They have now unearthed a submission Walz made to a cooking content in the early 00s that included green chilies, garlic and chili powder and are treating it as a scandal that he is “flip flopping on his spice preference”
https://x.com/mannyfidel/status/1824424613444563447
Is that really the standard of American politics these days?
Jesus wept.
Montana rally was for the Senate seat. Flipping that seat to Republican gives them a fighting change at the majority.
They are really only one post away from someone crying that they get to use the N word and we don’t
FWIW, when I lived in St Louis (the midwest) I used to do a monthly chili Sunday for my teammates and came to realize I had to make two batches, one that was recognizably chili for most people and a specific St Louis version that was not much more than sautéed meat with onions. I argued with them “do you not know of your cultural heritage with spice from the eastern spice trade?” and they simply replied by saying “go easy with the onions, that’s spicy”
Still waiting on John Kelly to announce to the world in his own voice the various statements of disregard Trump actually has for the US troops. When your commitment to your honor is actually dishonorable by staying quiet through this election…
This version is a more accurate reflection and precisely why they need a fake online persona to appear “cool”
When Trump the Ogre dances, it looks like he trying to lay an egg.
What a tosser that man is eh
When the weirdos on the extreme right want to make a thing out of pepper, and how spicy you like your food, it is a sign that they have lost the plot.
Do they have any policies to attack?
Or policies of their own that might win some hearts?
Bwaaark. Black pepper. The outrage
MAGAts: “Walz lied! He made a recipe with chili pepper.”
Normal person: “Trump lies every time he opens his mouth.”
MAGAts: “That’s just what Trump does, so what?”
But he’s not a politician so you cannot hold him to the normal standard they say…about the guy who has been running for president non stop for 13 years, including the 4 years when he was actually the fucking president.
The feud that @Cologne-Liverpool noted is probably why the Trump campaign listened to the RNC, but the timing is weird. The conventional wisdom is the Presidential campaigns build a base, then once the Fall arrives starts hitting the key races - in direct proportion to how solid any lead is.
The U.S. election is of course none of my business, however anyone who is eligible to vote in it may want to watch this video.
https://x.com/ByDonkeys/status/1824070102540505370
It’s all our business LA. You don’t think that the direction the US takes will have an effect globally?
How did the Japanese feel about the Hiroshima and Nagasaki comments? That can’t have gone down well.
Obviously, I haven’t been paying enough attention. What Hiroshima and Nagasaki comments?
Did somebody say that bombing those cities was justifiable?
Musk said to Trump that it was no big deal and Trump agreed.
Well … it’s not exactly incorrect. Those cities were rebuilt as part of Japan’s post-war reconstruction and apart from the war memorials there, you wouldn’t know that they had been levelled by atom bombs.
Of course, nuclear devices nowadays are much more powerful than the atomic bombs used against Japan, and the use of a nuclear device now would be responded to several times over which isn’t something that Japan or anyone else could have done at that time.
As for the response in Japan, as I was unaware of Musk’s simplistic comments it would seem that the Japanese media chose to disregard the bullshit spouted by two narcissistic wankers.
Most people in Japan do not believe the government and they avoid consuming any produce from the Tohoku region.
Maybe the hundreds of thousands of victims killed in the initial blast, those who continued to die from radiation sickness for decades afterwards and their families and loved ones might not consider it such a trifle.
It says a lot about those two narcissistic sociopaths that they only look at it in terms of buildings without any consideration of the human tragedy.
It’s easy for those to feel detached about the horrors and the aftermaths that happened 3 generations ago.
There’s no connection to the victims and events. How many of us personally know someone who’s deeply involved.
I do to a certain extent but it was not until I met and get to know quite well one who suffered the dire consequences of the horrific bombings.
Born in Japan, raised in America and settled down in Singapore, he came into the world 10 years after the “Little Boy” WMD had done its mass destruction.
Physically he was not affected though both his parents contracted radiation sickness and succummed when he was 6 years old.
Life in a cold and depressing orphanage was hard, with perennial of food and clothings.
His elder sister who was with him ran away, never to be heard of again by him.
After a few short, but indeterminably long years to him, he was adopted by an old Japanese-American couple who were not financially well-off.
Unfortunately he couldn’t connect with them and ran off when he was sixteen.
He struggled to support himself but eventually managed to get to university courtesy of the graces of a childhood friend’s rich adotive parents who sponsored his education.
Listening to him recounting his bad experience of his early life - as a direct result of the War - do made me more appreciative of what we didn’t have to go through.
Natural parents taken away by the aftereffects of the nuclear fallout, left alone without a single relative in the world, a fitful abnormal young life - first in an impersonal “home” for the very young and then tolerating unloving adoptive parents up to his teens.
To have gone through those unpleasant experiences is unimaginable to most of us, especially those born with a silver spoon in the mouth and lived sheltered lives.
Just because it made me laugh ;
‘Donald J. Trump’s media strategy can be summed up with a phrase often applied to one of his erstwhile nemeses, the logorrheic New York City mayor Ed Koch: unavoidable for comment.’
