She picked Tim
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Anonymous
Walz has investments. Anybody with a pension and/or 457 plan has investments. As a parent and former teacher, I’m sure his concerns are just as great or greater than yours. |
Anonymous
There was also a project he had his students do, looking at conditions and causes of genocide, then analyzing various parts of the world. The students predicted the Rwanda genocide a year before it happened. As a teacher: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/08/08/tim-walz-was-my-teacher-what-i-learned-00173212 The Rwanda story: https://www.newsweek.com/tim-walz-kamala-vp-high-school-rwanda-genocide-1935862--there's a link to a NYT |
Anonymous
| he didn't pick any new votes, might of cost them votes |
Anonymous
| They would have stopped the minute he asked them to do so. But he didn't. |
Anonymous
Why do you dissociate GOP from Trump, who is the head of the party? Whatever his personal beliefs, his administration and advisors are all MAGA. |
Anonymous
What policies of Trump do you see addressing these issues…  He has nothing but crowd sizes and talk. He has a track record of doing nothing.
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Anonymous
As I just said, I agree that Trump himself is not ultra-conservative. But he knows that he built his coalition from ultra-conservative extremists. So, he continues to give subtle nodes to those extreme groups and will occasionally do things that will damage our country to keep them in line. This is how he maintains the MAGA devotion. Classic examples, regarding Charlottesville, where there were white supremacists, Christian nationalists, and anti-Semites all gathered together, he gave them the subtle nod that there were "good people on both sides" hinting that he was supportive of their cause. Since then, we have had a rise in violence against minorities. Synagogue bombings, felony assaults on Asians (enough that states started to pass anti-Asian protection legislation), increase violence against Latinos. He doesn't believe in abortion himself, but he put three very conservative anti-abortion judges on the Scotus, who would shred the practice of stare decisis and overturn Roe v Wade. And he is willing to allow the extremists in his party to push for a national abortion ban that he would sign if it reached his desk. He would probably also cater to Vance and his ultraconservatism to enact the travel ban on pregnant women who would no longer be allowed to travel out-of-state because they might terminate their pregnancy while out of state. Because of his appointments of Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Coney Barrett, pregnant women are and will continue to die of medically treatable conditions because doctors are afraid of treating a women in a way that might endanger their pregnancies or would not treat women if they might have to choose between the mother or the baby. The current conservative approach says that the baby's life is more important than the mother's health, fertility or even life. He is a wealthy business man and so he enacted a tax cut that would primarily benefit the ultra-wealthy and sold it as a tax cut for all, although the majority of the middle class and lower would not benefit from it at all. He has helped increase the wage gap between CEOs and their employees. It will become even more extreme when the rest of the package kicks in in 2025. He caters to the militant nationalists with the "America First" policies. He would withdraw us from NATO. The first repercussion is that we would no longer help Europe stand against Putin and Russia and parts of eastern Europe would be annexed by Russia again. The US is the major source of funding and military support for NATO. He also has been friendly with Putin and Kim Jong Un. His international politics distances the US from other democracies and ties us to authoritarian governments like Russia and North Korea. I fear those will have repercussions that could take lifetimes to recover from. Many of the changes that he would make could take a lifetime to recover from, and a lifetime that many women will not survive to see. |
Anonymous
The financial disclosure forms do not require you to list federal government TSP or state government 457(b) plans. Pensions are public record. The TSP and 457(b) do not require disclosure because they are de facto designed to mitigate conflict of interest. Here’s his latest financial disclosure as Governor from Jan 2024: https://cfb.mn.gov/reports-and-data/officials-financial-disclosure/official/13091/ All his investments are done through his government service. So there’s nothing to report. He does not own any real estate and owns no individual securities outside his state and federal retirement plans. He obviously has direct exposure to U.S. financial markets and companies through their retirement investments. But it’s done in an arms lengthy manner. I suspect he’s basically a gov’y Boglehead. -Someone who has to file insanely detailed federal financial disclosures |
Anonymous
As a parent of an adopted child, I have no delusions that women should become incubators for women who cannot have their own children. Our nation has not become Gilead yet. Also lots of birth parents don’t want to go nine months and walk away from their child. And when they do , willingly or by the state (foster care) they often wait far too long in the process, messing these children up. |
Anonymous
You are more concerned that someone doesn’t have investments than you are with one who regularly stiffs and cons people (see Trump’s multiple lawsuits, bankruptcies and felony convictions) and never pays his bills (see his inability to fly into Bozeman bc he still owes the airport money from the last election)? Your concerns cannot be taken seriously with that mentality. |
Anonymous
Well, the post was pretty clear, not a Trump voter. Just not a fan of Walz either. Seems like a mediocre socialist to me. |
Anonymous
You're reading too much into it. It said that he has no stock investments. He has money, just not invested in a volatile market. The #1 rule of stock markets is that you should never spend money that you cannot lose in the stock market. Stocks can turn down as easily as they can turn up. So, he makes less money on interest having his money in more liquid assets and he does not risk losing it in volatile assets. He has no home because he sold his home when he became governor, since he would be living in the governor's mansion. If he wins, they will move into the VPs mansion. He will buy another home when they need one, e.g. if they lose the election in November or when he leaves the VP mansion (assuming he does not get another job that gives him free housing). It doesn't say he can't afford a house, but he doesn't own a house. Why spend to keep up a house if you aren't living in it. Plus, if you look at the real estate section of DCUM, you'll see threads with complaints about people who moved out of one house and decided to rent and later are complaining about the taxation on the capital gains when they hadn't lived in the house for 2 of the previous 5 years. Walz was going to be in the governor's mansion for 4 years, which means he would have lost capital gains protection on his money. And he would have had to pay to keep the property up and cared for while they were not living there. The article does not say he has no money, but that he has no investments and property. And for his situation, he had good reasons for the decisions that he made. Yes, he may be limiting the interest and appreciation he would get, but he also limited the risk. The article did not note that many other governors and public servants who had provided housing made the same choice to sell their homes, and it has never been made a big issue of, until the comparison with Vance. |
Anonymous
I will answer this in good faith. Between Gwen and Tim, they have 4 pensions (army, teacher, teacher, congressman). Between that and social security, their retirement is secure. For a very long time, they were a dual income teacher/teacher household. You know how much money they make. For a long time, they tried IVF to have children. You know how much that costs. He has put money into his children’s 529 plan. They had a house that they sold when he moved into the governor’s mansion. Until his decision to run for office, the Walz family had a perfectly middle class life. What he has not done, is to enrich himself while in office. This is not a failure, it’s a good thing. He didn’t sell himself out and make himself beholden to special interests, which means that he could actually work on behalf of his constituents without external pressures. I think we have became so used to corruption in politics that when we see someone who is not, it seems like a bad thing. |
Anonymous
Well said— I am the poster you are responding to. I appreciate you sharing your perspective— there is a lot to think about. |
Anonymous
So you only consider a person responsible if they commit the acts themselves? Do tell me why is Charles Manson in jail? After all, he killed no one. |