Analysis: As Minnesota’s governor, Tim Walz let rioters and looters bu...

2y ago Aug 10, 2024 at 4:34 AM

As Minnesota’s governor, Tim Walz let rioters and looters burn down Minneapolis while his wife opened the windows to enjoy the smell of the fires…

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As Minnesota's Governor, Tim Waltz, let rioters and looters burn down Minneapolis. Remember CNN? They're right back there. Watch. Oh, there goes their light. Their light just went off. While the governor's wife opened the windows to the mansion to enjoy the smell of the fire, she said, the smell is so beautiful. I love it. I wonder where she's coming from. Paul said that socialism is just another word for neighborliness. She wants to be, he calls them neighbors, good neighbors. He signed a bill to give illegal aliens free healthcare. He abolished Columbus Day. He ordered tampons to be put into boys' bathrooms. Do we have any children here? Please close yours. He ordered tampons in boys' bathrooms, okay? He signed a law letting the state kidnap children to change their gender so that they go home. But I'm not talking about him, I'm talking about her. This is her ideology. That's why she picked him. And he signed a bill allowing pedophiles to claim human rights protections under the state law. And then he said, by the way, J.D. Vance is doing a phenomenal job. But then he said, well, think of that. Think of the things that I just said, then he said, you know, I think J.D. Vance is weird. You know, it's a word that they use. I think he calls me that too. No, we're not. We're very solid people. We want to have strong borders. We want to have good elections. We want to have low interest rates. We want to be able to buy a house. We want great education. We want strong borders. I think we're very actually I think we're the opposite of where they're weird. You know what they do? They give they work with the press on coming up with a sound bite, just a sound bite. And every station that night, all the networks, CBS, ABC, NBC, they all said, oh, they were called weird. Weird. It's just it's unbelievable. You know, it's not a word that's really used too much in politics, but it's a terrible thing that they can do this. It's just a sound bite. No, J.D. Vance is a great patriot and he's a United States Marine and he's a real Marine. And he's a brilliant guy. And he went to Ohio State, he graduated in two years at the top of his class, just about at the top of his class. And he then got into Yale and he became a Marine. He got into Yale and he did great at Yale and he met his wife, who was actually I think the number one student that had a smart family. And we picked somebody that was very special and he's really he's really stepped up. I said, you got your sea legs, you know, because the first day they were hitting him with a lot of nonsense. And he's got his sea legs now. He's going to be great. I think we like we don't we like him and he's for the working. He's for the working man and woman. Tim Waltz is the man who's very freakish. He's very freakish.

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AI Analysis

Machine-generated analysis of the post above on 2026-03-25. Not written by the author of the post.

Danger Level

Elevated

Narcissistic State

Grandiose

Authorship

Self-Written

Intensity

79%

Posted at 10:34 PM local time in Bozeman, Montana following a campaign rally, this authentic-Trump post represents a rapid preemptive attack on newly announced VP candidate Tim Walz, with notable escalation: the attack extends to his wife, Gwen Walz, via a fabricated attribution of sadistic pleasure in watching fires. The claim that she "opened the windows to enjoy the smell of the fires" appears to be a viral disinformation fabrication with no credible sourcing — broadcast to millions as established fact. Psychologically, the post illustrates projection of ego-syntonic sadism (the cruelty enacted by the post is attributed to the target), pathological distortion of the 2020 Minneapolis events, and splitting. Targeting a private citizen spouse with extreme, fabricated moral accusations on a high-reach platform constitutes a stochastic harassment vector warranting an elevated danger rating. The trailing ellipsis is stylistically characteristic — an open invitation for the audience to extend the implied condemnation. Posting volume across this date is consistent with mild hypomanic elevation in the context of a high-intensity campaign rally day. No cognitive deviation from established baseline is detected. The post belongs to a coordinated same-day narrative cluster establishing both "communist" (Comrade framing) and "sadistic enabler" attack lines against the new Harris-Walz ticket.

Authorship Analysis

Self-Written

Indicators:

Posted at 10:34 PM Mountain Daylight Time (MDT) while in Bozeman, Montana — within late-night authentic window
Trailing ellipsis characteristic of authentic Trump stream-of-consciousness style
Emotionally reactive to Walz VP announcement four days prior — unpolished urgency
Vivid first-person sensory claim ('smell of the fires') — no aide-crafted polish
No complete sentence structure; reads as raw dictation rather than professional messaging

Psychological Profile

▶ State

Grandiose State

Trigger: Preemptive Attack — Comparison (Harris-Walz VP announcement (August 6, 2024))

Rage: Intensity 65% targeting Tim Walz and Gwen Walz

Proportionality

15%

Sentiment

-0.89

Mildly Hypomanic

Multiple posts on same date attacking different targets (NYT, Walz, Harris) with high energyPost-rally posting at 10:34 PM — activated, late-night stateRapid-fire escalation to attacking VP candidate's spouse within four days of announcementConcurrent 'Comrade' framing post suggests simultaneous construction of multiple attack narratives

▶ Clinical

Malignant Narcissism:

Narcissistic

85%

Antisocial

72%

Paranoid

48%

Sadism

68%

Defense Mechanisms:

projectiondistortionsplitting

Cognitive Complexity:

Complexity

26%

Parasocial Techniques:

Shared moral outrage cultivation — framing followers as co-witnesses to exposed Democratic depravityScandal revelation framing — positioning the post as exposing hidden truth about political opponentsTribal reinforcement — us (appalled patriots) vs. them (fire-enjoying Democrats)

Danger Assessment

Elevated

Stochastic Terrorism Pattern Detected

Indicators:

Named private citizen (Gwen Walz) targeted with fabricated sadistic attribution on millions-reach platform
Extreme moral vilification of political opponent's family member — historically a harassment precursor
High emotional intensity claim with no factual basis — maximized for viral outrage spread

Gaslighting Detected:

Presents fabricated claim about Gwen Walz as established fact — no hedge, no sourcing
Rewrites documented history of 2020 Minneapolis protests into 'burned down' narrative
Frames political governance failure as deliberate sadistic complicity — no basis in evidence

Reality Distortions:

Minneapolis characterized as 'burned down' — gross distortion of documented property damage in bounded areas
Gwen Walz fabricated as having opened windows to enjoy the smell of fires — unsourced and false attribution
Walz's governance framed as passive complicity in destruction rather than a contested policy response

Rhetorical Analysis

Violent Imagery Present

Fact Checks (2)

"Tim Walz let rioters and looters burn down Minneapolis"

Mostly False

Minneapolis experienced significant property damage concentrated in the Lake Street corridor during May-June 2020 protests. The city was not 'burned down.' Walz activated the National Guard, though timing was criticized — Mayor Frey had requested Guard support before Walz acted. The characterization 'let them burn down' omits complex multi-jurisdictional dynamics and grossly overstates physical destruction.

"His wife opened the windows to enjoy the smell of the fires"

False

No credible evidence exists that Gwen Walz made any statement expressing pleasure in the 2020 fires. This claim circulated in right-wing social media ecosystems and appears to be a fabricated or grossly mischaracterized attribution. It is a hallmark viral disinformation claim — vivid, emotionally resonant, and unsourced.

Receipts

No contradictions with other posts detected yet.

Authorship Attribution

UTC timestamp 04:34:15 on August 10, 2024 converts to 22:34 (10:34 PM) Mountain Daylight Time (MDT, UTC−6) — Trump was in Bozeman, Montana for a campaign rally that day. Late-night posting in his local timezone strongly indicates authentic composition. The style is consistent with established authentic-Trump markers: a trailing ellipsis evoking unresolved implication, vivid sensory detail ("smell of the fires"), no grammatical polish, and emotionally reactive targeting of a freshly-announced political opponent. Confidence: high for authentic authorship.

Psychological State & Triggers

Tim Walz was announced as Harris's VP running mate on August 6, 2024 — four days prior. This constitutes a preemptive attack trigger: a new political opponent entering the national stage before they can define themselves publicly. The post arrives in the critical first week of Walz's national debut, aiming to establish a damaging moral narrative while the target is still largely unknown to much of the electorate.

Most clinically significant is the extension of the attack to Walz's wife, Gwen Walz. Attributing to her a near-sadistic pleasure — "opened the windows to enjoy the smell of the fires" — represents projection of ego-syntonic sadism onto the opponent's family. The subject's posting history consistently displays contemptuous enjoyment of rivals' humiliation; here, that quality is displaced outward and ascribed to a private citizen. This is a defining feature of malignant narcissistic dynamics: the cruelty the subject enacts (vilifying a private individual to millions) is narratively relocated to the target.

The overall posting volume on this date — multiple NYT attacks, live rally promotion, "Comrade Walz/Harris" framing, and this post — is consistent with mild hypomanic elevation following a campaign rally event.

Defense Mechanisms

Projection (immature): The attribution of sadistic pleasure in watching fires to Walz's wife is the post's most clinically salient element. The subject's own public communications frequently display gleeful contempt for opponents' suffering; projecting this quality onto a political rival's spouse externalizes and sanitizes it.

Distortion (pathological): Characterizing Minneapolis as having been "burned down" grossly reshapes documented reality. Significant property damage occurred in bounded areas during the 2020 George Floyd protests, but the city remained functionally intact. The distortion elevates the grievance from "policy failure" to "apocalyptic betrayal."

Splitting (immature): Democrats are not merely negligent — they are cast as actively enjoying and enabling destruction. No ambiguity, no complexity, no acknowledgment of competing jurisdictional pressures during the 2020 unrest.

Rhetorical Techniques

Hyperbole: "Burn down Minneapolis" — an extreme distortion of documented events
False attribution: The claim about Walz's wife opening windows to enjoy fires appears to be a fabricated or severely distorted viral claim; no credible sourcing exists
Vivid sensory imagery: "smell of the fires" — designed to trigger disgust and visceral moral outrage
Guilt by association / family targeting: Extending vilification from candidate to private citizen spouse
Trailing ellipsis: Invites the reader to extend the implied condemnation beyond what is written — an open-ended suggestion of unstated additional depravity
Stochastic harassment vector: A fabricated, extreme moral accusation about a named private individual, broadcast to millions, without explicit call to action but structurally enabling harassment

Fact Verification

Claim	Verdict	Evidence
"Tim Walz let rioters and looters burn down Minneapolis"	Mostly False	Minneapolis experienced significant property damage concentrated in the Lake Street corridor during May-June 2020 protests. The city was not 'burned down.' Walz activated the National Guard, though timing was criticized — Mayor Frey had requested Guard support before Walz acted. The characterization 'let them burn down' omits complex multi-jurisdictional dynamics and grossly overstates physical destruction.
"His wife opened the windows to enjoy the smell of the fires"	False	No credible evidence exists that Gwen Walz made any statement expressing pleasure in the 2020 fires. This claim circulated in right-wing social media ecosystems and appears to be a fabricated or grossly mischaracterized attribution. It is a hallmark viral disinformation claim — vivid, emotionally resonant, and unsourced.

Overall Veracity: 10%

Danger Assessment

The post targets a private citizen (Gwen Walz) with a fabricated attribution of near-treasonous sadism. On a platform with millions of followers during a heated presidential campaign, this pattern — named individual + extreme moral accusation + fabricated evidence + massive amplification — creates conditions conducive to targeted online harassment and real-world threat escalation, even without explicit mobilization language. Danger level: elevated.

Cognitive Status

No deviation from established baseline. The post is characteristically terse, emotionally charged, and structurally simple — consistent with Trump's long-documented authentic posting style. The vivid sensory detail and trailing ellipsis are stylistically idiomatic. No word-finding difficulties, phonemic errors, temporal confusion, or neologisms observed.

Longitudinal & Contextual Notes

This post belongs to a rapid-response cluster targeting the new Harris-Walz ticket. The concurrent "Comrade Walz/Comrade Harris" post establishes a communist framing; this post establishes a sadistic-enabler framing. Both arrived within days of the VP announcement — consistent with the subject's documented pattern of immediately flooding the information space around new threats before they can self-define. The NYT posts from the same day reveal simultaneous grievance management against press scrutiny, suggesting the subject was managing multiple narrative fronts simultaneously in an activated, expansive state.