Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is officially the Democrat nominee for vice president. That is, despite embellishing almost every single detail about his life up to this point.

Just for the record, here’s a list.

Update on the lies that Tim Walz has told:

– Being an Afghan veteran
– Being a command sgt major
– Conceiving his children through IVF
– Knowing his unit was being deployed
– Carrying weapons into war
– Being a head football coach
– Lying about being deaf to get out of a DUI

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 20, 2024

But apparently, the DNC has completely sold out on the lie – and yes, it is a lie – that Tim Walz retired as a Command Sergeant Major in the Army National Guard. We’ve covered how he did not complete the requirements, and thus retired as a Master Sergeant. We’ve covered how he kept lying over the years, letting others claim on his behalf that he was a combat veteran of Iraq or Afghanistan, depending on the day. We know he put the wrong rank on his Congressional challenge coin. And yet, after all of this, the DNC video has Gwen Walz saying that her husband rose to “Command Sergeant Major” without mentioning that THAT IS NOT THE RANK HE RETIRED AT. You would think a wife would notice the pay difference between an E-8 and an E-9.

Wow! @Tim_Walz and the @dnc continue to lie about his military service rank!

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Tim Walz WAS NOT Command Sergeant Major!

How disgusting!

This video played tonight at the convention in Chicago pic.twitter.com/JCS6TZ6ekS

— Kylie Jane Kremer (@KylieJaneKremer) August 22, 2024

The media will gloss over that because Walz didn’t say it himself during his speech. I would pay good money to have J.D. Vance ask Tim Walz during their debate, what is his retirement rank, and see what happens.

Just before that video aired, a former student of Walz’s got up – and dragged out a bunch of middle-aged guys in old football jerseys from Mankato West High School to prove how much they loved “Coach.” If a Republican did this, Tim Walz would say it was “weird.” But since it was all for him, the DNC did it anyway – even though the delgates seemed to not understand who the guys in jerseys were. Still, the emphasis on “Coach Walz” over everything else just seems feels like a “tryhard” move. But in a campaign ruled by VIBES, this might be all they’ve got.

Once the football players cleared the stage, and the video played, Tim Walz walked out to give his speech. Thanks to a longer-than-planned speech by Bill Clinton (I know, we’re all shocked that he rambled for 27 minutes) and a surprise speech by Oprah Winfrey (who got properly laughed at online afterward when a clip of her telling Donald Trump to run for president, plus a letter, appeared on Twitter/X), this speech got pushed out to past 11 pm on the East Coast. Something is seriously wrong with the programming at the DNC – they’re trying too hard to jam too many celebrities in, plus way too many Democrat politicians have been given slots, and everything feels messy, late, and runs far too long. So Tim Walz’s speech might have been longer, but he managed to deliver it within 15 minutes. Which, by the standards of Joe Biden (50 minutes) and Barack Obama (33 minutes), was practically warp speed. Which might be why he was loud, spoke a little more quickly than he should have, and in a couple of spots, kept talking right over the audience’s applause.

One thing that Walz has mentioned before, in a derogatory tone, is that J.D. Vance went to Yale. He’s even got other Democrats at the convention mocking Vance for daring to go to an Ivy League university. Somehow, going to Yale Law School on the GI Bill (after going to Ohio State University) makes Vance “less” of a hillbilly, “less” of a child of poverty, or “less” of a true Midwesterner or something. Funny, the DNC just had Bill Clinton (raised by a single mother and went to Yale Law School) and Barack Obama (who called going to Harvard part of his “American Dream“) give speeches and Tim Walz isn’t ripping them for not being authentic or some such shit because none of the 24 kids in his high school graduating class went to Yale. And of course, Vance was asked about it after the speech.

JD VANCE REACTS: "I grew up in a very poor family. I was raised by my grandmother who didn't graduate from high school and I am proud of the fact that she worked her tail off and worked to her grave to give me opportunities… and I was able to live the American dream." https://t.co/1crslcisqO pic.twitter.com/zw58q2sA2U

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 22, 2024

Why is Walz slamming his graduating class like that?

Walz had to get in all his top hits – which we pretty much have heard before in his introduction as Kamala Harris’s running mate. We heard about his and his wife’s struggles with infertility (notably, he avoided saying that they used IVF this time), we heard about his teaching career, we heard about his progressive record in Minnesota, we heard his “mind your own damn business” line (still beyond hypocritical from the governor who set up a “snitch line” during COVID so neighbors could rat each other out, which Walz said at the time was “for their own good“), and we heard a LOT of football analogies. You know, like NORMAL PEOPLE!

Not a single person has voted for Kamala Harris yet. https://t.co/VnMjCqlY2P

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) August 22, 2024

Other than the speed talking and the volume, the speech itself was delivered well enough. It’s the unnecessary snark and the over-hyping of his coaching career (he is gonna RIDE that 1999 state championship straight past his COVID record, the burning of Minneapolis, and his very cozy relationship with China and all those trips on a teacher’s salary) that made the presentation, as a whole, very WEIRD. Walz is much, much more than his “coach” persona, and he has yet to explain away the lies he’s been caught in by sitting down for even a friendly interview. Like Kamala Harris, the campaign is stage-managing him, and hiding them both. What is this tough-talking football coach so freaking AFRAID of, that he can’t sit down for an interview or hold a press conference? Surely this very manly “dad” isn’t a scared of the press, is he? It’s not like we’re asking him to go to Iraq or anything!

Democrats are quite literally running a countdown of how many days are left until the election during the convention. Once the election is over, all bets are off. They are counting on the media to help them cover for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz until it’s all over. And they just might get away with it.

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