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August 6, 2024
MAKE AMERICA MINNEAPOLIS AGAIN?
Minnesota under Tim Walz.
After he ignited violent riots and stoked the 2020 protests, Kamala helped bail out the violent and dangerous criminals who were arrested for it.
A taste of what America will look like under a Harris-Walz admin. pic.twitter.com/fEs6ibeeex
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 6, 2024
This was the moment I filled in 2020 when BLM rioters attacked Minneapolis Police as they evacuated the 3rd Precinct.
Under Gov. Walz’s leadership and despite days of rioting, the MN National Guard hadn’t fully deployed at that point.pic.twitter.com/KoxAAYiUIN
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) August 6, 2024
Walz’s daughter was also apparently pro-rioters as well back then:
The campaign ad edits itself:
Another future campaign ad here:
Exit quote: “You know, he talks about this wall, I always say, let me know how high it is. If it’s 25 feet, then I’ll invest in the 30 foot ladder factory.”
UPDATE: Like Apocalypse Now’s Col. Kilgore, Walz’s wife loves the smell of napalm in the morning! Or at least burning businesses during a Minneapolis riot:
FROM “VEEP” TO VEEP: I’m Laughing at Julia-Louis Dreyfus for All the Wrong Reasons. “Let me repeat that: Harris is a fan of the show that brutally skewered people like Harris.”
ESPECIALLY IF YOU’RE A JOURNALIST OR A MEMBER OF CONGRESS: It really hurts to think, new study concludes.
FLASHBACK:
In case you were wondering how we got the Kamala Crash:
This is the Biden-Harris Administration’s handpicked Economic Advisors Chair, Jared Bernstein, struggling to understand basic economics and the consequences of uncontrolled money printing
Painfully incompetent leaders. pic.twitter.com/xBs3N4TuP1
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 5, 2024
The country is in the very best of hands.
YOU’LL DESERVE “RAMPAGING MOBS” IF YOU’RE DUMB ENOUGH TO DO THAT:
🚨Did Jaimie Raskin just reveal Democrats’ plan?
“It's gonna be up to us on January 6, 2025 to tell the rampaging Trump mobs that he's disqualified… We need bodyguards for everybody and Civil War conditions,”
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 6, 2024
And I hope your bodyguards are the finest the Secret Service has to offer. . . .
I suspect that this is just red meat for gullible Dems, and I also suspect that President Vance wouldn’t be any more congenial to Cong. Raskin. But is this an indicator that they expect Trump to win?
HAHA: Harrison Butker Gets a Big Contract Extension and the Left Reacts EXACTLY How You Would Expect.
They’re mad because he’s a harbinger of things to come.
FASTER? PLEASE! ‘We just have to build it’: Why Concorde’s successor is eyeing supersonic flights to America.
The founder of the company seeking to build a successor to Concorde has hit back at “flight shaming” activists who are demanding an end to mass air travel.
Blake Scholl, of Boom Supersonic, said that the demand to cut back on flights for the sake of limiting CO2 emissions is “depressing”.
He said: “There are some people who look at this and say, ‘Well, I guess we should all have less things. We should use less energy, we should go to fewer places.’ There’s been a lot of virtue-signalling and it’s very depressing.
“I believe in a future of abundance. I believe the north star is human flourishing and that we should build a future in which more people can go to more places more often.”
Mr Scholl, who spoke at last month’s Farnborough International Airshow where Boom unveiled the cockpit for its proposed 64-seat, 1,300mph Overture jet accompanied by four former Concorde pilots, argues that so-called flight shamers are ultimately seeking to stifle human progress.
It isn’t quite “90 minutes from New York to Paris” but 1,300 mph is impressive.
HUMILIATING: The Biden-Harris Administration Might Just Beat Its Own Embarrassing Record. “If Monday’s almost record-breaking NASDAQ meltdown wasn’t ignominious enough, tensions in the Middle East might have the Biden-Harris Administration breaking a record set by the Biden-Harris Administration.”
READER FAVORITE: Paint-Sprayer-1000W-High-Power-Electric-Spray-Paint-Gun. #CommissionEarned
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT THAT CENSORED ANTI-COMMUNIST FLYERS SETTLES FIRE LAWSUIT FOR $330,000. And administrators have to go to First Amendment training–annually.
OUCH: Trump Team Goes There With First Tim Walz Ad and Hoo Boy It Will Definitely Leave a Mark (Watch).
Tim Walz is a weird radical liberal.
What could be weirder than signing a bill requiring schools to stock tampons in boys' bathrooms?
Or weirder than signing legislation allowing minors to receive sex change operations? pic.twitter.com/2kqTQ9CzfT
— MAGA War Room (@MAGAIncWarRoom) August 6, 2024
At the largely Minnesota-based Power Line, John Hinderaker writes:
As an American, I am horrified at Walz’s selection. He is small-minded, mean-spirited man. In one way, he will fit in with the Harris ticket: he ran a basement campaign for re-election in 2022, refusing to show up for debates with Republican Scott Jensen after the first one went badly. So Jensen was left debating an empty chair.
Walz’s character defects are considerable, but let’s leave it at this: he was largely responsible for the George Floyd riots that devastated Minneapolis and other cities, because he dithered for days rather than calling out the National Guard. By his own admission, he held off out of sympathy for the rioters’ cause.
So did Kamala of course, in a tweet that’s still up: Kamala Harris Lies, Claiming That She Never Promoted The Bail Fund That Bailed Out Blm Rioters As Well As Murderers And R4pists; But The Tweet In Which She Promoted That Bail Fund Is Still Up!
Ed Morrissey, another longtime former Minnesota resident, adds:
This is such a puzzling pick on many levels. Josh Shapiro governs successfully in the kind of blue-collar state that Harris needs to win in order to succeed in November. Minnesota’s electorate is largely controlled by progressives in and around Academia in the seven metro counties. Walz is a former teacher himself, which Democrats think will play as somehow “blue collar,” but will instead look exactly like the progressive clique that many parents are now fighting in school districts over educational curricula.
Ed writes, “This doesn’t even look like Harris’ own choice, as Salena Zito briefly argues:”
Then 2 things are true. 1st picking @GovernorShapiro would’ve been about expanding the coalition picking Walz is about a base election. @GovTimWalz is deep blue progressive, often called a prairie progressive.
2nd this was Pelosi’s pick & she has been at the controls all along. https://t.co/V9E8CfC89Y— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) August 6, 2024
“On the first point, both of the nominees chose to focus on their base. However, Harris started out in a deep hole and had a chance to climb out of it with a dynamic partner that could appeal across party lines. Walz has no appeal at all,” Ed concludes.
UPDATE: The deep complicity of both the governor and veep during the 2020 riots allows for Trump to run some sort of modern reboot of Nixon’s “law and order” ad from 1968. As Charles Glasser wrote here in August of 2020, “[I] cannot stress enough how powerful and resonant this ad was in 1968. Ben Rhodes was right: The young reporters in the MSM don’t know anything, and I’d add neither do their readers. This ad could run today and still be effective. If you support Trump, you should be demanding that they start producing ads like this.”
And Kamala’s “everybody needs to be woke” quote allows for this exit question:
Update: Do you want America to look like Minneapolis in 2020?
NO, JESUS WAS NOT A VEGETARIAN: Now pass me that steak sauce, please.
HEALTH: Ecstasy Drug Trials Missed Suicidal Thoughts of Subjects.
Studies being used to decide whether the U.S. should authorize an ecstasy-based drug for traumatized patients missed serious side effects and were marked by bias.
The Food and Drug Administration is expected within days to decide whether to approve the drug, known as MDMA, for treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. Approval would be a milestone in decades of efforts to decriminalize the use of psychedelics.
Three people who were subjects in the studies told The Wall Street Journal that their thoughts of suicide worsened during or after testing, but their downward slides weren’t captured in trial data and therefore not reflected in the final results.
The study subjects said they felt pressure to report positive outcomes, because that would lead to a history-making drug approval. They also said they could tell they had taken ecstasy during the studies, though gold-standard drug trials are supposed to mask whether a subject got the drug candidate or a placebo.
“I wanted the miracle cure,” said Sarah McNamee, one of the subjects. She said the therapists conducting the trial did, too. “My therapists made it really clear that they really really believed in this thing.”
Lykos Therapeutics, the company sponsoring the studies, recruited researchers conducting the testing from the ranks of therapists who had given ecstasy illicitly and advocated for the drug’s use, according to people familiar with the matter.
Earlier studies had shown some promise for treating PTSD with MDMA so it’s a shame it didn’t pan out — and even worse, if this report is correct, that Lykos skewed their own study to death.
PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Students Sue Squad Members for Encouraging Columbia Unrest.
THEY WOULDN’T DO A CHRISTIAN-THEMED ENVIRONMENT: Simmons University offers themed housing for Muslims, but not for Jewish students.
THAT’S… COMFORTING?
"UNRWA is not 100% terrorists, just 50%", according to the @nytimes 🙄 https://t.co/zXLtT8mU06
— Leslie Kajomovitz (@lkajomovitz) August 5, 2024
Even the UN’s in-house investigation could only clear half of its aid workers of actual terrorism.
THE PRIDE OF CHADRON STATE: I remember vividly elite Democrats mercilessly mocking Sarah Palin after she was picked as the VP nominee because she had attended undistinguished colleges. So what do they have to say about Tim Walz, a graduate of the exceedingly obscure Chadron State College? (Note that personally I go with demonstrated performance over educational pedigree.)
HARSH BUT FAIR:
POOR JOSH SHAPIRO, PUBLICLY ABANDONED HIS PRINCIPLES AND HIS RELIGION FOR NOTHING: Kamala Picks Walz.
UPDATE: No Jews Allowed. “Josh Shapiro is a popular governor in a swing state with eighteen electoral college votes. But he is Jewish.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: NASDAQ Gives a Preview of ‘Kamalanomics.’ “Despite the honeymoon hoopla surrounding Kamala Harris’s anointing, the real world knows that having her in the White House will be such a disaster that even the staunchest conservative would soon be reminiscing about the relatively halcyon days of the Biden administration. Swapping one Democrat for another never makes anything better.”
1. THEY SUCK. Thoughts on the Secret Service. “I think it is now established beyond doubt that the Secret Service is stonewalling the investigation into the Trump assassination attempt. Information has been dribbling out, and every bit of it looks horrible. . . . If this had happened in any other state–say Mexico, Brazil, Chile, or Serbia, would you even wonder whether incompetence was the cause or default to the explanation that the incompetence was a cover for something more sinister?”