He she?
Kinda sad we don’t get an astronaut vp but that’s alright
Yeah, but maybe one day President Kelly? He seems like a interesting person, though I don’t know all of his policy stances
It would open up a senate seat dems don’t want to lose
When I was a kid, Scholastic did a “kids pick the president” poll. It was 1984 and John Glenn was running. I voted for him because he was an astronaut and The Right Stuff had come out a year before so I also thought he was basically Ed Harris. (I was 7.)
Jesse Jackson won. I was disappointed at the time. I’m not a fan of Jackson’s, but I’d still have taken him over 4 more years of Reagan.
Walz is more progressive than Kelly.
You win some you loose some 🤷
Agreed, but…
LOSE
Man the english language makes no sense.
the sound in lose is the same sound as we are taught “oo” makes.
Couldn’t a more straightforward language be chosen as the global one ffs
My father (who had a PhD in English) used to tell me that “ghoti” was pronounced “fish”
GH as in rouGH
O as in wOmen
TI as in raTIonHow do you pronounce women? When I put those sounds together it makes more of a fush or fosh than fish .
Or do you say fish different than me?
“Wih-men.” I think you’re thinking of woman, the singular version of the word.
Looks like we can thank the Dutch language for that one
doesn’t matter what the root is. Just conform the spelling to fit your language’s rules
English? Rules?
We don’t do that here.
GHOTI is pronounced as “fish”.
Kamala must change her name to commalaa
Looks like loose is from Germanic/Old Norse, “laus”
And lose is from Old English, “los”
Also looks like I can’t stand to look at either of these words for a few day now.
From my tiny amount of research eventually it passed through the Dutch layer and ended up as “loose” from those origin points before being adopted into english
Loose could really be tightened up if it could just lose one of those Os
There’s also loose and they sound the same but mean different things.
Loose is when your pants is too wide.
Lose is when the pants were so wide that you lost them.
They don’t sound the same at all though.
Lose - looze
Loose - luice
Interesting, I didn’t know that. FYI, there’s the phonetic transcription that saves us from using other words to describe a pronunciation.
luːz - lose
luːs - loose
Lucy’s loose legwear lost latitude, leisurely lowering, leaving Lucy’s legs largely liberated. Lamentably, Lucy’s lost leggings landed listlessly, loitering lifelessly.
Man looking a thesaurus is fun Lol
Here’s a poem you might enjoy: https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html
Silly poem showing its age,
Made has not the sound of bade,
Made totally sounds like bade
Wooo hooooo!!!
Better choice than Shapiro
Walz 60
He doesn’t look a day over 75.
Reading the article though he sounds like a good pick
Minnesotan here, been very pleased with the direction of policy and commitment to constituents he’s had. Bummed he won’t be the gov when he’s VP but that’s just me being a little selfish.
That’s great to hear. I’m not American, but you can’t sleep next to an elephant, and not feel when it moves. What happens south of our border definitely influences Canadians, and even their politics. I earnestly hope Harris takes it. She’s got a lot of buzz around her: way more than Biden ever did. She’s a legitimately solid candidate - something we would kill for up here.
Gotta throw the dinosaurs a bone i guess
They are the same age…
Well Kamala looks damn good for that age. Homeboy is showing more mileage
Dude seriously walz right into the position.
As a Minnesotan I’m a little sad that he’s going to be VP. But I understand. He’s been a great governor. Any person that the conservatives give a shitty nickname, you know is doing a great job. Who knew checks notes making sure school children are being fed is such a controversial issue.
The upside for Minnesotans is that this could lead to Peggy Flanagan becoming the new governor, and she sounds reassuringly progressive.
Told yah all. I’m gonna go kick her another $30
my house just put in $50. would likely not have scraped the barrel for that and done just the usual local/state donations.
see, dems… this is how you juice up your base and get the grass roots hands/feet/wallet support flowing.
now fucking win and fucking deliver. our children are out of time.
Harris/Walz 2024!! Let’s get out there
Good choice 👍
Seems like a good dude.
So there’s been a lot of progressive changes (weed, abortion, LGBTQ,) and he’s been working that here.
He genuinely cares about people and absolutely will be a great VP.
Edit: and you know the whole “Trump is weird” thing? He started that. (Well as a campaign thing.)
How did it start? I’m not American so I only get to see the reactions to newspieces commenting that Republicans are hating the weird thing, but have no idea how it’s being used.
He was giving an interview with some tv thing and commented that trump is weird and people started running with it
Not actually a lot there. Mostly because that’s just Walz… being honest.
