I realize you probably haven’t given Tim Walz, the Governor of Minnesota and former running mate of Kamala Harris, much thought since the election. Hell, most people didn’t give him much thought during the election either. He’s crazy. More than that, he’s incoherent, which is a side-effect of literal crazy. His recent appearance on The Rachel Maddow Show demonstrated not only this, but just how awful the judgment of Kamala Harris was to have picked him in the first place. Bullet-dodged, America.
To understand how the nominee of a major political party could pick a running mate whose communications skills consist of vomiting up a Jumble, you have to remember the circumstances around choosing him. Then-President Joe Biden had just soiled himself in the presidential debate – losing his train of thought over and over again. Then he was on the business end of one of the most devastating lines ever delivered in politics when Donald Trump said, “I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence and I don’t think he does either.”
Kamala found herself handed the nomination shortly after that and had to pick someone to be VP. To almost everyone, the choice was obvious: Josh Shapiro, the Governor of Pennsylvania. He’s smart, articulate and had just won a resounding victory in the biggest swing state in the election…but…
The problem for Harris was Shapiro is Jewish, and the Democratic Party’s radical base is “unfriendly” to Jews on a good day, and this was anything but a good day. College campuses erupted with Democrats physically angry that Israel was defending itself in the war Hamas terrorists had launched against them. The tolerant left started calling for the completion of Hitler’s dream of wiping out the Jews under the banner of “anti-fascist, with no sense of irony or self-awareness.
Afraid of losing that Muslim vote in Dearborn, Michigan, Kamala ended up losing there anyway, and the rest of the state by passing on a competent choice and going with…Tim Walz.
Had you ever heard of Tim Walz before he was picked? Probably not, unless you live in Minnesota. He’d become known only a week or so before his choosing because he called Trump and JD Vance “weird.”
Seriously, that’s what put him on the national radar for Democrats – he went on MSNBC and said they were weird. The left loved it, and tried like hell for a couple of weeks to make it a thing.
But it didn’t take. Trump is Trump, always has been and always well be. And Vance is a normal person with an all-too-common personal story the public already knew thanks to his massive-selling memoir and the movie made from it. There’s nothing “weird” about bootstrapping your way out of poverty, falling in love and having a family – it’s what everyone (well, everyone not a liberal Democrat) would consider to be the American Dream.
The only thing weird about them both was that anyone would consider them weird.
But Walz isn’t Jewish, and since he was hot at that exact moment, Kamala Harris demonstrated the kind of leadership and decision-making that turned off more voters than I think we’ll ever know.
After the election, Walz went away…until Tuesday, when he reemerged on Maddow.
I’m going to paste a transcript of just one “answer” Walz gave to a softball question about how Democrats should “push back” against Trump. This is not edited, and it makes zero sense.
“Look, there is no spine amongst those folks. But this is real. They're defunding the police, things that they puff their chest up and say they're good with making the case. I would look to the voters, I'm with this, too. Everybody's fatigued. Trust me, I get it. It was pure hell and the disappointment and the frustration. I'm soul searching, what could we have done to make the case because we knew this was coming. We knew that the implication. They're throwing so much at us that we're fatigued. We spent three days debating, having them trying to debate that President Musk gave a Nazi salute. Of course he did. But that is a distraction from what I think you said. This is game on stuff right here. I am worried with these federal employees because look at they're in a tough spot that some of these folks, especially those that are doing good work around environmental concerns around justice for people, around criminal justice reform, all of the things that make our society better, those folks are in there. They put out tweets from the president's fail son who threatens people like, ‘We're coming for you.’ You think this is bad or whatever? So I would tell people, Stay focused. Don't take the bait on the distractions. Surround yourself with people who understand this and recognize the things they went after today are basically a big chunk of what society does. People like to have clean water and hospitals and hospitals and safety and roads and airports, all the things they're going after. You summed it up. There are societies that function like this where the rich and the oligarchs do everything. There are some fabulously wealthy people who are basically we, not basically, are above the law, and the rest of us are here. I think we have to find that voice. We have to push back. We have to be organized. We do have to use the courts, but I just want to caution everyone. I don't know what Lent tends us to believe that Donald Trump cares what the courts say. I think there needs to be more to that. I think it is taking it to the individual people, show what each of these programs does and what it means to people's lives.”
WTF? Vomited up Jumble. (Watch him say it and see if it makes any more sense when you see it – spoiler: it does not.)
The man can’t form a complete thought, let alone communicate one, and he is who Kamala Harris thought should be one heartbeat away from the presidency?
You almost feel badly for him, but then you remember the lies about his service record and so many other aspects of his life and you thank God again that Democrats lost.
Look, Kamala Harris was a horrible choice, too, one Biden made to cover for his career of racist comments and for being rich, old white guy. But at least you could grasp what the hell she was talking about most of the time. When you couldn’t, it could be chalked up to her simply not being all that bright, though still brighter than Joe (low bar).
Walz is incoherent in an unstable way – with half thoughts and false starts, seemingly getting distracted by whatever is happening between his own ears. If he were your Uber driver you’d assume he was in the middle of an argument through a Bluetooth ear piece and demand to be let out of the car once you realized that was just him talking to you.
We dodged many bullets on November 5th, most of which were huge and known. But we dodged another one most people have forgotten about already – the national influence of Tim Walz on our lives. Whew, that was too close.
Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.