As a born and raised Midwesterner, I’m embarrassed that I failed to realize that weaponizing our uniquely devastating brand of polite matter-of-fact brutality could be this antidote to all this. If Walz drops a side eye “bless your heart” on Vance during a VP debate, I will make one of the unholy casserole recipes in my mother’s Methodist church fundraiser cookbook in his honor.
I find it wierd that someone who is presented as your average, everyday sort of guy, is running with someone who is, well, weird. I also find it weird that we've spent years hearing about "our democracy", fascism, Hitler and every other kind of fear mongering tactic they could think of, but now eveything has turned on its head and we are supposed to magically return to those bygone halycon days before the mask was dropped and everything was "normal". Don't get me wrong - I don't care for either the Republican or Democratic tickets. Trump tells us what he thinks we want to hear. Harris tells us nothing. I think I'm screwed either way.
The guy set up a COVID Hotline to tattle on those who were not following his COVID directives.
The Coroner declared that George Floyd died from an overdose, the officer, who was found guilty of murder, is still in prison. A governor of a state can remedy that by a stroke of the pen but apparently the ink dried up.
The entire rioting after the George Floyd death was a classic case of reacting like a deer staring into the headlights of a car. It took 3 days to deploy the National Guards and that was after a couple of departments wrote official requests for such actions. The those 3 days gave strength to riots across the nation and for radicalism to get traction.
His background is contradictory, at best. He ends up being a Sgt. instead of being an officer that leads people but that is misleading as Staff Sgt’s do more leadership than Lts. could ever dream (but that is good). He enjoyed leading his football team, he enjoyed leading his classroom of students but where he didn’t lead was when he flipped in 2018 with his stance on guns. He was all for the second amendment until the Parkland school shooting (I may be incorrect on the school but it was a school shooting that altered his behavior). Why that particular shooting would do that is really strange because he never attributed his actions based on an accumulation of shootings. The guy was in Congress and was very much a middle of the road moderate and abruptly changed. Drastic changes don’t occur without cause, the only policy he changed, in his mind at that time was the gun issue, yet he went from being a Congressman to that of being a Governor which is going from being one of 435 to being the Top Dog as Governor (leading). I said this previously regarding Harris and it applies to Walz... his abrupt changes and staying in politics is Sheep Dipping. He has a clear “before” and “after” very much like George Carlin in regards to his “AM and FM” album.
People are allowed to change, their reasoning for the change is key to understanding that change.
There are two top priorities for anyone entering the Presidency or being in the second chair.
1) get private money out of election campaigns. This has to be accomplished by legislation but the President sets the agenda for the party. Congress as is, is completely corrupted by campaign big donors, which leads me to...
2) end the "special relationship" with Israel that has brought the United States to the very lowest point it has ever held, ready to declare war against a country, Iran, that presents no threat to US national security. This would be a war in which America would be giving the lives of its soldiers to defend ethnic cleaning, to defend a tiny country that has repeatedly violated Iranian sovereignty to assassinate people inside Iran, a country that is, incredibly, using US supplied weapons and ammunition to conduct a slaughter in Gaza that has isolated the US alongside Israel as the rest of the world stands aghast. It is a bloody spectacle where the US helplessly goes along with whatever the Prime Minister of Israel, and he alone, decides to do. Until the "special relationship" ends, it is Israel and not the US that is the world's only superpower in a capitulation that will be the wonder of all history in times to come.
Let us hope there is history in the future, because there's a lot of weapons in the hands of those who would rather bring down the whole hominid experiment than give up an inch of territory, or reconsider their ideological position. Too many of us are watching with eyes wide open like deer caught in the Samson-option headlights.
With six grandkids, I share your hope, but reason tells me that in all the history of mankind, no weapon, no matter how destructive, has remained unused or been voluntarily given up for good. All the nuclear weapons are ready to go in an instant whether by accident or intent and I can't conceive of any country that possesses them giving them up. Certainly they cannot be un-invented. So, sadly, I think it is just a matter of time until we face the consequences of our lust for power combined with our mastery of technology. This situation had to come eventually and here we are.
It does make me wonder - perhaps this is why we have been unable to find any evidence of intelligent life elsewhere...because when it arises, it puts an end to itself very shortly after achieving a technology that could be detected from afar.
There must be an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Pope Francis has said what is needed, now he must do what is needed by going to Gaza and standing for peace, justice and freedom.
"Weird" is when a nice Minnesotan that taught in lovely Mankato (does he ice fish? or duck hunt?) aligns with a hollow, created candidate like Kamala Harris. She is no Midwestern Democrat and sure can't hold her own at a pot luck. Sorry to see the zingers being tossed already at JD Vance, another guy that can change his own oil and lay a brick or two. Is it a mistake to take a VP candidate that is more presidential than the Party's Presidential candidate? We'll soon see. We the people seem to be in the peanut gallery -- good article - Walz may make Kamala seem human.
Strong agree with all of this, except the part of cats doing Mongolian throat singing — the multimodal meow is actually pretty easy for them, I have one who does it all the time
Ken I don’t think you’ve dug deep enough into Walz. I read your article first this AM and was perplexed because my gut says there’s no way a ‘man of the people’ would be welcomed into the swamp of self-serving, Israel suck up, double standard, oligarchic US politics. And low and behold the second article I read (Shellenberger) actually lifted the hood on Watz. He’s further left than Bernie, and of a totalitarian political bend. You’ve been fooled by the wrapping paper.
ALARMING -- Open Terror in the US (after Tulsi Gabbard was placed on Terror list)
Today, on August 7, 2024, the FBI conducted a raid on the Delmar, New York, home of Scott Ritter, a former UN weapons inspector and geopolitical analyst known for his criticism of U.S. foreign policy and allegations of corruption in Ukraine. Ritter, who has also been a controversial figure due to past convictions and appearances on Russian state-funded networks, was the subject of a federal investigation, the details of which were not immediately disclosed. The raid has sparked a range of reactions on social media -- but, of course, and like with Tulsi Gabbard outrage, silence in state-controlled media.
In meantime the bipartisan US genocide of Palestinians - continues...
As a born and raised Midwesterner, I’m embarrassed that I failed to realize that weaponizing our uniquely devastating brand of polite matter-of-fact brutality could be this antidote to all this. If Walz drops a side eye “bless your heart” on Vance during a VP debate, I will make one of the unholy casserole recipes in my mother’s Methodist church fundraiser cookbook in his honor.
😂
I find it wierd that someone who is presented as your average, everyday sort of guy, is running with someone who is, well, weird. I also find it weird that we've spent years hearing about "our democracy", fascism, Hitler and every other kind of fear mongering tactic they could think of, but now eveything has turned on its head and we are supposed to magically return to those bygone halycon days before the mask was dropped and everything was "normal". Don't get me wrong - I don't care for either the Republican or Democratic tickets. Trump tells us what he thinks we want to hear. Harris tells us nothing. I think I'm screwed either way.
The guy set up a COVID Hotline to tattle on those who were not following his COVID directives.
The Coroner declared that George Floyd died from an overdose, the officer, who was found guilty of murder, is still in prison. A governor of a state can remedy that by a stroke of the pen but apparently the ink dried up.
The entire rioting after the George Floyd death was a classic case of reacting like a deer staring into the headlights of a car. It took 3 days to deploy the National Guards and that was after a couple of departments wrote official requests for such actions. The those 3 days gave strength to riots across the nation and for radicalism to get traction.
His background is contradictory, at best. He ends up being a Sgt. instead of being an officer that leads people but that is misleading as Staff Sgt’s do more leadership than Lts. could ever dream (but that is good). He enjoyed leading his football team, he enjoyed leading his classroom of students but where he didn’t lead was when he flipped in 2018 with his stance on guns. He was all for the second amendment until the Parkland school shooting (I may be incorrect on the school but it was a school shooting that altered his behavior). Why that particular shooting would do that is really strange because he never attributed his actions based on an accumulation of shootings. The guy was in Congress and was very much a middle of the road moderate and abruptly changed. Drastic changes don’t occur without cause, the only policy he changed, in his mind at that time was the gun issue, yet he went from being a Congressman to that of being a Governor which is going from being one of 435 to being the Top Dog as Governor (leading). I said this previously regarding Harris and it applies to Walz... his abrupt changes and staying in politics is Sheep Dipping. He has a clear “before” and “after” very much like George Carlin in regards to his “AM and FM” album.
People are allowed to change, their reasoning for the change is key to understanding that change.
There are two top priorities for anyone entering the Presidency or being in the second chair.
1) get private money out of election campaigns. This has to be accomplished by legislation but the President sets the agenda for the party. Congress as is, is completely corrupted by campaign big donors, which leads me to...
2) end the "special relationship" with Israel that has brought the United States to the very lowest point it has ever held, ready to declare war against a country, Iran, that presents no threat to US national security. This would be a war in which America would be giving the lives of its soldiers to defend ethnic cleaning, to defend a tiny country that has repeatedly violated Iranian sovereignty to assassinate people inside Iran, a country that is, incredibly, using US supplied weapons and ammunition to conduct a slaughter in Gaza that has isolated the US alongside Israel as the rest of the world stands aghast. It is a bloody spectacle where the US helplessly goes along with whatever the Prime Minister of Israel, and he alone, decides to do. Until the "special relationship" ends, it is Israel and not the US that is the world's only superpower in a capitulation that will be the wonder of all history in times to come.
Let us hope there is history in the future, because there's a lot of weapons in the hands of those who would rather bring down the whole hominid experiment than give up an inch of territory, or reconsider their ideological position. Too many of us are watching with eyes wide open like deer caught in the Samson-option headlights.
With six grandkids, I share your hope, but reason tells me that in all the history of mankind, no weapon, no matter how destructive, has remained unused or been voluntarily given up for good. All the nuclear weapons are ready to go in an instant whether by accident or intent and I can't conceive of any country that possesses them giving them up. Certainly they cannot be un-invented. So, sadly, I think it is just a matter of time until we face the consequences of our lust for power combined with our mastery of technology. This situation had to come eventually and here we are.
It does make me wonder - perhaps this is why we have been unable to find any evidence of intelligent life elsewhere...because when it arises, it puts an end to itself very shortly after achieving a technology that could be detected from afar.
@Clif Brown
"Fermi Paradox".
Named after Enrico Fermi, who during his time in the USA nuclear weapons program first asked the question "But where IS everybody (else)?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
Why couldn't the Dems just nominate Walz to run lead? Yah yah...no "experience" in the White House.
that seems to be a privilege of the vice presidency — which he may enjoy 4 years from now!
This was great, thx
Glad you liked it!
He is Bernie light & perhaps choosing him exposes her true desires.
Agree. Ken got this one totally wrong IMO
There must be an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Pope Francis has said what is needed, now he must do what is needed by going to Gaza and standing for peace, justice and freedom.
Please sign the petition and share widely.
https://chng.it/CRQ7qw4Gzn
Let us also support UNRWA. If our governments won’t act in accordance with humanity, then we will. https://www.unrwausa.org/donate
Also we can all support the brave doctors who have gone to Gaza: https://palestinian-ama.networkforgood.com/projects/206145-gaza-medical-supplies-oct-2023
Or
Surgeons to Gaza
https://fajr.org/donate/
Let us make our donations to honor Aaron Bushnell, or in memory of Hind Rajab.
Here’s a petition to excommunicate Joe Biden: https://www.change.org/p/excommunicate-president-joe-biden-bf979783-ac08-4576-a53f-c786ea23dc9c
These are a few small things we can do. If we can do more, let us do more.
"Weird" is when a nice Minnesotan that taught in lovely Mankato (does he ice fish? or duck hunt?) aligns with a hollow, created candidate like Kamala Harris. She is no Midwestern Democrat and sure can't hold her own at a pot luck. Sorry to see the zingers being tossed already at JD Vance, another guy that can change his own oil and lay a brick or two. Is it a mistake to take a VP candidate that is more presidential than the Party's Presidential candidate? We'll soon see. We the people seem to be in the peanut gallery -- good article - Walz may make Kamala seem human.
Strong agree with all of this, except the part of cats doing Mongolian throat singing — the multimodal meow is actually pretty easy for them, I have one who does it all the time
Ken I don’t think you’ve dug deep enough into Walz. I read your article first this AM and was perplexed because my gut says there’s no way a ‘man of the people’ would be welcomed into the swamp of self-serving, Israel suck up, double standard, oligarchic US politics. And low and behold the second article I read (Shellenberger) actually lifted the hood on Watz. He’s further left than Bernie, and of a totalitarian political bend. You’ve been fooled by the wrapping paper.
Ken, I demand more mongolian throat singing cats on this substack. get to work.
Not being a lawyer is one of his strongest qualities
ALARMING -- Open Terror in the US (after Tulsi Gabbard was placed on Terror list)
Today, on August 7, 2024, the FBI conducted a raid on the Delmar, New York, home of Scott Ritter, a former UN weapons inspector and geopolitical analyst known for his criticism of U.S. foreign policy and allegations of corruption in Ukraine. Ritter, who has also been a controversial figure due to past convictions and appearances on Russian state-funded networks, was the subject of a federal investigation, the details of which were not immediately disclosed. The raid has sparked a range of reactions on social media -- but, of course, and like with Tulsi Gabbard outrage, silence in state-controlled media.
In meantime the bipartisan US genocide of Palestinians - continues...