Pete for the win:

Pete Buttigieg
@PeteButtigieg
Come to think of it, denigrating the worth of a soldier's service based on whether he deployed to a war zone is ... kind of like denigrating the worth of a woman's citizenship based on whether she happens to have children.
10:28 PM Aug 7, 2024

Polly Sigh
@dcpoll
Where is Donald Trump? Is Trump ill? Is Trump still fit to be the Republican nominee? Why isn't Donald Trump on the campaign trail? What is the Trump campaign hiding about Trump's cognitive decline?

Am I doing this right, @nytimes @washingtonpost @cnn?
8:37 PM Aug 7, 2024

Interesting:

Peter Kauffmann
@PeterKauffmann
It's ironic that Team Trump is attacking Tim Walz for his 24 years of service.
If you're old enough to remember GOP attacks on Al Gore's military record (son of anti-war US Senator who enlisted in the Army), JD Vance did the same job in the USMC (reporter) as Gore did in Vietnam.

You have to wonder if people who don't know the difference between carrying a gun and using one ever did either.

I think there is a difference between carrying a gun and using one. A lot of people carry guns everyday who don't use them.

J.D. Vance's Stolen Valor' Claim Against Tim Walz Is Total B.S.

Vance also accused Walz of feigning a record in active combat: "[Walz] said " and he was making a point about gun control " he said, we shouldn't allow weapons that I used in war, to be on America's streets.' Well, I wonder, Tim Walz, when you ever in war?"

The senator actually misquoted Walz in his screed. In the clip Vance was referencing, Walz says that he "carried" weapons in war, not "used." Given that Operation Enduring Freedom was a part of the post-9/11 War on Terror, and that Walz was deployed to Italy under it--and likely had a service weapon--the claim that he is engaging in "stolen valor" holds little water.

Vance spoke on Wednesday as if he served more honorably than Walz, noting that he went to Iraq "I did it, I did what they asked me to do and I did it honorably," he said The senator was deployed for six months in Iraq as a combat correspondent in 2005 as part of the Marines' Public Affairs office. He-- like Walz--never engaged in active combat and has stated that he was "lucky to escape any real fighting," during his deployment.

In 2018, Al Bonnifield, who served under Walz in the Guard, told MPR News that Walz "talked with us for quite a while on that subject [of retiring]. He weighed that decision to run for Congress very heavy. He loved the military, he loved the Guard, he loved the soldiers he worked with."

Walz told the outlet that "once you're in, it's hard to retire. Of my 40 years or 41 years, I had been in the military 24 of them. It was just what you did ... So that transition period was just a challenge."

"I know that there are certainly folks that did far more than I did. I know that," Walz added. "I willingly say that I got far more out of the military than they got out of me, from the GI Bill to leadership opportunities to everything else."

Twenty-four years of service is nothing to sneeze at, and Vance is running alongside a known draft dodger who has repeatedly disparaged veterans and Gold Star families. If Vance wants to critique a man's honor, he should start with his running mate.

VoteVets
@votevets

Okay, folks. We're setting the record STRAIGHT. Here's @Tim_Walz record.

Retweet and save this image. Share it with EVERYONE lying about Walz.

It is no surprise that the Trump campaign is running this so-called stolen valour campaign aganst Walz because the guy who was responsible for swiftboating John Kerry, Chris LaCivita, is now running the Trump campaign:

Trump 2024 campaign seeks to recruit man who smeared John Kerry

Ex-president eyeing Chris LaCivita, whose 2004 Swift Boat campaign questioned Kerry's Vietnam war record

As he prepares a possible new presidential campaign, Donald Trump is seeking to recruit an operative who was behind a group which famously questioned the Vietnam war record of the 2004 Democratic nominee, John Kerry, the Washington Post reported.

The operative who ran Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, Chris LaCivita, worked for one Trump-aligned political action committee during the 2020 election and now runs another.

This is what he's doing all day instead of going out on the campaign trail?

Nobody knows what the hell DonOLD is talking about except maybe his good friend Hannibal Lecter:

Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social
@TrumpDailyPosts

What are the chances that Crooked Joe Biden, the WORST President in the history of the U.S., whose Presidency was Unconstitutionally STOLEN from him by Kamabla, Barrack HUSSEIN Obama, Crazy Nancy Pelosi, Shifty Adam Schiff, Cryin' Chuck Schumer, and others on the Lunatic Left, CRASHES the Democrat National Convention and tries to take back the Nomination, beginning with challenging me to another DEBATE. He feels that he made a historically tragic mistake by handing over the U.S. Presidency, a COUP, to the people in the World he most hates, and he wants it back, NOW!!!

Donald Trump Truth Social 03:59 PM EST 08/06/24

Let's see JD Vance's kids are Indian and Scots-Irish. When they grow up will they be Indian or Scots-Irish? Put them in a 7-11 and see if they try to manage the place or just raise all the prizcs and get drunk behind the counter.

Yeah, no, not really so funny, and I say that as someone who is Scots-Irish on my father's side.

FTA:

AS KAMALA HARRIS BEGAN WINDING DOWN her search for a running mate, Donald Trump's team knew one thing clearly: It didn't want her to pick Josh Shapiro, the popular governor of swing-state Pennsylvania whose more moderate record made him a formidable opponent.

So the Trump campaign and its allies moved to quietly kneecap Shapiro. It did so by forging a de facto alliance with the enemy of its enemy, the progressive left, which opposed Shapiro"the only Jewish candidate on Harris's shortlist"largely because of his pro-Israel stances. The result was a swelling of progressive opposition (some of it organic, some artificially fed) that, among other things, saw Shapiro's online critics dub him "Genocide Josh."

"Where we could, we amplified the leftists on Twitter. We fed Shapiro oppo [opposition research] to the media. We did what we could to create more noise and discontent," a Trump adviser, speaking on condition of anonymity to describe internal campaign workings, told The Bulwark prior to Harris making her pick on Tuesday.

"We didn't do that with Tim Walz," the adviser said of the progressive blue-state Minnesota governor who ultimately scored the VP nod.

Kamala is planning on Walzing into the White House with a big ole smile on her face and a genuine laugh on her lips coming from her humane soul.
What a contrast.
#150 | Posted by tonyroma

If she does win, the joy/jubilation on the left will be like when Obama won.

I served with Tim Walz as a Republican in the House. He'll be a good vice president
More than ever, America needs a normal guy like Tim Walz to help lead our nation and bring us together

Democratic vice presidential candidate and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is a normal guy. I say this as a former Republican representative who served with Tim in Congress. In these times of bitter political division, America needs someone who can calmly and humbly serve the nation without all the unnecessary shouting and bluster that too often defines our politics today.

Tim and I represented different political parties " he as a Democrat, and I as a Republican " yet we found common ground and worked together on numerous issues for the betterment of our constituents and our nation. More than ever, America just needs a normal guy to help lead our nation and bring us together. I'm excited Vice President Kamala Harris has selected Tim as her running mate.

I Smoked RFK Jr's Bear
@BlackKnight10k

Calling Tim Walz #TamponTim for making sure school girls don't have to bleed on themselves if they have a period is crazy when Trump just did an interview with a guy who sniffs people's seats.

Way to lean into that weirdo label guys

Watching the Philly rally. Josh is showing everyone why he was and still is a contender for higher office someday.

Being from PA and knowing that PA is a must win for Harris, I was hoping for Shapiro to be VP. But he is only 51 and has plenty of time to run in the future. I sincerely hope he can convince enough Pennsylvanians to vote for Harris/Walz come November.

It was the biggest rain-soaked campaign line up, ever. Period.
#135 | Posted by REDIAL

;-)

Harris taps Tim Walz, the one Democrat who checked every box

PS Gov Walz's daughter, whose name is Hope, featured in the above video was conceived after 7 years of IVF treatment.

If you aren't in love with Tim Walz yet, this might do the trick.

HOLY ---, look at this line of thousands, waiting in the rain in Philadelphia to see the new WINNING Democratic ticket!

The enthusiasm is incredible!

Believe it or not, they're attacking Walz by calling him "Tampon Tim" because he signed a law giving free tampons to girls in high schools. As if that's somehow a bad thing. Doesn't seem like it's going to make Republicans more popular with women voters.
#122 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY

Free tampons for high school girls isn't just a nicety, it's a blessing in that it will save a lot of teenage girls from anxiety and/of embarrassment while they are in the classroom.

Gretchen Whitmer
@gretchenwhitmer

I'm so excited that my friend @Tim_Walz will be the next Vice President of the United States! As a fellow Midwesterner and governor, I know firsthand that his leadership is an important asset to this ticket. He'll be an excellent partner for @KamalaHarris, and I'll do everything I can to get them elected this November. Let's go win this thing!

Believe it or not, they're attacking Walz by calling him "Tampon Tim" because he signed a law giving free tampons to girls in high schools. As if that's somehow a bad thing. Doesn't seem like it's going to make Republicans more popular with women voters.
#122 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY

Walz had it right about them: "These guys are just weird...they're running for He-Man Woman Haters Club or something...that's what they go at. That's not what people are interested in."