Tim Walz: Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Dolls

We'll start with the obvious: President Trump never said the government was mandating the number of dolls someone could buy. He was referring to his tariffs, and that families may buy fewer toys this Christmas because of increased costs. A debate on whether or not the tariffs and the President's comments are politically smart can (and should) be had. 

But that's a topic for another column.

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I am continually amazed at the Democratic Party's ability to pick the absolute worst spokesperson for any given cause, because they do it repeatedly. 

Sending Tim Waltz out to condemn government overreach is like asking Pete Davidson to record anti-drug PSAs. 

If Tim forgot his record, or his party's record, on what the government believes it can tell people what to do, let me refresh his memory:

Tim Walz thinks the government has the power to regulate your speech, going so far as to say 'hate speech' and 'mis/disinformation' were not protected by the First Amendment. Conveniently, Tim Walz also believed government could define what is and isn't 'hate speech' and 'disinformation.' 

If you're wondering what his government would define as those things, look no further than the proposed Minnesota hate speech registry. Under that registry, wearing a t-shirt that read 'I Love J.K. Rowling' would be classified as 'hate speech' and saying COVID came from the Wuhan lab would be 'disinformation' (Tim's gotta protect his ChiCom pals, after all).

When it comes to guns, Walz may pretend he's a gun owner -- and after having seen his gun-handling skills during his campaign's quail hunt PR stunt, it's clearly just pretend -- but his track record on guns tells a different story. Here's just a taste of what his gun control policies look like:

Walz’s track record as governor is one of misrepresenting reality to garner support for controversial gun-control laws.

Consider Walz’s response to a recent tragedy in which a man killed two police officers and a firefighter during a standoff at his home. Despite being prohibited from possessing firearms due to his lengthy history of criminal violence, the perpetrator obtained the guns via illegal straw purchases by his girlfriend.

Did Walz promise to take actions reasonably designed to stop criminals from evading the state’s universal background checks?

Of course not. Instead, he immediately pushed to expand the state’s “safe storage” laws, which play virtually no role in preventing violent crimes by people who can’t legally own guns in the first place.

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Walz knows full well that the rifles he trained with in the National Guard had select-fire capabilities that render them functionally different from the semiautomatic civilian platforms he seeks to ban.

He knows, too, that the features distinguishing “assault weapons” from “non-assault weapons”—things like pistol grips and barrel shrouds—have no bearing on the weapon’s lethality or functionality, but rather make them safer and more practical for a variety of legitimate civilian uses, including for self-defense.

Before the election, he made it very clear the government had a say in what types of guns you owned:

.@KamalaHarris and I are both gun owners. We believe in the Second Amendment. But we also believe in keeping our kids and our communities safe.

Our plan is common sense: ban assault weapons, require universal background checks, and pass red flag laws.

— Tim Walz (@Tim_Walz) October 25, 2024

He also believed government, without due process, could take away your guns via 'red flag laws' -- a system that would allow anyone to report another citizen as being a potential threat to himself or others, thus allowing the state to seize that person's weapons pending a hearing.

Maybe.

During COVID, Walz not only set up a snitch line where Minnesotans could report their neighbors for breaking his lockdown regulations, he kept the schools closed longer than necessary (thereby harming a generation of Minnesota kids and depriving them of their educational opportunities). He issued $1,000 and send violators to prison for 90 days. He capped indoor gatherings at ten people and outdoor gatherings at 25 people. In July 2020, he mandated masks in all public indoor spaces.

In November and December of that same year, Walz issued and extended orders shutting down restaurants, gyms, and other non-essential businesses. People who dared to step on their front porches during lockdowns where hit with a hail of paintballs. And if Tim Walz himself didn't order such enforcement, he didn't lift a finger to stop it.

Female inmates in Minnesota state prisons are forced to live and shower with violent, predatory men who 'identify' as women. When those women complained, officials in Tim Walz's government ignored them. He also signed legislation allowing the sterilization and mutilation of children -- under the guise of 'gender-affirming care' -- and legislation that would remove children from homes that didn't 'affirm' their gender identity.

Tim Walz is not only lying about President Trump's dolls comments (par for the course for Timmy, really), he's also decided that toys are the one facet of our lives where government shouldn't have power.

Free speech, guns, how we run our business, how we raise our children, and our right to safety and privacy? All of those things are well within the purview of government regulation, however.

I'd say Tim was toying with us, if only he weren't serious.

And seriously hypocritical.