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Tim Walz says he was joking when he mocked Tesla's falling stock: 'These people have no sense of humor'
Fox News ^ | March 23, 2025 12:46am EDT | Landon Mion

Posted on 03/23/2025 1:35:01 AM PDT by Olog-hai

First he was a “knucklehead”; now he’s a “smarta--.”

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, said Saturday that he was making a joke when he made a comment last week mocking Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk for the company’s recent downward trend in the stock market.

Walz attempted to clarify his comments during a town hall in Rochester, Minnesota.

“This guy bugs me in a way that’s probably unhealthy,” Walz said, referring to Musk. “I have to be careful about being a smarta--. I was making a joke. These people have no sense of humor. They are the most literal people.”

“But my point was, they’re all mad, and I said something I probably shouldn’t have about a company,” he continued. […]

“They’re all butthurt about the Tesla thing, but they don’t care about the disrespect they have shown to employees at the Minneapolis VA who care for our veterans, and they fire them. They don’t care,” the governor said.

“Maybe it’s just me. If I’m the richest man in the world, I’m like out on the streets handing out money,” he added. “It’d be fun as hell just to help people out. Go help people out. Not this guy.” …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Travel; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: dfl; knucklehead; mds; tampontim; tds; tesla; walz
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To: Olog-hai

The old “joke gone bad” defense.


21 posted on 03/23/2025 3:12:46 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: Olog-hai

It wasn’t funny, Tim.


22 posted on 03/23/2025 3:16:29 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Are yoor have you ever been, a Democrat?)
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To: Ann Archy

Probably a percentage of “stupid” that was illegally and fraudulently invented by the DFL division of the Democratic Party.


23 posted on 03/23/2025 3:17:58 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Liz
Johnny Ringo: My fight's not with you, Holliday.
Doc Holliday: I beg to differ, sir. We started a game we
never got to finish. "Play for Blood," remember?
Johnny Ringo: Oh that. I was just foolin' about.
Doc Holliday: I wasn't.
24 posted on 03/23/2025 3:23:30 AM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: Olog-hai

There isn’t a shovel big enough for this fool. What a clown, not a surprise that this Nebraska reject found Minnesota as his political landing spot. They like their idiots.


25 posted on 03/23/2025 3:23:53 AM PDT by DAC21 (")
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To: Olog-hai

He is a liar because they (the Left) blurt out terrible things, then realize they went too far.

In days of old he would have been knocked off long ago.


26 posted on 03/23/2025 3:32:25 AM PDT by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.)
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To: Olog-hai

Maybe it was a joke. Possible. If it was, Timpon has a very nasty sense of humor which is to say he doesn’t really have one. Dark humor has it’s place but Timpon’s nastiness is beyond inappropriate.


27 posted on 03/23/2025 3:33:38 AM PDT by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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To: Fireone
He tries to cover his ineptness by acting tough, and yelling at his constituents. It’s a failed strategy.

Failed? Still succeeds in getting Walz reelected by those constituents, it seems.

28 posted on 03/23/2025 3:35:25 AM PDT by Ahithophel (Communication is an art form susceptible to sudden technical failure)
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To: Olog-hai
"Maybe it’s just me. If I’m the richest man in the world, I’m like out on the streets handing out money," he added.

Without realizing it, he put his finger on the matter: That's why he isn't the richest man in the world!

Regards,

29 posted on 03/23/2025 3:41:44 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Olog-hai

Little Timmy has been advised by his lawyers to try and avoid a restraint of trade lawsuit or prosecution.


30 posted on 03/23/2025 3:45:05 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( )
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To: Ahithophel

Sure, as if Minnesota’s elections are fraud-free.


31 posted on 03/23/2025 3:46:06 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai
Walz just noticed that Musk filed a lawsuit against Congressman Jamaal Bowman for calling him a "Nazi" and "thief."

"Your Honor, it was just a joke. I'm just a knucklehead at times. I didn't really mean to encourage violence against Tesla and Tesla owners."

32 posted on 03/23/2025 4:17:08 AM PDT by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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To: captmar-vell

Walz and his wife helped children to join LGBTQ groups in their school and took one or more to an Indigo Girls concert.

https://www.them.us/story/tim-walz-gwen-gay-student-indigo-girls-concert

And then there is this - where Walz refused to responds to allegations that he took a student to a gay bar and that he resigned because he was having sex with said student:

https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/tim-walz-accused-of-inappropriate-student-relationship-visiting-gay-bar-in-viral-tweet-article-114177681


33 posted on 03/23/2025 4:17:44 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Olog-hai

Tim Walz is a thousand miles of bad road... democrats would be better off re-running dementia Joe.


34 posted on 03/23/2025 4:23:15 AM PDT by GOPJ (It's cheaper to 'rent a mob' for a Town Hall than buy thugs to burn down cities. )
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To: Olog-hai
These people?

You people are sick to the core.

35 posted on 03/23/2025 4:24:58 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Olog-hai

Nobody’s laughing.


36 posted on 03/23/2025 4:25:27 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (‘Never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals’)
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To: Olog-hai

Fat blob of monkey shit. Truth in jest. Ya festering oozing puss filled pos!!


37 posted on 03/23/2025 4:35:22 AM PDT by albie (U)
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To: Olog-hai

Tampon Tim’s joke made me decide that he needs a canoeing accident.

What does Tampon Tim know about the national, paid,arson campaign against TESLA?

His comment justifies an FBI interview.


38 posted on 03/23/2025 4:43:16 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: Olog-hai

Millions of dollars in property damage; liberal snowflakes living in fear of being keyed, and Tim Walz is worried about conservatives not taking a joke. How did somebody this stupid get elected to anything?


39 posted on 03/23/2025 4:49:27 AM PDT by Bernard (Issue an annual budget. And Issue a federal government balance sheet. Let's see what we got.)
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To: Olog-hai

40 posted on 03/23/2025 4:50:50 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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