Tim Walz trolls J.D. Vance by buying donuts like a normal human person

I have only seen versions of the clip where her face was blurred. Did they say on tape that they were going to blur her and then didn't?

Nope, Georgia is a one party consent state and technically the donut shop is public access so it’s legal, but still a complete dick move

It's not like staffers from the same campaign working directly under the head guy at the moment assaulted a female army officer or anything, don't be ridiculous

Yes, that's what is the problem, and what the article shows.

Embarrassing. Especially when government entities insist on Twitter being the primary way they communicate with the public.

Because news agencies are so goddamn lazy now, that's all they do is surf fucking Twitter.

Idiots are addicted. Corporations are addicted.

It's an old expression for shitting yourself.
Later renamed Xitter the X pronounced as Sh, to reflect relations with authoritarianism like the Chinese leader XI. (Pronounced Shi or Pedo Bear.)

It's street drug, otherwise known to chemists as 3,4-Methyl​​enedioxy​​methamphetamine. Some white trust fund billionaire got stoned and decided it would be funny to hear the media say a politician said something "on twitter," so he decided to buy a website and name it that.

/s

They should've just declined him as a customer, or insisted that no recording at all could be done on their property.

The employees at the donut shop did not make that call. The owner (who likely wasn't on site) made that call. I do believe the one employee had her face blurred because she did not agree to being recorded.

The Vance campaign should not have released the video, because even if it's not as bad as people are saying, it's not good and does not help his campaign in the slightest.

I think Democrats are trying to take lessons learned from the 2016 and 2020 campaigns, applying them to properly defeat Trump. Those campaigns they felt too civilized and proper to stoop into Trump's tactics, and that barely got them anywhere.

To defeat Trump, we ended with an organic version of the "birther conspiracy" which is the couch-fucker thing. Getting the media all riled up with silly things so that Trump's distractions become meaningless is part of the strategy, the "but her emails" of 2024 is the "weird" thing. In both cases the Democrats don't have to be delusional, it's kind of tongue-in-cheek while the Trump campaign is having meltdown after meltdown over it.

A visit to a donut shop should be a layup for any campaign to look like they understand the common voter, it's not that Vance looked like a perv doing it, it's just telling that the Trump campaign can't even succeed in that.

It is just an out of touch rich guy struggling to make small talk, but a particularly bad example. It's made worse because of his self-mythologizing of growing up 'normal' and poor and incessant talk of how if all "these people" behaved as they should they'd be where he is.

It's really weird for a national politician going out to shake hands to not have the charisma to have no more than a single question and single response and seem to have negative interest in the visit.

Good point. “Thanks for coming, we’d be happy to serve you, but we do not allow recording video in our store.”

That said he is pretty awkward ordering the donuts. He asked for whatever makes sense instead of asking for a recommendation.

My take on JD Vance is that he’s a talented guy who figured out that if he can transform into this right wing guy then he can have a career. Being a conservative catholic is part of that mask. The biggest tell to me is the timing of his conversion and the fact that his wife is Hindu. If he takes his Christianity as seriously as he claims, then his top priority should be to convert his wife, not respect her choice to do her own thing.

What they should've done was asking him about raising thier wages.

Whatever makes sense.

Oh. Oh God. He.. caught it, because he's never been around people before

This video takes on a new vibe when you learn that the actor has had several allegations of violence and erratic behavior. The dude lost like half of his brain in a medical issue, somehow survived, and is now a very aggressive drunk. Supposedly beating and choking a woman in his college comedy improv group, calling in a bomb threat on a train, etc…

I dunno, he didn't even make hard eye contact with every employee and interrogate them about where they've been.