Harris picks Walz for VP
Harris picks Walz for VP
The Minnesota governor, who recently stepped into the spotlight, will join Kamala Harris on the Democratic ticket, CNN reported Tuesday morning.
I was sure it was going to be professional genocide ghoul Shapiro. Color me surprised.
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.
deep condolences to comrade @Frank@hexbear.net who has lived under the the Walz regime
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!)
This is one of most popular posts on Bluesky.
with a wine mom and a public school dad on the ticket you can really think of this year's democratic ballot as the ultimate triumph of resistance libs
https://subium.com/profile/jbouie.bsky.social/post/3kz2jirwarc2a
---
Edit
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)
not voting unless they both commit to ending arms shipments to
until a permanent ceasefire is reached, simple asi have already had one annoying conversation about these two and i know it's nowhere near the last
There will be widespread vandalism on their yard signs to be some variation of Harry's or Harriest Balz. The media will try to spin this as misogyny