Watch: Walz FLEES From Reporters Who Confronted Him Over Stolen Valor Allegations
Kamala Harris’ running mate Gov. Tim Walz (Minn.) refused to respond to reporters asking him about allegations of stolen valor.
After landing in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, for a campaign stop on Wednesday, reporters asked him to address allegations of stolen valor, but were ignored.
Walz instead shook hands before quickly walking off the tarmac with Harris and her entourage.
REPORTER: Your response to allegation of stolen valor?
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 7, 2024
WALZ: *ignores*
REPORTER: Your response to allegation of stolen valor!?
WALZ: *runs away* pic.twitter.com/el3sPGDYuM
Walz stoked controversy after bragging about his service in the National Guard before it was revealed he chose to leave his unit on the eve of his deployment to Iraq in 2003.
Thomas Behrends, a Guardsman who commanded Walz’s unit, lambasted the Minnesota governor in a 2018 letter as a “coward” for abandoning his post.
“I needed to hit the ground running and take care of the troops — and tell them we were going to war,” Behrends said of the 500 soldiers under his command. “For a guy in that position to quit is cowardice.”
“When your country calls, you are supposed to run into battle — not the other way,” the retired command sergeant major said. “He ran away. It’s sad.”
“He had the opportunity to serve his country, and said ‘screw you’ to the United States. That’s not who I would pick to run for vice-president,” he added.
Walz has also attempted to use his service to call for gun control and misled voters by suggesting he actually saw battle, which he did not.
“We can make sure those weapons of war, that I carried in war, are only carried in war” – Tim Walz
— Mrgunsngear (@Mrgunsngear) August 6, 2024
What’s more disturbing about what Tim Walz says here?
1. Gov. Walz never went to war yet clearly said he did
2. Gov Walz is a far left gun grabber#TamponTimmy #TimWalz… pic.twitter.com/P7gK6l5qbt
Even CNN was forced to call out Walz’s dishonest talking points.
CNN: It’s “ABSOLUTELY FALSE” that Tim Walz ever “carried” weapons on the battlefield — an outrageous lie he has repeatedly told.
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 7, 2024
Walz abandoned his National Guard battalion just before they were deployed to Iraq. pic.twitter.com/jlTXlRLn8N
Walz’s refusal to answer reporters’ questions does seem on brand for the Democratic ticket given Harris also hasn’t answered a single question or conducted any interviews since the Democrat Party coronated her as its presidential nominee 17 days ago.
Meanwhile, Trump running mate J.D. Vance engaged with reporters covering Harris‘ and Walz’s arrival in Wisconsin after landing on the same tarmac, trolling them over their conspicuous refusal to answer questions.
Compilation: MSM Gushes Over ‘Cuddly’ Tim Walz
Establishment media in lockstep unison disseminated new leftist talking points on Kamala Harris’ running mate Minn. Gov. Tim Walz, characterizing him as a “cuddly” dad figure who’s definitely not weird.
A new mega-compilation shows mainstream media apparatchiks gushing over Walz and conditioning their audiences to view him as their new best buddy – and despite putting tampons in boy’s bathrooms, he’s totally not weird.
The Lamestream media got their psyop talking points for Walz ? pic.twitter.com/grZXa3XjfZ
— Karli Bonne’ ?? (@KarluskaP) August 6, 2024
The video shows several media figures on CNN and other leftist outlets describing Walz as “cuddly,” with one media commentator claiming he has a “twinkle in his eye.”
Others have observed Dems are trying to paint Walz as someone “folksy” who possesses “big dad energy.”
Do Democrats issue journalists with talking points? Here’s another “big dad energy” puff piece on Walz. It also praises him for “sarcasm, booming aggression, sudden, sharp mockery” – the very qualities that make Trump obnoxious.
— John Robson (@thejohnrobson) August 7, 2024
https://t.co/8OaOJmckcY
Hey, did you know that Tim Walz has a “folksy demeanor?” pic.twitter.com/iThqf2gaVX
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) August 6, 2024
Democrats would like the public to forget they just orchestrated one of the greatest coups of all time by replacing Joe Biden with the unelected VP Kamala Harris, but soon the festering stench of their corrupt misdeeds is bound to boil to the surface.
Official White House Social Media: “Ban Assault Weapons, It’s Time”
The White House X account posted, “It’s time,” on Wednesday alongside an image reading, “Ban Assault Weapons.”
It’s time. pic.twitter.com/1ka7V2V77a
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) August 7, 2024
The alarming post was thrashed online, with commenters roasting the Biden-Harris White House for hoping to destroy the Second Amendment.
One X user pointed out the irony that Harris’ running mate Tim Walz drove tens of thousands of his constituents to buy “assault rifles” in response to the deadly BLM riots of 2020 that destroyed major Minnesota cities under his watch.
Ironically as Tim Walz cries about banning “assault weapons” you know what sold millions of ARs to first time buyers over the last few years? Them watching Minneapolis burn and realizing the idea the state would protect them was a sham. https://t.co/fIT3bVWnfF
— Larry Correia (@monsterhunter45) August 7, 2024
A Fed Rate Cut Will Not Solve Our Economic Problems
Last Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the unemployment rate had jumped to 4.3% in July. The pace at which unemployment is rising matches the speed often found in the early stages of a recession — an indicator known as the Sahm Rule. The triggering of the Sahm Rule sparked a panic in the stock market that only grew at the start of this week after other economies, especially in East Asia, experienced even sharper downturns.
Many establishment-friendly economists and political figures are dismissing concerns that the surge in unemployment and resulting scare on Wall Street represent a recession. However, some are clearly worried.
Senator Elizabeth Warren, for instance, used the jobs data to restate her argument that the Fed is waiting too long to cut rates. She said Fed Chair Jerome Powell “risks driving the economy into a ditch,” and that he “needs to cancel his summer vacation and cut rates now.”
Paul Krugman has been making the same point. Last Friday, he called the Fed’s reluctance to cut rates already “a big oopsie” that the central bank needs to reverse fast to “head off” a recession.
Although both couch their calls for rate cuts in language that suggests it may already be too late, there is still acceptance of the idea that the Fed can prevent a recession. All our monetary central planners must do is recognize the wisdom of Warren and Krugman and lower the interest rate by exactly half a percent in their next meeting, and the good times will continue.
In truth, if we’re ever going to see the end of these debilitating boom-bust cycles, what we need are not lower rates or higher rates. What we need are accurate interest rates.
Interest rates are prices. And so, like any other price, they are determined by people’s preferences. In this case, the factor in question is called time preference. Every human always prefers satisfaction in the present to the same exact satisfaction in the future. That is a fact central to the entire concept of human action. However, the extent to which we prefer present gratification over future satisfaction differs from person to person.
For some – mainly children – immediate gratification is highly preferred to delayed gratification, even when that delayed gratification is much larger. These people have a high time preference. Typically, as we become adults, we come to recognize that if we partially withhold from consumption, we can often bring about significantly more satisfaction by helping to produce more goods and services that can be consumed and/or traded in the future. Those who forgo a lot of instant gratification to pursue delayed gratification are said to have a low time preference.
A similar evolution happens on a civilizational scale. As Hans-Hermann Hoppe details in A Short History of Man, early humans lived nomadically because they were forced to move to a new area when the supply of food and other resources dried up. Adopting tools and hunting strategies allowed early humans to catch bigger game, but they still existed in a state of high time preference by our modern standards.
That remained essentially constant until the Neolithic Revolution around 11,500 years ago, when humans started to recognize that they could produce more food than they could hunt or gather if they grew crops and raised livestock. The adoption of these practices also led to institutions like private property and the family as a homogenous unit. And, before long, they freed up people to pursue trades unrelated to gathering food — like metalworking, architecture, and philosophy.
As human production expanded, more and more present needs could be met, leading to more investment in production for future consumption. Economies grew, civilizations developed, and time preferences fell. The next big acceleration came in the early 1800s with the Industrial Revolution. Advancements in energy made production significantly more efficient. The result is the developed world we have today. It’s important to recognize that the fall in time preference was not merely a symptom of the development of human civilization but a leading cause.
Interest rates are prices that serve as the closest proximation for a society’s time preference. They are the premiums charged for acquiring future money in the present. And, for almost all of human history, they have tracked nicely with the ten-thousand-year fall in time preference explained above, that is, until governments started artificially manipulating interest rates.
Thanks to central banking and the politicization of money, governments today control interest rates by expanding or restricting the supply of new money and credit entering the loan market. Like anything, an increase in the supply of loanable funds drives the interest rate — or price — down, and vice versa.
But there is a big difference between interest rates that are lowered by an increase in people’s willingness to save and invest in production and rates cut artificially by political authorities. The former frees up resources to be used in the new lines of production. The latter does not.
And, not only does an artificially-lowered interest rate trick producers into acting as if there are more resources available for production than there are — generating the boom-bust cycle we find ourselves in the middle of — it also incentivizes people to consume more than they otherwise would, because the rate of return for saving and investing is now lower.
This means that by artificially lowering interest rates, governments are reversing the progress made over the last ten thousand years as humans learned to use foresight and to value production over the easiest form of instant gratification. The hyper-consumerism and economic chaos that pervades our society is precisely what results when governments artificially lower interest rates — the very policy Warren and Krugman are desperately calling for the Fed to enact yet again.
If our economy is ever going to heal, interest rates must be brought back in line with people’s actual time preferences. Like any true price, a pure market interest rate won’t always be stable because reality isn’t always stable. But if we want to see an end to perpetual recessions and debt-fueled mass consumption, we need to stop listening to those who benefit from the current system of centrally-planned interest rates. We need a return to accurate interest rates, which have helped encourage and coordinate the production of a better future for thousands of years.
Economist Warns Warren Buffett Deliberately Triggered Stock Market Crash— Major Collapse Imminent
Israeli Soldiers Filmed Anally Raping Palestinian Hostage, Media Defends Heinous Act & Calls For State-Sanctioned Molestation!
Disturbing footage going viral worldwide shows the moment IDF soldiers raped a Palestinian detainee at the Sde Teiman detention facility while other Israeli fighters stood guard.
Nine Israeli soldiers were arrested for rape last month.
The individual who was molested allegedly suffered a “torn rectum, broken ribs and ruptured bowels.”
???? NEW: Newly released footage shows “the most moral” IDF using shields while r*ping a Palestinian at the Sde Teiman torture camp
— HOT SPOT (@HotSpotHotSpot) August 7, 2024
He was found hospitalized with injuries including a torn rectum, broken ribs, and ruptured bowels
Accusation ? Projection! pic.twitter.com/mVT84keTQ4
Despite the footage being released, military police clashed with soldiers when they entered the detention center to make arrests.
Jewish Terrorists attacking their own IDF after some of them got detained for gang raping Palestinian prisoners.
— Syrian Girl ?? (@Partisangirl) July 29, 2024
This is you ” Israel “.
This your real rape.
Non of it on Oct 7th. pic.twitter.com/MfoW9hsnX6
An Israeli media pundit named Yehuda Schlesinger told a panel he doesn’t “give a rat’s ass” about the IDF raping Palestinian hostages.
“The only problem for me here is that it’s not a regulated policy of the state to abuse the detainees… They deserve it, and it’s great revenge that we need to give them.”
He also claimed raping prisoners could “serve us a little more as a deterrent” and pushed the narrative that Hamas tied 30 Israeli women to trees, raped and killed them in the infamous October 7th attack.
There is no proof any of the women were molested during the October terrorist assault.
Schlesinger continued, “It’s just a shame we don’t do it in an institutionalized way, as part of regulations for torture of prisoners.”
???? After getting caught r*ping a Palestinian detainee, Israeli television is making the case that nothing is off the table and that the IDF should act with impunity
— HOT SPOT (@HotSpotHotSpot) August 7, 2024
“I don’t give a rat’s ass what they do to Hamas man” https://t.co/LNZUr70BBi pic.twitter.com/a8VcEzJeIT
Top American journalist Glenn Greenwald commented on the news segment via X, writing, “What this Israeli is actually arguing on mainstream Israeli television is that not only does he support anal rape on detainees as an appropriate form or revenge and torture, but that the only thing he laments is that the Israeli state isn’t using anal rape more systematically.”
What this Israeli is actually arguing on mainstream Israeli television is that not only does he support anal rape on detainees as an appropriate form or revenge and torture, but that the only thing he laments is that the Israeli state isn’t using anal rape more systematically. https://t.co/lXb0tDKV3i
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) August 7, 2024
United States State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said during a Wednesday news briefing there is no justification for the sexual assault of detainees.
The fact that many Israelis are defending the rape of their captured enemies highlights just how much hatred is embedded in the long-lasting Middle East feud.
Vance Trolls Kamala: Trump VP Lands on Same Tarmac as Harris, Takes Questions From Reporters Covering Her Arrival
Trump running mate J.D. Vance trolled Kamala Harris on Wednesday during a campaign stop in Wisconsin after landing on the same tarmac as the presumptive Democrat nominee and approaching reporters covering her arrival.
After landing in Eau Claire shortly after Harris arrived in Air Force Two, Vance was seen walking over to her plane to interact with a gaggle of reporters covering the vice president’s visit.
Just landed in Wisconsin and JD Vance and Kamala Harris’ plane are both here on the tarmac — he appears to be walking over… pic.twitter.com/zgHnfeQFJK
— Shelby Talcott (@ShelbyTalcott) August 7, 2024
pic goes hard ⚡️⚡️⚡️ pic.twitter.com/yXhCq0EkUE
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 7, 2024
Standing in front of Air Force Two with Kamala nowhere in sight, Vance told reporters they looked “lonely” because Harris hasn’t answered their questions since she was coronated as the Democrat presidential nominee 17 days ago.
“Hopefully it’s going to be my plane in a few months. I also thought you guys may get lonely, because the VP doesn’t answer questions from reporters, and hasn’t in 17 days,” he said.
Vance and Harris on the same tarmac in Eau Claire.
— James Stratton (@StrattonWISN) August 7, 2024
Vance comes over to cameras covering AF2 arrival…
“… hopefully it’s going to be my plane in a few months. I also thought you guys may get lonely, bc the VP doesn’t answer q’s from reporters…”
Vid: @WEAU13News pic.twitter.com/QhUS2MtEby
“Have they given you guys an explanation for why she won’t take questions from reporters?”
“No? Nobody? Ok, great. Well, I hope that she changes her mind because it’d be good for the American people and I think it’d be good for you all if she actually ran a real campaign instead of one from a basement with a teleprompter,” Vance quipped.
JD Vance trolling Kamala and taking questions at every stop is genius and he’s reached peak Rockstar status now! pic.twitter.com/P3rmX38bh6
— Karli Bonne’ ?? (@KarluskaP) August 7, 2024
Vance continued to field numerous questions from reporters, including mentioning that he reached out to Walz to congratulate him for receiving the Democrat VP nomination.
This is a masterclass in trolling by Trump’s VP pick.
Kamala: “you got something to say, say it to my face.”
— Bad Hombre (@joma_gc) August 7, 2024
JD Vance: “walks over to say it to her face.”
Kamala: *Hides in the plane restroom*
Harris and her new running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, are holding a rally in Eau Claire as part of their swing through key battleground states.
Vance is also set to deliver remarks Wednesday afternoon in the same city.
Watch Vance’s campaign event:
Watch the Harris-Walz campaign event: