Let us now take just a moment to reflect again on the fact that we dodged quite a bullet when Harris/Walz were defeated
[Hat tip: Legal Insurrection.]
2024 VP Democratic candidate Tim Walz is still giving interviews and talks. Here’s a report on his participation in a Harvard Kennedy School forum on Monday night:
Walz said Harris chose him, in part, because, “I could code talk to White guys watching football, fixing their truck” and “put them at ease.” The Minnesota governor described himself as the “permission structure” for White men from rural America to vote for Democrats.
That’s a good reminder of how the Harris/Walz ticket was one of the best demonstrations of the fact that racial and “gender” identity politics have swallowed the Democratic Party. After all, Harris was chosen because she’s a black woman – and it’s not just me saying that, it was Biden who explicitly said it. Turns out that wasn’t enough to win. And Walz is saying he was chosen because he’s some sort of rural macho white guy and therefore could talk the language of rural macho white guys, all while not talking their language at all. People who say “code talk” and “permission structure” aren’t likely to appeal much to that particular demographic.
Harris was and is a train wreck. Walz was and is a train wreck. It is shocking that they got as many votes as they did.
Well, obammie was chosen because he’s a black something or other, so not without precedence.
And Walz is saying he was chosen because he’s some sort of rural macho white guy and therefore could talk the language of rural macho white guys, all while not talking their language at all. People who say “code talk” and “permission structure” aren’t likely to appeal much to that particular demographic.
At first glance, the word “code” in the Waltz quote made me think he was talking about “learning to code” for a living. No, it’s much more stupid and deceptive than that.
He’s not an actual rural white guy, but he’s got enough familiarity with them that he can fake it. Of course, he’s also got the desire and need to be a faker. And it assumes that a significant number of people are gullible enough to buy into the fakery.
We’ve entered an era where nearly everything the Dems and left talk about publicly is some sort of swindle.
See Wm. Schneider on this point. Your single best guess is that your VP candidate will net you 2% of the vote in his home state. Minnesota was close enough that he might have been consequential in securing those electoral votes. Schneider also notes that there is downside risk if the VP candidate proves a distraction, as Geraldine Ferraro did in 1984. Per Schneider, there’s not much electoral advantage to be had from VP selections. (Schneider was writing a generation ago).
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Gerald Ford in 1976 offered his staff that he would select a VP nominee taking account of three considerations: (1) the capacity of the subject to take over as chief executive without missing a beat; (2) general agreement on policy; and (3) skills as a campaigner. (Whether he made the right selection is another matter).
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The Harris / Walz campaign was the most intellectually underpowered national ticket in God-knows-when. It’s a reasonable inference that both Harris and Walz have a history with the drink. The two have minimal history with private sector employment. Walz is a manifestation of the pathology of the public schools. The man’s tertiary schooling consisted entirely of time in teacher’s colleges. He has no academic degrees, yet he was employed not as an elementary teacher or a special ed teacher, but as an academic high school teacher.
The two ‘blacks’ the Democratic Party has nominated include a woman whose ancestry is modally East Indian, who spent the longest segment of her upbringing in Montreal, and who was publicly rebuked by her mulatto father. It also includes a mulatto who spent his formative years in two loci (Java and Oahu) notable for an absence of American blacks and whose father was a Luo from Kenya whose understanding of American blacks was limited to those he met on university campuses. BO’s actual relationship to the domestic black population was that he married into it. Good enough for Democratic voters.
Timpon is a deluded and very weird guy. How TH did he become the MN governor?
The mere suggestion that there is a “code” men use in their lives tells me Mr Walz is probably gay and knows nothing at a visceral level about men. Similarly seeing The Magic Negro hold his “beer summit” with the white cop and black formerly drunk and disorderly black professor told me about his inclinations. Adult males cosplaying manhood would be funny if they weren’t serious in thinking they pulled it off and if it weren’t so blatantly obvious.
It’s not shocking they got the votes they did. A large portion of the country has TDS and would have voted for literally anyone the Ds put up, no matter how bad. Harris/Walz are about as bad as they come.
From my lib friends now posting a screed about how stupid all Trump voters are. So they are just as shocked by us.
The mere suggestion that there is a “code” men use in their lives tells me Mr Walz is probably gay and knows nothing at a visceral level about men. Similarly seeing The Magic Negro hold his “beer summit” with the white cop and black formerly drunk and disorderly black professor told me about his inclinations. Adult males cosplaying manhood would be funny if they weren’t serious in thinking they pulled it off and if it weren’t so blatantly obvious.
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No, it tells you he listens to Krack Kampaign Konsultants and imbibes what they say, which tells you his capacity for critical thought is underpowered. He’s a 60 year old fat slob who has been married for 30 years and has two children. None of his known diversions have a gay vibe.
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Gates was rude to a Cambridge police officer. No indication he was drunk. Gates and Obama are both decades married with children. Obama’s only known avocational interests are basketball and golf. Gates’ are genealogy and transcendental meditation.
Let’s not forget what “permission structure” was:
If you think of the electorate as meat robots that occasionally go out of order, rather than as people with agency, there’s a big chance that you are going to lose the election.
In answer to Marissa, who declaimed, “Timpon is a deluded and very weird guy. How TH did he become the MN governor?” He apparently appealed to and received the deluded, very weird guy vote.
AD…both are effete males cosplaying at a cartoonish version of machismo. Like Biden’s “take him out behind the woodshed” nonsense…
Think…Obama on a bike…throwing out the first pitch…playing basketball…the college photo with aviators a joint & panama hat.
Walz on a hunting trip…for goodness sake!…lucky no one got shot. Watching football…playing video games & his “Pick six”…puhleeze!
It’s all an act to hide from the fact that at a visceral level they have no bloody idea what men think or do…that’s it’s some secret “code” that they’ve deciphered means they haven’t got it at all.
It’s all an act to hide from the fact that at a visceral level they have no bloody idea what men think or do…that’s it’s some secret “code” that they’ve deciphered means they haven’t got it at all.
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Here are three men between the ages of 60 and 75 who have been married for 85 years in sum and have fathered six children. On the other hand, we have your imagination . Thanks for your wisdom.