The Minnesota governor said that the path to tyranny “is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting”
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was testifying before Congress about his state’s handling of immigration when he learned Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., was forcibly removed from a Department of Homeland Security news conference Thursday.
The irony, he told the attendees of the Center for American Progress’ “Listening to Lead” event Friday, was in lawmakers grilling him and his colleagues, Govs. Kathy Hochul, D-N.Y. and JB Pritzker, D-Ill., over the “incredible crime of treating people like human beings” as FBI agents tackled a sitting senator to the ground and handcuffed him in Los Angeles.
“I am not prone to hyperbole. I am prone to, like, popping off a little bit. I know that,” Walz said, prefacing his argument that Americans are living in a “dangerous” time. “I believed all along we were marching towards authoritarianism, and people were telling me in December, ‘You know, you’re overreacting.’ And I said, “The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.”
people were telling me in December, ‘You know, you’re overreacting.’
One day after saying this, the former speaker of the Minnesota house is gunned down by a pro-Trump extremist.
*by a MAGA terrorist
Redundant statement is redundant.
MAGA == terrorist
It’s not redundant until the mainstream media frames the narrative based on reality instead of propaganda.
Words have meaning, and we should do our best to use the most accurate, truthful words to reframe the narrative and ensure clarity; even when others do not.
I agree with you, I was just being cheeky.
You son of a bitch I’m in
How would you react if you saw a similar exchange between MAGAs?
MAGA A: <some sweeping negative generalization>.
MAGA B: You don’t really mean that, right? It’s not all of them.
MAGA A: I’m just joking. Relax.Would you take that response at face value or would you assume that the joke is a thinly veiled statement of their actual beliefs?
I should clarify a little. I do think MAGAs are terrorists, all of them. I was being cheeky about the part about the redundant statement being redundant. My last comment was in response to the person saying it’s not redundant until mainstream media calls it, which is technically true.
Let’s not forget when they called themselves terrorists. If someone wanted me to support my belief, I would reference that. If I were to ask a MAGA the same thing for their negative generalization, I’d imagine I wouldn’t get a response built in truth, like when they say all Dems are pedophiles, or something like that
People have been telling me I’ve been overreacting for the last two years. My “overreacting” is the reason why I’m now comfortably in another country.
Yes. I don’t understand his much more “shits gotten real” it needs to get.
The time for 'strongly worded letters" was over the day they stormed the Capitol.
There was never a time for “strongly worded letters.” Republicans never bought into that weak shit, and now they rule everything.
Tim Walz for president?
No more support for zionists. Waltz is a zionist.
Ah, so you only care if one group gets genocide. Everyone else can get fucked, right?
I’d love to see him run, and I hope he gets a meaningful debate in before the DNC stacks the deck for Newsom
Conservatives have made it abundantly clear that they have zero respect for our Constitution. They are traitors to the United States and enemies of the American people.
It is past time that we start treating them as such.
agreed, now how about supporting genocide, is the time for that over Waltz?
Hrm?
Well?
All quiet all of a sudden eh. Put up or shut up, Waltz. You are a political whore or you’re not. Are you following Biden’s example here or not.Its people like Waltz who lost us the last election. You cant run a pro-genocide campaign from the left and expect to win.
Hrm?
Well?
All quiet all of a sudden eh.Are you talking to an imaginary friend, cause we cannot hear him.
Maybe you can stick to your Australia politics and get that sorted, eh? You lot have more than enough of your own mess, isn’t that right? But thanks for taking the time to carry water for the genocide, and commenting on politics in another country.
And I specified ‘Waltz’ in the line before you started copying. So you’re just fabricating some situation to pretend to be correct, arent you.
Maybe you can stick to your Australia politics and get that sorted, eh? You lot have more than enough of your own mess, isn’t that right?
Aussie politics are in amazing shape atm, the right lost harder than it ever has in our entire history, but nice try. Did you have fun looking up my profile?
But thanks for taking the time to carry water for the genocide, and commenting on politics in another country.
Like Americans have kept their noses out of other countries politics before. Rules for thee but not for me right?
And I specified ‘Waltz’ in the line before you started copying. So why are you asking who its for?
You are talking like he is going to reply to you, when he isn’t. The only conclusion I could make is your talking to your imaginary friend instead.
Clearly you could gain by working on your English language skills if you’re posting on an english language forum and getting it wrong
Lol, the amount of grammatical & spelling mistakes you’re making and you’re attacking my English. That American education system is doing you plenty of favours.
mate?
No.
Walz and democrats aren’t leftists, they’re conservatives. Stop being an idealist, we have/had the option of conservatism or extremist conservatism. If you’re calling Walz “the left” then you’re doing the work of extremist propagandists for them, you fucking idiot. Have some god damned situational understanding and realize that the lesser of two evils is all we get in this country if we’re lucky, maybe take a minute and absorb the authoritarian genocidal regime that is in power instead of complaining about the lite version not being perfect leftists, you fucking twit. Use some rationalism.
Now it’s time for sternly worded protests.
brow furrowing intensifies
