I don’t think “hey everyone, let’s make fun of a disabled 17-year-old tearfully expressing love for his father” is gonna play as well as they thought.
talk radio host Jay Weber tried to parody Tim Walz, tweeting, “Meet my son Gus. He’s a blubbering bitch boy. His mother and I are very proud.” Weber later said that he deleted his tweet after learning that Gus was disabled—he just meant to attack a 17-year-old boy for being emotional.(Weber has since deleted his explanatory tweet as well.)
What a bunch of weirdos
MAGA doesn’t care. They were fine with Trump making fun of someone with CP in 2016, and they’re fine with this.
…does CP mean what I think it does? Because someone who has that stuff doesn’t need to be defended. They need to be jailed.
they’re cool with it
Sounds about right for the weirdo influencers of the modern GOP.
Walz is good guy, the local coach, his son is proud of him, and his son has been diagnosed with some mental disabilities. This is a normal American family in 2024.
Disability aside, I don’t think it’s at all unusual for a family member to express emotion like that for such a momentous situation. There’s only a few things that gets tears out of me—movies where the dog dies, amazing acts of heroism and selflessness, exhaustion in emergency scenarios—but I’m pretty sure I’d lose it if my father was taking on a national leadership position, there’s a huge crowd cheering him, and everyone’s saying how great he is.
The far right is obsessed with this image of hyper masculinity from Alex Jones’s magic pills to Andrew Tate to AI generated Trump with Superman’s figure. Their ideal men in that world do not show emotion and they damn well never cry even in happiness, that stuff is for women and other weaklings that need a strong man to run their lives. And it’s all based in insecurity.
They have no idea that people with real strength of character are secure in themselves and can show tenderness and vulnerability knowing that does not define them as weak.
They are also weird about Kamala’s step daughter
Step-daughter you say??? Does she frequently get stuck in the washing machine?
Oh man, Ann Coulter…what a blast from the past! You can talk about your Marjorie Taylor Greens or your Lauren Boeberts, but she was going batshit crazy for attention back when those two were still pulling the hair off of their Barbie dolls. And she’s still out there, working the county fair circuit, opening for Right Said Fred on their “Shit left over from the 90s” tour.
