You can fool some of the people—for about two weeks.
Since Kacklin’ Kamala Harris pried the Anti-Democratic Party’s nomination from Sleepy Joe Biden in a bloodless coup d’etat on July 21, the vice president slithered between two rocks, shed her far-left skin, and emerged as Kamala the neo-moderate.
The fracking-ban supporter? Gone! The Green New Deal’s co-sponsor? Vanished! The enemy of private health insurance? Disappeared!
The obedient regime media conspired in this makeover and let Harris answer zero questions for 18 days after she slipped a banana peel beneath Biden’s shoe.
Just as the Margaret Kamala Thatcher disguise seemed plausible, Harris shattered that illusion last Tuesday. The Border Czarina Who Never Was hung a sharp left when she unveiled her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
The 60-year-old former congressman—who could moonlight as Biden’s frumpy 75-year-old brother—is America’s hardest-left V.P. wannabe, ever. By picking Walz, the real Kamala returned, big league.
Regardless, Democrats have thrown a centrist tarp over Walz.
“Tim Walz is wonderful,” former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough. “To characterize him as Left is so unreal. He’s right down the middle. He’s a heartland-of-America Democrat.”
Former Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., said: “The idea that Tim Walz is some Leftie is just not true, in reality.”
Don’t be fooled.
- Walz’s fiscal philosophy is Everything for All.
Walz signed a May 2023 biennial budget that squeezes $9.7 billion from Minnesotans, including tax hikes on incomes, sales, franchises, vehicles, and even cannabis. Walz also boosted two-year outlays by a whopping 39.3%.
At 9.8%, Minnesota’s state corporate tax is America’s highest.
“Gov. Walz’s tax policy record is notable because of how much it contrasts with broader national trends,” the Tax Foundation’s Jared Walczak wrote Aug. 6. “In recent years, most governors have championed tax cuts. Walz, rare among his peers, chose tax increases.”
“Minnesota ranks 44th on the Tax Foundation’s business tax climate index, giving companies a strong incentive to invest elsewhere,” Cato Institute scholar Chris Edwards observed Friday. “To stem the outflow of skilled people and capital, Minnesota needs to adopt a leaner government and cut individual and business tax rates.”
But Walz is more than just an old-fashioned tax-and-spend liberal.
- He loves wide-open borders.
“He [Donald Trump] talks about this wall,” Walz told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on July 30. “I always say, let me know how high it is. If it’s 25 feet, then I will invest in a 30-foot-ladder factory.” Walz also favors sanctuary cities.
Walz’s Office of New Americans pampers illegal aliens who savor his smorgasbord of no-cost treats. These include free health care, free college tuition, and drivers licenses—all the better to turn these foreign invaders into illegal voters.
- Regarding castration, mastectomies, and other sexual mutilation of children, Walz said in March 2023: “Protecting and supporting access to gender-affirming health care is essential to being a welcoming and supportive state to the community.”
Ten-year-old boys who want to slice themselves into girls, and vice versa, may do so without parental consent. Moms and dads who object can lose custody of such children.
Tampon Tim ordered menstrual products into schoolboys’ bathrooms, from grades four through 12.
- “In Minnesota, we respect our neighbors and the personal choices that they make,” Walz said Aug. 6. “Even if we wouldn’t make the same choice for ourselves, there’s a golden rule: Mind your own damn business!”
Walz’s faux-libertarianism T-boned into his East German governing style during COVID-19. Atop lengthy lockdowns and mask mandates, Walz’s so-called snitch line helped Minnesotans rat on those who violated pandemic decrees.
- “We saw large, peaceful protests,” Walz said on June 1, 2020, as the George Floyd riots incinerated Minneapolis. Dozens of buildings burned to the ground (including a police precinct) among 150 set ablaze and some 1,500 damaged. Losses totaled $500 million. Speaking at his State Emergency Operations Center, Walz added: “A society that does not put equity and inclusion at the center of it is certainly going to eventually come to the place where we’re at.”
According to an October 2020 Minnesota state Senate report, “Governor Tim Walz and elected local leaders identified with the causes promoted by the demonstrators, causing them to lose sight of their responsibility to protect the public from criminal acts committed during the riots.”
The paper added: “Governor Walz and his administration were more concerned with the ‘current environment,’ the ‘climate they were under,’ ‘community and cultural concerns,’ and ‘diversity and inclusion training’ than they were about stopping the riots that were destroying Minnesota.”
Walz himself called the government response an “abject failure.”
Meanwhile, Walz’s wife found this carnage refreshing.
“I could smell the burning tires,” Gwen Walz said at the time. America’s potential second lady continued: “That was a very real thing, and I kept the windows open as long as I could because I felt like that was such a touchstone of what was happening.”
For her part, then-Sen. Harris, D-Calif., used Twitter on June 1, 2020, to urge her supporters to “chip in” and support the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which bailed out rioters who were jailed during that havoc. Harris got results: The fund’s revenues soared from $231,242 in 2019 to $41,655,560 in 2020—up 17,913%.
Those the bail fund set loose, with Kamala’s help, included six domestic abusers, accused child rapist Timothy Wayne Columbus; Darnika Floyd, who police said fatally stabbed a friend who refused to have sex; and George Howard, arrested for an alleged double homicide just three weeks after the fund paid his bail.
Thus, Flordia Gov. Ron DeSantis’ observation: “Harris-Walz: Make America Burn Again.”
Walz uttered his most disturbing comment not in college, but on July 29. He told the White Dudes for Harris: “Don’t ever shy away from our progressive values. One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.”
This chilling statement echoes Kamala’s 2020 campaign video that trivializes equality before the law and embraces “equity,” so “we all end up at the same place.”
Where do government leaders want their people “at the same place?” For starters: Venezuela, Cuba, and North Korea.
Kacklin’ Kamala and Tampon Tim make Sleepy Joe look like Daddy Bush. The 2024 Democratic ticket promises the menace of American Marxism.
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