#OneMinnesota In Action
By Mitch Berg
During his 2018 and 2022 gubernatorial bids, Minnesota governor Tim Walz ran under the motto and hashtag “One Minnesota”. Now, if you’re a student of certain problematic eras in European history, the hair on the back of your neck might stand up when leaders start talking about making the place they want to govern “One…” of anything. It’s kind of hte opposite of “E Pluribus Unum”, if you think about it.
Especially when you compare to the Harris/Walz 2024 Presidental campaign, where the candidates spent a few cycles calling Republicans “Fascists” and “Nazis”.
The election results showed that the results, er, came up a little short.
Or…did they?
I’m of two minds about this story. Either:
- Tim Walz only has one setting, “defamatory gaffe”, or
- someone in the Democratic brain trust running Walz’s none-too-subtle 2028 Presidential pre-bid knows something we don’t about the hunger swing voters have to demonize half of their fellow Americans, with a little election denialism thrown in for good measure.
If I’m being consistent with my post on Walz and the team behind him from a week or so ago, I’d urge you not to rule out the second option too soon.
This past Saturday, March 22, Walz spoke at a rally in Rochster, Minnesota – the largest city in the Minnesota First Congressional District, the district Walz represented in Washington from 2006 to 2018 (and which has, interestingly, voted for Walz’s opponents in two gubernatorial races and last year’s White House bid). These…things, were found floating around the event. As reported by Liz Collin, from Minnesota conservative outlet “Alpha News”:
On the one hand, “86” is a reference to the military (and bar industry) slang term for “permanently throw out”. Which is the goal of politics. Not a big deal.
But “Bury Fascists?”
On top of all the other calls to violence, subtle and, er, not so subtle, in recent weeks?
And I did mention election denialism, didn’t I?
There are ways to not read that as denying the election results; delusion, magical thinking, or playing to a base that is more or less in intense denial about the Democratic party’s current state are the ones that jump to mind.
Dean Phillips – former congressional representative and Democratic presidential candidate, and a Democrat who has found a niche as the Democrats’ and Minnesota DFL’s critical nagging conscience – is a little concerned about his former Minnesota political colleague:
Now, we don’t know who was handing them out, or how many were in circulation, or whether Walz was involved.
But this jibes with what Walz is saying, doing and, er, encouraging in his followers,
Before the inevitable half-assed walkback, anyway:
March 24th, 2025 at 9:52 am
Tampon Timmy needs serious professional help. I’m tempted to try to get a group together to attend his next propaganda spewing session. As we have seen though, he’s such a cowardly egomaniac, that the only goes to events set up by DFeLons.
March 24th, 2025 at 10:40 am
Mitch points out that one coin says “8647” meaning “throw Trump out.”
But what’s the other coin mean? 2547? All I could find was numerology sites saying it was an Angel Number meaning warmth and friendship, which doesn’t seem likely in context. Alphabet code? B – E – D – F? Means nothing to me. And who’s the face on the coin – John Kerry? Yeah, that’s what Democrats need to save the party, nominate him next time.
A code too subtle for ordinary people to understand conveys no meaning. Which is consistent with the Democrat platform nowadays – it has no meaning.
March 24th, 2025 at 10:41 am
I love the smell of moderation in the morning.
March 24th, 2025 at 10:49 am
Tim Walz says he was joking when he mocked Tesla’s falling stock: ‘These people have no sense of humor’
That’s an incredible guffaw coming from a supposed leader in the party of the perpetually aggrieved. People’s careers have been cancelled by leftist snotnoses who were offended by a mere joke.
March 24th, 2025 at 11:24 am
Since “47” refers to Trump’s order in the sequence of POTUSes, maybe it’s a symgolic reference to another Presidency?
Let’s see – who was the 25th President?
(Checks notes)
William McKinley.
Huh.
March 24th, 2025 at 11:26 am
The more I think about it, the more inclined I am to believe him.
It was a joke, more or less – aimed at getting a yuk out of a room full of his droogs, at the expense of Tesla owners, workers and shareholders (including MN pension funds).
Stupid jokes have consequences, too.
March 24th, 2025 at 12:42 pm
Two things.
According to a couple of reports that I heard over the weekend, there was a big surge of individual investors buying Tesla stock after the dumb azz “made his joke”.
I find it very telling that the only DemoCommie that has publicly spoken out against the paid acolytes creating mayhem at Tesla centers and damaging the personal property of mostly Democrats. Ro Khanna, normally a loyal party apparatchik for the Dims, has Tesla’s main manufacturing facility, in his district. I guess he’s concerned about his reelection chances.
March 24th, 2025 at 12:51 pm
Ahhh, got it. Thanks, Mitch.
March 24th, 2025 at 1:08 pm
Obviously, don’t take any wooden nickels.
Seriously, though, when one of them suggests burying Trump, I think a little investigation by the Secret Service is in order. I am not 100% in favor of everything Trump does by any stretch of the imagination, but if someone on the right had done this sort of thing vis-a-vis Biden, it would have resulted in a visit. Sauce for the goose.
March 24th, 2025 at 10:20 pm
Doesn’t something have to actually be funny before we can be accused of having no sense of humor?