I watched Tim Walz speak to a crowd in his home state of Nebraska, and he was wonderful.
I encourage you to watch this good, decent man. He knows that what matters most in our leaders is their character and their values. He has them.
The above link is for Tim Walz’s speech.
If you want to watch the whole event, including his introduction by his wife Gwen, open this link. If you are a teacher, you will love her call-out to teachers, and the crowd roaring “TEACHERS! TEACHERS! TEACHERS!”
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Gwen Walz, a total nutcase/fanatic. Here’s what she said about the 2020 riots in Minneapolis that resulted in $500+ million in property damage, with almost all of the uninsured losses suffered by small business owners:
““Again we had more sleepless nights during the riots… I could smell the burning tires, and that was a very real thing. I kept the windows open as long as I could because I felt like that was such a touchstone of what was happening.”
Diane Ravitch celebrates this idiocy.
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The fact that she didn’t hide from/look away from the riots is somehow a bad thing? Or “idiocy”? Explain.
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Gwen Walz thought the riots were wonderful, the burning tires being the smell of social justice. Obviously you do, too, from a safe distance away and no financial losses that you personally suffered.
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This comment is utterly bizarre. Obviously not.
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These comments are totally wackadoodle. They make no sense whatsoever and are based on nothing but the fevered imaginations of goons in Reichwing memeland.
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NOwhere in the quote did Gwen Walz say that the riots were wonderful or that the burning tires were the smell of social justice.
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I have become accustomed to the “concerned trolls” who come here to say “I can see plenty wrong with Trump, but Biden, but Harris, but Walz…” and then follows slanderous comments. They are Trump trolls.
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The New York Times had a profile of Gwen Walz a few days ago. Here is a snippet:
Most of the American public got its first good look at Gov. Tim Walz last week at a rally in Philadelphia alongside Vice President Kamala Harris, who had that day announced him as her running mate. At the end of his speech, the nation also got its first glimpse of the woman to whom he has been married for 30 years.
“As Ms. Walz enters the national stage, critics on the right are already trying to portray her — as they have with her husband — as a left-wing radical who countenanced the civil unrest in her state after the death of George Floyd. But at home in Minnesota, where she has spent most of her life, friends and political observers describe her as the coolheaded and ultracompetent counterpart to a man known for an intuitive and charismatic political style.
“We have always worked as a partnership,” Ms. Walz, 58, told the self-improvement podcast “What If It Works” last month, later adding, “We are still one another’s closest advisers.”
“Ms. Walz did not comment for this article.
“The first gubernatorial spouse in Minnesota to keep an office in the state capital, Ms. Walz regularly advises her husband and has used her platform to advance policy initiatives, most significantly around offering college degree programs to inmates.”
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Exactly. This interpretation is just looney tunes.
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You folks are up late responding to this troll.
I have noticed a lot of my conservative friends lately who are blaming the “liberal media” for not holding Harris/Walz to the same standard that they use on Trump. This is the most ridiculous charge I have ever heard. Biden fumbles a bit and there is a “liberal media” firestorm. Trump talks out of his head for almost a decade and they give him a free pass.
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Trump. Should. Be. In. Prison. He is a traitor and a seditionist and a serial rapist.
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And Honshu is the largest of the islands of Japan. Is this a fake name? Inquiring minds want to know.
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–Bob Nantucket
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next to St Paul, Nantucket is perhaps the most frequently referenced geographic location in limericks
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Thus my name
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And then there is Khartoum
There was a gay lad from Khartoum,
took a lesbian girl to his room.
They spent all the night
in a terrible fight
over who should do what and to whom.
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And then there is the great pair of limericks by Monsignor Ronald Knox
God in the Quad.
There was a young man who said “God
Must find it exceedingly odd
To think that the tree
Should continue to be
When there’s no one about in the quad.”
God’s reply:
“Dear Sir: Your astonishment’s odd;
I am always about in the quad.
And that’s why the tree
Will continue to be
Since observed by, Yours faithfully, God.”
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Honshu is a nom de troll.
Trolls think it exceedingly droll
to make up a name
then proceed to flame
and send others down a rathole.
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Missing Some Dam Poet these days. Alas.
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I think that the only voice here at this time who is focusing on idiocy is Joanne Honshu.
2020 was several years ago. What happened in Minneapolis that was mostly concentrated in a 5-mile area south of Downtown, Minneapolis wasn’t an isolated or rare incident.
The United States has a long history of violent and peaceful protests, starting with the Boston Tea Party in 1773, followed by a revolution that lasted just over seven years.
https://www.britannica.com/study/history-of-us-riots-and-protests
And what happened in Minneapolis in 2020, was not the worst protest that resulted in violence and damage.
“The beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers and their subsequent acquittal on charges of assault with a deadly weapon and excessive use of force triggered the Los Angeles Riots of 1992, which is still considered the worst race riots in American history.”
The property damage in Los Angeles in 1992, was about $1 billion.
There are about 198,971 housing units in Minneapolis, and that doesn’t include all the commercial buildings and businesses.
“In the early 2020s, the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area in U.S. state of Minnesota experienced a wave of civil unrest, comprising peaceful demonstrations and riots, against systemic racism toward black Americans, notably in the form of police violence.”
The real lunacy is from Trump and MAGA that wants to use the US Military Against HIS domestic enemies.
“As recent reports have revealed, former President Donald Trump and his allies are making plans for how a second Trump administration would use the powers of the federal government to punish Trump’s critics and political opponents. Among other things, Trump would reportedly invoke the Insurrection Act — a law that gives the president nearly unchecked powers to use the military as a domestic police force — on his first day in office, so that he could quash any public protests against him.”
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/trump-wants-use-military-against-his-domestic-enemies-congress-must-act
Minneapolis did not BURN in 2020. A few buildings in Minneapolis were damaged, burned or destroyed.
“Minneapolis city officials now say 700 buildings [SEVEN HUNDRED] were damaged, burned or destroyed in the recent unrest following the death of George Floyd.
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minneapolis-issues-map-showing-extent-of-buildings-damaged-in-unrest-over-george-floyds-death/#:~:text=MINNEAPOLIS%20(WCCO)%20%2D%2D%20Minneapolis%20city,the%20death%20of%20George%20Floyd.
There are about 200,000 buildings in Minneapolis when we add commercial structures.
The number 700 is about one-third of one percent.
What I want to know is who Joanne Honshu is and if they are a US citizen and live in the United States or are they just another Putin or MAGA troll.
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700 buildings is a significant amount of damage. The anger that boiled over into this is due to a LOT MORE damage. The former is terrible. The latter is godawful.
And let’s not forget where it all started–with the white operative breaking the windows of the auto parts store.
I guess the idea was that this would trigger violent rioting and necessitate calling out the military, in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. So, a little false flag action at the beginning–the lighting of tinder to cause the conflagration.
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I like your fundamentally historical approach. Mob violence is as much a part of human history as civilization itself. It is rarely justified, but often celebrated.
I cannot help but contrast two examples of Mob violence. The first was the storming of the Bastille during the early stages of the French Revolution. Crowds panicked at the rumor that royal troops were surrounding the city. They went for the gunpowder stored in the old fort, which was such a symbol of royal dominance that crowds tore it down rock by rock during the Revolution.
The other mob event that comes to mind was the Night of the Broken Glass that heralded the coming of Nazism. Nazi mobs destroyed Jewish businesses and buildings.
The first example is still celebrated today as the beginning of freedom. The second is remembered as the onset of tyranny.
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Joanne H., a mouthpiece for ignorance, intolerance and advanced stupidimus. Nasty little trick taking a quotation out of context. Sell your filth someplace else.
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Joanne– I don’t think you know what was in her mind. Her words don’t say that. Sleepless nights says worry and concern. Keping the windows says needing to remain connected to what the people were going through.
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Sorry, Joanne, I am not familiar with what Gwen Walz said about the riots. I saw her speak today at the rally in Nebraska and was very impressed by her intelligence. She is s veteran English teacher. I assume she could not keep a job if she were a nutcase or fanatic. I was impressed by her quiet confidence.
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LOVED the speech by the former student of both the Walzes.
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Once again I ask that the Democratic Party support teachers openly as a part of their platform and rhetoric. Now is the time to return the respect to learning in this country.
Democrats should say:
None of this should be controversial.
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Amen
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