Governor Tim Walz
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241 appearances
14 recordings
8 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 19 Apr
Governor Tim Walz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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How do we push some of those guys back under a rock?
I can't message to misogynists. I can't message that women shouldn't have.
I think some of us scare them. I think I scare them a little bit why they spend so much time on it. No, I'm serious, because I can fix a truck. They know I'm not bullshitting on this. I'm not putting this in people's grill. I don't know if my identity is not hunting. My identity is not football coaching. My identity is not, you know, a beard and a truck. I like all those things.
But how did we get to this where have they figured it out that the identity piece of this is more important than the actual substance behind it?
I always use this analogy that there's a whole bunch of people, Gavin, that see rights like a pie. If somebody gets some, they lose part of their pie. Yeah, ridiculous. Not that way. Expanding rights that there's no one. I keep coming back to that idea and this idea of freedom that Well, that can be everybody. I don't know why they're in these small, little, narrow, divisive issues.
Other than I think some of these people are masterful at it so they can get to their true goal, which is to cut taxes for the wealthy and shift wealth in their direction.
That's 100% correct.
How do we do that, though, Kevin, and lay down a clear marker that you're not going to demonize LGBTQ people? We're not going to let that happen. How do we lay that marker down? Because I'm not going to get into their space with them of that that's what a man looks like, you know, demonizing these.
How do we stay firm, show that we're committed, and not compromise on those values that we care about?
I think you're
curious to listen i want to listen to ezra next week because because i think that's the other thing that i think we talk a lot and we have to deliver more you've delivered i think we've delivered in minnesota and i've seen this when you deliver on things that improve people's lives it's amazing how good the politics is behind that if you have good policies and get things done and part of that is i think where ezra's getting that is is is do your best work but acknowledge you know really this agency's not doing that much for people positive like i'm doing this thing
just just simple things to make them getting their driver's license easier you and i both deal with this the dmv like i'm trying to fight why do we make them go every year maybe we should go every two years you know just something that people want to see we did this thing where you can now get your license tabs um through a vending machine at cub foods so you just go up there takes you two minutes you put in your stuff and it spits out your tabs you put your tabs on
That one to me is as conservatives are like, good, I didn't have to deal with government. It was efficient. It was easy. But that was government. But it was good functioning government.
It works so well for them because people believe that. And look, it's been 40 years since, you know, your predecessor Reagan told them, you know, you don't want to see government government. Government can be a great force of good, whether it's protecting your personal rights, whether it's innovation. Look, good for SpaceX. I hope they succeed. But let's be clear.
SpaceX stands on the shoulders of NASA giants. And that's our taxpayer dollars that did that. There are great things. But I've always been a firm believer. We can do the research, send it into the private sector, let them improve, monetize it and help people as long as there's guardrails. I think we find ourselves now pushing back anything that's business oriented, we're kind of negative to.
I feel I'm hearing it from the business community. Look like they're they don't like Trump right now. They're not being courageous enough, in my opinion, to speak out. But they don't like this. But they also say, well, I don't hear a lot from you guys saying that, you know, you're these businesses added to the cultural, you know, tapestry of Minneapolis by far.
But I've said this, Gavin, I taught fourth grade. Fear is an incredible short-term motivator. It can change behaviors though, for the long run. What are we going to have to do? You know, you feel this excitement, you have these rallies, but what's that translating into? You know, what's that turning into?
That's why they're on with Trump. They're part of something. They're part of a team. I've always said this. In high school, I did everything. I coached all the sports. I worked on the play, the musical. I sponsored the student trips. I built the prom. I did all that because what I understood was is kids will gravitate to groups and it's better to be in the musical than in a gang.
It's better to be with this group of kids in school. So we know this. If a kid is part of something, they do that. And I'm telling you, this disenfranchisement with men, this not being there, whatever, they might have played on football teams. I think Trump gives them that feeling that I'm on the team. I wear the same colors. I do all this. I don't look. You can laugh all you want about red hats.
People like those damn things, don't they? And maybe some of it's sticking it in our grill. But I think it's being part of something bigger than themselves. And right now, the Democratic Party doesn't feel like something bigger than themselves. And that's our whole goal. Community.
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