'So I pointed my gun at him'

What a crazy scene

'We verify'

'More to worry about, so uncertainty's up'

'The attorney general appointed me'

'I could see the grooming that went on'

This week, Kamala Harris chose her vice presidential running mate. She could have picked the wildly popular, semi-moderate swing-state governor from Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro. Shapiro has a 62% approval rating in the state, which is ranked by Nate Silver as the most important election bellwether. Shapiro is charismatic, smart, and bridges the gap between radical Democratic social policy and heterodox moderate views on education and Israel. Instead, she chose the radical leftist candidate from the non-swing state of Minnesota who presided over the burning down of Minneapolis during the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020. Interesting choice. Shapiro seemed to be the obvious pick. But there was one overriding problem with Shapiro in the age of “the Squad”: Josh Shapiro is a Jew. And there will be no Jewish vice president for Kamala Harris. All of which tells you a lot about Kamala Harris, as both a candidate and as a person. As a candidate, she’s a coward. She is in commanding position within her own party—a party desperate to prevent a loss to the dreaded scourge of Donald Trump. The base is once again enthused about her, despite her dreadful electoral history, mainly because they no longer have to pretend enthusiasm for the moldering corpse of President Joe Biden. Her own approval ratings have ticked up from the mid-30s to the low-50s. Whereas only 58% of black voters said they would definitely vote in July—when Biden was the nominee—now, some 74% say they will vote. Instead of trailing Trump by several points, Harris now leads him by a slim margin nationally, and is within the margin of error in all of the swing states. Yet Harris is terrified of the pro-Hamas contingent within her own party—the people who are chanting in solidarity with Hezbollah on campus, who declaim their enthusiasm for the cause of a Palestinian population that by polling data, supports terrorism and murder by an 8-2 margin. Harris is frightened of a messy Democratic National Convention, in which Hamas flags fly while American flags are burned. She wanted to paper over her party’s dyspepsia on Israel—and she couldn’t have a Jew on the ticket. Because the rift in the Democratic Party isn’t truly about Israel: Tim Walz, her actual VP pick, has positions on Israel nearly identical to those of Shapiro. It’s about one thing and one thing only: Josh Shapiro is a Jew—and a significant segment of her base doesn’t like Jews. That’s true gutlessness. And then there’s Harris as a person. Harris wants to portray herself as a moderate. She wants to jettison her prior political positions for the sake of winning, hoping that the media will continue to allow her to escape all scrutiny. Yet when it came down to it, she chose the Marxist from Minnesota—a man who has said that “one person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness”—over the moderate from Pennsylvania. She hasn’t been captured by the radicals in her party. She is a radical. She always was. Her entire record says so. She herself has said so. The Walz pick was comfortable for her because she is more comfortable with Walz’s extremism than with Shapiro’s pseudo-moderation. So, what should Harris’ pick tell us, in the end? That she’s a radical, and that she’s a coward. That she will always, when given the opportunity, side with the most extreme in her party—and that she is afraid enough of them that she’s willing to engage in the most cynical bigotry in order to curry their favor. That’s the kind of person who certainly should not be president of the United States. COPYRIGHT 2024 CREATORS.COM Editor’s note: Ben Shapiro and Josh Shapiro are not related. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post How Not to Pick a Jew for Vice President appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Here's Why the Antisemitic Wing of the Democratic Party Is Thrilled With Walz

Tim Walz, the newly named Democratic candidate for vice president, got torched online after a video resurfaced where he appeared to undermine free speech rights. "I think we need to push back on this. There's no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and especially around our democracy,” said Walz in the eight-second clip widely circulated on social media.The contextThe short clip was cut from an interview on MSNBC from December where Walz is discussing speech used to influence the previous election. The interviewer asked him about efforts in the election to fool voters that were previously considered "shenanigans" but were becoming more "ominous," as she described it. "Years ago it was the little things, telling people to vote the day after the election, and you know, we kinda brushed them off. Now we know it's intimidation at the ballot box. It's undermining the idea that mail-in ballots aren't legal," responded Walz. 'This is a dangerous—and constitutionally illiterate—idea. If the First Amendment only protects 'true' speech, then the govt gets to decide what is true.'"I think we need to push back on this. There's no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and especially around our democracy,” he added. "Tell the truth, where the voting places are, who can vote, who's able to be there, and watching some states continue to weaken the protections around the ballot I think is what's inspiring us to lean into this."Walz was referring to the prosecution of Douglass Mackey, who ran a pro-Trump account that posted a meme misinforming Democrat voters in the 2016 election. He was sentenced to seven months in prison in what many on the right criticized as a politically motivated infringement on free speech. The backlash Many rushed to criticize Walz for siding against free speech even when it can be categorized as hate speech or misinformation. "This is a dangerous—and constitutionally illiterate—idea. If the First Amendment only protects 'true' speech, then the govt gets to decide what is true. That means there is no free speech," replied Jason Bedrick of Heritage Foundation. "This is, in fact, misinformation and disturbing. But pretty on brand for a guy on a D ticket. Hope the high schoolers got out of his class without this lecture!" said commentator Mary Katharine Ham. "Apparently, he was a social studies teacher. To be fair, this absolutely tracks with the quality of that one class in high school they made the football coach teach," responded writer Emily Zanotti. "This is who Tim Walz really is. An angry unpleasant communist. He's not this smiley, cheerful 'dad' they are pushing on us," read another response. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A 19-year-old terror suspect who pledged allegiance to ISIS was arrested Wednesday morning in Austria over an alleged attack plot targeting now-canceled Taylor Swift shows this week in Vienna. A second suspect in the alleged plot, who also reportedly radicalized himself online, was arrested later in the day, ABC News reported.The 19-year-old has 'North Macedonian roots' and 'lived with his family in Ternitz' and was arrested 'under strong suspicion of terrorism,' according to the Los Angeles Times, which cited Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung.The 19-year-old — an Austrian citizen — allegedly pledged allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State in the beginning of July and was particularly focused on Swift's concerts, ABC News said, citing Franz Ruf, director-general for public safety in the Ministry of the Interior.Swift's shows scheduled for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at the Ernst-Happel-Stadion in Vienna were canceled Wednesday, the Associated Press reported. Each show was expected to draw 65,000, ABC News noted. Event organizer Barracuda Music said in an Instagram post that “we have no choice but to cancel the three scheduled shows for everyone’s safety," the AP added.Amid the 19-year-old's arrest, a bomb squad allegedly found chemical substances, NBC News said, adding that investigators are working to determine whether the substances could have been used to build a bomb.The 19-year-old has "North Macedonian roots” and “lived with his family in Ternitz" and was arrested “under strong suspicion of terrorism,” according to the Los Angeles Times, which cited Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung. Ternitz is around 43 miles south of Vienna, the Times added.Anything else?It's far from clear whether there's any connection to Wednesday's arrests, but none of the aforementioned news outlets mentioned the deadly July 29 mass stabbing at a Taylor Swift-themed children's dance class in Southport, England, during which a 17-year-old male killed three and injured numerous other victims. Officials initially said there was no evidence that terrorism was a motive for the attack, which angered many who accused the government of covering up evidence. Police identified suspect Axel Rudakubana and charged him with three counts of murder and 10 counts of attempted murder. Officials identified him as being from Cardiff but also noted that his parents are Rwandan.Unrest and violence erupted the day after the stabbings and has spread across the United Kingdom. Prime Minister Keir Starmer denounced the violence and blamed "far-right thuggery." Radio host Glenn Beck, co-founder of Blaze Media, on Tuesday opined that "two-tier justice" — in which police more or less ignore Muslim immigrant crime but come down hard on non-Muslims — has been laid bare in the U.K. in the wake of the deadly knife attack.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!