Speaking as a Midwesterner, let me give you my opinion of Tim Walz.
Walz needs to be seen in the context of the rapid fall of Minnesota, and particularly what happened to the Twin Cities.
The Twin Cities of Minneapolis & St. Paul used to be one of the nicest, safest cities
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in the United States. The Mary Tyler Moore show was set there for good reason, it was friendly, safe place.
Minnesota used to be purple and quite centrist.
The local Democratic party is called the DFL - the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party.
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That was how Minnesota politics worked - the cities in the metro area allied with the unions (primarily in the mining Northeast) who allied with the farmers. They went against the Twin Cities suburbs and businessmen, it was always polite, and the state was even.
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The big shift happened with the mass influx of Somalis, along with the Dems trying to bring in blacks from other metro areas. The "nice" Repubs being controlled opposition, they of course did nothing to stop this process.
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The demographics changed sharply, crime rates soared, and the political situation rearranged itself.
Along with much of the rest of the country, enough of the suburbs switched to the Dems, that along with the newly black metro areas, the Dems began to get a decisive margin.
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Polite and nice stopped right there, the new DFL played strictly hardball politics
They also turned on their traditional constituencies of the farmers and the Iron Range union workers. As soon as they didn't need the votes, it was slap across the face, and knife in the back,
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they had no need for those traditional white Americans, or there traditional values.
Minnesota rapidly became the most radical of the Midwestern states, even more so than Chicago-dominated Illinois.
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Walz is a snake & a chameleon. Yes, he hunts, does the fishing opener & sometimes wears flannel shirts - all of which are used by the entirely Democratic Minnesota media to portray him as something he is not, a folksy politician with a common touch.
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Walz is despised in the outstate regions where the hunting & fishing are primarily done. Those areas have flipped from Blue to solid Red, as they try to protect themselves from the radical in the Twin Cities - to no avail.
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The real Walz? He's the face of the Great Replacement, that is followed by the Marxists crushing the opposition.
That's exactly why they want him as VP. He brings no election advantages. They're not worried about the election, but what comes after.
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This is a nice graphic summary of what I've been writing about for years, but the average American is still sleepwalking - and the average European or Canadian is worse.
Batteries, drones, phones, laptops, the essentials of modern life - we don't make them anymore. 1/
What we take for granted as being our "rights" as privileged citizens of the West, is so far beyond the capabilities of the average person, it's like being a WWII cargo cult Pacific islander watching planes fly far overhead. It's the worst with urban service sector
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workers - and worst of all with most women (sorry).
The US is still the #2 manufacturing power in the world, but that has nothing to do with the wishes of the average person. The skilled factory workers and engineers who keep US advanced manufacturing working are looked down
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If something has the right name - does that it mean it performs the task? This is the manipulation at the heart of the trans-Atlantic Leftist narrative for things such as DEI - but it can't handle warfare.
Three links to European warships that can't fight wars follow:
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The Danes sent the HDMS Iver Huitfeldt to the Red Sea in January of 2024 👇, and it promptly experienced critical malfunctions, leaving it unable to defend itself, let alone other ships. 2/
The German superfrigate Baden-Württemberghad to skip the Red Sea and sail around Africa to get to Asia because, well, despite being the pride of the modern German navy it hadn't been designed to deal with mean enemies actually firing weapons at it. 3/
The relationship between geopolitics, international economics & personal standards of living isn't understood by the average person - particularly Europeans & Canadians
Your current standard of living is not your natural standard of living. Instead, you've been very well paid
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by the Global American Empire, to be an obedient part of that empire.
These payments take numerous forms. For your media & elites, they have been receiving vast sums directly via USAID & other sources, along with the much larger indirect income from the financialization
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of global hegemony. Most of the resulting billionaires are in the US, but there are plenty of others through the West as well. Your elites have been exceptionally well paid to be partners/servants to our elites.
For the nations as a whole, the rewards have been free security
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1991 was crucial because the Soviet Union fell that year, the patterns that governed the world since 1945 fell apart, and a vast number of futures opened.
Instead of an incredible future, we got the rise of parasites & financialized whores as the hegemony of the US
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was squandered for purposes of foul corruption. The extraordinary nation that won the battle was immediately deindustrialized, even as Europe's leaders chose being vassals rather than genuine independence.
Yet, many boomers & older never fully adapted to the new world.
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Sweden doesn't make its own jet fighters. Ukraine doesn't make its own drones.
Ukraine uses cheap but sophisticated Chinese electronics - high tech - and builds low tech air frames around them. Sweden use highly sophisticated parts - such as jet engines from the US - as well 1/
as other high tech components from the US and numerous other nations, and combines them using domestically produced lower tech products, to make the Gripen.
Below is a thread 👇I did about nine months ago, pointing out that much of what is written 2/
about drone warfare misses the most important part - countries don't actually make their own parts, they reassemble the Chinese parts to "make" their own drones.
That thread has never gotten traction and likely never will - because the average person prefers the simplistic
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