Gov. Tim Walz Calls For Democrats To Be A Little Meaner

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz shared some stark words for Democrats on Saturday, calling for his fellow party members to "be a little meaner" in the pushback against President Donald Trump.

“It’s because he is,” Walz said at the South Carolina Democratic Party Convention, addressing why he called Trump a “wannabe dictator.” Walz ran as the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee with then-Presidential candidate Kamala Harris against Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance in 2024. The former public school teacher was initially praised during the election for his relatability and Midwestern appeal.

“‘Oh, the Governor’s being mean,’ well, maybe it’s time for us to be a little meaner, maybe it’s time for us to be a little more fierce,” Walz said. “We have to ferociously push back on this…the thing that bothers a teacher more than anything is to watch a bully.”

When the bully is a child, you teach them why bullying is wrong, Walz explained, but when the “bully is an adult like Donald Trump, you bully… him back.”

“At heart, this is a weak, cruel man,” Walz said of Trump.

Walz’s comments come amid wider efforts among the Democratic Party to step toe-to-toe with Trump’s far-reaching and sweeping changes at the federal government, which have seen him attempt to flex his executive power in unprecedented ways.

https://time.com/7290249/tim-walz-speech-democrats-meaner-donald-trump-bully-analogy/

[Ladle Ghoulash 52,603]

Tea. IMO, the “weird” messaging in 2024 was working and it’s a shame that the Clinton/Biden advisors convinced the Harris campaign to dial it back. 

[PartySick 172,467]

Well yeah  

Imo the biggest reason Dems struggle with younger voters, aside from how apathetic they are, is 'cause the choices are often seen as "evil Republicans or cowardly Democrats"

We don't need politicians to lecture us on how Trump is bad because of this law that leads to this economic problem and these institutions of democracy get damaged and with enough time blah blah blah

Get on stage

Say "y'all know he's a piece of sh*t and Republicans are also pieces of sh*t"

Collect votes from people who have ZERO interest in building bridges with the right

[LaLa 19,898]

"when they go low, we go high," is O V E R

[Scarlet Witch 1,656]

5 minutes ago, LaLa said:

"when they go low, we go high," is O V E R

The Michelle Obama quote that ruined an entire generation of US politics

[weed 78,890]

It's about damn time. Where are all of the left wing lunatic conspiracy theorists? I'm not gonna listen to them but clearly millions and millions of americans will! 

[Economy 52,842]

24 minutes ago, PartySick said:

Well yeah  

Imo the biggest reason Dems struggle with younger voters, aside from how apathetic they are, is 'cause the choices are often seen as "evil Republicans or cowardly Democrats"

We don't need politicians to lecture us on how Trump is bad because of this law that leads to this economic problem and these institutions of democracy get damaged and with enough time blah blah blah

Get on stage

Say "y'all know he's a piece of sh*t and Republicans are also pieces of sh*t"

Collect votes from people who have ZERO interest in building bridges with the right

Most Corporate democrats just pertend on the surface to fight for the average American when deep inside they dont really wanna raise taxes for the rich cuz that often also means themselves...

 

So offering little resistance when they are in opppsition, and folding to a lot of compromise to Republicans when they are in power is how they do it

 

Cenk from TYT puts it beautifully, they essentially always go "there was nothing we could do, there was nothing we could do"

[ALGAYDO 35,062]

I’ve been saying, we need to bully the conservatives 

[PartySick 172,467]

14 minutes ago, Economy said:

Cenk from TYT puts it beautifully, they essentially always go "there was nothing we could do, there was nothing we could do"

I don't care for TYT

It's been years since I've heard anything from them but they always struck me as the same type of nihilistic, defeatist, purist leftist morons that cost us 2016 and 2024 'cause it's "perfection or nothing"  

[Flareon Voyager 379]

We need more Luigis…

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36 minutes ago, PartySick said:

I don't care for TYT

It's been years since I've heard anything from them but they always struck me as the same type of nihilistic, defeatist, purist leftist morons that cost us 2016 and 2024 'cause it's "perfection or nothing"  

Ironically i used to hate them more before eapecially Anna cuz I thought they were too extreme (when I was more Centrist) and now that im more left i agree with them on more stuff 

 

I get what ur saying tho and sometimes they come across a bit too high mighty and self righteous which I dont like

 

But they do make some points i think including about Democrats not fighting as hard as Republicans do due to probably being contaminated woth conflicting interests from Corporate donors

 

I do notice Democrats consistently compromise when their in power yet barely seem to fight when they arent in power. Its almost like the party as a whole doesnt truly really want to...

 

 

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44 minutes ago, PartySick said:

I don't care for TYT

It's been years since I've heard anything from them but they always struck me as the same type of nihilistic, defeatist, purist leftist morons that cost us 2016 and 2024 'cause it's "perfection or nothing"  

We're at a point now where activists get invited onto right wing talk shows for the sole reason that they will dig a bigger grave for themselves, we're so ****ed. 

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50 minutes ago, PartySick said:

I don't care for TYT

It's been years since I've heard anything from them but they always struck me as the same type of nihilistic, defeatist, purist leftist morons that cost us 2016 and 2024 'cause it's "perfection or nothing"  

I can't understand the leftists that didn't vote because they don't like everything about the dem candidate, like would you rather have trump?

We were not in a situation where we could afford to be picky. A no vote, or a write in/3rd party vote is a vote for trump Lmao 

So many just didn't vote and that's why he won.

[PartySick 172,467]

10 minutes ago, Economy said:

I do notice Democrats consistently compromise when their in power yet barely seem to fight when they arent in power. Its almost like the party as a whole doesnt truly really want to...

I don't think it's that they don't want to, they're just stuck in their ways. They're all crypt keepers from a bygone era of political compromise where reaching across the aisle was a real thing. Or at least it seemed to be.

But the right has caved to it's worst side and the left has fractured between politicians who say "can't we just work together?" and voters who say "those people say I don't even have a right to exist, no we can't work together???"

[PartySick 172,467]

5 minutes ago, Lil1th said:

We were not in a situation where we could afford to be picky. A no vote, or a write in/3rd party vote is a vote for trump Lmao 

So many just didn't vote and that's why he won.

Averting disaster >>>>> making substantial change for the better

Idk why more on the left can't understand how constantly having to rebuild might stand in the way of progress

Imagine if we got a full 16 years of democratic presidents and a congress controlled by democrats 

F*cking Obama got less than two years with a supermajority and he basically put us on the path to a single payer healthcare system  

Biden damn near erased student debt for tens of millions of people WITHOUT a majority

Like, what really isn't clicking here that when you're presented with two options, you pick the better one