Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

@Dustcan
While it doesn’t necessarily confirm anything, it does have my hopes up.

Far-right activist turned GOP operative Jack Posobiec has published his book Unhumans, which has been endorsed by J. D. Vance. The titular “unhumans” he refers to are leftists and liberals. New York Times and MSNBC columnist Michelle Goldberg read and reviewed it. An excerpt is below.

I mean, they’re just checking every single quantifier and characteristic of fascism there are at this point like it’s their goal in life…. because it apparently is. Dehumanization, doublethink (the “innocent” are actually those that are a-ok with dictators), the cult of action for action’s sake (“Great men of means”, AKA “Domestic terrorists”), accelerationist talk about some great good VS evil war in which they’re “good”…. yeah, just speedrunning this shit at this point, no more need for euphemisms.

A spokesperson for Walz has stated the black vehicles seen at Walz’s residence were part of his regular security detail as Governor. Now this doesn’t prove anything one way or the other except that they’re not from Washington, he’s (potentially) on the move.

Jim Cramer: If you care about your paycheck go with Trump.

Doesn’t sound like good advice from Jim.

Relevant.

Is this a bot?

So, nothing’s announced until it’s announced, but it seems Harris is getting ready to make her announcement in a few hours (or possibly sooner?) but suddenly quite a lot of vehicles arrived at Walz’s place.

Granted, it could mean anything, but maybe…

Multiple reports coming in also confirming it’s Walz.

It’s Shapirover, Pennsylvania has fallen

@Commune
What

Wow, I’m impressed, they actually went with the progressive choice.

The hell, have the Dems finally realized that they have popular policy positions and stopped hiding behind a veil of “but our moderate image!!!”?

Also, stocks are popping off. Dow futures are pointing up 10%. I told yea it was oversold, a lot of folk are about to make absolute bank.

@Zincy
Someone aught to tell the media to stop trying to make a new recession a thing. It just ain’t happening, no matter how hard they try to manifest it.

@Zincy
To the surprise of absolutely no one, right wingers instantly blamed Biden / Harris for the drop

Of course, they will quietly memory hole the whole thing the moment they can’t farm the idea the economy collapsed

@The Smiling Pony
Oh hey, the Stock Market is going up so much for a recession.

I was waiting to comment until many outlets were reporting it, but I am relieved and delighted that Harris chose Walz. She successfully bucked the Democratic tradition of kicking the party’s left flank off the bus.

Walz has some rock solid credentials from his time as House Rep and Governor, and his achievements as the latter really brought out the “Farmer-Labor” half of his state’s Democratic Party name.

Harris is now leading in the RCP aggregate.

Which is impressive since RCP has been doing everything in its power to keep Trump leading, even putting in polls that by all rights should be kicked to the curb.

Oh and Captain Brainworm is now polling consistently below 5%, basically rendering him a non-issue going forward.

Republicans are already trying to discredit Walz by pointing out his past DUI, which, besides the fact that that was when he decided to turn his life around, is this really the route they want to take when Trump is their golden calf?

@Kiryu-Chan
Standards for thee and not for me.

I’ll just copypaste my latest Bluesky post.

Dem oppo research: “J. D. Vance is a creepy weirdo who wants to legally subjugate women and has ties to white nationalists.”

Republican oppo research: “Um…um…uh…Tim Walz had a DUI once.”

Also, Walz’s military portrait from when he was younger has been unearthed and he LOOKS like the Based Chad that the alt-right desperately wants you to think they are.

Walz served 24 years making him the longest serving VP candidate in history.

He’s also very popular with vets in the Rust Belt.

@Zincy
Now we just need Trump to go full out and start insulting vets to try to discredit Walz.

@BlitztheDragon
Damn his military photo is good.

I’m just wondering why she chose him instead of Josh Shapiro because I really thought she was going to choose Josh Shapiro.

I’m not saying that her choice was bad, it’s just that not a lot of people know about Tim Walz versus Josh Shapiro.