Harris/Walz Open Thread

What do you think about the pick?

I’m working on a longer article for later today or early tomorrow, but the news that Kamala Harris has tapped Tim Walz to be VP certainly deserves some attention and conversation:

I don’t know much about Walz - mostly that he was ‘in charge’ as rioters burned Minneapolis during the summer of 2020. (And threatened to in 2021 for the Chauvin verdict.)

Then there was this from the “White Dudes for Harris” call last week:

The key line here is:

"Don't ever shy away from our progressive values. One person's socialism is another person's neighborliness."

Of course, this ignores the real difference between socialism and neighborliness: consent. I encourage everybody to be neighborly, but I don’t want to punish them if they aren’t. It’s not friendliness I object to — it’s FORCE.

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Edit — Independent video editor Maze once again comes through, digging up this clip of Walz discussing the 2020 riots just before the Chauvin decision is handed down:

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Edit — This doesn’t look good AT ALL.

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Edit — video from tonight’s rally. Does this guy know which party he’s in?