Irish swimmer Daniel Wiffen made waves with his performance at the 2024 Olympic games in Paris. The 23-year-old took home two medals, including gold in the men’s 800m freestyle and bronze in the 100m event. But before millions watched him as an Olympian, he’d already performed on many of their TVs, and they didn’t even know it. Game of Thrones was an extremely popular show on HBO for eight seasons. Daniel’s sister, Elizabeth Wiffen, landed the role of Neyela Frey in season three. And while he wasn’t allowed to watch the show, he was allowed to be an extra during one of the series’ most well-known episodes, Red Wedding. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Daniel Wiffen (@daniel.wiffen) True to its title, the episode was particularly gory, but Daniel didn’t mind. “So she came in and did her bit and then we came in for the Red Wedding, in the background, which was pretty cool,” he told Olympics.com in 2022. Despite Starring In “Game Of Thrones,” Daniel Set His Sights On Olympic Swimming Daniel also appeared as an extra Netflix’s The Frankenstein Chronicles in 2015. But he found his passion in the pool. Daniel’s Olympic gold medal was the first for Northern Ireland in 36 years, more than a decade before his birth. The swimmer was thrilled with his accomplishment. “To be honest, the 800m surprised me at the start of the week,” he shared with BBC Sport. “Coming into this race I was ready. I completely was in the right shape to go a lot faster than the world record but that’s just swimming — some days you have it, some days you don’t.”  A gold medal wasn’t even on his radar. He added, “If you’d told me I’d get a bronze medal at the start of the week, I’d be over the moon.” he continued.  “Now I’m coming away with gold and a bronze. It’s kind of special.” Daniel’s Olympic run isn’t over. He will swim again on August 9 in the men’s open 10k final. This story’s featured image is by kovop via Shutterstock. The post This Olympic Gold Medalist First Found Fame On “Game Of Thrones” appeared first on InspireMore.

'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!