As Predicted: Harris-Walz Is The Ticket

A prosecutor and a school teacher against two conmen. Who says politics is dull?

An iconic moment in Philadelphia where Walz made a very off color joke.

I used to joke that I was voting for Donald Trump because of his role on the reality show The Apprentice.

Like Robert Frost who once said that he was never more serious than when he was joking I enjoyed the revulsion of the cognoscenti who were oh so scandalized that Trump might win. I even told a family member the night Trump won that he, a reality TV star, really had the potential to bring the country together. Whoops.

For those keeping track at home I correctly called both J.D. Vance and Tim Walz. You can see my writings predicting Vance here and Walz here. We’ve been having fun talking about how Walz is absolutely not CIA, people!

I also correctly explained why IDF volunteer turned Pennsylvania politician Josh Shapiro wasn’t going to be allowed to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. Besides, we don’t need a Genocide Josh when we have Patriotic American Jew Doug Emhoff.

A lot of people who follow my writings made a lot of money on Walz in the betting markets. I first publicly stated the day that Biden dropped out that Walz was the correct choice. You can see my voluminous writings on Twitter to that effect. As of Friday the betting for Walz was at like 3 cents on Polymarket. One friend of mine made close to $30K! You’re welcome. Pay your debts by buying a Chuckstack.com subscription, you degenerate but accurate and patriotic gambler.

Lately Kamala Harris has been besting the Donald. The meme magic of 2016 is now the vibe-ocracy of 2024. Comedian Tim Dillon says that the person who “throws the biggest party will win” and Kamala is having fun. This sort of thing works.

You ultimately become your adversary and Kamala has taken on the manners of the Donald. She rolled out her VP pick like something approximating a game show.

We’ll be kind and pretend it was the Bachelorette but the weekend showed us it was really Survivor. Outwit, Outplay, Outlast!

Madame Vice President Harris even seemingly had a sense of humor about the whole thing. California and the Black Deep State having the leftwing Likud introduce the Lutheran Deep state. Well that was something else, wasn’t it?

Temple University is very close to Germantown. Go a bit further and you’re squarely in Bibi turf, isn’t that right, IDF agent Jake Tapper?

Yes, I’m resisting everything in my power not to write about Luther and the conversos and what that means for Israeli agent Josh Shapiro. No, I won’t do it. They can’t make me do it!

We got the added benefit of mapping out the left-wing side of the Netanyahu network in the United States with the slow roll out.

You’re not supposed to think too much about the Tree of Life shooting. Is it too cynical to think that, perhaps, Netanyahu arranged for the Tree of Life killing?

A friend of mine worked with an Israeli who would call bomb threats in to Jewish synagogues so as to scare Jews to move to Israel. We see a similar tactic pretty much everywhere these days — the use of fear to drive people to extremes.

Spiritually Josh Shapiro backing Doug Mastriano is on the same wavelength.

Everyone who works at the Israeli embassy has a personnel file which assesses their genuine fitness to the Israeli cause. It seems doubtful, too, that Shapiro would have been allowed to “volunteer” on an Israeli military base without also wearing an IDF uniform.

The conversation should move from whether or not Shapiro should be Vice President to whether or not he’s fit for the Governor’s Mansion. Those are conversations for another day but they are important and the vetting that Shapiro got is altogether useful.

Back to Walz.

The first duty of the statesman is to teach. The prosecutor must make her case. There’s something very small d democratic about both roles.

I’ve enjoyed watching Governor Walz’s students talk about him to the press. Among the more heartwarming tributes to Walz comes from some of his worst students. Was “ modeled what my view of elected officials could be: authentic, genuine, caring and effective. But not only that, he makes you want to be better,” wrote C student Noah Hobbs.

As the son of two shopkeepers turned school teachers in later life I have to say I find that sort of thing endearing. My mother taught geography before retiring last year. My dad taught science. One of my grandfathers was on the school board; the other was a high school principal. It’s hard not to see them in the biography of Tim Walz.

Of course Walz being a teacher, especially one of the first ones into China during the Bush years, you’re left with wondering if the 24 year career Army sergeant who speaks Mandarin might be a Christian In Action. A fondness for mapping, a facility with languages, lots of foreign travel — these are quite the interests which might come in handy for a Vice President.

Then again, maybe it’s just smart politics. We need to give the Chinese deep state a way out in much the same way we did with a prisoner exchange with Russia. Not all those Russians wanted to go back did they?

There are quite a number of things we can and must work together with China on — climate change, cracking down on organized crime, etc. etc.

Here’s the full video of Tim Walz talking about China and agricultural policy in 2016. “I don’t fall into the category that China necessarily needs to be an adversarial relationship. I totally disagree...there’s many areas of cooperation that we can work on.”

“[This China-American dialogue] has opened channels of collaboration that I have been able to talk to the Chinese, because when we’re on the same sheet of music, two of the world’s great superpowers, there’s many collaborative things we can do together. So I’m hopeful on that.”

And yet Walz supported human rights. He met with the Dalai Lama—something Donald Trump never did.

Walz’s anniversary is the same as the democratic revolution in Tiannemen Square and he and his bride honeymooned in China.

Republicans, being dumb, will try to run against Walz’s record on crime — which is a lot more positive than they’ll admit — but Walz is right that violent crime was up during Trump’s presidency.

Sure enough, the white collar criminals in the GOP are not happy about the Walz pick.

No, we won’t be BUILDING more housing for you to keep your H1-B visa slaves, Silicon Valley, but many of your office buildings will BECOME housing. And no, Elon, we’re not going to allow you to interfere in our elections.

A friend of mine who has spied on the Chinese told me that when he toured America with the Chinese military they’d all salivate at America’s water resources. Walz, who is obsessed with maps and agriculture, knows this.

Another friend describes this effort as the Middle East meeting the Mid West. As the world gets warmer the UAE is going to want a place where they can run away to. Why not Minneapolis? That’s not going to come for free, of course.

True to my word I said that were Governor Walz to get the VP nod, I’d be investing in Minnesota. And so I shall. I’ll likely be vacationing there later this month. My cofounder and her family are already there.

Character is what you do when no one is looking and Walz, busted for DUI, once offered to resign. He had failed his students, he said. (His resignation was denied.) But it does make for an interesting attack. You can see it now: DEI and DUI.

And yet this personal failing is rather real, rather relatable. After Walz got pulled over for DUI he never had another drink again.

There’s a video making the rounds of Kamala Harris talking about the difference between being tough and being a bitch — and then laughing to turn off the camera. It’s impossible to imagine Hillary Clinton having that kind of joy, possibly because she got the fine line between being a bitch and being tough so very wrong.

The smooch on the lips with Willie Brown (aged 60, she aged 29), suggests that California is a land of second chances at happiness.

There’s something very French about the whole mistress culture thing and I’m told that outside of France there are the most Frenchmen in LA. No wonder I feel so at home there. Like Kamala Harris, I grew up speaking French.

Yes, the first woman of color to secure a major party nomination slept her way to the top — and had fun doing it. What about it?

Yes, the likely first First Gentleman slept with the nanny. This is not advisable but so what? And?

I’m here for all this sort of thing. After the Hunter Biden controversies maybe we could all do with a little more French-style shrugging about personal failings. Maybe we should be asking: Can you do the job? I sometimes wonder how many people we exclude by how ridiculous our demands are of them.

What the Harris-Emhoff pairing has for California values Walz’s pragmatic progressivism does for the unforgiving north.

Tim Walz (meaning, implausibly: “one who honors God” and “commander of the Army”) is the Lutheran deep state. He’s very German — he exudes efficiency and nerdom — yet very wholesome, even small c Christian. You can see it in his numerous videos with his daughter Hope, who, he told us today, was conceived with IVF. With his emphasis on live and let live and “mind your own damn business” Walz suggests a way out of our increasingly polarized politics.

Walz is a meat and potatoes kind of guy. He hunts and he promotes turkey. It makes sense when you realize he’s from Minnesota which produces nearly all the nation’s Thanksgiving turkeys. Dontchaknow it’s the sixth most agricultural state in the Union? Walz is constantly selling Minnesota, which is quick to tell you is the five best state in the Union for business.

Israeli agent Jake Tapper tried to suggest that Walz was too liberal. He deftly and sarcastically replied that he was some sort of monster for feeding children.

You see feeding hungry children; I see price supports for a key domestic industry. Getting the farmers involved in cleaning up the food supply and feeding everybody’s kids is very clever indeed.

It makes you wonder why America’s most agricultural state — California — hasn’t also fed her children. What is California doing?

There’s lots to be said about Minnesota and how it’s a land apart from the national discourse. Vice President Walter Mondale was a Tim Walz supporter. And of course one wonders if Senator Paul Wellstone, deeply suspicious of the Israelis, was killed. Maybe in its awww shucks progressivism it has something to teach the rest of the country about Scandinavian values.

The way politics used to work in this country is that the GOP ran compromised candidates who were blackmailed by their mobbed up donors who were usually a front for organized crime or foreign interests or both. Trump’s election was a kind of innovation: here was a patriotic mobster who was able to push aside the also rans in the Republican Party. Trump’s failure came only from when he trusted his criminal son-in-law and made a Faustian (and flawed) alliance with the RNC.

The Democratic Party ran actual mobsters like indicted Henry Cuellar and convicted Robert Menendez. These mobbed up figures — I’m thinking Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi most of all — were still patriotic, after a point, and they were supported by progressive donors totally spooked by the potential GOP misrule. Every election Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer would, in effect say, give us power or the Republicans are going to get you! How tiresome.

The elevation of Harris-Walz suggests that the Democratic Party will elevate intelligence over identity.

It’s about time.