Gov Walz BRINGS THE HOUSE DOWN in MAJOR SPEECH

Gov Walz BRINGS THE HOUSE DOWN in MAJOR SPEECH

Democratic Governor Tim Walls just brought the House down in an incredible speech before the South Carolina Democratic Party. Here he says, “Democrats need to fight. We need to bully the out of Donald Trump. Bully the bully. Don’t be nice. Bully the out of him.” Sorry for to use that language. That’s what he says though. Here, play this clip. Called out on this because I called Donald Trump a wannabe dictator. It’s because he is. It’s because he is. Oh, the governor’s being mean and the governor’s speaking out on that. Well, maybe it’s time for us to be a little meaner. Maybe it’s time for us to be a little more fierce because we have to ferociously push back on this. And again, I’ll speak to my teacher colleagues in here. The thing that bothers a teacher more than anything is to watch a bully. To watch this bully and to stop it. And when it’s a child, you talk to them and you tell them why bullying is wrong. But when it’s adult like Donald Trump, you bully the out of him back. You push back. You make sure they know it’s not there. Let me show you a longer portion of that speech. An incredible speech by Democratic Governor Tim Walls of Minnesota, who many believe is positioning himself for a a presidential run. Play this clip. Since that election, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and a lot of traveling. I spent a lot of time on the road. I was in Wheeling, West Virginia, Omaha, Nebraska, Youngstown, Ohio. Fort Ben, Texas. And I know you’re all thinking it. Wow, those are strong Democratic strongholds, each and every one of those. But I went to those places cuz those are places with Republican members of Congress in states that voted for Donald Trump. And I went there to listen to folks. And I want to tell you they are really pissed off about what’s going on in Washington. Recently it’s been the talk about the big beautiful bill. I I used to I used to teach fourth grade and I was going to say it sounds like a fourth grader came up with it, but that would be insulting to my fourth graders. It did not. Uh Trump and Republicans are trying to ram this monstrosity through Congress before any of us figure out what’s really in it. Well, you know what’s in it? A record setting shift of wealth to the rich from all the rest of us. If you’re a young couple raising a child with a disability, getting your health care through Medicaid, you could be one of 15 million that are going to lose your healthcare. If you’re a single mom working, relying on SNAP, this bill would kick you and your kids off and nearly 11 million of our fellow Americans off this vital lifeline. If you’re a young guy holding down a job making solar panels like we’re doing in Minnesota, your gig could be one of the 700,000 jobs that this bill will kill alone. So, a working people get the shaft who benefits from this bill. I don’t know if any you’ll there may be we’ll see if somebody in here if you make $4 million a year if you make $4 million a year, you get a $400,000 tax break. And if you and your spouse are worth over $30 million, you get to pass that wealth down to your nepo children tax-free. But if you make less than 50,000 a year, the best you’re going to get out of this is about 300 bucks. Less than a decent set of tires will buy. But it is a little something. I’ll give you that. But it won’t make up for what you’re going to lose in having to pay to go to the doctor’s office or the grocery store. So to put it plainly, the rich are going to feast and the rest of us will be lucky if we get scraps. 13 million kids will be kicked off free school lunch. Those kids get to go to school hungry. And all but two Republicans voted for this big, beautiful pile of All but two. You know when they voted for it? right before 3:00 a.m. Every heist needs the color of darkness to get through, as you all know. But when Trump and the Republicans aren’t sacrificing our livelihoods at the altar of massive tax cuts for the rich, they’re finding plenty of other ways to screw us over and make life hell. You can talk to my mom or roughly one in five South Carolinians who rely on Social Security as their major retirement income. They’re terrified. You’ve got some 19-year-old Doge dweeb rooting around in government systems, mainlining four locos and messing everything up. If they flip a wrong switch, my mom, your relatives, people that depend on social security, they don’t get a paycheck, which means they don’t get to pay for the heat in their home or their groceries. But I want to give Elon a little bit of credit. I know you’re finding that hard to believe, but I’m going to. Somebody said, “Do you think he does anything right?” Yes, this week he did. He finally quit and found government ways. He did something else. Isn’t it funny that they want to they want to drug test SNAP recipients, but not that dude? Just saying. And I know this one’s going to really depress you on a beautiful Saturday morning when you’re here. This show has only been going on for 4 months. 4 months. But the story of Trump’s second term is already clear to all of us. Everything this guy does has two motivations. It’s either cruelty or corruption. Very simple with this guy. He’s not a complicated guy. Ripping your health care away, that’s the cruelty. Cutting taxes for his billionaire buddies, that’s the corruption. Tariffs blowing up all of our budgets and destroying small businesses. That’s the cruelty. A free jet from Cotter. That’s the corruption. Disappearing people off the streets. That’s the cruelty. Selling White House access to Crypto Bros. That’s the corruption. And those bastards didn’t even get a decent steak out of that deal either. So, look, I find my joy in small things. I find the joy in small things. But don’t forget for a minute, and all of you know this, he didn’t do it alone. All of those Republicans in Congress are fully complicit in this. Every one of them. And here’s the thing that really gets me, the ones who’ve tricked the press into calling them moderates. You know, they get Susan Collins on TV and she’s always deeply concerned about things. will do something then instead of being deeply concerned because there’s nothing moderate about caving to Donald Trump every single time he asks. Every single time. Finally, here he is talking about what he thinks the Democratic brand should be. And he goes, “Look, Democrats need to deliver for the people. Democrats need to talk about their big ideas and deliver for the people.” He goes, “Imagine if Democrats moved with the speed with which Trump and Musk destroyed America, but Democrats did it to deliver on policies that help Americans.” Here, play this clip. People no longer wonder what the Democratic Party stands for. The Democratic Party stands for taking care of my family. The Democratic Party stands for doing things that improve people’s lives. And so now all of a sudden, and I’ll say this too, you got a whole bunch of young people. And my son is one of them. By the way, I’m really proud of this. This feels like my greatest accomplishment. My son Gus is graduating on Tuesday. So that is my proudest moment. But but Gus tells me a lot of young men, you might have seen this, a lot of young white men did not vote for this ticket. and they’re wondering what we’re do with them. My son says, “Dan, most of them don’t know about the policies and stuff. And if they do, they probably agree with you. They just think the other side it’s cooler to belong to this. They just think it sounds tough to belong to this or they feel like you’re at least going to them and talking to them instead of having people they don’t know up there with you.” And so this idea, and I’ve said this a lot of times, people want to belong to something. They want to be with other people. Most of us sometimes other people bug us and we want to be alone. We know that. But I know this as a teacher. I was involved, yeah, coaching sports, but I was also involved with helping with the musicals and I was also involved helping with the speech program and also that. and I did those things that I liked them. But providing a place for a young person to feel like they’re part of is really important. And I would argue that’s true in a society where we have become more divided, less personal, where people look down at their phones and text. And I’m not dogging on technology, but I’m saying I think it’s made us more isolated. I think it’s made people lonier. I think that’s especially true with a lot of men. They want to belong to something. Donald Trump knows that. It may not be a football team, but he provides them a uniform. That damn red cap. He provide them a common language that they talk about. He provides them something that they belong. Now, we know in healthy organizations, you don’t need to demonize someone else. But since he’s only offering anger and animosity and belittling others, he still offers something. We as a Democratic party have to offer a place that is yes welcoming but we can I can’t imagine I people don’t go to his rallies to listen to his dumb crap that he’s saying. I I don’t believe that. I think they go to those rallies to be next to people who think like them. I think they go next to those rallies to feel like they’re part of something. I bet you they go to those rallies to talk about their kids to one another and talk about what’s going on in their lives. And in a society that seems more divisive, that political party or that movement that he has, I would argue a compassionate, kind place where everybody’s involved is a place they should be too. But damn it, we should be able to have some fun and be joyful. We should be able to gather in these places. We should make them feel like they matter. So look, we’ve got the guts and we need to have it to push back on the bullies and the greed and punch them right where it needs to be done to telling our policies are better. Our policies improve your lives and what you’re doing is cruel and corrupt and it cannot stand. We need to say that we need to bust down systems. And again, this is my take on this. What Donald Trump has taught me is I’ve been in this now elected office for 20 years and there’s issues that I have worked on for 20 years and they’re like, “Well, it takes a little time to get this done.” People have been born and gotten old. And yes, I’m proud. In 2010, I voted for the ACA to improve healthc care to everyone. I voted for Obamacare. And I went in front of town halls and defended that vote. And I heard people tell me, “You’re going to lose your job over that vote.” And I said, “Sounds pretty good to me. If if people are going to get healthcare, I’ll go back to teaching school and coaching football because that’s worth it. That’s worth it.” What Donald Trump figured out was it shouldn’t take 20 years. So, I’m just cautioning everybody when we win, and we will, we’re going to win the Virginia governor’s race come this November, we’re going to win New Jersey, we’re going to take back the House of Representatives. But I’ll tell you what, and the people in this room are probably the most impatient. When we get back and win that election in 28, we damn sure better not say, you know, I think we’re going to tweak some of these things around healthcare to make it easier for you to talk to your insurance companies. And really, you think you better maybe deal with that? You think maybe we better be bold? You think maybe we better make real changes in people’s lives? Because because here’s the deal. I think it’s unconstitutional and the courts will determine if it’s illegal. But what Trump learned from his first term to this one is if you say you’re going to get things done and actually do it, even if it’s not the right thing, people still give you credit for getting something done. They give you credit for doing now. It’s destructive as hell on their side. Think how powerful a tool that will be if we move with the same speed that he’s moving to give everybody healthcare to improve our education system to address the climate crisis to defend to defend human rights both here and abroad. Imagine how powerful that is. So look, here’s the time. Here’s the time for all of us. Donald Trump is the existential threat that we knew is coming. It is going to be I’m not going to whistle past the graveyard. It is going to be a challenging few years here. But it starts this November. Actually, it starts this Saturday as us starting to organize. Donald Trump ran for president for four years after he got beat in 2020. The Republican party ran for four years. Their school board members ran for four years. there. All of those things were happening. And what I know about our party is we know how to work. We’re people with grit and resilience. We know how to get things done. We’re used to getting the shaft. We’re used to being on the short end of things. It’s who we are. But when we do that, and when we know what we have, this is a moment. This is a moment not just to win an election. This is a moment to transform back to the Democratic party. When I was growing up, I didn’t Many of you, if you’re my gray hairs in here, know this. I My family wasn’t overly political. They weren’t overly political. And we were in a small town. But there was no question for me as a 17 or 18year-old. If I got asked, “What’s the Democratic party?” Oh, that’s the unions and that’s the folks that work for working people. That’s who they are. Well, who are the Republicans? That’s the country club and the rich people. That’s who they are. And it was pretty clear. And then you started to figure out this social security thing is a good idea. Who came up with that? Democrats. This GI Bill and Pell grants to make college more affordable. Who came up with that? Democrats. This idea that you should trust women to make their own healthc care decisions. Who came up with that? Democrats. You knew that. This is our opportunity. And for the leadership that’s in this room, let’s define who we are. Let’s define it with a fierce defense of those who can’t defend themselves against a bully. Let’s let’s fiercely push back everywhere we can. And then let’s decide. We’re not retreating from that fight. We won’t retreat from that fight. But we can simultaneously decide to let people know the issues we were told not to touch because they’re too big and they’re too bold. It was those big bold things that solidified democratic control for decades. It was those big bold ideas that let us win elections. But that was the means to the end. It was those big bold ideas that were enacted by the Democratic Party that improved the lives of millions of Americans. It was those big bold ideas that gained our reputation around the world that the United States was the good guys who stood with people who were less fortunate. It was the United States who stood up to places like Russia, like North Korea instead of voting with them. That’s our opportunity. This is an opportunity to do the things that we need to do. Now, I look some of you in here saying, “Oh my god, we’ve been through this. We ran elections.” Look, losing an election is an opportunity to reflect. It is an opportunity to reflect, but it damn sure better be an opportunity to fight a little harder coming back the next time. That’s all I would say. So, I’ll cop to this. I am an eternal optimist, but I came about it uh legitimately. I supervised the lunchroom for almost two decades. You don’t survive that gig if you’re not an optimist. You do not survive it. But I know and I I I think it’s just perfect as I see this. Some of you uh some of you heard me talk about this a lot. I think the most powerful word, my wife says this, most powerful word in the universe uh is hope is the hope for it. And the motto of this great state, while I breathe, I hope. While I breathe, I hope. I’ll take that one step further. Hope is the energy that gets us believing in a better tomorrow. But as As as my wife as my wife Gwyn says though, she says, “But hope is not a damn plan.” We can’t hope that Donald Trump quits acting like he is. We can’t hope that we win an election. We can’t hope that these people aren’t as cruel as we think they are. We can’t hope that people get the health care that they so desperately need. We have to plan for it. And that’s what brings you here today. You’re giving of your time, your treasure, your talent to build what’s necessary. And I’ll tell you this, those things we accomplished in Minnesota wouldn’t have happened without restructuring our entire Democratic party. Putting the power back in the county units, putting the power back in the state units. And it wouldn’t have happened without some soularching cuz I’ll end with this. I don’t want you to believe um you know, oh my god, everything is like heaven in Minnesota. You know, no no because last weekend was the 5-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd on a streets Minneapolis. We always like to think of ourselves that we were on the right side of that civil war. But I want to be very clear with this. I had a woman a few years ago and we were talking about racism, intolerance, structural structural barriers that were put in place to hold people back. And this woman was sitting with me in Duth, Minnesota, about as far north as you can get up on Lake Superior. And she she came from Arkansas. And she said, “Yeah, Arkansas’s racist.” She says, “But in Minnesota, the racism’s quieter, but it’s meaner.” And I think the acknowledgement of this, we know we’ve got work to do. That’s why we’re a group of people that believes it’s important to teach our history, our true history, to every one of our children. and a great state and a great country can acknowledge where we’ve got it wrong. But once we start to do that and in the 5 years since George Floyd, whether it was getting rid of some of the techniques in policing are coming to the grips that our police can’t be asked to solve all of our problems in the middle of a crisis. While we brag a lot that Minnesota has some of the highest graduation rates and achievements, it starts a little different when you disagregate that data and you start to see the gap between black and white students is as big as any place in the country. So, we took those things on. We didn’t admire the problem by calling it out. We tackled it and just this couple weeks ago we announced we had closed that graduation rate to the greatest amount that we had between black and white students in state history. Now I tell you this for all of you in here. I don’t believe you get patted on the back for doing what you’re supposed to do. So we as a Democratic party I know theirs will say, “Oh, you focus too much on this diversity and this equity and this inclusion.” We focus on it because it’s foundational to everything we do. We focus on it that closing that gap is not only morally the right thing to do. Our future depends on us closing that gap. Our future depends on it. The leadership in this country, in Minnesota, in Minnesota alone, 80% of our workforce will come from communities of color over the next 75 years. Even if you have no moral courage in your body at all, if you want to see us survive economically, you damn sure better start investing in black communities and making sure they’re healthy and educated. So to all of you, the works in front of us, it’s not going to be easy. We’re facing a pretty unprecedented time in our history. But what comes with that is the privilege. We get to be part of that fight. When the story is written of what happened during this time period, they will scarcely believe that this country chose Donald Trump over Kamla Harris. But they did. But the real story that will be written is how did we respond after that election? How did we respond to the challenges? And it starts with an individual and it gets bigger and bigger. So, here we are in one of the red estates according to that stupid map that you’ll find with a room full of people who care about their neighbors. A room full of people who’s willing to take the good, the bad, the ugly, the warts, and the highest achievements we’ve had as a country and recognize that this towards a more perfect union is still going on. We’re not there, but each and every one of us get a chance to do something about it. So, on behalf of my family and my children and my future grandchildren, let’s hope. Um, thank you all. Thank you for caring enough about this country. Thank you for taking time out of your lives. Thank you for showing this. And I will leave you with this that in states that are either purple or blue, nothing inspires us more than to see progressive Democrats fighting in the reddest counties in the places that are most red because that takes courage. That’s where change happens and that’s where South Carolina will make a difference. Thank you all for having me. Keep up the fight. We’ll see you soon. So, a powerful speech right there by Democratic Governor Tim Walls. Hat tip to him and a privilege and an honor to be able to cover it here on the Midas Touch Network. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe and let’s get to 5 million subscribers. New Midas merch

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Minnesota Governor Tim Walz giving an incredibly powerful speech in South Carolina as many expect he is preparing for a presidential run.

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