What a shame. I actually really like Tim Walz. He was the only half of the presidential ticket that I did like.
…met with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) on Sunday to discuss the campaign, as Klobuchar considers her own run for the governorship, according to one of the people familiar with the meeting.
This corporate goblin. “Not as bad as the other side!”
The bar is in the ninth circle of hell.
God fucking damnit
I hate that the MAGAs will take this as a win, as they should.
I like Walz, I wouldn’t mind him as president at all, but right now we need warriors who will stand up to MAGA, and if he doesn’t have it in him, then he needs to get out of the way, which is apparently what he’s doing. I can respect that. At least he’s not sticking around, and trying to talk the rest of us into backing down.
At least some part of me hopes that perhaps this is a strategy, and he intends to fill out his term for governor, and then run for president. It would be like him to feel that it is irresponsible to claim to be governor, while he is spending 99% of his time campaigning for president.
But I want to vote for a serious Democratic Warrior, and this event takes Walz off my list, at least for the time being.
Is this so that he can run for president?
Unlikely, they would want him to stay for midterms, then in 28 if he won the presidency that would just replace him as govenor then.
That would have been a dick movethough right? Not the ideal solution for Minnesota
Maybe he is just a decent guy and wants the next government to be able to do their job instead of being involved in a presidential campaign?
I would assume so.
Every time someone backs down against fascism shows them their threats and violence work. It reinforces their actions. It’s effective. And it guarantees they will do it again. The only way to win is to stand firm and fight for your democracy otherwise you’ll die a slave.
That may be true and all, but it’s probably not relevant here.
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The problem is that Republicans have always been able to use a compliant media, to bring down strong candidates and replace them with their choice.
And as usual, Democrats are complicit. A Democrat will be forced to resign and leave public life over a parking ticket.
I like Tim Walz, but unfortunately, he fucked up. Should have had more oversight in his system. I’m for social welfare programs, but they can get abused, which is why it’s critical that they’re well-funded enough to be efficient and have good oversight to make sure they’re not open to too much fraud.
To be honest, I don’t think Democrats on the whole have done social welfare well. Admittedly, that’s often because Republicans get in the way of giving the systems adequate funding, but even in most Blue states, they’re inadequately funded.
Anyway, it’s too bad he’s going out this way. He was otherwise a great governor.
The welfare fraud claims were always bullshit. The only evidence was in idiot right-wing youtube video.
What are you talking about? There have been investigations, prosecutions, and convictions. This is unfortunately quite real.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/us/fraud-minnesota-somali.html
