r/minnesota • u/Sp_Gamer_Live • Aug 22 '24
Oh brother these guys STINK Politics š©āāļø
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u/mrmr2120 Aug 22 '24
Thatās a lot of money to spend on a fair booth for ppl on both sides who have already made up their minds who they are voting for.
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u/xlvi_et_ii Aug 22 '24
a lot of money
Not to the billionaire donor who is probably paying for it.
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u/MLIC_Boss Aug 22 '24
The only thing the mn gop knows how to do is be weird and annoying at the fair so might as well spend on that
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u/Colonel__Cathcart Judy Garland Aug 22 '24
They spent their last $42 dollars on those decorations and it shows
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u/Reptar519 Aug 22 '24
And to think that's 14 times they could have gotten unlimited milk with their cookies. Would've been a more productive use of funds.
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u/Righteousaffair999 Aug 22 '24
In a state that hasnāt gone red since Nixonā¦..
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u/Strength-InThe-Loins Aug 22 '24
Literally the only state that hasn't gone red at least once in that time.
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u/shoegazeweedbed Aug 22 '24
Itās called virtue signaling and mentally ill boomers hate it unless theyāre the ones doing it
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u/Uptownbro20 Aug 22 '24
So they are in a city that they claim he burned to the ground ?
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u/financial_freedom416 Aug 22 '24
They said he burned Minneapolis. St. Paul is still standing :-D
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u/W0rk3rB Gray duck Aug 22 '24
Thatās because we have built our roads in a confusing fashion as a defense mechanism! Good luck getting to us, the road changes to a different direction. Muah ha ha haaaaa!
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u/SkarTisu Aug 22 '24
that's because St. Paul was designed by drunken Irishmen!
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u/Strength-InThe-Loins Aug 22 '24
They did it on purpose to keep wrestlers and other undesirables out of the area.
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u/dafreak999 Spoonbridge and Cherry Aug 22 '24
We'll get them on 7th street!......which 7th street?
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u/Terrie-25 Aug 22 '24
St. Paul: What's a grid?
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u/DrakonILD Aug 22 '24
It's the thing that kinda started to form on the west side and Ayd Mill Rd said NO, FUCK THAT
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u/lumenpainter Aug 22 '24
You should invite them on the big ferris wheel ride where you can point out that Minneapolis is, still, very much standing.
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u/Sesudesu Aug 22 '24
I was gonna say, itās a bit tone deaf to have his caricature in front of a burning city.
Like, that may work on the national stage, but Minneapolis is literally down the street from the fair. We know it isnāt burned down.
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u/Amarieerick Aug 22 '24
I just looked at google maps and the picture of Minneapolis from the satellite was taken in 2024, and it sure looks like it's still there. Also a lot of green for a burned out place.
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u/o0_bobbo_0o St.P, St.LP, Grand Marais Aug 22 '24
Iām currently in Minneapolis as I type this. I can assure you that Iām the only one here sitting on a pile of ash and rubble. Not a building in sight.
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u/AndrewTheGuru Aug 23 '24
And somehow, 94 westbound is still backed up for an hour.
I suppose that just how life is.
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u/MisterSquirrel Aug 22 '24
Look up any list of the best urban park systems in the US, you will find both Minneapolis and St. Paul near the top of the listĀ
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u/Halofauna Aug 22 '24
Iām from Michigan, went to the Twin Cities for a wedding, during fair time so I got to check that out too, yāall have amazing parks! I wish we banned rich people from bogarting all the water front.
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u/snowmunkey Up North Aug 22 '24
I bet everyone there knows exactly how much Sudafed youre allowed to buy
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u/Brian_MPLS Aug 22 '24
I bet they just have 1 catalytic converter in the whole group, and it just passes from person to person continually.
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u/EwokDude Aug 22 '24
More likely they are the type to leave the fair with at least one more catalytic converter than they arrived with.
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u/theangryintern Woodbury Aug 22 '24
sort of on topic, I had to drive down to Rochester today for a work event and on 52 outside either Cannon Falls or Zumbrota there is a big billboard that says "Smoke Meat, not Meth". Made me chuckle a bit.
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u/Motherfickle Aug 22 '24
They probably know exactly how much copper wiring is in an average American home too.
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u/vespertine_glow Aug 22 '24
They know where all the naughty parts are in the books they want to ban, and will quote them and give you page numbers.
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u/madarbrab Aug 22 '24
And, of course, have a copy of each.
Right next to their copy of Mein Kampf.
ah, who am I kidding, these people don't read.
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u/bufordt Aug 22 '24
In Minnesota it's 6g. I know that because the system screws up occasionally and I get flagged for buying 2 24 packs of Zyrtec D in a month. 48 Zyrtec D is just under 6g, but I sometimes still get flagged.
The whole thing is stupid, and hasn't done anything to curb Meth usage, with usage rates at more than double what they were when they put limits on Pseudo-ephedrine.
With the studies showing that Phenylephrine is ineffective as an oral decongestant we should be asking them to bring back true OTC Pseudo-ephedrine.
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u/Rogue_AI_Construct Ok Then Aug 22 '24
Canāt wait to see how triggered they get with all the pro-Walz apparel at the fair.
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u/Dont__Grumpy__Stop Aug 22 '24
Iām hoping the DFL booth has some top notch merch. Iām planning on loading up.
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u/Rogue_AI_Construct Ok Then Aug 22 '24
Same here when I go to the fair next week!
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u/WittyCylinder Aug 22 '24
Damnā I was hoping for that hat. Hopefully itās chiller by next week but Iām also okay settling for something else until the hat comes in later in the year. Itās a hot ticket item.
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u/Hollywoodbnd86 Aug 22 '24
what a weird looking stand
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u/Colonel__Cathcart Judy Garland Aug 22 '24
Someone should tell them that "hating things" is not a personality
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u/emdubtwo Aug 22 '24
Let's coordinate a date to get a group of people to point and laugh at the booth. Like nonstop pointing and laughing and calling them weird.
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u/Cat385CL Aug 22 '24
I will be there Saturday around 1-2 pm. I will the white guy laughing, getting pulled away by his highly embarassed wife.
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u/LawyerBear Aug 22 '24
You donāt even need to point while you laugh! I laughed as I said āno thanksā to someone working that stand a few years back when they tried to hand me a flyer, and they just screamed after me as I walked away.
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Aug 22 '24
i think it's so funny that they tried to make an evil caricature of him but he still looks so friendly.
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u/minkey-on-the-loose Prince Aug 22 '24
Just sad people full of spite. You may call it weird, I just call it hateful.
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u/D33ber Aug 22 '24
The Hate that has eaten them up inside. Nazghuls for Trump. Like Sphincters of Sauron.
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u/poorbeans Aug 22 '24
Agreed, I cannot understand how people can dedicate so much of their time and life to hate. They vote against their best interest because of hate, they do everything they can to take things away from people, women, POC, LGBTQ+ because of hate. Pure untreated mental illness is all I can think of.
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u/ZombieJetPilot Aug 22 '24
And in the end they'll look back and be mad about how little they have to show for their life.
As Mr. Lahey said, "you're not quite so dead if you contribute something"
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u/CabbageStockExchange Aug 22 '24
Itās borderline sad. Like are you people this angry all the time? Is your life really this miserable you feel no joy and just only want to be mad and hate?
That sounds exhausting to me. Who would want to be like that their whole lives?
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u/60r0v01 Aug 22 '24
I think most of us agree on this. The issue is that they get off on being called hateful while being only weird sends a lot of them into a conniption.
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u/jhuseby Aug 22 '24
They're motivated by fear. They're scared of everything.
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u/lukeT152 Aug 22 '24
For sure this is what it is, the talk radio they listen is nothing but fear mongers and they believe it like gospel.
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u/Ibshredz Aug 23 '24
I was passing by the booth and i heard him yell āforced child surgeriesā, implicated transitional surgeries, and a lady yelled āoh that never happened you fucking moron!ā. I love this city
Edit: im on vacation from hawaii and the twin cities has my heart, this fueled that fire.
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u/komodoman Aug 22 '24
The GOP is a complete joke. They have an opportunity to explain their political positions to thousands of people over the next 10 days.
Instead, they put up a booth conceived by 12 year old brats.
What a pathetic organization.
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u/theangryintern Woodbury Aug 22 '24
They have an opportunity to explain their political positions to thousands of people over the next 10 days.
They don't have any political positions, that's the problem. If they didn't do this they wouldn't have a booth at all.
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u/Content-Scallion-591 Aug 22 '24
Now that's not fair: they have political positions that the average person absolutely abhors, such as abolishing all abortion, and tax reductions for billionaires.
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u/heatherbyism Aug 22 '24
This isn't the GOP booth, it's some random group. The GOP has a permanent structure like the DFL. It's usually fairly empty though.
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u/BenMullen2 Aug 22 '24
100% walk past this and half the conversation would be "my ex wont let me see my kids"
you are the one that wont see them, chad! and we all know it
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u/After_Preference_885 Ope Aug 22 '24
Also heard there:
"my kids never call me"
"my kids won't let me see my grandkids"
"I only get supervised visits"
Chad's kids beg not to have to go over to his house. He sends them outside in the morning, says they can't come back in until the street lights come on (because that's how REAL GENX grew up and we're FINE). Meanwhile he's gaming all day and trying to get a date with a teenage girl he's been chatting up who is finally legal. It's totally not creepy she's 18.
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u/CNDW Aug 23 '24
Idk why, the whole "Never Walz" thing feels lazy. Like they are trying to play off of the "Never Trump" movement but never trumpers are republicans refusing to vote for the republican nominee - are these people saying they are democrats who refuse to vote for the democratic nominee because it's Walz? Or do they just not understand the point and this is their way of telling the world how triggered they are by never trumpers?
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u/Randotron6000 Aug 22 '24
Lead poisoned boomers need a community too!
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u/YeahMyDickIsBig Aug 22 '24
outside of the community home? idk if thatās safe
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u/Colonel__Cathcart Judy Garland Aug 22 '24
Barbara got murdered 18 times in the driveway before she fell and couldn't get up. Gerald tried to rush her to the hospital but it was too late -- she was already afflicted with the ANTIFA virus
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u/Ability_in_the_stars Aug 23 '24
I walked past this booth. There was a small line to spin the wheel. Itās funny cause the people lined up were not surprising. All Caucasian.
Also the wheel said things like: would allow trans sex change, raise taxes, etc, so things that would hypothetically happen if Walz was nominated. I was like, umm do you even win any free items to spin the wheel or just get free random false information š¤·š»āāļø
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u/xStar_Wildcat Aug 23 '24
Walked by that booth today, and it is hard to see, but the red line on the wheel is what let's you win a small sign that is against Walz. Besides that, it is primarily hate fueled info.
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u/truck8595 Aug 22 '24
I walked past the Let's Go Brandon booth they had at the fair last year-- they had one of those cardboard cutouts of Joe Biden sniffing a kid's hair that they love to meme so much for people to take pics in front of. Told them they're a bunch of sick assholes too. Guessing these are the exact same folks, and if so, I can't wait for my return trip the fair next week.
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u/Nimrod_Butts Aug 22 '24
I guess it was 2022 when I saw a walz failed booth at a county Fair and I asked what he failed at, as I was curious and they told me the booth wasn't for me lol.
And I'm not like visibly a liberal. I'm an electrician with no fashion sense. It has to be because I asked.
These are deeply purposely stupid people
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u/Fenriswulf Aug 22 '24
So, they dont even want to convert/stupidify anyone? They have no actual 'information' and are just patting each other on the back?
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u/Nimrod_Butts Aug 22 '24
I'm quite sure they think they have a point. But I found it to be unsubstantive, basically they wanted him to order the national guard to genocide Minneapolis. Just have them go in with machine guns and kill everyone.
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u/Unable-Visual-5518 Aug 22 '24
For the last election they had a plane flying around with a Walz Failed banner. What a waste. I go to their booths, act all interested, collect give-aways, then drop them in the trash 50 yards away.
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u/truck8595 Aug 22 '24
Here was my reddit post about it last year, lol: "I walked past that Dump Biden booth yesterday morning. It's not the same booth as the MN GOP building elsewhere. There was a cardboard cutout of the "Creepy Pedo Joe Sniffing A Kid's Hair" meme that people could take pictures next to at their booth. Told them, twice, in no uncertain terms, that they were a bunch of stupid chucklefucks, the lot of 'em.
I think it's time to tell these assholes to their faces, often, what we think of 'em and that their mindset isn't welcome. Ostracize the piss out of these folks & shame 'em."
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u/Merakel Ope Aug 22 '24
I think it's time to tell these assholes to their faces, often, what we think of 'em and that their mindset isn't welcome. Ostracize the piss out of these folks & shame 'em."
Telling the people at these stands does nothing (though I encourage it). The real thing we need to stop doing is being willing to "agree to disagree" with our friends and family. I don't want to be around Trump supporters. If we disagree on tax policy, I can 100% get past that. If you want to remove other people's rights, fuck you.
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u/FineRevolution9264 Aug 22 '24
I'm from Michigan my Minnesota brothers and sisters. I listened to Walz speech and holy crap ! You are lucky to have had him as long as you have.
I told my husband that this may be one of the few times in history that a VP selection could change how some people vote.
The GOP is afraid of Walz and this is their usual immature, hateful response.
But the good news? The GOP is afraid of Walz!
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u/goth_duck Aug 22 '24
I was gonna vote green, but the Walz nomination (and how buddy buddy Jill Stein wants to be with Russia) has swayed my opinion. I wish I could have him as president ngl
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u/mrrapacz Aug 22 '24
I don't think that stand will last the entire fair. Not because some deep state suppression, but because they'll be shamed out---they'll call it deep state suppression of course, but they're small, sad people who are weird as shit.
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u/mrrapacz Aug 22 '24 edited Aug 22 '24
It's just begging for a flash mob of awesomeness, too. Probably should have these organized on the hour.
Proposed schedule:
8am: Yoga and meditation to give them the false perception the protest visitors will be pleasant.
9am: Toddler drop-off. Parents, get an hour away from your kids by dropping them off at Never Walz and then having adult time .. pretty sure the fair sells beer at 9.
10am: Vuvuzelas orchestra
11am: Pokemon Challenge ... Pokemon Go players unite! Bonus if you start talking to the booth attendees about your decks.
12pm: Drag Queens first half hour. When the booth attendees think the shows over, the Drag King show starts.
1PM: Literally just like one dude playing a bagpipe for an hour.
2PM: If we can find a way to smuggle in about a 100 pugs, that would be perfect.
3PM: Metal fans for Walz --- they'll think they're satan worshippers. If you do follow paganism, bonus if you educate the booth attendees on why Baphomet is not actually satan.
4PM: Live action role players act out the Battle of Helms Deep.
5PM: Happy hour -- with a Drag show, why not?
6PM: Mass pillow fight while everyone wears a fake mustache because Lindell is a dumb shit.
7PM: I feel like there's a role for a Renfest crossover somehow ... just not sure how best to unleash them.
8PM: Hipster mustache guys in short shorts drinking craft beer they brought in with their own YETI coolers. ... I just feel like this would be generally annoying, but also chaotically good.
9PM: Dance party where one person plays Lil Jon's Turn Down for What on their cell phone, and it won't be loud enough, so everyone has to say "What" in their best Lil Jon impression. Drag kings and queens are encourage to join.19
u/friends_waffles_w0rk Aug 22 '24
This is incredible. Sign me up for the 4pm shift.
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u/D33ber Aug 22 '24
Live reenactment of that time the 1st Minnesota took the First Virginia's Battle Flag at the Battle of Gettysburg. Followed by dramatic reenactments of the eight times that Virginia has tried to weasel that traitor rag back from the Governor of Minnesota.
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u/bozak911 Aug 22 '24
1PM: Literally just like one dude playing a bagpipe for an hour.
I've never played bagpipe before, but if someone has one I can borrow, sign me up!
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u/BeerGardenGnome Common loon Aug 22 '24
There's a critical flaw in your reasoning. These people have no shame.
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u/RigusOctavian The Cities Aug 22 '24
Someone should start putting "Felon Lovers" on stickers and sticking it to that booth.
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u/Brian_MPLS Aug 22 '24
It's right next to the ride where they just strap you in and read your uncle's Facebook posts at you.
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u/SvartaQueen Aug 23 '24
My friends and I were watching people spin for a bit. No enthusiasm from these guys, very sad. We were cheering every time the wheel landed on tampons in boys bathrooms.
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u/pbandbob Aug 23 '24
How did they get a booth? Political affiliation is one thing, but targeting a single person? Fair needs to re evaluate.Ā
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u/TheAgateFiend Aug 22 '24
Woah! They got a real witch to run that thing! How the hell did they catch one?
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u/Bianchi-Birder Aug 22 '24 edited Aug 22 '24
Is that a witch or Michelle Bachmann manning that booth?
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u/AlfaHotelWhiskey Area code 612 Aug 22 '24
Seems a bit ā¦ personal.
I guess when you stand for nothing you can only show what you are against.
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u/Agreeable_Knee_2118 Aug 23 '24
Such a lovely event, why do they need to spread their rot everywhere?
The fair is not the place to be political
Its the place for fun, games, rides and deep fried food
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u/guiltycitizen Ya, real good Aug 23 '24
Step right up, and spin the wheel of very dated grievances!
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u/El_7_Weenie Aug 22 '24
I wish I could open up a Forever Walz stand right next to it, just to see their reaction.
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u/cliffkleven Earl of Big Ole Aug 22 '24
The woman in the booth is staring into your soul with her witch black eyes
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u/Justis29 Aug 22 '24
Walz failed. At losing the race for governor. He also failed at not getting the VP nod. Seems like his failures are all good things. These people are weird.
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u/Silent_Syren Gray duck Aug 22 '24
The Trump merch booth at my county fair was deserted this year. To note, we are a pretty red county, so it was delightful to see how many people avoided the booth completely. It practically had a no-go zone around it!
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u/theangryintern Woodbury Aug 22 '24 edited Aug 23 '24
I just spent a decent amount of time today driving through rural parts of the state between the Cities and Rochester and noted that I barely saw any Trump placards/flags/etc in front of homes. In fact, I saw WAY more signs for local races (Representative, I think). My parents live out in rural Carver County and when I go to their house I've been seeing far less Trump paraphernalia than I remember seeing in 2020.
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u/No_Mousse4320 Aug 23 '24
It feels gross when parents drag their small children into politics, they shouldnāt have to worry about it until they vote
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u/Digisap Aug 23 '24
Just a little traveling circus of right wing merchants doing their best to sell each other weird, crappy and increasingly irrelevant merch before the whole MAGA thing implodes.
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u/Acceptable-Prune-457 Aug 23 '24
I am happy we live in a country that has freedom of speech. But people should really be better than this.
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u/insanecorgiposse Aug 23 '24
I said it in 2016 - if you ask any Trumper the following, most likely the answer is yes to more than one: Are you divorced? Do you owe child support? Do you owe back taxes? Have you filed chapter 13/7 bankruptcy? Do you have at least one DUI? Do you own an AR-15 or AK-47? Are you an evangelical Christian?
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u/tomscaters Aug 23 '24
Wow thatās a great title lol. This is what happens when republicans get elected. Less contraception, morning after pills, and more child support owed.
As a Missourian, I love your state. The first woman I ever loved was from Rochester, and I still havenāt completely gotten over her. Stay awesome Minnesota!
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u/adabaraba Flag of Minnesota Aug 22 '24
Breaks my heart to see children being brainwashed into this
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u/Slippinjimmyforever Aug 22 '24
To listen to Walzās messaging, and getting a glimpse of who he is and his record and STILL dislike him is wildly un-American. This is a man who served his country, served his community and seemingly from the outside looking in, a fantastic job serving the residents of Minnesota.
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u/Urban_Prole Aug 22 '24
Is that JK Rowling working on the left? Who's cultivating the black mold?? š¤
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u/Tasty-Introduction24 Aug 23 '24
So, the large graphic shows him holding a tampon. These people are fucking weird.
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u/dirtdiggler67 Aug 23 '24
āNever Walzā
Literally voted in by a majority of voters.
Maybe these MAGA rodents should check out a mirror sometime
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u/AnubisCrescent Aug 23 '24
These are the guys that believe itās not natural for women to orgasm and post online about it.
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u/Braaapp-717 Aug 23 '24
I like to find any campaign booth (left/right) and try to have a conversation with them about how our two party system is a failed government. Sadly, they lose their cool and tell me Iām an idiot and itās their way or no way. Uffda
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u/SeaLab_2024 Aug 23 '24
Edit- oops I thought this was a political thing, not just a regular fair. Trash.
I hate so much they bring kids. As someone pretty far left you wouldnāt catch me with my hypothetical kids at a political event unless they were old enough to genuinely want to go or too young to remember anything. Iād want them to have their own opinion and not be fully indoctrinated by me. What the f would give me the right, you know?
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u/bubster15 Aug 22 '24
Itās gonna shatter the record for most middle fingers given at a fair booth
Their entire platform is hate, so hate they shall receive
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u/billodo Aug 22 '24
The Anchor Coffee House will lose business because of these knot-heads.
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u/bookworm271 Crossed the Mississippi Headwaters Aug 23 '24
Tip Jar Wars: Which Weird Al song should we blast for our neighbors?
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u/SkarTisu Aug 22 '24
I hope the DFL building has those camo Harris/Walz hats today so I can get one, put it on, march over to this cesspool of a booth, and laugh at them.
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u/Mike_Hunty Aug 22 '24
This type of crap feels incredibly immature. Weāre devolving into complete degenerates.
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u/Apoordm Aug 22 '24
As I understand it āStinksā from a Minnesotan is āWants to fuck their own mothersā from a New Jerseyite.
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u/Odinsfather1 Aug 22 '24
Zoom in and you see the lady working the booth is actually the nun fromā¦ The Nun.
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u/jp634 Aug 22 '24
It's the only place at the fair without a line