There’s weird as in “Keep Portland weird” and there’s weird as in “EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT YOUR GENITALS LOOK LIKE SO I CAN DETERMINE YOUR WORTH AS A HUMAN BEING”.
You’re the former. Trump &co. are the latter.
Eh, he’s better than that. But I completely understand the instinct to defend your children against hateful assholes.
Well, thank you but I find the second one creepy.
Imagine any of trump’s spawn getting teary with pride in their dad.
The only time they would get teary is learning that he’s cut them out of his will.
(Speaking solely of the first three. Tiffany seems to have distanced herself, so may have a more normal reaction, and not commenting on Barron, who is still a kid in my view.)
Assuming there’s an estate left to claim once all the creditors and lienholders have gotten their cut?
FWIW, when I first saw that tweet, I didn’t realize it was Walz himself. I just thought it was some sharp-witted rando. It made me smile. Then I… I won’t say laughed out loud when I looked again and saw it was Walz. Let’s just say I chuckled.
Just watched Walz’s speech for the first time. Very solid.
More so during the convention we got the chance to hear the others that had been on the short list. She really made a good choice. I mean Shapiro can orate fine but clearly in the style of oration. Walz’s ability to connect, to present someone that middle America, across America, can feel they know and like and trust right off? That is very special.
Dude looks like he stepped out of an episode of The Wonder Years.
When he pops up on those little donation requests on YouTube I actually feel a little guilty about skipping them. He just looks so nice and helpful.
I was thinking this, too, and also when Mark Kelly spoke. Kelly isn’t an orator like Shapiro – I mean that I realized that Kelly, too, would have been a slightly less effective communicator than Walz.
I’ll call this When they go Low, we Stomp.
When they go low, we knock them all the way down and step on their balls.
I told my wife about this Tweet this morning, and was gonna send her a link, but it looks like Walz’s response is fake. Oh well. To quote Cecil Adams quoting an Italian proverb, se non è vero, è ben trovato: “Even if it’s not true, it’s a good story.”
While I do like all the support that Gus Walz is getting in response to the unsurprising MAGA bullying, I’m a little sorry that a lot of that support seems to be shading into the idea that “He’s neurodivergent, so it’s okay that he was crying.”
I would prefer a message that’s closer to “He happens to be neurodivergent, but even if he weren’t, it’s okay that he was crying. Because it’s normal and healthy for men to openly display their emotions. People who insist that men should never do so are (you guessed it) weird.”
Not to mention ugly and toxic.
I say this both as the step-father of a young man on the spectrum, and as someone who got picked on as a kid for not being “manly” enough.
I’m reading it a little differently: “He’s neurodivergent, so it’s extra ugly to be mocking him.” Not that it’s ever okay for adults to be publicly mocking teenagers, or for anyone to mock people for sincere displays of emotion like that, but when it’s adults mocking neurodivergent teenagers for sincere displays of emotions, it hits a trifecta of shittastic shittiness.
I’m sure that’s a huge part of it, which is why I only said that I’m “a little” sorry. I know this isn’t so much a coherent, planned-out message as it is many people genuinely reacting to some truly disgusting behavior. It’s just something that I noticed that hit me in slightly the wrong way. That reaction may well have to do with my own personal baggage as well.
I don’t disagree. There absolutely should be room for men to show genuine emotion, and that’s part of why Emhoff and Walz and Barack Obama were so lovely in their speeches, and why the contrast is so stark between Democratic and Republican ideas of masculinity.
agree.
i like kelly, he was a solid pick. then i saw walz. i realized that walz was the better match.
on the ladder of life:
shapiro has his eye on the top of the ladder, he has his rungs planned. he is looking to the future.
kelly is in his present. he climbed his ladder. he is at the top and is peaceful where he is. he is happy to be gabby’s husband, and to be a solid senator.
walz has all he wants in life. he has his most important thing, his family. they ground him. he is ready to jump in to help anyone. that is his position on the ladder. he is the man who helps people on the ladder, catch you if you slip, set you back on it if you fall.
( i could also do a football thing…)
This is absolutely true. That’s part of the reason that it rings so hollow to see so many prominent Republicans trying to walk back their attacks on Gus now that they’ve found out that he’s neurodivergent. The implication that if he weren’t, it would have been okay to mock and bully him is just the perfect example of toxic masculinity in a nutshell.
I admit I didn’t watch much of the convention, apart from clips I’ve seen on The Daily Show and such, but even that’s enough to clearly show the difference someone like Walz and someone like J.D. Vance.