“Did that make us any safer? Did that make the children that are left behind any more stable? Did it improve the idea that we can’t all be judged by our worst day?”
—-Minnesota Governor and all-time worst major party Vice-Presidential candidate ever Tim Walz, complaining about the deportation of Tou Lue Vang, an admitted and convicted child rapist and illegal resident, after Vang was pardoned by Walz.
I first wrote about this disgusting tale here, after Walz pardoned a Laotian child-rapist who had his legal resident status revoked 20 years ago because of the conviction. Walz made it clear that his pardon was designed to foil the Administration’s deportation efforts, though there could be no serious argument that a child rapist qualifies as a “good illegal immigrant” even under pro-open borders logic that there is such a thing.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio had Vang deported anyway, as he had the power to revoke his latest deportation-blocking status, and off he went: So long, farewell, Auf Wiederseh’n, goodnight!
That offensive, idiotic quote was Walz’s defense of his unethical pardon and critique of Rubio’s action. Those were supposedly rhetorical questions, but the answers are the opposite of what Walz appears to believe…which, when one considers that we are talking about the deportation of a man who had repeated sex with a 10,11,12 and 13 year old girl over four years and shrugged it off as normal in his “culture,” raises all sorts of different disturbing questions.
“Did deporting a serial child rapist make us any safer?” How could it be otherwise? “Did that make the children that are left behind any more stable?” Walz is presumably talking about Vang’s children. If by “more stable’ he means “less vulnerable to sexual abuse,” the answer to that one is also “yes.” But incredibly, Walz managed to top the idiocy and ethical obtuseness of his first two questions with his third: “Did it improve the idea that we can’t all be judged by our worst day?”
To begin with, I must mention that Walz is almost as English language-challenged as the boob who picked him as her running mate. I’m guessing he meant, “Is deporting Vang more fair and just than giving him a second chance after his one mistake?” For there is no improving on the bonkers and demonstrably false idea that it is wrong to judge people based on their worst day, when that day is sufficiently damning. That idea is irredeemable: it enshrines a rationalization to insulate wrong-doers from accountability.
Governor, let me introduce you to the the concept of signature significance. It holds that a single act can be so significant that all by itself that act stands as a legitimate basis on which to assess the character of the individual performing it. Raping a child is as convincing an example of signature significance as one could imagine. Child rapists, even those who engage in it only once (which is almost never the case) are not good people, good citizens, or good immigrants, legal or illegal. Walz’s “worst day” delusion doesn’t even apply to Vang, for he raped his young victim again and again over a four year period. That’s a lot of “worst” days. Did Walz even know whom he was pardoning?
The comment also attempts to minimize the seriousness of child rape. It isn’t as if Vang drank so much he lost control once or had a psychotic break: he sexually abused a child repeatedly. Walz’s attitude is evidently, “Okay, so he raped a little girl. Haven’t we all done things we regret?”
The man is an ethically-addled moron….and the Democratic Party nominated him to be “a heartbeat from the Presidency.” Think about that.
The non-rhetorical questions raised by Walz’s latest indefensible outburst:
- How did someone like this get to be a state governor?
- Who among his voters can defend their votes?
- Nick Arama writes at RedState: “Anyone who thinks like this should not only never be Vice President, but he should never hold any position that requires any kind of judgment ever.” Can there be any doubt about that assessment?
- Why would any thinking American trust a party that ran someone like Walz for national office, or a party that would nominate for President someone who thought this guy was an able and qualified public servant?
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I think the Commissariat that ran the country during the Biden Weekend at Bernie’s administration put up Harris and Walz because the two of them would be as inert at Joe Biden had been and they could continue running the country unimpeded. Harris’s and Walz’s idiocy was a feature, not a bug. And they almost pulled it off. It almost worked.
I used to think Tim Walz was dangerously stupid and inept. The pardon and reasoning for it reveal him to be evil. That his party stands behind him reveals their dangerous immorality and corruption.
To say this was an unforced error is an understatement.
I am guessing he was speaking off the cuff. His handlers certainly would not have come up with this answer.
Someone should have asked him if Derek Chauvin should be judged by his worst day.
As a Christian (and this is consistent with most Christian theology), everyone is able to be redeemed by God. I believe the grace of God can transform ANYONE, and I mean that. The eternal soul and public policy are different though.
On a societal level, some crimes are beyond the pale. The damage done to another human being and the inability to trust someone afterwards are so great that the person probably should die in prison as a matter of justice, or at least not be out for decades. Or, in this case, deportation. Deportation seems like a no brainer.
I suppose if you want to parse things down and look at whether someone’s upbringing can give them some really messed up beliefs, that is true. It’s hard for me to believe that culture could explain this though. What culture is teaching men they can rape young girls and it’s “normal”? If that belief is widespread somewhere in the world, that culture is despicable and deserves contempt politically and morally.
But let’s say somehow you don’t deport someone like this because of a “cultural” exception. The alternative would basically be “re-education” in a mental institution or somewhere thereabouts. This person could not be free because they are a danger to society. It’s far more than a “worst day.” He didn’t get drunk one night and get into a dumb bar fight.