VP Pick
So I've been avoiding getting too deep into the "is Biden too old" debate because, well, I thought he was. His campaign had dropped at one point in 2020 that he was going to be a one-term transitional president, and then he pulled back on that.
That said, I wasn't part of the crowd that thought he was suddenly suffering from dementia after the debate, but rather that he was just acting like an 80-something year old man. Which was, quite frankly, a concern.
So... I was fine with Harris stepping in. Not happy with the pick, but fine with it. She'll be fine. Especially since she didn't pick the candidate everyone was pushing her to... Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania. He had some skeletons in his closet and probably would have lost her the tenuous support of some of the anti-Netanyahu folks.
Speaking of the VP pick... what does everyone think of Tim Walz? He probably doesn't give Harris any leverage in battleground states.
My own opinion is that at least he doesn't hurt Harris at all. He isn't just boring centrist/conservative Democrat like Tim Kaine or 2000-era Lieberman either. However, I'm not sure if he does anything for Harris's ticket unless he really blows away J.D. Vance in a debate. Which... well, maybe he will.
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That last tweet
Walz has republicans dusting off 1800s to WW1 era racist arguments which is pretty wild to see
Plus the swiftboat attempts are just... sad.
I do like the attempts to tie him to the fires set during 2020 though. I mean, first of all its been proven that the most famous of those were set by alt-right supporters trying to start a false-flag against antifia. Either way though, if Walz had turned out to support setting one of the police stations on fire I'd be pretty on-board with him. The entire goddamn police department in Minneapolis should be disbanded and started from scratch.
Its one of the very few cases where I think a union should lose power and be blacklisted. But of course, the cops can continue to ignore both laws and orders from their own city councils and continue using tactics like controversial (and banned in Minneapolis) "killology/warrior police training".
So... well. He didn't blow Vance away in the debate.
I mean, he told fewer fibs and didn't exaggerate as much as Vance did. But it wasn't a blow-out. Plus he kept... complimenting him? That "Minnesota Nice" kicking in, maybe.
Plus, well... In retrospect Vance's "you guys said you weren't going to fact check" line that seemed like such a self-own actually may have ended up helping him. Because when the REST of what he said wasn't fact checked at all, it made it seem legitimate.
Ah well. No one's mind was changed either way.