Walzing along

I’ve said before that I really don’t want to talk about politics too much on here, but the closer we get to that election I fear I’ll have less choice about that… anyway, we should note that Tim Walz has finally been picked as Harris’ running mate, and people are quite happy about this; from what I can see, he actually seems like a proper decent human being and popular with his constituents (which seems to be much less the case with his competitors for the VP role), plus he pretty much kicked off the whole “weird” thing which I suspect must’ve at least helped his chances. Plus, on top of cracking a couch joke at JD Vance—sorry, J. Divans—at his first public appearance, there was this:

Yikes. But Tim was taking no prisoners even before he was in contention:

WOOF (if you’ll pardon the expression). That’s from April before the current bullshit had even started. The story of Kristi Noem and her erstwhile dog (and goat) was one of the least edifying things to come out of the whole election cycle, and though I didn’t see this response at the time, it certainly strikes me now as an excellent one. Needless to say, the Dampnutters are getting not so much weird as just psychotic about him; it seems the best they can come up with is a Twitter hashtag called #TamponTim, inspired by his having passed a law mandating that tampons, pads, and that sort of thing should be freely available in Minnesota schools at no charge to whoever needs them. The nominal outrage, obviously, is that these things have to be available to all “menstruating” students, including ones that use the little boys’ room, so it’s basically the usual right-wing transphobia… and like I said, this appears to be the best they can come up with, other than this:

Oh no, not convicted felons! Good grief, if he gets away with that, Dampnut will be able to vote!

I have no doubt he’ll wind up being problematic eventually, cos I don’t think you can get that high in American politics without that happening at some point, but Walz seems like an actual Good Guy, not just someone who’s Not As Bad As Those Other Fuckers. Obviously the hardcore leftists won’t be satisfied with anything short of total revolution, cos they never are, but generally the buzz about him (except from Those Other Fuckers, obviously) is positive. Indeed, in real terms, I think we’re actually seeing a revolution of sorts; as I saw someone say online, it’s only about six weeks since the debate debacle, and it was only on the 21st of last month that Biden finally conceded in favour of Harris, and all this stuff has happened in just those few weeks, and somehow we’ve reached a point where we actually can be positive about this election working out. I just hope they don’t blow it.