The Great Cackler

foiled by bureaucracy

[Discreet 🍥 @DiscreetLatino]

the Pope is canonically infallible & speaks for Christ so let him cook this one time

[Maine @maine_gov]

maine is not for lovers. Maine is for me. You cant have it.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

this horse is how it feels to be into menswear when your peers are buying homes, building careers, and raising families

[Acyn @Acyn]

Walz: But my wife often reminds me, hope is a great word and a beautiful name, but it's not a damn plan. We can't hope that we defeat Donald Trump… You don't hope to win, you plan, prepare and work to win.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Buttigieg: Being a teacher, a coach, a senior noncommissioned officer. What they all have in common is supporting other people. The Trump Campaign can’t figure out what to do with this ticket. They can’t fathom a campaign, or any leaders, who are not about themselves.

[Akilah Hughes @AkilahObviously]

The left reclaiming the American flag and camo is probably the toughest thing for conservatives.

[K(sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyett]

All I’m gonna say is that Walz brand of positive and kind masculinity is a massive tool to use going forward to teach millions of people that being a strong man isn’t about domination and fear but through compassion, kindness and not the fascist masculinity of hate and domination

[Mark Hertling @MarkHertling]

Many followers not familiar with the military are asking me “so what’s the big deal about a command sergeant major?”

Walz joined at 18 as a private. Rose through the NCO (sergeant) ranks, each requiring extreme competence at increasingly demanding jobs with more people & responsibility at every rank.

When you reach “Master Sergeant” you are selected to serve as a First Sergeant (1SG) of a unit…if you’re good enough. Then, those 1SGTs compete for selection to Sergeant Major. Only the best Sergeant Majors are selected for Command Sergeant Major (CSM) billets.

CSMs serve as the senior enlisted person in the unit and the advisor to Commanders at battalion and above. Having served with dozens of CSMs as my unit & command “battle buddy” I will attest they were all awesome.

They know what they’re doing. They uphold standards. They speak their minds to all ranks (private to generals). They’re not afraid of getting bad news because they know how to fix things when they go wrong. And they serve the command (their commander and their soldiers) with a selfless integrity and a complete dedication.

During social events and informal occasions, they’re usually a whole bunch of fun. And they always have great stories. But they’re always professional.

So, those are my thoughts
on Command Sergeants Major. While I don’t know the details of @GovTimWalz career wearing the cloth of our country, just the fact that he volunteered to serve and wore the CSM rank tells me a lot about him.

[Conor Rogers @conorjrogers]

People are watching Minneapolis Airport on FlightAware to see if Tim Walz is the VP pick — as if a midwesterner wouldn’t pack their car with 18 hours worth of snacks and leave at a sensible 3am to beat the traffic

[Claire Penis @ZeroSuitCamus]

Kind of starting to love RFK Jr. I love that every time I hear about him it’s because he issued a statement like “Let me get ahead of this story right now. In 2005, when I was young and foolish, I created a human centipede-style creature with 5 squirrels”

[Pope Francis – ARCHIVE @Pontifex266Arch]

Enough, brothers and sisters! Enough! Do not stifle the word of the God of Peace! May peace be the future of the Holy Land, the Middle East, and the entire world. War is a defeat!

[Ryan Cummings @weakinstrument]

Me two weeks ago: Tim Walz? Is that the guy in MN who gave kids free breakfast?

Me now: the 1999 Mankato High School football team’s power I formation on the goal line was the result of a generational coaching talent whose brilliance clearly carries over to many areas of life.

[Eva McKend @evamckend]

Walz: "Just look around. This is the beautiful tapestry of America and not one damn stupid red hat amongst ya."

[Octavio Medina @octavio_medina]

Portugal sharing the boat with Qatar and North Korea

[just business @OneWordPowerful]

might be conspiracy brain take but it feels like this isn’t getting more coverage because the media class on up doesn’t want any more big protests. Because this one of the worst there’s been.

[🤸‍♀️ @illusionturns]

I just think that Biden announcing this right before the Olympics is attention seeking amd takes away from what really matters, which is gymnastics

[𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 @homemakinghunny]

Funny how the term ‘dad bod’ has been completely normalized and accepted but ‘mom bod’ isn’t and YET the moms are the ones sacrificing their bodies to grow and birth and breastfeed those babies. But women are expected to bounce back and be thin but dad bods are accepted fully.