r/politics The Netherlands 21d ago

Soft Paywall 'Do something, dammit!': Tim Walz says Democrats need to answer Americans' 'primal scream'

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/15/tim-walz-iowa-democrats-donald-trump/82440491007/
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u/Infinite_Lemon_8236 21d ago

The boy who cried wolf story implies a vigilant village keeping watch, the US doesn't even have that. People are crying wolf and can even see the wolves, but nobody is answering anyway because nobody is watching for it to begin with. You can't cry wolf to a nonexistent security force.

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u/SkiMonkey98 21d ago

We're keeping watch (and heavily armed), but nobody can agree what a wolf is even when it's eating them. Maybe a bunch of us are too worried about sasquatch to notice the wolves that are currently all over our village

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u/blakezilla 21d ago

Half the village is cheering for the wolf because sometimes the wolf eats a family they don’t like. It also ate grandma and is destroying their livelihood, but at least that brown family is having a worse time!

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u/SkiMonkey98 21d ago

Maybe the wolves will protect us from Sasquatch!

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u/TeTrodoToxin4 California 21d ago

Also the wolf fired the wolf oversight watch dogs,which doesn’t seem like something it should be able to do easily.

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u/Fleetzblurb 21d ago

“As long as the wolf doesn’t drag my child into the forest…”