B-Man

The choice is bizarre for a number of obvious reasons, though as a miscalculation it makes sense as an insight into Harris’s understanding of America in this moment. For an election where the economy, immigration and crime are paramount voter concerns, Harris has just added a blue-state governor who is weak on all three. Minnesota has seen a shrinking workforce with residents fleeing the state at record levels during Walz’s tenure, his record on border security is marked by little more than unserious flippancy — and as for crime, well… Walz’s record during the summer of George Floyd will be central to Republican attacks. Even Walz himself admitted in a press conference the response to the rioters was an “abject failure”; his slow action in that moment — combined with Harris’s promotion of a bailout fund for those same rioters — hands the Trump-Vance campaign a viscerally powerful attack line at just the moment they needed it. In a vibes-based election, apparently Democrats think picking a white bespectacled “I would have voted for Obama for a third term” guy who happens to wear a field jacket is all it takes to transform a politician who makes fellow Minnesotans Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale look conservative into a “moderate.” Moderation is a label rendered particularly ridiculous when assigned to one of the most radical culture-war governors in America. Walz is big on getting rid of any limits for any leftist priorities. He signed an extreme bill with no age limit on transgender treatment for minors — consistent with the Biden administration’s advice, but utterly at odds with the scientific treatment trends out of Europe. He signed abortion policies into law that have no gestational limits; even Planned Parenthood itself officially agrees this is the most pro-abortion ticket ever. And that’s before you get to all the other issues — education, energy, guns and more. It’s impossible to find an issue where Walz can conceivably be described as in the political middle of the nation — which is probably why even though he’s from the same state as Amy Klobuchar, his winning cohort was completely different. If you buy the idea that Walz’s appearance will lend itself to a veneer of centrism, disguising his DSA-friendly leftism as folksy and familiar instead of radical, there are plenty of media partisans willing to sell that line to you. But for the Harris campaign, this seems like a selection with massive potential to backfire. Choosing Josh Shapiro or Mark Kelly might not have inspired the progressive activists, but they would absolutely come around in an election waged against Trump and Vance. So instead of picking a popular swing-state politician who would appeal to normie Independent voters, Harris is doubling down on progressive left energy in a way that seems, in a repeat of the nature of her presidential campaign failed in 2020, way too online. https://thespectator.com/politics/tim-walz-real-life-definition-msnbc-dad/

Under Walz, Minnesota became a high-crime state for the first time ever... Under Walz, student achievement tumbled even as spending on schools skyrocketed: Under Walz, per capita GDP in Minnesota fell below the national average, for the first time ever Under Walz, increases in energy costs have far outstripped the national average: And under Walz, Minnesota has joined New York, California and Illinois as a state that people of all ages are fleeing .

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Weird. It isn't like there hasn't been hundreds of examples over the past 4 years. I guess that Roundy's blinders are far smaller than I thought.

FAIL, BRITANNIA: UK Government Adviser Suggests Covid-Style Lockdowns to Suppress Anti-Migrant Protests. https://pjmedia.com/bryan-s-jung/2024/08/05/uk-government-adviser-suggests-covid-style-lockdowns-to-suppress-anti-migrant-protests-n4931343

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Push play.

Police don’t go after the grooming gang, but will go after the person reporting on the gang. That is really messed up.

OUCH !

EXACTLY.

Exactly.

The 5th Circuit Stops Democrats’ Misuse of the Voting Rights Act—and That May Shift Control of Congress by Hans Von Spakovsky In an Aug. 1 decision over redistricting of county commission seats in Galveston, Texas, the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has issued a decision that stops the political misuse of the Voting Rights Act by Democrats and their allies to create voting districts loyal to the Democratic Party instead of protecting the voting rights of minorities. This decision may also affect the political makeup of Congress and state legislatures in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas—the states within the jurisdiction of the 5th Circuit—moving dozens of seats from Democrat to Republican. https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/08/02/circuit-stops-democrats-misuse-voting-rights-act-may-shift-control-congress/

Walz is WORSE than WEIRD. He is anti-parent. He has passed 3 different laws in Minnesota to change the birth sex of minor children and ask other children to come to his state to get that done. He has asked an anti-parent teacher who said parents have no rights when their kids are at school to move to his state. He locked down schools during the pandemic and now only half of Minnesota students meet reading standards — and LESS than half met math standards. Walz has been name calling people as WEIRD, but anti-parents and anti-freedom is WORSE than WEIRD. American parents need to pay attention. The most anti-parent person in the US could be the next VP.