Zachary Wefel
@zacharywefel
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Co-founder of the Minnesota Tool Library, attorney, woodworker, cook, debate/speech coach, Bridge enthusiast, 2x failed politician.
Saint Cloud, Minnesota
Joined April 2010
Tim Walz on Meet the Press about Trump calling him "Retarded": "We have fought, three decades, to get this out of our school. Kids know better than to use it. But look, this is what Donald Trump has done. He's normalized this type of hateful behavior and this type of language."
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And that’s what you missed on Glee!
the 2000s are a decade that somehow managed to be both very gay, but very homophobic at the same time.
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Democrats introduced legislation to limit immigration in 2024 that would have passed had Trump not told Republicans to kill it.
The Democrat Party is organized around one essential command: No limit of any kind can be placed on the entry of third world migrants. The failed states of the world must be allowed to empty themselves out into America. And you must pay for their every need, forever.
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A student just turned in 9 missing assignments at once and messaged me (on the school app) asking to update his grade ASAP. He wants his phone back. Translation: an adult at home finally checked the gradebook. Good luck to all the high school teachers getting a flood of missing
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My friend (and my best man at my wedding) and I text each other almost daily, and are more likely to text about things our wives have done that we’re proud of than our own accomplishments. When you love someone, you want to share it. A wedding is a focal point for that.
When people ask me this I always ask them why should I get married and they never really have an answer. So we can be each other's healthcare proxies? If that was important to me I could download a PDF off LegalZoom. Who cares
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Call me old fashioned but I thought reporters would care more about possible war crimes than high school level tweets from a cabinet secretary.
👀 Hegseth flipping the bird to his critics tonight. Saying, essentially, sorry I'm not sorry... For all those speculating this weekend that maybe hes on the outs, this sure doesn't look like the posture of a guy worried abt job security! He's doubling down.
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Virtually no one wants to get rid of already invented technologies, but overwhelmingly want to obstruct new ones. Back-test this and if we allowed the masses to veto the future, we’d all still have a life expectancy of 35. Human advancement depends on a societal values system
"We asked 'Do you think your city or town should allow or ban self-driving cars?' Twenty-eight percent wanted to allow them. Forty-one percent wanted to ban them." It's amazing anything functions when people are this disgustingly stupid. Thank entrepreneurs, free market
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People in journalism are still ranting about Biden’s age like he was a dementia patient when he still walks around in public being mentally coherent.
This MRI took place on October 10th - 51 days ago - and reporters who didn't let a news cycle pass w/o a "Joe Biden is too old to be President" story have no interest in finding out why this procedure was done, what body part was imaged, or the results. Total fucking crickets
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… Jeffries explained it this way: “A strong floor and no ceiling. That’s what we believe in as Democrats. That when you work hard and play by the rules in the United States of America, there should be no ceiling to the success that you can achieve.” https://t.co/kuYHrWSwwp
washingtonpost.com
The minority leader is trying out a venture capitalist’s new book title, “Strong Floor, No Ceiling,” as the Democrats’ centrist answer to “Make America Great Again.”
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I think the “compensate the losers” of pro-growth change frame manages to be both politically unappealing to those it’s supposed to appeal to and morally unappealing to the majority. A better idea: Use taxes and the safety net to ensure the rising tide lifts all boats.
“just compensate the losers” is great in theory but we rarely actually do it the Luddites broke machines because their livelihoods were being destroyed Can we actually rise to the challenge this time- harness AI productivity gains while also fully compensating those displaced?
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This article kind if nails it on the head. We don’t often see that from national coverage of Minnesota. Our state needs more than a task force to look into fraud. Time for real proactivity.
New York Times: How Fraud Swamped Minnesota’s Social Services System on Tim Walz’s Watch. https://t.co/8Ifk0LCBO1
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This is self-aggrandizing nonsense. There was not and still remains no evidence of Biden’s “decrepitude” or “lack of capacity to run the country.” The problem here is media people gaslighting us about these lies while they ignore Trump’s actual rapid decline.
@TheAmericanRel1 @jamesetta_w @NorahODonnell In fact there was comparatively little coverage of Biden's decrepitude and lack of capacity to run the country-- a MASSIVE problem that could have destroyed us-- before the debate.
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I love how they keep saying things like “decrepitude” as if them thinking of different and more harsh adjectives for aging is proof of something nefarious and not their own lack of objectivity on the whole thing.
Journalists still want to talk about Biden’s health when Biden is out making public appearances looking healthier and more coherent than Trump and will not accept any criticism on that fact. I will never understand it.
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Journalists still want to talk about Biden’s health when Biden is out making public appearances looking healthier and more coherent than Trump and will not accept any criticism on that fact. I will never understand it.
@TheAmericanRel1 @jamesetta_w @NorahODonnell In fact there was comparatively little coverage of Biden's decrepitude and lack of capacity to run the country-- a MASSIVE problem that could have destroyed us-- before the debate.
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Despite Biden's successes passing legislation and turning the economy around post-COVID, Media constantly cited perceptions such as his approval numbers as the *real* "objective" measure of Biden's success. For some reason, no such emphasis or obsession with it with Trump.
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Heard someone recently - center-right, not a fan of Trump - whose argument was mostly "we've done well and I don't mind supporting programs I don't benefit from, but I care that Democrats don't seem to mind all the fraud that steals from those my money is supposed to be helping."
I think something the left has never really been able to accept is that for tens of millions of Americans, nearly all of their federal tax dollars are simply taken from them with no direct and very weak indirect benefits. It’s a constant imposition, and there is no thank you.
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I don't think it can be understated how politically harmful the lackluster response of Democrats to rampant fraud in pandemic and post-pandemic era social programs is going to be. It's a complete betrayal of high-trust democratic social principles.
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It's wholesome and oddly depressing to me that Al Gore, 77, not owing anyone shit, is still criss-crossing the globe full-time warning people about climate change, raising money for climate projects, mentoring the next generation of environmentalists, and generally being obsessed
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