Gov. Tim Walz

“Incompetent and Irresponsible State of the Decade” Nomination: Minnesota [Expanded!]

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What, not New York? California? Oregon? Washington? Oh, they are all in the race too: “failed states” we might call them if they were foreign countries. But lately the enormity of how badly Minnesota residents have exercised their voting rights has been throbbingly obvious.

Of course we already know that the state has Keith Ellison (EA dossier here) as its Attorney General. It also has a criminal and anti-Semitic House member, Rep. Omar, who committed immigration fraud by marrying her brother and lying about it, who has stated that her loyalties are to a foreign nation (Somalia) first, and who has, among other outrages, attempted to minimize the international crimes committed on 9/11/2001 (“some people did something”). But look at the clowns— figuratively, not literally, but it’s a close call [Added: but see below] —Minnesota has elected as its governor and lieutenant governor.

Minnesota’s lieutenant governor Peggy Flanagan, a Catholic, wore a hijab to express solidarity with Somalis in a local TV appearance. Massive fraud in the Somali community has stolen taxpayer funds to the tune of at least $9 billion. “I know that things are scary right now,” said Flanagan, alluding to the fact that ICE is correctly cracking down on a deliberately unassimilated community rife with members who have broken the law to get here, and then broke the law some more.

It was exactly Flanagan’s kind of pandering that appears to have led Democratic politicians like her to avoid interfering with the Somali scammers, because it is such a large voting bloc. Eh, so they are taking money that was supposed to help struggling, law abiding citizens. Corruption is a tradition in Somalia! Multiculturalism!

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CNN and Brianna Keilar Give a Symposium on How the News Media Tries to Rig Elections

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Incredibly and against all odds, the mainstream media is demonstrating that it is even more biased and determined to swing the 2024 election to the Democrats than they were in 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020. Not only that, but its propagandists are being more obvious about it.

As a case study, let us examine CNN’s handling of the Tim Walz scandal. Walz has been falsely representing himself to the public as a combat veteran for many years and in many ways. In addition, he abandoned the leadership of the troops he had trained with as soon as they were ordered to deploy in Iraq. This isn’t even a matter of serious dispute, yet the Harris ticket’s promoters in the news media, aka “almost all of it,” have been furiously spinning, obfuscating and ignoring inconvenient facts. Under different circumstances (such as, say, a VP nominee on a Republican ticket), the news media would be all over this story like Jaws on Pippin. It would be a daily feeding frenzy.

In the past few days, more of Walz’s former almost-comrades-in-arms have come forward to condemn Walz’s conduct and character. For example, the chaplain of Walz’s field artillery regiment said there was no excuse for the him to have abandoned his National Guard unit before a critical deployment. “In our world, to drop out after a WARNORD [warning order] is issued is cowardly, especially for a senior enlisted guy,” retired Capt. Corey Bjertness, now a pastor in Horace, North Dakota, told the New York Post. This wasn’t even newsworthy to most news sources: it might take public attention away from the fact that Trump keeps claiming Harris is misrepresenting the sizes of her rally crowds.

CNN’s spin debacle regarding Walz’s “stolen valor” was special, however.

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From the Res Ipsa Loquitur Files: Gov. Walz Doesn’t Believe in the First Amendment

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There is no context that can make that clip anything but vivid evidence of the totalitarian mindset of Harris’s VP pick and the Democratic Party.

Many, many Democrats have made equivalent statements, recently and years ago. So have many of their media allies, though the only one I can think of right now is Chris Cuomo, and to be fair, he’s an idiot.

There is no genuine controversy, not doubt, no question: “hate speech” and “misinformation” are protected under the Bill of Rights. For a Vice-Presidential candidate to think otherwise is disqualifying. Heck, it is disqualifying for a governor, even of a state as ethically addled as Minnesota. It’s disqualifying for a mail carrier. A third grade teacher.

Ironically, Walz’s statement itself is misinformation (Did you know Donald Trump lies all the time?). By his own deluded and anti-American values, Walz shouldn’t be allowed to make it.

Ethics Observations on the Tim Walz Military Scandal

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Boy, Major Jack Marshall Sr. would have hated this guy!  

Are you caught up? Here:

The Minnesota National Guard confirmed today that Gov. Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’ newly-minted running mate to the cheers of the woke everywhere, did not retire as a command sergeant major like he has claimed for years, including on his official gubernatorial biography.

The reality is that Walz “retired as a master sergeant in 2005 for benefit purposes, but he did not complete additional coursework at the U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy,” Army Lt. Col. Kristen Augé, the Minnesota National Guard’s State Public Affairs Officer informed the media.

In 2018, a National Guardsman claimed on social media and in a paid ad that that Walz, then running for governor, declined to deploy to Iraq for combat duty in 2005 and forfeited his title of command sergeant major. But Walz’s biography, published on the state’s official website, says that “Command Sergeant Major Walz” retired from the Minnesota National Guard in 2005 while he was serving as one of the highest ranking members of the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion.

The timeline seems to be that Walz was promoted in September of 2004 in anticipation of his going into battle. When Walz’s battalion was ordered to mobilize for an active duty deployment to Iraq in May of 2005, however, Walz “quit, leaving the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion and its soldiers without its senior non-commissioned officer, as it prepared to go into battle. Two Command Sergeants Major confirmed this version of events.

J.D. Vance, who fought in Iraq, “pounced,” stating, “When Tim Walz was asked by his country to go to Iraq, you know what he did? He dropped out of the army and allowed his unit to go without him, a fact that he’s been criticized for aggressively by a lot of the people that he served with.”

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Saturday Morning Ethics, 5/30/2020: Burn, Baby, Burn Nostalgia

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1. Bulletin for Gov. Walz: Derek Chauvin has civil rights too, you irresponsible fool. I have just watched Minnesota’s Governor repeatedly refer to George Floyd’s “murder.” An elected public official cannot and must not do that. If he wants to guarantee that a fair trial in the case becomes impossible, this is the way to do it. There has been no trial, and however horrible the video of Floyd’s  death may be, Chauvin and the other officers have the right to the presumption of innocence. Now a St. Paul’s mayor is at the podium calling for Chauvin to be held “accountable.” Well, he’s under arrest and will face trial, and for now, that’s about it.  All of this outrage porn and virtue-signaling now enables the rioters by pretending that there is anything productive to be done but to wait for the justice system to play out. Continue reading →