[tomder55]

Already mentioned on another post that he was a Covid tyrant as Guv of Minnesota.

He forced kids as young as 5 to wear masks . He restricted many outdoor activities . He had neighbors snooping on neighbors and reporting them; in his best Fidel Castro imitation; to enforce social distancing .

Then there is the question ;what did he do with all that government $$$$$$$$ that was allocated to the state ????????????? $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan (ARP).
Treasury Department's State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) sorta tracks that. Here is what they found .

$4.3 million (across two line items) to cover parking costs at state facilities "for state employees and visitors." The state used another $1 million to fund a study into the feasibility of paid family leave, and another $1 million to fund a statewide gun safety advertising campaign. State employees in the Minnesota Department of Corrections got more than $1 million in overtime pay, thanks to the ARP stimulus bill. Another $7.8 million was distributed to two homeless shelters. $929,866 line item for "small business development" to teach minority- and women-owned businesses how to qualify for state contracts. Another $1.8 million funded a grant program for the victims of crime, and $1.24 million was spent on Minnesota's "Grow Your Own " grant program, a state initiative that helps recruit teachers and other school employees. The Girl Scouts got $957,794 for an outreach program in low-income communities. $11 million to the Minnesota Zoo . $3.8 million to the Science Museum of Minnesota to cover operating and maintenance costs.$237,000 "movie theater relief grant program." The last 3 could be covid related . Those industries were clearly negatively impacted by his draconian policies.

[tomder55]

Tim Walz says this when speaking about gun control."We shouldn't allow weapons that I used in war to be on America's streets". or “We can research the impacts of gun violence. We can make sure those weapons of war, that I carried in war, are only carried in war,”

The problem is that when he says this he brings up his time in the National Guard. Even compliant press CNN's Tom Foreman did some fact checking on this .

He concluded that Walz is doing some big time stolen valor.

“Walz did make a comment speaking to a group, he’s done it a couple of times, where he has used language that has suggested that he carried weapons in a fighting situation...I know from coming from a military family there is a difference between being in a combat area, being involved at a time of war, and actually being in a position where people are shooting at you...There is no evidence that at any time Governor Walz was in a position of being shot at, and some of his language could easily be seen to suggest he was, so that is absolutely false.”

CNN: "Absolutely False" Walz Carried Weapons In A Fighting Situation, Was In Danger Of Being Shot At | Video | RealClearPolitics

[tomder55]

The compliant press is celebrating Kam the Sham as she shuts up free speech during her rallies .

'I’m speaking': Kamala Harris hits back at protesters during Detroit campaign rally (youtube.com)

If the compliant press wasn't so orgasmic about the Kam -Walz ticket they would be calling her out for many things like stifling free speech and turning her back ala Clueless Joe when she turns her back on them when they ask her to respond to questions

Lydia Polgreen on X: "As a journalist and a citizen I think it would be very good for the Democratic ticket to sit for big interviews and routinely answer on the record questions from reporters on the trail. It is disappointing that this has not happened yet. But it is not too late to change that!" / X


As bad as that is ; it is even worse that unvetted Tim Walz has a belief that speech should be censored .

He said "There's no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and especially around our democracy."

Walz Says 'There's No Guarantee to Free Speech' for Misinformation, Hate Speech (youtube.com)Walz Says 'There's No Guarantee to Free Speech' for Misinformation, Hate Speech (youtube.com)

ummmmm yes there is . I would say that free speech is almost absolute with the usual rare exceptions (shouting fire in a crowded theater) .The First Amendment makes no distinction between good information and misinformation.

Here is the full clip

"Years ago, it was the little things: telling people to vote the day after the election, and we kind of 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. 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. Tell the truth, where the voting places are, who can vote, who's able to be there. Watching some states continue to weaken the protections around the ballot I think is what's inspiring us to lean into this. Again, all we're asking is to make it as easy and simple as possible to exercise their right to vote and participate in our democracy. I'm in 100 percent agreement with you. That makes it so that more people are there, you get more opinions brought in, and I think it tempers [those] extremes that we get. Again, I can't imagine someone going and standing in line for eight hours to try and vote and then being told that maybe the votes didn't count or maybe something's wrong. You have these candidates who lose and are on these ridiculous court cases that they keep bringing up and losing on."

Minnesota Gov. Walz Asks Fellow Democrats To ‘Think Big’ When It Comes To Fixing Voting Issues (youtube.com)

It doesn't sound any better in the long version. Perhaps he hasn't taken his thoughts to their logical conclusion. The Clueless Joe Justice Dept has decided that speech suppression can be an enforceable duty of law enforcement.

Douglass Mackey posted on Twitter under the pseudonym Ricky Vaughn . He had 58,000 followers on Twitter. He trolled Evita voters encouraging them to vote over the phone. yuck yuck nothing worse than the growing number of satire publications do routinely .

No where in the nation is there a district where you can register your vote over the phone. But some schmucks fell for the gag.

Was this even worth the money and effort to prosecute him? More to the point ;was it constitutional to do so ? The Feds went to work digging up an 1870 law passed to go after the KKK .

18 U.S. Code § 241 - Conspiracy against rights | U.S. Code | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute (cornell.edu)


One of his postings had a meme with a Black woman standing in front of an "African Americans for Hillary" sign, with the caption "Avoid the line. Vote from Home" and "Text 'Hillary' to 59925." About 4,900 people sent the text . That total could not possible change the outcome of the election. But to the Feds that was besides the point.
They concocted the charge that he conspired to "injure, oppress, threaten and intimidate one or more persons in the free exercise and enjoyment of a right and privilege secured to them by the Constitution and laws of the United States, to wit: the right to vote."
Office of Public Affairs | Social Media Influencer Charged with Election Interference Stemming from Voter Disinformation Campaign | United States Department of Justice

A jury convicted him . Judge Ann M. Donnelly of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York sentenced him to seven months in prison, calling his behavior "nothing short of an assault on our democracy."
Man Who Spread Misinformation on Trump’s Behalf Sentenced to 7 Months - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

Is this sort of prosecution constitutional? After all, people often lie in political campaigns. Candidates do it, activists do it, political operatives do it. Can election lies simply be outlawed?

Are Douglass Mackey’s Memes Illegal? - Tablet Magazine

Walz evidently thinks it should be ;at least what he considers to be lies.

As noted above ;there is hardly anything said in public that isn't fact checked to death. We are in very dangerous times when elected officials as high up the food chain as Guvs and VP candidates advocate for speech suppression.

[tomder55]

Tim Walz on opposition to abortion.

"Some of us are old enough to remember when it was Republicans who were talking about freedom. It turns out now, what they meant was, the government should be free to invade your doctor's office...."In Minnesota, we respect our neighbors and the personal choices that they make. Even if we wouldn't make the same choice for ourselves, there's a golden rule: mind your own damn business!"
"Mind your own damn business." | Tim Walz (youtube.com)

As noted above his message doesn't count when talking about freedom and his record about managing covid in his state. Then it was perfectly proper for him and other Guvs to act as petty dictators . He set up a snitch hotline for people who would not mind their own damn business about their neighbors violating his dictates .

His mind your own business message doesn't include parental rights .In fact ;when it comes to education the lefties tell parents to mind their own business .They will indoctrinate children without parental consent. In fact parents who oppose that can be criminally pursued and persecuted . When parents object to their kids being exposed to kiddie porn in libraries he says that they want to "ban books " . He signed legislation that prevented the banning of kiddie porn books in Minnesota under the guise of protecting LGBTQ++xyz books . When parent read from these books at school board meetings, they get escorted out by police.


Parents have no rights when it comes to children choosing mutilation surgery. Tim Walz has told parents that in Minnesota it is the children who have to rights . He has made it a safe state for kids from all over the nation to get mutilated with both surgery and with hormones.

But when it comes to parents who want to off their kids ;that is something the government should protect ,

[tomder55]

JD Vance is weird . Tim Walz is weirder

Both served in the military. Vance enlisted in the Marines out of high school He was in the Public Affairs unit. He went to Iraq . He admits to being lucky to not have been in combat even as he traveled and reported in combat situations.

Walz served honorably in the National Guard for 24 years until he was called on to go to Iraq . Then he quit . His unit was left without an NCO . Then throughout his political career he has claimed or implied that he was in combat.

Vance was exposed and was trained about guns and gun safety as a young boy. He admits to never using a gun in combat. Walz hunts then would deny hunting rifles to hunters (most hunters prefer ARs )
NSSF: Study Shows Target Shooters, Hunter Choose AR-15s - Game & Fish (gameandfishmag.com)

They are not weapons of war as Walz claims in his rhetoric. He never carried them in combat either .
We can make sure those weapons of war that I carried in war are only carried in war."

Vance is hillbilly weird . He wrote a heartfelt book about growing up in Appalachia with it's charms and it's problems . Walz is considered normal. He signed a law to mandate that boys bathrooms have tampon dispensers .

[jlisenbe]

Good info. I reposted this on FB.

[tomder55]

Lieutenant Colonel John Kolb who became commander of Walz' unit after he resigned .

[tomder55]

[jlisenbe]

If Walz chooses to debate Davis, it has the potential to become really interesting. Davis, it seems, has sufficient intelligence to ask these kinds of tough questions.

[jlisenbe]

Hey WG. Speak up! Your mailbox is full so I can send any messages to you. You go quiet and it makes me nervous. Hope you are well.

[tomder55]

[tomder55]

We can add to the weird stuff of Weiz the fact that Muslim cleric Imam Asad Zaman, ;who praised Hamas' attacks and mass murder of Israeli's on Oct 7 ;ands linked on Fakebook a documentary praising Hitler ,spoke at Walz's inauguration .


(This is CNN reporting so it must be fact )

Tim Walz once praised Muslim leader Asad Zaman who shared antisemitic propaganda | CNN Politics

[jlisenbe]

Imagine the reaction if that was true of Trump and not Walz.

[Wondergirl]

I spent last week in the hospital again. Am just slowly getting back into a bumpy groove.

[Wondergirl]

Imagine the reaction if that was true of Trump and not Walz.

Shall I list all of Trump's many weirdnesses?

[tomder55]

This is what he said in Massachusetts;

“I don’t name call people. This thing about describing the behavior of Donald Trump and his running mate as weird and out of touch with the rest of us, that was an observation, not name calling. Nobody’s asking for the things they’re asking for.”

He then proceeded to trash Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville .

“I feel like one of my roles in this now is to be the anti-Tommy Tuberville, to show that football coaches are not the dumbest people”.

No name calling there .

BTW Tuberville was the head coach of a major college football team for 13 seasons . He was the AP SEC Coach of the Year in 1997 at Ole Miss.

Walz was an assistant coach of a high school team.

[jlisenbe]

"I don't name call people." Uhm...I guess he doesn't lie either?

[tomder55]

During Floyd riots(or Covid lockdowns ) ;Walz enacted curfews . To enforced them Minn National Guard used paint ball shots at people who's crime was being on their porch instead of in their house. That's weird .

“Light ’em up!”

Cops enforcing Tim Walz’s curfew by shooting paintballs at residents as they stood in their doorways (youtube.com)


EducatëdHillbilly™ on X: "Here is a clean downloadable video of Tim Walz enforcing his 2020 Covid lockdowns by having police shoot civilians with paintball guns… https://t.co/5aOmCPYi5P" / X

[tomder55]

The compliant press is orgasmic about this guy as the love-fest headline suggests

Tim Walz Is an Everyman Superman | Opinion - Newsweek


As weird as he is ;as demonstrated above he is portrayed as "the down-to-Earth everyman " (I lost my coffee over that line )

His “folksy” and “likeable” image notwithstanding, Tim Walz has spent his entire political career working to advance causes, ideas, and policies that disenfranchise the American worker, disempower the American family, and dismantle the American Dream.

Voters Won’t Fall for Tim Walz’s Folksy Façade (amac.us)

[Wondergirl]

The compliant press is orgasmic about this guy as the love-fest headline suggests

Tim Walz Is an Everyman Superman | Opinion - Newsweek

I so want to give that wonderful man a huge hug!