Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) slammed Republicans for not thinking for themselves, saying that it’s “easy” to be a Republican.

“Think of how easy it would be to be a damn Republican,” Walz said at the DNC Summer Meeting in Minneapolis yesterday. “‘Oh, what should I wear today? This stupid frickin’ red hat. What should I say today? I don’t know, just make sure it’s cruel. Who do we listen to? That guy, oh the felon in the White House, listen to him and that will be fine.'”

Walz’s fiery speech included calling the president a “wannabe king in the White House” and the “dictator-in-chief” and said he’s “sick and tired of this Democratic Party bringing a pencil to a knife fight.”

“We cannot be the only party that plays by the rules anymore,” he said.

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Walz, who was the vice presidential nominee last year, stood by Kamala Harris, saying she would have been a “fantastic president.”

“Look, we wouldn’t wake up every day to a bunch of s**t on TV and a bunch of nonsense,” he continued. “We would wake up to an adult with compassion and dignity and vision and leadership doing the work, not a man-child crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell.”

Walz was likely referring to the president’s “cankles,” which the White House says is the result of his Chronic Venous Insufficiency.

He also admonished Democrats to stand together.

“Don’t take the bait,” he said. “It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities and the attempt to go into others, the flaunting of the rule of law, the cruelness and the unconstitutional nature of the way they’re attacking our neighbors, that the press finds the need to talk about, ‘Oh, there’s a division in the Democratic Party.’ There’s a division in my damn house and we’re still married and things are good. That’s life.”

“We are strong because we challenge each other,” he said. “We are strong because we’re held accountable. We’re strong because we believe there’s a place for everyone here.

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