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You are here: Home / Elections / Let’s Go! Kamala and Tim Table Talk

Let’s Go! Kamala and Tim Table Talk

by TaMara|  August 15, 20241:45 pm| 91 Comments

This post is in: Elections, Elections 2024, Open Threads, Politics

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This has been so much fun so far. But as Tim Walz says, hope alone will not win this. Neither will joy. But they will surely keep us motivated to get over the finish line.

I believe this is a pre-taped convo and they are premiering the video at 2 pm. Fingers crossed no hitches as I have to run out shortly. I’m here for the recipes, LOL.

  Aug 15, 2024 • #KamalaHarris #Harris2024

Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, sit down for a conversation about their historic campaign. They talk taco recipes, hot peppers, their childhoods, careers, and the rights and freedoms they want to protect.

Here’s the video:

 

My current swag (all on the way)

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Let's Go! Kamala and Tim Table Talk Live 1

ETA: Here is the Live rally with Biden and Harris (h/t SiubhanDuinne):

Enjoy the show!  Open thread

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  1. 1.

    sdhays

    August 15, 2024 at 1:52 pm

    That looks sweet. Tim’s caller id issue is super relatable, and I actually would like to see some politicians try take on the scam epidemic with spoof calls.

  2. 2.

    Old School

    August 15, 2024 at 1:53 pm

    I had to enlarge the picture to see it says “LOTUS FOR POTUS”.  Nice, but they should have made it more legible.

  3. 3.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 15, 2024 at 1:55 pm

    Watching the rally with Biden and Harris. I teared up, a lot, when the crowd started chanting “Thank you, Joe! Thank you, Joe!”  (I think maybe he did, too.)

  4. 4.

    sixthdoctor

    August 15, 2024 at 1:59 pm

    My wife is a CMS employee and she got an invite to the Biden/Harris drug pricing event with a guest, so that was exciting! We went to Upper Marlboro this morning and waited in line for a couple of hours, moving to a different line for CMS employees who were going to sit in the risers behind the speakers. I got up to about second in line from the security check…

    …and they closed the line because the event was at capacity.

    Bummed. It went from “Wow, I’m going to see the president,” to “Wow, am I going to MEET the president?” to “Welp, back to work.”

    My wife did joke to her co-workers “That’s it, I’m voting for Trump,” which, to be clear, she is not doing. My response was “Eh, I still like them.”

    And I’m pretty sure we saw the helicopter carrying one or both of them as we were walking back to our car.

  5. 5.

    TaMara

    August 15, 2024 at 2:00 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: I added that to the post! Thanks

  6. 6.

    Manyakitty

    August 15, 2024 at 2:02 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: I’m currently sobbing uncontrollably.

  7. 7.

    KatKapCC

    August 15, 2024 at 2:02 pm

    [Oops didn’t see there was a new post!]

    “I served in the Senate for 270 years” ROFL!!!

    Love when Joe makes jokes.

  8. 8.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 15, 2024 at 2:05 pm

    @Manyakitty:

    Yeah.

  9. 9.

    RedDirtGirl

    August 15, 2024 at 2:07 pm

    Lotus for Potus! I love that!

  10. 10.

    Mousebumples

    August 15, 2024 at 2:07 pm

    @Manyakitty: same. It’s so great to see them together, and to see how much love Democrats have for Biden.

  11. 11.

    Elizabelle

    August 15, 2024 at 2:07 pm

    Did he just say Donald Dump?  Lol.

  12. 12.

    Leto

    August 15, 2024 at 2:07 pm

    They can’t stop opening their mouths:

    CNN: In secretly recorded video, Project 2025 co-author says he’s drafted hundreds of executive orders for Trump

    Last month, Russell Vought sat in a five-star Washington, DC, hotel suite, bowing his head in prayer with two men he thought were relatives of a wealthy conservative donor.

    Vought, one of the key authors of Project 2025, a right-wing blueprint for a second Trump term, expected the meeting would help his think tank secure a substantial contribution. For nearly two hours, he talked candidly about his behind-the-scenes work to prepare policy for former President Donald Trump, his expansive views on presidential power, his plans to restrict pornography and immigration, and his complaints that the GOP was too focused on “religious liberty” instead of “Christian nation-ism.”
    But the men Vought was talking to actually worked for a British journalism nonprofit and were secretly recording him the entire time.

    The nonprofit, the Centre for Climate Reporting, published a video of the meeting on Thursday – offering a window into the thinking of one of the top policy minds of the MAGA movement, who’s been floated as a possible White House chief of staff.

    Trump has publicly rejected Project 2025 as Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign has sought to tie him to some of the plan’s most extreme proposals. But in private, Vought said that those disavowals were merely “graduate-level politics.”

    Vought said his group, the Center for Renewing America, was secretly drafting hundreds of executive orders, regulations, and memos that would lay the groundwork for rapid action on Trump’s plans if he wins, describing his work as creating “shadow” agencies. He claimed that Trump has “blessed” his organization and “he’s very supportive of what we do.”

    “Eighty percent of my time is working on the plans of what’s necessary to take control of these bureaucracies,” Vought said. “And we are working doggedly on that, whether it’s destroying their agencies’ notion of independence … whether that is thinking through how the deportation would work.”

    Lots, lots more at the article. Applaud the nonprofit for doing this. What actual journalism looks like.

  13. 13.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 15, 2024 at 2:08 pm

    Gotta love Joe simply dismissing Trump like the non-entity he is. Ya love to see it.

  14. 14.

    Manyakitty

    August 15, 2024 at 2:08 pm

    @Mousebumples: and the “Thank you, Joe!” chants made me cry even harder. This man…

  15. 15.

    Baud

    August 15, 2024 at 2:10 pm

    @Leto:

    “I want to make sure that we can say we are a Christian nation,” Vought added later. “And my viewpoint is mostly that I would probably be Christian nation-ism. That’s pretty close to Christian nationalism because I also believe in nationalism

  16. 16.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 15, 2024 at 2:11 pm

    @Manyakitty: ​ 

    You prolly should have a small boat prepared ahead of the convention, because the love Joe is going to get there is going to be enormous, and I bet the tears (good tears) will be flowing.

  17. 17.

    KatKapCC

    August 15, 2024 at 2:13 pm

    @Baud: “Nation-ism is very close to nationalism. I learned that in law school.”

  18. 18.

    Manyakitty

    August 15, 2024 at 2:13 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: good idea. Lol. Best start hydrating now.

  19. 19.

    Leto

    August 15, 2024 at 2:14 pm

    @Baud: I watched this, via Amazon Prime, the other day: God and Country.

    Looks at the implications of Christian Nationalism and how it distorts not only the constitutional republic, but Christianity itself.

    Had historians, preachers, and other academics talking about the current rise of this particular strain of authoritarianism. Looked back at how the Nazi’s used it, how it’s been used by conservatives, and how it’s a threat to democracy. It’s available via a few other services, but I recommend it. I’m sure you’ll recognize more than a few speakers.

  20. 20.

    Manyakitty

    August 15, 2024 at 2:15 pm

    @Leto: have you seen Shiny Happy People? Also along that line.

  21. 21.

    JoyceH

    August 15, 2024 at 2:15 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: Heck, I’m assuming that the first night of the convention, Biden will be hailed as Osiris Risen and be sent off in his golden barque to intercede for us with the gods.

  22. 22.

    David 🐝KHive🐝 Koch

    August 15, 2024 at 2:17 pm

    @Elizabelle: He must be reading this site

  23. 23.

    Manyakitty

    August 15, 2024 at 2:17 pm

    @JoyceH: bring it.

  24. 24.

    Leto

    August 15, 2024 at 2:18 pm

    @Manyakitty: I’ve seen it on the homepage, just slowly making my to it.

  25. 25.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 15, 2024 at 2:18 pm

    @JoyceH: ​ 

    Let’s get the French gang who designed the opening ceremonies on it stat!

  26. 26.

    Baud

    August 15, 2024 at 2:19 pm

    @JoyceH:

    I’m a little worried the delegates will gilt him right there on stage.

  27. 27.

    hueyplong

    August 15, 2024 at 2:20 pm

    Got kind emotional watching the Kamala and Tim thing because I’m so tired of growling, bared fangs politics and the total assholes to which we are subjected on a daily basis.

  28. 28.

    Leto

    August 15, 2024 at 2:20 pm

    No apologies for posting the whole thing.

    Daily Beast: Former Student: Tim Walz Doesn’t Know He Saved My Life

    “It’s pretty amazing what one person can do,” Patti Miller, a former student at Mankato West High School, told The Daily Beast.

    Patti Miller was struggling in more ways than one when she first met Tim Walz as a student at Mankato West High School. The Minnesota governor was known to her as Mr. Walz, a widely beloved geography teacher and football coach at the school who had also taught her sister.

    Now 37, Miller’s teenage years were marred with anxiety and depression. Her father had been struggling with addiction for years and was sent to prison on drug trafficking charges around the time she began Walz’s class. Her mental health issues had led her to self-harm, and she had trouble staying engaged at school.

    “I felt like an outsider. At one point my mom was even like: ‘I might have to put you in a hospital. I don’t really know what to do anymore,’” Miller told The Daily Beast in a phone interview Wednesday. “It was tough. I guess I just didn’t really know how to express my feelings very well. I didn’t know how to deal with them.” One class, however, brought her some reprieve—and it was taught by a teacher who would later become the Democratic nominee for vice president. Looking back, Miller remembers Walz’s class as something of a sliding doors moment, without which her life may have taken a very different course.

    “It’s pretty amazing what one person can do,” Miller, who now works as a ceramicist in Portland, Oregon, said. “Even if he didn’t know I was going through all of that—accidentally changing somebody’s life in a major way, you know, that’s kind of what teachers do. What a good teacher can do.”

    Walz “really thought it was really important for us to understand the cultures and religions of the world,” Miller said. “I kind of remember him mentioning that we had a disproportionate amount of classes about America and its history all throughout our high school. Yet we had this like one semester to learn about the entire world.”

    For Miller, the class was also a gateway into a skill that would help deal with her anxiety for years to come: “I remember him teaching us about Taoism and Buddhism. And I ended up getting into meditation because of that.”

    The former teacher had the unique ability to get through to students that are “just totally disillusioned,” she said. Miller could “get down on our level. It just makes the biggest difference in the world.”

    Miller’s 40-year-old sister, Kathryn, shared similar sentiments about Walz, crediting him with “playing a big part in getting her [sister] back on track.” “You know, there are some teachers that are kind of just clocking in and clocking out. Yeah. But you can tell he really, really wanted to be there,” Kathryn, who now works as a psychotherapist in Los Angeles, told The Daily Beast. “He just seems really passionate about helping people live better lives. So I really hope that will extend to the potential of him being vice president.”

    The two sisters are doing well, though they have gone through some other difficult times as adults. Their mother died of pancreatic cancer in 2014. Their father passed away just months later.

    For now, the Miller sisters share a sense of optimism about the future.

    “The more I see him [Walz] up on that stage, I’m flashing back to how much he cared to go out of his way for others. He wasn’t just up there teaching. He really wanted to get through to students and help people understand the world,” Miller said.

    “What could be more valuable than that?”

  29. 29.

    Manyakitty

    August 15, 2024 at 2:21 pm

    @Leto: it’s A. Lot. Woof.

    Starts with the Duggars and ends with Cawthorn and Hawley.

  30. 30.

    Baud

    August 15, 2024 at 2:21 pm

    @hueyplong:

    I’m so tired of growling, bared fangs politics and the total assholes to which we are subjected on a daily basis.

     

    You can take a break from Balloon Juice.

  31. 31.

    KatKapCC

    August 15, 2024 at 2:21 pm

    I love this song but it always makes me picture the pink slime in Ghostbusters II.

  32. 32.

    Belafon

    August 15, 2024 at 2:22 pm

    @Leto: I just realized the way to push back against the “Of course I’m a nationalist, I love my country” line. Nationalism is about putting the state over people. Rather than seeing the existence of the country as a place where people can pursue life, liberty, and happiness, it places people in the context of serving those who control the government.

  33. 33.

    Jeffro

    August 15, 2024 at 2:24 pm

    WaPo up with 1) “trump can’t shut up, even though GOP and Fox are begging him to” and 2) “Harris now has a 2nd path to EC victory” stories.

    it’s such a gooood feeling, a very fine feeling… =)

  34. 34.

    owlbrick

    August 15, 2024 at 2:24 pm

    Those patches are awesome, but what I really want to see is a Harris-Walz letterman jacket.

  35. 35.

    trollhattan

    August 15, 2024 at 2:24 pm

    Trump Latino voter outreach reaches a sort of zenith.

    https://x.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1823847882681933932

  36. 36.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 15, 2024 at 2:25 pm

    @HumboldtBlue:

    You remind me that I have a mega-pack of Kleenex boxes in the back of my car (they were on special a couple of weeks ago). Guess I’d better fetch them between now and Monday.

  37. 37.

    hueyplong

    August 15, 2024 at 2:25 pm

    @Baud: Yikes, didn’t mean to set that particular spike.

    Was actually thinking of Comer and Jordan while typing it.

    (If I had taken a break I wouldn’t have seen the video.)

  38. 38.

    Manyakitty

    August 15, 2024 at 2:25 pm

    @Jeffro: shocking. Seriously.

  39. 39.

    Mousebumples

    August 15, 2024 at 2:26 pm

    @Leto: thanks for sharing that. What a great thing about amazing teachers.

  40. 40.

    Leto

    August 15, 2024 at 2:27 pm

    @Belafon: you got it.

     

    @Manyakitty: I’ve seen some of the discussions here about it, and yeah, it’s gonna be a heavy one.

  41. 41.

    TaMara

    August 15, 2024 at 2:28 pm

    Seems this is real.

    OMG this is hilarious. The Harris-Walz team is 11 on a 10 scale when it comes to needling Trump. pic.twitter.com/9UGOklJjYv

    — Matt Roush (@mattroush) August 15, 2024

  42. 42.

    Josie

    August 15, 2024 at 2:28 pm

    Listening to the conversation between Harris and Walz, I teared up just thinking about the real goodness of the two people. They seem to be in sync with each other, and they project a caring attitude about other people. We are lucky to have them at this point in our lives. We need this.

  43. 43.

    Dave

    August 15, 2024 at 2:28 pm

    @KatKapCC: Not many people know that; even the better educated of these creeps sound like utter loons now.  They used to do a better job of wrapping their ideas in a smoke screen of verbiage and anodyne phrases.

    I suppose they just may be tired of having to code switch for their normie inferiors. Plus I could totally, well someone who is a decent writer could, write a story where Trump is actually some sort of memetic psychic virus that infects those that are exposed to him for too long.

  44. 44.

    Steve

    August 15, 2024 at 2:29 pm

    Such a pleasure to listen to: they didn’t spend a  moment talking about who they hated!

  45. 45.

    Baud

    August 15, 2024 at 2:29 pm

    @TaMara:

    Also more accurate than how the press will report it.

  46. 46.

    Leto

    August 15, 2024 at 2:30 pm

    @Mousebumples: I saw it first on Imgur, and the top comment was so spot on:

    Most teachers never find out that they made a difference, but we always hope we did.

  47. 47.

    rikyrah

    August 15, 2024 at 2:33 pm

    @Leto:

    Last month, Russell Vought sat in a five-star Washington, DC, hotel suite, bowing his head in prayer with two men he thought were relatives of a wealthy conservative donor.

     

    Always phucking grifting with these people.

  48. 48.

    zhena gogolia

    August 15, 2024 at 2:33 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: That will be great.

  49. 49.

    ...now I try to be amused

    August 15, 2024 at 2:33 pm

    @Leto:

    What actual journalism looks like.

    Also intelligence collection.

  50. 50.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 15, 2024 at 2:33 pm

    @TaMara:

    They had me at “For Planning Purposes Reluctantly” — guffawing here!

  51. 51.

    hueyplong

    August 15, 2024 at 2:34 pm

    @Steve: Several minutes in a happy world devoid of Donald Trump.

  52. 52.

    Leto

    August 15, 2024 at 2:35 pm

    @TaMara: Luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuul…

    Last night on Chris Hayes, he had Harris’ first social media outreach person on. She worked on Harris’ 2020 campaign in 2019. She was 19 at the time. But her mastery of the subject, and how the current campaign is operating, simply left me and Avalune a bit wowed. They definitely understand how to use all forms of social media, as well as not forcing things, so damn well. Letting things grow organically, knowing how to talk on each platform, doing things like that press release… it’s a good feeling.

    Btw the first half of Hayes program dealt with the shifting landscape of media/journalism, and how both campaigns are trying to reach voters in this digital landscape. Thought it was an informative 25 mins.

  53. 53.

    rikyrah

    August 15, 2024 at 2:37 pm

    @Leto:

    sitting here crying after reading that.

  54. 54.

    Leto

    August 15, 2024 at 2:39 pm

    @rikyrah: *passes a tissue

    I gotta tell Avalune to stop cutting so many onions…

  55. 55.

    Larch

    August 15, 2024 at 2:40 pm

    Another great element of their campaign is the zoom calls with different groups, a la the space cadet zoom from this morning’s post and so many others. I love how that flips the “identity politics=bad” script by making it a form of inclusion to do a special zoom call with any and every group. It’s like an Oprah show — “you get a zoom call, and you get a zoom, and you get a zoom, everyone gets a zoom!”

  56. 56.

    ...now I try to be amused

    August 15, 2024 at 2:40 pm

    @Leto:

    Most teachers never find out that they made a difference, but we always hope we did.

    I attended a talk given by a former UK Labour MP. He said that working in politics can be frustrating in many ways. One of them is seldom knowing for sure if you are making a difference. Even if you get your desired outcome, did you make it happen, or did others? It can be hard to tell. But those who stick with politics have faith that they have made a difference, or will in the future.

  57. 57.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 15, 2024 at 2:43 pm

    Questions for the ages.

    “Trump didn’t answer the question I asked him at his news conference. But if he had, this is what I think he would have said and meant.”

    That’s a razor sharp X post by New York Times Pitchbot, a parody account run by a professor using the alias Doug J. Balloon. What makes it so funny is that it is so on point. Legacy media outlets like the New York Times are either too sycophantic to do real journalism when it comes to the nonsense Donald Trump spews on a daily basis, or they are too afraid of him. And given his penchant for lashing out at the media and directing his army of various white supremacists and malcontents to commit violence—like when they stormed the Capitol chanting that they wanted to hang his then-vice president, Mike Pence—maybe mainstream journalists are correct to be afraid of Trump.

    But do they have to be so damn helpful?

    It’s been almost eight years since Trump was first elected and the media still doesn’t know how to solve a problem like him. To say that the man is a liar would be an understatement. During an August 11 press conference, Trump lied 162 times in the span of 64 minutes, according to NPR. That’s about two and a half lies per minute. Every 30 seconds he spoke, another lie popped out. They spanned from the truly ridiculous, like his incessant fabrications about the size of his rally crowds, to the sort of misogynoir that we’ve come to expect when it comes to how Trump talks about Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee—she’s not smart; she’s incompetent; and is she even Black?

    He lies. Everybody knows he lies. So why does the mainstream media continue to take what he says in good faith? And even worse, perhaps: Why does the media continue to take things he doesn’t say and turn them into things he might have said if he weren’t such a blistering dumbass?

  58. 58.

    Jeffro

    August 15, 2024 at 2:44 pm

    also, trumpov is once again asking that his sentencing in NY be delayed until after the election.

    hard NO there, jerk!

  59. 59.

    David 🐝KHive🐝 Koch

    August 15, 2024 at 2:46 pm

    Kamala and Coach could star in a great buddy cop movie

  60. 60.

    hueyplong

    August 15, 2024 at 2:48 pm

    @David 🐝KHive🐝 Koch: No doubt titled “Kamala the Cop”

  61. 61.

    Leto

    August 15, 2024 at 2:50 pm

    @…now I try to be amused: Politics, like teaching, is an investment in the future. You’re doing all this work now for a potential future payoff. You can never be sure if it’ll work out, but that doesn’t mean that you don’t do it. You do the hard work regardless, because you know it’s the right thing to do. So many jobs are like that. Which leads me to something that was brought up this morning:

    Trump Campaign Says Military Service Is Not A ‘Real Job’ — VoteVets Responds

    WASHINGTON, DC — Below is a statement from Afghanistan War Veteran Max Rose, Senior Advisor to VoteVets, on the Trump campaign’s contention that Tim Walz never had a “real job,” having served in the military, and working on a farm, a factory, and a school:

    “It is absolute elitism from Donald Trump and his campaign to claim that Tim Walz’s service to Minnesota and our country, in uniform, was not a “real job.” That doesn’t even include the fact that Trump’s hoity-toity country-club-based campaign doesn’t think working on a farm, or working in a factory, or being a teacher or a coach is a “real job,” either.

    “It’s not a surprise that a candidate who called our Troops and fallen “Suckers and Losers” likes to crap all over military service. It’s impossible for them to see anyone selflessly serving as having a “real job.” To them, the only “real job” is screwing contractors out of money they’re owed, to line their own pockets. This comment from Donald Trump’s campaign reeks of the very worst kind of elitism. Troops, Veterans and workers all deserve better than that in the White House.”

    Today, Trump campaign spokesperson Caroline Sunshine launched the campaign’s new line of smears against the Harris-Walz ticket, on Real America’s Voice, claiming that Tim Walz “never held a real job in his life,” dismissing his time working on a farm, a factory, a school, and his 24 years of honorable service in the National Guard.

    I don’t even see how the hell this line of attack works. This is beyond dumb. Basically it’s falling back to: if you did any public sector job, you never had a real job. Like… wut? Please proceed, Mr Ketchup.

  62. 62.

    normal liberal

    August 15, 2024 at 2:50 pm

    Tamara-Could you post the source of your soon-to-arrive campaign swag? Thanks so much.

  63. 63.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 15, 2024 at 2:51 pm

    @Jeffro:

    Check out the headlines on memeorandum

  64. 64.

    JML

    August 15, 2024 at 2:51 pm

    I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the people trying to scuzz up Harris & Walz’s records, and claiming to “know” them are all angry people who all come off as someone with an axe to grind or personal resentment at the fore. there’s always something underlying it, it’s always someone who doesn’t actually know them on any kind of personal level, but can claim to have crossed paths. they never have much in the way of details or contemporaneous recollections that are corroborated by anyone. It’s just more manufactured grist from the GOP slime machine.

    It’s notable that so far it ain’t stickin’.

  65. 65.

    BR

    August 15, 2024 at 2:54 pm

    The Harris Walz video is up — it was nice. I’m cynical about things sometimes, so I was waiting to cringe as I watched the 9 minute video and each time I was about to cringe my cynicism melted away.

  66. 66.

    Leto

    August 15, 2024 at 2:54 pm

    @David 🐝KHive🐝 Koch: Follows in the great Obama and Biden detective series. We need a good transition with Biden and Kamala to get us to Kamala and the Coach buddy cop series.

  67. 67.

    p.a.

    August 15, 2024 at 2:58 pm

    In time of war, what is the ratio of support to combat troops?  10 to 1 stuck in my head, but my head isn’t a great source.  Anyway, good on tRump etc for insulting everyone supporting the point of the spear.  Stable genius!

  68. 68.

    JoyceH

    August 15, 2024 at 3:04 pm

    @Leto: Ha. There was a great video clip of Kamala that spawned a million memes. She leaves the plane and strides over to the press, takes off her sunglasses and says, “Whatcha got?” My fave was “why does she look like a homicide detective approaching the third body found today?”

  69. 69.

    ...now I try to be amused

    August 15, 2024 at 3:04 pm

    @p.a.:

    In time of war, what is the ratio of support to combat troops?  10 to 1 stuck in my head, but my head isn’t a great source.

    I think 10:1 is in the ballpark at least. But Walz was an artilleryman; that’s combat arms, just not the rifle-toting kind.

  70. 70.

    Dave

    August 15, 2024 at 3:07 pm

    @p.a.: It varies from force to force the more force projection you are engaged in usually more support troops are involved. 10-1 is a reasonable ball park though.

    It gets a little trickier in lower or medium intensity conflicts like Iraq and Afghanistan were for the most part.  What qualifies as support versus “front-line” particular because the concept of front-line is a bit of a misnomer in that sort of conflict.

  71. 71.

    rikyrah

    August 15, 2024 at 3:11 pm

    @Dave:

    Not many people know that; even the better educated of these creeps sound like utter loons now.  They used to do a better job of wrapping their ideas in a smoke screen of verbiage and anodyne phrase

     

    Frank Luntz misses his grift. He’s the one who came up with their dogwhistle language.

  72. 72.

    Dave

    August 15, 2024 at 3:14 pm

    @rikyrah: That’s certainly true; I suppose that once they got a taste of the freedom of unfettered whatever the hell it is they do that the thought of going back is too painful to contemplate.

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    SatanicPanic

    August 15, 2024 at 3:17 pm

    This campaign is doing great and I really like this way of communicating

  74. 74.

    trollhattan

    August 15, 2024 at 3:20 pm

    @rikyrah: Things like renaming the inheritance tax as the “death tax.”

    “Oh, now I’m against that!”

  75. 75.

    Dave

    August 15, 2024 at 3:27 pm

    @trollhattan: Very true but the more intellectual and esoteric oriented of them have tasted the possibility of bringing about their neo-reactionary utopia death-tax versus inheritance tax just isn’t going to do it for them anymore.

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    TaMara

    August 15, 2024 at 3:41 pm

    @normal liberal: Etsy for the shirt, Amazon for the flag and KamalaHarris.com for the patches.

  77. 77.

    WereBear

    August 15, 2024 at 3:55 pm

    @David 🐝KHive🐝 Koch: The Joy Squad.

    She’s tough. He’s tender.

    Going after a threat to the whole world.

  78. 78.

    Rachel Bakes

    August 15, 2024 at 3:59 pm

    2.5 weeks too early, Governor Walz was at Salve Regina in Newport, RI today. Early because my daughter moves in on 8/31! Still, an old friend donated his office for the coach’s green room.

  79. 79.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 15, 2024 at 4:52 pm

    Ben Jacobs fact checked Harris’s statement about being the first VP to grow chilis. He said it was false.  Thomas Jefferson had.  He completely ignored the fact that she said she believed that she was the first.  And, anyway, wtf?   They really are grasping at straws.

  80. 80.

    Anonymous At Work

    August 15, 2024 at 4:53 pm

    I am scared.  A middle-aged white guy born in Nebraska and living in Minnesota is everything that my originally-from-Texas self has been taught to fear when it comes to Tex-Mex and chili.  I imagine such persons wanting a more plain version of mayo than the plain version.

  81. 81.

    O. Felix Culpa

    August 15, 2024 at 4:55 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Remind me,  who exactly was doing the farming on Jefferson’s plantation? And, seriously,  that’s what they consider worth fact- checking? C’mon, man. (Homage to Joe.)

  82. 82.

    RevRick

    August 15, 2024 at 5:12 pm

    @Josie: I’m with you 100%. The simpatico between Kamala and Tim just radiates. She absolutely picked the right guy to aid in the decision making.
    They strike me as both being self-aware with their heads screwed on straight. Unlike that carking mass of fragility and rage that is DJT.

  83. 83.

    sdhays

    August 15, 2024 at 5:51 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Wow.

  84. 84.

    Betty

    August 15, 2024 at 6:02 pm

    @O. Felix Culpa: Malarkey?

  85. 85.

    rikyrah

    August 15, 2024 at 6:07 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Ben Jacobs fact checked Harris’s statement about being the first VP to grow chilis. He said it was false.  Thomas Jefferson had.  He completely ignored the fact that she said she believed that she was the first.  And, anyway, wtf?   They really are grasping at straws

     

    He is getting filleted in the comments with people noting that Jefferson didn’t do shyt.

    His SLAVES did.

  86. 86.

    Kathleen

    August 15, 2024 at 6:42 pm

    @Manyakitty: That documentary was terrifying.

  87. 87.

    Citizen Alan

    August 15, 2024 at 7:02 pm

    @Leto: Christian nationalism is a heretical, if not actually satanic, cult that rejects nearly everything Jesus actually said about how he wants his followers to live their lives.

  88. 88.

    sab

    August 15, 2024 at 8:47 pm

    @rikyrah: As Ta-nehisi Coates once said “Thomas Jefferson died broke although his plantation had zero labor costs.”  The slaves grew their own food, and were not paid wages.

  89. 89.

    Ruckus

    August 15, 2024 at 10:49 pm

    @…now I try to be amused:

    I think the point of politics in this country is to get the citizens engaged, because it is a country that belongs to all of us, the past, the present, the future. The premise of a democracy is that it has leaders because that is always necessary but WE are the owners of this country and we should leave it actually better than when we got here. My 75 yrs has shown me that the reason this country works most of the time is that we do the governing for the betterment of the population. And that population is a diverse group. But we can’t forget that this is our country, ALL of OURS. Not mine, not yours, not shitforbrains, not just the rich, it belongs to ALL of US. Those we ask to do the day to day work, those that build and repair it, those who protect it, those who aren’t old enough to do more than learn, those who have been here for decades, those who can’t catch a break, those who need a break, ALL of US. It isn’t a monarchy, or a dictatorship, it is a democracy – for ALL of US. I paid taxes for over 60 yrs working, serving, being a citizen, voting, serving in the USN. And I hope to be here for at least another 20-25 yrs. I’ve seen the world from the northern tip of Norway to the southern tip of New Zealand. From Hawaii to the Berlin Wall. 48 states I’ve seen and traveled to and lived in 3 diverse ones. I’ve visited Cuba 3 times. Visited Europe 3 times. Crossed the Atlantic 6 times. I’ve seen many beautiful countries and still feel this one is the best. But like all human endeavors it has it’s faults, it’s high points and it’s low ones.

  90. 90.

    Ruckus

    August 16, 2024 at 5:30 am

    @Leto:

    This is similar to many protests decades ago from the wealthy about our politics and government. That the only people that should be respected are the wealthy, and to me that was because they seem to think money is the only concept of power. Or really anything.

    That people that serve in the military are ignorant losers, that people who get dirty hands working are ignorant losers, that people that drink beer are losers, that people that drive a reasonable, not overly expensive car are losers, and on and on, under the concept that money is the one thing of power that is what makes human beings. Not physical or mental work, not being a sailor or soldier, not a cab driver, a nurse or garbage truck driver, a school teacher, and on and on, but being wealthy. That people that stutter, or punch a time clock, or get dirty doing their jobs.

    This country is not about money, it is about freedom, it is about actually earning for doing something for others, a nurse, school teacher, truck driver, grocery store cashier, machinist, farmer, a part of something bigger, a part of a country, a population, not a pompous, arrogant, rich person, who demands anything they want because they deserve everything because they have money.

    Money does absolutely not make people better, although it can make them far worse. Yes we need money to live in a modern country. But it’s what we do to get the money, what we do to help the country, what we do to help each other that is important, that we actually work for that money. Sure some make more than others, but it’s not having money, it is EARNING that money, doing something that helps the country, helps others, makes the whole better, not JUST their own bank accounts.

    It is being part of the whole, not separate from it, not thinking you are above the rest of us.

    I’m listening to a PBS program about Joe Biden.

    Joe Biden is a US citizen and president. Has served this country for most of his life. Joe Biden is a part of the whole, a big part because of who he is and who he has been for decades. He didn’t do this for the money, he didn’t do this for the power, he’s done this for decades because of the country, to help make it better. Joe Biden is being part of the whole, not separate from it, not thinking he is above the rest of us. This is who he is, and who he has been for decades.

  91. 91.

    emmyelle

    August 16, 2024 at 7:27 am

    Honestly as a sorority women myself I’d love to see a little leaning into that-maybe a pink hat with green lettering saying something like “A sorority woman’s place is in the White House” or something

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