Thank fucking god honestly. Shapiro pick would have been a nightmare regardless of your thoughts on voting. An arch-zionist who volunteered for the IOF one assassination away from the presidency.
Look it's probably the best outcome possible for the Dems.
As communists the result of this election simply alters the nature of the fight, not the difficulty, but this makes all our enemies mad and may wrest some small concessions so it's fun. Let's just enjoy the moment.
I think this might actually be good news. Not because Waltz is better than Shapiro electorally (although he is, by a lot) because I'm not exactly super invested in Kamala winning, but I have a glimmer of hope this might be a positive signal for the direction of her foreign policy. Netanyahu is trying to start a regional war and to lock any future US administration into that war. Picking the turbo-Zionist Shapiro would have been an unmistakable signal that a future Harris administration would follow Netanyahu into that war. Snubbing him for a more moderate/progressive pick potentially signals a willingness to break from Israeli positions.
And again, not that I'm rooting super hard for Kamala, but it is notable to see democrats not picking the option that divides their base and puts them on the defensive when everything was going their way. Shapiro has multiple glaring liabilities- comparing anti-genocide protesters to the KKK, supporting Charter schools, possibly covering up the murder of his major donor's fiance- and if they picked him, they would have had to scold their voters into shutting up while Republicans gleefully pounced on him. I'm so used to democrats shooting themselves in the foot and going into scold-mode that it's actually sort of noteworthy when they don't.
Love me a super-progressive ticket where both candidates are in bed with gig economy ghouls and enjoy siccing the police state on people. Can't wait to hear how excited my friends are!
(This was the lesser of four evils, or however many people she had on her shortlist, and it's still a guy who teargassed his largest city. The Democrats, folks!)
It's only ~1 hour old and it has 2.8k likes which is quite a lot for that site. I bet the post will surely become the most popular in a 24 hour period.
Kelly made more sense imo. He could totally take the wind out of the Republicans' sails on the attempted Trump assassination because he's married to Gabby Giffords and she got way worse than a free industrial ear piercing, and they could go on the attack on gun control and make it personal. (I know the Dems would never go on the attack other than "sir have you no decency" and "he did document stuff wrong" but still)