Tim Walz Offers Blunt Message For 'Fatigued' Voters After 'Pure Hell' Election Loss

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Huff Post

Jan 30, 2025, 06:12 AM EST


Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday laid out a strategy to “push back” against Donald Trump’s administration after a chaotic start to the president’s second term that’s seen a since-rescinded, controversial memo that aimed to freeze all federal grants.

“You know, that overused term ‘the frog in the boiling water,’ we’ve been in the damn pot way too long,” said the former Democratic vice presidential nominee in an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow.

He later continued, “To the voters, I’m with this, too. Everybody’s fatigued. Trust me, I get it, it was pure hell and the disappointment and the frustration. I’m, you know, soul searching, ‘What could we have done to make the case,’ cause we knew this was coming, we knew that the implications...”

Walz — who called Trump’s federal funding freeze “stupid, buffoonish and childish” before it was temporarily halted by a federal judge on Tuesday — has previously weighed in on the Democrats’ election loss, declaring that he was “a little surprised” by Trump and JD Vance’s win over his ticket with Kamala Harris.

On Tuesday, he argued that Republicans have since ended up throwing “so much” at Democrats that they’ve become “fatigued,” pointing to debate around whether Elon Musk’s infamous hand gesture was a Nazi salute.

“But that is a distraction from what I think, you said, this is game on stuff right here,” he said of the funding freeze.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tim-walz-fatigued-voters-trump-federal-funding-freeze_n_679b1cece4b0eb34407f0576

[patphil]

1. Tim Waltz was definitely angry during his interview with Rachel. I want to see more of him; he's got a lot to say.

And, he's a good face out there, leading the opposition to the Trump shit show.

[Tetrachloride]

2. What could we have done to make the case ?

that’s not in the top 3 questions that i would have asked

[OMGWTF]

3. T💩p and Eloon cheated. They are bragging about it.

Kamala was robbed. I hope their evil deeds come out eventually. Those two fkers belong in a cell at Gitmo.

[GoneOffShore]

6. I keep having thoughts about two locations in Italy that would work better

Villa Belmonte Via Giulino, 5, Azzano, Province of Como
and then
Piazzale Loreto, Milano

[Polybius]

7. I think everyone had their own questions that others may think isn't as important as what they would ask

Take interviewers with Hillary Clinton for example. The one question I'd like to ask her most is "If you had won in 2016, would you have re-submitted Merrick Garland's name for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, or would you have chosen your own pick?"

No one ever asked that question.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

4. The fatigue is the point , dominating the media with never-ending shitshow is the point,

overwhelming us with rapidfire shocks and leaving us too discombobulated to react effectively is the point. Thats whats going on now, and thats what was going on throughout the election. Ex: with all the uproar about the eating of pets, there was simply very little bandwidth left in our collective psyches to take in Tim's messaging about... whatever he would've wanted to say. Too many Dems still dont understand this and quibble about fine tuning message when it was the message delivery system which was ineffectual. I dont know what the answer is cos we are and I assume want to be the side of truth and fairness, equality, rule of law etc. But thats where I think where the great minds need to focus I think.

[CTyankee]

5. During the election I made a large poster saying MIND YOUR OWN DAMN BUSINESS and taped it on the wall of our home office

over the computer screen of our desk. My husband made me take it down. He said it was rude. And he is a very strong DEM. But he said it was rude and that bothered him, so I took it down.

[maxsolomon]

8. I read all 6 paragraphs snipped.

I didn't see a "blunt message".

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Down further in the article

“So I would tell people: Stay focused. Don’t take the bait on the distractions. Surround yourself with people who understand this,” he said.

I would say it is a "common sense" message.

(DU has had a few threads extolling Walz's comments)

[Hitorque]

10. Kick