Is Tim Walz the Manchurian Candidate?
Is Tim Walz the Manchurian Candidate?
Is Tim Walz the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life?
Why did 25-year-old Tim Walz spend 1989-1990 in China, the first of his 30 or so visits to China?
Was it all part of a brilliant Manchurian Candidate-quality plot by the Chinese Communist Party to infiltrate the Nebraska National Guard by picking out the man who would run for vice president 35 years later?
Well … maybe. I mean, what other reason do young white guys have for teaching English in East Asia?
But doesn’t it seem more likely that the young Walz taught English in a Foshan high school for the same reason lots of normal young American men teach English in East Asia: they have Yellow Fever?
Chinese girls are nice.
As for many of his subsequent trips to China after his marriage, Tim and Gwen were schoolteachers, and many schoolteachers pick up extra money over summer by chaperoning youth trips to foreign countries. Having spent a year in China, it was natural for Walz to make China his specialty as a tour guide.
My suspicion is that Walz is just what he looks like: a nothing-special guy whom the craziness of American politics has elevated to a ridiculous height.
If he hadn't been in the Guard while doing it, probably less suspicious. Then again, maybe he was working for Uncle while over there.
OT: A bizarre puff piece with Nancy Pelosi in the New Yorker. She says she and her husband have never talked about the attack in their home, because his doctor doesn't want him to revisit it. It closes with this quote from her. “You take a punch, but you have to be willing to throw a punch. For the children.” These people are beyond satire.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/nancy-pelosis-art-of-power?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us