Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has called himself a “knucklehead,” but when someone else is doing the name-calling, Walz gets the sads. He is not only sad these days, but frightened as well, for Orange Man Bad has been sending some heavy rhetorical firepower his way, and after the manner of leftists all over the country in the last few years, Walz claims that this constitutes a genuine physical threat to his safety. Walz is as indifferent as all of his comrades are to the fact that the overwhelming majority of political violence in America these days is coming from the left. They know that claiming that patriots’ rhetoric threatens them provides a plausible pretext for forcibly silencing those patriots, and they’ll do that if they ever get the chance. In the meantime, Walz is contenting himself with whining at President Donald Trump.
It all started on late Thanksgiving night, when Trump wrote that “hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia are completely taking over the once great State of Minnesota. Somalian gangs are roving the streets looking for ‘prey’ as our wonderful people stay locked in their apartments and houses hoping against hope that they will be left alone. The seriously retarded Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing, either through fear, incompetence, or both.”
As is characteristic of leftists, Walz didn’t address Trump’s trenchant and accurate observations about the rampant fraud that Somali Muslim migrants have perpetrated in Minnesota. Instead, he seized upon Trump’s calling him “retarded,” claimed fancifully that others have taken up this epithet and are yelling it out as they drive by his house, and claimed that he is afraid of being physically attacked.
The New York Post reported Friday that Walz whined about Trump’s calling him “retarded”: “This creates danger. And I’ll tell you what. In my time on this, I’d never seen this before: People driving by my house and using the R-word in front of people.” It’s very likely that he still hasn’t seen it. How likely is it that Tim Walz is hanging around the governor’s mansion in St. Paul, or outside his private residence, in sub-freezing temperatures, long enough to hear what some louts shout out as they drive by?
And even in the unlikely event that Walz is telling the truth, a few people yelling is not equivalent to the open calls for violence we have seen increasingly from Walz’s leftist comrades. Remember: Jay Jones, who wrote that he wished that one of his colleagues in the Virginia state House, a Republican, would get “two bullets to the head,” and that the same colleague’s wife would watch their child die in her arms, for “only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy,” was recently elected attorney general of the state. That’s a good deal worse than calling someone “retarded,” but when has the left ever let the facts get in the way of a good narrative?
“This is shameful,” Walz declared. “And I have yet to see an elected official, a Republican elected official say, ‘You’re right. That’s shameful. He should not say it.’” Yeah, buddy, we’re still waiting for Democrats to condemn Jay Jones.
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“So look,” said the poor governor, “I’m worried. We know how these things go. They start with taunts, they turn to violence, so deeply concerned.” He should be concerned about his own side’s open bloodlust. In October, Texas state representative Jolanda Jones (what is it with violent Democrat politicians named Jones?) said: "If you hit me in my face, I'm not going to punch you back in your face. I'm going to go across your neck." Just to make sure no one misunderstood, she moved her hand in front of her neck in a slashing motion, and added: "We can go back-and-forth, fighting each other's faces. You've got to hit hard enough where they won't come back."
Similarly, far-left Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said back in April: “Never before in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption — but I am now”? Pritzker didn’t just call for protests, but for “mobilization” and “disruption.” Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D-Race Hate) said in February: “This will be a congressional fight, a constitutional fight, a legal fight, and on days like this a street fight, yes we will stand.” And House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-Sombrero) said this of the “extreme MAGA Republican agenda”: “We are going to fight it legislatively. We are going to fight it in the courts. We’re going to fight it in the streets.”
Walz said nothing about all those thinly veiled calls for violence. Instead, he claims that Trump’s sharp language will lead to violence. Tim, this is so retarded.
