MAKE AMERICANS GREGARIOUS AGAIN

As the guys over at Today’s Big Stuff (which you should read) said this morning: “Isn’t it nice to have a ticket of nice, normal people who are cool and won’t make you glad you’ve got pepper spray?”

Or as Jay Kuo led on his morning post: “There is no other objective way to see this. The Harris/Walz ticket is on fire, while Trump/Vance is in a tailspin.”

Speaking of being on fire, Kamala’s pick of Governor Walz has united AOC, Bernie, Pelosi, John Fetterman, and Joe Manchin. And this morning Marianne Williamson tweeted “He had me at free breakfast and lunch for every kid in school.”

That was on top of the Cook Political Report moving Georgia, Arizona and Nevada to “toss up.”

Just before Biden decided to drop out, internal polling showed that he was in trouble in places Democrats once thought safe, including Virginia, New Hampshire and New Mexico. Those blue states have now shifted back into safe territory under Harris.

The ship is definitely out of The Doldrums. The wind is steady, all sails are full and we are back on course. Now we need to get to work and change that to “leans Harris” and then “Harris.”

Tim Walz and his wife don’t own any stock. He has not made any trades while in office. Is this guy real?

At Trump’s press conference he’s holding today after #WheresTrump became viral overnight, perhaps the over-educated, under-intelligent, otherwise-unemployable trust fund babies of the D.C. Press Corpse can ask him why he called Governor Walz in 2020 to praise his handling of the Minneapolis riots in the George Floyd aftermath and put Walz on his Council of Governors. Trump said to Walz directly on the call, “You called up the big numbers, and the big numbers knocked them out so fast it was like bowling pins.”

What’s the over-under they don’t? (As it turned out, they didn’t question anything, playing the same stupid game they played in 2016)

How creepy is it that Juvenile Delinquent Vance - who has managed to show he has less charm than Ron DeSantis and can annoy more people than Vivek Ramaswamy - took his crew of gargoyles out to the Eau Claire airport yesterday where Air Force Two was parked, where they took photos of him and his crew of cranks with the airplane in the background, as if it was his? He told reporters that he wanted to get a “good look at the plane because hopefully it’s gonna be my plane in a few months.”

That’s the closest Boy Couchfucker is ever going to get to that bird. As Ron DeSantis proved, you can’t fix awkward and unlikeable. Or stupid.

Liz Cheney had the best response: “Looks like @JDVance brought all his rally attendees to the airport with him today.”

Self-hating Asian Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung chimed in online with a disgusting jab, saying Vance should have AF2 “deep cleaned” because “Lord only knows what @KamalaHarris and her team have done on there. The smell alone on that plane must be crazy.”

Corporal In The Rear With The Gear took his marching orders from Trump 2024 campaign Obersturmbannfuhrer Chris LaCivita - who first became known for running the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth bullshit back in 2024 - and launched an attack on Governor Walz’s 24 year career in the Army National Guard, claiming he “abandoned his unit” before they were sent to Iraq, thus demonstrating “stolen valor.”

This time, rather than let the bullshit lie there unnoticed like Kerry did in 2004, the Harris campaign was quick to pounce, and make certain the Credulous Media got the fact, which are:

Walz served in the field artillery, a job that took a toll on his hearing (“Boom!!” being pretty loud in person). After serving 20 years, in 2002 a medical board considered discharging him because of the hearing impairment he’d developed from that. At the time, he was already eligible for retirement, but he convinced the board to allow him to complete his assignment, which had begun just after 9/11.

Walz had achieved the highest possible enlisted rank in the U.S. Army of Command Sergeant Major. Rather than complete the schooling for that rank, Walz retired in 2005 with the title of Master Sergeant.

VoteVets stated, “Governor Walz submitted his retirement request months prior to notification that his unit was going to be deployed to Iraq.” This was confirmed by CNN’s Pentagon correspondent.

Walz retired when he did so that he could run for Congress and protest the policies of the U.S. in the Iraq war. (As a fellow member of the G.I. Antiwar Movement, this news and rescue kitties are my reasons for my solid support.)

Corporal In The Rear With The Gear For Six Months has not stopped his attacks, since he has no sense of irony, seemingly unaware that the terrified old man he now carries luggage for claimed non-existent “bone spurs” to avoid serving at all in Vietnam.

Moving on...

Yes, it’s true, we should ignore the polls and focus on the work. But, wow!!!

The Marquette national poll has Harris leading Trump 53% to 47% with likely voters in a head-to-head and 50% to 42% when the Bear Cub Killer is on the ballot.

Kevin Roberts, creator of Project 2025, speaking at the Heritage Foundation conference in 2022: “We are in an era of needing to impose political power as conservatives, and one of the ways we can do that in a relatively cheerful, daily way, is to be part of an administrative state, that will be smaller. As a result of what of what you're doing. Project 2025 dot org.” This is the meeting where Don-Old was the keynote speaker and said Project 2025 will, “lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do.”

In a June 2023 appearance with everybody’s favorite “Garritrooper” (a World War II term: “Too close to the front to wear ties, too far to the rear to get shot at.”) JD “In the rear, with the gear” Vance, Roberts said, after being asked about what kinds of progress he might embrace even though he’s a conservative: “Whatever metaphor we want to use with the bathtub, we also have to step out of theory and philosophy, and we have to be zealously focused on putting a dagger in the heart of the thing that stands in the way of the dignity of the human person, and that's the American administrative state. That's what's got to be drowned.” In other words, Zero Progress.

Yeah, these people are strange, and weird, and they’re as serious as a damn heart attack. “Conservative,” as it is currently being practiced, is a class war of the rich against everyone else.

I loved this moment from the Detroit rally yesterday. When protestors began chanting, “Kamala! Kamala! You can’t hide! We won’t vote for genocide!” Kamala smiled, and said, “I am speaking now.” ?When the disruption continued, her patience ran thin. “You know what? If you want Donald Trump to win, then say that. Otherwise, I’m speaking.” The Bullshit Left shut up.

For those who think that was “disrespectful,” it is reported Harris met and spoke privately with Uncommitted National Movement founders Layla Elabed and Abbas Alawieh, where she shared her sympathies, called the loss of life in Gaza “horrific,” and expressed openness to the idea of an arms embargo. After the meeting, Elabed and Alawieh stated that it was clear Harris “could lead our country’s Gaza policy to a more humane place.”

The Bullshit Bourgeois Left once again manages to remind me that my old friend the late Jerry Rubin, was misquoted. It was “Don’t trust anybody under 30.” Especially the products of modern Ivy League misedumacation.

Yesterday, Professor Eddie Glaub was on Nicolle’s show and went on at some length about how for the past decade, we have lost any sense of joy in life. The 2016 campaign. The trump Administration. Covid. The 2020 campaign. The Trump prosecutions. The 2024 campaign. But, he said, there is a return of joy in this campaign now.

Let me just agree with that. My mental state now fits with my physical state after the h. pylori got kicked to the curb. No more 200 mcg of Trazodone nightly, it’s now 50 mcg, and I may try dropping that at some point. Instead of waking up with “Ugh,” and stumbling to the bathroom to confront the stranger in the mirror, I wake up, head over to the bathroom, take care of the morning ablutions, and then go in the writing office and switch on the computer screen. I now look forward to what’s in the overnight email.

As Charlie Pierce has put it, when you look at skydivers, you’re pretty sure you wouldn’t do it, but damn if those people aren’t having a helluva time.

“Make Americans Gregarious Again.”

There’s hope, joy and optimism to go around, and a feeling in the air that something even bigger is coming.

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