http://twitchy.com/brettt/2024/08/19/tim-walz-says-everybody-shares-in-communist-china-n2399834
Gov. Tim Walz was a curious pick for Kamala Harris' running mate. They don't seem to have vetted him very well, as claims of stolen valor dog him everywhere he goes. Accused of falsifying his rank, bailing on his Army National Guard Unit, and claiming to have been in Iraq and/or Afghanistan (it was actually Italy), Walz finally addressed the elephant in the room, saying he's "damn proud" of his service to this country.
So "proud" that he felt the desperate need to lie through his teeth about it for years and years.
Then there's Walz's curious China connection. As Semafor reported, Walz became a "sensation" on Chinese social media after he was announced as the VP pick. Walz had traveled to China to teach English in 1989, the same year as the Tiananmen Square massacre. He spent his honeymoon there and has visited around 30 times.
Remember when Walz said that socialism was just "neighborliness"? According to an old article dug up by the Washington Free Beacon, Walz thought that communism was pretty cool too. Alana Goodman reports:
As a high school teacher in the 1990s, Democratic vice presidential candidate and Minnesota governor Tim Walz appeared to extol life under Chinese communism, telling his students that it is a system in which "everyone shares" and gets free food and housing.
"It means that everyone is the same and everyone shares," Walz said during a lesson on China's communist system in November 1991. "The doctor and the construction worker make the same. The Chinese government and the place they work for provide housing and 14 kg or about 30 pounds of rice per month. They get food and housing."
If everyone "is the same" under Chinese communism, it doesn't sound like it from Walz's description, in which is says he was treated like a king:
In China, Walz said he received a salary that was double the pay of Chinese teachers, was given a decorated apartment with a color TV, and had the only air-conditioned residence on campus. He said he was also thrown parties on his birthday and Christmas.
"No matter how long I live, I'll never be treated that well again," he told the Times-Herald after arriving home. "They gave me more gifts than I could bring home. It was an excellent experience."
Walz and his wife Gwen held their wedding on the fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre — with Gwen Walz saying her husband "wanted to have a date he'll always remember."
Uh ...
Matthew Continetti (@continetti) ~ Walz Praised Chinese Communism as a System Where 'Everyone Shares'
http://freebeacon.com/elections/walz-praised-chinese-communism-as-a-system-where-everyone-shares/
Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) ~ Pure "joy."
Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) ~ Wow: The Free Beacon dug up this old news article in which Tim Walz defines "Communism" as a system in which "everyone is the same and everyone shares." He praised the CCP for providing "food and housing" rations. A real-life Communism respecter.
Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) ~ I’ve traveled to China a half-dozen times. Lived there for a year. It’s a fascinating country, but you’d have to be a moron or a Communist — or both — to believe that the CCP is a regime committed to the idea that “everyone is the same and everyone shares.”
Truth Ninja (@TruthNinja316) ~ Walz is a typical dupe for foreign intelligence and propaganda. Someone who goes to a place, is treated like a king to give the impression the place is great, and then parrots that. It's like Dennis Rodman in NK or Sean Penn in Venezuela. They roll out the red carpet for that person and you don't think about the starvation, concentration camps, and political jailings and death.
Brian Gardner (@Brian_F_Gardner) ~ Just a quick reminder that "sharing" is a voluntary activity. Communism is coercive.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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