Posted on August 21, 2024

Uncle Tim (Walz)

Gregory Hood, American Renaissance, August 21, 2024

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Journalists, politicians, and experts are always telling us that “there is no place” for people like us in America. There is no place for racism. Or discrimination. Or hate. These are all defined in ever-expanding terms, so we might be forgiven for wondering if there is a place for white men at all. Good news: There is. The bad news is that it’s vice-presidential nominee and Minnesota governor Tim Walz.

Tim Walz was a surprise because initial reports suggested Kamala Harris would choose popular Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro. Pennsylvania is probably the most important and evenly matched battleground state. However, Gov. Shapiro volunteered for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in his youth and that is a major liability for a Democrat ticket that will need support from young people.

How hard did the Dems vet their candidate? Already, three baffling and unnecessary lies the governor told have come to light.

The first is that he retired as a command sergeant major in the Army National Guard. He has repeatedly made this claim, and that is how the DNC introduced him. He was at one time a command sergeant major — the highest enlisted rank in the army — but retired as a master sergeant because he did not complete the coursework and was demoted before he retired.

Also, he retired just before his unit went to Iraq, leading to claims he “abandoned” his men. It is possible he knew about the deployment and ducked out to start a political career instead. A former superior accused him of “doing something wrong” by going over his head to retire just before the men moved out.

In an earlier campaign, his official biography said he was deployed overseas “in support of Operation Enduring Freedom,” but he didn’t go to Afghanistan; he “supported” the operation from Italy. This is technically not a lie, but it is a lawyerly dodge. Far worse was his claim that he carried “a weapon of war in war,” and that this is why he wants to crack down on “assault rifles.” The Harris campaign says he “misspoke,” and most journalists buy it.

A second lie is about his DUI. He pleaded guilty to reckless driving in 1995, fortunately for him because he was over the legal limit, was reportedly going 96 mph in a 55 zone, and initially fled from the police. He got a fine and lost his license for 90 days — a very lenient punishment. In 2006, his congressional campaign manager said that he didn’t understand commands from the police officer because of hearing loss from the Army. The campaign even claimed he wasn’t drunk. It would hardly make such claims without the candidate’s approval.

Finally, he says he used in vitro fertilization to father his two children. This isn’t true, but he wanted to criticize JD Vance for supposedly wanting to ban it.

JD Vance explicitly supports fertility treatments. Thus, this was not only a lie, but a useless, deceitful lie.

Tim Walz’s former role as a football coach is a big part of his image and the subject of puff pieces. However, he was an assistant coach — never the head coach — of a championship youth football team. This is like an offensive coordinator in football or pitching coach in baseball taking credit for a championship.

Still, polls suggest he is far more popular than Senator Vance, his opponent. JD Vance has the kind of background that would have been ideal for a politician not long ago. He is a Marine, worked his way up from poverty, and wrote a well-received book that was turned into a movie. White advocates look askance at his interracial marriage, but Republican strategists consider this a political advantage. However, Senator Vance has not helped President Trump politically; the press and Tim Walz have successfully labelled him “weird.” Part of this is because of his comments about childless women, but also because of at least one outright lie.

Part of it may be how the two men campaign. Mr. Vance is reserved and talks mostly about policy. Tim Walz acts like a cheerleading coach. His extravagant if not effeminate gestures are freakish in an older man. However, to a media-saturated generation, this may be endearing. He is a Homer Simpson or Peter Griffin — a fat, stupid white man winning laughs through his buffoonery.

Tim Walz is the white guy in TV commercials: dopey, undignified, weak, and eager to embrace his subordinate role. Tim Walz even used the cliché that white people don’t know how to use spices (with Kamala Harris adding that “white tacos” have “mayonnaise and tuna”). This is another weird lie. Mr. Walz once won a cooking contest; his turkey tacos use plenty of spices.

This is the cliché of the white goof set straight by the sophisticated, all-knowing woman of color. This racial dhimmi now even says a Harris presidency would mean Americans could enjoy an apolitical Thanksgiving. Of course, it is “progressives” who lecture everyone else about the evils of Thanksgiving and how awful we’ve been to the Indians — ideas Mr. Walz promotes.

Tim Walz loves to say, “Mind your own damn business,” but he set up a snitch line for Minnesotans anonymously to rat each other out during COVID. This is typical. He always claims what he is doing is harmless common sense — but he’s not shy about using power.

What about race? “You can count on the sun rising in the east and setting in the west, and you can count on white politicians coming to black communities to ask for their votes,” he said recently. “What’s different this time is we have a Black woman who is going to lead us, and she’s asking for the votes.”

When Minneapolis went up in flames, Governor Walz hesitated to send in the National Guard despite Mayor Jacob Frey’s request on May 27, 2020. He had state attorney general and former black nationalist Keith Ellison prosecute Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd, rather than the local DA. George Floyd’s brother has endorsed Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. Governor Walz also signed a bill to change Minnesota’s “racist” state flag that had a white settler and an American Indian on it. The new state flag looks like nothing. Only 23 percent of Minnesotans liked the new flag and 49 opposed changing it at all.

Mr. Walz supports amnesty for illegals. He signed bills to give in-state tuition and driver’s licenses to them. He calls this not “demonizing our neighbors.” As for the First Amendment, he says, “There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and especially around our democracy.” He cozied up to Al Sharpton in hopes of being picked for VP.

Mr. Walz’s church, Pilgrim Lutheran, does not call God “Him.” It supports reparations and says whites “have been complicit in the systematic exclusion of Black, Indigenous, Immigrant, and other People of Color.”

Mr. Walz was one of the first “woke” school teachers. He was the faculty advisor for a gay and lesbian alliance 25 years ago. He repeatedly visited China when he was a teacher and gushed about it to students: “Everyone is the same and everyone shares.” Another gem: “Names in China are very important,” he said. “To us, all Chinese names sound the same but they are not the same. Their names mean something in Chinese.” He spent his honeymoon in China after he had his wedding on the fifth anniversary of Tiananmen Square, supposedly because he wanted a date he would always remember.

Tim Walz is an artificial candidate. His wild gesticulations and goofiness make it hard to take him seriously. His folksy language and supposed bonhomie are belied by his bizarre lies. There is something cynical beneath the self-deprecation. Worse, he aligns himself with Al Sharpton and Keith Ellison.

Tim Walz (Credit Image: © Ricky Bassman/CSM via ZUMA Press Wire)

Mr. Walz’s upbringing in a small town in Nebraska supposedly gives him an insight into conservative America, but he seems indifferent to white Americans. He is a nowhere man — nothing but fodder for a self-deprecating punchline. Blacks who shuck and jive for whitey are Uncle Toms. Tim Walz’s “Stupid White Guy from TV” act makes him “Uncle Tim.”

This candidacy is less a campaign than a humiliation ritual for whites. He is what white “political leaders” will look like if we do not recover our identity and pride. There is nothing more embarrassing than an Uncle Tim.

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Mr. Hood is a staff writer for American Renaissance. He has been active in conservative groups in the US. You can follow him on Gab.