Tim Walz is the most gifted U.S. politician of the past 100 years, at least.

Eric Zuesse

Anyone who wants to know how great he is as a public speaker needs only to watch his 20-minute acceptance speech on August 6th:

I suggest you watch it in theater-mode or full-screen, so as to be able to see his eyes while he’s speaking, because what that shows is that this is definitely NOT a telepromptered or note-card-based speech: he delivers all of it extemporaneously. Yet, there are NO filler-sounds such as “um” or “uh.” I web-searched for a printed transcript and found none, and this likewise suggests that the speech came before anything that was in writing — NOT after (such as is normal for such a purpose). Yet, not only were there NOT any filler-sounds, but the speech’s structure was also perfect, in every way; and grammatically, too, it was nearly perfect. This guy is such a master at public speaking, that he doesn’t need anything written; he knows in advance what the structure will be, and he is so gifted at this art, of public speaking, so that he is entirely able to create the speech extemporaneously — on the fly — so as to get everything into the 20 minutes, perfection in every way, like a great composer who has mastered his art to such an extent that he’s able to produce a symphony on demand, which will be able favorably to excite his audience. Watching his speech, you know that if anything unwanted had occurred in it that might have upset its continuity (which was obviously very controlled by him), he would have been able to handle it. He’s a natural-born leader, who has honed his natural skills to a fine point, so that now it’s beyond that of anyone in (at least) recent decades. And his performance of this speech was so terrific that it out-does even Jimmy Stewart’s performance in the fictional 1939 classic, “Mr. Smith Comes to Washington.” In this sense, Tim Walz is reality that out-does even mythology. Frankly, I’ve never seen anything like this.

And did he ever please his audience! He spoke with such a passion (but always controlled), and displaying such a natural connection between what he was feeling in his “heart” and what he was formulating moment-by-moment in his brain, so that he had his audience in the palm of his hand, and their excitement at hearing him was not only electrical but high-voltage, and will propel his Party to victory, quite possibly even to a wipeout not only of Donald Trump but of enough congressional Republicans so as to bring Harris into the Presidency with a genuine mandate to govern — something that would have been unimaginable before Walz entered onto the national political stage with this speech. We’ve become accustomed in America to very close Presidential elections between two unappealing candidates (both of whom are very appealing to America’s billionaires), so that the near 50-50 outcome is distrusted by the losing side, but, it won’t be so easy to steal this election as was the case, for example, on 9 December 2000 (Bush v. Gore) — a date that shall live in infamy (infamy to the U.S. Supreme Court, that is).

The so-called ‘news’-media in this country are so rotten that all I can thus far find in the way of analysis and commentary upon Walz’s blockbuster speech is like weak tea, such as the Washington Post columnist Karen Tumulty’s “Opinion: Tim Walz made ‘weird’ happen. What he offers the ticket is much more. Walz has a genuine feel for the concerns of people in conservative corners of the country.” She closed with: “The selection of a running mate probably won’t determine how a presidential election turns out, but it could make a big difference in how well a presidency fares.” However, the fact is that, clearly, with a dynamo such as Walz obviously is, with the extraordinary combination of personal gifts that he as Harris’s chief cheerleader in this campaign will bring to her campaign, we have an entirely unexpected historical phenomenon unfolding before us: a Vice Presidential candidate who will dominate over not only J.D. Vance, the V.P. nominee on the opposite side, but ALSO over BOTH of the two Parties’ Presidential nominees — both of whom have been nominated with well-earned extraordinarily low Approve/Disapprove ratios from the electorate; and, so, lots of people now will be looking anew at Kamala Harris — who CHOSE Walz — looking at her in such a way that they will be hoping that they had underestimated her and that she might make a better President than they had previously thought.

Walz’s political gifts will also super-charge Harris’s campaign so that the Party’s billionaires will donate far more to her campaign than they were expecting, and also her bargaining position with each one of them will be enormously stronger than it was previously; and, so, they will now have to pay more than before, in order to get less from her as the President, than had previously been the case. However, she will fulfill on her commitments to them, nonetheless, because, in America, those are the main commitments that any successful candidate actually honors (fulfills on). Commitments to the voters mean far less — the voters are merely the pawns on America’s political chessboard. The real “king” here is the aristocracy — America’s billionaires and a few centi-millionaires. All else in American politics is mere propaganda. 

I have previously made clear some of the reasons why I consider Kamala Harris a fraud and would never vote for her, and this very same evidence about her, displays the falseness of the picture that Walz portrayed of her; and, so, his own dishonesty is clear on that basis, but also on the basis of some of the other things that he has said; and, so, I won’t vote for them (nor for Trump), if for no other reason than that she misrepresents herself as being anti-aristocracy and pro-democracy, and that Walz misrepresents her in the same way that she misrepresents herself. Harris is a liar many times over, and Walz is either a fool or else a liar (and he needs to be like that in order for him to be effective at this new job that he has, of propagandizing for his boss); and, so, what I am saying in this article is about ONLY the theatrical performance and performer — nothing else.

I fully expect Harris to become the President, largely because of her having chosen Walz, but I also expect her to be just as atrocious a President as every other U.S. President since the year 2000 has been, no better than any of them, just rotten to the core, like the others have been. At least ever since the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1976 Buckley v. Valeo decision, U.S. political offices have been for sale to the highest bidders and so this country has been an aristocracy instead of any authentic democracy. Anyone who calls this a democracy is either a fool or a liar. But Tim Walz’s political gifts are beyond extraordinary.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.