This is what happens when people stop listening to each other. Imagine what a landslide win the Democrats could achieve with a moderate with backbone. Instead we have windsock, faux-radicals.
How can I get more accurate info on Walz? Everything is so partisan..I read one thing then its modified or softened by some other source. It's hard to know what's accurate. And, being friendly or charming isn't enough for me any more in a candidate running for president or Vice President. Being glib doesn't make you right, it makes you glib. Being charming doesn't make you right it just makes you charming. I'm over the the charm offensive and the quick quips. I want to see where they stand on policy. My concern is they lie to win, then swing hard left. That's what Biden did. Harris isn't even pretending. Scary.
Respectfully one only has to look at the economic data to start. If that wasn’t enough to scare the pants off you, you could then look into how he withheld the National Guard during the blm riots. All factual.
The GOP can easily win without the Charlottesville scum. The Democrats cannot win without the pro-Hamas wing of its party, which is about 40 percent of its voters under age 35 and 20 percent of the rest. Truth is beauty, and beauty truth. That's the true story, so the MSM is desperately trying to turn Gov. Walz into Edmund Muskie whike the Democratic left knows he's more George McGoverrn.
Umm ... Iran cash? Failure to attack the Houthis with authority? Green light for modest Russian action in Ukraine? Or does that all go down the Democratic Ministry of Truth memory hole too?
Harris's team are desperately trying to roll back the news she met with, and supports a group that wants to leave Israel defenseless. Putin, Xi and the Iran mullahs were emboldened during the Biden administration - and the Obama administration before that. They were surprisingly quiet during Trump's presidency. I think appeasement might mean something different than you think.
The author, and many commenters here, seem to confuse Tim Walz with Ilhan Omar. I get it. They do look kind of alike. He’d look better in a head wrap for sure. So yeah, let’s save our country and our democracy. Vote for the guy who doesn’t respect the results of elections. Stop the Steal, and all that. Makes perfect sense.
Forgive me, but I disagree. As he was entitled to in a democracy, Trump question the results of the election. He did not incite the riot - in his speech he clearly advocated a peaceful march on the Capitol. Now talk to me about Schumer threatening SCOTUS that it would "reap the whirlwind". Read Matt Taibbi's article on how Biden has weaponized the FBI against Tulsi Gabbard. Then come back to me about those who don't respect democracy.
Megyn Kelly begins the show by discussing the truth about MN governor and Dem VP pick Tim Walz’s military record, the reality about him leaving the National Guard, "stolen valor" claims and the facts, how Walz and the left are trying to spin this massive controversy, and more.
Most of my parents’ parents, brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles died in the Holocaust. I grew up aggressively sensitive to antisemitism, never allowing it to go unanswered. Luckily, during my football days I was 6’4’ and weighed 250, but it was the principle of ‘Never Again’ that guided my words and actions.
I was involved with SDS and it chaotic, violent protests throughout the ‘60’s. My awakening came during the early ‘70’s. All my fellow ‘revolutionaries’ began supporting the ‘Palestinian freedom fighters’. These people are the ancestors of today’s democrats. It was a time when those terrorists were wantonly murdering Jews around the world. This caused me to step back and reassess.
Then came the ‘72 Olympics. Avery Brundage, a Hitler supporter from the ‘36 Olympics wanted another Munich setting. Providing little security for Israel, the terrorists murdered a number of the Israeli athletes and were allowed to fly away. The next day, Brundage continued the competition with hardly a hesitation, and democrats in the US were relatively silent.
While I did not trust Nixon, I left the democrats and eventually came to cast my ballot in 1980 for Mr Reagan.
The radicals have driven the democrat bus over the cliff of reason, propriety and objectivity. They are well on their way to becoming a terrorist organization.
Humanity has always searched for a scapegoat (the precept of Rene Girard) to divert attention from its evil and its failings. "It is not our fault, they made me do it." (This ignored the insight of Solzhenitsyn, The line between good and evil goes through the individual human heart). The Jews have been historically the most vulnerable and most frequently were "served up" by the then current elites to assuage their guilt.
Jerusalem and Athens are the political and intellectual foundations of the West. The lessons were learned and were successful.
However, currently the West has been crippled and compromised by Dostoyevski's precept, Without God everything is allowed. The West has no values. Concurrent with this, China, Iran, Russia, and North Korea have decided to fill the vacuum created and destroy the West, Europe and America.
Israel, contrary to historical context, has decided to say NO. How dare they. Aren't the Jews supposed to do our bidding and submit, as in the past.
Israel is the Churchill, while Europe and America are the Chamberlain, the latter crippled by a distorted world view, a situational ethics and "tolerance" approach, hoping against hope that all of this, the current Nazis, Iran, China, etc will go away. They will not. Confrontation is the only currency available. Heaven help us.
I too am a child of parents who survived Auschwitz, the Warsaw Ghetto and other camps and ghettos but whose other family members were murdered for being Jewish. I had no one to celebrate holidays with but my parents and brother. My parents were damaged with PTSD (then not spoken of). But they loved America and Israel. I was against the Vietnam because I did not want my brother to go, it would have killed my parents again. I saw the democrats start to turn and heard the jargon on college campuses where I worked. DEI but not for Jews. Summer Lee seeing Harris' rejection of Shapiro as a "f..ing" victory is scary. Bowman, Omar, Bernie clearly Anti-semites cheering Walz because it was not Shapiro looks like the 1930s. My vote may not count in a blue state but my message will be all republican across the board. My pro-choice mindset be damned. My People and Israel come first.
Hmm. That’s not even close to what schnorrer means. The dems are the schnorrers their hands out, their votes bought with college loan payouts and a perpetual welfare state. Trump is lots of things but not that.
I can understand not loving everything about Trump and I understand the 8 year over the top propaganda war by mainstream media, Hollywood, big tech, and more has convinced a lot of people that Trump is a con man and an authoritarian. But I am sorry, those attacks just are not true. He is a Patriot that supports and defends our Constitution. You cannot be an authoritarian and pro-Constitution. He of course puffs stats and information (like all politicians do), but he does not lie on important things. He is not a politician so he honestly tells you what he is going to do in office... Harris/Walz are going to lie to the American people for the next 100 days... they will not tell American voters what they stand for and what they want to do in office. To me that sounds like liars and con men. And they will be the true authoritarians... take your guns, take freedom of speech, go after your political enemies, etc. I am sure my words did not sway you... but if you are looking for honesty and a President who will not govern like an authoritarian, then your vote should be with DJT.
Trump is a con man? An authoritarian? Here is the democrat left (you apparently prefer): anti-first amendment, anti-equality under the law, the border, inflation, Afghanistan, Israel support, China and Ukraine corruption, wokeism, covering up Biden's mental problems, biological men in women's sports, lawfare, illegal student loan forgiveness, weak military, sanctuary cities, trillions on wasted climate change, and many more. If you agree with all this, by all means vote for Harris. But you, and everyone, should consider voting based on beliefs not personalities.
Absolutely true. Let’s not forget their horrid Covid policies. How many lost their jobs because they wouldn’t “show their papers”? While millions of unvaxxed invaded through open borders. And anyone who disagreed was silenced for “misinformation” by the ministry of truth. It’s Orwellian at best. A nightmare.
I don't know much about Walz so not going to comment. But I am still dumbfounded that the issue of Gaza is something that has suddenly become one of the main criteria for voting and choosing candidates. It would be one thing if there were boots on the ground but there aren't. Yes, the US is supplying weapons, but they're also doing that in many other far flung conflicts that these people are happy to ignore in favor of the war du jour. I do understand why but at the same time I also don't understand. To me it seems like the majority of Americans care more about groceries, housing, community safety, so why wouldn't you make your choices and run your campaigns on that rather than be beholden to a small group of people who are obsessed with a conflict that up until Oct 7th they clearly had no interest in?
Because, it's part of the bigger narrative. Which makes it more crazy. Narrative: Israel, BAD. Anything that opposes Israel GOOD.
I would bet dollars for donuts that, Americans care about more important things. And I would double down on my donuts that Americans care that there are STILL AMERICAN hostages from October 7th
One could even broader it out further….Israel: powerful, white or white adjacent; Palestine: lacking power, non-white. It’s a brand of Marxism with a racial twist.
I appreciate and respect the pragmatism of your sentiments. Here is why Gaza/Israel/Iran/Hezbollah matter to me: In my lifetime I have watched the U.S. bail on several far flung wars du jour. While these were ill-conceived and dishonorably concluded, none of the counties in question was a first-world highly developed country. The relationship between Israel and the U.S. has been longstanding and arguably as deep as our relationship to NATO. Israel is now in a very real existential crisis and if it fails, the standing of the U.S. will plummet in the eyes of our other near-peer comparable allies, e.g. Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Those countries matter in ways that Afghanistan and Iraq never did. The BRICs countries are committed to converting the world away from the U.S. dollar reserve based economy. The perceived unreliability of the U.S. as an ally to a country like Israel would be a long stride toward losing our status as world economic hegemon. Not that long ago the Pound Sterling was the world's reserve currency, a status it lost as the British Empire declined. From a practical standpoint, if the U.S. Dollar is ever likewise dethroned, concerns about groceries, housing, etc. will grow exponentially. I am not Jewish, but given the way the chess board is arrayed, our fate is linked to Israel's.
This is all true. The Jews have always been the canaries in the coal mine of the west. And we have an administration that empowered and funded Iran, then told Israel this the last time they’ll come to their aid. It doesn’t bode well for anyone if Iran is free to run ripshod over the region.
Yet another reason to back Ukraine. Putin & Xi have the dollar squarely in their sites. An America that is perceived as unreliable is a danger, to itself.
Oh I agree with you - it's more that this has now becoming a grousing point on the far left to the exclusion of all else (I am centre/left of centre) and it is driving efforts to derail anything that is deemed even remotely supportive of Israel.
Sadly, the democratic party has been taken hostage by an illiberal cabal of neo-socialists who have no understanding of history and who seek to undermine our Constitutional order and its foundational tenets. Mr. Trump’s character flaws and sophomoric conduct remain troubling; even so, his policies on national defense, separation of powers, the 2nd amendment, Israel, deregulation, immigration, energy independence and traditional American values remain firmly in the center. To paraphrase a friend of mine, if forced to choose between a socialist who seeks to imposed California values on the Republic and a jerk, I am going to vote for the jerk.
Check out Lewis Carroll's "The Walrus and the Carpenter."
Kamala Harris = The walrus
Tim Walz = The carpenter
The oyrsters are us - but we won't be issues invitations to a walk at the seaside we can refuse. We'll be frog marched at gunpoint (we won't be allowed any firearms, but they will retain theirs) into being their supper.
Please remember the far left predictable USA radical Garrison Keillor wrote the Prairie Home Companion so NPR could wallow in nostalgia of Lake Webegon as they promoted their new world order of no borders, no women or men, awful public schools and fascists institutions masquerading as elites.
What makes Walz a radical? This column never addresses that. Walz is very popular with moderates in Minnesota, and for good reason.
This is what happens when people stop listening to each other. Imagine what a landslide win the Democrats could achieve with a moderate with backbone. Instead we have windsock, faux-radicals.
How can I get more accurate info on Walz? Everything is so partisan..I read one thing then its modified or softened by some other source. It's hard to know what's accurate. And, being friendly or charming isn't enough for me any more in a candidate running for president or Vice President. Being glib doesn't make you right, it makes you glib. Being charming doesn't make you right it just makes you charming. I'm over the the charm offensive and the quick quips. I want to see where they stand on policy. My concern is they lie to win, then swing hard left. That's what Biden did. Harris isn't even pretending. Scary.
Respectfully one only has to look at the economic data to start. If that wasn’t enough to scare the pants off you, you could then look into how he withheld the National Guard during the blm riots. All factual.
Where do you go for the economic info? Wall Street Journal? Agreed, very concerning his reaction to the riots.
That’s a good place to start because they provide sources. I then go to the sources themselves.
That's not surprising. Tim Walz is representative of all the wrong people.
Walz's record in Minnesota is crazy left.
The GOP can easily win without the Charlottesville scum. The Democrats cannot win without the pro-Hamas wing of its party, which is about 40 percent of its voters under age 35 and 20 percent of the rest. Truth is beauty, and beauty truth. That's the true story, so the MSM is desperately trying to turn Gov. Walz into Edmund Muskie whike the Democratic left knows he's more George McGoverrn.
McGovern won one state in 1972, partially for advocating appeasement of our enemies.
But, appeasement sounds more like Trump/Vance than Harris/Walz to me.
I’m not voting for that.
Excuse me.
I see it’s time for a simultaneous dual screen rewatch of Idiocracy + the Republican convention.
It might be hard to tell which is which.
Was Hulk Hogan running for reelection?
Or was that President Camacho?
Check out the movie folks, whatever your persuasion.
Umm ... Iran cash? Failure to attack the Houthis with authority? Green light for modest Russian action in Ukraine? Or does that all go down the Democratic Ministry of Truth memory hole too?
Open borders … energy failures … inflation … gender ideology and DEi … the list of failures of a long one.
Harris's team are desperately trying to roll back the news she met with, and supports a group that wants to leave Israel defenseless. Putin, Xi and the Iran mullahs were emboldened during the Biden administration - and the Obama administration before that. They were surprisingly quiet during Trump's presidency. I think appeasement might mean something different than you think.
The author, and many commenters here, seem to confuse Tim Walz with Ilhan Omar. I get it. They do look kind of alike. He’d look better in a head wrap for sure. So yeah, let’s save our country and our democracy. Vote for the guy who doesn’t respect the results of elections. Stop the Steal, and all that. Makes perfect sense.
Did Hillary respect the results of the election? Did Stacy Abrams?
Does this mean I should vote for the rapist with the top secret nuclear war plans in his bathroom? Sounds reasonable.
Trump was never convicted of rape. Anyone who would believe E Jean Carroll was raped is very naive.
Forgive me, but I disagree. As he was entitled to in a democracy, Trump question the results of the election. He did not incite the riot - in his speech he clearly advocated a peaceful march on the Capitol. Now talk to me about Schumer threatening SCOTUS that it would "reap the whirlwind". Read Matt Taibbi's article on how Biden has weaponized the FBI against Tulsi Gabbard. Then come back to me about those who don't respect democracy.
Yes. But don’t you see. Hilary and Stacy Abrams questioning elections = heroes of democracy and freedom. Trump? No that’s insurrection. 🤷♀️
Megyn Kelly Reveals the Truth on the Military Record and "Stolen Valor" Claims About Tim Walz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-A2avP9iXA&t=4s
Aug 8, 2024
Megyn Kelly begins the show by discussing the truth about MN governor and Dem VP pick Tim Walz’s military record, the reality about him leaving the National Guard, "stolen valor" claims and the facts, how Walz and the left are trying to spin this massive controversy, and more.
Most of my parents’ parents, brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles died in the Holocaust. I grew up aggressively sensitive to antisemitism, never allowing it to go unanswered. Luckily, during my football days I was 6’4’ and weighed 250, but it was the principle of ‘Never Again’ that guided my words and actions.
I was involved with SDS and it chaotic, violent protests throughout the ‘60’s. My awakening came during the early ‘70’s. All my fellow ‘revolutionaries’ began supporting the ‘Palestinian freedom fighters’. These people are the ancestors of today’s democrats. It was a time when those terrorists were wantonly murdering Jews around the world. This caused me to step back and reassess.
Then came the ‘72 Olympics. Avery Brundage, a Hitler supporter from the ‘36 Olympics wanted another Munich setting. Providing little security for Israel, the terrorists murdered a number of the Israeli athletes and were allowed to fly away. The next day, Brundage continued the competition with hardly a hesitation, and democrats in the US were relatively silent.
While I did not trust Nixon, I left the democrats and eventually came to cast my ballot in 1980 for Mr Reagan.
The radicals have driven the democrat bus over the cliff of reason, propriety and objectivity. They are well on their way to becoming a terrorist organization.
Mr Scholl and C24:
Humanity has always searched for a scapegoat (the precept of Rene Girard) to divert attention from its evil and its failings. "It is not our fault, they made me do it." (This ignored the insight of Solzhenitsyn, The line between good and evil goes through the individual human heart). The Jews have been historically the most vulnerable and most frequently were "served up" by the then current elites to assuage their guilt.
Jerusalem and Athens are the political and intellectual foundations of the West. The lessons were learned and were successful.
However, currently the West has been crippled and compromised by Dostoyevski's precept, Without God everything is allowed. The West has no values. Concurrent with this, China, Iran, Russia, and North Korea have decided to fill the vacuum created and destroy the West, Europe and America.
Israel, contrary to historical context, has decided to say NO. How dare they. Aren't the Jews supposed to do our bidding and submit, as in the past.
Israel is the Churchill, while Europe and America are the Chamberlain, the latter crippled by a distorted world view, a situational ethics and "tolerance" approach, hoping against hope that all of this, the current Nazis, Iran, China, etc will go away. They will not. Confrontation is the only currency available. Heaven help us.
The West used to have values, we can have them again, but we must provide sanity to prevail. Very well composed response to Mr. Scholl and C24.
One of those values used to be respect for the results of elections.
Hopefully we can get back to that by rejecting politicians who don’t.
Thank you, I appreciate your framework for viewing the situation.
I too am a child of parents who survived Auschwitz, the Warsaw Ghetto and other camps and ghettos but whose other family members were murdered for being Jewish. I had no one to celebrate holidays with but my parents and brother. My parents were damaged with PTSD (then not spoken of). But they loved America and Israel. I was against the Vietnam because I did not want my brother to go, it would have killed my parents again. I saw the democrats start to turn and heard the jargon on college campuses where I worked. DEI but not for Jews. Summer Lee seeing Harris' rejection of Shapiro as a "f..ing" victory is scary. Bowman, Omar, Bernie clearly Anti-semites cheering Walz because it was not Shapiro looks like the 1930s. My vote may not count in a blue state but my message will be all republican across the board. My pro-choice mindset be damned. My People and Israel come first.
Brundage was rotten.
I don't love Harris/Walz, but I hope they win because Trump actually is a con man and a liar and an authoritarian loving fool.
There is a word for him in Yiddish---schnorrer.
Old Captain Bone Spurs must go
You honestly believe Kamala ISN’T a con woman? Bone spurs? I don’t recall hearing anything about Biden serving. Look at Walz! Stolen valor!
Hmm. That’s not even close to what schnorrer means. The dems are the schnorrers their hands out, their votes bought with college loan payouts and a perpetual welfare state. Trump is lots of things but not that.
I can understand not loving everything about Trump and I understand the 8 year over the top propaganda war by mainstream media, Hollywood, big tech, and more has convinced a lot of people that Trump is a con man and an authoritarian. But I am sorry, those attacks just are not true. He is a Patriot that supports and defends our Constitution. You cannot be an authoritarian and pro-Constitution. He of course puffs stats and information (like all politicians do), but he does not lie on important things. He is not a politician so he honestly tells you what he is going to do in office... Harris/Walz are going to lie to the American people for the next 100 days... they will not tell American voters what they stand for and what they want to do in office. To me that sounds like liars and con men. And they will be the true authoritarians... take your guns, take freedom of speech, go after your political enemies, etc. I am sure my words did not sway you... but if you are looking for honesty and a President who will not govern like an authoritarian, then your vote should be with DJT.
you love Harris/Walz enough to vote for the antisemitic left
There is a word for you in Yiddish - a schmuck.
I've been called way worse, and I appreciate your input
Gefehrlekh
Trump is a con man? An authoritarian? Here is the democrat left (you apparently prefer): anti-first amendment, anti-equality under the law, the border, inflation, Afghanistan, Israel support, China and Ukraine corruption, wokeism, covering up Biden's mental problems, biological men in women's sports, lawfare, illegal student loan forgiveness, weak military, sanctuary cities, trillions on wasted climate change, and many more. If you agree with all this, by all means vote for Harris. But you, and everyone, should consider voting based on beliefs not personalities.
Absolutely true. Let’s not forget their horrid Covid policies. How many lost their jobs because they wouldn’t “show their papers”? While millions of unvaxxed invaded through open borders. And anyone who disagreed was silenced for “misinformation” by the ministry of truth. It’s Orwellian at best. A nightmare.
I don't know much about Walz so not going to comment. But I am still dumbfounded that the issue of Gaza is something that has suddenly become one of the main criteria for voting and choosing candidates. It would be one thing if there were boots on the ground but there aren't. Yes, the US is supplying weapons, but they're also doing that in many other far flung conflicts that these people are happy to ignore in favor of the war du jour. I do understand why but at the same time I also don't understand. To me it seems like the majority of Americans care more about groceries, housing, community safety, so why wouldn't you make your choices and run your campaigns on that rather than be beholden to a small group of people who are obsessed with a conflict that up until Oct 7th they clearly had no interest in?
Because, it's part of the bigger narrative. Which makes it more crazy. Narrative: Israel, BAD. Anything that opposes Israel GOOD.
I would bet dollars for donuts that, Americans care about more important things. And I would double down on my donuts that Americans care that there are STILL AMERICAN hostages from October 7th
One could even broader it out further….Israel: powerful, white or white adjacent; Palestine: lacking power, non-white. It’s a brand of Marxism with a racial twist.
I appreciate and respect the pragmatism of your sentiments. Here is why Gaza/Israel/Iran/Hezbollah matter to me: In my lifetime I have watched the U.S. bail on several far flung wars du jour. While these were ill-conceived and dishonorably concluded, none of the counties in question was a first-world highly developed country. The relationship between Israel and the U.S. has been longstanding and arguably as deep as our relationship to NATO. Israel is now in a very real existential crisis and if it fails, the standing of the U.S. will plummet in the eyes of our other near-peer comparable allies, e.g. Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Those countries matter in ways that Afghanistan and Iraq never did. The BRICs countries are committed to converting the world away from the U.S. dollar reserve based economy. The perceived unreliability of the U.S. as an ally to a country like Israel would be a long stride toward losing our status as world economic hegemon. Not that long ago the Pound Sterling was the world's reserve currency, a status it lost as the British Empire declined. From a practical standpoint, if the U.S. Dollar is ever likewise dethroned, concerns about groceries, housing, etc. will grow exponentially. I am not Jewish, but given the way the chess board is arrayed, our fate is linked to Israel's.
This is all true. The Jews have always been the canaries in the coal mine of the west. And we have an administration that empowered and funded Iran, then told Israel this the last time they’ll come to their aid. It doesn’t bode well for anyone if Iran is free to run ripshod over the region.
Yet another reason to back Ukraine. Putin & Xi have the dollar squarely in their sites. An America that is perceived as unreliable is a danger, to itself.
Oh I agree with you - it's more that this has now becoming a grousing point on the far left to the exclusion of all else (I am centre/left of centre) and it is driving efforts to derail anything that is deemed even remotely supportive of Israel.
Sadly, the democratic party has been taken hostage by an illiberal cabal of neo-socialists who have no understanding of history and who seek to undermine our Constitutional order and its foundational tenets. Mr. Trump’s character flaws and sophomoric conduct remain troubling; even so, his policies on national defense, separation of powers, the 2nd amendment, Israel, deregulation, immigration, energy independence and traditional American values remain firmly in the center. To paraphrase a friend of mine, if forced to choose between a socialist who seeks to imposed California values on the Republic and a jerk, I am going to vote for the jerk.
But he’s meeeeean. And abortiona bortionabortion.
Brilliant comment - summarizes my position better than I could've said so myself.
Check out Lewis Carroll's "The Walrus and the Carpenter."
Kamala Harris = The walrus
Tim Walz = The carpenter
The oyrsters are us - but we won't be issues invitations to a walk at the seaside we can refuse. We'll be frog marched at gunpoint (we won't be allowed any firearms, but they will retain theirs) into being their supper.
Please remember the far left predictable USA radical Garrison Keillor wrote the Prairie Home Companion so NPR could wallow in nostalgia of Lake Webegon as they promoted their new world order of no borders, no women or men, awful public schools and fascists institutions masquerading as elites.
Lake Wobegon, where all the men are women, the women are whatever they say they are, and all the children are illiterate.
What if he were radically pro-Israel?
Maybe, but so are people across the Democratic Party. Who are the "right people"?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bring-normality-back-joe-manchin-and-other-moderates-praise-harris-selection-of-tim-walz/ar-AA1olpM7