It's the old guard refusing to step aside. Biden was a major player for the Dems for along time. It's the same for Republicans really. It's a political class that won't if cede a little to the new guys. So they crush most of their young on the rise. And most of those people wouldn't be denied.
Also the last three presidents never served, so military service is falling out of fashion for presidents. The next person elected won't have served either. And Clinton never served.
It's not just old guard vs new: there's a sort of cold war in the Dem party similar to the one that's been going on in the GOP. But while the Republican civil war has been between corrupt elite uniparty types and actual populists, the civil war in the Dem party is three-sided.
You've got the far leftists, and then two competing factions of the uniparty. One is unofficially led by the Obamas, and is committed to the same corrupt Deep State managerialism that has characterized the regime so far. The other, represented by the Clintons, the Bidens and people like Kamala Harris, is not just corrupt but totally criminal, and so brazen about it that they risk exposing and undermining the entire Deep State project.
The billions of dollars being spent on hiding the Bidens' and Clintons' dark money in Ukraine, the sheer scale of Chinese infiltration: the saner factions of the uniparty have to be aware that this is not sustainable, and it's exposed so much of the behind-the-scenes machinations that it jeopardizes their entire control network.
I genuinely think that the establishment deep-staters are allowing the extreme left and the rogue criminal elements of the party to fight it out and burn each other down in this election cycle so that they can reassert control over the party.
I was prepared to write off their selection of Harris as a necessary measure to avoid all out chaos at the convention if they were to have an actual abbreviated selection process. That they grabbed the first most plausible person available (obviously, the VP) and that was that.
But the choice of Walz reeks of housecleaning. They're aware the election is a throwaway, and they're using it to throw the undesirables in the party under the bus when they inevitably lose.
Looks like the GOPe are pursuing the same strategy, mismanaging Trump's campaign on purpose so that he loses and then they have their excuse to purge MAGA from the party. No wonder it feels like both campaigns are trying to lose.
On the outside it certainly seems like the Dems and associates lost control over their far left pushers/enforcers for almost a decade, but have recently begun winning the war on them. They're still a problem, which is why they don't want to risk someone like Newsom on this election, when they could save him for 2028/2032 and probably win easily.
I remember as a kid that Clinton not serving rubbed people the wrong way. My dad mentioned it a number of times. It used to be something that was expected but now voters don’t seem to care
I don't care if somebody served or not, just don't lie about your service or lack thereof.
...That being said, there's been a long-running formula for career politicians, and one of the optional branches of that formula is some sort of military service.
Personally, I keep it simple; I want results, not platitudes.
but how exactly is it that these two are the left's best option
DIE is one of the reasons. Your options get very limited if you apply DIE, same as in corporations.
The other is campaign funds, they wanted to keep the Biden / Harries campaign money. This seems very very fishy to me.
The third is that at the end of the day it does not matter, politics is so polarized that is all about brand recognition and teams. Vote D so that you belong to the good guys mentality. We are so polarized that there are no center/ undecided voters. All that matters for them is rally the base to vote and print the rest.
I believe they couldn't run someone else other than Harris and keep the campaign money. Not that they couldn't try that, but the big ticket donors would get pretty upset.
I don't know the specifics, but I think it works because you're specifically donating to the Biden-Harris Campaign, not just Biden or the Presidential Candidate.
DIE is a death spiral no matter how you slice it. It could be by hair color and you'd still have thr same issues. Only so many smart redheads out there if that was your target, etc
Yeah, the cheerleading I've witnessed for Walz has been as depressingly breathless and mantric as when Harris announced. Some "our saviour has come" kinda shit.
"He's honest! (except when he's misrepresenting his military service)"
"He's nice! (except when he's doing some highschool meangirl shit like implying his opponent fucks couches)"
"He just wants everyone to mind their own business! (except when he's jailing parents for not agreeing to chemically castrate their children)"
Unfortunately Walz actually has charisma. Unlike Harris who's obviously a cold-blooded psychopath and probably induces a bunch of frantic growling, hissing, barking, howling, and squawking the second she walks into a pet shop. Dems knew they needed someone who at least superficially seems like a wholesome guy, and normies aren't gonna bother checking under the hood.
They had 4 years to groom ANY puppet but the vampiric nature of the establishment thought they could hang on to power for DECADES even though they'll all die by 2028 at least.
So yeah this is their best when they made sure their underlings were incompetent DEI hires so they could never try to steal power from them.
You forgot to add: she's a stepmother. It puts the evil cackle in a whole different load of context. Our country is run by a senile pedo granddad and a wicked stepmother.
Biden 'won' the last elections by virtue of him not campaigning personally due to covid. People didn't see the full scope of his mental decrepitude.
The same is happening to a lesser extent with Kamala.
As for Walz. He's meant to appeal to white male voters and to make Cackling Kamala seem less crazy. Walz has also adopted the combative and fiery personality that Biden stole from Trump. Most likely because it polls well.
Putting Walz on the ticket makes sense to balance out Kamala's DEI BS.
But it's interesting that they seemingly plucked Walz out of nowhere from a name recognition perspective.
I realize he's Governor of Minnesota, but I'd never heard his name politically before his selection.
I wasn't that familiar with Vance either, but at least he was a long-time candidate for VP despite his short term in office. I also remembered him from the East Palestine stuff (also completely memoryholed).
what’s worse is the media trying to convince everyone that they are incredibly popular with fake polls and bussed in supporters, in order to justify the eventual steal that will definitely take place
but how exactly is it that these two are the left's best option?
How has nobody said the obvious: because Trump.
You're asking why somebody competent doesn't stand in front of a freight train or wrestle a bear; it's because they're not an idiot. Only an idiot would run against Trump '24 - and that's what we got.
The politically savvy Democrats see a Trump that's dodged insults, impeachment, indictment, and being shot in the face and say how can I top that? They doubt even having the entire media fluffing them is enough.
I think the Democrats have probably resigned themselves to either going full steam on fraudulent ballot stuffing (counting on the national GOP knuckling under. Again.) or just letting Kamala go down in flames and resetting for '28.
I think Kamala herself knows this and that's why she picked Walz to be the fall guy on their failure (blame the fat florid white dude).
The rumor going around and that Trump himself has hinted at several times is that there's major in-fighting within the DNC. Team Clinton wants Harris. Team Obama wants someone else. Someone posted the Biden endorsement to Twitter before this was all sorted out. Now they're stuck with Harris, although, IMO, there's a nonzero chance she gets the boot at the DNC convention. Trump has hinted at that as well.
Walz: The rumor is that he was the only one on the list willing to accept the job. The stronger candidates are sitting this mess out until 2028.
She's generally a horrible person because she recently managed to get into a bit of a fight with leftists who were shouting at her in the crowd basically telling them to let her speak or Trump wins.
there was no other way for Koomallah to get the nom. no way we would vote for a black woman. Minus cheating, she would lose for sure. as is, their plan probably works.
It's the old guard refusing to step aside. Biden was a major player for the Dems for along time. It's the same for Republicans really. It's a political class that won't if cede a little to the new guys. So they crush most of their young on the rise. And most of those people wouldn't be denied.
Also the last three presidents never served, so military service is falling out of fashion for presidents. The next person elected won't have served either. And Clinton never served.
It's not just old guard vs new: there's a sort of cold war in the Dem party similar to the one that's been going on in the GOP. But while the Republican civil war has been between corrupt elite uniparty types and actual populists, the civil war in the Dem party is three-sided.
You've got the far leftists, and then two competing factions of the uniparty. One is unofficially led by the Obamas, and is committed to the same corrupt Deep State managerialism that has characterized the regime so far. The other, represented by the Clintons, the Bidens and people like Kamala Harris, is not just corrupt but totally criminal, and so brazen about it that they risk exposing and undermining the entire Deep State project.
The billions of dollars being spent on hiding the Bidens' and Clintons' dark money in Ukraine, the sheer scale of Chinese infiltration: the saner factions of the uniparty have to be aware that this is not sustainable, and it's exposed so much of the behind-the-scenes machinations that it jeopardizes their entire control network.
I genuinely think that the establishment deep-staters are allowing the extreme left and the rogue criminal elements of the party to fight it out and burn each other down in this election cycle so that they can reassert control over the party.
I was prepared to write off their selection of Harris as a necessary measure to avoid all out chaos at the convention if they were to have an actual abbreviated selection process. That they grabbed the first most plausible person available (obviously, the VP) and that was that.
But the choice of Walz reeks of housecleaning. They're aware the election is a throwaway, and they're using it to throw the undesirables in the party under the bus when they inevitably lose.
Looks like the GOPe are pursuing the same strategy, mismanaging Trump's campaign on purpose so that he loses and then they have their excuse to purge MAGA from the party. No wonder it feels like both campaigns are trying to lose.
On the outside it certainly seems like the Dems and associates lost control over their far left pushers/enforcers for almost a decade, but have recently begun winning the war on them. They're still a problem, which is why they don't want to risk someone like Newsom on this election, when they could save him for 2028/2032 and probably win easily.
I remember as a kid that Clinton not serving rubbed people the wrong way. My dad mentioned it a number of times. It used to be something that was expected but now voters don’t seem to care
I don't care if somebody served or not, just don't lie about your service or lack thereof.
...That being said, there's been a long-running formula for career politicians, and one of the optional branches of that formula is some sort of military service.
Personally, I keep it simple; I want results, not platitudes.
No arguments from me
DIE is one of the reasons. Your options get very limited if you apply DIE, same as in corporations.
The other is campaign funds, they wanted to keep the Biden / Harries campaign money. This seems very very fishy to me.
The third is that at the end of the day it does not matter, politics is so polarized that is all about brand recognition and teams. Vote D so that you belong to the good guys mentality. We are so polarized that there are no center/ undecided voters. All that matters for them is rally the base to vote and print the rest.
I believe they couldn't run someone else other than Harris and keep the campaign money. Not that they couldn't try that, but the big ticket donors would get pretty upset.
Still kind of fishy, you can't just move the VP to the head of the ticket and keep all the money.
I'm surprised no one challenged them on that
I don't know the specifics, but I think it works because you're specifically donating to the Biden-Harris Campaign, not just Biden or the Presidential Candidate.
DIE is a death spiral no matter how you slice it. It could be by hair color and you'd still have thr same issues. Only so many smart redheads out there if that was your target, etc
The lefty friends are treating them like homegrown heroes who hand out ice cream at barbecues.
Yeah, the cheerleading I've witnessed for Walz has been as depressingly breathless and mantric as when Harris announced. Some "our saviour has come" kinda shit.
"He's honest! (except when he's misrepresenting his military service)"
"He's nice! (except when he's doing some highschool meangirl shit like implying his opponent fucks couches)"
"He just wants everyone to mind their own business! (except when he's jailing parents for not agreeing to chemically castrate their children)"
Also cheered on rioting and looting and allowed the golden casket funeral for Floyd for “healing”
He's also running for a "who gives a shit" position. The fawning over him is just so blatantly fake.
I've seen tons of Small Town loving Hero as I can handle.
It's a sports team, and these are the big players.
Unfortunately Walz actually has charisma. Unlike Harris who's obviously a cold-blooded psychopath and probably induces a bunch of frantic growling, hissing, barking, howling, and squawking the second she walks into a pet shop. Dems knew they needed someone who at least superficially seems like a wholesome guy, and normies aren't gonna bother checking under the hood.
They had 4 years to groom ANY puppet but the vampiric nature of the establishment thought they could hang on to power for DECADES even though they'll all die by 2028 at least.
So yeah this is their best when they made sure their underlings were incompetent DEI hires so they could never try to steal power from them.
You forgot to add: she's a stepmother. It puts the evil cackle in a whole different load of context. Our country is run by a senile pedo granddad and a wicked stepmother.
Biden 'won' the last elections by virtue of him not campaigning personally due to covid. People didn't see the full scope of his mental decrepitude.
The same is happening to a lesser extent with Kamala.
As for Walz. He's meant to appeal to white male voters and to make Cackling Kamala seem less crazy. Walz has also adopted the combative and fiery personality that Biden stole from Trump. Most likely because it polls well.
Biden won because they're cheating fucks.
Those two are the ticket you run when you plan to cheat and rub it in people's faces.
Leftism is where the losers, degenerates, and grifters congregate. Always has been.
They are the Left's controllable option.
What's really scary is that every Democrat ticket from here on out is going to be equally psychotic.
Putting Walz on the ticket makes sense to balance out Kamala's DEI BS.
But it's interesting that they seemingly plucked Walz out of nowhere from a name recognition perspective.
I realize he's Governor of Minnesota, but I'd never heard his name politically before his selection.
I wasn't that familiar with Vance either, but at least he was a long-time candidate for VP despite his short term in office. I also remembered him from the East Palestine stuff (also completely memoryholed).
what’s worse is the media trying to convince everyone that they are incredibly popular with fake polls and bussed in supporters, in order to justify the eventual steal that will definitely take place
Until the cultists executed their coup in an attempt to bolster their power. Then they realized how much the country hates the left wing cult.
How has nobody said the obvious: because Trump.
You're asking why somebody competent doesn't stand in front of a freight train or wrestle a bear; it's because they're not an idiot. Only an idiot would run against Trump '24 - and that's what we got.
The politically savvy Democrats see a Trump that's dodged insults, impeachment, indictment, and being shot in the face and say how can I top that? They doubt even having the entire media fluffing them is enough.
This is happening because Bernie Sanders ran on the Democrat ticket and almost took the entire party away from them.
So.. they panicked.. first they let Hillary seriously try to win, and when that didn't work, we got Biden.
This is a long timeline.
I think the Democrats have probably resigned themselves to either going full steam on fraudulent ballot stuffing (counting on the national GOP knuckling under. Again.) or just letting Kamala go down in flames and resetting for '28.
I think Kamala herself knows this and that's why she picked Walz to be the fall guy on their failure (blame the fat florid white dude).
The rumor going around and that Trump himself has hinted at several times is that there's major in-fighting within the DNC. Team Clinton wants Harris. Team Obama wants someone else. Someone posted the Biden endorsement to Twitter before this was all sorted out. Now they're stuck with Harris, although, IMO, there's a nonzero chance she gets the boot at the DNC convention. Trump has hinted at that as well.
Walz: The rumor is that he was the only one on the list willing to accept the job. The stronger candidates are sitting this mess out until 2028.
there was no other way for Koomallah to get the nom. no way we would vote for a black woman. Minus cheating, she would lose for sure. as is, their plan probably works.
They have a better chance of winning than Biden. The DNC stuck with Biden to prevent an insurgency in their party.