JOY!

Joy?

First Joe Biden and now Tim Walz. Both are serial liars. Maybe that is why Harris picked Walz having gotten used to being around someone who has difficulty telling the truth. Although some like our own Tim Burchett have labelled Harris as the “DEI vice president” the same applies to Walz. Isn’t it interesting that Harris apparently was instructed to pick only a white middle aged man as VP? Never mind that Michelle Obama or Amy Klobuchar or Julian Castro would have been stronger running mates and have greater appeal that Walz. There is nothing appealing about Walz no matter how hard the media tries to embellish him. What’s that saying about putting lipstick on a pig? Being an unpaid assistant high school football coach is not generally a resume enhancement regardless of what MSNBC says. Lying about military service, saying that he was a retired command sergeant major when he wasn’t, saying your wife used IVF to conceive when she didn’t, claiming being named Outstanding Young Nebraskan when he wasn’t, saying that he taught in China through a Harvard program when he didn’t, saying that he carried an AR-15 in war when he never was in combat (AR-15s are not used in war zones), and lying about a drunk driving are some of his lies. 

In his acceptance speech he also lied saying that Trump wanted to pass a law banning abortion nationwide, that Trump endorsed the Project 2025, that Trump wanted to repeal Obamacare and “gut” Social Security and Medicare. Of course, the media coverage gushed over his speech calling it “fiery”, “emotional”, “heartfelt”, “impassioned” and “rocking”. When I googled “Tim Walz acceptance speech lies”, the first 25 references all were fawning articles on how wonderful a speech it was. None mentioned his lying. Then the fact checking articles were left leaning explaining away his lies. Those were followed by a series of articles detailing “20 lies told by Trump” in his acceptance speech! Mind you, I googled Tim Walz not Donald Trump. Finally, google listed articles from Red State and the New York Post on Walz’s continued lying. Recall that the Washington Post turned off its fact checker after 100 days into the Biden Administration. I guess Biden broke it. Well the fact checker will remain off for the democrats during this campaign and into the future. Sure, politicians lie. Biden made it into an art and the media ignored it. They are doing the same with Walz. To date, they have left Harris alone. Perhaps its because she says so little of substance.

From all accounts the democrat’s convention had Trump Derangement Syndrome on full display with each speaker hurling insults at the former (and likely future) president – and sometimes at JD Vance. Has there been another political convention that has done that? Perhaps all of this was intended to spark a reactive retort from Trump whose track record had been to trade insult for insult.

The overriding theme of the convention was “joy”. Was it joy that Biden had been ousted? Again I wonder how much money did the democrat billionaires have to give Biden to make him go away. Was it joy that the leftists, the Bernie Bros had finally triumphed and taken over the party? Nonetheless, the outpouring of joy seemed a bit strange for a crowd that are the most joyless people in the country.

Regardless of all the efforts to transform Harris into a credible candidate and excuses made for Walz’s lies, if they get elected they will make Biden’s policies look like Reagan’s. The four years of damage done to the economy, done in foreign affairs and done to the social fabric of the country under Biden will be amplified under Harris. We will soon see if you can fool most of the people most of the time. 

As to joy, I am reminded of Frankie Beverley and Maze’s, Joy and Pain. 

“Remember when you first found love, how you felt so good 
The kind that last forevermore so you thought it would 
Suddenly the things you see got you hurt so bad, so bad 
How come the things that make us happy, make us sad?

Joy and pain are like sunshine and rain 
Joy and pain are like sunshine and rain”

The left’s manufactured joy will surely bring pain.