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The Tim Walz campaign, and the ******** attacks upon him.

kookbreaker said:
Yeah, my Grandfather was the youngest of around 14 kids. I wouldn't have a clue about any cousins that far removed. Even my cousins who grew up in the same region wouldn't have much of a clue.
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I have (technically, had, because many of them are now deceased) 125 first cousins. I don't know how many of hundreds of 2nd cousins, and thousands beyond.

I can generally assume that people with the same last name as mine are related in some way, but not all that closely. I would assume the same is true for the Walzes. They have no special meaning to me, other than we have the same name.

ETA: I will add, I am about the same age as Walz, and actually from about the same region of the country

ETA2: I just checked the family tree, and there is a Walz (by marriage) on my mom's side, but it looks like they moved to Washington, not Minnesota
 
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Nebraska Walzes for Trump. Walz is so unlikable they only had to go two states away to find kin who disapproved of him.
 
kookbreaker said:
Yeah, my Grandfather was the youngest of around 14 kids. I wouldn't have a clue about any cousins that far removed. Even my cousins who grew up in the same region wouldn't have much of a clue.
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My grandma was the youngest of 14 kids. I have cousins all over the North West coast, Teesside and Ireland.
 
pgwenthold said:
ETA: I will add, I am about the same age as Walz, and actually from about the same region of the country...
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Ditto—comparable age, and I grew up in Kansas. While I know a lot about my grandfathers (one built Liberty ships, the other was a fireman on the D&RGRR), I know almost nothing about their siblings.

At last count I have 44 first cousins, and under no circumstances would I be able to name them all, or any of their spouses. I can name only one second cousin, but only because he's my age and was paralyzed in an accident when we were both young teenagers and I became close to him.

I would fully expect many of my second cousins and far-removed cousins to have different social and political views than me. And I would accept that this is how America was designed to work. However, if any of them claimed to know me and my politics, I would dispute that.
 
But his own older brother has tales to tell about him, for example did you know no one wanted to sit next to him in the car when he was a little kid? He had terrible travel sickness! How many more dark secrets is he trying to hide?
 
Based on the Law of Conservative Projection, we're about to find out Vance tortured and murdered neighborhood pets as a child
 
Darat said:
But his own older brother has tales to tell about him, for example did you know no one wanted to sit next to him in the car when he was a little kid? He had terrible travel sickness! How many more dark secrets is he trying to hide?
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He farts in crowded elevators.
 
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Andy_Ross said:
Apparently all of his family hate him including his brother and grandmother and they are all voting for Trump. Here's the picture accompanying the story.

Tim Walz’ sister tells the media that she doesn’t recognize a single face in the “Walz’s for Trump” photo.

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I think there are plenty of people who are hated by their white supremacist family members. I'm thinking these "Walz's for Trump" people call Tim a race-traitor.
 
They are Walz's second cousins and spouses:
Walz’s sister, Sandy Dietrich, of Alliance, Nebraska, said she suspected it might be people from that branch of the family. Dietrich and Walz’s father, James Walz, died of lung cancer in 1984 when the future congressman and Minnesota governor was just a teenager. His father had been the school superintendent in Valentine, Nebraska.

“We weren’t close with them. We didn’t know them,” she said.
Dietrich declined to comment on their distant cousins’ opposition to her brother and referred to herself and her family as “Democrats for Tim.”

“I know who I’m voting for. That’s all I can control,” she said.

But Tim Walz’s other surviving sibling is not behind his candidacy
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In recent days, the New York Post has reported on Facebook comments from the governor’s older brother, Jeff Walz of Freeport, Florida, in which he said of his younger sibling: “The stories I could tell. Not the type of character you want making decisions about your future.” The 67-year-old also wrote that he was “100% opposed to all his ideology” and had thought about endorsing Trump, the Post reported.
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Jeff Walz told NewsNation that he and the 60-year-old governor have not spoken since the funeral of their younger brother, Craig Walz, in 2016, aside from a brief phone call last month through their mother. He told NewsNation that what he was referring to in his post by “stories” were from their childhood.

“Nobody wanted to sit with him, because he had car sickness and would always throw up on us, that sort of thing,” Jeff Walz said. “There’s really nothing else hidden behind there. People are assuming something else. There’s other stories like that, but I think that probably gives you the gist of it.”
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We all have distant, and sometimes not so distant, relatives with whom we disagree when it comes to politics. The fact that Tim's brother is thinking of endorsing Trump and disagrees with Tim's "ideologies" reveals a lot about him. I have a sneaking suspicion Jeff Walz means Tim's "woke" ideas like protecting transgender rights.
 
thaiboxerken said:
I think there are plenty of people who are hated by their white supremacist family members. I'm thinking these "Walz's for Trump" people call Tim a race-traitor.
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I have some relatives I'm proud to have as relatives and others not so much. I have a relative who raped his 9 year old daughter and another who robbed banks and shot a police officer. I also have a relative that was a famous baseball pitcher, another who was a famous musician and actor. And another who was awarded the Medal of Honor. Never met any of them.

Since when are we responsible for are relatives? Believe it or not, the Trump family actually has a few upstanding citizens in it.
 
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