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This week, we saw a spate of news stories blaming Democrats’ troubles on their vocabulary. They’re just using too many darn multisyllabic, academic-sounding words and turning off numbskull voters, is the basic message. Seriously? The Democrats’ problem isn’t linguistic, it’s ideological. But no one in the party wants to admit that. A Washington Post story this week – “Democratic troubles revive debate over left-wing buzzwords” – begins by saying: Maybe it’s using the word ‘oligarchs’ instead of rich people. Or referring to ‘people experiencing food insecurity’ rather than Americans going hungry. Or ‘equity’ in place of ‘equality,’ or ‘justice-involved populations’...

Last year’s Democratic vice-presidential nominee has thrown himself into a robust atonement-and-explanation tour, though aides insist there is no grand strategy.Nearly seven months since his ticket lost the 2024 presidential election, Tim Walz is trying all at once to make amends for everything he thinks went wrong.He is going to Republican areas where Democrats lost ground. He is sitting for countless interviews after former Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign limited his media exposure. And as his party engages in collective finger-pointing, he is among the few Democrats admitting that they themselves made mistakes.“I know my job and I didn’t get...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz sought to energize activists at a Democratic state convention in South Carolina, as the party's 2024 vice presidential nominee works to keep up the high national profile he gained when Kamala Harris selected him as her running mate. Walz, a former schoolteacher who went on to serve in Congress and then became his state’s governor, keynoted the South Carolina gathering in Columbia, traditionally a showcase for national-level Democrats and White House hopefuls. Speaking to convention delegates for more than half an hour, Walz used colorful language and spoke plainly as he lobbed...

Americans across the country are remembering George Floyd five years after he was killed by police, with special gatherings in the city where he grew up and the one where he died. The murder of Floyd, a black man, in Minneapolis by police officer Derek Chauvin led to nationwide protests against racism and police brutality. On Sunday, Floyd's family gathered in their hometown of Houston near Floyd's gravesite for an event led by the Rev. Al Sharpton, while Minneapolis held several commemorations. What many hailed as a national "reckoning" with racism after Floyd's death, though, seems to be fading as...

Even by Democrat standards, the hypocrisy is astonishing. The leftist who presided over this level of Covid tyranny… …now says ICE is the Gestapo because it defends the country from foreign invasion by enforcing immigration law: On the topic of Trump closing the illegal immigration floodgates that the Biden/Harris Administration had opened wide, Tim Walz proclaimed at a University of Minnesota law school commencement ceremony: “This is what the crumbling of rule of law looks like in real time. And it’s exactly what the founders of this nation feared: A tyrant, abusing power to persecute scapegoats and enemies.” Illegal alien...

Minnesota’s Democratic Gov. Tim Walz told an audience of graduating students that the nation’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are “Trump’s Modern Gestapo.” The Gestapo was the secret police created by Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist regime in the 1930s. The name is an abbreviation of a German noun, Geheime Staatspolizei [Secret State Police], which was used to murder a vast number of people throughout Europe. In contrast, ICE protects Americans’ borders, communities, and livelihoods from the destructive mass migration encouraged by Walz and other Democrats. For example, ICE raids often ensure market wage raises for ordinary Americans, so reducing...

Minnesota’s Democrat Governor Tim Walz is pushing a bizarre new claim about President Donald Trump. During an appearance on MSNBC, Walz claimed that Trump will soon start wearing a “military uniform.” He made the bizarre claim while promoting the Democrat narrative that Trump is moving the United States toward authoritarian rule. Of course, his suggestion was lapped up by MSNBC host Jen Psaki, who offered no pushback. Walz made the comments on MSNBC’s “The Briefing,” the doomed new show hosted by the former Biden White House press secretary. Psaki opened the segment by referencing a comment Walz made in The...

Minnesota has been in the news a lot in recent years, and not in a good way. This essay is a wistful look back at the decline of a once great state. I moved to Minnesota in 1975, partially inspired by the famous Time Magazine cover featuring Governor Wendall Anderson holding up a caught walleye, touting the “Good Life in Minnesota.” I came for the good life and the in-state college summer school rates offered by the University of Minnesota. I ended up getting a job in Minneapolis, putting down roots, getting married, having three kids, eventually owning three businesses...

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz made an appearance at the Harvard Kennedy School this week and told people that he was picked to be Kamala Harris’ running mate because he could ‘code talk’ to white guys. That strategy didn’t work out too well for the Harris campaign, did it? Democrats lost men of all races by a wide margin. In fact, the Democratic party is struggling to figure out how to win back male voters who have deserted them in record numbers.

One of the new books currently being pushed by journalists desperately trying to pretend that they weren’t part of the cover-up of Biden’s decline, claims that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz was terrified to face then Ohio Senator JD Vance in the vice presidential debate last fall. Anyone who was watching that debate knows that this was a major turning point in the election. Tim Walz seemed completely unprepared to answer difficult questions about his past and his record. He truly looked like a deer in headlights. JD Vance, on the other hand, was calm, cool, and collected. Vance answered questions...

The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office has decided not to file criminal charges against a 33-year-old man who admits inflicting more than $20,000 in damage to six Teslas in Minneapolis over a few-day span last month.

The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office has decided not to file criminal charges against a 33-year-old man accused of inflicting $21,000 in damage to six Teslas in Minneapolis over a few-day span. Instead, the office will file for Dylan Bryan Adams, of Minneapolis, to be entered into an adult diversion program meant for first-time, low level offenders. “Our main priorities are to secure restitution for the victims and hold Mr. Adams accountable,” said Hennepin County Attorney’s Office spokesman Daniel Borgertpoepping, in a statement. “As a result, we will file for pre-charge diversion to best facilitate both of those goals. This is...

Video at link. EXCERPT: WALZ: “I have come to understand what Donald Trump, what pops into his head and he says, he's going to carry it out. I -- once again, he talked about the tariffs. He talked about, you know, he's going to deport people. And this whole thing with Mr. Abrego Garcia, it's that old wisdom and terrifying is if you're not speaking up for this man, there will be no one left to speak up for you.

Tim Walz’s record as governor of Minnesota grows more troubling as the consequences of his policies have played out. Americans have seen a lot of Tim Walz lately as the failed vice-presidential candidate has held town halls nationally criticizing national Republicans. In a telling interview, he admitted to the New York Magazine this week, “90% of the time, I can be really good, but about 10% of the time, I can be a train wreck.” And in an interview with Jake Tapper that was itself something of a train wreck, he rejected the conclusion that every American with a pulse...

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz gets booed and heckled off stage by a group of veterans as his Elon Musk Protests backfire in a hilarious moment of payback. While Walz has been trying to launch his 2028 campaign by staging townhalls and protests against Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and DOGE, he hilariously faces a moment of poetic justice after the very veterans who accuse him of "stolen valor" confront him on his lies in the same style that Democrats have done at Congressional Townhalls to protest against the Trump Administration.

Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz recently admitted that he can sometimes be a “train wreck” because he speaks “from the heart.” Minnesota’s Manic Marxist also told New York Magazine, in an interview published March 31st, that the Democratic Party lost the 2024 presidential election because it is too “timid.” Wow, never heard that one before. Tampon Timmy also claimed that Democrats should have doubled down on DEI and other forms of wokeness. This is the same guy who, when pressed during the vice presidential debate about patently false statements he had made regarding his presence at the Tiananmen Square protests...

A group of state workers protested over the weekend, outside the Governor’s residence in St. Paul, after a new policy was announced requiring employees to be back in the office more often. “They are mad — we’ve been doing our work from home for the last five years during the pandemic, and we’re more productive at home, “said Megan Dayton, president of the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees. “We don’t understand why this is happening.” Last week, Governor Tim Walz announced the policy change that will require most Minnesota state agency employees to work in-person for at least 50% of...

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...

Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) claimed Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” that schools could segregate without the existence of the Department of Education. Maddow said, “What’s your reaction to closing the Education Department today?” Walz said, “Well, we knew it was coming, but it’s still a day that I dreaded. I dreaded it as a teacher, as a parent, certainly as a governor now. And the sad part for me about this is Donald Trump doesn’t know anything about education. This has been a long time dream of the far right to crush the public education system, to take...

The radical left’s violent fantasies toward President Trump and his supporters extend to the party’s last VP nominee. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz went on California Governor Gavin Newsom’s podcast in an episode released on Tuesday to discuss how Democrats could win back voters lost to President Trump. As expected, the two were long on gripes but short on actual solutions. Then, things soon took a bit of a turn. After both Newsom and Walz said that it was important to show some decency to the other side to help the Democratic Party’s brand recover, Walz sent a message that could...