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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Canada absolutely *could* be saved in a matter of weeks / months. Populations have replaced each other throughout history, mass deportations could easily be done.
With the willpower. The interesting part about Canada, that I hear from many here, is that it would un-Canadian 1/
for Canada to save itself. The Canadians are not OK with overthrowing the tyranny of their elites, armed rebellion is highly un-Canadian. The majority of Canadians today seem to be at least somewhat OK with their replacement by immigrants - or so the polls seem to say.
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In some ways this is the biggest difference between Canadians & Americans. We Americans will embrace chaos, and quite happily overthrow the existing elites. We get rude, we get crude, we get violent, and one has the Revolution, or first Civil War, or the second Civil War
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Nobody in Canada seems willing to address the underlying basics - but they may pay for it the rest of their lives. This isn't about the US or "elbows up."
1. Only about 32% of Canadian exports to the US are energy, and about another 8% are raw materials 2. The other 60% 1/
are manufactured goods, which the US used to make for itself and could easily do so again. 3. Canada cannot support its own standard of living, but massively imports from the rest of the world, for everything including phones, computers, consumer goods, the whole gamut.
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4. About 10% of the total US trade deficit is with Canada, and Canada takes those surplus dollars & uses them to buy its standard of living from the rest of the world. 5. Some of the "lowest hanging fruit" for the US to reindustrialize and reduce trade deficits, is what is
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Effectively, the Supreme Court got together in the middle of the night to extend two middle fingers towards the American people & shout: "Fuck you, peasants! Fuck your wishes, fuck your votes! We the Elites rule, and we will destroy your nation under a flood of immigrants!" 1/
This isn't really about Trump, though it is about what may come after Trump.
Trump was elected on a mandate with overwhelming popular support, including independents & many Dems. Close the borders. Deport illegal immigrants.
The Federal courts & Supreme Court are effectively
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saying to the people: "No! We make the rules! Our rules say the tens of millions of illegal immigrants will say."
This isn't difficult stuff. If the courts aid & enable the flooding of tens of millions of immigrants into the country on a mass scale, and then each migrant
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This idea of neutral lawyers in robes applying the law fairly has never been true (the Founders certainly didn't believe it) and as the judiciary has become increasingly activist, open tyranny by the elites against the people 1/
is being revealed as the true purpose of the judiciary.
The judiciary has always been a non-electoral means for the elites to override the people, and this has gotten much worse over the last 2 centuries.
We now have active, open judicial tyranny. The will of the people is
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meaningless, the written word of the constitution is meaningless.
The judiciary including the Supreme Court are demonstrating they intend the utter destruction of the American people, and if they are given their way, there is no election that can change that.
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The Old Global Order has already irretrievably fallen, it cannot be put back together again.
The fatal mistake was made by US & allied elites in the decades after the fall of the Soviet Union, when they made the erroneous but immensely profitable error of assuming a unipolar
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world. This lead to WEF, Davos, the Paris Climate Accords, and so forth. It led a great deal of demilitarization.
But, the biggest mistake was deindustrializing, and moving to very fragile & complex globalized supply chains in the beliefs that the old world of nationalism
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was gone forever, and that the global elites - including China & Russia - would obediently take their payoffs in the form of personal wealth, while never overturning the unipolar world in the search for national power.
The breakup of the unipolar world has been going on in
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People should of course read who they want to read, and follow whoever they want. If we are to do useful things, however, I do believe that there needs to be a very open gatekeeping of wannabe intellectual "thought leaders" in the online RW.
The huge force underlying everything else is the populist RW movement in the US, which wants to see many reforms including economic reforms, cultural reforms & racial reforms.
The second great force is the Trumpian political movement which has broken
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apart the previous elite coalition, in the attempt to finally deliver to the populist RW movement at least some of what it wants.
The minor force is the globalist "intellectual" RW on X. There is potentially an important role in developing the beliefs & underpinnings of the
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