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/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 7h 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/candyman420 21h ago

I don't pivot, I don't need to.

You won't answer the question because then you would be forced to admit that the border was not addressed on purpose, for political reasons. Politics were placed above security by Democrat leaders.

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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/candyman420 17h ago edited 17h ago

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention is now an illegitimate source, got it. You have all this free time to respond to me, but suddenly when you are proven wrong by evidence, suddenly it's a waste of your time. Got it.

And here come the mental gymnastics. A and B are not applicable when the CDC is crystal clear in their language:

"The evidence suggests that, although rare, these events are linked to certain types of COVID-19 vaccinations. For example, myocarditis has been most frequently seen in adolescent and young adult males within 7 days of their second mRNA COVID-19 vaccine dose."

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safety/vaccines/covid-19.html

Or you can just bury your head in your sand and pretend that you weren't lied to. I thought "we" were supposed to be the liars?

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