Minnesota Governor and former VP candidate Tim Walz is, shall we say, not the deepest thinker.
To be fair, he doesn't have to be; he's a DFL governor who's one year removed from a legislative biennium where he had complete executive, legislative and judicial power, and he rode that wave of legislating and decreeing and signing a stretch - a brief stretch - as a progressive icon.
Now, this past week the wave of corruption scandals that have been simmering - no, bubbling away like a McDonald's fry vat run by the new kid - for the past five years have started boiling over just as Walz starts his campaign for an unprecedented third term as Minnesota's governor.
It's been a no good, very bad week for Walz.
So much so that he may have thought Trump gave him a gift earlier this week, calling Governor Walz a "retard":
Tim Walz on Trump calling him the r-word: "We all know both as an educator and parent that using that term is just so damaging. It's hurtful. We have fought three decades to get this out of our schools. Kids know better than to use it. But this is what Donald Trump has done. He's… pic.twitter.com/81rfxUejQm
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 30, 2025
I'll admit it; I'd rather the President used a different word. I grew up around a lot of profoundly handicapped people (long story), and yeah, it's a dumb slur - and particularly ill-timed with Walz, whose son is somewhere in the "speical needs" spectrum. I didn't let my kids use the term, and if I had to do it over again, i still wouldn't.
That being said? Walz is not a good governor, and he's given a lot of Minnesotans ample reason to doubt he's an especially decent person.
But let's focus on the Governor's sudden call for civility and decorum. It's admirable.
And kind of a 180 degree spin:
Tim Walz: Trump has normalized hateful behavior and language.
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) December 1, 2025
Also Tim Walz:
We need to be meaner and bully the sh*t out of Trump.
We should 'demonize' people like Elon Musk.
Fantasizes about 'news' of Trump being dead. pic.twitter.com/7oD5l4wNfE
OK, he's inconsistent. Most of us are.
Where we get into crassly hypocritcal, almost unforgivably so barring some sort of penitence?
Calling Republicans "Nazis" and "Fascists" - both terms specifically intended at the very least to smear Republicans, and at worst to justify violence (and if you don't think he's aware of it, see the tweet I quoted above.
Because it wasn't any kind of onesie-twosie accidental thing.
Last year, during the Presidential campaign, he compared a GOP rally at Madison Square Garden to a American Nazi Party rally held at the Garden...
...86 years earlier, before World War II, the Holocaust and the fight for the free world:
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, compared former President Trump’s Sunday rally at New York’s Madison Square Garden in to a 1939 pro-Nazi event.
“Donald Trump’s got this big rally going at Madison Square Garden,” Walz said at an event in Henderson, Nev. “There’s a direct parallel to a big rally that happened in the mid-1930s at Madison Square Garden.”
Y'know - a year after Time Magazine made him "Man of the Year". And one wonders what criteria Walz uses to determine "direct parallels" with a pre-war Nazi event: the 1940 Statley Cup? The 1943 Anti-Nazi Jewish rally, the Westminster Kennel Club dog show? Marilyn Monroe singing "Happy Birthday" to JFK (yep, it was at the Garden)? Chuck Norris's first national Karate championship? The first Frazier-Ali match? John Lennon's final major concert appearance? The "No Nukes" show featuring Bruce Springsteen, Queen, the Pretenders and Jackson Browne?
The '76 and '92 Democratic National Conventions?
Saying there's a parallel is rrrrrr...really stupid.
Oh, no - it wasn't a one-off thing:
Gov. Tim Walz said the country is being stolen “by fascists and Nazis,” according to a recording obtained by Alpha News.
And of course, putting a "Kick Me" sign on the back of federal law enforcement...
During a commencement speech at the University of Minnesota, the Minnesota governor and failed vice-presidential compared hardworking ICE agents to the “modern day gestapo.”
“Donald Trump’s modern-day geskapo, gestapo is scooping folks up off the streets,” he declared.
”They’re in unmarked vans, wearing masks, being shipped off to foreign torture dungeons.”
So let's just say Walz calling for civility is rrrrrrrr...
...really hypocritical.
