I don't think they really care. They are just rubbing our noses in it like they do...every single chance they get.

~Bonnie

: I disagree on several of Michael's points.

: I really don't think Kamala has any kind of choice in who she
: picks for VP. She's a cackling, narcissistic, puppet doing
: her master's bidding.

: ~NightSky

: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

: By Michael Snyder

: What in the world was Kamala Harris thinking? There is a

: reason why the Trump campaign is so giddy right now. Kamala
: Harris could have had Josh Shapiro, but instead she picked
: Tim Walz. When I wrote that “Kamala Harris has a tendency
: to really mess things up”, I was not exaggerating one bit.
: This election is going to be decided by the swing states,
: and the most critical swing state by far is Pennsylvania.
: Whoever wins Pennsylvania is almost certainly going to win
: the presidency. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro has a 61
: percent favorability rating in his state, and so he was
: seemingly the obvious pick. The following comes from CNN…

: Pennsylvania, on the other hand, is almost certainly a
: must-win state for Harris if she wants to be president. In
: fact, it is probably the most important swing state this
: cycle, and the polling there has been very tight.

: Shapiro currently holds a 61% favorable rating in Pennsylvania
: and outperformed Biden’s 2020 baseline by 14 points in
: 2022.

: Whether that would have been enough to propel a Harris-Shapiro
: ticket in Pennsylvania this fall is a question mark, though
: political science literature suggests it very well could
: have.

: If the loss of Pennsylvania ends up costing the Democrats the
: White House, many on the left will be absolutely furious
: with Kamala Harris for making such a bone-headed choice.

: When Donald Trump learned that Harris had picked Walz, he
: issued a two word response…

: Trump took to Truth Social to deliver a two-word response to
: Harris’ choice of running mate.

: “THANK YOU!” Trump wrote in all capital letters.

: This was an enormous gift to the Trump campaign.

: So why didn’t Harris pick Shapiro? He is a Palestinian hater.
: Could she be looking for the Muslim votes?

: Shapiro has been a staunch supporter of Israel for decades,
: dating back to his high school and college days when he
: wrote for a student newspaper at the University of
: Rochester. One opinion piece, titled “Peace Not Possible”,
: resurfaced in a newspaper last month.

: “Palestinians will not coexist peacefully,” Shapiro wrote.
: “They do not have the capabilities to establish their own
: homeland and make it successful even with the aid of Israel
: and the United States. They are too battle-minded to be
: able to establish a peaceful homeland of their own.”

: In that article, Shapiro also said he had previously served as
: a volunteer in the Israeli army. Dual citizenship.

: There was apparently concern that having Shapiro on the ticket
: could cost Harris the state of Michigan if too many Muslims
: stayed home and didn’t vote.

: With Walz on the ticket, that isn’t likely to be an issue.

: But if Harris doesn’t win Pennsylvania there is probably no
: path to victory for her.

: Of course there is no going back now.

: Harris has made her choice, and everyone is going to have to
: live with it.

: The following are 7 things that you should know about Tim
: Walz…

: #1 In 2020, Walz presided over the BLM riots that resulted in
: large portions of Minneapolis being burned to the ground…

: Walz is a radical leftist who presided over the George Floyd
: riots in 2020 and ignored cries from across the state.
: Instead, he stated that “a society that does not put equity
: and inclusion first will come to this result.”

: He even mocked Minnesota national guardsmen as a bunch of
: ’19-year-old cooks” when asked why he rejected Minneapolis
: Mayor Jacob Frey’s request to send them to the city.

: #2 Minnesota became a “sanctuary state” under Walz, and he has
: made sure that migrants are eligible for all sorts of free
: goodies…

: As governor, Walz also has signed several pieces of
: legislation to provide state-funded health care, driver’s
: licenses and free college tuition to illegal migrants.

: “Ensuring drivers in our state are licensed and carry
: insurance makes the roads safer for all Minnesotans,” Walz
: said in 2023 after signing the bill to allow thousands of
: illegal migrants in his state with driver’s licenses.

: #3 Minnesota also became a “trans refuge” state under Walz…

: Kamala Haris’ progressive running mate, Gov. Tim Walz, helped
: to transform Minnesota into a “trans refuge” state —
: signing legislation to protect gender-affirming care and to
: provide tampons in boys’ bathrooms at schools.

: Walz, 60, a former high school teacher, signed the so-called
: “Trans Refuge” bill into law in April 2023, prohibiting the
: enforcement of out-of-state subpoenas, arrest warrants and
: extradition requests for people who travel to the North
: Star State from other states for gender-affirming care.

: #4 The bill that Walz signed into law in April 2023 also
: allows Minnesota authorities to take children from any
: parents that try to prevent their kids from getting sex
: change surgeries…

: Vice President Kamala Harris’ newly announced running mate —
: Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz — signed a bill in April
: of 2023 allowing the state to make custody determinations
: if a child is denied access to sex-change procedures.

: The “Trans Refuge Bill” allows for “temporary emergency
: jurisdiction” if a parent denies their child sex-change
: procedures, according to the bill’s text. The bill defines
: the interventions, which include sex-changes, hormone
: replacement and cosmetic surgeries, as “medically
: necessary” so long as it “respects the gender identity of
: the patient, as experienced and defined” by the child.

: #5 It is being alleged that Walz quit the National Guard after
: he learned that his unit would be deployed to Iraq…

: Veterans have accused Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz of
: “embellishing” his military career and abandoning his
: National Guard battalion, highlighting that the now-vice
: presidential pick for the Democrats never served in combat
: and retired from service ahead of his unit’s 2005
: deployment to Iraq.

: In a letter posted to Facebook in 2018 as he first ran for
: governor, retired Command Sergeants Major Thomas Behrends
: and Paul Herr said Walz retired from his 24-year tenure in
: the National Guard after learning that his battalion would
: be deployed to Iraq, despite allegedly assuring his fellow
: troops he would join them.

: #6 Many people don’t realize this, but Walz actually considers
: himself to be a Lutheran…

: More specifically, he sometimes describes himself as a
: “Minnesota Lutheran.” “Because we’re good Minnesota
: Lutherans, we have a rule: if you do something good and
: talk about it, it no longer counts,” Walz joked during a
: speech last spring. “So what you have to do is to get
: someone else to talk about you.”

: #7 It turns out that Walz has a very long history of being
: close to China…

: Walz, 60, went to China straight after college through a
: program set up by Harvard University and taught in
: Guangdong province, shortly after the Tiananmen Square
: massacre in Beijing in 1989.

: He would later honeymoon in China with his wife Gwen, bringing
: a group of 60 young people with them

: In the 1990s the couple set up a business which took high
: school students to China every summer for around a decade.

: Walz has been to China dozens of times, including on trade
: missions, and has called his experiences there ‘amazing’.

: The Harris/Walz ticket is the most liberal presidential ticket
: that we have ever seen.

: From a tactical point of view, I don’t think that this is a
: smart move by the Democrats.

: But we shall see what happens.

: This is definitely going to be a close election, and whichever
: side loses is going to be extremely upset.

: In particular, if Trump wins I think that we will see
: tremendous civil unrest all over this country. Antifa led
: and sanctioned by our government.

: And now that Harris has picked Walz, I think that a Trump
: victory is even more likely.

: But a lot could still change over the next few months, and I
: have a feeling that several more major surprises are still
: to come.