Tim Walz Let It Burn
Savanna Deretich joins us from Students for Life to bring an eye-witness analysis of the gubernatorial record of Walz and what it meant for her as a Minnesota resident. She claims the soft, friendly words from Walz did little to soothe the radical policy and violent riots which plagued his administration.
Sometimes I find myself flipping through really good op eds because in a world of just trashy. Letters to the editor that are on every single website. Sometimes you find a gem and it takes you back and so we reached out and we got her. The author of a recent Fox News editorial called I watched as Governor Tim Walz let my home state of Minnesota burn:
Yes. Government. Yeah. Government affairs, government affairs.
(Savanna) tell us a little bit about what went into driving you to write this scathing editorial.
Absolutely. What really drove me to write this editorial was obviously the announcement of Governor Walz being the VP pick for Kamala Harris. And immediately I knew that this was going to be the most pro-abortion ticket America has. Ever seen in any election and it really drove me to really expose how extreme Governor Walz is on abortion as well as other policies that I personally had to experience as a Minnesota resident during his while he was governor, especially during 2020 when things were absolutely terrible in Minnesota. With the George Floyd riots:
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with COVID:
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And in the coming years, the most pro-abortion legislation that has ever seen past the United States. So a lot of those things just kind of built up. And this was way a way that I could show the world how extreme actually governor Walz is and why he’s dangerous for America.
And this is one of the things that really gets to me because they’re on the western edge of the Midwest. There’s a lot of people talking for us right now that we should somehow be honored that. We should be flattered that they would pick fun sitcom dad.
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You know, Tim Walz out here. I mean, he wore a camo hat once. I mean, isn’t that good enough for you? And no one seems to ask questions about his leadership in Minnesota… and Minnesota, such a hotbed purple state that’s drifting bluer by the moment. And this crazy environment around the Twin Cities. Obviously, we’ve talked a lot about the George Floyd riots. Go into a little bit of detail on why you labeled the abortion legislation, though, as so extreme. Beyond that, it’s abortion.
Absolutely. In 2022, he passed what was called the PRO Act:
And this act allows basically infanticide, it allows abortion all the way through the moment of birth if the woman decides that she wants to end the life of her own child. And even though it doesn’t say explicitly, ohh, you can kill the child after it’s born, but it has no protections whatsoever in the legislation. I personally know Pro-life Republican legislators in the Minnesota Senate and House who tried to add amendments to even just give medical care to these children if they survived an abortion at like through the moment of birth and there’s no protections. They were all vetoed by Democrats and therefore signed into law by the governor. And he said repeatedly how proud he was to be able to sign one of the most pro-abortion piece of legislation in the United States.
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This is something that I think that we need to dig into right now because I’ve heard this conversation half a million times and always and even on the right, the very terms that you’ve used. Let’s go into detail about what this means. What does it actually mean for Republicans who just begged for there to be conditions that if a baby was born during an abortion? For them to be cared for. Allow me to explain. Let us say that the mother chose to take chemical abortion. So, she chose to take a pill. She chose to take some kind of injection, and it forced her body to go into labor to expel the baby from her womb prematurely. The baby, if the poison didn’t take, if the poison didn’t fry its nervous system, if the poison didn’t stop its heart. If the poison didn’t nuke its liver, if the poison didn’t basically liquefy the parts of its bones which were making red blood cells, the baby can survive. And by the way, you and I have spoken to people, at least if you’re like a lot of other people at Students for Life who have survived these procedures, who have grown up to be fine, they may even have a lasting scar or deformity from. The four steps during the forced birth procedure. And we don’t talk about how that under that bill, there are no protections if the mother gives birth to the baby right there in the God forbid, the Planned Parenthood office, they don’t have to take care of the baby. And according to investigations that we found from everyone. Like Mary Margaret Olohan over at the Daily Signal in Washington, DC, all the way on the other side of the coasts that Planned Parenthood kind of just throws out the body parts of the fetuses whenever they feel so. These are very graphic, disturbing, horrible things that Walz and the Minnesota Democrats knowingly kept out of the bill because adding an amendment would be like, what, a couple sentences?
Yeah, Yeah. It was simple amendments just to say, provide basic medical care for a child after outside the womb, which most people would agree that as a human being. But yet, no, they did not want to even add that to any of the legislation.
We’re being asked to champion the wondrous Tim Walz amazing, smart, caring. He’s just that lovable sitcom dad that that. You’ve always wanted, or so I’ve been told. Have you ever heard him use the kind of language that I just used to describe a baby born during an abortion?
No
He’s such an honest, good guy. Certainly, I’ll come now. Come now. Certainly. He’s not just using vague terms to cover up an atrocity. Progressives would never do that.
For sure. It’s like, it’s only like we’re voting for personality, not policy here. A lot of that’s what a lot of people are doing these days and it just scares me.
And you’re saying that it scares you now a lot of people would say, oh, you know, come on, man, get over yourself. It wasn’t that bad, you know, unless you owned a business in Minneapolis. And like that fireman who owned the restaurant, which was burnt and wrecked and destroyed and the glass all thrown in and then Molotov thrown in through his window had nothing to do anybody or the minority owned businesses as well as some even supported. BLM and supported the police reform and their businesses were burned down.
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Well, I mean, you know, why would you be scared of that happening to you? Why would you be scared of policies? Ohh, that’s right, Savannah, maybe you can tell me here. Have you known of any personality traits from Tim Walz that made your life easier in Minnesota?
Absolutely nothing. No, he could be the most cheerful, cheerful guy on television, but yet his policies show otherwise. Actions speak way louder than words, and they definitely don’t align with Governor Walz’s. I guess charismatic appearance on television.
Now, one of those charismatic appearances, of course, was that he said he took “responsibility to ensure” there wouldn’t be chaos in Minneapolis and Saint Paul. Did those confident, reassuring words actually protect any of the citizens in Minneapolis or Saint Paul?
You’d be so surprised that Nope, not one,
But no, I, I, I mean, I’m, I’m truly shocked. I certainly the, the, the Democrat mayors of the state would at least be on his side. The Ohh, until he didn’t and he was complaining that Walz was taking forever on the National Guard deployment and among other things. You know, I’m starting to believe that maybe all of the soft handed good words coming out of the the governor’s office don’t amount to anything at all. I know that’s very shocking for you as a Minnesota resident, but we just said this may be an accurate portrayal of your former governor.
Absolutely. Yeah, very much so. He he says a lot of things and he even he even dared to say, and I say this in my op-ed, that he we should put people over property, but yet people were dying, businesses were being burned down. He was saying that to calm people down about the uproar and all of the destruction that he dared to say that and that have curfews for people. Uh, during COVID and put neighbor against neighbor during all of this and it was just honestly a time Minnesota has never seen ever before in its history and he came off.
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Neighbor against neighbor. Now, this is the other thing that Midwesterners are known for. We’re supposed to be very neighborly here. We have Hoosier hospitality up in Minnesota. You guys have, I don’t know, duck, duck, Gray duck, you poor sad things. And, you know, but we’re known for our neighborliness, our hospitality, our friendliness, and for the leader of that state to pit neighbor against neighbor. I mean that. I’m just saying policy wise that’s a pretty troubling record, at least I I any, any closing thoughts, anything you would leave out there as a voter, as a resident of Minnesota who survived the Walz regime?
Absolutely. To anyone that thinks that Governor Walz has this nice charismatic dad that really cares about every individual and has dealt with hard things in his life, that so he’s just like us. All of that is just to cover up what he’s actually done. Even liberal news outlets were exposing when he was announced to be the VP pick for Kamala Harris that how he let Minneapolis burn. Trump had to basically threaten I’m going to send National Guard to Minnesota unless you do something about it. And people were dying on both sides because of the riots and the violence. And because of that, Governor Walz allowed the violence to carry across all across other cities, States and capitals that because he condoned it in Minnesota. So not only did it hurt Minnesotans but hurt the whole nation. And I people really need to realize. What actually Governor Walz is responsible for, he is responsible for the whole culture change the United States when it came to crime, violence going up. Now we need to have security at every prolife that we go to because of the violence that was condoned in 2020, carried through to other political action, activism events through other policies as well. So I think people really need to dig in and actually realize we’re not voting a personality. We’re voting on policy. And just because someone may look good on TV does not mean they have good policies that act where they actually are going to affect us in positive ways.
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