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Tim Walz’s net worth is less than the average American’s
(fortune.com)
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They need to fucking run with this in their programming. It's such a powerful contrast to billion dollar baby and Peter Thiel's plaything. He is demonstrably not in it for the money. He's just a guy, trying to improve people's lives and that's it.
They’ll spin it that he’s so poor that he is incompetent or just going for VP for the paycheck will “billionaire” Trump is a good business man and doesn’t need the paycheck at all. But it will probably backfire cuz that just makes Walz relatable AF, especially to younger or more rural voters.
"He's just a guy doing work for MONEY!!! He doesn't care about the JOB!!!! He just shows up for a paycheck!!! He hates the American people, because as vice-president they're his BOSS!!! He hates his BOSSES!!!! Not like Donald Trump! Trump only hates people who aren't white! But he hates people equally, regardless of their job!"
"Whoa! This Walz guy sounds just like me! I only do my job for the money too! And I hate my boss! My company used to be so much bigger until my bosses fucked everything up! Blockbuster used to be HUGE!"
"You work at a Blockbuster Video? Like the video tape rental place???"
"Yeah!"
"Where even IS a Blockbuster anymore??? I thought they all went out of business...."
"In Alaska. We don't have internet up here, so nobodys heard of Netflix."
"You live in Alaska? I'm not sure you even CAN vote in a USA election. That's part of Russia, man!"
"What? No it's not."
"It used to be! And that means Russia can take it back anytime Putin wants."
"That's......not how that works...."
"Tell that to Ukraine! They're invading Russia right now."
"I mean.....yeah, ok, they are, but only in self defense of a war that's been going on for 2 years prior."
"And that war started because Ukraine didn't just hand themselves over back to Russia. As they'd previously been."
"You're an idiot."
"And you work for Blockbuster."
Would have thought someone his generation owned the house they bought for 50 years ago for $1,000 or something.
He sold the house when he was ejected governor.
I know it's a typo, but the mental image of him being ejected from a plane and parachuting down into his new office is just badass
I'm going to leave it because you're right.