Tim Walz Was a COVID-19 Tyrant
The Minnesota governor actually defended the state's disastrous nursing home policies.

Vice President Kamala Harris has chosen Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate. Walz was a moderate Democrat when he served in the House of Representatives but veered left during his two terms as governor. He referred to socialism as synonymous with neighborliness, pursued an extremely progressive governing agenda, and earned an F from the Cato Institute on fiscal policy.
Another notable thing about Walz is that he served as governor during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is thus possible to parse his approach to the virus—and that record is extremely disturbing. Indeed, Walz's coronavirus policies were extremely heavy-handed and restrictive; under his leadership, the state endured the pandemic in a fundamentally anti-libertarian fashion.
When the coronavirus was first spreading, Walz was an enthusiastic promoter of social distancing rules. He described the crowds in public, outdoor spaces as "a little too big." He even defended Minnesota's ridiculous hotline for COVID-19 snitches. That's right: Walz's government maintained a method for people to report their neighbors for failing to abide by social distancing rules. Walz insisted in a recent interview that "one person's socialism is another person's neighborliness"; denouncing one's neighbors as insufficiently loyal to government policies is a fundamental aspect of socialism, however.
When asked by Republicans to take down the hotline, Walz responded: "We're not going to take down a phone number that people can call to keep their families safe."
And though Walz instructed police to merely issue citations to people caught violating stay-at-home orders—which is still bad enough—he also maintained the right, via executive order, to issue $1,000 fines and send violators to jail for 90 days. His government maintained that private, indoor gatherings should be limited to 10 people. Outdoor gatherings were arbitrarily capped at 25 people. On July 23, 2020, Walz declared a statewide mask mandate for most indoor spaces and even some outdoor spaces.
"If we can get a 90 to 95% compliance, which we've seen the science shows, we can reduce the infection rates dramatically, which slows that spread and breaks that chain," Walz said at the time. "This is the way, the cheapest, the most effective way for us to open up our businesses, for us to get our kids back in school, for us to keep our grandparents healthy and for us to get back that life that we all miss so much."
What followed was the implementation of one of the stupidest COVID-19 rules: Diners at restaurants had to wear masks while walking to their table and moving about the establishment but were allowed to go maskless as long as they were eating and drinking.
Later, in November and December of 2020, Walz issued and extended orders for restaurants, gyms, and other businesses to shut down. This included outdoor dining service for eating establishments. Over 150 businesses formed the Reopen Minnesota Coalition and urged the governor to relent, but Walz was unmoved.
By the spring of 2021, vaccines were widely available for the most at-risk groups, and people who wanted to protect themselves from the risk of severe disease and death were able to exercise that option. It was only at this point that Walz partly relented and allowed widespread reopening; however, he kept capacity limits in place for many businesses.
These nonsensical policies—the efficacy of which is now doubted by top U.S. health officials—are not unique to Minnesota; in fact, they were commonplace in blue states. But Walz was as vigorous an enforcer of them as any of his Democratic peers.
He was also one of the foremost defenders of a monstrous COVID-19 policy choice: sending sick, elderly patients back to nursing homes where the infection often spread to other vulnerable people, causing a disproportionate number of coronavirus deaths in such settings. A cover-up of nursing home deaths in New York brought an end to the political ambitions of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who lied about his involvement in this policy. But Walz was a fellow practitioner; in fact, Walz said that it was "not a mistake" to release sick people back to nursing homes. That statement alone reflects poor enough judgment as to be disqualifying for the pursuit of higher office.
Pandemic policies are not nearly as salient today as they were two years ago, and so it remains to be seen whether Walz's record here matters much to voters. But for anyone who considers the COVID-19 restrictions to have been "the biggest assault on our liberties in our lifetime," Walz's veep candidacy should be a nonstarter.
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Say it ain’t so, Robby.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
I’ll never understand the presentation of a choreographed phone call.
More cock slobbering.
I got about 15 seconds in, which is only a little more than I’ve ever been able to watch anything Kamala.
What is it about her that is so unbelievably cringe inducing? She’s like the character on a TV show that’s so awkward it’s not even funny, you’re just mortified and have to turn it off. And her campaign staff leans into it with this sort of embarassingly fake melodrama and makes it all so much worse.
She’s a poorly programmed fembot
https://x.com/crankynotions/status/1820589016925798616?t=pw4WXySmICHx9BVAJqpcGg&s=19
I always make a point of speaking to Lebanese or Yugoslavs who grew up before the wars.
Every single one tells the same story. They got along. They all had friends on the other side. Everything worked, until it didn’t. And when the fighting starts you have to pick your side.
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“When people read the history of Nazi Germany, they always think they’d be Schindler. They always think they’re the person who would have saved Anne Frank in the Netherlands.
They never read history as a perpetrator. ‘I wouldn’t have done that.’
Did you watch people during the pandemic? Thirty percent of my neighbors were thrilled that they had the opportunity to inform on the people around them.
They would have worn those goddamn masks for the rest of their life if the payoff would have been they could feel morally superior and inform.” – Jordan Peterson
That’s the thing about governments. The more they intrude, the more people find profit lies in snitching than minding their own business.
Got a neighbor with a nicer car, better lawn? Call 1-800-HOT-TIPS and report drug dealing. Yes, this happens in every city, not just Houston.
Got a business competitor eating your lunch with a better location, better products, better prices? Donate a few bucks to your city supervisor and let him know that the competitor has an oversized sign inside his store that blocks more than 1/4 of his window. Yes, this really happened near here, although the bribery bit is merely informed speculation.
Someone wants to replace his laundromat with an apartment building with low rents? Tie him up in environmental quality impact statements for years because its shadow would fall on a neighboring park for 15 minutes a day. Yes, this happened in San Francisco.
All Stupid Government Tricks. It’s what monopoly governments do.
https://x.com/Klaus_Arminius/status/1820922492904411445?t=u_1QuhXk9ROM9KDRZB8iBQ&s=19
One murdered a 14-year-old British boy by stabbing him.
One protested against the killings of British children.
Guess which one is arrested and sentenced to prison, and guess which one was just freed.
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Here is disgraced State Representative John Thompson terrorizing a neighborhood in Hugo, Minnesota.
“Don’t run now racist white people. Oh yeah, I’m right here, we pull the f*ck up.”
Governor Tim Walz, who allowed Minneapolis to burn endorsed Thompson in his election.
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disgraced State Representative John Thompson
Why disgraced?
He seems nice.
For Dems, that does not seem like a disgrace. He’s simply speaking to his constituency and all.
Exactly. Lower Middle class white people minding their own business are just a giant basket of deplorables.
Gwen Walz: “I wanted to smell people’s
small businesses burning to the ground.”
How’s that for weird?
Definitely weird. Weird Walz.
Was he a covid tyrant before or after the facts changed?
Good question. Tyranny from covid or with covid. Important distinction.
I just want to know whether he favors or opposes warrantless searches of car trunks to check for bears.
Yeah, not the smartest choice of VP pick from Kamalamadingdong. She should have gone with Shapiro. Too bad for her.
It’s been said that the role of the VP candidate is the “attack dog” of the campaign. I guess we will now see J. V. Dunce’s “you’re not devoted enough to America unless you pop out 700 kids” go against Tim Nalzi’s “you want people to die from COVID unless you shut down your business forever”.
But we all know WHY she could not choose Shapiro, do we not? It’s not a mystery.
I love how Yale Law Grad and Best-Selling Author = “dunce” to chemjeff.
Jeff only knows what Act Blue and marxist sites tell him.
Is there something better about Shapiro? Yeah, he has now reversed himself on Covid, but only after most of the damage was done – some of it by himself.
https://reason.com/2022/08/30/democratic-gubernatorial-candidate-who-defended-covid-lockdowns-in-court-now-says-they-were-a-mistake/
Note the article is from 2022.
Well, Shapiro is modestly in favor of school choice. And from KamKam’s POV, it would presumably help her in the must-win state of PA. Probably not much better in terms of COVID, no.
Josh Shapiro Annoyed He Got This ‘Death To Israel’ Neck Tattoo For Nothing
He even sewed his foreskin back on and everything.
At least he didn’t get the forehead swastika tattoo. Works for me. They don’t even ask if I want a D or an R ballot in the primaries. They just hand me the D.
Vance isn’t actually a member of some fertility cult. He has never been some crusader against childless people. He hasn’t spent his entire career bashing and demonizing childless people like AOC have done to Jews, white people, corporations, MAGA, etc.
You’re getting a lot of action out of “tax the bad, not the good”, which was a garbled way to argue for a tax incentives for people with kids. His camp later clarified his position. Given that Vance hasn’t actually proposed any tax INCREASE on people for simply not having kids, I’d say most people knew what he meant.
What’s Vance going to do if people don’t have kids? Criminalize not having kids? Create a snitch line on childless people and send them to jail for 90 days? I’d be so much more scared of the attack dog that wants to jail unvaxxed people than an by an attack dog that says I’m no American if I can’t have 700 kids. Surely, you must know your equivalency game kinda falls flat.
https://x.com/Sargon_of_Akkad/status/1820933436753727906?t=MkLjrJP74-3NTESEdTzcAA&s=19
It is actually quite shocking that Starmer has done absolutely nothing to sympathise with the people who feel afraid of random immigrant violence and nothing to try and calm people down.
Instead, he seems to have declared total war on protesters without caveat. Madness.
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People voted for it. Sadly, the Tories would have provided no different result.
UK is dead. Alas.
Swap their patriots for our protesters.
They didn’t really vote for it. Starmer’s Labour only got 35% of the vote.
They elected the Tories for 20 years on promises to reduce immigration.
They’ve been stabbed in the back for 20 years.
There is no political solution.
In retrospect it was probably a good idea to kick those assholes out. We could have ended up like Canada for crissake.
Even Canada didn’t end up as Canada by choice. Trudeau’s party has never gotten more than 33% of the vote and they lost the popular vote in the last two elections to the Conservative Party.
He’d doing it on purpose.
He wants a ineffective lash out he can crush early, rather than an effective revolution that decorates the lampposts with his Trilateral Commission colleagues and WEF and Club of Rome masters.
Disagree.
He’s incompetent and scared.
The whole regime is.
They’re used to the right always backing down, thus they think all opposition is impotent and will fold when threatened.
He, and the globalist managerial class, don’t know any way other than tyranny.
This thing has real legs. Great Britain doesn’t have the capacity to contain a nationwide revolt, even with the de facto deputization of Muslim hordes.
If they keep rioting, leaders will emerge, it will spread across the country (it already spread to Ireland), and they will succeed.
They only fail once they stop rioting, or once they accept some bs political “representation” designed to neuter the movement.
The British government is at war with the British people, who are finally starting to realize it. They face the very real threat of eradication. It is an existential conflict.
Germany and Holland, at least, are not far behind.
I’d like to think they’ve really turned a corner. But I’m not sure they’re doing any more damage than soccer hooligans did on any given Sunday in the 1980s. And the J6 clampdown potential on this is huge.
Then again, maybe they’ve neutered their police forces (and their army) so bad that they couldn’t even pull off a clamp down if they wanted to.
They definitely need to keep it up and intensify.
So long as they’re unruly, they’re out of government’s grasp. The moment things get calm they’ll be rounded up and destroyed.
But I haven’t seen a dynamic quite like this in the anglosphere before.
The fear is palpable.
J6 and the trucker protests didn’t inspire the fear I see in the British establishment.
Both were over specific incidents with a time limit, and both were non violent.
This is different. This is people being outraged and waking up to the fact that all non violent paths are blocked.
I think the government is EXTREMELY nervous because they know the sentiment being expressed by a few hooligans is present just beneath the surface in millions more around the country.
“It was not part of their blood, It came to them very late, With long arrears to make good, When the Saxon began to hate. They were not easily moved, They were icy — willing to wait Till every count should be proved, Ere the Saxon began to hate.”
That was quick. Not 24 hours since announcement before the mudslinging begins. I don’t know who Tim Walz is, but the entire internet is already saying he is Hitler.
The washing posted an article praising Kamala’s choice, the only problem was it was a bit early, and the name was left blank.
Oops
c’mon man, when you’re writing a sermon to preach to the choir, you don’t need to insert the bible reference ahead of time. It’s all “God said” followed by a response of “Hallelujah!” regardless of which bit of scripture you’re quoting.
Only half the Internet. The other half is saying he’s Mother Teresa with muscles.
The NYT just basically said Walz will do nothing to help Kamala. If that doesn’t say he sucks, I don’t know what does.
And the NYT is probably right.
Of course Trump says the exactly same thing about Vance. And Trump is probably right, also.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-says-jd-vance-has-virtually-no-impact-election-1932832
We have to pass the bill to find out what’s in the bill. Turn’s out it was literal Hitler.
No, the entire internet is already saying you’re a fucking steaming pile of lefty shit.
As opposed to what was it, negative 6 months when the media started their mudslinging at anyone who could possibly become Trumps running mate?
And calling him what he was, a fucking tyrant, isn’t mudslinging, it’s an apt description.
He is a folksy covid tyrant. Use the correct adjective!!! You’ll be kicked out of cocktail parties.
https://x.com/davidharsanyi/status/1820819938384191821
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate. Walz was a moderate Democrat when he served in the House of Representatives but veered left during his two terms as governor.
I still remember when Joe was called moderate.
Every democrat is a moderate.
I still remember when Joe was called moderate.
But he never was. He was agreeable on war and prohibition. The only thing he ever crossed the aisle for was to grant more power for when his side was in office.
I still remember when Joe was called moderate.
Dating yourself a bit. Was Arizona still a territory back then?
That was when he was facing down gang members with only a chain.
Reason went with moderate most of the time in 2019.
Funny joke.
But Joe was called moderate the whole election cycle.
He’s still called moderate (the rare occasions he’s even mentioned anymore).
Doesn’t mean it’s an accurate label, but accuracy isn’t really the regime’s thing.
It was you idiots who called him out for his anti-progressive views.
Sleepy Joe was tough on crime with the 90s crime bill, supported the AUMF, was corporate friendly (credit card bill for banks), opposed Medicare for All, opposed AOC’s Green New Deal.
Progressives hated Joe in 2020. He won because he wasn’t Bernie Sanders in the primary and won in Nov because he wasn’t Donnie Trump.
No one ever claimed they liked Joe. He just wasn’t the other asshole on the ballot.
You’ve really been struggling lately buddy.
You just tried giving him props this morning for ficks sake. Lol.
You should just be happy you didn’t get a far lefty like Bernie Sanders shoved up your ass.
Joe was normal. The Mitt Romney of Dems.
“Joe was normal”
During the primary, he was the “normal” out of a bunch of radicals like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. He was anything but normal once he was in the white house.
Why did they force out a perfectly normal president?
turd lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.
The TDS-addled turd lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.
turd, the asshole of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.
I really can’t see anyone other than the wine mom Karens like Mrs Frazzled and their eunuch hubbies voting for Harris/Walz.
But they’re the majority of voters in key states.
Walz said that it was “not a mistake” to release sick people back to nursing homes. That statement alone reflects poor enough judgment as to be disqualifying for the pursuit of higher office.
Well written. Now go and get the rest of the Reason editors to acknowledge this.
Lets not jump to conclusions here. We need more testing.
That’s not “poor judgement”. It’s downright evil. If I had a grandparent who died alone in a nursing home because of this fuckstains rules, I’d be figuring out a way to skull fuck his campaign.
“Pandemic policies are not nearly as salient today as they were two years ago”
Some of us found them salient four years ago. Not Reason of course but some of the rest of us.
https://x.com/4nt1p4tt3rn/status/1820924228792733992?t=3tSgTaRobXr02fMDy2y9-A&s=19
No one gets a pass.
Twenty-four days ago, they tried to murder the leading candidate for President of the United States, former President Trump.
When’s the last time you heard the media mention anything about it?
Do not forget.
Do not forgive.
Do not let this disappear.
Don’t worry; they’ll keep trying to kill him.
Proof of how stupid Democrats are. KamKam could not possibly beat anyone except for the Con Man.
Kamala can’t beat Trump unless you guys succeed in killing him, or you massively cheat.
It’s early. It is statistically tied according to RCP.
Dems start out -3 points so today Donnie is the favorite.
The effect of July job report and market crash has not been fully felt yet.
Biden was so bad any generic democrat replacement would have given the dems a slight advantage. She probably reclaimed a bit of women and black votes. But seriously, nothing but bad news awaits her. No democrat with national ambition would be involved in her campaign. For all intents and purposes, she was set up to fail.
turd, the ass-clown of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a TDS-addled lying pile of lefty shit.
Imagine thinking the Dems start off as the underdogs.
Unlike you all, some of us actually do have meatspace friends who are lefties. I can tell you that among my lefty friends, they were very unenthusiastic about voting for Biden, but they are much more excited about Kamalama.
Yeah, its not like they’re going to stop. They’ll do what they always do and kick it up a notch.
Impeachment didn’t work so they kicked it up a notch and tried to remove him from the ballots.
That didn’t work so they kicked it up a notch and tried to bankrupt his campaign with nonsensical lawsuits.
That didn’t work so they kicked it up a notch and tried to arrest and imprison him for keeping his own copies of paperwork he’d declassified.
That didn’t work so they kicked it up a notch and tried to shoot him.
That didn’t work so who knows how they’ll kick it up a notch, but I imagine shooting down Trump Force 1 or using a small nuke on the town he’s visiting are both in the cards.
These people don’t have limiters.
What if Kammy pulled the Fake Elector trick Donnie tried in 2020? She is VP so she could read the elector slate in herself.
I would laugh my ass off. I’d pay big to see that.
Kammy did pull a coup by joining the effort to oust Joe Biden with the threat of 25th amendment. She didn’t win a single state in the primary.
turd, the ass-wipe of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a TDS-addled lying pile of lefty shit.
You mean a scenario where Trump allegedly won the electoral college but Kamala filed a bunch of court cases she hoped to win so she did what Nixon did and had a slate lined up in case she won?
The horror.
17 days ago Harris was the most unpopular VP in history now she’s the bee’s knees.
Not the most unpopular by a long shot. She was worthless for sure but Cheney pulled a 6% approval rating in late 2008 in a CBS/Bloomberg poll.
No one will ever get close to that.
turd, the ass-clown of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a TDS-addled lying pile of lefty shit.
Do you think we’ve forgotten that Reason was squarely on the side of the COVID fascists? We need your confessions and apologies before you’ll have standing to criticize Pandemic Nazis.
Show me where anyone at Reason defended mandatory government lockdowns over COVID.
HA HA HA HA HA HA
Mike is back.
And when you give him links he’ll call you a stalker.
Wait, you are upset that I call you mean names? You who continually call me a Nazi and a pedophile? Fuck off asshole.
Ooh. Struck a nerve.
A pharisee inevitably loses his cool when someone tired of his selective moralizing replies with vulgarity.
Nobody is upset about, it just makes you look like a pathetic asshole.
Cite.
A: Reason was weak-assed fucking tea when it came to lockdowns. Spiked-Online was a boss leader in the media on lockdowns, and to think back in the day I considered Spiked to be a UK sister publication to Reason, and they even used to invite Brendan O’Neill as a regular contributor, even though he won’t be asked back after the Nick Gillespie interview debacle.
II: I posted a link to a reason article yesterday (I believe) where Reason claimed there was a totes libertarian argument in favor of vaccine mandates.
3: They sucked ass on masks.
If there were ever a moment in the history of Reason magazine that required an unequivocal full throated condemnation of tyranny it was the covid scam. Instead we got ridiculous parsing of how much tyranny is okay, excuses for “private” censorship and endless demands that we be “voluntarily” tested and jabbed with experimental drugs. Followed immediately by their reluctant endorsement of one of the most historically anti liberty politicians ever. Reason lost every shred of their credibility in 2020 and they will never redeem themselves.
Translation:
Reason acted prudently in the early stages of the pandemic when there were a lot of unknowns about a novel virus.
Reason advocated for voluntary measures to help stop the spread of the virus, and never endorsed coercive government mandates.
Reason supported property rights consistently against the howls of protest from both the left and the right.
Reason didn’t act like petulant shouty misanthropes the way too many people here demanded that they should.
“Translation”
Lying Jeffy’s favorite way of misrepresenting what someone said, so he can then argue against what he says you said, instead of what you actually said.
Hey ML, have you ever come around to admitting that Trump lied at all? During the debate or during his convention speech? Did he lie even once?
Poor Jeff.
Yeah, no.
*The Minnesota governor actually defended the state’s disastrous nursing home policies.
And he endorsed the BLM riots in his own state at the same time as his restrictive covid policies for everyone else. Good times.
The DNC wanted a prominent Minnesota leftist for VP, per whatever their election modeling shat out.
If Al Franken didn’t think it was worth a laugh to get photographed grabbing at a sleeping woman’s tits, his stupid ass could’ve been running for VP.
Franken was awesome in Trading Places.
Senator I’m Good Enough, I’m Smart Enough, and Doggonit, People Like Me?
These nonsensical policies—the efficacy of which is now doubted by top U.S. health officials
Well, facts changed. How could they have known that they actually didn’t have any information on which to base policy recommendations? When lives are at stake, it’s important to capitalize on your ignorance and ignore information that contradicts what you want to do!
Jeez. COVID tyrant? Supported the BLM “protesters” while everyone else was locked down? Voted for Biden/Harris?
This old fuck should apply to work for Reason. I’m sure he can be taught how to come across as less folksy and more drug-obsessed.
https://x.com/AkkadSecretary/status/1820962165853188300?t=NxNxVDzArDP_LDPP0nbeQA&s=19
He went from being the ruler of Scotland and as Scotish as William Wallace to planning to go home to Pakistan in 3 months.
They have a motherland to flee to, we only have this island.
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Just get over Covid, Peanuts. Everyone fucked it up. Even your hero Fatass Donnie misplayed it horribly.
I will never give a fuck about Covid. But I understand how you harbor resentment concerning an issue.
Mine was the Iraq War. I swore eternal hatred to the Bushpigs.
Covid is your Iraq War.
Poor SRG.
You’re so Team Red I am sure you were cheering Dubya on until the last minute in 2009.
We had a poster named ‘John’ who was Team Red all the way. He wasn’t very bright. You can thank him because he inspired my screen name. He was on the Palin team in 2012.
Trump literally spent the whole of his 2016 campaign attacking the Iraq War and the neocons, but look at Buttplug pretend otherwise.
“You’re so Team Red I am sure you were cheering Dubya on”
And John was lightyears smarter than you, even if he liked flat asses.
Trump literally spent the whole of his 2016 campaign attacking the Iraq War
Not exactly a brave stance in 2016.
And John was a moron. He must have finally realized how discredited he was. No one likes Dubya as POTUS today. The GOP won’t allow him to attend their convention.
turd, the ass-clown of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a TDS-addled lying pile of lefty shit.
turd, the TDS-addled ass-wipe of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.
“Mine was the Iraq War. I swore eternal hatred to the Bushpigs.”
And then spent the next sixteen years quoting them, and flattering them, and linking to their articles, and calling them “principled”, and attacking their anti-war opponents on the right.
Most of the goobers around here expected politicians to have been able to predict, even back in March 2020, that the virus was just a “bad cold” and the government shouldn’t do anything. I’m sorry, but at that point in time, that would have been an irresponsible thing to do, given the large amount of uncertainty at the time about the nature of the virus. EVERY SINGLE GOVERNOR enacted some form of authoritarian mandate on the residents of their state. Because none of them were Libertarians and from their point of view, that was the responsible thing to do. If there had been a Libertarian governor, I would imagine that that person would have done something questionably authoritarian, if for no other reason that there would have been intense political pressure for that person to “do something”. Libertarians are not angels and saints, they are subject to the same forces and pressures as everyone else, particularly politicians who are always subject to the pressure to get re-elected.
“EVERY SINGLE GOVERNOR enacted some form of authoritarian mandate on the residents of their state.”
I remember you shitting on DeSantis for not doing that. Off to find some quotes. BRB.
Missouri was literally only ‘shut down’ for the two weeks promised, as a state. Everything that came after that, for us, was from local Democrats in blue counties and municipalities acting unilaterally as autocrats.
Correct.
Donnie wanted to ignore it. “Gone by Easter” – “Just a cold/flu” – “Warmer weather will stop it”.
But businesses were in full panic mode. They canceled the Masters and the NBA season. Government didn’t do that.
Total fog. No one could see ahead.
Are you a stupid dumb fuck or what? You do realize that Trump wanted to stop air traffic between China and the US so the virus would get here slower? Or are you just a total fucking retard?
Oh, and by the way, asshole, do you take back all your posts about Tim Scott now that he’s happily married to a woman, you homophobic faggot pederast bigot?
Tim Scott is a cuck. Someone else is servicing that woman.
Certainly not you, she’s too old.
turd, the TDS-addled ass-clown of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.
turd, the ass-wipe of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.
that the virus was just a “bad cold”
I didn’t really understand why ‘libertarians’ were all so insistent on the virus being nothing at all. It’s a fundamentally dishonest argumentation ethic (I think it originates with Hoppe).
Not one libertarian ever argued that covid was ebola or plague or something MORE serious than it turned out to be – and that in that case, the libertarian approach to govt/public health should also be for the govt to do nothing at all. That would have at least explored an actual libertarian approach/philosophy. Instead, it just turned into – lie about everything, and admit no fact that might be uncomfortable to the approach of ‘do nothing’.
“Most of the goobers around here expected politicians to have been able to predict”
I have been watching amused as Chemjeff tries to defend the indefensible and desperately shill for Team Blue, but this nonsense can’t stand.
This isn’t fucking goobers. This was anyone with an OUNCE of moral foundation. Or are you insisting that Soave is a goober for calling Walz a tyrant?
You can fuck right off with your bullshit revisionism. People were making principled moral cases against lockdowns, forced masking, forced isolation, and forced vaccinations. And you were making tortured analogies about bears in trunks.
Who the fuck do you think you are kidding? There wasn’t a draconian overreaction to the law that you didn’t excuse away while throat clearing and demuring about what these leaders, perhaps, under the best of situations, should probably do- except for all those damn right wingers who just forced them to bring in the heavy hands.
No one is fooled by your bullshit revisionism. No one. And when people pony up the goods and show all the times you acted like a freaked out baby incapable of a bit of moral introspection, no one will be fooled when you double down in idiocy by claiming it unfair or unseemly to be wrong.
Go back to shitting on Trump. Go back to bitching and moaning about disinformation. Because you are completely, 100% un-credible on COVID policy to anyone who was here during that embarrassment of your life.
They just need ‘amnesty’ for all the terrible policies they foisted upon everyone else & advocated for. They couldn’t have possibly known any better, even if the rest of us did. Facts changed.
Those of us spouting off crazy nonsense at the time, like ‘Hey, where does the CDC get the authority to issue eviction moratoriums?’ were obviously wrong because they were scared, and something had to be done!
Well, the democrat party is responsible for championing slavery, the Vietnam war, and the forcible relocation of indigenous people and the Japanese. They discriminate against people like me with policies like Affirmative Action.
So let me be like you, BP, and say get over your outrage over Iraq. I shouldn’t have to ponder about our misadventures overseas because the other side have things to answer for too. You know how many Americans died in Gettysburg and Vietnam?
Because some things the left does is indefensible even for you, you feign objectivity by condemning them. And then you immediately deflect to “something fatass Donnie did” or “That’s exactly what fatass Donnie did too” to blunt any impression that you’re admitting to being wrong or having been a party loyalist. Your schtick is utterly transparent and predictable.
No one here thinks you’re anything other than a partisan hack for team blue. You’re going to vote for Chase Oliver, right? Sure.
https://x.com/MysteryGrove/status/1820968948180926708?t=eRLXqPJXdw6w4Xz2EuOGEg&s=19
The Kamala-Walz campaign might be the first national political movement designed exclusively by and for annoying oversocialized 40-year-old women
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So, with Walz on their team, who had a 1995 conviction for Drunk Reckless Driving for doing 96 in a 55 mph zone, the Democrats continue their shockingly consistent litany of doing almost precisely what they accused Trump of doing as they now have an actual convicted felon on their ticket.
Seriously. They call him a felon, and now they have a felon.
They said he would cancel elections, and they cancelled the primary election.
They said Trump was mentally incompetent, and Biden was actively senile.
They said Trump would weaponize the courts against their opponents, and they did just that.
They said he was a corrupt old man who took bribes, and Biden was a corrupt old man who took bribes.
It’s crazy how long this has gone on.
It’s even worse for Walz. Apparently, he ditched his unit when they were called up to go to Iraq.
https://x.com/CynicalPublius/status/1820864658846183615
He could have tried Donnie’s “bone spurs” trick to evade service.
turd, the ass-clown of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.
Do not vote for RFK jr. He is a brain wormed idiot.
Do you guys read ANY information sources that aren’t rando dudes on Twitter?
There is more to the story than what you posted.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/08/06/tim-walz-military-career-national-guard/74685414007/
It turns out that he served in the Nebraska National Guard and the Minnesota National Guard for 24 years, since 1981.
He re-enlisted in the National Guard after 9/11. He did serve in Europe in a support capacity for the mission in Afghanistan.
In 2005, when his unit got the order to deploy to Iraq, he would have been 41. Pretty old for a soldier, particularly an NCO. Plus it turns out he was injured after all those years of service, he had hearing loss from his work on artillery.
So, I really don’t think it is fair to throw around terms like “coward” lightly, especially when it comes to military service and serving in an actual combat zone.
So I can see it both ways – sure, maybe he really is a coward, or maybe he decided, after his injuries, after 24 years of service and at age 41, that he has done enough to satisfy the demands of his uniform.
Also note that your source doesn’t mention any of this other information. That is because your rando Twitter dude source wants you to be ignorant and uninformed, and to only believe his narrative.
They’re trying to Swift Boat him.
turd, the steaming ass-clown of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.
How does any of this dismiss accusations raised by former soldiers?
https://www.wctrib.com/community/letters/the-truth-about-tim-walz
You can read from your own linked article that his hearing issues was resolved. He was supposed to serve in a leadership position when he supposedly quit to pursue a political career.
Must. Defend. All. Dems.
“Tim Walz Was a COVID-19 Tyrant”
And that’s the best that can be said of him, along with Cackles.
This is actually pretty awesome.
Like I said earlier, those two marxist idiots might actually do something stupid enough to kick off the national divorce that’s needed. Things came pretty damn close with that border tiff in Texas, but they’re going to find out pretty fucking fast that a lot of red areas are looking for an excuse to tell them and the rest of the Dems to fuck off.
The Dems are going to steal it again.
The guy is nuts.