The Minnesota governor said that the path to tyranny “is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting”
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was testifying before Congress about his state’s handling of immigration when he learned Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., was forcibly removed from a Department of Homeland Security news conference Thursday.
The irony, he told the attendees of the Center for American Progress’ “Listening to Lead” event Friday, was in lawmakers grilling him and his colleagues, Govs. Kathy Hochul, D-N.Y. and JB Pritzker, D-Ill., over the “incredible crime of treating people like human beings” as FBI agents tackled a sitting senator to the ground and handcuffed him in Los Angeles.
“I am not prone to hyperbole. I am prone to, like, popping off a little bit. I know that,” Walz said, prefacing his argument that Americans are living in a “dangerous” time. “I believed all along we were marching towards authoritarianism, and people were telling me in December, ‘You know, you’re overreacting.’ And I said, “The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.”
AOC and Bernie poured sweat and blood into strongly worded admonishments.
I guess you want to see our elected Representatives seizing and holding territory with guns and grenades in order to be satisfied.
Actually? I’d love to see Bernie Sanders just show up full Rambo style, guns blazing, totally losing his shit.
But also, I’ve abandoned the concept that this country will ever run smoothly, peacefully, and without corruption.
So at this point I’m ok with letting the country burn that was founded on slavery and racism, but hasn’t learned anything since.
And genocide, don’t forget the genocide.
And people around me think less of me for not being patriotic.
America is my home, and it’s also a dumpster fire. Always has been.
I want to ask, in earnest, if you mean you’re not nationalist? Patriot gets thrown around a lot these days, but what most people really mean is nationalism. I love my country, but I hate what it’s become. I hate the people in power who are ruining this great country. I hate the conservatives who are trashing everything with their racism and toxicity. I hate the liberals who are just as bad as conservatives because neither side can do the right thing (granted, the left are slightly better than the right).
And no, this is not a “bOTh SiDeS” issue. So you can burn that straw man down right now.
Democrats aren’t leftist, they are also a Conservative Party.
This is part of the problem! There are so many different (and stupid) words to describe one side of a political party. We should make a new one called the Not Assholes party that encompasses those of us who just want a working democracy that doesn’t favor aristocracy, oligarchy, or any other non democratic -cracy/-archy.
Or whatever; I really don’t know. I’m stupid and this shit is way too over complicated for my stupid brain to comprehend. 😩
The problem isn’t imagining philosophical lines to draw in the imaginary philosophical sand, the problem is that, no matter what the political framework is, people want power and people want other people to have power because it means there is a possibility of them having power. This has always been and always will be. We are just apes looking to be at the head of the feeding order.
It would definitely be a change from the talking they always do.
It’s boring.
AOC and Bernie were directly interacting with people all this time explaining and making them ready: AKA acting; Walz was largely absent all this time.
He actually has been touring as well
Another article from Ohio
thank you
direct action does not equal guns and grenades. Please educate yourself on what direct action really means.
It includes them as options. Ideally last resort. But not never.
Why don’t you educate them on what the meaning is?