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3 more years. I don't know who the Dems can elect to go against JD Vance, maybe Tim Walz, but they need somebody.

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> maybe Tim Walz

https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2026/01/29/tim-walz-say...

> MINNEAPOLIS (Gray News) - Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said he will not run for elected office again.

> Walz touched on his political plans in a recent interview with cable news channel MS Now.

> “I will never run for an elected office again,” Walz said. “Never again.”

> The 2024 Democratic vice-presidential nominee said he plans to “do the work” while finding other ways to serve the country.

I would guess that many politicians (of both sides, see also MTG) suddenly start to rethink how bad they want the public job when Trump turns the firehose of death threats their direction.

Classic third world dictator shit

There'll be a ton of people running, any of which I think would be highly competitive against Vance: Walz, Pritzker, Newsom, Chris Murphy, Harris, Josh Shapiro, etc.

But I think Mark Kelly is likely to be a top-tier candidate from the jump. He's not my favorite of the bunch, necessarily, but I'd consider putting money on him being the Democratic nominee in 2028.

Interesting you say Newsom. Interesting, interesting very interesting. It’s just interesting you bring up Newsom.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/gavin-newsom-short-circu...

What is this meant to prove or not prove? Or is it just, like, a little bit funny?

I just think it's unbelievably funny how uncomfortable he got. Definitely nothing suspicious there.

Israel and Gaza are a key litmus test or third rail in American left/center-left politics right now. I am sure there is literally nothing else he'd rather not discuss right now.

A wet towel could go against JD Vance, but what if Vance shutters polling stations in blue districts? Because "terrorism".

Weird to see this so downvoted on the same day that Trump asked republicans to "Nationalize" elections in 15 places. Whatever that means.

> “Republicans should say, ‘We want to take control of this. We need to take control of voting in at least 15 places.’ Republicans should nationalize voting,” [Trump] said on the podcast of former FBI deputy director Dan Bongino, which was relaunched on Monday.

> Whatever that means

It means Trump is sucking the oxygen out of the room. Again. I wish we would quit reacting to every stupid thing he says.

When a guy with a gun says he plans on shooting you, you take him deadly serious.

Yes, but this is not taking him seriously, it is panicking over every idle provocation he utters. Taking him seriously would be the right way to approach it, and we are not.

The whole reason we're in this mess is because not enough people took him seriously.

As a rule, Trump supporters treat him like a buffoon, a liar, and instigator. The only people who seem to believe Trump are his opponents.

He is literally flooding the zone, and it is working because we fall for the bait every time. This is how he manages to skate on the more odious actions, because until someone actually gets killed the public is desensitized to all the shrill "he's ending democracy" claims that sound faintly similar to, and about as credible as his claims that the 2020 election was stolen.

The authoritarism has been slow but very real, democracy has been in danger and goes to a more precarious place with each passing day. It's very credible, and of course people don't want to listen because it sucks. Who wants to hear bad news? It's very basic human behavior.

Tim Walz had a chance and he started listening to the trustfund babies that are hired DNC consultants.

3 years of Trump getting progressively weaker as more and more Republicans in purple districts decide they are more likely to be reelected by going against Trump than by supporting him. Not to mention the midterms will at least make it impossible to get any legislation passed that they want (which, thankfully, they have been mercifully incompetent at so far).

Pritzker.

Newsom, maybe Mark Kelly

If the Democrats nominate Tim Walz they deserve to lose the next ten thousand elections. My god.

3 more years til the next dog and pony show but different colors.

The midterms this year can already seriously throw wrenches into the Project 2025 plans. Trump's failure to address the economy situation, the constant and ongoing wars, ICE seriously disrupting agriculture and construction sites, ICE executing white people in front of cameras [1] and now the latest Epstein crap... Democrats are flipping what used to be solid-red seats these days.

People are fed up. Assuming there will be free elections - as absurd as it is to even write this sentence referring to the US, but here we are [2] - it most probably will end in an utter wipeout for MAGA. They'll have the President, of course, but assuming the Democrat leadership finds some spine - again, an assumption, given Schumer - stuff has the potential to change.

On top of that are state and local level elections that are all the time. Stuff like school boards, sheriffs, whatever that is where MAGA and the Evangelicals built out their initial networks. All of that can be flipped around as well, if people actually bother to show up and vote.

[1] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shootings_by_U.S._immi... - it is notable that widespread outrage only followed after the execution of Renee Good and Alex Pretti

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/02/georgia-fult...

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