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Kamala Harris tapped Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate this morning. Walz’s ascent began mere weeks ago when he went on MSNBC and declared the Republican Party to be “weird,” a line of attack so factual and so damning that Donald Trump’s GOP has yet to counter it effectively.
But they’re more than that. I’ve been thinking about what Walz said ever since his viral TV hit, and I realized that there’s so much more meat on that folksy bone he just unearthed. Republicans are also NASTY. Unpleasant to be around. Not terribly friendly. Always looking for reasons to be unhappy. Oh, and violent. They were violent on Jan. 6. They’re violent around schools. They’re violent to protesters, to health care providers, and to dogs for some reason. When Tim Walz got mad at his dog, it was for extremely dog reasons. You do not shoot your dog for doing dog things. Most people don’t. Republicans apparently do. Many of them are even violent around the house, perhaps because they think the Bible told them to be.
Not only do they know nothing about people’s families, they don’t want to know. To know people is to have to care about them, and that’s too much effort. Because these guys are lazy. They don’t draft any useful laws, and the only time they get up from the couch is to block the good ones. They don’t staff the government properly when they’re in charge. They can’t even figure out how to pick a speaker of the House and stick with them. They hate books for some reason, even going so far as to ban them. They don’t know (or want) what’s best for everyone, only what’s best for their friends and benefactors. Their cars take up way too much space in the supermarket lot. They blame everything on the woke police, even though such police do not exist.
And if you have kids, as Tim Walz does, you probably care a lot about education then. Well, these guys don’t like education. In fact, their Project 2025 would like to eliminate the government department that helps fund it. Republicans say they don’t want to do Project 2025 if Trump gets elected, but they’re only saying that right now because they know that Americans won’t like anything in that document. They won’t like the mass deportation of millions of immigrants, some of whom are likely their friends. They won’t like consumer protections gutted. They really won’t like porn being banned, because some of that porn is super awesome.
And they won’t like the weather outside getting worse than it already is. Normal people don’t like hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, coastal flooding and heat waves that kill thousands of people at a time. But these people appear to LIKE all of those things, because??? I wish I could explain it, but I can’t. It’s probably money, but money burns too.
Also hard to explain: why these guys have little interest in accepting people for who they are. “What did you say your name was again? Your name is Mahanja? Let’s all call you ‘Matt’ instead, because we speak English here. And you said you identify as a woman? No, you’re not a woman unless we say so. You’re gonna be someone else here, and you’re gonna like it.”
In fact, the GOP’s whole approach to sex is inexplicable. They don’t want people having gay sex or premarital sex or casual sex. And yet they want those same people to pump out babies by the truckload, unless they need in vitro fertilization. They treat childless couples as some sort of problem that needs to be addressed (perhaps with guns?). And they really care about how hot women look. You got high heels on and an AR-15 strapped to your back? Oooh talk to me, baby. But let’s get married first, and don’t even think about taking a job outside of “housewife.” That wouldn’t be proper. Now let’s go to a “Beetlejuice” musical and get a little handsy with one another.
These are not fun people. It would be really awkward to date one. Ever heard them tell a joke? You’re lucky if you haven’t. They also get hung up on places they don’t like. Like California. SFGATE readers live in California and like the state quite a bit. These guys HATE California, or at least the idea of it. I guess it’s too sunny? I dunno. They hate Chicago, which apparently has more crime than “The Walking Dead.” They hate Washington, even though we need people in Washington to mind our economy, our military, our infrastructure and countless other things that they take for granted.
They even hate the little things! They hate electric stoves and e-cars. They hate free meals for schoolkids, the kind Tim Walz guaranteed to Minnesota families. They hate preventing a pandemic that will kill millions. They hate teaching history accurately. They hate the idea of every American over 18 being able to vote easily. They even hate Bud Light. Remember that whole deal? It’s just a beer. Who cares? Why are we wasting time on this?
That’s really the question at the center of this election. Think about how much time, and money, the GOP has wasted over the past decade and beyond. What has it gotten us? Do normal Americans feel better about living here after all of this nonsense? Do they feel patriotic? Aren’t we all already enervated by the conservatives who will read this post and say, “You just described the Dumbocrats!” as if they have a leg to stand on right now? These people have made Donald Trump their standard-bearer for three straight elections now. That’s more than just weird. It’s stupid. These people have absolutely no clue about anything, and that’s why voters are about to desert them. With the help of Gov. Walz and Vice President Harris, maybe we can leave them behind for good this time.
