Another day in purgatory. But I heard the news that Kamala picked Walz. Ah, the perfect choice. This was the guy who allowed Minneapolis and St Paul to burn down while the Summer of Floyd was just getting started. What a perfect symbol for the American people to choose. The final capitulation of our freedom would be choosing a low-grade moron to be our leader while her stooge will be the man who decided that trumped up racial grievance supersedes law and order and justifies unleashing a murderous mob on innocent people just trying to live their lives.
Today I was trapped in an area where two true believing women were listening to Kamala’s introduction of Walz as her running mate. They were enraptured listening to the Dunce reading a speech off of the teleprompter. Kamala was singing his praises both as a high school coach championing some gay/straight alliance group in his school and as a member of the Army reserve. It probably ended with Walz announcing that he had begun a course of trans-affirming hormones enroute to putting on a wig and dress. But luckily the two listeners had to get back to work and turned off the show before that point.
If Trump is looking for a perfect symbol of what’s wrong in Joe Biden’s America, he couldn’t ask for a better example than the Harris/Walz ticket. Both of them stand for a definition of justice where the criminal is protected from prosecution and the victims are criminalized. Let Walz explain how he allowed the looting and arson to spread across the twin cities and held his state hostage when he could have had the National Guard stop the lawlessness and prevent the rioting from spreading across the country. That should be Trump’s headline tomorrow and the basis for a whole host of advertisements targeting Walz and his woke running mate.
But what was really interesting about this little tableau, was the comments by the listeners. They were trying to convince themselves that Kamala was a new woman. She was no longer a babbling idiot spouting trite pablum about yellow school buses and futures unburdened by something or other. She was a mighty orator like Obama who would captivate her audience and inspire the nation to support her to victory in November.
They were trying to convince themselves of this narrative. But it didn’t sound like they were quite convinced. It seemed like they were pinning their hopes on Walz being the adult in the room to convince the country to ignore reality and put this overwrought nut in charge of our lives for another four years of bad economy, rising crime and moral confusion.
My takeaway was they’re really scared. The Joe Biden debacle was an existential crisis and they’re still slightly giddy from dodging that bullet. But now they’re looking around at where they are and realizing that their hopes are pinned to another candidate who is also constrained to reading from a teleprompter. And unfortunately, there is an enormous amount of recorded video of her talking utter nonsense.
They’re scared. And they should be.
“…a mighty orator like Obama” who would speak in broad cliches and trite platitudes that were long on generalities but very sparce on details, beyond “tax the (Republican) rich”.
Now, I was just paraphrasing their thoughts in using that phrase. Obama was a well known teleprompter jockey. I remember the times when this device jammed and he sat their hemming hawing waiting for it to tell him what to say.