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2024-12-15 -Great Cultural Revolution

[POWERLINEBLOG] The entire country met Minnesota's own Tampon Tim Walz

...Kamala's smarmy-looking running mate, governor of Minnesota, who decided to retired rather than to deploy with his National Guard unit, then claimed to have been in Iraq and Afghanistan. One man's socialism is another man's neighborliness....
this past August when Kamala Harris
former senatrix from California, 2020 Dem presidential hopeful and ultimately Joe Biden's intended successor
selected him as her running mate. The more the country saw him, the less it liked him. Walz thrilled Democrats
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
in convention assembled when he called Trump running mate J.D. Vance ''weird.'' That proved a poor choice of words on Walz's part. The more the country saw Walz, the weirder it thought he was. He made a poor vice presidential candidate.

Taking the path of least resistance under fire, he declared himself ''a knucklehead.'' He is worse than that, but it was a revealing concession. In the glare of the national spotlight Walz was exposed as a compulsive liar.

Among other things, in the 2023 ''let's go crazy'' legislative session, Walz had supported and signed the Minnesota Democrats' mandate of tampons in all school restrooms (grades 4-12). The Star Tribune all but celebrated the bill and its manifold good works while it worked its way through the legislature.

State representative Sandra Feist was an ardent proponent and sponsor of the bill in the legislature. In a January 2023 column published by the Star Tribune when the bill had just been introduced, Feist specified the law's application to ''all menstruators.''

In an August 2023 summary of school legislation, the Star Tribune drily recorded (link in original): ''The sweeping education bill Walz signed later in the spring also included a provision that requires schools to stock bathrooms with free menstrual products.'' The text of the law is posted here.

Once Harris made Walz a national candidate, however, the Star Tribune undertook to obfuscate and deny the purport of the law. I took a look at the Star Tribune's attempted obfuscation once Walz became a candidate for national office in ''Of Tim and the tampons.''

The dishonesty of the Star Tribune in general and editorial board member Jill Burcum in particular continues to rankle. Having all but celebrated the bill before and through its enactment into law, the Star Tribune sought to shield Walz from his own folly once he joined Harris on the Democrats' ticket.

Crooked Hillary Clinton
...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do...
chose not to follow the Star Tribune's defensive line. She got on the bandwagon. Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for Tim Walz.

Well, that's all ancient history. Minnesota Democrats usually lag their exemplars on the East and West Coasts. However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster...
not entirely so in this case. Minnesota helped lead the way for the New York Times

...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
. Joe Simonson reports:

The New York Times added menstrual products to its Manhattan office's men's bathrooms over the summer, according to internal communications obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

The paper's decision was announced by the vice president for global real estate and facilities, Victor Liu, in a company-wide Slack message. From July 26 to July 29, Liu said, the company would begin ''adding menstrual products and sanitary baskets'' to the office's men's restrooms ''to support transgender and non-binary colleagues.'' The company also announced that it was ''removing gendered imagery and adding language that colleagues are welcome to use the restroom in which they feel most comfortable.''

The Star Tribune never misses an opportunity to highlight the local angle on a national story or show Minnesota leading the way toward the precipice. However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster...
I seriously doubt that the Star Tribune will report this development or claim any credit for Minnesota Democrats setting the example for the New York Times. Yet it does make me wonder if the Star Tribune's practice leads or lags the Times.

Posted by Fred 2024-12-15 00:58|| || Front Page|| [11142 views ] Top

#1 Tucker shreds Walz mercilessly.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-12-15 14:07|| 2024-12-15 14:07|| Front Page Top

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