During the last couple of legislative sessions, the DFL wrote a whole bunch of moral checks.

Since we’ve got an election coming up, how about we see how many of them bounced?

Abortion

Unrestricted abortion is one promise the DFL trifected promised and delivered on. 

Perhaps very very overdelivered.

The DFL brought a certain brusque brutality to the issue:

And delivered on it with teutonic precision, leaving no potential abortee behind:

And have brought a certain totalitarian panache to trying to erase all dissent

Green Energy

Was your powrer cheaper?

Why, no. It is not.


Social Security Taxes

Remember when the DFL ran on eliminating taxes on Social Security?

They are certainly hoping you don’t:

MINNEAPOLIS, MN – For the second time this month, Minnesota Senate Democrats voted against eliminating the taxation of Social Security benefits – despite a massive projected budget surplus of $17.6 billion. Five of those Democrats have also already broken promises to end the taxation of social security benefits and did so again today; Sens. Hauschild, Gustafson, Kupec, Putnam and Seeberger all voted to maintain the tax again after doing so earlier this month. The Republican Party of Minnesota issued the statement below in response:

“This latest vote shows that Democrats in St. Paul are only interested in one thing – partisan politics. Instead of voting to provide much-needed tax relief to seniors by ending the tax on Social Security benefits, the Democrats voted to kill this bill for the second time this month. Meanwhile, Democrats in the legislature along with Gov. Tim Walz continue to push tax increases and one-time political gimmicks. With a budget surplus of more than $17 billion, Minnesota taxpayers deserve more than petty partisan games. Democrats need to stop the petty politics and work with Republicans to pass real, permanent tax relief for Minnesota families and businesses.” – Republican Party of Minnesota Chairman David Hann

“Fully Funding Education”

The term was intentionally misleading – when you finally got a DFLer to admit what this little word salad starter meant, it boiled down to rolling back a Pawlenty-era accounting shift. 

Forget for a moment the flurry of teacher strikes and headlines about districts running out of money – as the DFL wants you to forget them – because it was never intended as anything but a campaign slogan to gull the gullible.

The results are self-explanatory…:

…provided you can read and do math which, fortunately for the MNDFL, more and more Minesotans can’t.

“Reducing Poverty 30%”

That was a promise they made before the 2023 session – and abruptly stopped once they started legislating.

Because while the stats aren’t in for this last few years yet…:

…the leading indicators just aren’t that good.

Just want to keep that memory hole exhumed for election time.

As a rule, I treat the axiom “government is the things we do together, stupidly” like a well-tested law of physics.   Politics – which is what drives government – is the worst possible way to allocate limited resources of any kind. 

And FEMA’s record is…checkered.

But some of the stories coming from the Carolinas, Georgia and Virginia seem…

…stretchy?

Here’s a POV. 

As grandma used to day,  “trusting anyone is always a sucker bet, especially online”.  Since Grandma died 15 years before anyone but Algore had the internet, she was pretty savvy.

Submitted without comment, here’s Governor Walz’s appearance last Sunday on Fox. 

Did I say “submitted without comment?”  You know me better than that.

He does not come off well.  

I’d like to make sure as many Minnesotans as possible see this – not only for the Presidential tilt, but as people assess the DFL’s performance this past six years.

It’s been a year since the Hamas-led massacre of 1,200 Israelis – the worst pogrom since World War 2. 

It’s a year that’s made me even more ashamed of America’s foreign policy than the previous 2.5 years of POTATUS and Harris had managed to do. 

But it tracks with the same I feel when I look at what the American left has done:

The number of antisemitic incidents in the U.S. has surged over 200 percent this past year, as Israel’s war against Hamas sparked an outpouring of Jewish hatred on college campuses and elsewhere.

From October 7, 2023, to September 24, 2024, the U.S. saw more than 10,000 antisemitic incidents, an increase of over 200 percent from the same period a year before, which saw 3,325 incidents, according to preliminary data released by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a left-wing antisemitism watchdog…

…On college campuses, roughly 1,200 antisemitic incidents took place, a 500 percent increase from the year before, when the ADL had recorded about 200 of them. Earlier this year, anti-Israel demonstrations and tent encampments formed on college campuses nationwide, especially after Columbia University’s anti-Israel encampment received national attention and required the NYPD to break it up.

Antisemitic activity and outright advocacy for the extermination of Israel were common around the encampment sites. A prominent example was the Jew-free zones at the University of California, Los Angeles. A judge ruled in August that UCLA must stop aiding and abetting the antisemitic campus activists who attempted to prevent Jews from passing by certain parts of campus unless they disavowed Israel. UCLA initially decided to fight the ruling but quickly pulled its appeal.

Outside of college campuses, rallies across American cities often featured terrorist banners and chants calling for the destruction of Israel. The ADL found that more than 3,000 antisemitic incidents occurred at anti-Israel demonstrations, where protesters chanted in support of Hamas and other terrorist groups.

The potential of a Harris/Walz administration that continues passive-aggressively coddling Iranian aggression seem to be prompting the Israelis to swing for the proverbial fences, to try to resolve the issue before Harris screws it all up, if worse comes to worst. 

Which is a good thing, since the Democrats and Media (PTR) won’t say it.

Shot:   Harris was on board with #MeToo:

Chaser: until she wasn‘t:

Vice President Kamala Harris‘s husband assaulted his ex-girlfriend, three friends have told Dailymail.com.

The Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, 59, allegedly struck the woman in the face so hard she spun around, while waiting in a valet line late at night after a May 2012 Cannes Film Festival event in France.

One of her friends told DailyMail.com that the woman called him immediately after the incident, sobbing in her cab, and described the alleged assault.

 

Thing is, I’m all about people being innocent until proven guilty.

But given that Emhoff – a guy who knocked up his nanny during his first marriage, not to mention the new allegations – is being actively promoted as the model for modern masculinity – it

But given that Emhoff – a guy who has admitted to knocking up his nanny during his first marriage, to say nothing of these allegations – is being actively promoted as the very model of modern masculinity (by institutions that have little institutional knowledge of the concept), it’s certainly worth validating.

Soon.

David Strom has a results of VP debate.

In short, I have revised my opinion about the debate. Not about what happened–I thought Vance was clearly better than Walz, but that it wouldn’t matter. Now I think it very well might, not because Vance won the debate but rather the manner in which Walz lost it. 

Walz lost it by looking deranged at times and like a liar. The visuals mattered and Walz’s dancing around on his personal lies mattered even more. 

So I was wrong…I think. The aftermath of the debate has the potential to be devastating to Tim Walz. 

 

The ghosts of Richard Stockdale and Richard Nixon are calling back from the great beyond thanking Walz for making them no longer the easiest “presidential debate flop sweat” joke.

Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails:

President Biden blamed Hurricane Helene on climate change and said anybody who disagreed must be brain dead.

Formerly, hurricane were “acts of God” which Were Not covered under ordinary insurance, special  coverage was required, whereas damage resulting from actions of other people Were covered.

So .  .  .  does this mean all our insurance premiums are going up, because hurricanes are now torts? 

Joe Doakes, no longer in Como Park

Uh…lawyers?

Bob Gust is running for the MN House in HD 50B – west Bloomington.

And here’s today’s song list:

We’ve recently seen evidence of the Israeli intelligence service’s (“Mossad”) skill in penetrating their enemies’ operations; from spectacular, “James Bond”-style coups like Operation Grim Beeper to, incredibly, apparently penetrating the heart of Iran’s anti-Israel intelligence efforts up to senior leadership levels.

Mossad has developed, over almost 80 years of fighting for Israel’s survival, an almost superhuman reputation.

As with much of Mossad’s history, it’s an awe-inspiring display of what intelligence people call “fieldcraft – the nuts and bolts of running intelligence and clandestine unconventional warfare operations.

But I’m going to suggest there’s a group whose fieldcraft makes Mossad look about as subtle as a P Diddy houseparty.

And they are (we are told) operating among us even as we speak.

The Phantom Menace: We are told in one breath that American “white supremacists” are a mass of pasty, addled losers with sub-90 IQs, living in their parents basements, who live in their parents basements, stock shelves at Dollar General and have permanent Cheeto-dust stains on their fingers and the t-shirts that stretch to try to cover their obesity-stretched frames.

Indeed, some of the times they’ve come out into the open, they’ve seemed to fit that stereotype:

And yet since then, the record has been a little more muddled.

Much of the Minnesota DFL establishment leaped to trying to blame “white supremacists” for the Minneapolis riots of 2020.

And while this was obviously true, a few chilling facts remain:

• Although here in the Midway, and as far as I saw East Lake Street and Uptown, were coated six inches deep in graffiti, I don’t recall seeing a single swastika or “14 Words” reference.
• Although the Allianz soccer field sits in the middle of an area that was heavily burned, looted and vandalized, and was (and is) protected by not so much as a shrubbery, there wasn’t so much as a Sharpie mark on it.
• For all the official ballyhoo, Minnesota’s elite media has apparently found no evidence that they were around in any significant numbers.

So apparently the mouth-breathing incel defectives destroyed two neighbhorhoods – and then disappeared without leaving so much as a footprint.

Which brings us to today. 

WIthout A Trace: We are the most videotaped society in history. People record the the most mundane of life’s activities. And if there’s something exciting – a car crash, a fight, someone acting out in some way – it seems almost inevitable that someone will break out their phone and start recording .

So when a series of WNBA stars started complaining about the wave of racism accompanying the surge of people actually becoming interested in the league – perhaps the most “niche” of all sports…:

“The WNBA is a competitive league with some of the most elite athletes in the world,” read the statement. “While we welcome a growing fan base, the WNBA will not tolerate racist, derogatory, or threatening comments made about players, teams and anyone affiliated with the league. League security is actively monitoring threat-related activity and will work directly with teams and arenas to take appropriate measures, to include involving law enforcement as necessary.”

and describing what they’ve encountered…:

“We’ve seen a lot of racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia throughout the course of our country,” [Connectict Suns coach Stephanie] White said. “Sport is no exception, and it’s unacceptable. The thing that frustrates me the most is that we — I say we because I work in television as well — what we in the media have to do a better job of (is) not allowing trolls and social media to become the story. I feel like we have allowed trolls in social media to frame the narrative of what the story is. We have to do a better job. I applaud our team for maintaining their professionalism.”

Now, I have little doubt that there’s bad behavior in the hellscape of online and social media fandom. Social media doesn’t just foster bad behavior, it rewards it.

But some of the WNBA players say they’re encounting open racist behavior, at games, in public, in the open.

And yet in a society, and sport, where it’s hard to go to a concession stand without someone doing a TikTok, with stands full of people for whom women’s hoops is as much an ideological commitment as a sport, there doesn’t appear to be any video evidence of this kind of behavior. And we know how important that is, legally speaking.

So – are White Supremacists a bunch of doughy retrograde losers? Or operatives who do their work and dissappear into the ether without leaving a trace?

Or both?

 I’ve been meaning to come back to this.   A Harris/Klink op brought it up with a high hanging curveball:

Being corralled into a staged propaganda exercise?

I’ve never been a big Tim Walz fan. Quite the opposite.

But is anyone else getting some…1930s vibes?

Or perhaps more appropriately to Walz’s time in Omahongkong:

I can’t be the only one that finds that photo a little #weird in and of itself, in addition to the historical allusions (especially when you add in Walz’s “One Minnesota” slogan), can I?

People can vote for whoever they want to.  It’s still a fairly free country. 

But I have a fair number of people in my social circle – co-workers, high school classmates, former teachers and professors – who are declaiming that they’re voting for Harris and Walz “to save democracy”.

And I read that and try to grasp how much one must ignore – willfully or not – to believe that Harris and Walz support the American republican (small-r) system of popular, federalist government:

• Supports (and gained power in part thru) big tech censoring dissent
• Actively suppressed dissent (Walz’s snitch lines and thoughtcrime database, as well as Harris’s coziness with Big Tech and Big Media with their record of censorship so bald-faced that even Mark Zuckerberg is feeling ashamed)
• Supports repealing the free market – the most human economic system for the most people in all of human history – via price controls and rent control
• Harris supports undercutting federalism and the separation of powers via:
  • proposing bringing the SCOTUS under control of the executive branch
  • further ratcheting up power to the administrative state
  • abolishing the Electoral College
  • abolishing the filibuster – one of the last ditch tools in thwarting the impune tyranny of the majority
  • further centralizing power in the Executive Branch
  • Indeed, *defying* the checks and balances of our system of enumerated powers (the Harris/Biden administrations’ unilateral “forgiveness” of student loans, and withholding of Congressionally-mandated support to Israel)?
• Supports abolishing private healthcare
• Openly seeks to disarm the law-abiding by executive decree (since they’ll never get it through Congress), and expressed contempt for the Fourth Amendment in pursuing that?
• Wants to ramp up the power of the administrative and regulatory state – with “stochastic” implications of violence.
• Actively working to make the border more or less irrelevant – and the nation’s shared ideals along with it.
• And let’s not forget the notion that if you dissent obstreporously enough, professional rioters may “spontaneously” and with no collusion from Big Left whatsoever, nosirreebob, arrive in your neighborhood?
• Subsuming American foreign policy to the power of alliances ?

Against that:

• Mean tweets
• A riot only rhetorically connected with Trump, which has been lavishly prosecuted. 

What am I missing, here?

It’s a cliché of modern Western life – “youth” rebel against their elders.

Since the dawn of western “youth culture” right around 70 years ago, that’s pretty much always meant a leftward tilt – and in much of the world, it still does.

But something interesting is going on in Canada:

If an election were held today, Canada’s Conservative Party would win in a landslide and bury the Liberals, led by Justin Trudeau. This may not seem impressive after ten years of Liberal rule; most governments wear out their welcome long before then. What’s unusual here is that Conservative support is strong in all demographics—and is strongest among youth. An astonishing 47 percent of those aged 18 to 34 would vote Conservative, and only 24 percent and 17 percent would vote Liberal and socialist, respectively. This represents a complete reversal of the upwelling of youth support that brought the Liberals to power in 2015.

Why has the electorate soured on the Liberals? First, nothing has been a greater turn-off to voters than contemporary progressive activism. Think of the constant bloviating about structural racism and colonialism, the “crisis of whiteness,” and self-accusations of genocide. Twenty years ago, you might have heard such things in a sociology department or undergraduate student lounge; now it emanates from Canada’s top political leaders and cultural institutions. One of the Trudeau government’s first moves was to announce a plan to “decolonize” Canada. In their own telling, the Trudeau Liberals manage a civil service and a military riven by systemic racism and white supremacy, respectively. Everyone knows that such claims are ridiculous, but few have dared say so in public. The predictable result is that only about one-third of Canadians have confidence in the federal government, and 70 percent now agree with the statement “Canada is broken.”

 

I can remember the general feeling of fatigue with what seemed like the ongoing collapse of the world that prompted so many people my age to vote for Ronald Reagan when we were in our 20s.

I can’t imagine the world doesn’t look a whole lot worse right now.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why Tim Walz ducked all meaningful debates in the 2022 cycle.

Highlights of the evening:

Vance calling the moderators on their fairly naked bias: After the moderators used their interstitial bits to finish Walz’s point for him while trying to “fact-check” Vance, Vance finally had enough, and beat them down pretty brutally.

“Misspoke”: Oh, yeah. Bias notwithstanding, the mods asked Walz to answer MPR’s reporting that he was not, in fact, in Hong Kong during the Tienanmen Square massare. And it was pretty glorious:

And his first answer was “I was born into a middle class family…”

No, really – although he’s spent his past eighteen years telling people every detail of that time in China, down to what he ate and which Communist-logo sweatshirt Gwen wore, he slammed on the brakes and phumphered away claiming that he was old knucklehead and had “misspoken”

Facts: Vance was able to shred Walz in detail on a few issues, including his signing of Minnesota’s radical abortion laws – which put Walz back on his heels (and showed us that Tom Emmer was in fact, a pretty effective debate prepper.

And the #1 highlight:

Walz was weird; Vance was not: Walz had his moments – but Vance never lost his cool, stayed on message. Walz did, and did not. Vance won on style and substance, and it wasn’t even close.

And this may have been the first Vice Presidential debate of my lifetime that might have an actual impact on the election.

Fingers crossed. 

In my interview with former Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka last Saturday, we talked about the depths of Governor Klink’s radicalism. 

With that in mind – with any luck, this should turn up in the Veep debate tonight:

In a very significant development — I am almost prepared to say the most significant development in the current presidential contest — it has recently been revealed that Brian D. Lozenski, an associate professor of urban and multicultural education at Macalester College and a leader in the development of Minnesota’s proposed ethnic studies curriculum, explicitly called for the “overthrow of the United States.” This goal has demonstrably shaped Minnesota’s ethnic studies standards, according to which students are taught as early as kindergarten that America is evil. The video recording of Lozenski was made two years ago but was taken down the day after it was spotted by Stanley Kurtz, senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center…  

And for someone who’s made a bit of an art form out of concealing his radical nature under a couple of layers of Elmer Fudd-wear, it’s actually been kind of brazen of Walz.

But there’s not much point in trying to make Lozenski look like anything but a CRT Kommissar:

To make as explicit an assertion as did Lozenski is extremely rare; indeed, I have never seen or heard such an admission. The destructive intent of ethnic studies or CRT has been very apparent and much commented upon for many years by the conservative commentariat. But Lozenski’s open, cavalier articulation makes the destructive nature of ethnic studies virtually impossible to deny. 

So the debate should be interesting, for a change.

John Kerry – who came waaaay too close to becoming President, and that’s after acknowledging what a disappointment Dubya was in retrospect – accidentally told the left’s truth:

“our First Amendment stands as a major block to be able to just, you know, hammer it”

It’s disheartening how many Democrats consider that a bug rather than a feature.

On the weekend before the big debate with JD Vance, Tim Walz reminds everone that he’s a thin-skinned petulant little man:

For the first time in my politics-watching career, I’m excited to go to a vice-presidentai debate. 

Governor Walz takes us back to the glory days of “Separate but Equal”:

But of course there’s a reason for this:

Libraries have got to be woke, you see:

Nicole Cooke, a professor of library and information science at the University of South Carolina, is booked as a keynote speaker for the event, according to an agenda obtained by the DCNF.

Cooke has argued that it is “tantamount to malpractice” to allow students to enter the workforce without first being educated on diversity, equity, inclusion and social justice. In 2017, she received a grant to study “racial microaggressions in libraries,” according to a press release.

The professor has a long history of giving presentations on the importance of racial justice and diversity when managing libraries, according to her personal website. In 2020, she created an “anti-racism resources for all ages” project which includes a number of materials intended to introduce children to the topic.

 

One of the goals is to make libraries “more inclusive”. One would think inviting all those bigoted (checks notes) librarians would be pretty vital, if that’s the goal.

Wouldn’t one?

Paul Gazelka’s book Lifting the Veil is available right here.

Today’s music list:

Governor Walz, with Alex Soros.

Check the body language:

Looks like he’s ready to fetch a ball.

Every day is an opportunity for some new kind of social services fraud.

Medicare?  Food? Childcare? 

Old hat!

Now it’s “Autism treatment centers“:

“I and other former employees witnessed some neglect regarding clients’ education needs and self-care. The clients’ goals aren’t being run by the behavioral therapist there,” she told DHS, which administers Minnesota’s version of Medicaid, known here as Medical Assistance, a federal-state health plan for poor and disabled people.

Smart Therapy did not respond to a request for comment. 

The state is investigating 15 autism providers, has already withheld payments to providers and forwarded five to Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. Although the identities of the centers are unknown, an immigrant autism provider complained that DHS discriminates against minority providers.

The autism investigation comes close on the heels of the Feeding Our Future scandal, which is believed to be the biggest pandemic relief fraud in the nation and has underscored state government’s failure to stop program fraud in recent years. 

 

Autism centers are – this beggars the imagination – not licensed in Minnesota, a state that requires a license to braid hair.  But unlike hair braiding (as far as I know), there’s a ton of government money going into “Autism Treatment” and, well, we know how that ends up in Tim Walz’s Minnesota, don’t we?

This is why I wonder how much prosecuting Kamala Harris did while she was in, and then leading, the San Francisco District Attorney’s office.

The first rule of armed self-defense, especially in a “blue” city, is you never talk about armed self-defense.

A particularly zealous DA – like Harris – could use a statement like Harris’s as evidence that one was looking to kill someone; if one were involved in an incident, the DA could use a statement like that to try to impeach the idea that you were an “unwilling participant” in the incident.  Which is enough to turn a righteous self-defense shooting into a term in prison, if you get the wrong jury. 

So let’s say I have my doubts.

IT appears our Vice President and possible future President has a dog in the fight:

Semi-side issue: I’m a little amazed at the number of Democrats who’ll chant with a straight face “the Democrats don’t support open borders!”.

I’ve said it many times in this space – going back to 1986, I’ve never liked Donald Trump’s public persona.

I couldn’t quite bring myself to vote for him in 2016 – I wrote in Scott Walker. 

And while Trump turned out to be a fine president on a policy level, I thought his behavior in the last few months of his presidency gave him a lot of baggage the GOP didn’t need – which was borne out in the 2022 cycle, and is certainly complicating this one.  His personality cult has, shall we say, underdelivered I was on Team DeSantis before there was a Team DeSantis, and I’m already on his 2028 team.

But with all my ambivalence about Trump, the prospect of a Harris/Walz administration makes the notion of voting for a third party, a write-in or, heaven forfend, Harris herself impels me to do my darnedest to convince people, like I convince myself, to hold my nose and vote for Trump.

Because Harris is that much worse. 

How?

How can I count the ways. 

She Is The Incumbent:  The mess we’re in right now has her autograph on it.

She’s been the sitting Vice President for almost four years. Harris, not to mention Biden, have proudly proclaimed she was the “last person in the room” when decisions about the economy, not to mention the disastrous exit from Afghanistan, were made. She was the “border czar” (Czaritsa?) during an era when eight digits worth of people crossed illegally into the country and stayed, the cartels took de facto control over the southern border, and over 300,000 unaccompanied minors disappeared from the ICE’s radar.

She’s been part of the brain trust that emboldened Putin to invade Ukraine, Iran to invade Israel by proxy, ruinous spending, the porous border, the collapse in Afghanistan and the side-tracking of the peace process in the Middle East, and the hyper-acceleration of Trump’s own ill-advised spending..

She’s Incoherent:  The whole “Joy!” and “Brat Vibes!” memes sprang up as a way to spin attention away from her supremely annoying verbal crutch of breaking into cackling whenever she gets nervous.

She can’t explain anything.  Off the teleprompter, she sounds like a stream of lawn signs and bumper stickers; like an AI campaign slogan generator that needs some more work. 

And all of that is presuming she’s not an alcoholic, prone to working drunk during the day. 

She is hiding.   Behind all the “joy” and “brat vibes”, she’s clearly running out the clock, dodging interviews, committing to nothing, putting up vague bland hints at policy online,

She’s Dishonest:  For all the nine years of palaver about Trump’s facility with the half-truth, Harris spent three solid years lying about President Biden’s health – repeatedly exclaiming the President was stronger and more with it than Jackie Chan in his thirties – until time came to defenstrate him. 

And she’s lying about him now – keeping him in office so the American voter doesn’t see her in office via that 25th Amendment, riding herd on the policies she spent four years helping to drive. 

These two things can not be true at the same time. 

And let’s talk about her magical floating accents.  Her prominent black supporters say she’s “code switching”, something we’re told every black person ostensibly does.  They’re wrong – every human who jumps between linguistic subgroups does it; white academics who grow up in the Mississippi Delta go from goober-chaw brogue back to standard English pretty routinely.  AOC slips back and forth between “Alli from the block” and her regular brand of shrill as needed.  My original accent doesn’t sound like the guy you hear on the radio, and doesn’t usually come out until I’ve been in North Dakota for a bit.   So “code switching” is real. 

But when you’re changing into the accent of a place and culture where you never lived – like Harris pasting on a Latina accent in Hispanic areas – it’s not code-switching. It’s pandering. It’s being a minstrel.

It kind of insults our intelligence.

She’s A Terrible Manager:  Harris ran one of the worst credible presidential campaigns in history in 2019 – jumping from front-runner to donesville before she could garner a single primary vote.

She’s never run a significant compaign very well. She’s never run a tough race; the one race she’s ever run against a Republican, for Attorney General in California, she almost lost, and her only other competitive races have been against Democrats – and in the case of the 2020 primaries, she’s been a disaster.  WIthout the media running active interference for her, she’s a hapless wreck.

And when she is in office?  Leaving aside her many political failures (until below, anyway), she’s a terrible executive, who’s had over 93% turnover in her office as Vice President.  Which, by my count, is worse than Orange Hitler’s turnover rate.

She’s Got A Record Of Failure.  Look at literally everything she’s “been in charge” of:

She was the “border czar” – and the border is a disaster. 

She was sent on a mission to Ukraine on the eve of the war.  The joy and brat vibes had barely subsided at Hostomel Airport when the missiles started flying. 

She was made the titular head of America’s space program – and NASA is, improbably, in worse shape now than ever. 

Joe Biden sidelined her from most of the “duties” a Vice President usually has, because she’s just not competent.  She is only running for President because Pelosi and Schumer realized the senescent Biden would leave a lot of money on the sidelines.

No World Leader Respects Her:   As Border Czar, she has allowed biggest invasion of US history.  If you’re Putin or Xi, you don’t have to guess what her affect as President will be, even if you leave out the cackling and the vapidity; she played an important role in helping turn San Francisco, and California, into the basket cases they are today.

Her alleged “toughness” as a prosecutor may be a chanting point. 

There’s a reason Ukraine launched its hail mary offensive at Kursk, and why Israel is swarming the net with Hezb’allah; they see a possibility of a Harris presidency, and realize that four more years of vacillation, coddling Iran, and being the adenoidal little guy on the shetland pony rather than the knight on the huge horse is not going to end well for them.

She’s Radical.  In 2019 – the one time in her career she’s had to systematically lay out a vision of a nation with her at the helm – she campaigned to the left of Bernie Sanders.

• Banning fracking
• Eliminating gas cars by 2030
• Decriminalizing border crossings
• Exalting sanctuary cities (she sued to prevent the Feds from cracking down on the ones we had back then)
• Mandatory gun buybacks by executive order
• Taxing unrealized capital gains
• Price controls
• Rent control
• Reparations
• Undercutting law enforcement (she pimped for the MInnesota Freedom Fund)
• Abortion til birth
• Federal funding of gender transition, including for illegal aliens. 

And while she’s painstakingly avoided answering questions about any of these in this campaign, rarely going beyond “Oh, no I di-unt” when asked about her flips and flops, she’s also chanted that her principles haven’t changed. 

Which ones? 

She Is The Actual Threat To Democracy:  The most terrifying thing about a Harris/Walz regime is that it would seek to redefine the deal between people, the states, and the federal government, and the separation of powers defined for each in the Constitution.

To the extent that they deign to talk about policies, they actively promote:

• Killing off the filibuster, specifically to jam down “codifying Roe“
• Ramming through the packing of the Supreme Court and, perhaps worse, bringing it under control of the Executive Branch with term limits and “ethics” guidelines enforced by…the executive branch.
• Changing voting rules, and federalizing control of elections to enable and promote ballot harvesting and, shall we say, emphasizing access over security
• Jam down making DC and Puerto Rico into states, adding four Democrat senators. 
• Packing the Supreme Court, changing voting rules, ballot harvesting, adding new states to stack the Senate.  
• Continue Biden’s abuse of executive orders.  Remember – Harris enthusiastically signed on to Biden’s use of OSHA to to cram down vaccine mandates on 80 million Americans, cashiering thousands of people from the military, and trying to circumvent the limits on the exectutive branch to try to transfer student loan debt to the taxpayers. Actively promotes censorship.
• Harris and Walz will be disasters for the First Amendment; both favor censorship of “misinformation” – as defined by them.  Both enthusiastically colluded with Big Tech to censor dissent about Covid, vaccinations, and every issue in the 2020 and 2022 elections that was inconvenient to the left.  Walz created a thoughtcrime database. 
• Harris and Walz’s antipathy toward the Second Amendment is a matter of record.  While both claim to be gun owners – in Walz’s case, usually while in full Elmer Fudd costume – they also seek to make the Amendment meaningless at its original intent, defending The People against tyranny. 

While the suspense may not be killing you, I sometimes find it clarifying, for me if not others, to list the cons (and, in this case hypothetically, pros).

It was 1980. Thomas Sowell – one of the greatest economic and political minds of the the past century – was being considered for a role in the Reagan White House.

Which provoked a, er, predictable response.

Which prompted Sowell to give the only response it deserved:

And it’s the same response needed next time some smug white progressive calls you a “Nazi” or “Fascist” for being a conservative.

Or, for that matter, when some sm

Few things have made me cringe quite as hard as “White Dudes for Harris” – the bunch of man-buns, ex-celebs, non-profit staffers and other walking caricatures that showed up on a struggle session on Zoom over the summer…

…to a fairly universal “ick”.

Why ,yes – I thought the whole thing was cloying and patronizing.

How cloying and patronizing?  You know when Tim Walz puts on his Elmer Fudd costume and grabs his entourage of photographers and social media dinks and waddles around the fair taking pictures of himself eating donuts and hugging piglets? 

 That cloying and patronizing.

But “they” were just getting started:

“Every time you go online, it’s the same story – the people who are paying me to read this script telling people like me that I suck. Well, if you vote for Kamala Harris, because reasons we’ll give you someday, maybe, then maybe you and I don’t suck”.

Whoever wrote this has never met an actual male of any race.