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aww that's nice. love to see the bare minimum. anybody know what this guy was up to in 2020?

Nobody's rights are an "issue."

Gov Walz is the leader we desperately need for America

100%

And 35 years ago about women, and 45 years ago about blacks. The Reich wing always needs a minority to vilify to keep their idiot base from realizing how badly they are being screwed and rise up and string the rich Reich wing leaders up by their intestines.

All but a handful of Democrats agree with Walz. And the party supported him as Harris's running mate. So what party are you talking about?

😭 this is so heartbreaking

My respect goes out to you Tim Walz

In a world of Newsoms and Whitmers, be a Walz.

They always had their new face of democracy right there, but they didnt want them, bc they couldn't be bribed

I think that's what Gov Walz is fighting for, some Dems are not going to hold the line. LGBTQ+ equality is not a line that some of them care about and they have to be held accountable. Trans women like Jenner & Gay men like Thiel don't help a bit.

Hey, everyone is going to die. You are all gonna die. So who gives a damn about your straight morals ?

Democrats should not be grappling it’s human rights

Mr. Walz is jsut starting to realize half, maybe more of "his" political party are proud fascists, just like all Republicans.

Trans in sports is not an issue. Less than 0.1 % of competitors.

Walz is doing what should be the bare minimum. Anything even one iota less than that is carrying water for MAGA.

"Why won't people turn out for dems! Must just be lazy idk" the spine. It's because you lack a fucking spine. Have standards. Fuck off if you don't.

There's nothing to grapple with stupid Democrats Trans rights = human rights

good for him. we should all join him in shaming everyone retreating from trans rights.

As we all fucking should be

People are people! All human beings deserve human rights, not giant targets on their backs painted by the loudest, crassest, rage-baitiest amongst us. Leaders who “double down” on extending human rights to every human being are the leaders we need. Like… this shouldn’t be controversial.

Dems should just consider Trans rights a given and start instead focusing on protecting the constitution and shifting the discussion to flat out saying Trump is betraying his oath to office and should be impeached. Put them on the defensive.

King shit

Yes. This is the way.

What could have been. Makes me sad.

Walz had his shot. So did Harris. They lost. We have plenty of other strong candidates to choose from. We don’t need to nominate proven losers.

Good! Dems joining Reps in torturing trans people is a dealbreaker for me. I know a few trans people, so yeah, there is that. But even if I didn't, I strongly think trans folks can make their own decisions. And torturing them shows the lowest level of bullying. A Newsom level. Fuck the bullies

They are people trying to live their lives in peace, they are not lightening rods.

Good for him. People responded to his political instincts to call Trump et al weirdos, then Dems started listening to idiot centrist consultants- the same ones that want them to pull back from minorities now

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It's a wedge, obviously. But it's simple—we can't have a two-tiered system of rights, with two classes of citizens—those with full rights vs. those with less than full rights.

It's almost as if he fired any stupid consultant who told him to move to the center and is just fighting for what is right and that is why he is popular!

I want to move to Minnesota just for the pleasure of voting for this man.

It's nice to see a politician with an actual backbone for once.

I am already prepared to volunteer for his 2028 campaign.

Hi from Canada; Gov. Walz is what they call a "good man". This way of life is widely available to study and emulate; some "Americans" are not man enough to do this, apparently. That said, too many "Americans" are not man enough to even know when they are "out of their (intellectual) league". #sorry

The dad none of us knew we needed!

The people voting for Republicans are the people who could not give less of a shit about real sex crimes. “Grab em by the pussy”. They didn’t care. “I’d fuck my daughter if she wasn’t my daughter”. They didn’t care Epsitein flight logs. They didn’t care. They don’t care. They never cared.

*for sex crimes

Good for him. Shows integrity and character.

Yes!!!! THIS is the Way!!! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

So glad I moved here lol.

I miss living in MN.

i honestly knew nothing about this guy before the last election and now whenever i see him in headlines im like "dang, not all Democrats i guess"

Good. Human rights are always worth defending.

Good.

LOVE Gov. Walz!! If I ever move back to US I will only live in MN.

You represent all your constituents or you don’t.

❤️

Simple as that. You run on human dignity and doing the most good for the most people.

The party wants to shut him up, but he is literally the leader we want! The only way to beat MEGA is to call them out and get loud. Tim understands!

*at a time when culture warfare has been imported from TERF Island to give any direction to the far right.

GOOD FOR HIM

Love him

Good.

You misspelled EQUAL RIGHTS. It's about EQUALITY, not lightning rods or whatever the F*** this is.

Like any decent human being should.

Why is providing a human being the same rights as everyone else a lightning rod?

People over parties, the sacrosanctness of human dignity over party mandates. When you allow actual humans to be less important than potential humans and/or political power, you’re allowing for any one of us to be in risk of being dehumanized. He understands the assignment, and good on him.

Tim Walz is a good guy

Good for him. Bad for the Tribune for framing it like this. Replace "Trans rights" with "black rights" or "Jewish rights" and how does it sound? Be better.

I didn't vote for Trump but you're going to have to get past an election that happened 7 months ago. Those of us who truly care are out in the streets just about every weekend. We aren't sitting online bitching about how we hypothesize specific groups voted over half a year ago.

"we need him to not be himself" - David Plouffe probably

Nice to see someone who isn't a coward and is a good human being, Dem Party must hate that

Hell yeah Trans Rights 🏳️‍⚧️

fuck it let's just get behind this perfectly acceptable man now #Walz2028

Based department? Yeah I have a submission.

I really like Tim! Keep up the good work!

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Exactly this. I am not a Minnesotan but lived a good chunk of my life there. Walz is a fighter in a pretty darn good tradition.

"No one can object to that" You know the middle of the road trying to please everybody strategy is the exact kind of shit that makes people fucking *hate* the Dems. This "Well we don't really want to make a stand so how about we do something everyone likes" is delusion, nobody likes that solution.

Better idea: mind your own business, pervert

Go Tim Walz

It's not a "political lightning rod." It's some people trying to simply exist, and other people (you know, garbage people) trying to eradicate them.

Tim Walz, the rare Dem with balls

One of the few defenders of human rights. This man should have been president.

He's doing my home state proud 🫡

One guy with a spine

This guy fucks. I knew I loved him. He should run.

Well, if the Governor is speaking out, I will listen.

Yeah. That’s some phrasing.

doubling down on human rights. how shocking.

Democrats who betray their trans constituents will betray any of their constituents. They will betray you. Only test for whether they will fight for you when it counts is if they will fight for those who are politically inconvenient with no instant payoff. If they're expendable, you're expendable

Whodathunk that the governor of Minnesota would be more progressive and forward thinking on Trans rights than the governor of California. Good on Walz. 🏳️‍⚧️

New Headline: Majority of Democrats fail to do the bare minimum

This guy fucking GETS it.

Thats a good thing and he should continue to do it, I'm not voting for anyone if they want me and people like me to not exist.

Minnesota is only one state. Not every other one has open primaries. That's the point, but thanks for playing.

We shouldn’t have to remind DEMOCRATS what the “I” in DEI stands for. Thanks Gov Walz for standing up to establishment democrats who have more in common with republicans than they have in common with us.

He may be weak, but no. Always look for good or original sources. www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...

Tim Walz is correct.

craaaazy tim walz doubles down on basic human rights

This man is a leader. Other dems need to get behind him or get out of the way. THIS is the way forward.

Yeah, everyone should be represented. He gets that.

If you aren't fighting for trans rights you are allying with fascists against human rights. And you're next on the Niemöller list anyway you pathetic and cowardly tools.

I Love my governor!!!

Good! That's a baseline. Now renounce the genocide being perpetrated by the Israelis.

Hey, real quick follow up, who made it a political lightning rod?

Unfortunatly not how primaries or elections work usually (especially if most democrats start feeling more right wing democrats are safer bets in elections). Ellisa Slotkin might as well be a Trump agent and she is in her second term.

Good job, governor. We should never give up on human rights for everyone.

It keeps failing here too, when put to a vote. The hateful trans panic politics being alive at all is tremendously on the new york times editorial staff trying to be British and importing that island's insane transphobia relentlessly.

Any oxygen that mainstream media has given stories about Trans athletes lately is just gross. They know what they are doing but fear born out of greed is what drives news worthiness these days. They should all be ashamed.

The original Nazis did THE EXACT SAME THING FOR THE EXACT SAME REASONS. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecu...

THe Democratic Party should not be "grappling with a debate". The bans are a direct attack on basic human rights, which are not negotiable. The Democratic Party should stop trying to make the issue go away, and meet it head-on.