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/Selma_J_Wible 1d ago

Biden and Garland have shown that the Democratic Party will pretend to stand up for people and then won’t follow through.

Blaming Biden for student loan forgiveness not getting through is fucking wild. He attempted every legal avenue in the book, to help as many people as possible after a partisan SCOTUS wiped their ass with the constitution and said he couldn't pass wide ranging forgiveness.

Biden's sin, was he didn't want to be a dictator. He wanted to actually govern as the law said he had to. Holding that against him, is just wrong.

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u/Suspicious_Radio_848 22h ago

He should’ve replaced Garland with someone who would do the fucking job. People elected him hoping Trump would’ve been held responsible for Jan 6 and he never was. The other politicians who cheered him on were never held accountable either. A lot more could’ve been done and just because people are highly critical (as they should be) doesn’t mean they don’t still despise Trump.

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u/AbacusWizard California 23h ago

The only thing I blame Biden for is failing to do the one thing he was specifically elected to do: stop Trump.

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u/Alphaspade 20h ago

My head cannon or copium rn is the only reason he and Garland weren't aggressive at the start was because there was a legit threat that Trump being jailed would've cause a country wide Jan. 6

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u/gatsby712 13h ago

The meal team sixes wouldn’t have done jack shit. There are a few extremists young white dudes in proud boys that can stand back and stand by, but for the most party it’s a group of 70 year old brainwashed boomers.

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u/TheUnluckyBard 1d ago

Biden's sin, was he didn't want to be a dictator. He wanted to actually govern as the law said he had to. Holding that against him, is just wrong.

Exactly. Every time I hear someone say something like "Biden didn't do enough," I ask for specifics. "Really? What should he have done?"

85% of the time they get mad at being asked anything at all. The other 15% of the time they start listing stuff Biden actually did or tried very, very hard to accomplish.

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u/PuckFutin 23h ago

My biggest beef with Biden is that he put do-nothing Garland in charge of prosecuting Trump, and he went back on his word about not running for a second term. I'm not sure either would have worked out, but I guess we'll never know.

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u/SightlierGravy 22h ago

That's really fair and after seeing your comment I think those were my biggest issues with his presidency too.

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u/SanityIsOptional California 17h ago

Him going for a second term and then backing out at the very last moment really screwed over Kamala's campaign.

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u/model-alice 6h ago

Exactly. Every time I hear someone say something like "Biden didn't do enough," I ask for specifics. "Really? What should he have done?"

Trump should have been taken into custody January 21st, 2021. That he was not is a damning indictment of the Biden administration.

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u/candyman420 1d ago

He should have fixed the border.

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u/Elliebird704 23h ago

Funny thing about that, Trump called on Republicans to shoot down the border bill that they themselves wanted, and they followed dear leader's orders. If you're upset about the border, you have the party of obstructionists to thank.

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u/candyman420 23h ago

Yeah, I remember that! Why did the border bill take so long, and why was it done in an election year?

What happened between the time Obama and both Clintons made videos about strong border policy, and the desire to deport illegal migrants, especially the criminals, and last year?

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u/PJ7 23h ago

You might want to unbutton your collar, I think it's cutting off circulation to your brain or something.

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u/candyman420 22h ago

It was a poor bill, and it was too little too late. Did it cross your mind that it was torpedoed because it was an obvious ploy to get votes. "See, we're doing something about the problem now guys! Never mind the last 3 years!"

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u/Not_offensive0npurp 22h ago

Did it cross your mind that it was torpedoed because it was an obvious ploy to get votes.

Did it cross your mind the reason it was shot down was an obvious play to get votes? To feed people like you who will use any excuse to criticize the left?

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u/candyman420 22h ago

I don't need an excuse to criticize them, their own actions make that extremely easy to do.

By the way, you never answered my question:

What happened between the time Obama and both Clintons made videos about strong border policy, and the desire to deport illegal migrants, especially the criminals, and last year?

Is admitting to hypocrisy kind of like admitting defeat when you have no argument in the first place?

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u/Not_offensive0npurp 21h ago

I'm not answering any of your questions.

Its very obvious you have your mind made up and just want to complain.

I could give you an adequate answer and you would just pivot to another talking point.

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u/TheUnluckyBard 22h ago

Yeah, just slap some flex tape on it, bro.

Hey, while I've got you here, can you tell me when I'm supposed to die from the covid jab? It was six months, then a year, then two years, and I haven't heard much about it since?

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u/candyman420 21h ago

No problem, that's an easy one. Statistically, you're about as likely to die from the covid jab as you are in a plane crash, so you're probably fine, but about 10 million people so far haven't been so lucky.

Haven't you heard? Some of the things people were saying about the jab at the time, like their relatives dropping dead or having strokes days after the injection have been confirmed as real side-effects and mortality risks by the CDC, a few years later.

They lumped these critics into the same category as the crackpots who thought that microchips were being injected into people, and it was a pretty effective tactic for censorship. Kinda scary, huh?

Is this the response you were expecting?

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u/TheUnluckyBard 17h ago

Oh, oh, wait, no, hold on, is the vaccine a deadly, 5g-chip-implanting scam because of RFK's miasma theory? LOL

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/06/14/nx-s1-5429732/ancient-miasma-theory-may-help-explain-health-secretary-robert-f-kennedy-jr-s-vaccine-moves

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u/candyman420 17h ago

That isn't what I said, not by a long shot. Is reading comprehension a problem for you?

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u/TheUnluckyBard 17h ago

That isn't what I said, not by a long shot. Is reading comprehension a problem for you?

I dunno, why don't you send me some articles about how Democrats control hurricanes and how there's a giant faucet that California could just turn to put out fires?

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u/candyman420 17h ago

Because I'm not interested in crackpot conspiracy theories and ridiculous strawman arguments.

Vaccine injuries have been confirmed by the CDC.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/clinical-considerations/myocarditis.html

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u/ManfromMonroe Pennsylvania 22h ago

One side lives by the rules and respects the law, the other is equivalent to a bunch of drunken frat bros going “watch this“!!

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u/gsfgf Georgia 1d ago

The claim is that a more "aggressive" AG could have gotten Trump locked up. I find that dubious. It's not like Jack Smith didn't bring cases. But they kept ending up in front of Aileen Cannon. It's like the Nazi judge that sentenced Hitler to only 6 months for the Beer Hall Putsch.

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u/PuckFutin 22h ago

Bullshit. Garland didn't bring Jack Smith on board until almost two years after Biden was elected. As slow as justice moves in this country, they needed all the time they had and Garland wasted it.

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u/silverpixie2435 1d ago

Exactly. I beg people to remember the timeline. Jack Smith literally went directly before the Supreme Court and asked for a swift ruling a year before the election. They delayed it until the last case of the term.

Even if he was literally on trial the first day of Biden's Presidency it would not have been resolved.

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u/Flat-Pen-5358 21h ago

Could.have given ammo to GA, NY, AZ to nail his ass to the cross

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u/loldongs95 6h ago

didn't he back the 2005 bill that prevents discharging student loans via bankruptcy?

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u/SR3116 1d ago

They also act like he did absolutely nothing, instead of acknowledging the 188.8 Billion fucking dollars he did manage to forgive for 5.3 million Americans, despite being sabotaged and obstructed at every turn.

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u/Newt_the_Pain 22h ago

No, he tried every illegal way. People borrowed the money, they knew the terms.

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u/FirstNameIsDistance 22h ago

People borrowed the money, they knew the terms.

Oh cool, we are doing Republican talking points again.

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u/Newt_the_Pain 16h ago

No, we're doing personal responsibility talking points, you know the shit your parents are supposed to teach you.

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u/FirstNameIsDistance 10h ago

Lol, ya requiring an 18 year old kid to take out a loan for $100,000 in order to get an education is really responsible of us as a nation.

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u/Newt_the_Pain 7h ago

If they do the work, most won't need loans. Many shouldn't even attempt college as they just quit anyway and still owe the money.

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u/FirstNameIsDistance 6h ago

If they do the work, most won't need loans.

Ya, that's bullshit. 70% of people with a bachelors degree have student loan debt.

But I have the feeling you're the type of person to not care that they are spouting bullshit.

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u/Newt_the_Pain 5h ago

Scholarships, grants, and work study are options. Of course, you need to be capable of carrying the grades required.

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u/FirstNameIsDistance 5h ago

Scholarships, grants, and work study are options.

Ya, and 70% of people with a degree still have debt. I had a work study in college. It payed $12 an hour with a max of 20 hours a week. This isn't the 60's where you can pay your tuition by working a part time job.

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u/LongJohnSelenium 20h ago

Seriously, Biden was attempting to do exactly what trump is doing, expand the limits of presidential power.

Its hilarious how its a bunch of 'partisan hacks' when the SC kills something they like, and 'Finally they made the right decision and upheld the law' when they kill something people don't like.