Thank fucking god honestly. Shapiro pick would have been a nightmare regardless of your thoughts on voting. An arch-zionist who volunteered for the IOF one assassination away from the presidency.
Also literally helped cover up a Murder and had sexual harassment allegations in his office. I wouldn't be surprised if that played more of a role than the zionism.
I mean let's be honest the zionism didn't play a role
the zionism was a positive in the regime's eyes
Yeah that's exactly why I was sure they would pick him. Astonishing to see the Dems not go with the worst, dumbest option available to try to appeal to the worst people in the country.
It's so funny that they are going to handily beat trump by simply not making the exact worst decision possible at every turn (like second or third worst maybe idk).
Such a contrast from picking Clinton and Biden twice.
He's an astonishingly bad and unpopular candidate, and losing to him once (plus almost losing again) required Mission Impossible levels of threading the bad planning and performance needles. It would be super funny if they just blew him out of the water by making a few choices that weren't the worst available options and calling him weird a few times.
Yeah, Walz is far from a lefty candidate, but given the track record of the dems, I thought when it came down to him and Shapiro, they would make the same bad choice they've made basically my entire life. Not a victory by any stretch, but at least not the worst option for a change.
Look it's probably the best outcome possible for the Dems.
As communists the result of this election simply alters the nature of the fight, not the difficulty, but this makes all our enemies mad and may wrest some small concessions so it's fun. Let's just enjoy the moment.
I'm celebrating that Shapiro did not get the nod. That's a win in my book.
Hmm, they're actually trying to win and it seems like Trump is kinda floundering currently. 3 months left but it's looking up for Kamala. 
Trump's campaign has the same vibe currently as an AI-generated crypto meme. Not sure how else to describe it.
Bro Trump got on aiden ross's stream He is cooked 💀
Adding Ross fans are not old enough to vote lmao
They call him Adding Ross because his demo has yet to reach the multiplication and division section of their math course.
Lmao fuckin gottem
I think this might actually be good news. Not because Waltz is better than Shapiro electorally (although he is, by a lot) because I'm not exactly super invested in Kamala winning, but I have a glimmer of hope this might be a positive signal for the direction of her foreign policy. Netanyahu is trying to start a regional war and to lock any future US administration into that war. Picking the turbo-Zionist Shapiro would have been an unmistakable signal that a future Harris administration would follow Netanyahu into that war. Snubbing him for a more moderate/progressive pick potentially signals a willingness to break from Israeli positions.
And again, not that I'm rooting super hard for Kamala, but it is notable to see democrats not picking the option that divides their base and puts them on the defensive when everything was going their way. Shapiro has multiple glaring liabilities- comparing anti-genocide protesters to the KKK, supporting Charter schools, possibly covering up the murder of his major donor's fiance- and if they picked him, they would have had to scold their voters into shutting up while Republicans gleefully pounced on him. I'm so used to democrats shooting themselves in the foot and going into scold-mode that it's actually sort of noteworthy when they don't.
Yeah, I agree entirely. It is at least a sign that she may have a real threshold when it comes to support for Israel, which is probably about the best we can hope for from the Democrats. Picking Shapiro would have been a signal that she is all in on the genocide, so it's at least worth celebrating that she went another way. I don't really expect this to turn into meaningful support for Palestine, but it does at least represent a step back from total bloodthirsty support of Israel, which is what we've gotten with Biden (and which is increasingly unpopular with the Democratic voters). As you said, maybe it at least means she wouldn't fall in line with Israel attempting to subjugate an entire region of the planet.
deep condolences to comrade @Frank@hexbear.net who has lived under the the Walz regime
Whoever said Kamala is doing a Keir Starmer speedrun I think hit the nail on the head
I welcome Tim Walz, it's a sensible choice, a moderate approach, but I implore the Democrats to go further. Walz should invite JD Vance to drink from the puddle to prove which one of them is the least gay
Love me a super-progressive ticket where both candidates are in bed with gig economy ghouls and enjoy siccing the police state on people. Can't wait to hear how excited my 
friends are!
(This was the lesser of four evils, or however many people she had on her shortlist, and it's still a guy who teargassed his largest city. The Democrats, folks!)
a guy who teargassed his largest city
did a lot more than tear gas tbh
True. Would like to see a comparison between the worst abuses of the National Guard in Minnesota and Trump's Bible photo-op.
I'm still kind of surprised they didn't go with Liz Cheney or something. Didn't Matty Y float Mitt Romney? That's the level of decision making I've come to expect from the Democrats.
Fun fact: Kamala is only 6 months younger than Walz
The mandatory Midwestern diet of exclusively honey ham and corn is not conducive to aging gracefully.
This is one of most popular posts on Bluesky.
with a wine mom and a public school dad on the ticket you can really think of this year's democratic ballot as the ultimate triumph of resistance libs
https://subium.com/profile/jbouie.bsky.social/post/3kz2jirwarc2a
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It's only ~1 hour old and it has 2.8k likes which is quite a lot for that site. I bet the post will surely become the most popular in a 24 hour period.
One of the better picks, far better than Shapiro.
I honestly thought there was a pretty good chance it was going to be Mark Kelly.
God watching 2016 round 2 is gunna be devastating for the libs in here..
The outcome should be extremely funny either way. Either they beat Trump handily and both Trump and Hillary Clinton immediately explode, or 2016 2 happens and libs immediately explode. Looking at lots of the world's worst people being super mad no matter what happens.
I'm looking forward to Jan 6th 2, personally.
It's the libs this time and they just go "how dare you sir" when they get to the capitol hill and a cop curb stomps a kid that was there by accident.
Kelly made more sense imo. He could totally take the wind out of the Republicans' sails on the attempted Trump assassination because he's married to Gabby Giffords and she got way worse than a free industrial ear piercing, and they could go on the attack on gun control and make it personal. (I know the Dems would never go on the attack other than "sir have you no decency" and "he did document stuff wrong" but still)
I think most people have forgotten about the assassination thing already tbh
It's wild how fast that dropped out of the news and public discourse. Nobody seems to give a shit that he came within millimeters of having his head blown off on live TV, which is super funny.
I did everything right, and they shot at meeeee
I feel like he would be a good pick in another year but at this stage of the game Walz’s clipability and charisma (the “weird” things) are probably a better choice.
Plus, all those Midwestern states that used to be called "the blue firewall" are up in the air these days. If he can help secure Minnesota, Michigan, and Wisconsin for Kamala, that's a big edge for them.
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