As the vice president introduced her new running mate at an energetic rally in Philadelphia, he quickly demonstrated his ability to deliver searing attacks against Donald Trump and JD Vance.

As the vice president introduced her new running mate at an energetic rally in Philadelphia, he quickly demonstrated his ability to deliver searing attacks against Donald Trump and JD Vance.

America’s introduction to Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota began with a half-hour of cheering for Vice President Kamala Harris and ended with some of the sharpest attacks Democrats have leveled against former President Donald J. Trump and his running mate, Senator JD Vance of Ohio.

Before a raucous crowd in Philadelphia, Ms. Harris and Mr. Walz presented the Minnesotan as a folksy former schoolteacher and football coach who had inspired his students, served in the military and improved his constituents’ lives.

But it was his ability to deliver searing yet accessible attacks against their Republican opponents that won Mr. Walz a place on the national ticket, and during his first rally, he did not miss his marks.

“Donald Trump sees the world a little differently than us,” he said. “First of all, he doesn’t know the first thing about service. He doesn’t have time for it because he’s too busy serving himself.”

Then came the dagger. “Violent crime was up under Donald Trump,” he said, before pausing for effect. “That’s not even counting the crimes he committed.”

  • vxx@lemmy.world
    582·
    3 months ago

    The Internet is memeing about Vance being a couch fucker. He tried to refute it by saying he never had sex with a couch to completion, which obviously was a self own.

    Walz said yesterday that he’s happy to debate Vance, if Vance can get his ass off the couch.

    • Argurotoxus@lemmy.world
      32·
      3 months ago

      Just so you’re aware that refutation was also spoofed.

      Whole situation remains funny af though. And Walz is adept at twisting the knife.

            • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
              712·
              3 months ago

              Ok but people fall for obvious BS all the time that should be easy to spot if you know the first thing about how humans work. Take this example of a “refute”; no one would put out a statement that exposes themselves in such a straightforward, matter-of-fact way. People just aren’t like that. Even if someone were to go crazy, it wouldn’t manifest like that. And before you say “Well I don’t know, people have been doing a lot of weird stuff these days, so I can see it happening!”, find me one real example that would be comparable. A public figure, openly and directly acknowledging their sexual deficiencies in a non-joking, official manner.

              That’s why I say critical thinking skills are shit these days. People never stop and think “Does this make sense?”.

              • Xanis@lemmy.world
                132·
                3 months ago

                Iiiii’m sorry. People aren’t like what now? Cause unless you’ve been living under a small and particularly rocky mountain you would know that the modern Right says dumb and weird shit almost every day. Would a sensible and reasonable person say that? No. We are SO far from sensible and even further from reasonable. In fact at some point we may have even entered into Twilight Zone territory.

                • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
                  45·
                  3 months ago

                  No. Stop. None of this “well just look at the state of things” vague crap. Find me. A real. Example. You won’t be able to because they don’t exist. People don’t act that way, even the crazy fucking right. Unhinged attacks and baseless claims on others? Sure. On themselves? Doesn’t happen.

                  It’s like you seriously don’t even consider what makes sense in reality, you just want to eat up whatever bs conforms to your biases. It’s like if you saw a screenshot of a tweet reporting that someone you don’t like made a statement saying something like “I’m a big old poop brain and I LOOOOVE sniffing fresh farts!” you wouldn’t even question it. Use your head.

    • Christer Enfors@lemm.eeEnglish
      26·
      3 months ago

      he never had sex with a couch to completion

      Uhmmm… what? Why would he say that? Was there actually some truth to the claim that he had sex with a couch, or what?

      • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        3 months ago

        None. He just did a really bad job refuting it. Honestly, it’s such a goofy meme that most adults would just ignore it, but these are Republicans we’re talking about. It’s incredibly easy to distract them with frivolous stuff.

      • Valmond@lemmy.world
        8·
        3 months ago

        Even better, there was some website explaining and refuting it all, but then it was taken down lol.

        • whoisearth@lemmy.ca
          26·
          3 months ago

          Even better it was the bastion of objective Journalism the Associated Press (AP). They took it down because they can’t prove he didn’t fuck a couch.

          Edit - I love this because it’s the same as the old “Did Glenn Beck rape and murder a girl in 1990?”. He’s never come out to say he didn’t.

          • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            3 months ago

            That’s because Beck, while being a faux emotional cryptofascist shit bird, wasn’t a fucking moron and knew that the only way to stop someone JAQing off is to ignore them. Only partially because JAQing off was his primary MO.

        • chuckleslord@lemmy.world
          91·
          3 months ago

          Yeah, they couldn’t prove that Vance never fucked a couch, just that he didn’t say he did in a book. But no one was quoting the book anyways, not after the meme started.

    • frostysauce@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 months ago

      He tried to refute it by saying he never had sex with a couch to completion

      There is no way I’m believing he said that without a primary source.