At least he came by his insanity honestly (unlike his descriptions of his military service); ex-Minnesotan and censor-in-chief Andy Slavitt was one of his top advisors
As a Minnesota resident I can confirm that Tim Walz is a party-line dolt with absolutely zero critical thinking skills. The man apologized to rioters who burned down Minneapolis. He shuttered businesses across the State and sent hi AG after any business that didn't follow his idiotic covid Nazism. Tim Walz is responsible for destroying countless businesses through unnecessary covid lockdowns, and allowing rioters to burn the city. He fully pushed the narrative that George Floyd was murdered and allowed rioters to overtake a police precinct. He is not a leader. He is a coward. The idiot people of Minnesota re-elected this spineless, pathetic man AFTER he did all of this.
As an another Minnesota resident, I can proudly say we had our usual large family Thanksgiving gathering in November 2020 as well as for Christmas 2020 - our kids came from Boston, Pittsburg and Philadelphia. And we're all unvaccinated. Screw you Waltz.
Same here in Lancaster County, PA. We all met for Thanksgiving and a week later I was talking to my Amish roofer. I sheepishly told him we had broken the governor’s order and had 26 people for dinner. He laughed and said, “Well, don’t tell anyone but the day after, I was at a wedding with 700 people.” The Sheriff of Lancaster County publicly stated on the official website that he would not be enforcing the lockdown orders. There were pockets of sanity. God bless the people of Minnesota.
Proudly visited my elderly MIL per our usual every other Sunday schedule. My MIL died in April 2021. I can hardly imagine my husband not going to visit his mother in the last year of her life. These people who think they know better may think they have good intentions but their actions are actually cruel and inhumane. I judge their policies by the fruit they bore.
The whole Covid response needs to be repudiated. From the 15 Days to Slow the Spread to the masking, to the overreaching lock downs, to the shuttering of businesses, to the closing of schools, followed by the disastrous remote learning, to the ineffective and basically untested vaccines, to the closing of churches, and the wiping down of everything all the time, the obsessive hand cleaning, the fear mongering, the terror inducement of the healthcare establishment on the entire population, the lack of healthcare for serious conditions, the spike in suicides, the rise in addiction related death and so much more.
What we need is a book like Pandemia that is told from a historical perspective, pointing out all of the mistakes made, including throwing out of the advance planning that had been done by NIH (the planned Epidemic/Pandemic play book: no lock downs, no masks, try existing medications, properly test any vaccines, etc) to avoid mistakes induced by panic. We paid for that planning then it was thrown out at the first need for it, and tremendous damage was done as a result. All of that should be presented in a clear way.
How many elderly died isolated and alone (of Covid or without (isolation kills))? How many businesses were lost? How much was added to the National Debt? How many people died of other diseases due to lack of available care? What damage has been done by the untested vaccines? How was the resiliency of the American population impacted (fear once instilled is long lasting)? How were the freedoms guaranteed in the Constitution eroded and curtailed? How did the Covid response get so out of control? How can we make changes to ensure this never happens again?
We need to look at this retrospectively, examining the Covid responses at the federal, state and local levels. If we support those who took these actions (or like VP Harris supported them), then we are supporting those wrongful actions by our votes and/or donations.
I had the misfortune of having to have a ten pound tumor removed while many of the restrictions were still in effect. Due to the overuse of the word trauma, I hesitate to use that word, but I can't think of another. Sometimes, I wonder if other people who had to be hospitalized during that period feel the same way I do. Being confined to a hospital bed, with needles in each hand preventing use of either, being unable to move position, no nurses anywhere, masks all the time... it felt like some kind of sadism. The actual surgery went smoothly. It was the aftermath which was horrible.
My husband thinks it's strange that I won't go to doctors now. I've told him that if it's ever a choice between hospitalization and death again, I'd rather die. I don't know if I'm alone in that feeling.
I'm so sorry you went through that. I think I would have left the hospital AMA, gotten whatever help I needed to get home (even if by ambulance) and for care at my house, even if I had to spend every dollar I had to do it. When I was hospitalized after open gall bladder removal surgery, they were clearing a drain and inflicted terrible pain, and that was after trying to give me IV potassium, which I made them stop (I told them I would rather die than feel like I was burning up inside (it turned out I didn't really need the potassium, it was border line and eating a couple of bananas would have surely fixed it in a day grrrr)). I nearly walked out of the hospital then and there, with the drain still in my abdomen. My sister convinced me to stay until the next day when I was discharged, but I don't know if I will ever go back into a hospital. I'm so sorry for what happened to you, and likely you were not allowed visitors either, so you were left alone with no help at all. The least they could have done is taken the IV out of one of your hands or disconnected one of them so you could move a little. If I was left alone, with no ability for outside contact (to get help to leave) I would likely have disconnected both IVs, gotten up and walked out of the hospital (barefoot and in the hospital gown). Possibly with someone chasing me and yelling I couldn't do that. I'm NOT a good patient :-P
Just FYI, patients do have rights, and you can leave a hospital any time you want, if you accept the risks in doing so. Nurses and doctors act like they are in control, but in the end that's not true. You can always leave AMA, unless you are on a psych hold.
I'm sorry to hear about your gall bladder surgery.
Before I went into the hospital, I was told by several people that after abdominal surgery they typically make you get out of bed and how awful that is. The surgeon gave instructions to get me out of bed that afternoon, but the nurses didn't do that. The nurse assigned to me spent most of the day giving tours to prospective nursing students. The night was terrible. The doctor said I could leave if I could get up. A nurse came around at 10:00 am, gave me pain meds and told me that she would be back to help me out after they took effect. Around 1:00 pm, my husband was able to visit for an hour and he helped me out. I started agitating to leave and they finally finished the paperwork just shy of 5:00 pm. Everyone, except the surgeon, seem shocked about how quickly I was leaving.
Individually, the nurses seemed highly competent, but they were understaffed to the point of being forced to be neglectful.
Patients have been killed trying to get to flee hospitals these last 4 years. Not exactly the same, but there is a video of a patient being murdered by a security guard under the direction of a nurse for improperly wearing a mask in a hospital in Canada. Case against the hospital thrown out.
A family member's husband died during that time. She is a medical professional and was allowed a bit of consideration but also spent time walking around the city or sitting in her car, or eventually in a hotel room, when not allowed to be with her husband. After his passing she commented on how inhumane it all was, and yes, traumatic.
The amazing thing about the 15 days to slow the spread is that it was all based on the 1918 flu epidemic and data from two cities. Philly and St Louis. One had the 15 day like activity that blunted the peak. The other the peak of the infection curve was twice as high. This made sense if you were worried about an overwhelming of health care services. BUT the area under the two curves was the same meaning that the total number infected in the two cities was the same. We are led by idiots and totalitarians.
Yeah, because he comes off as Mr. Friendly, everyone's buddy, the coach who'd you like to have a beer with, which is why, in part, Kamala's handlers picked him! But most of all they picked him because he's been silent about US-Israel's genocide and could not be tarred as easily as Shapiro, even though Walz and Harris are just as pro-war and pro-genocide due to the MIC and Israel Lobby big money corruption. The MN Democrat politicians all follow Klobuchar's lead branding themselves as "Minnesota Nice" when in fact they are all corrupted to the gills with corporate and special interest $$$.
Personal charisma and charm is very much a psychopathic trait (and of course that's why successful politicians tend to be personally charismatic (even though in reality the people closest to them like their staff, hate them). That's certainly the case with Klobuchar and Harris who go through staffers.
The greatest CON and CRIME against humanity in any of our lifetimes, and probably in the history of time in scope. ALL of it has just been "allowed". No one in the swamp whom "we the people" elect have remotely held ANY of those psychopathic entities accountable for the planning and executing of what was done to humanity
In May of 2020 I responded to an Op-Ed from Ruben Navarrette (a journalist for the Washington ComPost) declaring how Conservatives were mean, selfish and uncaring for opposing the lockdowns: “Does Navarrette twist everything he writes into a holier than thou lecture about racism because he is a flaming liberal journalist who writes for the fake news Washington Post or did he take a special class in Journalism School? Maybe he has a special word processor on his computer at home in his self quarantined work space which automatically attaches MAGA hat wearer or conservative or Republican to every negative phrase, word, or implication in his articles. More than likely it is simply projection. If not medication there may be CBT for that. What is law or a law? A law is an ordinance of reason for the common good. There are many more common goods we share than safety or freedom from infectious disease. We have emotional/social, intellectual, and spiritual needs, besides our physical/health needs. Are all those needs and freedoms to be sacrificed at the cult of the body’s altar? Some could argue that those other needs trump (pun intended) those of the physical, most importantly the spiritual. Aside from the fact that parents, including the poor small business owners, have an inherent drive and responsibility to provide for the physical needs of their families. So lockdowns are opposed to the overall common good. As to reason, it may be reasonable to lockdown the country briefly if there is a well founded fear that the health care system will be overwhelmed, and to temporize in order to find treatments to ameliorate the disease. But it is beyond unreasonable to shut down our country and abolish our freedoms for a prolonged period when there will never be a cure and the immense negative repercussions will be felt for decades, if our country lasts that long.” Sadly Walz and the other totalitarians of his ilk have perpetrated a crime against humanity but care nothing about the lives destroyed. My letter to the editor was vilified by another reader (K.S.) who I am sure would advocate an agenda like that of Tim Walz. She, of course, threw in her support for abortion which I have heard is one of the primary reasons Harris picked A-Walz. The Culture of Death they represent constantly try to inject that into any issue discussed. You can glean a lot of what Ms. S. wrote from my response a few weeks later (June 2020): “Ms. S. do you think name calling both stated and implied such as anti-Hippocratic oath, Confederate, Nazi, buffoon, Communist, actually enhances your arguments? Or is it just hyperbolically to profess your moral superiority? To proclaim I and every conservative, especially religious conservatives, have no moral authority as you, Navarrette, and every other liberal possesses? Did my letter claim any moral authority for myself? Is not abortion murder of a child of God in the womb? Can it not be murder only if that child is not a person? Who decides that child is not a person from conception onward? Didn’t the swastika wearers you love to bludgeon people about claim a certain race of people were nonpersons? What happened to them? Is freedom to murder truly freedom? Since you claim the authority to determine who is a person and who is not is that why you claim the much lesser authority to decide what are essential services and what is not? Which households get to provide for their families and which do not? Is this really our first Pandemic? Will we ever know everything about COVID? Or any other medical condition? Has there ever been an effective RNA vaccine? Has the virus not mutated already? Are not doctors supposed to be concerned with both the immediate and long term health of their patients physically, psychologically, and even spiritually? How many people will die from suicide, substance abuse, delayed treatment, or have their lives dramatically shortened, be victims of domestic abuse, etc. as a result of the present and future impact caused by the lockdowns? How many people have died or are despairing without their loved ones around due to strict quarantines? I have more questions but these should give you enough to ponder.”
Signed into law unlimited abortion, trans sanctuary and an attempt to normalize pedophilia through sexual orientation language change. But at least you still need to be 18 to get a tattoo in Minnesota.
Native Minnesotan here, moved elsewhere now, but with family still in the state, it's also worth mentioning that Walz is part of the plan to mess with the Electoral College via the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPV).
After watching the 2008 election where a poll worker "found" a bunch of ballots for Al Franken in the back of his car, or something, over a weekend where Norm Coleman was up before said weekend...thus giving the Dems a 60 vote supermajority in the Senate where Obamacare got rammed through... I actually do not know how honest MN elections are. That being said though, there are a TON of partisan DFL members in the state in addition to the super progressive urbanites. Why someone doesn't stop to question party loyalty when said party keeps pushing things you don't actually agree with is beyond me, but a vast majority of D's don't and there you have it...
As someone who spent most of her adult life in New York City, I have a lot of acquaintance like the ones you describe in your last sentence. From what I can gather when I question them, they have been heavily propagandized to believe that Republicans and conservatives are "bad," maybe evil.
I've managed to get through to a few people in my immediate orbit, but that's only because they know me and know that I'm not "conservative."
I have come to believe that Walz is an intentional, negative distraction. Look over here not over there. Harris needs to be the focus. What has she caused to happen that has been good for the country as the last person in the room (with Biden)? Nada, nyet, nothing. The exaggerated smiles are another distraction. Smiley people are deemed likeable by many. What I see is Big Smile, No accomplishments. Joe Biden today is spot on. "She will make a hell of a President". If she is President, live will be pure hell. This election should be all about Teleprompter Harris not the Walz buffoon.
I call it "Scandanavian stupid." The Scandanavian people are extremely self-reliant and responsible by nature and culture, but they have a HUGE blind spot when it comes to human nature. For instance, they can't imagine people taking advantage of welfare programs in a malicious way, or at least more than as a safety net to get over a hump. They also believe so strongly in self-regulation that they think all things should be as permissible as possible so that the individual has enough room to self-actualize and they will do so naturally within certain limits pointed toward the good. Enough Minnesotans are so committed to these ways of thinking that even though they live very conservatively, they vote very progressively and proudly self-righteously. They also can't see when certain populations have no problem fleecing their overly generous programs.
The other half of the equation is simply partisan commitment. The DFL party is a weird mixture of super committed progressives and farmers whose families are still loyal to the FDR years, even if they are decidedly NOT progressive themselves.
The twin cities elected Walz. The Dems there overwhelm the rest of the semi-rural and rural state. Every single county in Minnesota voted red--except for Minneapolis/St. Paul. The same thing happens in Delaware, where I live. A totally red state except for Wilmington, which is populated by Dems (many of whom are from Philadelphia or work in Philadelphia).
The re-election is fascinating, same happened here in Australia in most states. The premiers and ministers of most parties only need 33% of the vote to win so thats easy enough to manipulate with preferences and re-allocation of other party votes. The new PM of the UK apparently only received 20% of the populous vote. These people that run our show are a cancer causing show stoppers but the show goes on...
Newsom was, and remains, all of this. In his meaningless “speeches” that mean nothing Newsom vs. Walz comes across as a slimy blowhard as opposed to avuncular. He wins in California because if you’re not Leftist you’re pure evil.
Alex, These are generally bad people doing generally bad things. As I have noted before, I used to blame this on stupid. I am now leaning much more heavily on evil. Slavitt is the archetype of the operative and Walz is the villain archetype of the villainous politician -- you couldn't find better examples.
Without touching his questionable connections to China and the stolen valor question, this is a great case for why Tim Walz should be kept as far away from the White House as possible.
MN business owner here… We specialize in large, live events…. Almost lost our 30 year old, family business & our home. Forced to take on a lifetime crippling EIDL from the SBA. We’ll never forget & never forgive Waltz… The damage to our family relationships, even worse.. Sometimes I wish Covid (ie hospital protocols) had ended that suffering for me.. But instead, had a 3-4 day fever..
Same exact experience. Despair. And nobody cared. It was so easy to see...but for most people, the more obvious something was, the more illusory it became.
It’s hard to believe 1/2, slightly more than half, or slightly less than half, actually believe that the democratic ticket can seriously run the country.
Too many people actually believe that their cushy lives will always be cushy. Soft & ignorant people. Amazingly, after the whole COVID lockdown experience they still don’t understand how quickly the suffering can begin under these tyrants.
I genuinely don’t understand it. I don’t see how any reasonable person could vote for more of the same (and probably worse) of the last four years. These really are very distressing times.
There are plenty of idiots in Minnesota who thank Walz for “keeping us safe”. To this day, they say that.
I am a Minnesotan-in-exile, just across the Wisconsin border. I regularly made unnecessary runs into Minnesota during the lockdowns. I even entered peoples homes! It would have been hilarious except for the authoritarianism and the fear-mongering.
Yes. I was an asshole and traveled frequently between NJ and Pittsburgh with NJ plates, because, fuck you lockdowns, and I was pulled over EVERY damn time I crossed into PA after the goddamn Delaware water gap.
Then there were the rest stops THAT WERE SHUT DOWN on major highways like I-80 and truckers were ready to riot because they had no place to pee or you know, park and rest.
Wow. I had forgotten about the checkpoints. I probably don’t remember because i didn’t leave Texas for months during the pandemic. Didn’t have a need to go anywhere.
Amen. I continue to remind those that criticize NY, NJ, Michigan for Covid restrictions that Wolf was as bad as the others, killed God knows how many nursing home residents, and gave America Rachael Levine.
PA is a BLUE state. Happened in most all BLUE cities and BLUE run states. If you lived in common sense states which actually believe in the constitution like SD and Florida you felt minimal effects of the greatest CON and CRIME against humanity in history
Not only did he pull over motorists, he ALSO demanded that people quarantine for 14 days after they filled out paperwork documenting the details of their stay and quarantine location (page 2, Item C in the below PDF).
I moved from a BLUE city in Dec of 2020 to Florida. Have never looked back and love the freedom. Florida came to its senses and called the scam out wayyyyy faster than anyone in my personal experience having been in both. Noem in SD did a stellar job too
I was living in Florida during the time and I did not notice that. I also did some international travel and had no problems other than the mask mandates. But thanks to DeSantis laws, my kids didn’t wear a mask any single day in their life, not to school not anywhere. I think he was pretty awesome comparing to other.
We live in PA and my husband travels to Maryland for work. He was never stopped at the border. Although his company did provide him with "papers" just in case, which was kind of creepy.
That happened in PA? Where? By the end of May, 2020, I was driving to Brooklyn and back to see my family. My daughter and her family would come to PA/NJ. My sister was in NJ at the time and they stayed with her because she had the room to host them. By August of that year, we started looking at moving out of Philadelphia, and moved in November. A few weeks later, we hosted Thanksgiving dinner for 10. Living in the suburbs was amazing and quite the change from living in the city and I was never stopped by police anywhere in my travels.
Alex, they aren't just *covid* authoritarians. Look at the rest of the policies from crypto, to taxes, to energy: the are authoritarians without a modifier. 😀
I reflect on life in 2020/2021/2022 USA and I remain stunned that there was no uprising against the covid lockdowns, mask and "vaccine" mandates.
I submit that now we have an opportunity to exact revenge for these policies because the authoritarians have not disappeared. They have not slithered under a rock.
There were attempts to protest but they were shut down. I did what I wanted, even during the lockdowns, but I found forced to wear masks at times, which was somewhat enforced by businesses, which I deeply resented (I knew masks didn't work and there were studies to prove it). We used to laugh at the countries where everyone wore masks in public, then we got forced into wearing them ourselves, and people complied, because they were terrified by their own government or stores required masking when the government forced them to.
As for the vaccines, and the mandates, forcing people to take untested vaccines under threat of losing their jobs is just wrong. Healthcare choices should be private, period. The very politicians who claimed the absolute right for medical privacy turned on a dime and forced exposure of medical information when it suited them. We really have no privacy now, but most people can't see that.
We were told we had to be locked down, we had to mask, we had to take vaccines, not just for our own protection but to protect others. But that is based on a fallacy, that one person must yield their rights to others based on some theoretical risk. Going into public spaces carries risks, and one of those risks is we might catch a cold, the flu, or other diseases. Freedom comes with risks, and I for one do not want to be forced to surrender freedom to reduce my own or others' risk levels. Sure you can try to convince me that taking an action is best for me, or best for others, and most of the time if I am convinced that it would work and the impact is not onerous I will cooperate, but using force of law for unproven actions is just wrong.
The loss of individual rights needs to be reversed. We need the right to protest, the right to assemble, the right of free speech, the right to privacy, the right to practice religion, etc. and those rights should not be abridged, even in a pandemic.
NONE of those who planned and executed and still are the PLANdemic of 2020 have remotely been held to account. All of them have been allowed" to lurk amongst US still.
In March 2020 I was truly stunned at how quickly people scampered to obey stay at home orders. Scream Virus in a crowded country and almost everyone is suddenly huddling in their house, wiping down groceries and poisoning themselves with hand sanitizer.
They made sure the lesson of 1/6 was understood - they’ll find you & unlawfully punish you if you dare legally assemble to protest the ruling class. And anybody with the power ( Congress) to stop it, did nothing. Amazing.
I think it’s funny you believe he won his re-election. Look deeper into what they did to cover up the Covid deaths in nursing homes after the vax. They were all sent to the hospitals to die. Why? The death isn’t recorded as a nursing home resident death if the patient dies in a hospital.
People still not willing to admit they got played & conned at a level unforeseen.
Being from MN I can’t even begin to tell you how much we despise Tim Walz but then again I’m not a liberal. So many gullible people here I don’t get it.
Thank you for connecting the dots to these failures of people. You should do a deep dive into Walz’s finances how someone who has been well paid his entire adult working life ends up not accumulating any financial assets. How big of a spend thrift is he????
And this is why they chose him: he‘s a sociopath with NO hesitation to lie with a smile. He‘s dangerous.
Unfortunately, most Americans have the memory of a drunken mosquito, and already have forgotten the lockdowns and still believe the “sCiEnCe“ behind it because the “eXpErTs” know best. As horrible as this is, this won‘t bring him down politically.
I still think the more powerful tool against this bastard is his stolen valor. While non-military Americans may not understand, our Vets remember, and they vote, and they will not go quietly into the night.
basically every time a newcomer hits the scene parroting the establishment, i just assume he's a commie pedophile unless evidence is seen the contrary because it saves me a lot of time
As a Minnesota resident I can confirm that Tim Walz is a party-line dolt with absolutely zero critical thinking skills. The man apologized to rioters who burned down Minneapolis. He shuttered businesses across the State and sent hi AG after any business that didn't follow his idiotic covid Nazism. Tim Walz is responsible for destroying countless businesses through unnecessary covid lockdowns, and allowing rioters to burn the city. He fully pushed the narrative that George Floyd was murdered and allowed rioters to overtake a police precinct. He is not a leader. He is a coward. The idiot people of Minnesota re-elected this spineless, pathetic man AFTER he did all of this.
As an another Minnesota resident, I can proudly say we had our usual large family Thanksgiving gathering in November 2020 as well as for Christmas 2020 - our kids came from Boston, Pittsburg and Philadelphia. And we're all unvaccinated. Screw you Waltz.
Same here in Lancaster County, PA. We all met for Thanksgiving and a week later I was talking to my Amish roofer. I sheepishly told him we had broken the governor’s order and had 26 people for dinner. He laughed and said, “Well, don’t tell anyone but the day after, I was at a wedding with 700 people.” The Sheriff of Lancaster County publicly stated on the official website that he would not be enforcing the lockdown orders. There were pockets of sanity. God bless the people of Minnesota.
Proudly visited my elderly MIL per our usual every other Sunday schedule. My MIL died in April 2021. I can hardly imagine my husband not going to visit his mother in the last year of her life. These people who think they know better may think they have good intentions but their actions are actually cruel and inhumane. I judge their policies by the fruit they bore.
Resist!
the irony is that he's likely in the, let's say, at-risk population for monkeypox and would have tried this all over again
Monkey pox is in the news again.
it's funny because the 6 foot distance rule would actually solve each monkeypox outbreak even though it was made up out of whole cloth for covid
Dr. Birx said it was something she read that they used in 1918 or another pandemic.
well, at least they didn't try to get everyone to use leeches
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The whole Covid response needs to be repudiated. From the 15 Days to Slow the Spread to the masking, to the overreaching lock downs, to the shuttering of businesses, to the closing of schools, followed by the disastrous remote learning, to the ineffective and basically untested vaccines, to the closing of churches, and the wiping down of everything all the time, the obsessive hand cleaning, the fear mongering, the terror inducement of the healthcare establishment on the entire population, the lack of healthcare for serious conditions, the spike in suicides, the rise in addiction related death and so much more.
What we need is a book like Pandemia that is told from a historical perspective, pointing out all of the mistakes made, including throwing out of the advance planning that had been done by NIH (the planned Epidemic/Pandemic play book: no lock downs, no masks, try existing medications, properly test any vaccines, etc) to avoid mistakes induced by panic. We paid for that planning then it was thrown out at the first need for it, and tremendous damage was done as a result. All of that should be presented in a clear way.
How many elderly died isolated and alone (of Covid or without (isolation kills))? How many businesses were lost? How much was added to the National Debt? How many people died of other diseases due to lack of available care? What damage has been done by the untested vaccines? How was the resiliency of the American population impacted (fear once instilled is long lasting)? How were the freedoms guaranteed in the Constitution eroded and curtailed? How did the Covid response get so out of control? How can we make changes to ensure this never happens again?
We need to look at this retrospectively, examining the Covid responses at the federal, state and local levels. If we support those who took these actions (or like VP Harris supported them), then we are supporting those wrongful actions by our votes and/or donations.
I had the misfortune of having to have a ten pound tumor removed while many of the restrictions were still in effect. Due to the overuse of the word trauma, I hesitate to use that word, but I can't think of another. Sometimes, I wonder if other people who had to be hospitalized during that period feel the same way I do. Being confined to a hospital bed, with needles in each hand preventing use of either, being unable to move position, no nurses anywhere, masks all the time... it felt like some kind of sadism. The actual surgery went smoothly. It was the aftermath which was horrible.
My husband thinks it's strange that I won't go to doctors now. I've told him that if it's ever a choice between hospitalization and death again, I'd rather die. I don't know if I'm alone in that feeling.
I'm so sorry you went through that. I think I would have left the hospital AMA, gotten whatever help I needed to get home (even if by ambulance) and for care at my house, even if I had to spend every dollar I had to do it. When I was hospitalized after open gall bladder removal surgery, they were clearing a drain and inflicted terrible pain, and that was after trying to give me IV potassium, which I made them stop (I told them I would rather die than feel like I was burning up inside (it turned out I didn't really need the potassium, it was border line and eating a couple of bananas would have surely fixed it in a day grrrr)). I nearly walked out of the hospital then and there, with the drain still in my abdomen. My sister convinced me to stay until the next day when I was discharged, but I don't know if I will ever go back into a hospital. I'm so sorry for what happened to you, and likely you were not allowed visitors either, so you were left alone with no help at all. The least they could have done is taken the IV out of one of your hands or disconnected one of them so you could move a little. If I was left alone, with no ability for outside contact (to get help to leave) I would likely have disconnected both IVs, gotten up and walked out of the hospital (barefoot and in the hospital gown). Possibly with someone chasing me and yelling I couldn't do that. I'm NOT a good patient :-P
Just FYI, patients do have rights, and you can leave a hospital any time you want, if you accept the risks in doing so. Nurses and doctors act like they are in control, but in the end that's not true. You can always leave AMA, unless you are on a psych hold.
I'm sorry to hear about your gall bladder surgery.
Before I went into the hospital, I was told by several people that after abdominal surgery they typically make you get out of bed and how awful that is. The surgeon gave instructions to get me out of bed that afternoon, but the nurses didn't do that. The nurse assigned to me spent most of the day giving tours to prospective nursing students. The night was terrible. The doctor said I could leave if I could get up. A nurse came around at 10:00 am, gave me pain meds and told me that she would be back to help me out after they took effect. Around 1:00 pm, my husband was able to visit for an hour and he helped me out. I started agitating to leave and they finally finished the paperwork just shy of 5:00 pm. Everyone, except the surgeon, seem shocked about how quickly I was leaving.
Individually, the nurses seemed highly competent, but they were understaffed to the point of being forced to be neglectful.
Patients have been killed trying to get to flee hospitals these last 4 years. Not exactly the same, but there is a video of a patient being murdered by a security guard under the direction of a nurse for improperly wearing a mask in a hospital in Canada. Case against the hospital thrown out.
A family member's husband died during that time. She is a medical professional and was allowed a bit of consideration but also spent time walking around the city or sitting in her car, or eventually in a hotel room, when not allowed to be with her husband. After his passing she commented on how inhumane it all was, and yes, traumatic.
I'm very sorry for your family member.
As were we all. Thank you. It was also sad and disturbing to read about your ordeal.
Let's just say what they were....evil. Evil to people like you, evil to those in nursing homes, evil to school children. EVIL, EVIL, EVIL.
The amazing thing about the 15 days to slow the spread is that it was all based on the 1918 flu epidemic and data from two cities. Philly and St Louis. One had the 15 day like activity that blunted the peak. The other the peak of the infection curve was twice as high. This made sense if you were worried about an overwhelming of health care services. BUT the area under the two curves was the same meaning that the total number infected in the two cities was the same. We are led by idiots and totalitarians.
And they keep getting re-elected.
Yeah, because he comes off as Mr. Friendly, everyone's buddy, the coach who'd you like to have a beer with, which is why, in part, Kamala's handlers picked him! But most of all they picked him because he's been silent about US-Israel's genocide and could not be tarred as easily as Shapiro, even though Walz and Harris are just as pro-war and pro-genocide due to the MIC and Israel Lobby big money corruption. The MN Democrat politicians all follow Klobuchar's lead branding themselves as "Minnesota Nice" when in fact they are all corrupted to the gills with corporate and special interest $$$.
a genuine sociopath incapable of feeling remorse for sure, and yes it's why he was chosen or placed into position along side the other placed puppet
Personal charisma and charm is very much a psychopathic trait (and of course that's why successful politicians tend to be personally charismatic (even though in reality the people closest to them like their staff, hate them). That's certainly the case with Klobuchar and Harris who go through staffers.
The greatest CON and CRIME against humanity in any of our lifetimes, and probably in the history of time in scope. ALL of it has just been "allowed". No one in the swamp whom "we the people" elect have remotely held ANY of those psychopathic entities accountable for the planning and executing of what was done to humanity
In May of 2020 I responded to an Op-Ed from Ruben Navarrette (a journalist for the Washington ComPost) declaring how Conservatives were mean, selfish and uncaring for opposing the lockdowns: “Does Navarrette twist everything he writes into a holier than thou lecture about racism because he is a flaming liberal journalist who writes for the fake news Washington Post or did he take a special class in Journalism School? Maybe he has a special word processor on his computer at home in his self quarantined work space which automatically attaches MAGA hat wearer or conservative or Republican to every negative phrase, word, or implication in his articles. More than likely it is simply projection. If not medication there may be CBT for that. What is law or a law? A law is an ordinance of reason for the common good. There are many more common goods we share than safety or freedom from infectious disease. We have emotional/social, intellectual, and spiritual needs, besides our physical/health needs. Are all those needs and freedoms to be sacrificed at the cult of the body’s altar? Some could argue that those other needs trump (pun intended) those of the physical, most importantly the spiritual. Aside from the fact that parents, including the poor small business owners, have an inherent drive and responsibility to provide for the physical needs of their families. So lockdowns are opposed to the overall common good. As to reason, it may be reasonable to lockdown the country briefly if there is a well founded fear that the health care system will be overwhelmed, and to temporize in order to find treatments to ameliorate the disease. But it is beyond unreasonable to shut down our country and abolish our freedoms for a prolonged period when there will never be a cure and the immense negative repercussions will be felt for decades, if our country lasts that long.” Sadly Walz and the other totalitarians of his ilk have perpetrated a crime against humanity but care nothing about the lives destroyed. My letter to the editor was vilified by another reader (K.S.) who I am sure would advocate an agenda like that of Tim Walz. She, of course, threw in her support for abortion which I have heard is one of the primary reasons Harris picked A-Walz. The Culture of Death they represent constantly try to inject that into any issue discussed. You can glean a lot of what Ms. S. wrote from my response a few weeks later (June 2020): “Ms. S. do you think name calling both stated and implied such as anti-Hippocratic oath, Confederate, Nazi, buffoon, Communist, actually enhances your arguments? Or is it just hyperbolically to profess your moral superiority? To proclaim I and every conservative, especially religious conservatives, have no moral authority as you, Navarrette, and every other liberal possesses? Did my letter claim any moral authority for myself? Is not abortion murder of a child of God in the womb? Can it not be murder only if that child is not a person? Who decides that child is not a person from conception onward? Didn’t the swastika wearers you love to bludgeon people about claim a certain race of people were nonpersons? What happened to them? Is freedom to murder truly freedom? Since you claim the authority to determine who is a person and who is not is that why you claim the much lesser authority to decide what are essential services and what is not? Which households get to provide for their families and which do not? Is this really our first Pandemic? Will we ever know everything about COVID? Or any other medical condition? Has there ever been an effective RNA vaccine? Has the virus not mutated already? Are not doctors supposed to be concerned with both the immediate and long term health of their patients physically, psychologically, and even spiritually? How many people will die from suicide, substance abuse, delayed treatment, or have their lives dramatically shortened, be victims of domestic abuse, etc. as a result of the present and future impact caused by the lockdowns? How many people have died or are despairing without their loved ones around due to strict quarantines? I have more questions but these should give you enough to ponder.”
EVERYTHING the experts and "authorities" told us was a lie.
"What they did to us - a partial summary:"
https://billricejr.substack.com/p/what-they-did-to-us
Signed into law unlimited abortion, trans sanctuary and an attempt to normalize pedophilia through sexual orientation language change. But at least you still need to be 18 to get a tattoo in Minnesota.
Ha! "Minnesota Nice" liberal hypocrisy at its finest!
Native Minnesotan here, moved elsewhere now, but with family still in the state, it's also worth mentioning that Walz is part of the plan to mess with the Electoral College via the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPV).
After watching the 2008 election where a poll worker "found" a bunch of ballots for Al Franken in the back of his car, or something, over a weekend where Norm Coleman was up before said weekend...thus giving the Dems a 60 vote supermajority in the Senate where Obamacare got rammed through... I actually do not know how honest MN elections are. That being said though, there are a TON of partisan DFL members in the state in addition to the super progressive urbanites. Why someone doesn't stop to question party loyalty when said party keeps pushing things you don't actually agree with is beyond me, but a vast majority of D's don't and there you have it...
As someone who spent most of her adult life in New York City, I have a lot of acquaintance like the ones you describe in your last sentence. From what I can gather when I question them, they have been heavily propagandized to believe that Republicans and conservatives are "bad," maybe evil.
I've managed to get through to a few people in my immediate orbit, but that's only because they know me and know that I'm not "conservative."
Ditto!!
I have come to believe that Walz is an intentional, negative distraction. Look over here not over there. Harris needs to be the focus. What has she caused to happen that has been good for the country as the last person in the room (with Biden)? Nada, nyet, nothing. The exaggerated smiles are another distraction. Smiley people are deemed likeable by many. What I see is Big Smile, No accomplishments. Joe Biden today is spot on. "She will make a hell of a President". If she is President, live will be pure hell. This election should be all about Teleprompter Harris not the Walz buffoon.
Life instead of live.
I can hardly believe there are so many "idiot people of Minnesota"! Something in the water up there?
I call it "Scandanavian stupid." The Scandanavian people are extremely self-reliant and responsible by nature and culture, but they have a HUGE blind spot when it comes to human nature. For instance, they can't imagine people taking advantage of welfare programs in a malicious way, or at least more than as a safety net to get over a hump. They also believe so strongly in self-regulation that they think all things should be as permissible as possible so that the individual has enough room to self-actualize and they will do so naturally within certain limits pointed toward the good. Enough Minnesotans are so committed to these ways of thinking that even though they live very conservatively, they vote very progressively and proudly self-righteously. They also can't see when certain populations have no problem fleecing their overly generous programs.
The other half of the equation is simply partisan commitment. The DFL party is a weird mixture of super committed progressives and farmers whose families are still loyal to the FDR years, even if they are decidedly NOT progressive themselves.
The twin cities elected Walz. The Dems there overwhelm the rest of the semi-rural and rural state. Every single county in Minnesota voted red--except for Minneapolis/St. Paul. The same thing happens in Delaware, where I live. A totally red state except for Wilmington, which is populated by Dems (many of whom are from Philadelphia or work in Philadelphia).
The fact he could not lead AT ALL during the Floyd protests disqualifies him for the job imo. He's not a leader.
I say this as kindly as I can... how in the fuck did Minnesota reelect that totalitarian miscreant???
The re-election is fascinating, same happened here in Australia in most states. The premiers and ministers of most parties only need 33% of the vote to win so thats easy enough to manipulate with preferences and re-allocation of other party votes. The new PM of the UK apparently only received 20% of the populous vote. These people that run our show are a cancer causing show stoppers but the show goes on...
Newsom was, and remains, all of this. In his meaningless “speeches” that mean nothing Newsom vs. Walz comes across as a slimy blowhard as opposed to avuncular. He wins in California because if you’re not Leftist you’re pure evil.
Alex, These are generally bad people doing generally bad things. As I have noted before, I used to blame this on stupid. I am now leaning much more heavily on evil. Slavitt is the archetype of the operative and Walz is the villain archetype of the villainous politician -- you couldn't find better examples.
I'm with you. I converted from stupid to evil. These people must be stopped even if it means voting for The Donald.
Only way to stop them is to vote for Donald! To me this is a no option election.
Agreed. Walz reminds me of Joe Biden, who I also think of as both dumb and evil.
Both feel no remorse for what they DO and say
But But But. He can actually finish a sentence.
Without touching his questionable connections to China and the stolen valor question, this is a great case for why Tim Walz should be kept as far away from the White House as possible.
The China connections needs a deep dive by someone with the skills the likes of Alex.
So, Alex: are you finally going to endorse Trump? Harris and Walz have been, and will only continue to be, an absolute disaster for the country.
In Texas they label pretenders as, "Big Hat, No Cattle". Likewise I label "Harris-Walz, Big Smiles, No Positive Accomplishments".
MN business owner here… We specialize in large, live events…. Almost lost our 30 year old, family business & our home. Forced to take on a lifetime crippling EIDL from the SBA. We’ll never forget & never forgive Waltz… The damage to our family relationships, even worse.. Sometimes I wish Covid (ie hospital protocols) had ended that suffering for me.. But instead, had a 3-4 day fever..
Not ONE person has remotely been held accountable for ANY of it. Not ONE person on the entire planet. Think about that! Just ALLOWED
I am truly sorry that you were living in the wrong place at the wrong time. What a nightmare for you.
Same exact experience. Despair. And nobody cared. It was so easy to see...but for most people, the more obvious something was, the more illusory it became.
It’s hard to believe 1/2, slightly more than half, or slightly less than half, actually believe that the democratic ticket can seriously run the country.
They aren‘t thinking that deeply - they just hate Trump that much (many Republicans and conservatives included).
Mass hypnosis. Tell lies long enough, people believe them.
TDS was and still is the most effective psyop ever executed. It's a deeper psychosis for the average BLUE voter to ever escape
Too many people actually believe that their cushy lives will always be cushy. Soft & ignorant people. Amazingly, after the whole COVID lockdown experience they still don’t understand how quickly the suffering can begin under these tyrants.
I genuinely don’t understand it. I don’t see how any reasonable person could vote for more of the same (and probably worse) of the last four years. These really are very distressing times.
That’s the biggest problem we face. This is no longer just a fringe of insanity. It will take years to eradicate.
none of them liked kamala 6 weeks ago, but now their tv's told them she can fix everything
Exactly it - msm is flooding the airwaves with joyful Kamala ads.
There are plenty of idiots in Minnesota who thank Walz for “keeping us safe”. To this day, they say that.
I am a Minnesotan-in-exile, just across the Wisconsin border. I regularly made unnecessary runs into Minnesota during the lockdowns. I even entered peoples homes! It would have been hilarious except for the authoritarianism and the fear-mongering.
Did the Minnesota police sit on the state border and pull you over like they did in Pennsylvania?
That happened in PA??? Dear god.
Yes. I was an asshole and traveled frequently between NJ and Pittsburgh with NJ plates, because, fuck you lockdowns, and I was pulled over EVERY damn time I crossed into PA after the goddamn Delaware water gap.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/covid-19-checkpoints-targeting-out-of-state-residents-draw-complaints-and-legal-scrutiny/2020/04/14/3fc0ed42-774e-11ea-b6ff-597f170df8f8_story.html
Then there were the rest stops THAT WERE SHUT DOWN on major highways like I-80 and truckers were ready to riot because they had no place to pee or you know, park and rest.
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/transportation/2020/03/17/Truck-drivers-PennDOT-rest-stops-COVID-19-Owner-Operator-Independent-Drivers-Association/stories/202003170146
Fuck Wolf.
Wow. I had forgotten about the checkpoints. I probably don’t remember because i didn’t leave Texas for months during the pandemic. Didn’t have a need to go anywhere.
Amen. I continue to remind those that criticize NY, NJ, Michigan for Covid restrictions that Wolf was as bad as the others, killed God knows how many nursing home residents, and gave America Rachael Levine.
Because the virus couldn’t float through the air and cross state lines on its own. That was pathetic
PA is a BLUE state. Happened in most all BLUE cities and BLUE run states. If you lived in common sense states which actually believe in the constitution like SD and Florida you felt minimal effects of the greatest CON and CRIME against humanity in history
I live in TX. Abbott wasn’t as good as DeSantis during the pandemic but much better than any blue state governor!
For sure...way better than any BLUE city or BLUE run state Governor in office
DeSantis did the checks at the border as well.
Not only did he pull over motorists, he ALSO demanded that people quarantine for 14 days after they filled out paperwork documenting the details of their stay and quarantine location (page 2, Item C in the below PDF).
https://www.flgov.com/wp-content/uploads/orders/2020/EO_20-86.pdf
https://mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2020/03/31/what-you-should-know-about-florida-s-new-checkpoints
https://www.news4jax.com/health/2020/07/20/floridas-covid-19-checkpoint-on-i-95-finally-closed/
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-florida-checkpoints-coronav/true-claim-roadway-checkpoints-established-at-florida-georgia-state-line-in-response-to-coronavirus-idUSKBN21J6BH/
Unlike Pennsylvania's - which were creepy and unofficial - these were official stops where paperwork was required.
ALL of them are abuses of power.
I moved from a BLUE city in Dec of 2020 to Florida. Have never looked back and love the freedom. Florida came to its senses and called the scam out wayyyyy faster than anyone in my personal experience having been in both. Noem in SD did a stellar job too
I was living in Florida during the time and I did not notice that. I also did some international travel and had no problems other than the mask mandates. But thanks to DeSantis laws, my kids didn’t wear a mask any single day in their life, not to school not anywhere. I think he was pretty awesome comparing to other.
We live in PA and my husband travels to Maryland for work. He was never stopped at the border. Although his company did provide him with "papers" just in case, which was kind of creepy.
How pleasantly East German of them...
I know, right?
That is creepy
Yes! Let's not forget Pennsylvania, where Josh Shapiro, the Dem rising star, was Attorney General in the Wolf administration
That happened in PA? Where? By the end of May, 2020, I was driving to Brooklyn and back to see my family. My daughter and her family would come to PA/NJ. My sister was in NJ at the time and they stayed with her because she had the room to host them. By August of that year, we started looking at moving out of Philadelphia, and moved in November. A few weeks later, we hosted Thanksgiving dinner for 10. Living in the suburbs was amazing and quite the change from living in the city and I was never stopped by police anywhere in my travels.
No, never saw the police. They must have been too busy following up on reports of kids in the playground.
Many old Russians still love Stalin. Human condition: “take care of me.”
Excellent post. Andy Slavitt has been a very bad guy for a very long time.
Great work by Alex, but next trail: who is whispering to or paying Slavitt?
Alex, they aren't just *covid* authoritarians. Look at the rest of the policies from crypto, to taxes, to energy: the are authoritarians without a modifier. 😀
I reflect on life in 2020/2021/2022 USA and I remain stunned that there was no uprising against the covid lockdowns, mask and "vaccine" mandates.
I submit that now we have an opportunity to exact revenge for these policies because the authoritarians have not disappeared. They have not slithered under a rock.
They continue to lurk among us.
There were attempts to protest but they were shut down. I did what I wanted, even during the lockdowns, but I found forced to wear masks at times, which was somewhat enforced by businesses, which I deeply resented (I knew masks didn't work and there were studies to prove it). We used to laugh at the countries where everyone wore masks in public, then we got forced into wearing them ourselves, and people complied, because they were terrified by their own government or stores required masking when the government forced them to.
As for the vaccines, and the mandates, forcing people to take untested vaccines under threat of losing their jobs is just wrong. Healthcare choices should be private, period. The very politicians who claimed the absolute right for medical privacy turned on a dime and forced exposure of medical information when it suited them. We really have no privacy now, but most people can't see that.
We were told we had to be locked down, we had to mask, we had to take vaccines, not just for our own protection but to protect others. But that is based on a fallacy, that one person must yield their rights to others based on some theoretical risk. Going into public spaces carries risks, and one of those risks is we might catch a cold, the flu, or other diseases. Freedom comes with risks, and I for one do not want to be forced to surrender freedom to reduce my own or others' risk levels. Sure you can try to convince me that taking an action is best for me, or best for others, and most of the time if I am convinced that it would work and the impact is not onerous I will cooperate, but using force of law for unproven actions is just wrong.
The loss of individual rights needs to be reversed. We need the right to protest, the right to assemble, the right of free speech, the right to privacy, the right to practice religion, etc. and those rights should not be abridged, even in a pandemic.
NONE of those who planned and executed and still are the PLANdemic of 2020 have remotely been held to account. All of them have been allowed" to lurk amongst US still.
In March 2020 I was truly stunned at how quickly people scampered to obey stay at home orders. Scream Virus in a crowded country and almost everyone is suddenly huddling in their house, wiping down groceries and poisoning themselves with hand sanitizer.
They made sure the lesson of 1/6 was understood - they’ll find you & unlawfully punish you if you dare legally assemble to protest the ruling class. And anybody with the power ( Congress) to stop it, did nothing. Amazing.
I think it’s funny you believe he won his re-election. Look deeper into what they did to cover up the Covid deaths in nursing homes after the vax. They were all sent to the hospitals to die. Why? The death isn’t recorded as a nursing home resident death if the patient dies in a hospital.
People still not willing to admit they got played & conned at a level unforeseen.
Being from MN I can’t even begin to tell you how much we despise Tim Walz but then again I’m not a liberal. So many gullible people here I don’t get it.
Thank you for connecting the dots to these failures of people. You should do a deep dive into Walz’s finances how someone who has been well paid his entire adult working life ends up not accumulating any financial assets. How big of a spend thrift is he????
With state money, it’s unbelievable. Took a $17B surplus, piddled it away and RAISED taxes. Dude is out of control big-state commie.
Yes! How is it that he had NO ASSETS?
Supported by the CCP. I know it sounds tinfoil hat but look at the evidence. 30 visits, Walz admits to receiving lots of gifts from China.
And this is why they chose him: he‘s a sociopath with NO hesitation to lie with a smile. He‘s dangerous.
Unfortunately, most Americans have the memory of a drunken mosquito, and already have forgotten the lockdowns and still believe the “sCiEnCe“ behind it because the “eXpErTs” know best. As horrible as this is, this won‘t bring him down politically.
I still think the more powerful tool against this bastard is his stolen valor. While non-military Americans may not understand, our Vets remember, and they vote, and they will not go quietly into the night.
basically every time a newcomer hits the scene parroting the establishment, i just assume he's a commie pedophile unless evidence is seen the contrary because it saves me a lot of time
You know, that's not a half bad assumption to make...
Bingo
Great reporting. We need more of this. I'm so disgusted it's depressing that no one cares except a small group of us
It's NOT a small group
The Slavitt connection explains a lot.