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Tim Walz Struggles with his Shotgun
The Harris Waltz campaign to attract men provided a good laugh when Waltz was exposed by his shotgun who was smarter than he was.
Having to qualify with the shotgun on a regular basis as a police officer, I can say that I never saw that kind of an epic fail of an officer bent over a shotgun trying to unload it. As one wag put it, it was as if the gun magically appeared in his hands, and he didn’t know what to do with it.
The only thing that I took from the video is if you go hunting with Walz, you will want to know where he is at all times until the hunt is over. You would do both him and yourself a big favor if you unloaded his gun yourself.
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“Now, Tim, put this in your shirt pocket and button it in. I’ll tell you when you can load your weapon.”
Also, great tag.
A Baretta A400 can be northwards of two grand! I’d have more of a problem affording one than loading one. Supposedly he got it when he “was shooting a lot of trap.” He didn’t learn how to load it then?
I prefer to think the shotgun had a struggle with Walz.
“Take your filthy hands off me, you damned dirty ape!”
I’m still not clear what he was trying to do with the gun. Everyone says he was trying to load it, but it’s not obvious to me that’s what he was doing.
Whatever it was, he doesn’t seem familiar with the weapon. He said he shot a lot of trap with it. I’ve not shot trap, but have shot skeet and sporting clays. You get a LOT of practice loading and manipulating your shotgun in those sorts of sports. I’m calling B.S. on the trap shooting.
Maybe trying to have sex with it? But I suppose that’s more Mr Kamala Harris’s thing.
Reminds me of John Kerry’s “Can I get me a hunting license” photo op at a sporting goods store in the lead up to the 2004 election.
No wonder Cheney endorsed Harris/Walz.
This puts a new, disgusting, twist into the, “What’s the best gun lubricant?” debate. Thanks for that mental image. Not.
I don’t know how many shotguns I own (seriously!). But I can tell you how many semi automatic shotguns I own: one. It’s a competition rig that runs like a scalded dog (extended mag tube holds 10 rounds, plus one on the ramp and one in the chamber, it can blast all 12 rounds out on target in under 7 seconds). That said the it is not the most intuitive gun to shoot. I do quite well with it now because I’ve owned it for about five years and I’ve shot I don’t know how many thousands of rounds through it. But I can tell you when I first got it I was as awkward as Walz was with his gun; so yeah, I’m with you, it’s BS. He hasn’t shot that gun very much if at all.
Quick, count Walz’s toes. Does he still have 11?
Or maybe 12.
Reminder, Walz was in the military for years, claiming to be a Command Sgt Major.
What kind of leader uses a gun for the first time while reporters are following him?
“After this howsabout you tv folks come up to the house where Gwen’ll cook you up some of the clay-pigeons I shot last week.”
You know what would make the beginning of a funny joke?
“Tim Walz and Dick Cheney go duck hunting . . .”
I don’t think vice presidents should go hunting anymore.
I’ve seen several fawning news reports (this is just one) from people who were probably trying to bury the “Why didn’t she pick Josh Shapiro?” narrative, that Harris picked Walz for his “communications skills,” and, most notably, because he described the Trump/Vance ticket as “weird,” something which Harris (understandably in the context of her own rhetorical deficiencies) viewed as a triumph of subtle, concise, and effective oratorical skill which would resonate with tens of millions of voters and accrue greatly to her benefit in the months before the election. Walz’s piling on, shortly thereafter, by repeating a meme from which even its creator has distanced himself–that Vance likes to have sex with his couch (man, that’s “weird”)–and Tim’s ascendance was inevitable, especially given the orgasmic freakouts from the press over his camo hats and flannel shirts, most of which look as if he’s never worn them before and as if they’re straight off the rack at Tractor Supply (although he probably doesn’t shop there, since their moment of “wokeness” disappeared almost as soon as it arrived, once company management saw its effect on the sales volumes. Maybe Tim is more of an “REI” guy, another outfit that’s in serious trouble largely due to its inflated opinion of its own righteousness, and its resulting high prices, right now.)
Tim Walz is a phony and a mediocrity the likes of which has rarely been seen, even in American politics. A person with a limited single-syllable vocabulary, who was reaching for the exact word to describe him, might alight upon “weird.” I don’t think there’s a single authentic thing about him. So it’s hardly surprising he doesn’t seem to know one end of a firearm from the other. (Full disclosure: I’ve been following Scott Johnson’s reporting on Tim Walz’s ascent to governorship in MN for years on Powerline.)
Winston Churchill, 93 years ago, on Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald’s failure to deal forcefully with Britain’s 1931 financial crisis:
Tim Walz on his political opponents, 2024:
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz struck rhetorical gold when he referred to Donald Trump and Republicans as “just weird” in a July interview.
Sigh.
If he had gone through a box of shells trap shooting, I’ll bet someone else loaded the shotgun.
Yes!!!
The way he handled his shotgun, perhaps fewer than 10.
Why is this inauthenticity as galling as Kamala Harris pretending to be middle class? Politicians lie all the time but these examples really stick in my craw. For some reason they are worse than usual.
Is it because the life stories of Trump and Vance are authentic?
Hmmm. That might be why.
At least Dick Cheney successfully loaded his gun.
The McDonald’s thing is weird in both directions. For Kamala, if you want to make up stories about a hard childhood, tell them you worked in a coal mine when you were two. McDonald’s doesn’t measure up.
On the other hand, maybe Harris is telling the truth. I worked in three different fast food restaurants when I was a teenager in the ’70’s. There’s no way I could prove it now.
I worked next door to a McDonald’s once.
my first paystub from when I worked at McDonalds in 1978.
I was across the street working at the Burger King.
They paid you with “food” and then deducted it?