Who the heck vetted Tim Walz?
His whole thing is “level headed but liberal solider”…you know, MidWest Dad…hunter. Not a kook. The guy bails out on his unit – apparently backing out of his service commitment – just before his unit deploys to Iraq. Then he goes into politics repeatedly claiming to be a combat veteran!
FFS: this is catastrophic for Harris.
Of course the MSM went into overdrive cover up mode as this all came out but more and more of it just kept showing up…it is now impossible to ignore and if they let Walz debate Vance it’ll be presented to a national audience after Walz is the official VP nominee.
Don’t know what they do here – most likely they’ll just try to brazen it out. But there is a non-zero chance they’re forced to dump Walz at some point.
In addition to that, the Walz’ are…well…psychopaths. Walz signed bills to give illegal aliens drivers licenses and place tampon machines into the boys room…while Mrs Walz recalls with delight how she opened her windows so she could smell the fire of the BLM riots. Kinda funny on the tampon machine thing: all day today on X the Democrat bots were out there jumping on every tampon post to say “hey, we need tampons to be available!” as if this somehow explains why they’re in the boys room. The other line the bots took is that all cool guys carry a tampon around just in case a girl needs it. Maybe things have changed since I was in high school back in the last Ice Age but this just seems like…bullsh** on stilts. You’d need a PhD in mathematics to calculate the number of lockers “tampon boy” would be shoved into. I just have this odd idea that girls – being fully capable beings – look after that aspect of their lives very well, thanks very much, and don’t need a man to tell them what to keep handy in case of an emergency.
Harris got heckled by some pro-Hamas people at a rally – it might have been a set up but maybe not. The Democrats ditched the Jew to keep these people quiet but the bottom line is that Hamas – and thus the Hamasniks – want all Jews dead. Just not having one on the ticket isn’t going to make them shut up.
JD Vance again and again proves he’s intellectually brilliant and verbally adept. He simply destroys the false Narratives of the MSM and if he debates Walz the fight will be called after twenty minutes. Think about this: Walz was chosen because he’s lesser than Harris (and, of course, not a Jew)…Vance was clearly chose because he’s great and Trump is not afraid of his understudy shining bright. I’m still favoring RDS for 2028 but I freely admit that Vance impresses me more day by day. And if I’m torn between RDS and Vance in 2028, that’s a good thing.
Officially the race is a tossup with Harris having a slight edge 270-268. This is at the peak of her glow (or maybe a few days after that peak – there is some recent polling showing Trump rising again). I don’t believe that for a minute. I’ve got it at 312 to 226 favoring Trump with him still having slight chances in Virginia and Minnesota. I am completely confident that Trump/Vance will mop the floor with Harris/Walz (or whomever, who knows?). Because Harris is on top, I rate Trump’s chances of winning the popular vote low but I bet he gets above 80 million votes. And he might pull off a popular vote win – if Harris is finally flushed out of hiding and forced to expose herself to the American people in an unscripted setting, she might implode as badly as Biden did – remember, Biden’s implosion was a combination of bad times and Biden’s clear personal failure. If Harris is revealed as unfit (and she’s totally unfit; and without Joe’s excuse of being senile) then that same dynamic will come into play.
As for the bad times – they’re here and very likely to get much worse. The market volatility we see is based on fear that a recession is inbound. In the USA the employment outlook is bleak and while this might lead to a rate cut, that would immediately set off inflationary pressures. Meanwhile, crime continues to surge in the USA, the war in Ukraine continues to go badly: the Russians have been putting massive pressure on the Ukrainians and slowly grinding ahead. To give Ukraine her due she did launch today (or yesterday, depending on time zone) an incursion towards Kursk: this is, in military parlance, a “spoiling attack”. It isn’t a serious drive on Kursk but a means whereby the Ukrainians hope to draw in Russian reserves thus relieving the pressure elsewhere. How effective it is will be determined by the Russian reserves…if they’ve got enough to contain this attack and still press ahead elsewhere, then that is very bad news for Ukraine. South of there, the Middle East remains on fire and nobody can predict how that is going to go. The bottom line is that all of the things that dragged Biden down pre-debate are still at play…and the MSM hyping Harris can only have so much effect on that and that effect wanes ever faster as time goes on.
Meanwhile – here in Nevada we booted 90,000 bogus voter registrations off the rolls here in Clark County. Methinks I feel the hand of our Republican Governor in all this – former sheriff of Clark County and thus has many connections here. Lombardo does have policy ambitions but to get any of them he needs more GOPers in Carson City…so he’s doing what he can to help. Getting those registrations off the books helps a lot because that is the pathway of Democrat cheating – casting ballots for dead or moved-away voters. Not no more! I rate Nevada as Likely-R for November. There’s also moves along these lines in Arizona and Georgia. And there’s been reforms like this all over where GOP has power – so, it’ll be vastly harder for Democrats to cheat this time and they won’t have Covid to help them. This, by the way, is why Trump kept harping on the steal – to keep it in GOP minds and thus provide the political pressure to clean up the system. You think any of this would happen if Trump had just meekly accepted the 2020 result as Nixon did 1960? Also: voter registration trends continue to favor the GOP all over the Battleground States. Lots of Experts downplay this but I just can’t see someone switching to GOP or registering GOP unless they are planning on voting for Trump…with the indication in new registrations that it is low-propensity voters lining up for The Donald.
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I still say state GOPs need to start hammering Motor Voter. Point out its enablement of voter registration fraud which, when coupled with government-issued photo IDs (drivers licenses) for illegals and legal temp visa holders is a recipe for election fraud. It’s too late to do anything about it now except start now (not on November 3) hollering about it, in an effort to scare the pols and the illegals by threatening them all with everything we have. Threaten the pols with lawsuits if their cockamamie schemes prove to have allowed illegals to vote. Put up big signs in Spanish about it being federal crimes to lie about citizenship status on legal forms as well as to cast a vote. Make it clear that because of these policies we expect fraud . Get ahead of the game for a change, instead of playing catch-up and defense. Now that illegal immigration is at the forefront of the election, use that and the increasing awareness of the numbers of illegals here to push this narrative.
Let me get this straight, a guy retires from the military after serving 24 years so he can run for office and have surgery done on his ear after hearing loss caused by working with artillery. He retired before his unit was notified it was deploying to Overseas. Somehow this is considered a bad thing? Meanwhile Vance served four years and had a single deployment for six months as a combat correspondent. Tell me how this is a bad thing.
Looks to me that the Trump campaign is getting kind of desperate.
Meanwhile Trump only has one campaign rally this week and it’s in Montana, which is a safe Red state. Why isn’t he doing more rallies, especially in swing states?
Meanwhile Harris continues to surge ahead in the polls as the enthusiasm continues.
If you’re going to get something straight, try to get it straight. For example, you claim: He retired before his unit was notified it was deploying to Overseas. That is a lie. It is on record that he was demoted because he didn’t follow through on his testing, and then after telling his men he was going to Iraq with them he bailed. Who cares what his excuse was? He had a rank and a job to do and when it got too scary or too demanding he cut and ran. And then invented stories about serving in Iraq. There is nothing the least bit honest or honorable about the whole Walz National Guard affair. The only thing more shameful than what he did is people like you who line up to lie about it and defend it.
Vance went where he was sent, which was to a war zone in a shooting war, and served honorably. It is disgusting for you—even for YOU—-to denigrate honest military service like this. If this is the kind of utter crap you are fed by your masters, then it’s easy to tell just who is getting desperate. Which is borne out by your other lies, that Harris is “surging” in the polls, and that the “enthusiasm continues”. In fact, it is already wearing off as her disaster of a VP choice is already taking its toll.
And WTF business is it of yours when and where Trump campaigns? All you “know” is what your masters tell you as you lick their boots and all you “think” is what they tell you to think as you wallow in the moral and intellectual sewer you have chosen. Your addiction to the most vile and toxic messaging in the entire country has been pretty distasteful, but then you persist in racing yourself to the bottom.
Go away. Just go away and don’t come back. You are disgusting.
The veteran community, especially MilTwitter, needs to understand that Tim Walz is on camera falsely claiming he served in a combat zone.
He did not.
This is stolen valor.
Everything else about his rank and the timeline of his retirement is totally secondary to the fact that he lied about going to war.
He is a fraud and there’s no getting around irrefutable evidence of stolen valor.
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It goes beyond the initial story, which was bad enough: Walz bolted from the National Guard in 2005, just before his unit was about to deploy to Iraq. He did this to run for Congress. Then, he claimed he was a veteran of the Afghanistan War, which was a lie, said he deployed to Iraq, another lie, and later claimed he held a rank which he did not have upon retirement. There’s even a video from 2009 of a veteran confronting Walz on this matter. It’s an issue big enough for The Washington Post to devote a piece on Mr. Walz’s military record:
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Rep. Mike Waltz
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“Not only is he a retired teacher, Walz is a retired Command Sergeant Major in the National Guard who served a tour in Operation Iraqi Freedom…”
False. False. False.
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So I’m wondering if this story was reported multiple times in glossy profiles since 2005 why didn’t Walz ever request a correction? (Read news story shown in link)
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Tim Walz was weighing a life-altering decision when he stepped into a supply room at the National Guard Armory in New Ulm, Minn., nearly two decades ago. He closed the door behind him, recalled a colleague, Al Bonnifield, and confided he was considering whether to leave their unit even though it was preparing to go to war so he could run for Congress.
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…while Walz and his political allies have cited his 24 years of military experience as an asset, the circumstances of his departure from the National Guard and his characterization of his service already have come under attack. At least three former Guard colleagues have publicly voiced bitterness at Walz’s decision to leave their unit at such a consequential moment. It’s not clear how widespread that feeling was, but the Trump campaign has moved quickly to capitalize on the issue.
“Nobody wants to go to war. I didn’t want to go, but I went,” Doug Julin, a retired National Guard soldier who worked with Walz, said in an interview. “The big frustration was that he let his troops down.”
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On Wednesday, Walz also came under scrutiny for saying during a gubernatorial campaign event in 2018 that “we can make sure those weapons of war that I carried in war” are not on America’s streets. Walz did not serve in combat, according to the Minnesota Army National Guard, and his Republican counterpart jumped on those comments.
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Walz and his political allies also have inaccurately described him as a retired command sergeant major, one rank higher than he holds in retirement. Walz himself did so in a video clip from 2006 that was surfaced by C-SPAN on Tuesday and in a 2018 clip posted on his own YouTube account.
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“I’m a retired sergeant major in the Army and the Army National Guard,” he told a group of voters in the latter video.
Though Walz did achieve the rank of command sergeant major, it was a provisional rank until he completed required coursework for senior leaders, National Guard officials said. He did not do so by the time he departed the military and his retirement rank reverted to master sergeant on May 15, 2005, officials said. Walz retired the next day.
The Harris campaign declined to address why Walz has inaccurately said he retired as one.
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Minnesota National Guard confirms Tim Walz lied about his rank too
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Donald Trump is not the president of the United States. He is a private citizen who is a candidate for that position and as such is able to make his own decisions about how to schedule his time. On the other hand, Joe Biden IS the president of the United States, with a job to do. An important job., which he has insisted he keep. Which he is, apparently, not doing.
it appears that Team Biden has given up altogether on pretending that he is doing the job.
Political news site Roll Call maintains an objective calendar of the president’s schedule, updated “at midnight Eastern Time, or when pushed out [by the White House] via social media, whichever is earlier.” According to Roll Call’s “President’s Public Schedule,” Biden last spoke in public nearly a week ago. At 10:40 on the morning of Thursday, Aug. 1, Biden undertook the strenuous 15-mile limo ride to Joint Base Andrews. There, he and Vice President Kamala Harris greeted the handful of Americans who had been freed from Russia as part of an international prisoner swap. As usual, Russia got back its criminal operatives in return for the innocent Americans it had swiped off the street to use as pawns on just such an occasion.
Before that appearance, you had to go back three full days to Monday, July 29, to find a public appearance by our fearless leader. Stalwart Biden was able to sit on cushy Air Force One for the three-hour flight to Austin, where he gave remarks at the LBJ Presidential Library to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. From there, he flew to Houston to “[pay] respects to Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee.” Then the important man was flown back to his bed in the White House.
Five days later, on Saturday, Aug. 3, whoever runs POTUS’s social media posted a treacly propaganda video cut together from Biden’s visit to Austin. It bore almost no resemblance to an actual in-person appearance by an alert president interacting with the public and/or the media:
In the 17 days since Biden dropped out of the race, that’s pretty much it for public appearances.
He dropped out on Sunday, July 21. On Wednesday, July 24, he addressed the nation, shattering norms by giving a political speech attacking his opponent from the Oval Office in what may well have been pre-recorded remarks, for all anyone knows.
On Monday, Aug. 5, the “president” and the vice president-cum-replacement-presidential-candidate were bustled to the Situation Room for a photo shoot to simulate active leadership, lest anyone think the world was falling apart due to the leadership vacuum in Washington.
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It’s anyone’s guess what he does the rest of the time. The vice president, who one might hope was filling in the leadership void, is instead gallivanting about, running for office.
As the world splinters and shudders and slips into war, there’s no one at the wheel.
have surgery done on his ear after hearing loss caused by working with artillery.
But wait a minute. According to this story, some of his hearing loss was corrected, so he was able to continue serving. You said he retired early (three years into a six year enrollment, which also needs to be explained) because he had to have that surgery.
But during the 21 years that Walz spent working with large artillery pieces, he suffered hearing loss and tinnitus in both ears, Minnesota Public Radio reported. He was allowed to continue his service after undergoing surgery, which partially resolved his hearing loss.
Looks like some people need to get their stories straight. National Guard officer says he was demoted for failing to finish his course work, someone else quibbles about the term and redefines it as just not completing the final work. In 1995 he was supposedly so deaf he couldn’t hear the police instructions when he was pulled over for doing 40 MPH over the speed limit, which is the *real* reason he was arrested for drunk driving, but he didn’t retire until 2005, according to one of his biographers, being able to continue to serve after the ear surgery that he later retired to have done. Kind of an erratic time line there.
In the 1990s, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz reportedly fled from police during a DUI (driving under the influence) arrest and subsequently attributed the incident to his deafness, a claim that is not supported by court records.
According to a court transcript obtained by the outlet, Walz was traveling at a rate of over 90 miles per hour in a 55 mph traffic zone when he was stopped by the police.
According to the report of a Nebraska state trooper, his blood-alcohol level was 0.128%, which was significantly higher than the state’s legal limit of 0.08% at the time. He also failed a sobriety test and a breath test.
Walz’s counsel contended in court that Walz had only fled from the police because he mistakenly believed he was being pursued by someone. However, he eventually pulled over after the officer activated his siren.
“This is a little bit bizarre, but Mr. Walz thought somebody was chasing him. The officer didn’t turn on his red lights and he — somebody came up real fast behind him and he didn’t know what they were doing,” Walz’s lawyer said at the time.
“So he sped up to try to get away, fearing that somebody was after him. Lo and behold, it was a state patrolman that was behind him, so the faster he went, the faster the state patrol officer went,” he continued.
Walz was initially accused with driving under the influence; however, the charges were ultimately reduced to reckless driving after he entered into a plea agreement.
Story 1: Too deaf to hear the officer’s instructions so appeared drunk
Story 2. Heard the siren
Story 3. Tested extremely drunk on the scene in two tests that did not require hearing
Story 4. Only drove fast because he thought the cop was chasing him ( a common mistake often made by sober drivers)
(This reminds me of a photo of a sign in the rear window of a car that says: “You don’t need to keep tail gating me when I’m already going 35 mph over the speed limit, and those flashing lights on top of your car just look silly.”)
But I hear he’s real folksy
Back to that had to “have surgery done on his ear after hearing loss caused by working with artillery” thing.
From a website called Healthy Hearing:
No surgery can repair damage to the sensory hair cells themselves, which is common in the case of age-related or noise-induced hearing loss. His hearing loss was said to result from “working with artillery” which sounds like the definition of noise-induced hearing loss. Like tinnitus, it can’t be surgically repaired.
I’m not privy to Team Trump campaign schedules but I note that Vance was in Wisconsin at the same time as Harris so he took a minute to check out what will be his plane in January…and to ask, once again, why Harris won’t answer any questions or put out any policy proposals. Meanwhile, Trump has been out there but with the focus on Harris over the VP pick and the upcoming DNC, it really just isn’t the time for Trump to be doing too much…and when Harris does something remotely like Trump going to NABJ then you can start to get snide about where and when Trump does events.
As for the military service – I’m assuming you never served and so just don’t understand what it means to a unit when the senior NCO bails out. Now, if he really was combat ineffective then that would be fine. Nobody expects a person hors de combat to deploy – but a bit of ringing in the ears, if he even had that, doesn’t stop a good NCO from showing up. He clearly stayed in when, ears ringing, it was safe…and only quit, ears ringing, when danger threatened. If you want a glimpse of what an NCO is supposed to be like, go watch Zulu; excellent movie. There’s a scene where the very young and obviously afraid soldier asks plaintively, “why us?”. The sergeant calmly says, “because we’re here, and there isn’t anybody else”. It is a movie scene but it does capture it – the steadiness the NCO is supposed to show. Fear is contagious and it can destroy a unit faster than enemy action. Walz’ job as senior NCO wasn’t to get into the mud and blood to fight, but to be a rock of calm stability for some very young men (and, I guess, women these days) who were just about to have the very worst thing happen to them. IOW, his hearing didn’t need to be 100%…but his courage had to be there.
He bailed out.
That is, of itself, bad enough – but as a veteran and the son and grandson of combat veterans, I’d give it a pass except he repeatedly cited his combat service as justification for policy – especially his absurd, evil and anti-American gun control efforts. He lied. He said he did what he never came close to doing. I make no bones about it: I am a veteran but not combat. I served 4 years peacetime Navy. I was at risk as all service members are, but not like a unit going into battle. There is a very bright line of distinction here and nobody accidentally gets it wrong. If you didn’t deploy to a combat zone YOU DIDN’T SERVE IN COMBAT. Once in a combat zone there is further nuance (the REMF vs the guy who’s kicking in doors in Anbar) but the bottom line is that anyone is a combat zone can be killed at any time so everyone in the zone is a combat veteran. But if you never showed in zone, you didn’t serve in combat. What he did was like a man claiming to be a Vietnam combat veteran when he was stationed in Germany. It is just an absurdity. And evil – a lie; a horrid lie, designed to benefit Walz, personally. And this in stark contrast to Vance who, even though not a combat MOS, was in theater and so like all people in theater was constantly at risk from the IED, the mortar/rocket, the sniper. And, in fact, the enemy usually targeted REMF just because they were a softer target than the knife-edge combat units – this is why Sam Brown, GOP Senate candidate here in Nevada, was horribly burned over 30 percent of his body when his job that day was just to deliver a turbine to a dam project. Your fellow Democrats, BTW, are calling him “weird” in service to your bizarre “weird” name-calling campaign. Good job there, sport…insulting a wounded veteran.
The pragmatic facts of life are that when Walz was called to fulfill his service, he ran away – and then lied about it.
To us veterans he’s not even one of us. We don’t recognize any of his service and despise him as a disgrace.
Brilliantly said. Mark. I think you echo the sentiments of all veterans. It’s hard to believe that even Dem vets can pretend this is no big deal.
As the Left tries to fight the Walz fire, it keeps throwing gasoline on it. First, it has its own litany of lies—he resigned before he knew they would be deployed and he resigned because he had to have surgery on his ear seem to be the first out of the gate. I am sure there will be more.
In the meantime the Left is foolishly resurrecting the shame of the Kerry campaign by unearthing the term “Swiftboating”. You would think they would be hoping and praying that this would not remind people of John F’n Kerry and his own brand of cowardice. You would think the last thing they would want would be people discussing that. So far it hasn’t gotten past the fleeting comment “at least Kerry WENT to Viet Nam” and if they are lucky it will end there for them.
And it’s not just Walz. His wife has written about leaving her windows open so she could enjoy the smell of her city burning., and his daughter was getting info from Daddy about when and where the National Guard would be deployed —-when it finally was—–and relaying this to the Antifa rioters. I suppose one might try to “excuse” Walz’s lack of effort to protect his city as mere incompetence, but then if we factor in his wife celebrating the destruction and his daughter overtly contributing to it, it paints a very different picture. A very ugly picture.
When one says the Walz selection opened up a can of worms, what it means is that when the can was opened and we looked in we saw that the whole Walz family ARE the worms.
What does “The Nation” think would be a good response to Vance talking about stolen valor? Trump’s bone spurs. The Leftist narrative is that Trump “got a doctor to get him out of serving” because of bone spurs on his feet. Unless that mythical doctor implanted those bone spurs, there was nothing a doctor could do about the fact that according to the military they will not accept people with bone spurs.
(Well, that was way back when, when the military was focused on military readiness, not how to enable male chest feeding schedules.) Anything that is going to have a negative impact on an individual’s ability to perform the physical acts required in training, and especially in combat, is going to disqualify them from service.
But you know what you CAN do? You can lead men while your ears are ringing. As several vets have pointed out probably every man and woman who has served has developed tinnitus after being exposed to gunfire, artillery, etc. yet they are capable of leading effectively. Of course, it helps that they are leaders.
The ear owie story is a little reminiscent of John F’n Kerry’s refusal to let a Navy doctor put a bandaid on a minor scratch and waiting till a different doctor came on duty to have it “treated” and then asking for a referral for a Purple Heart for being wounded “in battle”. (He had been screwing around and set off a shell too close and got dinged by a little piece of shrapnel. He got three Purple Hearts and none of them were from injuries received in combat.)
But then, Tim had bigger fish to fry, important things to accomplish—like making sure boys have enough tampons.
Casper, I hear they’re doing a remake of the Monty Python Black Knight video. Why don’t you go audition (for the Black Knight role).
He’s too busy doing his simpering Church Lady imitation and polishing his whiny passive-aggressive schtick, where he says something really nasty and then makes Big Eyes and just can’t understand why anyone would think it nasty.
I’m thinking the whole damned party should get a group discount from Low-T.
I am becoming a serious JD Vance fan. The man has STYLE
In Eau Claire, Wisconsin the same day Harris was there, he showed us how it’s done. (Just a reminder—she flew in on the Vice President’s plane.) Check out the photo in the article. Wait till AOC sees this many manly men striding along, after her meltdown about Vance’s “manspreading” posture the other day.
Stolen Valor is just one issue that Walz needs to address, but the other one, which is what I am more focused on is … why in the hell did he allow Minneapolis to burn, for days. Many small businesses were destroyed, never to return again, and those are real hard working people who lost their livelihood all because of Walz’s political agenda. Not to mention the cost to taxpayers from all the destruction. Walz also decimated the Minneapolis police who still face shortages of 30% or more. Walz was on record saying that more police just cause more tension and more chaos. Think about that one. Walz is a Bernie Sanders look alike lunatic.
It’s only a matter of time before the honeymoon comes crashing down. Kamala will have to answer some tough questions at some point, and that’s when the gloss comes off. I can unequivocally say that Kamala is the dumbest person to ever run for President. Without exception. And Walz was chosen because he may be even a little dumber. Hard to believe but I think that’s the case. Additionally, why did Walz go to China so many times? He honeymooned there, and has praised China’s culture and governance. The truth is, if you scratch a current Democrat, you’ll find a communist.
This Minneapolis thing is definitely a big deal. Why would a man not only allow his city to burn, refuse to take action to protect it, but even give his activist daughter inside information on when and where National Guard units would be sent so she could relay this information to the rioters? How did he feel about his wife bragging that she left the windows open because she loved the smell of her city burning?
Just what was his true agenda here? It was not to defend the city. It was not to protect the people. It was not to preserve buildings and businesses. So what was it? What could he possibly gain from this? When he refused to send in the National Guard until he no longer had any excuse to delay this, what was his motive in letting the damage get as bad as possible before finally acting?
And then, of course, Kamala Harris supported a movement to provide bail for the few rioters the police managed to arrest
But I hear he’s folksy. And gives good speech.
And we’re not talking about minor damage.
Wouldn’t it be nice to know who is running the country? In the last couple of weeks, we have seen Israel being attacked on new fronts, Iran promising more death and destruction, unemployment spiking up, stock market chaos, fears of a recession, continued mayhem at the border, and the Secret Service still trying to escape accountability for their incompetence, and not one word from the POTUS.
It’s almost as if they don’t care about this country …. oh wait. Never mind.
To me the real message is that even now the Powers That Be are resisting any effort to move Joe out of the White House and move Kamala in. Even with the presumptive advantage of running as an incumbent, they won’t let her in, even as they desperately try to keep Joe alive for three more months. They might be getting butts in the seats for the time being, while the Harris/Walz team still has that new-car smell going for it, but I’m looking at behind the scenes, and I’m seeing the people in the party who really know what’s going on refusing to give her the office, even for just a few weeks, even if it might help in the election, even if it would check off another big box.
It can’t be that anyone is worried about her being seen as betraying Biden—that ship sailed when she connived with Barry to force him out of the campaign. It can’t be that there is a worry that a 25th Amendment move now would look like a coup—not after the sequential coups of kicking Biden off the campaign and then taking over the nomination without ever getting a single primary vote, ever.
Is it possible that Tim Walz is the grenade that Holder and Obama threw into the Harris campaign to blow it up? I understand Obama did not want Kamala, and I think Biden gave a BIG F U to Obama by endorsing Kamala so quickly, and Biden did that of course to get back at Obama for pushing him out of office. Shapiro would have been the smarter choice, but then again, he is much smarter than Kamala and would have made her look bad. It’s all very curious.
I don’t know how involved Obama is in the Harris campaign, but even Kamala has to be smart enough to not take advice from the guy who wanted her out of the race and only finally, reluctantly, “endorsed” her after being outmaneuvered by Biden.
but this just seems like…bullsh** on stilts.
Now there’s a phrase I haven’t heard in a while. It perfectly describes the entire Democrat agenda.
So a line used a lot by Kamala is that Trump plans to cut social security lol. I think every Democrat campaign since the 1940’s has used that line. And yet this is the campaign that says “they don’t want to go back” … too funny.
Stay tuned for more right wing observations.
Well, “he will be a dictator”—-though not a single thing he did in four years even approached that kind of intent or action, though his successor in the Oval Office did rule by fiat, merely inventing laws and enforcing them, like forcing people to inject experimental drugs or lose their jobs or military positions and the ability to travel freely, or simply “writing off” millions of dollars in student debt, etc.
And “he will refuse to leave office” though even when convinced (by overwhelming evidence) that the election had been stolen he merely rallied some supporters to exercise their 1st Amendment rights to petition Congress for redress of what they considered wrong but never indicated in any way an intent to leave the office even when Congress got panicked (not by a mob of Trump supporters by by the mob of Agenda Media) and abdicated its responsibility.
Several Republican presidents have suggested reforming Social Security, giving us the choice of continuing to have the government invest our money or putting into any of several carefully vetted stock market investments.
The “pro-CHOICE” party has fought, predictably, against this choice, because it would not only not lead to expansion of the control the federal government has over our lives, it would put that control in the hands of the people—the very antithesis of Leftist political philosophy.
This has been recast as planning to “cut” Social Security. Also, they simply invent the term without even that much to base it on, because they lie.
TOLD YA!!
So just a few months ago the FEC voted to let anonymous payments for political messaging be considered legal and not a violation of federal campaign finance laws. How convenient.
While one comment is true— It’s a new generation that has no opinion of their own, but will integrate yours for a nominal fee. Their entire existence is to parrot the talking points of another because they do not have the mental capacity or acuity to define themselves in society. sad generation of youth— it misses the point that hiring people to spread political propaganda, providing them with scripts and help in forming content, and rewarding them with things that make them feel important like being invited to the national convention or the White House in addition to cash paid out through third party corporate donors, none of this requiring reporting, is an effort to circumvent election finance laws.
This kind of thing, and Act Blue fraudulently claiming people have made huge donations they don’t know anything about, often on their credit cards, goes a long way to explaining the “surge” in polled support for Harris as well as the inflated donation numbers.
And it probably explains herky and maybe even casper, trying to stretch that teachers’ pension by parroting what he is fed. We have often wondered if the more persistent trolls were being paid, and this was always greeted with scorn—“who would pay anyone to post on a dinky little site like this?” But when you can sit at your computer and pump out hundreds of pasted scripts a hour and then send a bill to some third party it makes sense.
Youngkin shows us how it can be done:
This just in:
In another Babylon Bee exclusive:
Obama spent his single year in Congress doing nothing but voting present.
Bidum spent nearly his entire pre-election time in the basement and subsequently, much of his time in the oval office avoiding public speaking as much as possible, especially without a teleprompter.
Harris is not talking to the media or making any making any statements related to either her record or her plans if elected. Even her webpage is largely void of any information, just requesting donations.
Anyone else see a pattern here? It becomes clear that going on record provides ammunition for the opposition to use where every day citizens can see just how corrupt these people lie. By saying nothing the lies can be minimized and left unexamined by people easily fooled. Simply having your underground troops promote the narratives that say the opposition is evil, pushing the most outlandish, unprovable lies, is enough to sway enough people to vote in your favor. Problem is, the left’s base is becoming increasingly more aware and asking questions. It will be interesting to see if enough peoples eyes are opened to turn against the evil that works to destroy their own freedoms.
Psych Patients for Kamala: Leftist Group Registering Voters at Mental Hospitals
“Critics say that Vot-ER, which hosts trainings on ‘medical racism’ and partners with the Climate Psychiatry Alliance, is turning doctors into political activists and patients into political capital,” the Free Beacon reported.
Any medical provider who would use their influence to sway a mental patient into voting a particular way should lose their license due to unethical violations. For democrats, nothing is below their willingness to steal votes.
Commentor: Considering being a Democrat is a mental illness this makes sense. This is their natural constituency along with their other core constituents… government dependent parasites, Hamas, and corporations making money hiring illegal aliens for the cheap labor.
https://headlineusa.com/ex-kamala-adviser-leading-effort-to-register-psych-patients-to-vote/?utm_source=HUSA_EMAIL_NSP1700&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HUSAemail
TSA, SSSS, Tulsi Gabbard, Pre-Crime and PsyWar
DHS has defined spreading mis- dis- or mal-information as domestic terrorism
I just keep coming back to the way we reacted to Orwell’s books—with horror—and how people today simply accept the things that freaked us out. To us, the concept of Big Brother was terrifying, and now people are fine with the fact that government officials can often track us, camera to camera, across cities and even across the country. “Thought Crimes”, which struck us as a way to be prosecuted not for deeds but for what others claim we have been thinking, are now accepted reasons to at the very least surveil us, and the term “misinformation”, which used to strike us as a frightening claim of possession of a single subjective truth and the ability to punish anything that does not comply is now officially used to control what we can say or print.
I haven’t seen any outrage at the revelations about the Stasi-like Silent Skies program, which identifies “pre-crime” behaviors which include, and here I use actual DHS wording:
“Key factors contributing to the current heightened threat environment include:
The proliferation of false or misleading narratives, which sow discord or undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions:
For example, there is widespread online proliferation of false or misleading narratives regarding unsubstantiated widespread election fraud and COVID-19. Grievances associated with these themes inspired violent extremist attacks during 2021.
In other words, the government is justifying enhanced surveillance and procedures of private citizens for spreading what the government defines as “false or misleading” but which, most importantly, undermine(s) public trust in U.S. government institutions:
They even give examples of the kinds of free speech they find unacceptable, using the exact terms we see from the Agenda Media in their psy-ops endeavors: narratives regarding unsubstantiated widespread election fraud and COVID-19. That is, challenging or even daring to question the narrative is now a sanctioned reason for the government to impose restrictive and intimidating surveillance tactics against American citizens—guilty of nothing but what might feel like “pre-crime” behavior—especially when the “crime” is nothing more than failure to unquestioningly accept what the State tells us we must believe.
Read this article by Dr. Robert Malone, who has personal experience with the consequences of questioning the absolute authority of the State. Read the experiences of these people as they have been identified on their flight documents with the dreaded SSSS designation identifying them as “pre-crime” suspects—Dr. Malone for questioning the safety and efficacy of the “vaccine” he actually helped develop and Tulsi Gabbard for questioning the competence of the new leader of the Democrat Party, Kamala Harris. Read about Tulsi Gabbard being shadowed in airports by government officials and bomb sniffing dogs, with Air Marshals on planes with her when she flies, and the intrusive searches of her belongings, for Thought Crimes Against The State.
We let it get this bad, as the water warmed slowly enough to let these incremental increases of the exercises of the powers of the State get to this level. What we need to start asking is, “What’s next? If this is not stopped, and stopped here and stopped now, what will be the next levels of control, and how quickly will they be implemented?” And the next question has to be “And who will stop it?” ( I think we know, and we have seen efforts by the State to stop him.)
“WE”, ostensibly the people who at least officially reject governance by a single massively powerful Central Authority, aren’t even talking about this danger as we try to retake the reins of power. When the person running for the presidency who represents the political movement dedicated to this top-down authoritative rule praises the “collective” we aren’t even capable of identifying that as an admission of this agenda. When her vice presidential pick openly compares socialism to merely being “neighborly” it raises the hairs on the necks of a lot of people like me, but we as a movement aren’t competent enough to explain the dangers of this philosophy.
Modern Western/NATO PsyWar “hybrid warfare,” as practiced by the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand governments (Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance States – “FVEY”), targets both offshore and domestic citizens, dissident groups, and whole populations. In FVEY nations currently deployed PsyWar methods are often operationalized via mercenary “censorship-industrial complex” corporations and intelligence community cutouts.
(B)y examining the structure and practices of historic totalitarian organizations such as the GDR and its Stasi, highly effective PsyWar methods developed and deployed before the advent of modern 21st-century digital communications and data storage technologies can be identified and understood. Because these methods are based on fundamental truths relating to human psychology, they are timeless. Whether or not Stasi methods are consciously used as models for modern FVEY State PsyWar strategies and tactics, examining the methods used by the Stasi can provide insight and comprehension of these modern internet-exploiting “dark” operations, strategies, and tactics.
In contrast to most modern comprehensive PsyWar operations, strategies, and capabilities, the Stasi almost exclusively focused on pre-crime psychological manipulation of individuals and smaller groups, which were identified as potential threats to the State. Therefore, by examining Stasi methods and practices, current FVEY State operations that target individuals and groups can be better understood, and potential future trends in PsyWar strategies and tactics can be anticipated.
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The Stazi were experts in using PsyWar to neutralize individuals and groups suspected or accused of being pre-crime threats to the State.
Although the Stasi employed a wide range of more traditional totalitarian PsyWar and psychological crowd manipulation techniques, the unique set of strategies and tactics that they developed and deployed was known as Zersetzung (pronounced [t͡sɛɐ̯ˈzɛt͡sʊŋ], German for “decomposition” and “disruption”). Zersetzung served to combat alleged and actual dissidents through covert means, using secret methods of abusive control and psychological manipulation to prevent anti-government activities. People were commonly targeted on a pre-emptive and preventive basis, to limit or stop activities of dissent that they may have gone on to perform, and not on the basis of crimes they had actually committed. Zersetzung methods were designed to break down, undermine, and paralyze people behind “a facade of social normality” in the form of “silent repression”.
Lots of fun stuff about Walz, who likes to pose wearing a barn coat (VOTE FOR ME, I WEAR CARHART!) the New Dem version of Kerry’s Elmer Fudd hat, but it turns out he is only popular in the cities. He knows this, which is why, after he got elected, he was telling one contact that “I don’t need the Ag vote any longer.”
There’s actually a movement named after his effort to insult rural Minnesota, saying it was “mostly rocks and cows”—-and it is not Walz-friendly
But he does carve butter, and he can be folksy
The most interesting thing about the Harris/Walz ticket is that both sides love them for different reasons.
I’m not sure I follow….
re: pandering to a perceived demographic (farmers, blacks, etc.)
Victor Davis Hansen talks about Trump appealing to people because he is authentic. He talks about politicians coming to his rural part of California.
I mentioned in the original book that he came to Tulare, California. They always have the props up there. They have hay bales. They give the guy the Caterpillar hats about 20 miles, 25 miles from where I’m speaking today, my farm, and it was [then-Rep] Devin Nunes’ [congressional district in California].He would always remark on that, that Republicans would come. They would put on work shirts, bluejeans, boots, and then they would not twang, but they would kind of do what Hillary or Kamala Harris or Obama did. They would modulate their persona.
The particular day that Trump came, and I’m just using this as an example of what he did across the country: It was about 105 [degrees]. He wore a black suit, the red tie, the black shoes, the grating Queens accent, and he never changed.
Josh Hammer summarizes it well in his article on Democrat Street Thuggery:
Assuming you agree with the Josh Hammer piece, it sounds like you follow just fine. The last time the Democrats nominated someone like this pair (1972) Richard Nixon won a landslide of epic proportions. There also a sinister side to the comparison, which, given the NSA is probably monitoring this, I’ll leave to your imagination.
Yeah, you really don’t want an SSSS on your next flight docs. I sometimes buy one-way tickets to Florida because I don’t want to be tied down to a certain return date, and then one-way tickets to get back to Colorado, and now I know that not only can I be determined to be a “pre-crime” candidate (shades of George Orwell) for my opinions it could be because of my travel history.
From the same Josh Hammer article:
On Oct. 30, 2020, this column argued that the then-impending election “pit(s) against each other a fundamentally Americanist vision of governance and a fundamental insurrectionist vision of anarchic mayhem.” It was true then. And it’s even truer of our election cycle today.
I don’t think I have seen our choices better summarized and explained. One might think that the outcome of that election, and the subsequent experience of the anarchic mayhem that has followed, would be an object lesson in the importance of voting for system rather than party or person. We can only hope.
An Us that requires no Them by Charles Eisenstein is an interesting and quite philosophical article that I had to read a couple more times because I started off agreeing with it, then veered off into thinking it wasn’t right, and then came back to what I like to think is a deeper understanding and even agreement.
But then Eisenstein goes on to make his point, which is that
I have felt much the same, as I have experienced an inner cringe when I see people define Democrats as “evil”—as in, they are evil people. I agree that their deeds are evil, or at least the outcomes of those deeds are evil, and I have felt that they bear a great deal of responsibility for those outcomes and also that only a certain kind of person can support those deeds. But I have still not been entirely comfortable with the designation of the people themselves as “evil”. Aside from the spiritual and philosophical elements of that, it is just nonproductive.
I have always argued that (1) the primary lure of the Left is its promise of being a shortcut to the Higher Moral Ground and (2) that this means that most who are drawn to this are drawn to it because at heart they are decent people or at least want to be decent people, and are taken in by the illusion that this is the path to virtue. People who don’t want to be virtuous don’t care about the Higher Moral Ground.
This does not absolve them of the duty to examine the various narratives fed to them as definitions of virtue. It doesn’t mean they don’t have responsibility for the decidedly immoral outcomes of the acts that have been defined for them as moral. It doesn’t mean that the failure to objectively examine their stated principles to see that they actually support and enable vile behaviors doesn’t indicate a lack of true moral fiber or moral courage or backbone, because we have witnessed behaviors that could not be explained in any other way. When we see people purposely lying, when we see people seeking out only messaging that supports their chosen perspectives without searching for or at least trying to process information that contradicts it, we can identify this as moral and/or intellectual weakness…..but I fall short of calling them “evil” because that is a statement that these behaviors are pursued because of their evilness, not because they are not recognized as evil.
Eisenstein goes on:
I don’t have to agree with something to consider it and see if its different perspective has something to offer. I don’t fully go along with all of his conclusions. But in the midst of his philosophical rambling I think there are observations that are valid, and important, no matter how we feel about the conclusions. He refers to
I found echoes of things I have felt, and argued, from my repeated comments that the Leftists in America seem untethered to an actual understanding and allegiance to a specific form of government but rather a willingness to be directed to hate and attack an Invented Other to my constant ranting that we need to step away from the personal (Identity Politics) and focus on the objective, which is a preferred system of government.
My perception of those of us who routinely post here (trolls excepted) is that we tend to like things that make us think, even when we don’t necessarily agree with them, and I put this article into that category.
Auron MacIntyre at The Blaze has a post this morning about Virtue that dovetails with Eisenstein’s
Flipping through channels on TV – On the Jesse Watters show, a story that indicates there was a $250 million covid scam under the Walz’s watch where he led a gang of politically connected Somali fraudsters stealing money and giving it out left & right on cars, extravagant trips, $160,000 went to some company in China, a half million to buy an apartment in Kenya and another $6000,000 on a second Kenya place, even politicians got a taste. Omar received thousands in donations from the scammers. There’s more to the story yet to be unraveled. Bet Kammy is happy about her VP choice now.
If you get links, let me know. The guy works way too hard on his “folksy” persona but then shows his sharp edges and this would not surprise me. Socialism, aside from the control part, is all about spending OPM, after all.
I did a quick search and found an article where Walz “assumed responsibility” for his administration “not doing enough” to prevent fraud and said “So, there’s been leadership changes in these organizations since that time, and we have new leadership in sense the certainly over at the Department of Education.” Yet as governor he was the leadership that needed to be changed. “Taking responsibility” for something and then replacing other people doesn’t seem like taking much responsibility at all.