Posted on 03/19/2025 9:22:46 AM PDT by Signalman
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is facing backlash after boasting that he could “kick most of their ass” in reference to Trump supporters during a conversation on California Governor Gavin Newsom’s new podcast, This is Gavin Newsom.
“I think I could kick most of their ass. I do think that,” Walz said while discussing the Democratic Party’s struggles with male voters. “I don’t know if I can outrun them.”
“But I don’t know if we’re going to fall into that place where we want to, okay, we challenge you to a WWE fight here type of thing.”
During the podcast, Walz also criticized Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) decision to support the Republican-backed stopgap measure to prevent a government shutdown. He argued that this move compromised the party’s leverage, stating, “I see it now that we’re in a point where… that pain is coming anyway, and I think we gave up our leverage.”
Social media wasted no time in slamming Walz’s statement, with many questioning why a sitting governor would resort to such rhetoric. One user suggested, “Only weak people have to tell others how strong they are.”
Another called him “the phony tough guy of the century.”
A retired Marine challenged Walz directly, saying, “I accept his challenge. Where do I sign up to fight Tim Walz, WWE style?” Others mocked the governor’s physical toughness, with one stating, “Walz couldn’t take on RFK Jr. at 70 years old. He would 💩 his pants.”
Others took aim at what they see as Walz’s political ambitions, calling his national town hall tour a money grab.
One post read, “Walz knows there is no chance he will be the candidate. He is setting up a money laundering grift. He will form an exploratory committee, take millions in donations, and then give it to friends and family in the form of campaign salaries.”
While Walz has downplayed talks of a 2028 presidential run, his actions suggest otherwise. He has embarked on a national town hall tour targeting Republican-held congressional districts. The tour, framed as an effort to reconnect with voters and counter President Trump’s influence, is widely seen as an attempt to maintain and elevate his national profile after serving as Kamala Harris’s running mate in the failed 2024 presidential election.
Despite losing by a significant margin to Trump, Walz has remained politically active, headlining Democratic fundraisers and publicly reflecting on the campaign’s shortcomings. His decision to skip Minnesota’s open Senate race in 2026 and potentially seek a third gubernatorial term has only fueled speculation about a 2028 White House bid.
The controversy over Walz’s remarks underscores a greater issue for Democrats: their waning support among male voters, particularly working-class men. Polls show that Republicans have made gains with this demographic, which played a crucial role in Trump’s reelection.
You know, he and Mr. Harris are redefining masculinity.
Whenever you hear someone like Waltz acting the tough guy and boasting that he could kick ass, it is unmistakable overcompensation, based on a self-awareness of insufficient of manliness and fear that others see it too.
I volunteer.
Which he just did. As it happens, roughly 77 million people voted for Trump and tampon Timmy thinks he can take most of us in physical combat? Thirty-eight million of us? Damn, what a tough guy.
Given all the ongoing Democrat terrorism, he should know to tone down the rhetoric.
He is implicitly condoning the violence when he should be denouncing it.
Who? The A-hole who thought he could be President. Thank God he won’t be.
Did he say kick? He obviously meant he’d like to lick ...
This a pure marxist approach using domestic terrorism to suppress any ideology other than theirs..It is working because they have so many useless idiots that can be triggered by such speech.
Violence is their instinctive fall back every time they lose. It’s in their Democrat DNA.
Reminds me of Biden in his early dementia wanting to take down some farmer at the Iowa State Fair in 2019. I expect Tampon Timmy to soon be calling people dog faced pony soldiers. We had one senile coot in the White House and we don’t need a self professed knucklehead.
Did he ever get his gun loaded?
Biden wanted to take Trump behind the woodshed or barn.
Minnesota Fats claims he can whip us (the bad guys) all with one hand tied behind his back and the other hand refilling the Tampon machines. Fat boy needs a shrink. He ain’t right in the head.
I’d throat punch that little weasel before he knew what hit him.
I'm 76 and would pay my own way to fight that fat troll.
I think he means his security team could take on any Trump supporter.
Keep this bozo in the national news. There are few better faces of the Democrat party that Tampon Tim!
Dumb Democrats are plain dumb. Dumb Democrat politicians are totally out of actual ideas. They all suffer from TDS, VDS, and MDS (aka, EDS). So when some random moron Dumb Democrat politician shows up on the scene, ridiculously calling himself "The Coach" with "Big Dad Energy" who's going to beat up "Most" Trump supporters, a lot of Dumb Democrat voters think: "Wow, finally a Democrat politician talking tough against Nazi Dictator Drumpf who is taking away everyone's rights and said he wants to destroy America! That's what we need! A tough-talking he-man like Walz!"
Tampon Tim's Dumb Democrat audiences are eating it up. Walz is still running around giving speeches in which Tampon Tim calls Musk a total Republican "dipshit" whose company "Tesla's stock" is rapidly collapsing down to "$225 and dropping!" (Democrat Walz's audiences are eating up his anti-Tesla gaslighting.)
Dumb Democrat politicians are setting the example for the world: They're all egging on Dumb Democrat voters to continue vandalizing & torching Tesla dealerships throughout the country. So it's no surprise that the liberal "Musk is a Nazi" crowd throughout the world is doing the same Tesla dealership vandalization, inspired by Dumb Democrats in the U.S.
Thank you to President Trump, VP Vance, and DOGE Musk for forcing all the Dumb Democrats out of their holes and showing the world exactly who they are: Dumb Democrat politicians are excitedly encouraging and promoting destruction and criminality throughout the United States. (Just like the Dumb Democrats' nationwide destruction & violence throughout the 2020 election year ... the "mostly peaceful protests." LOL.)
Meanwhile, desperate Democrat judges across the nation are assuming the role of the Executive Branch, ruling against most of President Trump's actions and telling him what he must do.
Given the desperate Democrats' anti-democratic activities, I suppose the next thing the Dumb Democrats will propose is the elimination of the Executive Branch of the U.S. government. The judicial branch and the legislature are all that are needed, right, Dumb Democrats?
I don’t think he could kick my ass and I am 68.
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