people.
We lose many along the way. And what happens to the survivors who succeed in repressing and denying those youthful confrontations with reality, that’s right, deny you were ever affected and hold those whose stories of moments of defeat become known long later in that same projected self hate.
“I myself grew up perfect and never showed even a moment of weakness. Now I can extract my revenge by turning away that horrible self accusatory finger of shame and guilt at someone else.”
I think I am going to rejoice in the fact that wisdom comes best to those who fall down but then get up. I am quite happy with Kamala Harris‘s choice.
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I am so glad Biden stepped aside, holy shit.
Just seems like so much more enthusiasm now.
ETA: I just spent some time with my 83 year-old Uncle. Very smart guy, great story teller. Still really enjoyed spending time with him, but he is most definitely not the same as he was even 5 or 6 years ago.
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I've been out of touch for a couple of weeks, can someone explain the couch joke for me?
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Somebody (jokingly) tweeted that his book contained a passage mentioning that he'd once had ...intimate relations... with a couch, and it went viral, as things do on the internet.
It wouldn't be that funny, except the guy just really seems like the type that would be into that.
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He also donated all his historical NRA campaign funds to some charity when the NRA shit on him. Dude knows how to move the ball.
The contempt that conservatives shower on 'the other' out of their own self contempt shows us how truly ugly contempt for others can be, It is no wonder then that the other may take delight when what they dish out comes home to roost. However, objectively, sexual desire and violence are closely related in the brain and often express as strange of violent so called perversions. And while violent expressions that include sexual violence to others demand preventative action, the shame and guilt we feel toward being sexual and the amount of sexual repression that exists in society is itself sick.
As a society we need to reduce the shame that concepts like religious contempt for bodily impurity and the seeking of pleasure, needs a lot of work. So, while Vance's romantic advances to his couch make me giggle hysterically, it's not a path down which I can morally justify going. We were destroyed by being put down and how we take delight in getting even. Not the way, I think, to restore mental health. Wish I were more evolved.
Plus the life it took on when the AP posted a fact check that JD Vance did not have sex with his couch and then retracted the article.
If I'm not mistake Vance also hasn't denied it, which really helps a lot.
'i did not have sexual relations with that ottoman'
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