Irrational exuberance

 Breaking news:  Hope Walz, the governor's daughter, is a vegetarian.  Could this guy be any more radical left liberal out of step with Real America?  Will he come for your guns and your burgers?  Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together -- MASS HYSTERIA!  (Yes, the Walz family have a dog and a cat.)

Tim Walz only got extreme since 2019.  That's when Trump appointed him to his Council of Governors, along with Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas, who also turned out to be VERY VERY DISLOYAL!  The Council's remit is to "advise the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Homeland Security and the White House Homeland Security Council on matters related to the national guard and civil support missions."  It's probably their fault that Nancy Pelosi failed to call out the troops on January 6.

Though scolded by David Axelrod for "irrational exuberance" -- and yesterday's Philadelphia rally was as exuberant as it gets -- the Harris-Walz campaign has captured something like America's heart in the scorching dog days.  The campaign videos are getting watched, the contributions are pouring in and the Republicans are losing their minds.  The one with the least mind to lose was up all night posting an anthology of what he considers devastating nicknames:

"What are the chances that Crooked Joe Biden, the WORST President in the history of the US, whose Presidency was Unconstitutionally STOLEN from him by Kamabla, Barack HUSSEIN Obama, Crazy Nancy Pelosi, Shifty Adam Schiff, Cryin' Chuck Schumer, and others on the Lunatic Left, CRASHES the Democrat National Convention and tries to take back the Nomination, beginning with challenging me to another DEBATE.  He feels that he made a historically tragic mistake by handing over the US Presidency, a COUP, to the people in the World he most hates, and he wants it back, NOW!!!"

You can't analyze this.  It's delusional.  Elie Mystal put it best:  "My dude wanted to run against Biden so badly that he is now producing fanfic."

They are all RINOs now because the Republican Party of Reagan, Nixon and even Goldwater (not to mention Taft and Eisenhower) no longer exists.  It's a vacant building occupied by MAGA squatters.  When you fire the professionals and replace them with idiots like Lara Trump, you get a "party" where nobody knows the rules, and Rule Number One is that you can't tell the other party who to nominate.  It's like gin rummy -- you have to play the cards you're dealt, not the ones you wish you had.

With Trump managing just one rally a week, more attention is focused on J.D. Vance, which is never good because most people find him as thrilling as frozen kale.  He too held a rally in Philadelphia but his advance people didn't put enough thought into it.  This week's slogan is KAMALA CHAOS (I think they missed a chance to spell it KAOS), and the stage management left something to be desired:

Maybe hire shorter people to stand behind him?  And then it was on to Shelby, Michigan, for a rally in this place...

...that's already being compared to Giuliani's Four Seasons Total Landscaping event.  Look, they probably won't be this clueless for three months but I am enjoying the hell out of it now.

Trump spokesmodel Karoline Leavitt put her name on a press release that she thought demonized Tim Walz but actually sounds like a great program:  "From proposing his own carbon-free agenda to suggesting stricter emission standards for gas-powered cars, and embracing policies to allow convicted felons to vote..."  See what I mean about idiots?  No political professional would call attention to Trump's thirty-four felony convictions (so far), much less get people wondering if he can vote without a special dispensation from the Florida legislature.  And a lot of Americans are starting to think about carbon emissions, etc., especially while recovering from the heat in the emergency room.  Even her candidate is changing his position, albeit for the worst possible reason:  "I'm for electric cars, I have to be because Elon endorsed me very strongly," he actually said in Atlanta.  (On Monday he promises to be "interviewed" by Musk, who will be much more polite than that "nasty" woman in Chicago.  Maybe Trump will ask him what happens if the battery gets wet.)

The MAGAs were full of phony concern for Joe Biden, "so horribly treated by his own Party," and for all those Democrats who voted for him in the primaries.  Mike Johnson even wanted to sue to force the Democrats to put him on the ticket, until someone explained that he had no standing for such a suit.  Now they're full of phony concern for Josh Shapiro, denied the vice-presidential nomination by "the Hamas wing of the party" because he's Jewish.  And they were all ready to go with campaign ads about George Soros and Davos and Rothschild space lasers...lousy Democrats!  See Rule Number One.   Shapiro was a riveting speaker yesterday and I like his GSD slogan (it stands for Getting Shit Done) but he lacks Walz's warmth and ability to connect with people.  Walz also summed up the Democratic position on abortion, book censorship and everything else in terms slightly less potty-mouth:  "Mind your own damn business."  (A lot of people are still squeamish about language.)  I think Harris made the right choice.  She usually does.

And now, here is the booking photo from Walz's 1995 DUI arrest, before everyone is tired of seeing it.

He doesn't drink anymore.

Let's see, what else have they got?

Stephen Miller:  "Together, Walz and Harris will turn the Midwest into the Middle East.  Rapidly."  

Laura Loomer:  "Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is tied to ISIS."

Graham Allen:  "Tim Walz is the governor who just changed the Minnesota flag to resemble the Somalian flag."

Daniel Baldwin:  "Tim Walz signed a bill making Minnesota a 'Trans Refugee State.'  No age limits for minors who could receive 'gender affirming care.'  Truly radical."

Doesn't anyone want to object to the legal weed?  

Minnesota is home to a large Somali community; Ilhan Omar represents its Fifth Congressional District.  The state has an Office of New Immigrants which is pretty much the opposite of the frothing MAGA response to "millions of criminals and terrorists."  The idea that immigrants are people would knock Greg Abbott out of his chair and someone would have to go get him.  And I didn't realize ISIS was so trans-friendly.  Truly radical.  As for the flag, we've been over this.  Not every flag with a star on it is Somalian.  North Star State, remember?

What else ya got?  

Lies?  The Father of Lies told Fox News "without evidence," as the Guardian says, how he personally saved Walz during the George Floyd demonstrations when his house was surrounded by "people that were waving an American flag."  Those are called "Americans," Donzo.  It's your droogs who wave the Confederate and Nazi flags.  Not surprisingly Walz doesn't remember it that way.

Swift-boating?  J.D. Vance attacked Walz's 24-year record in the Army National Guard, during which he deployed to natural disasters here and to Europe in support of the war in Afghanistan.  "When Tim Walz was asked by his country to go to Iraq...he dropped out of the army and allowed his unit to go without him."  Vance deployed to Iraq as a military journalist with the Marines.  He saw no combat.  Boo-ya.

Trouble in paradise?  Vance wondered why Walz failed to kiss his wife at a recent rally, insisting that he and Trump are "normal guys...not weird."  I assume he and Usha are doing better than the Trumps.  It's well known that he isn't allowed in Melania's bedroom.  (Page 256 of the revised prenup.)

Crowd size?  Today's Harris/Walz rally in Detroit was moved to the airport -- not over unpaid bills but because more than 50,000 people applied for tickets.  Would Sean Spicer like to handle this?

Free tampons?  Free lunch?  Why don't we call it the Minnesota Soviet Socialist Republic?