So, the big story was that pro-Hamas protesters interrupted Kamala’s speech, warning her that they will not support her if she supports Israel:

 "Bizarre response or not, Kamala supporters were in heaven. I see that nagging teacher I hated back in junior high school, but others saw presidential power!" . . .

Image courtesy of So Very Israeli.

Events in Detroit show Kamala vainly trying to straddle the Israel v. Hamas line   . . ."Notice that Kamala didn’t challenge the substance of the heckling. Instead, she simply said the equivalent of please, don’t say that out loud because it will keep me out of the White House. Unsaid was the implication that she might indeed abandon Israel if she got into the White House.

. . ."In the Middle East, though, aside from the fact that there’s strong evidence that the whole genocide accusation is a lie, the main issue is whether the US government should support a truly small-d democratic ally that is fighting an existential battle against fanatic Muslims who are members of a designated terror group and proxies for Iran, an American enemy. (Iran has considered itself at war with the US since 1979, as its terrorist acts since then prove.)

"For morally decent people, supporting Israel is a no-brainer. But for the left, which hates Israel, which is a living reminder of the Bible’s moral principles and the fact that there is a power greater than the government, Israel must be erased. Kamala is a leftist who has expressed understanding and empathy for the genocidal pro-Hamas protesters’ feelings, so it’s likely that they’re her real people, which is why she gave the hecklers that weirdly ambiguous put-down.

"Ultimately, America is going to have to take a stand. Biden has managed to avoid it, being senile and all, but the next president must to act. We know that Trump will allow Israel to squash Hamas, which is an enemy of civilization. We suspect Kamala will allow Hamas to squash Israel. For now, though, she must walk that tightrope, and her core pro-Hamas supporters aren’t making that easy for her." 

My son, 19, was killed in Iraq serving in the military unit Tim Walz 'abandoned': I'll never trust Kamala Harris' VP pick who took the 'coward's way out'

 UK Daily Mail  

"But those [Walz] served with say he stepped aside just as rumors started to circulate that they could be deployed."  or.... 

 "I have no particular thoughts on Tim Walz and him being a potential Vice President. He may well have "played the game" to get out of an Active Deployment. However, his particular circumstances are by no means unheard of or unusual within the Services."

 "When soldier Kyle Miller was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq on June 29, 2006, the man expected to lead them into combat was not there.

"Tim Walz, who would go on to be Kamala Harris' running mate, left his Minnesota National Guard unit two months before it deployed - and some will never trust him again.

"That includes Miller's mother who delivered a damning verdict on Walz's character, accusing him of taking the 'coward's way out' and 'running away' by opting to campaign for Congress instead of going to Iraq to face danger with her son.

"In an emotional interview with DailyMail.com, nearly two decades after 19-year-old Kyle's death, Kathy Miller said: ‘I don’t think it’s fair that (Walz) takes credit when he didn’t step up to the plate.

" 'Walz claims a rank he never earned. When he was called to serve, and protect our country he didn’t. 

" 'To publicly present false prestige of his unearned rank an inaccurate representation, is a falsehood of who he truly is. 

" 'My son stepped up to the plate. All our sons stepped up.

" 'My son wasn’t even 21 years old. He couldn’t even buy alcohol. Yet he took the step to serve our country while Walz found the best way to run away.' 

" 'It was the coward's way out.' " . . .

Joseph Schleifstein - An Incredible Story of Young prisoner who Made the NAZIS Pay for his Suffering

The_Holocaust #ww2 #worldwar2videos #worldhistory   "Joseph Schleifstein, the son of Jewish parents, was born on the 7 March 1941 in the Jewish ghetto in Sandomierz, which was located in the German-occupied Poland. Schleifstein and his parents – father Izrael and mother Esther - lived in the Sandomierz through its existence as a ghetto, from June 1942 through January 1943. After the liquidation of the ghetto the family was moved to the Czestochowa ghetto, where Joseph’s parents were presumably put to work in one of the HASAG factory camps.

"During the Second World War, HASAG became a Nazi arms-manufacturing conglomerate with dozens of factories across German-occupied Europe using slave labour on a massive scale."

Visualize with me, if you will, as you see the lines of weeping German neighbors of the death camps after being forced to see for themselves what their nation had inflicted on the human race. At a very minimum they were overcome with guilt and remorse, unlike the murderers from Gaza who burned Jews alive, or made parents watch their children being killed in front of them.

As British Journalist Douglas Murray lamented; many Nazis were driven to drink, but Muslims committed these murders "with glee".

WATCH: CNN Guest SNAPS On Dana Bash, Reveals The Truth About ‘Radical’ Tim Walz

 Trending Politics   "The knives are out for Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz one day after he was selected by Vice President Kamala Harris as her running mate, with one Republican guest refusing to let CNN host Dana Bash off the hook after she claimed that the Democrat’s “superpower” is “how normal” he is during a surreal moment in American politics.

"Scott Jennings, a conservative contributor to the network, blasted Bash after she credited Harris for choosing Walz, a midwesterner who has previously drawn praise from both Republican and Democratic politicians in his home state before taking a hard-left turn as chief executive. One day later, Republicans are leaning into claims that Walz presided over a catastrophic series of riots in the capital city of Minneapolis following the 2020 death of George Floyd and spotlighted violence that occurred during a nationwide summer of unrest. Jennings carried the torch in his reply to Bash.

“ 'Is he [normal]?” Jennings asked in response. “I don’t know. Is it normal to let the biggest city in your state burn while you’re the Governor for four days destroying thousands of businesses, hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage, while you do nothing?” He continued, “Is it normal for your wife to say she opened the window so she could let the smell of tire fires waft in so they could take in the smells of this radical chaos and anarchy on the streets of Minneapolis? I don’t view any of this as normal. I view this through the lens of decision-making.' ” . . .

As Biden rides off into the sunset

 

https://spectator.org/

Joe Biden’s botched Afghanistan exit is a disaster at home and abroad long in the making | CNN Politics  "The debacle of the US defeat and chaotic retreat in Afghanistan is a political disaster for Joe Biden, whose failure to orchestrate an urgent and orderly exit will further rock a presidency plagued by crises and stain his legacy. 

"But a stunning Taliban blitzkrieg followed more than 20 years of US and allied policy failures, misunderstandings of Afghan politics and culture, public war fatigue and the culpability and corruption of the failed state’s leaders.

"And while Biden’s political and geopolitical rivals rush to exploit his mistakes, the true magnitude of the crisis can only be judged in the human tragedy of a people again subject to Taliban persecution. And a failure to fulfill the now apparently near-impossible tasks of evacuating all the Afghan translators, workers and fixers on whom the US relied and who now face Taliban retribution would besmirch America’s conscience and global reputation.

“ 'It is a stain on our nation’s integrity and honor that even just a few months ago, we were not meeting our obligation to the men and women, our Afghan allies who served alongside us,” Jake Wood, a former US Marine and Afghan war veteran, told CNN’s Pamela Brown on Sunday. “We owe them the special immigrant visas. We owe them safety, every bit as much as we owe safety to our embassy workers in Kabul." . . .

2021: Joe Biden's Growing List of Failures | Opinion - Newsweek   "First, of course, is the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. Biden pulled out our troops before getting out our civilians, green card holders and allies, then had to send troops back in to help them get out. Yet even then, Biden failed to get everyone out, despite promising to do so. And in addition to stranding people, the evacuation left billions of dollars' worth of arms, vehicles and equipment in the hands of the Taliban, abandoned a strategic base in the fight against terrorism and allowed the release of imprisoned hard-core terrorists.

"Another Biden disaster happened at the southern border. The number of illegal immigrants that streamed into the country this year, all because of Biden's refusal to enforce our immigration laws, is stunning. That number includes thousands of so-called amnesty seekers, who are generally released into the country with an order that they show up for a hearing in the distant future—an order that often goes ignored. It also includes people who are unvaccinated or infected with COVID-19, as well as gang members, drug traffickers, sex traffickers and even individuals on terrorism watchlists. The president's primary duty is to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed." Biden has willfully failed to do so. That is an impeachable offense.

"Right up with these two disasters is that of inflation. Prices are rising steeply, with no end in sight. On top of what already amounts to a cruel tax on the poor and those on fixed incomes, Biden wants to spend trillions more, which will just make inflation even worse. Moreover, the economy is suffering from massive supply chain bottlenecks, with ships waiting weeks to get into ports, and a shortage of workers and truck drivers to deal with them once they get in.

"A principal cause of the current inflation is high energy prices—the product of Biden's energy policies. Upon assuming office, Biden immediately canceled the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have employed some 11,000 people. The oil that would have come through the pipeline will still come in, though by costlier and more polluting means (trucks and rail). At the same time, Biden gave his approval for the Nord Stream pipeline from Russia to Germany. At the same time he was restricting domestic oil and gas production, leading to higher gas and heating prices, Biden called on OPEC and Russia to supply more oil and gas in order to reduce those prices." . . .

Ian Macfarlane

Harris-Walz-MSNBC: Now there's a real Axis

 I consider those young people wearing Keffiyehs in support of  the murderers of October 7 in Israel to be those who will be on the streets for Harris / Walz when the school year begins: those who chanted "Death to America! Death to Israel!" for their pro-Iranian mentors .

Tim Walz: What a dishonest person   "I'm one of those people who's new to Tim Walz.

"But the more I learn, the more he comes off as one thing: Dishonest.

"I'm not talking about false  or hyperbolic things politicians say to advance their agendas. I'm talking about base, cruddy, lowdown, personal dishonesty, the gross flaw of character that's the kind of thing that would prevent him from being hired as a bank teller. Personal dishonesty seems to be a life pattern for him.

"It's things like this:  The most obvious instance of his personal dishonesty is topic one in military circles, his incredibly mendacious military record in the National Guard. "

Tim Walz: The perfect leftist emblem

Tim Walz is the gift that keeps on giving.  If there were a worse candidate than Kamala Harris, Tim Walz is it.

. . ."The meme “mostly peaceful protest” originates with an MSNBC spokeshole proclaiming, “I want to be clear on how I characterize this. This is mostly a protest. It is not generally speaking unruly.”

"It is not generally speaking unruly, as the city of Minneapolis is burning to the ground in the background.

"Tim Walz is the perfect pairing with Kamala Harris if you want to burn down the country in the same manner that you’ve burned down your state.  This is the most radically leftist Democrat ticket in our nation’s history.

"We must stand against the slobbering media and demand that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz answer for their failings: a failed border czar with a shady background and a communist father, and a failed radical governor who celebrates his wedding anniversary on the date of the Tiananmen Square crackdown against freedom-desiring Chinese.

"If we don’t prevail, Minneapolis will be a warning of our future."

 (MSNBC: Bitter Trump-Vance campaign is no match for Harris-Walz joy)

MSNBC: "America's Dad"

The media campaign for Tim Walz gets a particularly sycophantic start   . . . So, be ready for a load of garbage about Walz. These are a few opinion pieces already from WaPo the first day after he was selected: 

Tim Walz made ‘weird’ happen. What he offers the ticket is much more.  "Walz has a genuine feel for the concerns of people in conservative corners of the country."

Tim Walz is a bold, smart choice for Harris’s running mate  

A safe choice who is also an exciting choice’: 3 columnists discuss Tim Walz

Photo: Tim Walz Cozied Up to Anti-Semitic Terror Defender at 2019 CAIR Event (the guy in the scarf next to Walz is Students for Justice in Palestine founder Hatem Bazian)

Journalists Are Already Lying Through Their Teeth about ‘Moderate,’ ‘Centrist’ Walz  . . ."On Tuesday morning, MSNBC contributor and former Missouri Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill (whose lifetime ACU rating was 12%) lambasted those who would dare describe Walz as a leftist: “The idea that Time Walz is some lefty is just not true in reality. He got elected in a district that was very moderate… He is definitely somebody who is absolutely more moderate than people are giving him credit for right now.”

"Later that morning, MSNBC contributor and former Florida Dem Carlos Curbelo spent several minutes wildly gaslighting the audience of MSNBC’s José Díaz-Balart Reports: “It’s the same formula as 2020 for Democrats, but inverted. Now the progressive candidate is at the top of the ticket, and the more centrist, deal-making candidate is the Vice Presidential nominee.”

"Hillyard repeated the claim that Walz was a “centrist” several times during that segment." . . .

Fox Video: MSNBC gaslights about Biden's "cogency"

As the World Teeters on the Brink of WWIII and Economic Collapse Biden / Harris Declare War on…Plastic Cutlery

TFPP Wire

The world’s on fire and the Biden-Harris administration is worried about plastic forks. https://t.co/TuMfzOONXW

— Senator Mike Rounds (@SenatorRounds) August 6, 2024

"In a world teetering on the brink of economic collapse and potential global conflict, the Biden administration has decided to wage war on… plastic forks. Yes, you read that correctly.

"As nations stockpile weapons and financial markets tremble, the White House is laser-focused on phasing out single-use plastics across federal departments.

"President Biden, apparently oblivious to the looming specter of World War III, has declared this crusade against disposable cutlery an “all-hands-on-deck response” to the “climate crisis.”

"One can’t help but wonder if those hands might be better employed addressing more pressing matters, like averting economic catastrophe or preventing nuclear armageddon.

“ 'The President is committed to taking ambitious actions… to end plastic pollution and is calling upon the global community to do the same,” the White House proudly proclaimed.

"Because clearly, what the global community needs right now is a united front against straws and sandwich bags.

"This grand plan aims to eliminate single-use plastics from federal food service operations, events, and packaging by 2027, and from all federal operations by 2035. It’s comforting to know that as the world potentially crumbles around us, at least government employees will be sipping their coffee from eco-friendly mugs." . . .

Face The Music

Stilton's Place   "Kamala Harris has chosen Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to be her running mate in the upcoming election, and voters are excitedly proclaiming "Who the hell is that?!"

"And the answer is he's a white guy from the Midwest and the Harris team thinks he'll bring in votes because, well shoot, you can't count on flyover country to vote for a radical Black woman, right? Also, they like the symbolism of a white man being seen as subordinate to a (vaguely) Black woman. If Kamala had chosen a Samoan lesbian in a wheelchair the optics just wouldn't have been as tasty.

"Walz is, of course, screamingly liberal and enjoys outdoor activities like watching BLM burn cities down while on his watch. He was late calling in the National Guard, and then allowed his daughter to "leak" the security plans so rioters would know which areas to avoid. And there's more damning stuff, but there's no need to list it here. We all knew he was a horrible candidate and a horrible human being when Kamala rightfully thought he belonged on her team.

"But thinking of the HARRIS - WALZ signs we'll soon see sprouting up in yards everywhere, it struck me that there was something rather musical about that combination of words.

"And so I modestly present "The New Harris Wal(t)z"...  https://stiltonsplace.blogspot.com/2024/08/face-music.html    

One has to go to Stilton's link and click on it there. Look for the couple dancing in the street full of burning buildings. TD

As Iran strike looms, IDF Home Front Command dispatches rescue units to Tel Aviv

 JNS Main Headlines

Israel created a garden spot in this land; their enemies can only destroy. TD

view of the skyline of Israel's coastal city of Tel Aviv

"Israel’s Home Front Command has moved search and rescue forces to Tel Aviv and other cities in preparation for potential Iranian and Hezbollah attacks, the Israel Defense Forces said on Tuesday.

"The Ram Battalion (668) of the IDF’s Search and Rescue Brigade (60th) has repositioned itself in Tel Aviv, the economic and cultural hub of Israel along the central Mediterranean coastline.

"The unit has moved near Menora Mivtachim Arena in the Yad Eliyahu neighborhood, where the Home Front Command’s rescue vehicles and trailers are stationed.

"Both Tehran and its Lebanese terror proxy have threatened to target military sites in the Tel Aviv area. The Ram Battalion would respond to any building collapses or other destruction.

"According to the IDF, rapid rescue teams have also been deployed to Haifa, the Haifa bay area and several cities in the south and center of the country.

"The deployment followed a recent situational assessment held by the Home Front Command.

"It was also decided to position a permanent battalion in the Red Sea resort town of Eilat, which has been targeted multiple times by Iran’s Yemeni terror proxy, the Houthis.

Underground parking lots to be converted to shelters

"Some Israeli municipalities are preparing to turn underground parking lots into emergency shelters in the event of a sustained wave of attacks from Iran and its terror proxies, Channel 12 reported on Tuesday." . . .

Transgender: Tim Walz Signed Law to Strip Children of Parental Protections

Neil Munro; Breitbart

 The Democrat legislator who championed the parent-stripping law is Rep. Leigh Finke, a man who insists that he is a transgender woman. He promotes the “trans refuge” law to encourage more irreversible transgender surgeries and hormone treatment for children and adults in the state.

Rep. Leigh Finke

"Gov. Tim Walz signed a law that strips parental protections from out-of-state teenagers and children who claim to want irreversible transgender medical treatment in Minnesota.

He also signed laws that install tampon-dispensing machines in K-12 schools to broadcast the state’s claim that teenage girls can choose their legal sex, and also a law that allows pedophilia to be someday legally protected under existing state anti-discrimination laws.

President Donald Trump’s campaign is eagerly spotlighting Walz’s pro-transgender advocacy, and is describing him as “#TamponTim.”

“As a woman, I think there is no greater threat to our health than leaders who support gender-transition surgeries for young minors, who support putting tampons in men’s bathrooms in public schools,” campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told Fox News on Tuesday. “Those are radical policies that Tim Walz supports.”. . .

This is Rep Leigh Finke who sponsored the "trans refuge" bill which Tim Walz signed which made Minnesota a sanctuary state for "trans kids" to receive s*x change treatments and surgeries. pic.twitter.com/UB3f4tv3z4

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 6, 2024 

Here's why GOP critics are branding Walz 'Tampon Tim' (thehill.com)

Parents Need to Reject Kamala and Tampon Tim, by Betsy McCaughey    ... "Harris has a history of bashing lawmakers who side with parents. At a June 23, 2023, pride rally, she called them "extremists."

Who's extreme here? You decide.

An AFT report deplores a Henrico County, Virginia, parent for questioning the appropriateness of "I'm a Gay Wizard," a book in the school library, which depicts two boy characters having oral sex." . . .

"But this battle isn't about inclusion. Inclusion is a good thing. This is about indoctrination." 

By Picking Walz, Harris Confirms That The Radical Left Is Fully In Control Of The Democratic Party

 Issues & Insights   "There’s a reason nobody expected far-left Kamala Harris to pick a far-left governor from a deep blue state as her running mate. It’s never worked.

"In the wake of Jimmy Carter’s crushing defeat in 1980 and repeated Democratic losses thereafter, the party decided that to win presidential elections they had to at least appear as moderates.

Bill Clinton won by labeling himself a “new Democrat” and picked Al Gore, then a fellow moderate Southerner. Gore in turn tapped Joe Lieberman as his running mate. Barack Obama tried to position himself to the right of John McCain and ran with Scranton Joe Biden. Hillary Clinton picked Virginia moderate Sen. Tim Kaine to balance the ideological scales. Biden ran as a sensible centrist with a talent for working both sides of the aisle (and picked Harris more as an insurance policy against impeachment than anything else).

Which is why pundits across the board expected Harris – in what amounts to the first important decision she has made as presidential candidate — to pick a more mainstream governor with cross-party appeal from a swing state like Arizona or Pennsylvania.

But the radicalized, hopeless woke Democratic party couldn’t bring itself to OK anyone like that. So instead, Harris decided to “balance” the ticket with another leftist.

As Axios reported today: “Many Republicans expressed surprise and relief at the choice of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate, readying renewed ‘radical’ liberal attacks.”

No matter, it goes on, because “Walz has backing from many influential Democratic voices, including the progressive wing of the party which has at times turned on President Biden, especially over his handling of the war in Gaza.” . . .

How 'weird' became the internet's favorite political insult (nbcnews.com)“I hope Republicans have the nerve to fight like that,” he added. “It’s the only way. Fire with fire. It’s going to get ugly.”

As the use of “weird” gained traction, Republicans responded, pivoting to use the word against Harris and to describe trans and other LGBTQ people, as well as gender-nonconforming individuals. Anti-LGBTQ efforts, particularly those targeting trans people and drag performers, have been a major pillar of conservative legislation, campaigning and online rhetoric that can spill into real-life conflict.

Donald Trump Jr. has leaned heavily on redirecting the word “weird,” using it against Harris five times, including in a caption on a video of her high-fiving a drag performer. Libs of TikTok, one of the most followed far-right accounts on social media, has used “weird” as a pejorative in 14 posts since July 23, most of them alongside images and videos of drag performers and people displaying what some might perceive as gender nonconformity, like Harris’ stepdaughter Ella Emhoff with unshaven armpits and men wearing makeup." . . .

Tony Branco

Bitter Joe

"So the story is out: Biden is seething, bitter, disgusted with Kamala's bad judgment in picking the buffoonish Tim Walz over more moderate Josh Shapiro, looking for a way to regain his grasp on power, and no longer motivated to do his job as president of the United States."

Monica Showalter

"Not too long ago, Joe Biden had it made. The Democrat convention was approaching, he had the delegates, and he was going to be the nominee.

"He rigged the Democrat primaries for himself, shut out all competition, kneecapped Bobby Kennedy's independent campaign, and if all else failed, tried through various means -- court and otherwise -- to eliminate his main rival, President Trump.

"But he got hit from a direction from which he wasn't looking -- his own party majordomos, who engineered his "easy way or hard way" ouster, ushering in Kamala Harris instead. Harris was stupid. Harris was his "insurance." But Harris had ideas of her own and ran away with it. Now she has risen in the polls as he hasn't and the mainstream media are in full-throated cheerleading mode in ways he never got.

"Now he's reportedly seething.

"Here's what President Trump's close advisor, Stephen Miller, tweeted out:

Buzz growing that Biden regrets caving to the coup after Kamala seismically botched the VP pick by surrendering to the Jew-haters. She showed tremendous cowardice exiling Shapiro for a socialist and Biden is fuming that he let donors extort him out by freezing his campaign funds.

. . . " Unlike Trump, Biden does plot, and he takes a lot of revenge on his enemies. If Democrats could plot against him, why wouldn't he plot back to take the whole miserable house of cards down, too? He probably will fail, and once again, stew in his bitterness.

"If so, couldn't happen to a nicer guy who did so much damage to our country. Biden set the rules on manipulating elections, and in the end got beaten by fellow Democrats at his own game, his own rules he thought he was master of." . . .