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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
Joking? Too late for that attempt at an excuse.

Tampon Tim Walz has put himself in serious trouble. The state of Minnesota has million shares of Tesla in its retirement fund, and hundreds of thousands of shares of Tesla in its non-retirement fund.

https://twitchy.com/dougp/2025/03/19/bill-melugin-shares-info-about-state-of-mns-retirement-fund-as-gov-tim-walz-cheers-tesla-stock-drop-n2410109

Walz is the chairman of the Minnesota State Board of Investment (SBI) which owns and manages those shares.

https://www.kttc.com/2025/03/21/digging-deeper-walzs-tesla-comment-goes-viral-minnesota-owns-18-million-shares-company/

This is stock manipulation by someone who controls millions of dollars of those shares. Since he breached the Duty of Loyalty due to intentional misconduct, he could face:

-Compensatory Damages (any losses the pension fund took)

-Punitive Damages (additional damages to punish egregious behavior and deter future misconduct)

-Injunctions (court orders intended to prevent him from doing it again).

For starters, he needs to be removed from the chair of the board, and should be removed from ANY involvement with the board. What chairman of a board attacks its own investments?

He also needs to be investigated to see if he or any family, associates, or co-conspirators shorted the Tesla stock, or bought any stock that the pension fund intended to buy as a substitute for Tesla stock.

61 posted on 03/23/2025 6:23:44 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Olog-hai

Walz IS a joke...an not-funny one.


62 posted on 03/23/2025 6:43:22 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Olog-hai

I read Walz doesn’t own much.

He sure doesn’t want to own what came out of his lying lips.


63 posted on 03/23/2025 6:51:38 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: Olog-hai

Since when is making claims you can punch your political opponents out a joke? What a retard.


64 posted on 03/23/2025 6:55:21 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Olog-hai

“”This guy bugs me in a way that’s probably unhealthy,””

Unhealthy obsession and hatred is you leftists all over, Tim. It’s how you roll.

“”But my point was, they’re all mad,...

“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 ..””

Projecting much, Tim? You and your ilk are all mad about losing the election and about having your corruption exposed and ended... and you don’t care about the disrespect you’ve shown to Trump and his supporters.

““It’d be fun as hell just to help people out. Go help people out.””

You don’t have to be “the richest man in the world” to help people out. You’re worth a million and have a nice, cushy pension. What have YOU done to help anyone else out, Tim?


65 posted on 03/23/2025 7:19:45 AM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: Olog-hai

Typical commie trash rhetoric. Tell a lie (or,reveal your true soul) and then after the MSM has run it about, claim that it was a joke.
His constituents include pensioners. They depend upon the return of investments. Over 3% of pensions’ holdings are in Tesla. His coming out saying he hopes the stock crashes is like yelling “fire” in a theater. He is an irresponsible jerk — which is why he was an ideal Veep pick.


66 posted on 03/23/2025 7:34:06 AM PDT by bobbo666
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To: 9YearLurker
It was a joke. Mean-spirited and I hate the guy, but a joke.

Governor Tampon Tim Walz (D-MN) is not "joking," he's serious. In case you weren't aware, there are many Democrat Walz-voting Democrats fire-bombing Tesla dealerships and vandalizing their fellow Americans' Tesla vehicles across our nation, influenced by what Gov. Tampon Tim Walz (D-MN) says during his many public speeches. Gov. Walz is actively cheering on the rapid collapse of the American automaker Tesla and its plunging stock. He's basically supporting what Democrat domestic terrorists are perpetrating throughout our country. That seems serious.

U.S. Representative Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) recently gave an online talk to her Democrat "Takedown Tesla" organization members. During her speech, Rep. Crockett said she's proud that her violent "Takedown Tesla" thug mob organization will honor her March 29 birthday by conducting its nationwide "Takedown Tesla" "protest" at all Tesla dealerships throughout the U.S. on March 29. When you go to the Democrats' "Takedown Tesla" domestic terrorism website, they invite everyone around the world to join in the Democrats' "Takedown Tesla" "protest" at all Tesla dealerships around the world on March 29. Anti-Trump Democrats are asking all countries to help them "Take Down" the American automaker Tesla.

Yeah, Tim Walz and Jasmine Crockett are very serious.

Deranged Democrat domestic terrorists are in the process of taking down Tesla and by doing so, Democrats expect to force Musk's immediate resignation from his White House DOGE position which would be a disaster for the Trump Administration. As RINO anti-Trump political consultant Rick Wilson often says, "Break Tesla, break Musk. Break Musk, break Trump."

Democrats' ultimate goal is the impeachment and removal of President Trump from office. Destroying DOGE, Tesla, and Musk is the Democrats' first step in that process.

67 posted on 03/23/2025 8:28:55 AM PDT by gw-ington (President Trump, JD Vance, Elon Musk, DOGE. For the Win.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

68 posted on 03/23/2025 9:54:54 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

Yeah, its amazing how our so-called ‘free press’ refused to mention it. Now we know they all received USAID dollars to report only what they were told.

Why does Walz still matter? Even a sober Kamala was barely at par with dementia Joe, they would’ve continued with her for as long as possible tearing down the free USA standing in their way, but it was reprobate Walz they approved of.

Recall back during his debate how his evil spirit blatantly attempted to use Saul Alinskys “Rule #4” against all the Christians watching. He forgot his father Satan is more effective when he’s out of site working in the background, being subtle.

Walz was to continue to destroy the USA at every opportunity, continue flooding in outside invaders and tossing trillions of USA dollars into the dumpster of USAID and other unaccountable hidden programs while funding every Obama approved abomination imaginable. At the same time burning up the buildings with all the receipts inside.

He was to continue with dumping our military weapons into an endless black hole called Ukraine, while at the same time working non-stop to baby step the USA into the Klaus Schwab WEF Social Media Control System. They knew not to call it a “Social Credit Score” as China, instead renaming it as Environmental Social Governance (ESG) and forcing Corporations and paid off Media to comply, to lead the way into polite USA society.

Digital IDs would become mandatory. They would get there by using endless manufactured chaos and crisis events, then using bio-metric requirements and their new ESG laws, require Digital IDs with a future pandemic forced vaccine event for compliance and only then forcing their Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDCs) on the entire world to replace the now ‘failing US dollar’. They came close to success in 2020. They will be back to try again. This is not a battle against flesh and blood.

They plan to use AI to do what the Communists have always failed attempting, redistributing resources, now their AI images will do it all for them working nonstop 24hrs a day. Looking far too much like the “Image of the Beast” we’re shown is coming in the Book of Revelation - Chapter 13.


69 posted on 03/23/2025 12:17:49 PM PDT by captmar-vell
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To: mac_truck

President Trump is a genius.


70 posted on 03/23/2025 12:40:35 PM PDT by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: Olog-hai

This guy is a piece of work. Supposedly used to be an assistant coach; what’d he coach, drama club?


71 posted on 03/23/2025 12:59:49 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Olog-hai
“Just kidding.”

72 posted on 03/23/2025 2:26:40 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“Did you ever meet a woke person that’s happy? There’s no such thing.” —Donald J. Trump)
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