Ding dong, the witch is dead! Calling Tim Walz a ‘witch’ is like calling Nicolás Maduro a ‘tourist,’ but never mind— the DNC’s house fell on him. The New York Times excreted a hasty damage-control piece headlined, “Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz Abandons Re-election Bid, and Amy Klobuchar May Run Instead.” In a single headline, the Times stitched together a hard fact —the scandal-driven collapse of Walz’s career— with a soft, unverified rumor about Amy Klobuchar, presumably to keep reeling, dispirited Democrats upright.
The rumor —that popular four-term Senator Amy Klobuchar might fly in to save the day like Glinda the Good Witch— was sourced to two anonymous people “briefed on conversations.” Briefed on. Meaning: they didn’t hear the conversations. Lawyers call that double hearsay. The paper then added that Klobuchar “did not respond” to requests for comment. I’m calling BS.
Klobuchar, 65, currently infests a safe, low-effort Senate seat not up again until 2029. She could ride it until she’s 106. Why would she abandon the safe 6-year Senatorial term for a four-year, accountability-heavy, scandal-soaked governorship that Walz just turned into a furious Superfund site? That would be like trading the Wizard’s suite in the Emerald City for the old farmhouse that just crushed the witch— to help “stabilize” it. Not to mention that, historically, Democrats elevate senators to the presidency, not governors. (Curiously, the Times skipped all that analysis.)
A far more plausible explanation is that Klobuchar’s Sunday meeting with Walz was not exploratory— it was terminal. The Obama-Pelosi-Biden treatment. The Times offhandedly admitted that “Democrats in the state had voiced concern in recent weeks that Mr. Walz’s presence on the ticket might hurt other Democrats in November.” Translation: top donors and party leadership decided Walz had become a down-ballot liability. So they voted him off the flying monkey team.
I will eat my ruby slippers if Klobuchar runs. She wasn’t there to discuss running for governor, give me a break. She was there to tell Tim he was melting. Libs and their corporate media allies are now flooding the zone with zero-calorie “Democrats thrilled” stories about Klobuchar as savior, in a vain attempt to reframe the narrative from collapse to orderly succession.
Walz didn’t even bother with the old more time with my family gag. Instead, the article admitted that “a widening scandal over fraud in social services programs in Minnesota had persuaded him to drop out.” Notice the grammatical sleight of hand: had persuaded him. Persuaded by whom? Like the Wizard’s illusory floating head, the Times deployed its tried-and-true rhetorical sleight-of-hand —the passive voice and past-perfect tense— to protect Democrats.
Timmy has melted down to a damp spot with the microbial profile of a septic leak. “For Mr. Walz, the Democratic nominee for vice president in the 2024 election,” the Times conceded with raw understatement, “the departure caps a brief rise in national politics.” In other words, it’s all over and everybody knows it.
Tim Walz, the vice presidential candidate one year ago, is now a political corpse, a stain on the party, and a spent force— in other words, a hissing and a byword.
Now consider the timing. The underlying fraud scandal is nearly a decade old. It reappeared in the national crystal ball only last month, followed by a relentless social-media exposé campaign. Conservative outlets (like Powerline blog) have been documenting it for years. But only now did it erupt—suddenly, violently, and at Trumpian speed. Democrats panicked and yanked the plug now —with time for damage control before the midterms— not to save the governorship (likely lost anyway), but to protect the rest of Minnesota’s ticket by sealing the witch and the farmhouse under a concrete containment dome.
It has been a very bad week for Trump’s adversaries.
🍿 One more point. If Republicans truly orchestrated Walz’s downfall —and the circumstantial evidence is overwhelming— it reflects remarkable discipline. They held fire on the scandals through the entire 2024 election, then deployed them now for maximum midterm leverage. Walz became the American Maduro: seemingly secure and defiant one day, suddenly finished the next. Best of all, Democrats did the dirty work themselves, leaving no GOP fingerprints.
As congressional hearings, DOJ investigations, and media coverage continue tightening around Minnesota’s fraud ecosystem, Walz becomes Exhibit A for Trump’s broader argument: his opponents weren’t merely wrong— they were corrupt or catastrophically incompetent. And that opens new fronts in the political war.
Think Minnesota is unique? I’m looking straight at you, Gavin.
California under Gavin Newsom is sitting on a fraud and mismanagement record that makes Minnesota look like a pilot project by comparison. Across unemployment, homelessness, housing subsidies, food aid, and public health coverage, California’s auditor now has eight Newsom‑era agencies on the high‑risk list for “waste, fraud, abuse, or mismanagement,” explicitly warning of systemic control failures, not isolated “mistakes.”
That profile makes Minnesota look less like an outlier and more like the first big test case for a broader political argument about blue‑state administrative collapse and wide-scale welfare abuse.
🍿 As a litigator, when I have a fraud case with multiple potential defendants, I sue the weakest defendant first. Clients always want to swing at the biggest target immediately. That’s a mistake.
Weak defendants have thinner legal defenses, fewer resources, and looser controls. Discovery is easier. Cooperation is more likely. You build precedent, develop the record, and extract documents you’d never get from a well-lawyered institutional defendant. If you tackle them all at once, the tall-building lawyers for the well-heeled defendants run interference for the rest.
That’s exactly what this looks like. Minnesota’s Feeding Our Future network —small nonprofits and shell entities without serious defensive capacities— went first. They yielded a lurid record of fake invoices, kickbacks, and luxury spending. Then came the governor.
They went after the weakest governor first. Now they have a scalp and a narrative. From here, you move up the food chain. If Democrats were willing to sacrifice Walz, who’s next under the bus to save the larger blue-state machine?
Get your popcorn ready. I’m serious. You should probably pick one with your favorite flavor.
