Flotsam and Jetsam - 'Tampon' Tim's National Guard Problem Keeps Getting Worse

I took yesterday off, so some of these links may have a touch of mildew. Just brush it off and use them anyway. From NYPo, Chaplain of Tim Walz’s National Guard battalion calls VP pick ‘cowardly’ for abandoning unit. Beege Welborn at Hat Hair comments "This one is a WOWSAHS. I have vet friends sending this to me with, "Have you ever...?!" and I have to say, "No. YOICKS!"" Insty,  IT KEEPS GETTING WORSE Also at Hat Hair, Walz' Former Superior: He 'Quit' Rather Than Deploy, And Went Over My Head to Get Out. Matt Vespa at TownHall pretty to Watch a CNN Host Get Shut Down by JD Vance's Commanding Officer. Twitchy notes CNN Cut Short Interview With Tim Walz's Ex Unit Commander Because of 'Technical Difficulties'. John Sexton at Hat Hair, CNN's Brianna Keilar Lectures CNN's Brianna Keilar on Respecting JD Vance's Military Service.  At Da Caller,  JD Vance Calls Out CNN For Ignoring Own Guest, Covering For Tim Walz On Iraq Deployment Bree A Dail @breeadail, "Hi, @Tim_Walz and @KamalaHarris—Just wondering, did you also “misprint” your rank as Command Sergeant Major on your Congressional Challenge Coin?" James Lilek at Discourse discourses on America’s Midwestern Dad? "A Minnesotan looks at the Tim Walz phenomenon." Althouse, "The one year that Mr. Walz spent teaching English in southern China was the start of what would become a decades-long relationship with the country." NewsMax documents how Critics Claim Minnesota Schools in Decline Under Gov. Walz. Alfa News on 'Tampon' Tim, Commentary: Gov. Tim Walz’s radical approach to education "Gov. Walz has dramatically transformed the purpose of education in Minnesota. Academic achievement is no longer the primary goal." From Reason, Tim Walz Was a COVID-19 Tyrant. "The Minnesota governor actually defended the state's disastrous nursing home policies." Insty, introduces THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Who Is Tim Walz?

Matt Vespa hears a Top Biden Aide Knows Who Tanked Joe's 2024 Re-election Effort...and It's Not Obama, Pelosi. Althouse, "And I was concerned if I stayed in the race, that would be the topic — you’d be interviewing me about why did Nancy Pelosi say [something] … and I thought it’d be a real distraction..." "Garbled Joe Biden", quoted  by Ryan King at NYPo, even  "Biden admits he was pushed out of presidential race, name-drops Pelosi in first interview since exit" (NY Post)." Also, "In his mind, Harris replacing Biden, which of course Democrats thought was overdue and necessary, is a kind of pre stealing of the election." "Said Michael Barbaro, in the new episode of the NYT "Daily" podcast, "Inside The Worst Three Week’s Of Trump’s Campaign." Jonathan Swan, who's been covering the Trump campaign for the Times, says: "Exactly. And it's bewildering for Trump because the race that he thought he had no longer exists. He's facing someone who's 20 years younger who doesn't have trouble completing sentences, who actually has energized Democrats, who's drawing big crowds, who's moving up in the polls." At NewsMax, Sen. Schmitt to Newsmax: Harris Is Beneficiary of Coup. Jen Van Laar at RedState, BREAKING: Las Vegas Police Recordings Released From Biden's Medical Event and Code 3 Transport to Airport. “For everyone on the radio, right now POTUS is 421. He’s being seen, so we’re just kinda waiting to see how this is shaping out. So, for everybody’s knowledge, he’s 421 right now; we’re just trying to figure out what’s going on and we’re gonna go from there." Code 421 is a sick or injured person, according to LVMPD's code sheet." Hat Hair's Jazz Shaw, Biden: Can't Even Say How Old I Am. "The most charitable interpretation would be that he knows how incredibly old he is and he finds it difficult to say it aloud. It's left to the viewer to decide for themselves." Insty at his NYPo gig, Biden’s return to ‘normalcy’ brought us crazy instead — like Sam Brinton. At NewsMax, Rep. Waltz: Biden Probe to Persist, Despite Campaign Ending.

Terrence K. Williams@w_terrence, "Breaking. Kamala Harris just stole Trumps " NO TAX on TIPS " Proposal Everything about her is Fake!" Notice she says "hospitility workers." Jazz Shaw, notes Kamala Copying Trump's Platform Now, between rescinding her call for a fracking ban and the tax on tips. "We probably shouldn't fault Kamala Harris for stealing a couple of Trump's ideas here and there, however. After all, what else is she going to run on? Her record?" Jazz hears Kamala in Arizona: I Respect Your Pro-Hamas Voices and Are We Really Arguing Over Kamala's Cooking Videos? Sarah Arnold at TownHall, Kamala Harris Calls for Ceasefire As Anti-Israel Protestors Vow to Withhold Their Vote. Fox, Kamala Harris panned for requiring ID to enter Arizona rally after previously painting voter ID laws as racist. "Harris rallygoers outside Phoenix were required to present IDs upon entry." Harold Hutchinson at Da Caller, ‘She Had Control Over A Lot Of Our Border Policy’: Vance Spars With ABC Host Over Harris’ Role On Illegal Immigration. From the Center Square, State coalition calls on SCOTUS to rule against Biden-Harris in asylum case. At NYPo, Another member of Laken Riley murder suspect’s family linked to violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. From Althouse, "A small but significant slice of Black men have historically been hesitant to support Black women seeking the highest positions of power....", "Dr. Moya Bailey, a Northwestern University professor who coined the term 'misogynoir' to describe racist misogyny, said in an interview that while patriarchy is not unique to the Black population," and "The DJ at Vice President Kamala Harris’s recent rally in Philadelphia turned up the volume on Ludacris’s 'Move B----!'..." "It troubles me to think of it playing to a general audience full of women at a presidential campaign rally (even one that's trying to make a male candidate seem like the "bitch" the song is referring to)." At Maine Wire, Maine Gov’s Democrat Brother Admits ‘Republicans for Harris’ Organized by Harris Campaign. The Babylon Bee@TheBabylonBee, "Kamala Harris Spends Flight Looking For Cloud Where Her Data Is Stored."

Sarah Arnold claims a New Poll Spells More Bad News for Kamala Harris, but Althouse prefers the NYT, "Ms. Harris is ahead of Mr. Trump by four percentage points in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan, 50 percent to 46 percent..." "... among likely voters in each state. The surveys were conducted from Aug. 5 to 9.... On question after question, the poll finds that voters don’t seem to have major reservations about Kamala Harris, Nate Cohn writes." and "[Trump] has found the change disorienting, those who interact with him say. Mr. Trump had grown comfortable campaigning against an 81-year-old incumbent...", and The NYT finds joy in MAGAville. "I'm reading, "Kid Rock Threw the Party. MAGA Faithful Brought the Joy, Rage and Smirnoff Ice. A music festival headlined by the pro-Trump musician offered a snapshot of a maturing American subculture, with a mash-up of hedonism, rebellion and beer-guzzling pursuit of happiness" (NYT)."  NewsMax cites Trump: Harris Won't Do Interviews Because She's 'Dumb' and reports  Trump Stumps For Fmr SEAL in Montana, Rips Dem Sen. Tester. The Peacock claims Trump plans light campaign schedule as Harris, Walz and Vance barnstorm battlegrounds.

At Hat Hair, Again Vance Is So Quick on His Feet - No Wonder They Hate HIm. 

"I am interviewing you; not @KamalaHarris," says @DanaBashCNN in an effort to shield the #BorderCzar from criticism by @JDVance, so JD promptly turns that into an attack on Harris for not sitting for interviews 3 weeks after stealing the nomination from Biden.

Brilliant. https://t.co/FxwDkjznig

— Yossi Gestetner (@YossiGestetner) August 11, 2024

At NewsMax Vance Calls on Expanding Child Tax Credit to $5,000. Althouse, I don't watch the Sunday morning talk shows anymore — I used to watch them all! — but it's interesting to see who sits for these interviews. ". . . That's a lot of Vance, and there was no one from the Democratic side of the presidential campaign. For the Democrats, there were only 2 Senators (Klobuchar & Sanders), the Governor of Kansas, the Transportation Secretary, and a member of the House of Representatives. Why can't we hear from the Democratic campaign? They're still putting their ideas together and ironing out past inconsistencies? Are they in no shape to face serious questions? Or do they simply see that they're doing awfully well running on "joy" and not-Biden-not-Trumpness so there's no reason to change."

SAN, Youngkin says he wants to protect elections with latest executive order. At NYPo, Election officials in all 50 states urged to halt non-citizen voter registration: ‘Time to act is now’. Luke Rosiak at Da Wire reports Free Speech Alliance Warns Big Tech Not to Interfere In 2024 Election

"In the 2020 election, we saw tech platforms bamboozled into performing extreme acts of censorship," group says. You know they will. 

Da Caller, Secret Service Reportedly Apologizes To Salon Owner After Duct-Tapping Cameras, Breaking In, During Kamala Harris Event. 

Jeff Carter at Points and Figures, The Onslaught, Media's Full Court Press "Over the past couple of weeks, there has been a coordinated effort by the media, and especially in social media, to show that Kamala Harris is popular and can beat Trump. It’s designed to break the spirit of Trump voters who were very fired up after the botched assassination attempt. They want you to think there is no chance and you should stay quiet and especially stay home." At mrcFreeSpeech, Read How Politico and Bloomberg Opinion Whored Themselves Out to Biden-Harris WH.

CA Skeet at PJM is concerned that Britain Is Now a Totalitarian State. Brad Palumbo at WaEx sees The UK descends into dystopian levels of censorship. PC Mag, X Reportedly Refusing to Remove Posts the UK Deems Threat to National Security. "Meta, Google, and TikTok take down posts that have led to real-world violence, but X pushes back as Elon Musk tweets insults at the UK's prime minister and posts 'civil war is inevitable.'" Melissa Chen@MsMelChen, "Let me get this straight: Keir Starmer is releasing violent criminals from prison just to replace them with people who commit thought crimes on @X. And he is spending police resources investigating and going after people for retweets and Facebook posts when there is a shitload of violent crime all over Britain." Gad Saad@GadSaad, "What we are seeing is precisely why the West was such an anomaly in the history of mankind. Specifically, the reflex to suppress speech with which the rulers/elite disagree is the default reflex, and we are seeing a return to it. The West is facing the classic Herculean fork in the road. Take the easy or hard road in defending free speech."

"[Elon] Musk is trying to pretend freedom of speech as some absolute right. It's never been an absolute right." Keir Starmer's biographer Tom Baldwin says there should be more regulation of social media #Newsnight pic.twitter.com/CwiUmvsEek

— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) August 9, 2024

John Hawkins at Culturcidal asks If You Can Change Genders Just by Deciding You Can, What Else Can You Decide?

The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: It Could Have Been Worse up at The Other McCain.