today’s example of why modern Conservatives are weird people

“Tampon Tim is hands down the best political nickname ever,” tweeted conservative commentator Liz Wheeler. “It’s so… savagely effective. In one word tells you EVERYTHING you need to know about Tim Walz’s dangerous radicalism.”

The moniker refers to a law that Walz, the governor of Minnesota, signed last year, requiring public schools to provide menstrual products — including pads and tampons — to students in 4th through 12th grades.

Tim Walz’s dangerous radical agenda of…providing menstrual products to adolescent kids that might need them? lolol

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Grasping at strings.

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Brown mustard and tan suits

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Tampon Tim will stop the red wave

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Fuck man, I’m so mad I didn’t come up with this. It’s so good

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This is my rallying cry

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What’s wrong with putting tampons in the men’s restrooms at schools? Won’t they come in handy if there is a shooting?

Anyway, this reads to me like free advertising for Walz.

(Disclaimer: do not try to use a tampon to patch a bullet wound)

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If you are in an emergency life or death situation and are bleeding, anything that keeps blood from leaking out is beneficial.

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The US Army says tampons are fine for patching bullet wounds in an emergency.

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(Disclaimer: do not try to use a tampon to patch a bullet wound)

Unless you’re a Russian soldier, of course!

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Well, you can stuff your wounds with the silky smooth sand and shards institutional toilet paper, me, I’ll be looking like a Yeti with all those tampon strings…Damn!

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The rest of her tweets explains why they are crying “DANGER”

He put tampons in men’s bathrooms! He’ll trans kids. He took away parental rights. He’s woke & creepy.

So linking basic caring for children with the typical “groomer” bullshit.

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He put tampons in men’s bathrooms! He’ll trans kids. He took away parental rights. He’s woke & creepy.

I mean, it’s better than being so weird that they fuck couches.

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See, this is exactly why the whole “weird” shit is a mistake. They’re straight up declaring it’s “dangerous” to take care of children, and all you can think to contribute is the lie about jd fucking a couch? You really can’t be bothered to address the child abuse and fear mongering? Just shitty memes?

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The child abuse and fear mongering are things that they’re proud of and believe are justified. Trying to address it just makes them feel more powerful.

Calling them “weird” works because their whole ideology is based on them being the normal ones. If you take that away, you also take away their entire (false) claim to authority.

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I don’t know, the memes seem to be working…

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I get ya but lets face it. before trump they were at best high school leve and with him they have devolved to grade school. Its really the only way to deal with them.

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I’ve seen the news story since, but my first thought when I heard about it yesterday from someone was ‘what is with conservatives weird obsession with little girls’.

Now I know they are freaking out about the law being for all bathrooms, not just girls bathrooms. Trans panic aside, I can easily see a girl telling her boyfriend “the bathroom is out of tampons/pads, can you get me one from the boys bathroom?”.

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Wow, an active socialist. Helping people. We can’t have that in Washington. Right, Republicans?

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