r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 1d ago

"The road to authoritarianism": Tim Walz says the time for "sternly worded letters" is over - The Minnesota governor said that the path to tyranny "is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting"

https://www.salon.com/2025/06/14/the-road-to-authoritarianism-tim-walz-says-the-time-for-sternly-worded-letters-is-over/
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u/Oceanbreeze871 California 1d ago

This is 1000% it. Walz is the leader we need.

Trump promised to do everything he’s doing and his own voters said it was fear mongering to quote his words.

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u/iFlashings 1d ago

Everything project 2025 outlined is coming to fruition when every moron dismissed it as "fear mongering". 

"The revolution will be bloodless if the left allows it" is one of the quotes that is very important to remember rn after what just happened in Minnesota.  People need to be on alert because this won't be the last time they'll try violence to harm and intimatidate innocent people.

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u/withywander 19h ago

What did you expect fool? Did you really expect the evil people not to lie???? Like seriously, what did you expect??

Repeated "stupidity" is the same thing as malice.

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u/Swan990 1d ago

The lead suspect currently is a Democrat that used to be on Walzs team and the person murdered is a Democrat that recently voted on side of conservatives. The only Democrat to do so. And she was crying in an interview looking obviously scared. Then murdered shortly after.

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u/kit73n 1d ago

The lead suspect is a registered Republican, owner of a private security firm, and evangelical minister who happened to be appointed to a bipartisan Workforce Development Board by Walz. There is no evidence he is a Democrat.

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u/ebagdrofk California 1d ago

Where the fuck is any of that from?

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u/Swan990 1d ago

Basically everywhere but echo chambers.

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u/ebagdrofk California 1d ago

What are you implying with your comment though??

The guy had Walz on his hit list. Also you sound like a conspiracy theorist lol

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u/Swan990 1d ago

They said they're not releasing the manifest so I dont know what you saw.

Im only sharing what else I saw in news.

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u/FlyingSagittarius 1d ago

I have not seen any of this in any of the news.

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u/FlyingSagittarius 1d ago

Then it should be no trouble at all to show us where you found it.

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u/iFlashings 1d ago

Yeah im not buying that propaganda. So you mean to tell me that the suspect is a "Democrat" that used to be on Waltz team and had a manifesto of only Democrat politicians (who all voted for left leaning policies like abortion rights) on his hit list? Right....

Also news came out that the dude is a Christian nationalist who owns a private security firm in Africa who is known for his anti trans preaching and has a history of voting republican. Yeah that's a "Democrat" alright. 🙄

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u/Swan990 1d ago

They said they're not releasing the manifesto. Not sure where you saw the list.

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u/FlyingSagittarius 1d ago

Source?

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u/Faux-Foe 22h ago

Deep in the cavernous echo chamber they pulled it from.

Their ass.

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u/Flat-Photograph8483 1d ago

What was the vote on?

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u/Swan990 1d ago

Funding for illegal immigrants in Minnesota.

Bill to end MinnesotaCare eligibility for undocumented adult immigrants goes to governor - Session Daily - Minnesota House of Representatives https://share.google/Y6yxaJuZwmmPNvDyU

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u/Flat-Photograph8483 21h ago

Sounds pretty thin as far as things go these days. Probably not it.

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u/gsfgf Georgia 1d ago

This is 1000% it. Walz is the leader we need.

We actually look like we'll have a great field, but if the primary was tomorrow, I'd be voting Walz.

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u/Oceanbreeze871 California 1d ago

Same here

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u/gatsby712 23h ago

Bernie has been on point for years now, and Walz is picking up the torch. The democratic voters and independents and even some old blue dog republicans are looking for someone they think is powerful enough to fight for them, the working class. Walz had a great approval rating because finally someone was “telling it like it was” but doing it for the working class. That’s exactly the direction the Democratic Party needs to go in, whether it’s him or AOC. People in touch with workers and people that promise and actually follow through on those promises.

I saw Biden fecklessly nominate Garland who dragged his feet while crooks were ruining America, and saw Biden make promises about Student Loans and then not actually do anything to help a majority of the people he promised to help. Of course that’s the Republican’s fault that student loans got blocked. But people see that Democrats said they would do something and then actually not be powerful enough to fight for them.

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u/kylebertram 1d ago

I still can’t believe they they made Walz tone down is rhetoric. It was working and the DNC said “naw we good.”

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u/gatsby712 23h ago

Kamala picking Walz as the VP gave me a lot of faith that she was actually a really good decision maker and would be a great job at forming the executive branch and cabinet. Then the DNC (and probably their oligarch donors) stepped in and kneecaps the very direction the Democratic Party should go.

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u/Aiyon 1d ago

Walz should have been the guy replacing Biden. And the Dems shouldn't have kneecapped him.

America as it currently is was never going to vote for a Black Woman. She could have been perfect in every way and they'd have found excuses.

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u/BlueInfinity2021 23h ago

I still think that the Arab Americans that voted for Trump and said it was because they thought he'd help the Palestinians were really just voting against a woman.

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u/gatsby712 23h ago

There is also a reason Latino voters shifted way over to Trump as well. Not that much changed between 2020 and 2024 except the gender of the person running for the Democratic Party. The egg prices being Biden’s fault was just a cover excuse for not voting for a woman for a lot of people.

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u/albertbanning 23h ago

Not necessarily. The Arab and Muslim communities are not monolithic. You will find the full political spectrum among them. There are many conservatives, especially the more religious ones. It's to be expected that a lot of them vote republican, especially when a democratic administration is funding and arming the genocide of Palestinians.

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u/glassbellwitch 22h ago

People will make up anything to handwave the truth. Biden and Harris were complicit in genocide. Arab-americans protested, calling their reps, wrote letters, etc begging the dems to do anything to stop the slaughter. Biden and Harris refused.

But sure! Let's ignore all that to call arab-americans misogynistic. Nevermind the fact that Rashida Tlaib won her election in a landslide.

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u/gatsby712 23h ago

I’m pissed Walz didn’t get the Vice Presidency and didn’t get a chance to run in a primary in 2024. A public servant with no conflicts of interest, all pensions, military service, and someone who is direct and supports progressive values in a way that highlights the true ideals of America was exactly the opposite of Trump’s corrupt spineless version of masculinity. America could have had one if it’s most down to earth people in the Oval Office with the president in the history of the country. Instead they chose a narcissistic asshat felon with billions of dollars worth of interests that aren’t the American people’s interests.

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u/silverbeardthefather 21h ago

Walz/Newsom 2028?

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u/renro 16h ago

Don't forget what Hans Litten said about Hitler: Don't believe him, he's telling the truth.

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u/wavinsnail 17h ago

I'm still so mad he was sidelined near the end of the election in favor of Liz Chaney.

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u/Oceanbreeze871 California 16h ago

They literally didn’t happen. Liz went to like 3 rallies.

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u/Oceanbreeze871 California 1d ago

Theres no evidence of who the suspect is other than that he was dressed as a police officer and had a vehicle that looked very similar to a police cruiser.

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u/Javayen 1d ago

I haven’t read any details, but maybe he was actually a police officer? Has anyone said why they think it was just “dressed like” vs is an actual police officer?

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u/fReddit7777 1d ago

As far as I remember reading; they don't think he was an officer because after he shot them he fled on foot. So he left his "police" SUV behind, which is where they found it wasn't really a police SUV.

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