The Idiocracy of Tim Walz
The self-described knucklehead doesn’t even know what a venture capitalist is:
“Sen. Vance became a media darling. He wrote a book about the place he grew up. But the premise was trashing that place he grew up rather than lifting it up,” Walz said on Tuesday of the Republican vice presidential hopeful, adding, “This guy is a venture capitalist cosplaying as a cowboy or something.”
“I don’t even know what a venture capitalist does most of the time!” he then yelled.
Social media reacted with quips and astonishment to Walz’s comments about the term “venture capitalist,” which regards one who invests in a startup business venture.
“Tampon Tim be like ‘vote for me. JD Vance is smart and I’m an idiot,’” a social media user reacted on X.
Walz is going for the Idiocracy vote. Maybe it’s a rather large bloc these days, alas.
[NOTE: If you’re unfamiliar with the movie Idiocracy, you might want to take a look. It’s transgressively, offensively funny.]
Wisdom 🙂 from Walz:
I read Hillbilly Elegy six years ago. I did not get the impression that Vance was “trashing that place he grew up.” Not at all. Mixed feelings, bittersweet, yes. But he fully viewed the place he grew up in as a part of him, the good and the bad. And he loved his mamaw.
From what I have read, Walz’s rural Nebraska relatives do not agree at all with his Wokeness/Minneapolis liberal viewpoints.
Vance’s political views are much more in agreement with the Ohio he grew up in, in contrast to Walz’s Wokeness/Minneapolis liberal viewpoints being 180 degrees from the political views of the rural Nebraska that Walz grew up in. Who is trashing whom?
I love the way that Vance deals with oppositional journalists or politicians. Vance needs neither prepared speech nor a teleprompter!
im amazed that someone as dainty with girlish mannerisms was selected as VP candidate.
Again, Walz and his wife have spent their adult worklife in the school apparat. All of his post-secondary schooling was in teacher-training (later administrator-training) programs. He was hired to teach high school ‘social studies’ without any subject degree. He’s an exemplar of what’s wrong with education.
Hurl it against the wall, whatever it is, and see if it sticks. Nothing to lose.
(I read much of Hillbilly Elegy a few years ago. Vance was *not* trashing his roots. Period. Just another slander, all in a day’s “work” for these [expletive]s.)
Harry Truman was an intelligent and rather well-read man, but he set a bad example for later politicians.
Well, the best thing for “us” is for Waltz to just keep talking, same as Harris.
BO is sticking his oar into the campaign again.
Is Bill still talking?
Wonder why Harris/Dems not asking Hillary to step up and campaign too?
I mentioned this elsewhere, but it fits here… I saw the Trump campaign meme about Timmy Tampon as the “Dancing Queen” from the ABBA song. OMG!
Ps. Don’t do what I did and find out the hard way that even decent bourbon hurts like hell, if it comes out your nose!
Were almost at full brawndo electrolytes
English, por favor, Miguel, English!
Not gibberish.
Phrase in idiocracy indicating inane behavior said by the leader camacho
In fairness to Walz (which is hard for me, but I’ll try) he didn’t say he didn’t know what a venture capitalist was. He said he didn’t know ‘what they do most of the time’.
This is a ham handed attempt to appear folksy and ‘of the people’; which is Walz’s MO. Very few seem to be buying it, thankfully; at least in part because Walz is…well…a knucklehead. At play acting ‘folksy’ and…most everything else.
@ Ackler – fair enough, but,
“I don’t even know what a venture capitalist does most of the time!” is what the media claims he said, and we know how badly they mangle Trump quotes (on purpose), and clean up Harris quotes (on purpose).
However, following Neo’s chain of links, Greg Price did post the video, and that is indeed what Walz said, and IMO his delivery supports your interpretation.
https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1846271538871652655
It’s pretty gutsy of Walz to accuse Vance of cosplaying a cowboy while he’s on the hustings cosplaying a hunter, but never mind that.
Now for the importance of his remark:
Presenting venture capitalists as some kind of mystic arcane neomancers of money is exactly what the Democrats did to demonize Mitt Romney (as a recent historical reference) with the charges that Bain Capital’s corporate operations which closed some companies to fortify the stock portfolio somehow meant that Romney killed poor people with cancer. And who can forget the hysteria (in the actual Freudian sense) over his “binders of women” phrase?
This is along the lines of the Democrats interminable appeal to “tax the rich” when they know full well that the really rich will have enough lawyers to find the carefully crafted loopholes that means they won’t ever pay the proposed taxes, and that their donors will continue to buy the other services that politicians provide in lieu of lower tax tiers.
Walz may not know what venture capitalists do all day, but he knows they make money, and they give a LOT of it to Democrats (and some Republicans) to maintain their legal privileges to make more.
So this week I saw a huge rocket launch a huge upper stage into orbit and then return to be caught by giant mechanical arms, to be eventually relaunched.
Then I saw the largest interplanetary probe ever launched head to Jupiter’s moon Europa, a possible abode of life.
And a fleet of cars with no human controls driving people around at a product demo.
And humanoid robots serving drinks at the same event.
And all this was created by the leadership of one man. One man that everyone else in my family hates.
And I knew every one of these things was coming, and was waiting for them. But virtually everyone I know was unaware of them… and still is!
The race to Mars pits two entities against each other.
China and Elon Musk.
It’s not clear who the present administration favors.
@ Ray & Cap’n Rusty – so much of what our Golden Age science fiction writers predicted, albeit somewhat crudely and not as finally realized, has been brought to culmination by Musk, without detracting any honor and credit from those who prepared the ground for his work.
Reading the news today has almost replaced my former addiction to fiction.
PS : The SF speculators also made many “predictions” that conform to our current social, economic, and political situations, in various stages and guises.
Germane to the topic of the Idiocracy, DEI & the push to limit reproduction (by abortion and dismantling the family & social networks) particularly reminds me of “The Marching Morons” which IIRC has been referenced before on Neo’s threads.
C. M. Kornbluth pretty much covers all the bases in 1951.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51233/51233-h/51233-h.htm
“In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man, of
course, is king. But how about a live wire, a smart
businessman, in a civilization of 100% pure chumps?”
In an interesting commentary, “Baron Bodissey” mentions the novella at the end of his post, erroneously crediting Kornbluth’s frequent co-writer Frederick Pohl with collaboration, although that is not shown in the original Galaxy Magazine issue.
https://gatesofvienna.net/2011/06/the-march-of-the-morons/
ArtflDgr has “worked” this topic a lot, and much of what he says is correct.
Sarah Hoyt frequently publishes similar posts on her blog.
The only corrective I can see is that many intelligent people ARE having more than their “share” of children, and most of them are members of some religion that values family, moral values, education, industriousness, etc — all the values that the “Baron” sees as lacking in our current population.
So maybe there will be enough people to rebuild from the rubble, or even arrest the decline.
I feel that everything Elon Musk does needs to be looked at through a filter. That filter being does x or y action get Elon closer to Mars. I’m sure Tesla owners will one day be annoyed to find out that their expensive eco-toy was just a test bed for electric vehicles used on Mars.
Ackler @ 8:46 PM said;
“This is a ham handed attempt to appear folksy and ‘of the people’; which is Walz’s MO. Very few seem to be buying it, thankfully; at least in part because Walz is…well…a knucklehead. At play acting ‘folksy’ and…most everything else.”
Enough people (and worse, voters) bought his folksy, of the people BS, to elect him governor of Minnesota.
And there may be enough voters who buy into his BS and that of the “Cackler” to elect both of them into the presidency and vice-presidency.
It really is easy to manipulate the public when there is 24/7/365 propaganda emanating from the democrat party propaganda “organs,” – the media.
Actually the so called elite have gone full brawndo see mar cuban ‘biden broke the border out of love’
If Walz doesn’t know what VCs do most of the time, then he doesn’t really know what VC is. But I suspect he does know at least somewhat, but it’s not just an attempt to be folksy. It’s to diminish the value of what they (and wealthy, successful people more generally) do, so as to justify taxing the hell out of rich people. Which ultimately means taxing the middle class, since there aren’t enough rich people to tax.
To be fair, it’s not clear Vance knew the job duties of a venture capitalist either. JD hasn’t lasted long in any job held since graduating law school.
@Paul:To be fair, it’s not clear Vance knew the job duties of a venture capitalist either.
Their job is to make money for investors, not to check off boxes of expectations for their performance review… I have no idea how successful he was at it. But he was picked out of the crowd and groomed for something, by someone, starting with Peter Thiel but I doubt ending there.
Venture Capitalism. Is that what the show ” Shark Tank ” was about ?
And yet one of the ” sharks” is campaigning for Harris.
Someone should stick a microphone in front of his face and ask him about the VP he is campaigning for.
Cuban isn’t half as smart as he seems to think he is.
IMO, he made some good choices, & some lucky choices.
Nowhere near Musk, whom he’s been insulting lately — which comes off as a wannabe taking pot shots at someone he resents for having “made it”.
Miguel wrote that Cuban said (or implied?):
“biden broke the border out of love’”
Yeah, narcissist love.
That act should ruin his legacy. But there are sadly enough elites & non-elites — aka idiots, all — who apparently haven’t seen or experienced or have a brain to appreciate the damage open borders has caused, plus has planted for decades more damage.
He’s got electrolytes!
Cuban is thick with combs enterprises, thats why hes acting stupider than normal