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Teachers, soldiers, and women shouldn’t vote for these guys

Working hard to focus on the only electorate that counts.

Trump campaign spokesperson Caroline Sunshine said Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz “never held a real job in his life” — despite his years of teaching and serving in the National Guard.

During a Wednesday interview on Real America’s Voice, host Terrence Bates complained to Sunshine that reporters were not questioning Walz “on his repeated lies about his military service and every single other thing that seems to come out of his mouth.”

“Tim A. Walz, as I like to call him, because when Tim was asked to, you know, answer the call to service and deploy and fight for our country, he chose to step down and run for Congress,” Sunshine replied. “He’s never held a real job in his life, by the way. He spent all of his life running for Congress, running for office or in office.”

Terrible. He could have been a lawyer, or a venture capitalist, or a real estate speculator…you know, a real job. I’m ashamed to say that I’ve been a failure my whole life, ‘working’ as a teacher. My daughter is a researcher at a university, my middle son is a major in the Army, not real jobs, obviously. Fortunately, my oldest son rescues the family reputation, since he does financial stuff in a law office (don’t ask me what, I lack the ability to comprehend real labor).

As a professor, I’m not just a lazy slacker, I am the enemy.

My wife does have a productive life…oops. Nope. There’s only one thing she’s good for.

So…the Republicans are doing their best to alienate teachers, men in the military, women, and everyone in congress. Can they win the presidency on the backs of just white male lawyers who haven’t held political office?

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Comments

  1. tallora says

    That thing in The Handmaid’s Tale, where the intellectuals were publicly hanged in Harvard Square. Atwood knew what she was talking about. And see also Hanns Johst and that famous line, “When I hear the word ‘culture’ I release the safety on my Browning.” And the Nazis rejecting relativity as “Jewish science”, and the Soviets rejecting Darwinian evolution in favor of Lysenkoism.

    Authoritarians hate anyone who can call them on their bullshit. Humanities scholars rank high on that list, but so do any scientists who won’t toe their line. I would say the Republicans are actually one of the more extreme groups historically in terms of their rejection of huge swaths of science.

  2. mathman85 says

    […] Tim Walz “never held a real job in his life” […]

    Oh, for fuck’s sake, as though the former guy or Vance have ever had to hold down a job in their lives. “Every accusation is a confession”, &c., &c.

  4. says

    Someone needs to do a ‘real job’ (gangster style) on the vancehole and tRUMP and destroy their campaign for all their lies and deceit! PZ, where is your monster spider warrior horde when we need them?

  5. Akira MacKenzie says

    @ 3

    I had a former grade-school-through-college friend who went full MAGA gun nut (in school, he was a John Lennon loving liberal) after becoming an iron worker, our falling out started during one of the recent government workers strike when he insisted that government employees and teachers “don’t need unions” because it wasn’t “real work.”

  6. raven says

    So…the Republicans are doing their best to alienate teachers, men in the military, women, and everyone in congress.

    And especially childless cat ladies.
    Presumably also childless cat men.
    Definitely childless nonbinary and LGBTIAs with and without cats.

    Might just as well summarize it as anyone who has a cat and cats themselves.

  7. raven says

    It was pointed out long ago.

    A woman voting for the GOP is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders.

  8. drewl, Mental Toss Flycoon says

    raven @7 Noice! I never heard that one before and am definitely going to borrow it.
    Childless cat and dog (and some fish, and un-corralled spiders) guy chiming in here.

  9. robro says

    I’m an older man, cat-less, tho there’s usually a dog around, and have an adult child but I would love to see these knuckleheads humiliated at the polls, driven from government, and in some cases prosecuted. But the question is…can they win? I’m afraid the answer to that is…may be yes.

    There are several ways they can do that because some of them do hold offices in states where they have the power to “correct” a vote that goes against them or simply toss the results and install who they want. Trump almost got that in 2020 and several prominent politicians have already promised to do that this time. Short of a sudden change of heart by the fascists, the only feasible way to prevent that is to overwhelmingly win elections in the House and Senate races, as well as in state elections, not to mention the presidential election, that to question the results would cause a cataclysm. That’s a tall order.

    Of course, they might still try the gambit which would throw the question into the courts and the courts are stacked in their favor.

    Thanks to all the people who don’t vote for Democrats for the obvious reason that they ain’t saints either. Unfortunately that’s our only hope, albeit slim…well, there’s cataclysm and the resulting deaths of masses of people.

  11. seachange says

    Vance’s host reveals that they can’t tell how creepy and weird he and Vance are by calling Indian grandparents who want to help with children weird.

  12. cheerfulcharlie says

    From Raw News, Pollster Frank Luntz.

    “Harris reminds some men of their first wife. Donald Trump reminds women of their first husband’s divorce lawyer, and he needs to back off,” he dryly added.

  14. Tethys says

    Every time I hear a tech-bro say the word female I immediately picture a Ferengi.

    Ack, post-menopausal feeeeeemales!! You allow them to wear clothing!? The horror! Arrgh!!

    At this point the maga ticket has alienated multiple demographics including:

    Liberals
    Women
    Black people
    Young people
    LGBTQ people
    Labor Unions
    Teachers
    Immigrants and their descendants

    Feel free to add to the list. By my reckoning, they are going to get their asses handed to them in a few weeks.
    Good riddance to bad rubbish.

  15. Morgan says

    Tim A. Walz, as I like to call him

    …Okay, I confess, I don’t get it. What’s the burn here? “A” isn’t his actual middle initial, so it’s not just a matter of initials being snooty or something. “A” I’d guess is about his being a teacher, but they’re trying to ignore that part of his history. What’s supposed to be the so-called “joke”? Is it a very, very strained pun from “Tim A Walz -> Time I Waltz” to reference his supposed hurry to leave the military before overseas deployment?

  16. Tethys says

    I believe Tim A. Wals is a poor attempt at a pun on AWOL. Absent without leave.

    Nevermind the 24 years of service, followed by serving in multiple elected positions. Ignore the evidence of your eyes.

  18. mathscatherine says

    So, on “the whole purpose of the postmenopausal female” there is research suggesting that human women outlive their reproductive years (unlike the vast majority of other animals) because helping their daughters raise grandchildren resulted in far more surviving descendants than having more children of their own. There’s some interesting models – though there is clearly more going on, because if that was the only factor then menopause would be only a few years before natural death due to old age, and it’s not.

    But even if it was the only factor, saying the “whole purpose of the postmenopausal” woman is to raise her grandchildren is like saying the whole purpose of a man is to father and raise children – and I’m fairly sure these idiots think there’s more to their lives than that.

  19. StevoR says

    @ Tethys : “By my reckoning, they are going to get their asses handed to them in a few weeks.
    Good riddance to bad rubbish.”

    Here’s hoping! Weeks though? Isn’t it still almost three months and a bout 70-80 odd days before the election? Pretty sure.