Tim Walz Gives Dad Vibes, if Dad is a Commie
Tim Walz Gives Dad Vibes, if Dad is a Commie
Democrats say Walz has "dad vibes" if your dad is butter carving Communist China sympathizer who steals valor and starts a snitch line.
Shortly after Harris, with the help of Pelosi and the Obamas, pushed Biden down the short steps, people began to speculate who she would choose for vice president. The original shortlist was a collection of relatively high-profile Democrats such as the governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, and the governor of the vital swing state of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro.
Yet Harris chose Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who wasn’t even considered until he went viral on social media for calling J.D. Vance’s pro-family views “weird” and was adopted as a talking point for all Democrats and the mainstream media.
No one knows who Tim Walz is, and the media and Democrats are doing their best to use the opportunity to paint Walz as someone that rural Americans can relate to because he is just a midwestern dad who hunts, carves butter, and wears a camo.
But who is Tim Walz, and what does he signal how a Harris presidency will play out?
Walz Is a Moderate, So They Say
The candidates are locked in, running mates have been chosen, and we are just over 90 days from the election and only 43 days from the first start of early voting. It’s a battle over messaging and who can successfully define themselves and their opponents.
Walz is relatively unknown to those outside Minnesota, so the Democrats and the media are eager to sell him as a folksy everyday Minnesotan with relatable dad vibes—and who doesn’t appreciate some comforting dad vibe energy?
The Democrats portray Walz as a former teacher and football coach who moved into politics, a 24-year Army Reserve veteran, a hunter, and someone who speaks directly to people. He serves as a counterpoint to the coastal Democratic elites, and the hope is that he will help win over undecided voters in rural communities for Harris.
Democrats will highlight his record as moderate, believing it will garner strong support from many moderate Americans, focusing on policies such as passing a law that provides free breakfast and lunch to public school students in Minnesota. As a supporter of fighting climate change, he allegedly took a moderate approach by incorporating strategies from the Republican agenda and advocating for legislation that reduces bureaucratic obstacles for renewable energy projects. Under his leadership, abortion rights, which are a major priority for Democrats, were established in state law. A long-time hunting enthusiast and allegedly a favorite of the NRA in Congress, Walz supported enhanced background checks and red flag laws during his time as governor, which are now in effect in Minnesota. Additionally, there is now paid parental leave and medical leave, along with a ban on non-compete clauses, allowing employees to change jobs more easily.
These positions might appeal to moderates, but if you look closely at Walz’s background and consider the policies he supports along with those Democrats conveniently ignore, a fuller picture of Walz emerges, and it is far from moderate.
To China with Love, Tim
It’s weird how Democrat connections keep popping up. Of course, we have the OG, the Biden family, and their dealings with China Energy company CEFC. Also, apparently, one of the concerns surrounding Arizona Senator Mark Kelly was his Chinese tech ties to a company that developed surveillance balloons—you know, the kind China flew a spy balloon over the mainland U.S., and an American fighter jet shot it out of the sky over the Atlantic Ocean.
It turns out that Tim Walz has connections to China as well, but unlike his counterparts, these ties are ideological rather than financial. This is more concerning, especially since he will likely be advising Harris on managing relations with China.
Although, in one breath, Walz has criticized the human rights atrocities of the Chinese government, he also has great admiration for their communist ways.
Walz has often spoken affectionately about China's people. He once described his decision to teach in China as “one of the best things I've ever done.” The 60-year-old Minnesota governor was fresh out of college when he moved to China to teach English and American history at a high school.
Morgan Ortegas, a foreign policy advisor from the Trump administration, has highlighted Walz's peculiar history with China, suggesting that his views may not align with American interests.
Between 1989 and 1990, Walls taught a course that was officially sanctioned by the Communist Party during the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Following, in the aftermath of the protest that left up to an estimated 3,000 dead at the hands of the Chinese government, Walls advocated for U.S. classrooms to avoid portraying China as an outright threat. Instead, he pushed for a narrative that emphasized the country's complexities. You know, because it’s complicated when the Chinese regime suppresses and murders its own citizens.
From 1992 to 2003, Walz maintained his connection with China, making nearly annual visits. He even established a summer program for Minnesota high school students, funded partially by Chinese authorities. It’s important to understand that such programs police and shape how China is allowed to be portrayed because that is how authoritarianism works. And if that weren’t enough, Walz chose China as his honeymoon destination in 1994—a curious choice — I remember someone else who went to a communist country on their honeymoon by the name of Bernie Sanders who went to Russia for his honeymoon.
By 2007, Walls was downplaying U.S. concerns about China, dismissing them as hyperbole. He notoriously compared the U.S.-China relationship to that of a drug user and a pusher, hinting at a more nuanced dynamic.
But was this an attempt to deflect legitimate concerns about China's rising influence? Fast forward to 2019, and Walls was still advocating for deeper economic ties with Beijing, even as reports of ongoing human rights violations became impossible to ignore. His insistence on forming a strong partnership with China raises moral questions about prioritizing financial interests over moral accountability.
Walz’s shameless admiration for aspects of Communist China, the need to minimize their threat to U.S. national security, and the policies and views he has implemented since he became governor of Minnesota are quite literally the opposite of moderate. In fact, they are downright radical.
And if you are thinking that maybe he has changed while raising money during a Zoom call with “White Dude for Harris,” he said, “one person’s socialism is another’s neighborliness.”
Walz’s Has a Case of Stolen Valor
Walz entered politics in 2006 when he ran for and was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. He represented Minnesota's 1st congressional district, defeating incumbent Republican Gil Gutknecht.
One of his key talking points during that campaign was his claim of being a combat veteran in the War on Terror, misleading the public and media about his military service.
Despite only briefly serving in Italy, in a recently reserved video during Walz's gubernatorial campaign, Walz portrayed himself as a combat war hero, saying he had “weapons of war” in war, fabricating a narrative of valor that does not align with reality.
While he served in the army reserves for 24 years, rising through the ranks and reaching the highest possible rank as an enlisted service member, he never saw combat because he bailed on his battalion shortly after they received orders to ship out to Iraq.
His lies about heroic service led to criticism from veterans who belonged to his former unit, who called him out for being guilty of stolen valor.
His defenders will claim that his retirement to run for Congress and the Iraq deployment were merely a coincidence and that he had long been considering a run for Congress. However, Doug Julin, a retired National Guard soldier who worked with Walz, said in an interview. “The big frustration was that he let his troops down.”
Julin, who oversaw Walz as a more senior command sergeant major, said that Walz approached him in 2005 and said he was prepared to go on their upcoming deployment to Iraq, but also was interested in running for Congress. Julin said he thought “no big deal” because other members of Congress had deployed.
But a couple of months later, Julin learned from another member of the Guard that Walz had retired. Julin was frustrated, he said, because Walz had arranged his retirement with two officers who outranked Julin.
“I would have analyzed it and challenged him,” Julin said. “It would have been a different discussion, but he went to the higher ranks. He knew I would have told him, ‘Suck it up, we’re going.’”
The Harris-Walz campaign has responded to these claims unsurprisingly with silence, unwilling to defend or clarify Walz’s record.
ICYMI
Walz on Politics, Policy, and Progress
If anything deserves scrutiny, it is Walz’s record. The media carrying water for the Democrats have been making a concerted effort to rewrite Harris’ history and paint her as a moderate even though there is a deep well of videos of Harris in her own words supporting some of the most radical positions on the left, such as defunding the police, equity over equality, and decriminalizing illegal immigration, to mention a few.
However, her pick of Walz is simply confirmation that once she is in office, she will double down on this radical progressive agenda.
Walz was largely unknown outside Minnesota until recently. When he first ran for Congress, he presented himself as a moderate, highlighting his military experience in the Army Reserves and promoting his passion for hunting. He also ran ads showcasing his endorsement from the NRA. However, an evaluation of his record as governor reveals that he is far from moderate.
A review of Tim Walz's record:
Minnesota HF146 - “Transgender Trafficking Bill”
In 2022, Minnesota school districts like Eau Claire Area School District faced a lawsuit from parents for school district policy that required teachers to keep any gender identity issues from the parents of students.
In response, Minnesota State Rep. Leigh Finke (DFL-St. Paul) sponsored HF146, intending to establish Minnesota as a “trans refuge” for all trans individuals, especially minors, because “gender-affirming care is health care,” according to Finke, who is a biological male and trans activist.
By Walz signing HF146, Minnesota became the second state after California to become a “sanctuary stat” for “trans kids.” This law prevents the enforcement of out-of-state court orders that would remove a child from their parent or guardian in Minnesota. It also stops other state’' laws from being used in Minnesota child protection cases when those laws allow for the removal of a child because they are receiving necessary medical or mental health care that respects their gender identity.
In other words, a minor could travel to Minnesota for medicalized gender transition, likely ending up a ward of the state in foster care, or a parent involved in a custody dispute could take their child to Minnesota for such irreversible life-altering “treatment” preventing the other parent from having a say in the child’s medical care.
Let Minneapolis to Burn
If you were not traumatized enough by the Summer of 2020, when everyone was forced into lockdowns except for the BLM protestors and rioters that burned down major U.S. cities, do not worry because that chance may come again with a Harris-Walz administration.
Walz was the governor of Minnesota during the BLM riots in Minneapolis and St. Paul that resulted in the destruction of police stations and 1,500 small businesses. The insurance claims alone are estimated between $1 billion and $2 billion, which does not account for uninsured businesses. For reference, this figure surpasses any previous records for riot-related damages in U.S. history, including the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
As rioters got out of control and tore down a bronze statue of Christopher Columbus at the State Capitol, Walz justified the actions of the rioters, stating that “A society that does not put equity and inclusion at the center of it is certainly going to eventually come to the place where we are at.”
The pairing of Harris and Walz must have been in the stars because while Walz was allowing his state to go up in flames, Harris was bailing out the violent rioters so they could hit the streets and do it all over again. Because, you know…equity. By the way, her tweet supporting the bailout fund is still up on her X account.
Funding Illegal Immigration
Like any good radical progressive, Walz appears to view illegal immigration and borders as some imagined construct. Again, this is perfectly paired with Harris's position that “undocumented immigrants are not criminals.” Walz rolls out the Minnesota welcome mat for the “not criminal” by signing laws that provide state-funded health care, driver’s licenses, and free college tuition to illegal migrants.
Could we expect something similar at the national level?
COVID: Snitching is now Minnesota Neighborliness
The Harris-Walz campaign is very focused on freedom and joy. These are interesting choices, considering Minnesotans experienced the exact opposite when, in March 2020, Walz set up a snitch line where people could snitch on their neighbors for not following Walz’s stay-at-home order and masking mandate. The crazy part is law enforcement continued to monitor it until November, well after the stay-at-home order ended. The most common reporting was of people attending church services that didn’t fit with Walz’s “legal requirements.”
I guess in Minnesota, snitches don’t get stitches? They get a freshly baked pie?
Walz, just like the governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, caused a nursing home scandal when he required transferring hospitalized COVID patients back to nursing homes, resulting in over 5,000 deaths—the highest percentage of COVID-19 deaths in long-term care facilities in the nation.
To top things off, Walz’s Department of Education placed Minnesota Feeding Our Future in charge of federal funds for feeding children during the COVID-19 pandemic. But it came to light that it was all a fraud scheme when, in 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice charged 47 individuals with stealing $250 million from the Federal Child Nutrition Program, making it the largest COVID-19 fraud in the country.
Abortion is a “fundamental righ”
In January 2023, Walz signed the “Protect Reproductive Options Act” or the PROAct, stating that abortion is a “fundamental right.”
This bill is very straightforward. It eliminates any restrictions on abortions, including those later in pregnancy and up until the moment of birth, and it removes parental involvement for minors seeking abortions.
This makes it one of the most extreme pro-abortion laws in the nation. The Minnesota law also allows abortions to be performed in facilities other than hospitals, such as birthing centers. Perhaps the most concerning aspect is that the bill imposes no restrictions on when during the pregnancy an abortion can be performed, permitting abortion at any point in the pregnancy.
Also, notice that the law is stripped of any gender-specific language because it’s not just women who need abortions.
If you want to know what Harris thinks of the PRO Act, look no further than HHS Secretary Becerra, representing the Biden-Harris Administration who specifically emphasized the support from President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for Minnesota’s extreme abortion law, stating that they are “partners in this fight” He outlined their aim to “build on Roe v. Wade” indicating that they seek not only to uphold Roe v. Wade but to expand access to abortion services. Additionally, Secretary Becerra affirmed that “Minnesota is doing it right” with its abortion law and urged that “it is time to follow Minnesota and do what’s right for all Americans.”
Spending and Taxes
At the beginning of the 2023 legislative session, Minnesota had a budget surplus of over $17 billion. By the end of the session, Walz had signed off on the largest budget in Minnesota history: $72 billion over two years. The previous biennial state budget was just over $52 billion. This 38% increase in state spending was coupled with significant tax increases on income, sales, gasoline, car tabs, deliveries, boats, marijuana, and businesses.
Riots and rising taxes are not surprisingly creating a mass migration out of Minnesota, something California is also familiar with. The mass migration has caused Minnesota to lose about $1,866 per resident in lost GDP by the first quarter of 2021, totaling $7,464 for a family of four over the first three years ofWalz’s administration. There are also reports of high-income earners leaving the state due to costly tax and spending policies.
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Conclusion
While a vice president doesn’t have much effect on the administration in the long term, it provides a glimpse into how that administration might govern. Biden ran his campaign as a unifying moderate, but in choosing Kamala Harris, the most progressive senator in the U.S. Senate, he signaled that he was willing to govern from the left. The same goes for Trump in his first term. When he chose Pence as a running mate, he signaled to moderates he was willing to work with the Republican establishment, a choice that I believe he regrets considering his choice of Vance as his running mate.
This same exercise can then be applied to Harris. She has chosen Walz, who is essentially a Midwest version of Gavin Newsom. She picked him because he gives the illusion that he is just a nice, happy guy from the Midwest, but at his core, his policies, values, and principles align with hers.
While Harris has no policy on her campaign website, hides behind teleprompters, and dodges questions about her past comments on issues like banning fracking, decriminalizing illegal immigration, and equity over equality, we can examine her record and that of her running mate to know what a future Harris-Walz campaign would look like.
And it more of lasts for years, pushing further to the left and more radical, with an economy on the brink of a recession and several wars looming on the horizon. Is that a risk you are willing to take?
