Tim Walz’s normal dad energy is causing MAGA to come unglued

https://www.salon.com/2024/08/08/tim-walzs-normal-energy-is-causing-maga-to-come-unglued/

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  2. Trump is a creep with his daughters. Look it up, because I ain’t looking it up no more after a decade of this creepy guy.

  3. A bit from the commentary:

    > Dubbing Walz “Tampon Tim” appears to have been kicked off by popular right-wing troll Phillip Buchanan, who goes by the Twitter handle “Catturd.” As documented by Media Matters, the slur took off rapidly across the MAGA internet, with users photoshopping pictures of Walz surrounded by tampons. Within an hour, it had been informally picked up by the Trump campaign, with longtime Trump aide and speechwriter Stephen Miller amplifying the nickname. It all appeared to be a race to prove that MAGA is full of weirdoes with deep psychological issues.
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    > The impetus for this freakout was a bill signed by Walz last year requiring public schools to make menstrual products available to students at no charge. The bill was the result of student activists and medical professionals making irrefutable arguments such as, “Teenagers don’t know when they will get their period,” and “We cannot learn while we are leaking.” Schools have toilet paper and school nurses, so why not provide this small amount of help? No one benefits, except the bullies, if students get blood on their clothes and on the furniture.
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    > This hysterical reaction to a banal student health program speaks to MAGA misogyny, but also to the twisted view of masculinity at the heart of Trumpism. As Walz said in the viral clip where he also deemed MAGA Republicans “weird,” it’s like they’re all running for “the he-man woman haters’ club.” In the Trumpist milieu, hate is what makes someone a “real” man: hate of racial minorities, of LGBTQ people, and especially of women. In this view, “real” men don’t accept menstruation as a normal fact of life. Instead, men are expected to lose their minds at the mere mention of periods. One MAGA influencer even tweeted, “no holes left unfilled,” as if using a tampon is an exotic sexual practice instead of basic hygiene.

  5. Good people doing good things for the sake of helping them with no strings attached make them nervous

  6. Let’s be clear: they weren’t ‘glued’ to begin with.

  7. It’s definitely not business as usual on the Republican side. You don’t know what they’re going to do these days, but they’re going to screw it up.

  9. If your masculinity is so frail that you can’t handle menstruation and feminine hygiene products you’re not much of man.

  11. Charlie Kirk was telling his viewers that Walz is a communist who will destroy America.

    He has more “would you like help with that flat tyre” kind of vibe to me.

  13. It’s what all our dads used to be before Fox News poisoned them against us.

  14. Them going against America’s dad really proves that they hate the little children’s. They hate the children so much. I hate kids, but it takes a Republican to really hate them. They hate them so much. I just don’t like them. Republicans are murdering them in the street. And our VP candidate is America’s dad. He is our dad. Anyone going against that is a fucking brat. 

  15. Tampon Tim wants to provide free hygiene product to student where Republican wants to see little girl bleed into their underwear. That’s just weird.

  16. There’s a certain “conspiracy theory turned right wing propaganda” forum website that’s absolutely losing their minds over this whole situation. It’s going so far off the rails with the crazies

  17. In the UK calling someone a “Dangerous Liberal” is akin to calling them a “Fanatical Centrist.” Another oxymoron from the Orangey Moron.

  19. Quoting the best response I’ve seen: Tampon Tim will stop the red wave

  22. MAGA hates women, and now young girls. Cool outlook, weirdos.

  24. I’m hoping Tim Walz can serve as a bridge for MAGA supporters to cross. You can be patriotic and masculine in nontoxic, normal way.

  25. I really do struggle to understand what the problem is here. Teen girls get periods, it happens, and sometimes they can be unpredictable and even when they are predictable teenagers are stupid and forget things. It doesn’t serve anyone’s interests to punish them for it. It is a basic fact of human biology for just over half of the entire population and it is long past the point where we stop treating it like some strange disease.

  26. “Timpon” was right there and they bypassed it for alliterative clunk.

  27. It’s so funny that just being a normal guy who cares about other people is causing these right wing weirdos to lose it.

    I do think his race and gender are a part of it. He’s a midwestern, white, male. The kind of person often depicted as a ring winger. But he’s obviously not, he seems to love what he does, and he’s having fun! This is anathema to these weirdos who just seem to hate everything and everyone that isn’t them.

  28. Dude fought for school lunches, the weirdo’s want to to arm teachers…

  31. I’ll have to come back and post the link later, but I came across a video on TikTok in which a young white woman talks about how to her and so many other young, liberal white women, Tim Walz represents the father they could have had if they hadn’t lost him to Trump/Fox News/the MAGA movement. I thought it was a very interesting point and I hope it helps push their campaign across the finish line.

  33. They should run with this and pass out tampons stamped with their campaign logo at rallies

  34. I read somewhere yesterday, and I’m beginning to agree, at the next Harris/Walz rally, WE start chanting Tampon Tim, and reappropriate it for the absolute baller move it was. MAGA will fucking implode. How dare those incel motherfuckers.

  35. This is why I’m so fucking pissed with the team at the Bulwark. Tim and his bag of malcontents pushing the stories that the MAGA campaign was so frightened that Vice President Kamala would pick Shapiro that THEY planted stories about Shapiro so she wouldn’t pick him. Utter balderdash.

    Shapiro was never going to be picked. Biden carried PA fine and the campaign needed a midwestern down home every guy feel to contrast her San Francisco west coast liberal image.

    Team MAGA weren’t prepared just like they got caught with their pants down when Biden stepped down. They had prepared opposition research on a 2 big city liberal ticket. Now they are fucked. MAGA were unprepared for how much impact an America’s Dad & Coach could have in this race.

    MAGA’s darkness, fear, hate, and anger would have worked perfectly for 2 big city scary liberals. Now they have nothing to contrast the midwestern charm, joy and personality Tim brings to the race.

    This shows a stark comparison. Americans are choosing light and joy right now. I hope people like the warmth of light on their soul and continue on that path.

    Now, the only thing MAGA can do is say they made moves to divide us to make themselves relevant. And the Bulwark took the goddamned bait.

  36. New balance has been prepping for this moment for years.

  37. As a male OB/Gyn doctor, I would be proud of the nickname. It shows compassion for those young women. This will backfire on those idiots

  38. I’ve seen everything thrown at him in the last 24hrs. From stories about horse cum to coaching football as a way to groom boys for sex. I get the right wants their version of Vance/Couch but they are going low.

  39. Melissa Murray on Pod Saves America yesterday said Walz should make a red shirt that says “Tampon Tim, Stopping the Red Wave”

  40. All MAGA has to sell is anger and hate. It sure looks like people, except those with no other emotions, are tired of it. Exhausted. And now we simply get a breath of fresh air … and I’m here for it!

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