Despite lobbing the same questions at Tim Walz, J.D. Vance lost it when pressed about his own military service.
Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance seems perfectly happy to dish out criticism of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz over his military record, but he just can’t take it.
Vance blew up at CNN anchor Brianna Keilar on Thursday, after she called Vance an “imperfect messenger” to criticize Walz over his military service.
“At what point did military service become a liability?” Keilar asked rhetorically on CNN’s Inside Politics. “I also think that J.D. Vance as a messenger on this may be an imperfect messenger.”
Vance served a single four-year enlistment in the public affairs section in the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, and according to his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, the Republican nominee was “lucky to escape any real fighting.” Still, that hasn’t stopped Vance from accusing Walz, who served with the Army National Guard for 24 years, of exiting the service before his unit was deployed to Iraq.
Inflation and housing and healthcare are huge issues which no one is addressing amidst the name calling and virtue signaling.
I don’t care about military records from any candidate! Address the issues, talk about what matters.
Harris and Walz address those issues in their speeches.
What you’re missing is that the media isn’t covering those statements. The silly schoolyard BS drives clicks and, for far too many people, it affects their voting choices.
Walz, who spent years as a school teacher, understands the mindset of T**** and Shady Vance and is using their tactics against them in a very efficient way.
If you look at it from a teachers POV, T**** is the school bully and Vance is the nose picking stooge who desperately wants the same power and attention.
Thank you for not using that arsewipes name. Wish more people would do the same.
lol he’s not voldemort. Trump is a removed.
It’s because algorithms pick up his name, and then feed into the volumes of shit news that is fed out.
Trump raped a 13 year old.
Oops, hope that doesn’t get picked up and spit out anywhere else.
I thought they were blocking out TRAMP, /facepalm. I need to get some sleep.
No, you don’t understand, I don’t pay attention to politics, which makes me better than you. But that means I have to invent issues and hope that nobody else pays attention to politics, because otherwise I would look pretty stupid.
Sure, but the media serves up what gets clicks. Why don’t people ask for better?
Edit: also this is something the candidates should say, that the media needs to bring attention to the issues. Enough with the schoolyard stuff.
Ah yes, we simply need people to ask for better!
I mean, I definitely agree with you - we should have an educated, engaged population that is able to critically assess what they’re being told and realize when people are trying to distract them from important issues. Of course! That’s still the destination, though, and it’s a ways off.
Why don’t people ask for better?
Because education funding is too low.
Because grocery bills are too high.
Because folks are working multiple jobs just to try to get by.
Because we’ve had to watch Trump/the GOP be weird little gremlins while pretending to have the moral high ground and GOD does it feel good to watch them melt down over being called on it.
“Asking for better” is a healthy salad, and watching someone get dunked on is a greasy fast food burger.
Sure, everyone should pick a healthy salad… but this is America.
I agree, life is hard. The problem is that people who’re making it hard won’t stop out of the goodness of their hearts.
The annoying thing is that people interested in policy issues have already committed to a party. What’s left are swing voters who (when polled) come up with the most ridiculous reasons for voting for/against a candidate.
What’s left are how many people are going to bother with voting.
Agreed, but again I would argue that pro interested in policy are likely to vote no matter what.
They don’t address it because they know Republicans will never win on policy. Also they know their voter base sees politics as a team sport and only cares about hate and personal attacks. Talking about policy isn’t enough to get them riled up.
SPOT-FUCKING-ON! Thank you.