Wesley Yang on X - ""From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" -- if a politician made a speech affirming this principle, they would be one of two things -- a Communist, or a person too ignorant and incurious about Communism to avoid blithely blasting out the foundational Marxist formula as part of their messaging. With regard to "equity means we all end up in the same place," Kamala is clearly the latter."
Rona Dinur on X - "She is, by the way, repeating almost the exact wording of every "equity" talk you'd hear on YouTube and in TED talks given by random HR/DEI personnel & in semi-academic materials. She's just the head of a blob using the same slogans across different industries, institutions etc."
Wesley Yang on X - "Yes the Blob has fully adopted Communist slogans and messaging -- but in the service of mere rent seeking within the capitalist system"
Benjy Sarlin on X - "Trump is holding a presser today, we interviewed him last week and Vance yesterday and Vance is taking open press questions. Time’s just about up on Harris to avoid this becoming a thing."
Michael Brendan Dougherty on X - "I mean, we’ve had the most eventful political month in modern US history and the main beneficiary hasn’t answered a single question about Biden leaving the race, what she knew, when she found out about the endorsement, even how she feels entering a race where her opponent was nearly killed. This is truly nuts."
Bill Ackman on X - "The best thing that can happen for long-term supporters of the Democratic Party is for this election to be a massive loss for the party. That’s the only way the party will reform itself. Consider how the party shut down competition in the primary, misled the public about the health of the president, chose its nominee without a democratic process, and ultimately today selected its VP. When something is totally and fundamentally broken, the best thing to do is to start over. We won’t see a reboot of the party unless it takes a massive loss in this election. Please vote accordingly."
Gays Against Groomers on X - "🚨BREAKING: Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has just been selected to be the Democratic candidate for Vice President. We would like to remind everyone that under Walz's leadership, Minnesota was the second state to become a "sanctuary state" for "trans kids" after California, meaning that children have the option to run away from home and escape to Minnesota to get "gender-affirming care" (sterilization and mutilation) and be placed into foster care. It is legalized kidnapping. Transgender Minnesota State Representative, Leigh Finke, also publicly endorsed the bill, claiming that failing to pass it would result in the eradication of trans people. Walz has also endorsed and supported allowing boys to compete in girls' sports and putting pornographic smut in school libraries. He is the most radical possible pick Kamala Harris could have chosen. American parents deserve to know what they're getting themselves into and what is at stake under a Harris-Walz ticket. We are witnessing a full-fledged war on children, and one of the ringleaders might become the Vice President. It isn't just disappointing; it’s evil. We need to get loud and push back against this before it's too late. An entire generation is at risk of being sexualized, indoctrinated and mutilated with the help of this monster. It is a dark day for the United States."
Wesley Yang on X - "Walz has been at the avant-garde of this movement because of the makeup of his legislature and state government. But there is not a single major Democratic party politician that has or will venture a single gesture toward moderation on this issue."
Coddled affluent professional on X - "Hey WHITE DUDES! Kamala has added a middle aged gym teacher commie to her ticket. Would you like to reconsider your antipathy towards the Democratic Party? Now’s your chance to say you’re sorry for all the hysterias and manias you were the target of the past 5 years!"
Kamala Harris under fire after old clip of her asking 'Americans to be woke' resurfaces - ""We have to stay woke. Like everybody needs to be woke," Harris had said during Recode's annual Code Conference while speaking with philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. "And you can talk about if you're the wokest or woker, but just stay more woke than less woke.""
Weird. Why does she keep using what left wingers claim was the new n-word (before they pivoted to claiming that was DEI)?
Thread by @SaysSimulation on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Speaking as a Midwesterner, let me give you my opinion of Tim Walz. Walz needs to be seen in the context of the rapid fall of Minnesota, and particularly what happened to the Twin Cities. The Twin Cities of Minneapolis & St. Paul used to be one of the nicest, safest cities in the United States. The Mary Tyler Moore show was set there for good reason, it was friendly, safe place. Minnesota used to be purple and quite centrist. The local Democratic party is called the DFL - the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party. That was how Minnesota politics worked - the cities in the metro area allied with the unions (primarily in the mining Northeast) who allied with the farmers. They went against the Twin Cities suburbs and businessmen, it was always polite, and the state was even.
The big shift happened with the mass influx of Somalis, along with the Dems trying to bring in blacks from other metro areas. The "nice" Repubs being controlled opposition, they of course did nothing to stop this process. The demographics changed sharply, crime rates soared, and the political situation rearranged itself. Along with much of the rest of the country, enough of the suburbs switched to the Dems, that along with the newly black metro areas, the Dems began to get a decisive margin.
Polite and nice stopped right there, the new DFL played strictly hardball politics They also turned on their traditional constituencies of the farmers and the Iron Range union workers. As soon as they didn't need the votes, it was slap across the face, and knife in the back, they had no need for those traditional white Americans, or there traditional values. Minnesota rapidly became the most radical of the Midwestern states, even more so than Chicago-dominated Illinois.
Walz is a snake & a chameleon. Yes, he hunts, does the fishing opener & sometimes wears flannel shirts - all of which are used by the entirely Democratic Minnesota media to portray him as something he is not, a folksy politician with a common touch.Walz is despised in the outstate regions where the hunting & fishing are primarily done. Those areas have flipped from Blue to solid Red, as they try to protect themselves from the radical in the Twin Cities - to no avail. The real Walz? He's the face of the Great Replacement, that is followed by the Marxists crushing the opposition. That's exactly why they want him as VP. He brings no election advantages. They're not worried about the election, but what comes after."
Haviv Rettig Gur on X - "I’ve now spoken to three Jews prominently involved in politics in America. They all basically said the same thing. Walz was the smart political choice, irrespective of who they actually wanted as Harris’s running mate. By skipping over Shapiro, Harris gets to make a show of catering to the anti-Israel camp while actually choosing a candidate who has been less critical of Israel’s government than Shapiro. In other words, the left of the party feels heard while pro-Israel Jewish Democrats, even those who experienced the anti-Shapiro campaign as basically antisemitic, don’t actually feel any catastrophe has befallen them. In one fell swoop, she also makes a serious appeal to the white working class, or at least as serious an appeal as the current leadership of the Democratic Party allows for. So she holds on to the left and the center all at once. Tactically, it was the right choice. But this is where things get interesting. A lot of Jewish Democrats are expressing relief. Again and again I heard or read the same thing – a Jewish VP with ties to Israel would’ve provided the administration identitarian cover to ward off criticism of policies deemed foolish or outright dangerous for Israel. Those policies would have been instituted in any case, but now Harris won’t be able to deflect with a Jewish shield. Shapiro, they say, would have been used to neutralize their criticism and advocacy. My own sense from afar, for what it’s worth, is that all this is more evidence that the new left is illiberal and bigoted. What’s the evidence? Look at how carefully, agonizingly Jewish Democrats need to tread through the minefields of these new politics and tell me there’s nothing anti-Jewish about it all. Look at the lack of trust of their own party the argument above represents. This isn’t an open, serious, fundamentally respectful political debate. This is closed-minded bigotry on the march. My second observation - again, this is only a view from the outside - is that Democrats don’t actually have a proper Middle East policy that isn’t just moralizing domestic politicking. That means that they are more likely to break things than fix things. A Biden administration that took care repeatedly in recent months to be seen to rein Israel in is a Biden administration that’s helped stretch out and worsen the broader regional conflict. At the moment, if they don’t get serious, Democrats simply can’t be trusted to be thoughtful and wise on the world stage. Nothing about Walz or Harris or the dust-up over Shapiro says any of that is going to change."
Was Harris Biden's border czar? Left rewrites her VP, Senate record - "I had thought that after the liberal media was exposed for its shameless attempts to cover for President Joe Biden’s deteriorating mental and physical condition, mainstream outlets would maybe take a moment for a collective mea culpa. Fat chance. Instead, Biden’s allies on the left quickly turned their cheerleading efforts from the president (once it became blatantly obvious he was in bad shape) to Vice President Kamala Harris, now that it looks like she will be the Democratic Party's replacement on the presidential ticket. Some of the media’s largest players are proving their newfound devotion to Harris by attempting to rewrite her past – and some of their own coverage. Yes, it’s as Orwellian as it sounds. And it’s a little too close to the tactics used by the Soviets to simply “erase” opponents from photographs. Don’t like someone – or something that happened? Hit delete... Anyone in Washington knows that people put in positions of power like this are commonly referred to as “czars.” It's a phrase that dates at least to 1989, when President George H.W. Bush appointed William Bennett to be his "drug czar." Yet now, accurately referring to Harris’ vital undertaking has become a huge no-no. Since Harris failed to address anything to do with immigration (the number of illegal border crossings continued to skyrocket during the Biden administration until recently), she quietly was removed from that position and has turned to other things like visiting abortion clinics and fighting Islamophobia. Harris bothered to visit the border only once – and only after being shamed in an interview for not having done so... A supposedly nonpartisan organization that tracks congressional voting records, GovTrack, has simply waved its wand and made a 2019 page on its site dedicated to Harris’ voting record go “poof.” It no longer exists on its main site. (Well, actually it does, thanks to the Internet Archive). Why? That page accurately referred to Harris’ record that year as the most liberal in the Senate – beating out even self-declared democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. Apparently, that could be seen as unhelpful to Harris’ crowning as the Democratic Party's presidential nominee. GovTrack doubled down on its disappearing act, by adding an editor’s note of its own this week on an article it published in 2020, detailing Harris’ record: "On July 23, 2024, this article was updated. The text ', especially given our ranking her as the most left-leaning senator in 2019 based on cosponsorship. But looking at the legislation she’s introduced tells a different story ‒ judge for yourself' was removed... The GovTrack founder told Fox News that the page no longer exists because it had stopped single-year ratings of lawmakers a few years ago. And while 2019 report cards have disappeared for other lawmakers, too, GovTrack was inspired to make that call to take down these pages, including Harris' page, "sometime in the last two weeks." Interesting timing. Expect a lot more of these shenanigans to continue in the coming months. Don’t let the media get away with it."
Drew Holden on X - "I see we’re in for engaging and honest analysis from the media of the Tim Walz VP selection."
Happy warriors Harris and Walz propose an antidote to Trump’s American carnage | CNN Politics
Tim Walz Is the Biden That Harris Needs—Same Vibes, Same Base
Tim Walz’s first day as VP on Harris’s ticket fuels Democrats’ buzz - The Washington Post
Walz vs. Vance in an election where reality doesn’t matter - "in 2024, you might get picked as VP because you said the word “weird” on MSNBC... That’s where we seem to be landing as a culture during this absurd electoral cycle — coasting on vibes and vibes alone. A one “progressive Hill aide” told the liberal publication Talking Points Memo, “elections are about energy, and they’re about networks, and they’re about vibes. Walz was clearly the vibes candidate.” Politico declared that “Tim Walz passed the vibe check” in an email newsletter. “The Tim Walz vibe shift,” announced the Columbia Journalism Review. Walz isn’t just running on vibes to work his way into the position of VP candidate, he’s embracing more artificially manufactured vibes too. During his first campaign event with Harris, he talked about how he “can’t wait to debate” Vance, before adding “that is, if he’s willing to get off the couch and show up.” The crowd erupted knowingly, recognizing this wasn’t just a bit of trash talk but a nod to the bizarre but effective Extremely Online push to associate JD Vance with couches. It’s something the “Kamala HQ” X account has been embracing as well, posting recently, “JD Vance does not couch his hatred of women.” For those who aren’t familiar, the couch reference relates to the implication that JD Vance likes to have sex with couches, and that this revelation was contained in his bestselling 2016 book, “Hillbilly Elegy.” It’s not true, of course, there is no such passage in his book. None of it is even remotely factual — it’s all completely made up. So where did this get started? Well a guy who goes by the X handle “Rick Rude’s Calves” (a reference to the famous WWE wrestler from the 1980s and his…calves), who had about 1,000 followers, posted a few hours after Vance was named Trump’s running mate that Vance wrote about how he “admitted” to “f‑‑‑ing an inside-out latex glove shoved between two couch cushions” on page 179 of his memoir. A random anonymous X account literally just posted some nonsense he thought was funny. Then that post got more than 1.8 million views. Eventually, Rick Rude’s Calves deleted his account — but not before an entirely new reality-free smear had emerged... The Washington Post’s Michael Scherer was one of the few mainstream journalists to recognize that this line of attack may be self-defeating, if not a bit, well, weird. “Does Walz really want to make jokes about baseless online slanders? That couch cushion has two sides,” he posted. His colleague Tyler Pager was more in line with the rest of the partisans who masquerade as intellectually honest media members. He quoted the Walz line based on a defamatory tweet and added, “Tim Walz goes there.”"
Weird. I thought misinformation was a bad thing according to the left
David Bernstein on X - "I'm seeing a lot of Walz apologists returning to the 2020 playbook of treating major riots following George Floyd's death in Minneapolis, presided over by Gov. Walz, and that spread to cities nationwide, as minor excesses in a broader context of peaceable social justice protests. The riots were not "minor." See below with citations. Walz should have called in the National Guard right away, something he did not do until a Minneapolis state legislator begged him to do so after several days of rioting: George Floyd’s death on May 26, 2020 sparked unrest and lawlessness resulting in at least $500 million in damage to approximately 1,500 properties https://perma.cc/54CE-V6AE and two deaths, https://perma.cc/3NZD-UBDT, maing the riots in the Twin Cities the most destructive since those in Los Angeles in 1992. https://perma.cc/Q7N2-DZCR. The riots devastated numerous small, often minority-owned, enterprises. Much of the destruction took place in the Lake Street corridor, a largely Latino and East African business district. Small businesses there suffered an estimated $200 million in damage not covered by insurance. https://perma.cc/JXL3-DTKY; The chaos also sparked a surge in crime that Minneapolis officials called “unprecedented.” https://perma.cc/TZS6-7US. During the month following Floyd’s death, over 1,500 shots-fired 911 calls were made—twice the number made during same period the previous year. https://perma.cc/H4PP-FEGX. As of July 20th, 269 people (82% of whom were Black) had been shot in Minneapolis in 2020, 60% higher than the five-year average for the same period, and the same number as were shot in all of 2019. https://perma.cc/H4PP-FEGX. Homicides were up by a shocking 114% from 2019. https://perma.cc/48MN-7HEH. During this breakdown of order, local law enforcement was often absent or at best ineffectual. For the first few days of riots, Minneapolis police focused on defending their embattled 3rd Precinct building located at the center of the unrest. https://perma.cc/F63J-VEFJ. On May 28th, Mayor Jacob Frey ordered officers to stand down and abandon the building to the angry crowd that had surrounded it. The police withdrawal caused the situation to “spin[] out of control in the neighborhood around the precinct house;” the precinct was burned to the ground; and “nearly every building around it [was] vandalized, looted or set on fire. Neighbors banded together to protect their property because 911 dispatchers were overwhelmed.” https://perma.cc/H5HS-PKYA. “We could’ve defended that precinct, we could’ve defended that part of Lake Street if we had the resources,” said Sgt. Anna Hedberg, of the Minneapolis Police Federation. https://perma.cc/NN3Q-2RLB. Officers’ efforts to restore order were reportedly hamstrung by orders from superiors not to wear their riot gear for fearof inflaming tensions. As as a result, rioters injured police officers with projectiles. Id."
Jack Poso 🇺🇸 on X - "They're recycling the 'America's Dad' branding from Tim Kaine to Tim Walz. Entire media falls in line You aren't looking at reporting, you're looking at a high-level propaganda system in action"
Everyone In America Just Realized Tim Kaine Is The Ultimate Dad | The FADER
Twitter Just Turned VP Nominee Tim Kaine Into Your Dad | WRUR
Tim Kaine, America’s Dad, Makes His Pitch to Millennials | The New Yorker
Tim Kaine Wants You to Know He’s America’s Cool Dad | TIME
Meme - "Liberal white women with daddy issues say Tim Walz is like the father figure that they lost. They're literally crying over this pick. tok And they say we're in a cult."
"You actually worded this PERFECTLY! I never get emotional, but I've been getting very emotional as - I've been learning about Tim Walz, Walz really feels like a man who truly cares and wants to help others, especially those who can't help themselves, in a kind, paternal way."
"Yes!!!! Tim Walz is who my dad used to be"
CQ on X - "Tim Walz is the dad an entire generation wish they had instead of the one they lost to Fox News."
Coddled affluent professional on X - "A lot of lib political energy is just laundered disappointment with family, relationships, and career. There aren’t any real political interests and so there can’t be any real political solution."
Social distancing champ on X - "Thank God my dad didn't get a DUI, flood our house with illegal aliens, push me to cut of my body parts, and have my mom abort my siblings in the 9th month."
Meme - Joe Gabriel Simonson @SaysSimonson: "Were a lot more people than I thought abused as kids or something? Why are there so many tweets like this"
Bill D'Agostino @Banned_Bill: "The "I hate my dad"-to-marxist pipeline is firing on all cylinders."
Nina in NOLA @ninainnola: "With a lot of stops at the therapist's office along the way"
This is very telling and ties into how left wingers hate the family, and keep encouraging children to cut off their parents because parents are always in the wrong
Meme - Gabe Guidarini @GabeGuidarini: "Normal, well adjusted, totally not projecting childhood experiences onto political candidates."
Aaron Regunberg: "Tim Walz is my dad; Kamala's my fun aunt who lives next door. They just found out I'm being bullied by the shittiest kid in my class, JD. When they try to talk to his dad, Don, it becomes clear he's the real problem. They go back to their car; Kamals pulls out her cop badge, Tim grabs his old baseball bat. They walk back to Don's porch. As Tim reaches for the doorbell they look at each other and smile. This is going to be fun."
Charlie Kirk on X - "Welcome to the race, Tim Walz! Let’s make sure America knows who you are. You helped ignite the George Floyd riots, the worst the country had seen in decades. While Minneapolis burned, you stalled on deploying the National Guard for an entire day, blaming the city for not submitting the right paperwork. You let your daughter leak the Guard's deployment plans online, so that rioters would know how long they had to loot the city with impunity. Minneapolis is a war zone because of you. Just days after the attempted murder of Donald Trump, you called him and his supporters "fascists," egging on the same rhetoric that led to him being shot in the first place. You have overseen some of the most radical youth trans surgery laws in the country. Under your leadership teenagers can get their breast chopped off and get sterilized, and your government calls it “healthcare.” You have the most radical abortion laws in the country. Zero limits. Every year 5-6 babies are BORN ALIVE and then murdered “legally” under laws you support. On immigration, you famously said you wanted to provide a “ladder” so invaders can come over Trump’s wall. You are a radical open border zealot. You oversaw the single worst fraud of the Covid era, the Feeding Our Future case. Thanks to ineptitude at your Department of Education, criminals stole $250 million of taxpayer dollars to spend on luxury cars, houses, and vacations. Also during Covid, you approved $500 million in "hero pay" for frontline workers, only to have 40% of that money go to people who were ineligible or, in many cases, literally deceased. In the House, you were Pelosi’s sidekick and did whatever the Democrats demanded. You will try and disguise yourself as a folksy midwestern moderate. In reality, you are a white male version of Kamala Harris. Radical. Inept. Undeserving to be in leadership. Make this go viral. Ruin their honeymoon. Let’s educate millions because the media will not."
Robert Sterling on X - "Tim Walz has no skin in the game when it comes to the US economy. He’s never had a private-sector job. He doesn’t own a home or pay a mortgage. He’s not directly affected by unaffordable housing prices or high interest rates. He doesn’t own any stocks. He’s never built a business, raised capital, or had to struggle to make payroll. He’s probably never even looked at a P&L, and he’s definitely never had to manage a balance sheet. Unlike most Americans, who rely on modest 401k funds to pay for retirement, Walz has three separate public-sector pensions: one from Congress, one from the military, and one from being a teacher. His retirement, unlike yours, is backed by the full faith and credit of the government—three times over. I’m all for middle-class people serving in office. But a guy this disconnected from the economic reality of regular Americans isn’t someone I trust for a role this important."
Eli Steele on X - "I am glad many are seeing @Tim_Walz 's folksy demeanor for what it is: a cover for white guilt racism. Ever since I was 17 years old and applying to college I've encountered Walzes at nearly every major turning point in life. They were never the angry segregationists you see on TV. No, they were charming, affable, and rather pleasant. They would always tell me, wow, you come from such a fascinating family history, slavery and the holocaust, wow. But in the end they would always ask me to reduce myself to one race. It was for the good, they always said. But it was never for my good as an individual American. It was never for my good to reduce myself to my black side for whatever advantage and betray my merit. It was for good of the Walzes who built their images and careers on diversity, inclusion and equity. They could fail at whatever, but as long as they pushed the diversity con, their selfish virtue signaling made them golden. A man like Walz will push America over the edge for his own good."
Coddled affluent professional on X - "The idea of Walz, a normal fella from a farm who just wants kids to have free school lunches, is much better than what he actually is: A COVID authoritarian, a George Floyd fetishizer, a cheerleader of child mutilation, and a guy who let his cities burn and crime run rampant. It will be interesting to see if his folksy middle class Minnesota farm boy shtick and Hollywood production for the Harris campaign can make people forget the past 5 years."
Matt Wolking on X - "Tim Walz: “There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech and especially around our democracy”"
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦 on X - "Uh, yeah there is. Misinformation and hate speech are literally protected by the First Amendment."
Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 on X - "Kamala Harris’ VP pick Tim Walz downplayed the uniqueness and gruesomeness of the Holocaust. I don’t need a reason to detest him more. But here we are. And no, there is no comparable event to the extermination camps and techniques. Nothing. And hopefully never will be. That’s the point of proper Holocaust education — never again. 2 out of every 3 European Jews were exterminated by 1945. More than 60% of the world’s Jewish population was wiped out. In 2024, Jews still number below their pre-Holocaust population. That’s 6 million “in the greater context.”"
It's only anti-semitic when the right does it
Joel Berry on X - "The media is trying to report that Tim Walz retired before he knew his unit was deploying, since he retired 2 months before his unit received “alert orders” to deploy. What they’re not telling you is that units also receive something called “warning orders” much earlier—months, sometimes years in advance. Tim Walz knew his unit was deploying to Iraq, which is why he quit."
AG on X - "Trying to sort through the Walz military claims:
1) There were several articles that claimed he was deployed in Iraq. He was not. Unclear where the claim came from.
2) There was a book he endorsed that claimed he was deployed in Afghanistan. He was not. Unclear where the claim came from.
3) Walz has made numerous statements suggesting that he served in a war zone. These are, at best, exaggerations.
4) Walz did serve for 24 years. He was deployed in Italy during the time of Operation Enduring Freedom in a support role. His rank was master sergeant when he retired. He did achieve a provisional rank of command sergeant major, which he still claims on his website, but he did not finish the necessary coursework to maintain that rank prior to retirement.
5) Walz retired in May 2025 to run for office. There were rumors at the time about an upcoming deployment to Iraq, but the official alert for the 1st battalion came in July of 2025.
Those are the facts I’ve seen so far. Up to people to judge for themselves."