"It did so by forging a de facto alliance with the enemy of its enemy, the progressive left, which opposed Shapiro—the only Jewish candidate on Harris’s shortlist—largely because of his pro-Israel stances. The result was a swelling of progressive opposition (some of it organic, some artificially fed) that, among other things, saw Shapiro’s online critics dub him 'Genocide Josh.' 'Where we could, we amplified the leftists on Twitter....'... On Tuesday, after the vice president announced her pick of Walz, there was a sense of relief.... Publicly, GOP operatives flooded social media and the airwaves with criticisms of Walz’s record on transgender therapies for minors, his progressive views of criminal justice and immigration, and his leadership of the state amid the Minneapolis riots after the 2020 police killing of George Floyd....."
From "Trump World Fueled an Anti-Shapiro Whisper Campaign/Now that the Pennsylvania governor is out of the way, are they ready for Walz?" (Bulwark).
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Some people think being processive as a good thing - all it stands for is the opposite of something 'progressive': a downward slope into totalitarianism and barbarism.
Interesting.
Is there anything Trump can't do? Now he's picking their VP nominee.
I would like to believe the Trump campaign has this much subtlety
You cant be this stupid this early in the day
That’s stupid
Oh marc caputo, i withdraw my statement.
While the Trump campaign could probably pull something like this off, this is just copium for neocons to avoid thinking about the historically weak Democrat ticket.
Then again, it is quite possible that the Bulwark is going to have agents no-knocking the place next year.
Right. Leftist Media were trumpeting "Genocide Josh" and we're supposed to think Trump's team was "manipulating" the very media that hates him and always lies about him?
Hard pass. Not buying this BS.
It's in the same category as "Kamala was afraid he would outshine her" crap they spread about Shapiro. Uh huh. It had nothing to do with him furiously rewriting his history with the IDF and criticism of the blessed palestinians and their cause. Right.
"Be careful what you wish for" is my worry. VP debate, IMO, will be the one to watch. I view it like Cheney-Lieberman 2000.
In case you’re confused, The Bulwark is a Bill Kristol publication. Kristol is a CIA mouthpiece. He’s spent the past 8 years accusing Trump of being a Russian agent. He was one of the leaders of Hamilton68, the group that fabricated the Russian bot farm hoax. They did that by falsely labeling thousands of pro-Trump sites in the U.S. as Russian bots. Their scam was disclosed in the Twitter Files.
Anyone who believes the garbage the Bulwark puts out is bonkers. They are on par with Media Matters. IOW: if they were print media you’d use it to line your birdcage.
Oh the Bulwark. Sorry I didn't realize this was satire. It was too subtle. That changes my main take from "stupid lies" to "lame humor" instead.
This is yuge banned commenter bait IMO.
Miami Herald then Politico drone failing upwards
So we are just going to believe the Bulwark? If this is true it will be the first time they have been right about anything Trump related.
Bulwark is one of my favorite crazy-eyed leftist channels, the other being Harry Litman. The video catalog page is wonderful for DTS takes in titles and spash page video.
If Trump was that crafty, then I’ll take some of that magic working against Putin. Alas, I think Trump can take on Harris and Putin without all those tricks.
The Bulwark on the other hand is made up of the repeat losers that backed McCain and Romney that got us the government healthcare system they pretended to be against.
I’ll go a little further with Kristol. If he wasn’t in on planning the assassination attempt on Trump, he certainly knew about it in advance.
I suppose this is to try and neutralize any benefit the GOP might get from the Jewish / pro-Israel voters who might look favorably on the GOP and vote for Trump because the Democrats rejected Shapiro. See, it's not the Democrats' fault, it was Trump, he pushed out Kompromat on Shapiro, so be mad at him don't be mad at Kamala and that weasel Walz.
Back to weird.
Bulwark is yet another leftwing Democrat mouthpiece. (Are there any sane and/or honest Democrats remaining, or are they political Sauropods, absolutely dead now and forever?) Bulwark's mission is to dilute the shame of antisemitism, a sin the Democrats have absolutely embraced by suggesting to certain morons who neither want nor can comprehend the need for evidence (recall the evidence-free Russia, Russia, Russia) that Trump crushed Mr. Shapiro's dreams of insignificant glory by whispering.
Even if true, I doubt this claimed effort had very much to do with Kamala's choice of Walz. I believe it's primarily due to the fact he aligns more with her positions at the far left end of the political spectrum. And for that reason, she picked the worst of the candidate options to expand their base.
The Harris-Walz ticket is going to be easy to characterize as the "let it burn (Walz), and if they catch you burning it down, we'll get you out (Harris)" ticket.
Haha. The Bulwark. How dare Republicans amplify the Hamas left voices! This antisemitism in the Democratic party is all Trump's fault!
No pushback from you against this bullshit in the text of your post, Althouse? You must be pretty far gone with your own case of TDS
No its just plain stupid violation of the Tufnel rule
One wonders just what a "quiet kneecapping" would sound like exactly.
Metaphorically it doesn't work for me at all, but it does add a faint whiff of humor to an otherwise mirthless joke of an article. Such a phrasing raises more questions, like is the author actually retarded or just very low IQ? Do they keep him around because he's young dumb and handsome so the "senior editors" can hit on him? Was it one of those devils bargains where he agreed to "something" (probably degrading and deviant) in exchange for a bylined article?
Is the ever-shifting comments interface a Google sabotage effort?
He started at the Herald so yes.
Trump did? I spent days sweating in a Quaker Church as professional South American communists taught utterly moronic Georgia State, Georgia Tech, and Emory students how to chant "from the River to the Sea" and build weapons to injure police, in preparation to pressure the DNC, where they were heading after one more march to injure or kill police here.
Where was the local media? AP and Reuters showed up at the attack on police, and AP openly cheered on the rioters as they attacked Atlanta police with sharpened umbrella spikes and PVC filled "protest banner holders." Fuck that guy.
I was the only Trump voter there, unless the GBI decided to stop harassing ordinary people over "Islamic comments" and bothered to monitor real terrorists, like the Quakers. Oh wait, the GBI doesn't hire Republicans anymore.
Build that Walz!
I used to accuse Althouse of that. I was wrong. (Somebody admits to having been wrong on the internet!)
I put nothing beyond the pale for the Star Wars bar scene reenactors that publish the Bulwark. It's almost beyond belief that the late great Gertrude Himmelfarb had a child that fell so far from the family tree, but then we've all seen promising young men grow up to be complete assholes despite wise and caring parents.
Now they deprive good platforms of advertising news guard so this carp can bs published
That Google is messing with the comments interface on purpose is now my default assumption. But I have to admit I haven't been to any leftie blogs that are on blogger, so maybe I should go with incompetence over malice...
All of the right-wing takes about how “the pick of Walz over Shapiro is antisemitic” are easier to follow if you tack on “but this time in a bad way!”
Team MAGA has Walz nailed as being in favor of kids having food and hygiene products. Next bombshell: he is pro-book.
These people are deal-breakingly weird.
Nice try, no cigar.
Tampon Tim placed tampons in the boys’ bathrooms. The omission of that is standard Dem practice now. School lunches are dismal crap, training for obesity and diabetes. Nobody should be eating them.
More interesting is the apparent return of the "Reply" function. Good!
Hi Dave :-)
Seems like you brought out the "best" in others during your latest foray into the Omaha public square.
Rich: Walz's wife said she loved the smell of burning coming off the riots.
If she isn't a Haitian dictator in exile (who can count?), that is weird -- and sickeningly bloodthirsty for the deaths of first responders.
She loves to smell small businesses being looted and burned, and firemen, paramedics, police, and citizens being put in mortal danger. Care to defend that? Be specific.
The left wants to pretend that had nothing to do with Democrats needing the Arab vote to win Michigan. Somehow Trump tricked all of them into being spooked by Shapiro. The other crazy theory is that Shapiro wanted to protect his future ambitions by quietly making it known to Harris that he doesn't want the job. This opens the question of why Shapiro was trying to erase his record of support for Israel in the days before the decision was announced.
Added: Wasn't there an "accidental" announcement out of IIRC the Philly Mayor's office a few days ago hinting that Shapiro was going to be chosen?
Republicans pounce.
This has nothing to do with Kamala or antisemitism in the Democrat party. MAGA foisted this super progressive governor on them.
Her pushback is holding it up for ridicule. It is a digital version of a stock and pillory. But even in the days of pillory, it was considered bad form for the officials to throw the first rotten vegetables.
So Nancy and Bernie were just dupes of Trump for supporting Walz over Shapiro?
This analysis of Republicans Pouncing sure reads a lot like the Uncle Remus story (now canceled, of course, for racism) about Br'er Rabbit and the Briar Patch. The Republicans sure did yell a lot about not wanting to run against the crazy leftist with the horrible policy choices in his past, didn't they?
Donald Trump- simultaneously evil genius and blundering idiot. Manages to get the opposition to choose who he wants.
I know the Bulwark is a joke but I think that analysis is pretty much right. Shapiro as a pick would have been a welcome repudiation of the anti-Semitic left. If Kam-a-blah had made that move, then she would be making the smart play. You try to veer to the middle in the general election. But instead she doubled down on stupid.
Harris made a big miscalculation if it is true she made the decision to pick Walz over Shapiro. However, I think it likely that Shapiro had had all he could could stomach in dealing with the Harris team trying to make a deal with them and finally told them to fuck off.
Weird.
The Bulwark is usually wrong, and this seems wrong too. I think the Harris campaign thinks Pennsylvannia is in the bag, and they didnt need Shapiro. OTOH, they want to nail down Minnasota and help win Winsconsin and Walz does that.
Its amazing how you can just shout "Antisemitism" or "racism" and its taken seriously, no matter how dumb the arguement. The "democrats are the real [homophones, women haters, racists, antisemites]" is the sort of stupid thing Republicans and conservatives love to say, it gets them no votes, and accepts the premise that we should all be out looking for homophobes/racists/antisemites/etc. to attack and cancel.
Kamala Harris does not wipe Willie Brown's cum from her mouth without Debbie Wasserman Schultz' permission.
Picking Shapiro would have provoked the left. More rioting. More votes for Stein and West. He probably would have helped Harris carry Pennsylvania, but he isn't the Democrat superhero some assume he is.
Campaigns do release their opposition research to influence the opposing party's and candidates' choices. There's nothing new or unusual about it. It's likely that the Democrats did that before Trump chose Vance. But why would a Trump campaign higher-up have chosen to divulge that to a writer for the Bulwark, which hates Trump? Why would anyone in the campaign have divulged that at all?
How to whitewash a picket fence using one weird trick by Tom Sawyer
TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! We can buy that if we pretend there was ever a chance The Cackler would pick a Jew.
The Hill had an opinion piece this morning and I'm still laughing at the headline.
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"Trump has never had to face someone with Kamala Harris’s raw talent"
The problem with this ridiculous theory is that you have to believe BOTH that the Trump campaign is well-organized and subtle enough to do this AND SIMULTANEOUSLY that the Trump campaign is grotesquely stupid enough to do this. (It's easier to believe that the people who write for the Bulwark are mendacious).
Rampaging Hammasshole mobs at the Democratic National Convention would be worth so much more to the Trump campaign than Shapiro would have been to Harris. By indulging the anti-Semites, the Harris people made it less likely that there will be some fiery but peaceful protests in Chicago. It was probably a worthwhile trade for them.
Keep in mind that the Clinton campaign and the DNC promoted Trump in 2015. So maybe they did a whisper campaign to influence Trump supporters to do a whisper campaign to influence the Harris campaign?
No need to wonder. Electric drill, crowbar, etc. At least according to some accounts of the Troubles.
There are some definitions of raw that would make that true, but not the one they intended.
Not sure if already published here but this piece on Walx is pretty damning. In what sense has Walz and the progressive dominance been a success for MN. Crime, economy, education, competent government, people leaving - what's important? https://www.americanexperiment.org/what-america-needs-to-know-about-tim-walz-of-minnesota
Typical SOP for the Left, they blame Trump for their mistake. And also somehow they want to blame Trump supporters for their own anti-semitism. "We would have chosen Shapiro except that Trump supporters made us think we are more anti-semitic (anti-Zionist, anti-Israel) than we really are." Gosh.
It is not so much the added Jewish vote but the securing of the Muslim vote that made Harris cast Shapiro aside.
Walz has a debate history. A short one. After the first he refused any more.
a) George Floyd was not killed by the police.
b) Bulwark? WaPo and NYT aren't bad enough?
Well, the word love wasn't in the clip your referencing. She simply said it was a touchstone or some other touchy/feely nonsense. I presume she was trying to convey that she wanted to understand and remember the seriousness of it all, but I think she's just a stupid commie.
I've been reading and commenting on this blog for 16 years or more. Althouse is and elitist with a case of TDS.
Howard said...
How to whitewash a picket fence using one weird trick by Tom Sawyer.
ROFL .. good one!
Who writes this codswallop. If I recall correctly the Bulwark was originally set up by conservative pundit types. Now it's gone gaga round the bend.
Jeez, I hope this is true. It would show an adroitness and awareness of the uses of social media that has been sadly lacking in Republican campaigns so far.
Walz has no appeal to most people in Wisconsin, othger than full-blown Ingna-rant types.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota agency’s inadequate oversight of a federal program that was meant to provide food to kids, and its failure to act on red flags, created the opportunities that led to the theft of $250 million in one of the country’s largest pandemic aid fraud cases, the Legislature’s watchdog arm said Thursday in a scathing report.
Such theories always infer that another party has a massive ability to influence others, and that people are easily influenced and manipulated. Neither is usually true, and both expose a lack of commitment to their own ideas.
So Timmy Tampon Walz, who set up a ratline for Minnesotans to snitch out their neighbors during COVID now say the golden rule up there is “mind your own business”?
Pull the other one, fatman.
Take a knee is an empathetic gesture with... something.
WaPo Karen Tumulty has a different take, explaining: "With her selection of Walz, Harris appears to have thrown aside the hoary playbook by which these decisions are expected to be made." Kelly and Shapiro may have helped in swing states Arizona and Pennsylvania, but so what, that's just hoary old time thinking. And if there's one thing Kamala's not, it's hoary.
"a Trump adviser, speaking on condition of anonymity to describe internal campaign workings,"
This article doesn't pass the smell test. Unreliable, anonymous sources. I could probably go to this reporter, tell them that I work for the Trump campaign and, if I tell them what they want to hear, I'll be believed.
There is no way that the power brokers in the Democratic party, like Obama and Pelosi, would pay any attention to anyone but themselves and their agenda.
Shapiro was not rejected by popular opinion in the Democratic party. He was rejected by the (behind the scenes) powerful Democrats who are making the decisions for Biden and Harris.
Trump is responsible for everything! (He must be Jewish.)
Shortlist : )
It’s deep hard-hitting realistic analysis like this that earns The Bulwark tens of readers.
From "Trump World Fueled an Anti-Shapiro Whisper Campaign/Now that the Pennsylvania governor is out of the way, are they ready for Walz?" (Bulwark).
Only the brainless losers of the Bulwark would try to push the story line that it was the Trump campaign pushing "an Anti-Shapiro Whisper Campaign" that took control of the Democrat Party.
That's some true world class stupid there
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