Let’s start with an American governor and recent VP candidate Tim Walz. At a recent gathering, he said, "Some of you know this. On the iPhone, they’ve got that little stock app. I added Tesla to it to give me a little boost during the day — $225 and dropping, And if you own one, we’re not blaming you. You can take dental floss and pull the Tesla thing off.” (Crowd: Yuk, Yuk, Yuk) The former football coach, caught criticizing an American company whose auto workers make an American car, danced back his comment, probably because of criticism, saying, "I was making a joke. These people have no sense of humor. They are the most literal people.” *
Really, “These people”? This from a member of the intolerant Left whose sense of humor is relegated to making fun of conservatives to the exclusion of Democrats. This from someone whose party cancels anyone who makes a remark about the Left.
Walz didn’t stop with his hatred (envy?) of Tesla, a company whose stock downfall he seemed to relish while his own state’s employees’ pension fund owns 1.6 million Tesla shares. He added the typical Democrat mantra: If I were rich, I would…What, Tim? Feed the hungry, Tim? Buy everyone a house? Maybe as car? (But not a Tesla) Walz said, "Maybe it's just me. If I'm the richest man in the world, I'm like out on the streets handing out money. It'd be fun as hell just to help people out. Go help people out. Not this guy.” Seems Tim never learned that apothegm that about giving a man a fish or teaching a man to fish.
Walz seems to be unaware that since Johnson’s Great Society, the government has spent more than a trillion dollars in handouts without much effect. But Tim would—if he were rich—give away cash. Noble. Liberal. Democrat. Especially with someone else’s money.
It’s an argument my late dear Democrat dad used to make. Rich people have everything. The implication is that they should share their wealth. An argument that my late dear African-American and successful brother-in-law countered with, “When is the last time a poor man wrote you a check?” His point? Yes, the rich are sometimes inordinately wealthy, but many of them took risks, built businesses, and hired employees, providing them with livelihoods sufficient for them to live a Middle Class life, all being capable of feeding, clothing, and housing their families and sending children off to college. Well, maybe not to the extent of Tim Walz who reportedly withdrew $135,000 from a pension fund to send his daughter to college. That’s a sizable junk of change to liquidate. Anyway, with my brother-in-law, I would say to my dad, “Wealth is relative. You don’t live in a mansion, but you do own a house, car, and have money for vacations. You are richer than most of the world’s population. Isn’t it possible that someone out there, seeing what you have, envies your wealth?” Of course, the argument fell on deaf (literally because he needed hearing aids) ears. He, bless his soul, hated Republicans and the business owners he said made up their base.
Walz’s audience laughed when he joked about Tesla’s falling stock. I would hazard that many of them or members of their families have pensions tied to Tesla and other large companies. And that makes me wonder whether the Democrat base, so hung up on hating the evil wealthy, has an inordinate number of fools, hypocrites, and dunces. That’s harsh, I know, and no doubt could be directed toward members of the Republican Party, also. But certain realities weigh heavily on Democrat values and policies. Apparently, it is all right for billionaires to support Democrats and for the disparity in wealth to have increased during the Biden years, but not okay for billionaires to support Republicans. It is all right for people to burn someone else’s property, to deface a dealership, and to smash someone’s car. Funny, right? Good humor for a late night talk show host like Jimmy Kimmel.
I didn’t want to write this blog. I suppose I allowed emotion to govern. In doing so, I reduced myself to the level of Tim Walz and others in his Party who have expressed joy in others’ downturns. But the hypocrisy on the left keeps inserting itself into the daily news that I foolishly peruse.
Is there a way to judge evenly the actions and value of Right and Left? The Left can’t stop bringing up the January 6 mob action. I’ll admit it was a mob, and like all mobs, it ran out of control. But what does the Left support? Riots and looting? Vandalism and support for murderers and torturers? Antisemitism? The Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua? Open borders and the free flow of fentanyl? Government waste and fraud? Allowing terrorists to threaten world shipping? A corrupt FBI and Justice Department that went after parents at school board meetings, Catholics who attended latin Masses, and pro-lifers who sang on sidewalks?
Yuk it up, Tim. And get that audience to hate even when their hatred is aimed at their own retirement funds. You’re a liberal, so whatever you do must of its very nature be better and smarter than what anyone on the Right does.
*https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tim-walz-cheers-tesla-stock-tumble-mn-state-employees-pension-owns-over-1m-shares
Really, “These people”? This from a member of the intolerant Left whose sense of humor is relegated to making fun of conservatives to the exclusion of Democrats. This from someone whose party cancels anyone who makes a remark about the Left.
Walz didn’t stop with his hatred (envy?) of Tesla, a company whose stock downfall he seemed to relish while his own state’s employees’ pension fund owns 1.6 million Tesla shares. He added the typical Democrat mantra: If I were rich, I would…What, Tim? Feed the hungry, Tim? Buy everyone a house? Maybe as car? (But not a Tesla) Walz said, "Maybe it's just me. If I'm the richest man in the world, I'm like out on the streets handing out money. It'd be fun as hell just to help people out. Go help people out. Not this guy.” Seems Tim never learned that apothegm that about giving a man a fish or teaching a man to fish.
Walz seems to be unaware that since Johnson’s Great Society, the government has spent more than a trillion dollars in handouts without much effect. But Tim would—if he were rich—give away cash. Noble. Liberal. Democrat. Especially with someone else’s money.
It’s an argument my late dear Democrat dad used to make. Rich people have everything. The implication is that they should share their wealth. An argument that my late dear African-American and successful brother-in-law countered with, “When is the last time a poor man wrote you a check?” His point? Yes, the rich are sometimes inordinately wealthy, but many of them took risks, built businesses, and hired employees, providing them with livelihoods sufficient for them to live a Middle Class life, all being capable of feeding, clothing, and housing their families and sending children off to college. Well, maybe not to the extent of Tim Walz who reportedly withdrew $135,000 from a pension fund to send his daughter to college. That’s a sizable junk of change to liquidate. Anyway, with my brother-in-law, I would say to my dad, “Wealth is relative. You don’t live in a mansion, but you do own a house, car, and have money for vacations. You are richer than most of the world’s population. Isn’t it possible that someone out there, seeing what you have, envies your wealth?” Of course, the argument fell on deaf (literally because he needed hearing aids) ears. He, bless his soul, hated Republicans and the business owners he said made up their base.
Walz’s audience laughed when he joked about Tesla’s falling stock. I would hazard that many of them or members of their families have pensions tied to Tesla and other large companies. And that makes me wonder whether the Democrat base, so hung up on hating the evil wealthy, has an inordinate number of fools, hypocrites, and dunces. That’s harsh, I know, and no doubt could be directed toward members of the Republican Party, also. But certain realities weigh heavily on Democrat values and policies. Apparently, it is all right for billionaires to support Democrats and for the disparity in wealth to have increased during the Biden years, but not okay for billionaires to support Republicans. It is all right for people to burn someone else’s property, to deface a dealership, and to smash someone’s car. Funny, right? Good humor for a late night talk show host like Jimmy Kimmel.
I didn’t want to write this blog. I suppose I allowed emotion to govern. In doing so, I reduced myself to the level of Tim Walz and others in his Party who have expressed joy in others’ downturns. But the hypocrisy on the left keeps inserting itself into the daily news that I foolishly peruse.
Is there a way to judge evenly the actions and value of Right and Left? The Left can’t stop bringing up the January 6 mob action. I’ll admit it was a mob, and like all mobs, it ran out of control. But what does the Left support? Riots and looting? Vandalism and support for murderers and torturers? Antisemitism? The Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua? Open borders and the free flow of fentanyl? Government waste and fraud? Allowing terrorists to threaten world shipping? A corrupt FBI and Justice Department that went after parents at school board meetings, Catholics who attended latin Masses, and pro-lifers who sang on sidewalks?
Yuk it up, Tim. And get that audience to hate even when their hatred is aimed at their own retirement funds. You’re a liberal, so whatever you do must of its very nature be better and smarter than what anyone on the Right does.
*https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tim-walz-cheers-tesla-stock-tumble-mn-state-employees-pension-owns-over-1m-shares
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