We Need to Talk About Tim Walz

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The MSM is in overdrive, so desperate are they to make over the images of Vice President Kamala Harris and her VP Nominee, Minnesota Governor. Tim Walz. We’ve already discussed Harris’s shiny new image, but I think we really need to talk about Tim Walz.

To borrow a word from the ultra-liberal lexicon, he is, to say the least, “problematic.”

The propaganda machine is trying to gloss over all the lies and paint him as a bastion of the “new masculinity.” Friends, if this is an example of new masculinity, please give me the old-fashioned kind. All day long and twice on Sunday.

The Salon article

It’s been a long time since I’ve read anything so utterly false, ridiculous, and nauseating as an article entitled, “Joyful Warrior Tim Walz and the End of the Patriarchy.” The subheading reads,

Tim Walz drives MAGA men nuts — he’s living proof that their tormented masculinity is yesterday’s news.

The featured image shows a cherubic-looking Walz clapping his hands and on the verge of weeping.

Don’t worry. I read this rambling discourse of ridiculousness so you don’t have to.

It was written by a high school English teacher, may heaven help the next generation. The first part of the article says nothing about Walz but speaks of the crisis that boys and men are facing in the United States. Here’s an excerpt:

Boys and men are behaving like a conquered people.

To be clear, I don’t believe that men are a conquered people. I do not feel conquered, nor do I think that men as a class are conquered. But what matters is not what is actually true, but what men and boys perceive to be true. And enough of them feel this way to have triggered this crisis.

To feel like a conquered people is a terrible thing. The psychic wounds are profound. Among some Indigenous Americans, we see much of the same evidence as in modern American men: underachievement, underemployment, alcoholism, drug addiction, despair, suicide.

In my opinion, there have always been people who wallow in bitter underachievement, both male and female. I grew up in a small Southern town, and while most folks were hardworking and honest, there were always a few sitting on a ratty couch on their front porch with a beer in hand by the early afternoon.

Anywho, the article goes into the supernatural powers of women and an ascendency, menstrual cycles, and a Lakota ghost dance. When I say rambling, I mean rambling. We’re many many paragraphs in without a mention of Walz, though his name is in the headline.

The MAGA movement is a kind of latter-day Ghost Dance: a desperate attempt to recover the supposed lost birthright of men and restore a perceived rightful power. But just as for the Lakota, who wished to make their nation great again, it’s too late. Female ascendancy is a force of history too powerful, with too much momentum — built up after centuries of slow progress and a few decades of revolutionary tsunami.

The author goes on to like Jan. 6 to the Ghost Dance of a fallen people, as well as “far-right terrorism” and “the Great Replacement Theory.” There’s more about feminism and the late Dorothy Dinnerstein, whom he refers to as a “prophet.”

There are only TWO PARAGRAPHS in the entire treatise that mention Walz, which is odd considering the thesis suggested by the title.

Much has been made lately about “joyful warrior” Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota and the Democratic vice-presidential nominee. While Walz is indeed skillful and cheerful in attack, there’s one battle hes not fighting, and it drives MAGA men nuts: he doesn’t fight the gender war, yet he does not appear the least bit defeated. His presence suggests that the battle between men and women doesn’t really exist at all.

Many commentators have noted Walz’s “dadness,” and there’s no doubt that his classic middle-American dad vibe infuriates the church fathers of MAGA. That’s because Walz is a new-school dad, essentially the type that Dinnerstein prophesied.

Anyway, the patriarchy caused climate change and has increased the possibility of nuclear annihilation. And that’s the article.

Stories of Walz’s military history appear to have been greatly exaggerated.

Walz has gone the “stolen valor” route by claiming a rank in the National Guard that he never held. He has talked about “fighting with weapons of war” even though he never saw combat. In fact, so eager was he to avoid combat that he abruptly retired right as his unit was being called to serve in Afghanistan.

Even the leftie Daily Beast has called out Walz on his dishonesty, citing an interview in which he dodged questions like a professional boxer in the ring with a toddler.

Veterans who served with him are furious about his dishonesty, using terms like “morally indefensible,” “stolen valor,” “military impersonator,” and “habitual liar.”

Any confusion that Walz has addressed he’s blamed on his “poor grammar.”

His record as governor

As governor, Walz was in charge of Minnesota during the George Floyd riots of 2020. Minneapolis literally burned, with swaths of the city utterly destroyed. He has been deeply criticized for his three-day delay in deploying the National Guard to restore order.

Walz also signed the bill that required all schools to place menstrual products in the bathrooms – including the boys’ bathrooms – for all students in grades 4-12. Grade four? Really? PolitiFact tries to blur the lines, but the actual fact of the law is that the products “must be accessible” in ALL restrooms. He also signed a “trans refuge law” to offer teens a “safe place” to transition over the protests of their parents.

He also welcomed illegal immigrants, providing them with “sanctuary.” He was responsible for giving illegals their own driver’s licenses, free medical care, and tuition-free college. He was so welcoming that an influx of immigrants from Somalia have virtually taken over the Twin Cities, where the largest community of Somali migrants in the country have settled.

Coincidentally, these neighborhoods have seen a 56% increase in violent crime. Somali gangs with names like “Somali Mafia,” “Somali Outlaws,” “Young n’ Thuggin (YNT)” and the “Taliban”  have wrought havoc.

I can only imagine the chaos if he get’s the cloak and scepter of “border Czar” on a national level.

And then there are his disturbing ties to China.

While everything I’ve reported is troubling, it’s Walz’s ties to China that concern me most.

He got married intentionally on the date of the massacre at Tiananmen Square and then honeymooned in China. Yes, it’s true. There’s an adorable wedding announcement from a local newspaper at the time. What kind of person chooses a the date of a brutal massacre for a wedding, then goes to visit the guilty country afterward?

Walz has made many, many trips to China, and a large number were during his stint in the National Guard. The campaign refuses to answer questions about whether or not these trips were correctly disclosed to the military.

Walz himself has said he’s visited China “about 30 times” and he speaks fluent Mandarin. (Now, speaking a foreign language doesn’t make you a spy but it’s still notable.)

ZeroHedge reports:

Security experts argue that Walz’s frequent trips to China would have triggered concerns within the military. Sean Bigley, a security clearance expert, noted that receiving funding from China for trips is a major red flag. “That’s almost a non-starter for a security clearance… There’s an expectation that comes with that,” he said.

Bigley explained that the Chinese government doesn’t provide funding without expecting something in return, suggesting that Walz’s acceptance of such funding would have raised serious concerns during any background investigation.

“What are you expected to do in return for that money?” said Bigley.

Former senior intelligence analyst John Schindler added that Walz’s repeated travel to China and the support he received from Chinese authorities would not have occurred without the approval of China’s Ministry of State Security, the regime’s secret police. “You don’t get to go back to China 30 times on educational exchanges unless you have the approval of the Communist Party and the secret police,” Schindler said.

But wait, there’s more Chinese money involved. Check out this report on Fox News.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has been a longtime vocal supporter of a medical research institute in his home state with a long track record of collaborating with a firm labeled by the Pentagon as a “Chinese military company” and with Chinese officials with controversial ties to the CCP.

Walz, Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, has long been aligned with the Hormel Institute, a biomedical research center in Austin, Minnesota, within the University of Minnesota’s Research and Innovation Office…

…The Hormel Institute has done extensive work with the Beijing Genomics Institute, a group labeled by the Pentagon as a “Chinese military company,” some of which involved research on BGI machines and studies conducted with BGI laboratories in Shenzhen, China, for analysis…

…”BGI may be serving, wittingly or unwittingly, as a global collection mechanism for Chinese government gene databases, providing China with greater raw numbers and diversity of human genome samples as well as access to sensitive personal information about key individuals around the world,” The National Security Commission on AI said in 2022.

Concerns about BGI are so prevalent that Congress has weighed legislation to ban government contracts with the Chinese military subsidiary, Fox News Digital previously reported…

…Dr. Zigang Dong abruptly stepped down from his post leading the institute in 2019 after 18 years in the position. Around the same time, it was revealed Dong was involved in an FBI probe where the bureau was investigating his “possible failure to report foreign backing when applying for grants,” Austin Daily Herald reported.

In addition to serving as the executive director of the Hormel Institute, Dong established the China-US (Henan) Hormel Cancer Institute (CUHCI), a multimillion-dollar international partnership with a research facility in China, during his time with Hormel, and Walz was present to celebrate the announcement. …

…In 2014, Walz welcomed a delegation from China to the institute that included Wang Yanling, the vice governor of Henan Province and a Communist Party doctor. Yanling is listed as holding several positions in the Chinese Communist Party over the course of many decades.

Several members of the Chinese Communist Party have sat on the board of directors at the Henan Cancer Institute, according to an archived version of the organization’s website.

…FEC filings show that Dong has been a longtime and almost exclusive donor to Walz’s political career, including five donations of over $200 to Walz’s congressional campaigns dating back to 2005.

And we thought Biden’s ties with Ukraine were unsettling. This connection is pretty extreme, and it comes at exactly the same time as a Chinese spy working in both the Cuomo and Hochul administrations in New York being outed.

Do we really want someone with such close ties to China a heartbeat away from the Presidency?

There’s more, but this is enough for today.

Tim Walz is wholly unsuited for the Vice President’s office. We keep hearing about Kamala’s communist leanings, but her VP pick is neck-deep in Commie connections. He’s a proven liar, he’s super-woke, he has a concerning record on illegal immigration, and he stood by and watched for three days as a city in his state burned.

What do you think?

Are there other things that concern you about Walz? Do you think some of these worries are overblown?

Let’s talk about it in the comments section.

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