“The road to authoritarianism is littered with people saying you’re overreacting.” Gov. Walz 3/12/25

https://www.vox.com/today-explained-podcast/403264/tim-walz-kamala-harris-2024-trump-2028

24 comments

  1. The answer is “no.”

    It’s sad that anybody voted for it or even considered it.

    That’s not what America is or ever was.

  3. The problem we actually have is UNDER-reaction

    Far too many people have been underreacting for far too long

  8. I had a friend say that the reaction to Musk’s nazi salute was overblown. I had to explain to him why nazi salutes are offensive, especially to me, who’s family was murdered and tortured by the nazis. Then he got angry at me for explaining that he was defending an extremely offensive gesture. He didn’t back down or say sorry. We are no longer friends. I do not tolerate any defense of nazi salutes or ideology. I even gave him a chance to take back what he said and apologize, but he didn’t. Fuck him.

  11. Part of me is hoping he gets the nomination in 2028 and the democrats just sit back and let him cook. No corporatist establishment bs. Just let Walz run on a platform of his choosing.

  12. Why is it I’ve heard more from Walz than Biden, Harris, Obama and Clinton combined?

  13. I’ve been spam texting my family articles and crazy news and they don’t respond, think i’m insane. But I’m giving them no excuse, no ability to say “we didn’t know”. It’s probably insane too but besides the point

  14. “To live in this process is
    absolutely not to be able to notice
    it–please try to believe me-
    unless one has a much greater
    degree of political awareness,
    acuity, than most of us had ever
    had occasion to develop. Each
    step was so small, so
    inconsequential, so well
    explained or, on occasion,
    ‘regretted,’ that, unless one were
    detached from the whole process
    from the beginning, unless one
    understood what the whole thing
    was in principle, what all these
    ‘little measures’ that no patriotic
    German’ could resent must some
    day lead to, one no more saw it
    developing from day to day than
    a farmer in his field sees the corn
    growing. One day it is over his
    head.” – Quote from “They thought they were free” by Milton Sanford Mayer

    I mean it feels like we are speed running so the corn is growing really fast.

  15. I don’t care if he lost, Walz is still America’s dad.

  16. Watch the PBS series “Imposible Peace” about the period between the first and second world wars for a lesson in how easy it is for despots to seize power by generating fear and fostering discontent in the voting public. Mussolini, Hitler, and Franco all peddled the same nationalist message.

    >”Our great nation has fallen into degeneracy. We must defeat the globalists and the domestic traitors in order to regain our rightful glory. I am your last hope of saving your way of life from ‘the enemy’.”

    It’s the same message being trotted out by Trump, MAGA, and all the extreme right wing parties across the world today.

  17. The reality is white, cis, hetero, middle upper class people are not feeling the impact of this shit storm. They won’t in any significant way. They are Donald’s favored people, they are sheltered and oblivious aside from their deck renos costing a bit more next year and a little wobble in their stock portfolio. 

    Some of this demographic care and are allies, but many are not.

  19. Yes, and saying “The first person to mention Hitler loses the argument.”

  20. Exactly. I’ve been screaming this since Birther and people are still calling me delusional and hysterical. Oblivious just like the people of Germany were in 1933.

  21. Thanks, Tim. It’s annoying but what to do? At least a few of us aren’t going to be caught unawares.

  23. Our politicians don’t need to wait, it’s clear what’s happening, just respond! But the Democrats are instead standing for Trump’s religious extremism!

    All this anti social security, anti medicare etc to mimic competition to voters is racist, false and does not make Trump like Bernie.

    Republicans are saying f u to being denied. Tulsi was on a terrorist watch list now she runs National Intelligence, all Trumps hires are like this.

    Do libs understand nazis? Yeah, they’re backwards nothing. Quit covering up for them with stupid questions.

    Inflation when an economy is failing due to large problems is normal, inflation when companies raise prices due to increased wages is exploitive and should be illegal.

    Regardless of what you say about trans people I stand for civil rights.

    Deporting random immigrants is pointless. Trump et al don’t even know who is in a cartel. They might call us softer on immigration but we would get the bad guys.

    WWE cannot make our military and nation look fake and stupid then appoint someone to head education.

    Tariff Trump doesn’t understand political philosophy. When other nations we trade with are successful we build wealth through them, we don’t need to tackle global capitalism.

    They’re acting like the nation rage quit because we wanted to kill the Jews or something. That’s not aggression or competition for capitalism, that’s genocide.

    Defend our nation and stand with our military but don’t be oedipal murderous shit.

    Are liberals losing at the University? Are we losing economically? No, we’re losing at the military-industrial complex that’s abusing our civil rights.

    The problem is not bureaucracy, I like not waiting 10x longer to fill out forms to start a business or build a house. This sounds like communism. Bureaucracy Trump is getting rid of is not even annoying regulatory but those that will stop corruption.

    You can’t go to another country and say here’s a comparison of a computer scientist and they make way less than you so you’re overpaid. You know why? Because I work at Microsoft and I make rich Microsoft richer and I deserve to be paid a fair wage for my work.

    The problem is the money doesn’t come back into the economy if someone makes billions of dollars a year they’re not going to spend all that and monopolies don’t need to reinvest in their companies to make them bigger. To drive capitalism lots of people have to buy lots of little things.

    Saying they shouldn’t raise the minimum wage because people from the age of 16 to 18 still live at home is ridiculous.  That is only a two year period for why they keep down wages for all. Plus teenagers need to save up and older people doing the same job have more experience and deserve a premium.

    See the arguments for higher minimum wage are something you can measure. The whole Reagan era response white people will come back to be smarter than Albert Einstein is not provable. This is what’s wrong with the conservatives 

    The populism that has attacked our schools and government must leave. Their insults against us are blind to this!

    Biden and Trump are willing to attack and arrest college students but aren’t willing to throw nazi or rapist professors out.

    College students typically protest abuses of corruption and stupidity, stop blaming intelligent people for being domestic terrorists to cover for the far right. Having a president voted out isn’t enough and bringing them back will lead to the persecution of those critical of the abuses by our government.  Vote them out and prosecute them!

  24. People need to get a lot more mad. They aren’t going to until they feel the impacts themselves though.

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