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.”
Aussie politics are in amazing shape atm, the right lost harder than it ever has in our entire history, but nice try. Did you have fun looking up my profile?
Like Americans have kept their noses out of other countries politics before. Rules for thee but not for me right?
You are talking like he is going to reply to you, when he isn’t. The only conclusion I could make is your talking to your imaginary friend instead.
Lol, the amount of grammatical & spelling mistakes you’re making and you’re attacking my English. That American education system is doing you plenty of favours.
No.
In addition to your comments he might wanna know that “Waltz” isn’t a person
I know, he is such a dummy. It’s obviously a dance.
And The Band Played Waltzing Mathilda comes to mind for me…. The Aussies already learned the lesson Americans are going to have to learn very soon.
The Australian government is supporting genocide.