A tearful, unscripted moment between Tim Walz and his 17-year-old son, Gus, has unleashed a flood of praise and admiration – but also prompted ugly online bullying.
Gus Walz, who has a nonverbal learning disorder as well as anxiety and ADHD, watched excitedly from the front row of Chicago’s United Center and sobbed openly Wednesday night as his father, the Democratic nominee for vice president, delivered his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention.
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Conservative columnist and right-wing provocateur Ann Coulter mocked the teenager’s tears. “Talk about weird,” she wrote on X. The message has since been deleted.
Mike Crispi, a Trump supporter and podcaster from New Jersey, mocked Walz’s “stupid crying son” on X and added, “You raised your kid to be a puffy beta male. Congrats.”
Alec Lace, a Trump supporter who hosts a podcast about fatherhood, took his own swipe at the teenager: “Get that kid a tampon already,” he wrote, an apparent reference to a Minnesota state law that Walz signed as governor in that required schools to provide free menstrual supplies to students.
Conservatives bear their teeth at the sight of happiness. Happy people aren’t subjugated, scared, and in line.
My god the media is rubbish, “Trump came under fire in 2015 after he appeared to mock a New York Times reporter with a disability”. Like, are you kidding me? Are you fucking kidding me? Appeared my ass, he **did **mock a man with a disability, it isn’t a debate, or a perception, or the appearance, he did that shit.
Pretty sure media writes that way to be lawsuit proof. Everything is allegedly, supposedly, reportedly, according to sources, and so forth. Only things a court of law has confirmed are safe to report as facts.
Though I of course agree it is ridiculous as you suggest. There is video evidence of trump doing it, they might as well call it as it is. Attacking a young neurodivergent man for loving his dad is also despicable.
Yea, I know this, just venting because it just seems that benefit of the doubt is reserved almost exclusively for Trump and fascists.
I mean, that’s not true. Maybe there is some SLAPP fear engaged when dealing with hyper litigious fascists, but it’s a standard practice in media. Like day one journalism school stuff. It’s just common practice no matter who they’re talking to. It’s not cover for the right. Those people just tend to do more dogwhistling and outright hatred that we all know means exactly what it means, but it’s still cloaked in at least some sort of deniability. He didn’t come out and call the reporter retarded. They can characterize that however they like. But it’s still not so cut and dry—even though we all know it’s cut and dry—when it comes to reporting on it.
That Infowars fuckstick Alex Jones allegedly lost a lawsuit that he allegedly called Sandy Hook victims crisis actors and also allegedly claimed there were no dead kids which allegedly lead to the harassment of the grieving parents by his alleged followers. Allegedly he still has most of not all his assets and is allegedly going to flee the country, allegedly.
Am I doing this right?
He also fucked an ostrich.
No. They are purely both-sidesing. They’d get mroe clicks and wins in a lawsuit that 100Million-under Trump and they don’t care. They would never disparage trump directly without also disparaging whoever his opponent is.
But…. conservatives are the party of family values. /s.
Yeah, of “normal” family values. To a rep dipshit, this kid is obviously not “normal” and I’ll bet an arm that there’s already been an idiot or hundred that asked if the kid is vaccinated.
They thought about making fun of duckworth for not having legs but then they realized she would kick their ass legs or not.
You’re telling me the gutter of humanity couldn’t lift themselves out of the slime of division, hate, and bigotry to see a son who loves his father vibing and letting the love go in a great moment of high emotions?
Color me shocked. Fucking weirdos.
I like how the one lady tried to flip the “weird” label onto it and failed so spectacularly she had to delete it because it turns out normal people don’t think it’s weird for guys to cry or to love your parents.
Yeah, how is this a headline? Bullies continue to bully. These are not swing voters, I don’t want to think about them anymore. I hate how much of Kamala’s speech I spent veering from sobbing joy to wondering how the right is going to snippet the moment.
That fucking boy, the reflection on that loving father and mother, instilled in me once again, a feeling that society is progressing, the way I felt from 07 to 16. He cracked the broken frozen part of my heart right open.
I want this fucking maga Nazi bullshit to go away so we can get back on track to loving one another more openly and inventing cool future shit to stop climate change. Not giving my taxes to babies who want to play with my infrastructure like it’s their toys.
They don’t understand kids loving their parents.
Ann coulter literally said “talk about weird.”
“That kid really loves his dad. Is no one else seeing this?! What a strange relationship.”
The conservative mindset in a nutshell.
Specifically their own kids loving them.
No, they don’t understand sons loving their fathers.
They’re weirdly into daughters loving their fathers though.
Yeah would have loved if it was an attractive 15 year old girl instead, probably would have invited her on a jet to a private island…
There are honestly few things in this world more weird than the idea of mocking pure expressions of love.
These people have lost their humanity, and are drowning in their own “alpha culture” cruelty. To make things even more weird, the “alpha” they follow is an amoral, senile man with a low IQ and a propensity to wear diapers in public.
What Ann said was not good.
This comment could probably work under any post about her.
Put it on her tombstone
Nothing she says ever is.
Be best
- Melanoma Trump
They are!
Be best: Hater. Weirdo. Asshole. Psychopath.
They’re the best at that!
can we please not weaponize “weird”. I know it’s popular right now but surely you can see how this can blow up in your face.
Lol no
The summary doesn’t even mention that the poor kid has a nonverbal learning disability, anxiety, and ADHD, and these clowns are mocking him.
Most probably don’t even think those things are real.
Parents would find their baby child had been replaced by odd beings who were almost but not quite human.
However strange appearances aside it was their behaviour that marked them out - changelings were said to be either extremely badly behaved - constantly crying and prone to violence, or at the other end of the spectrum strangely docile, often mute and seemingly unable to comprehend anything about the human world they had been left in.
https://www.hypnogoria.com/folklore_changelings.html
Yep, totally a brand new thing that hasn’t appeared throughout human history.
Correct. I am older than 10 years old.
I can’t believe that the sudden rise in diagnoses’ is being seen as anything other than the first generation of adults that take mental health seriously finally reached a point in life where they had health insurance and disposable income to focus on their own mental health.
I have had ADHD all my life. When my mom died, I found letters in her things from my school counselor advising I be tested. I found letters from pissed off family members telling her to get me tested.
She didn’t do any of that. But I do remember the time she told me she never got my sister tested for dyslexia because she knew “none of [her] babies were retarded.”My dad would rather think he had a lazy, stupid, worthless kid than that mental illness was real.
It shouldn’t even matter. The kid should be allowed to express his emotions without being mocked for it. Even if he didn’t have any disability, he behaved perfectly fine. Most folks actually found it touching. While it is cruel to mock someone with a disability, I also don’t want the disability to become a way for the media to “justify” his way of expressing himself. There is no need to justify it at all.
It shouldn’t matter whether he is LD. No one should be bullied.
Research shows that bullying behavior often stems from a combination of factors such as a desire for social dominance, a lack of empathy, or modeling of aggressive behaviors at home, said Kristen Eccleston, a former special education teacher and advocate for children with social-emotional needs.
You emphasized lack of empathy, but I think we also need to focus on “a desire for social dominance” because it describes exactly what these fascists have planned for America.
Agreed. It’s interesting to me that normal, healthy people just go about their business, and those not so healthy want to impose their sickness on the rest of us. It’s contagious, for the weaker among us, too, apparently.
It absolutely matters. It’s like the difference between hitting someone who’s weaker than you, and hitting someone in a wheelchair. When you’re bullying, you’re punching down. When your victim is an even more vulnerable member of society (disabled, poor, elderly, neurodivergent, etc), you’re punching way down and are a piece of shit.
you’re punching way down and are a piece of shit.
Bullying still makes you a piece of shit even if the victim isn’t disabled, though.
The article mentioned a conservative talk-show host who called Gus a “blubbering bitch boy” and then retracted the statement when he found out the kid has a disability. No, either way, that is not okay!
Bullying makes you a piece of shit even if the victim isn’t disabled.
I don’t think anyone is suggesting otherwise. But like everything in reality, it’s not black and white. If you can’t see how it’s worse when the person has disabilities, then I don’t know what to tell you.
I suspect you understand it just fine though.
I do understand, and I think if the only reason a person isn’t bullying someone is because that person is differently abled, that doesn’t make the person who refrained only because the potential victim is differently abled a genuinely decent person, just that they know they are less likely to get away without consequences, if anyone else finds out.
Who are you arguing with? Nobody here (that I’ve seen) has said or even suggested that.
Yeah, we’re on the same page: bullying is bad no matter what. But surely you agree it’s worse to bully someone with a disability…?
Be best.
Too bad some people just don’t know about or choose to not follow the Golden Rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
I think many people in fact actively get a high from feeling powerful, and therefore doing the exact opposite of what they want done to them, and then are usually the people to whine the loudest when anything of the sort happens to them.
For example Trump’s speeches are like 85% insulting people, whining about those critical about him, etc. Huge middle school bully energy.
Yes and there was recently a speech he gave whining about how he was treated.
Recently? I can’t recall a speech he’s given since he started running for president where he didn’t whine about perceived mistreatment
Lol. You’re right
When you’re a narcissist, “others” is nonsensical, because the only person worthy of agency and empathy is you. That’s why the golden rule doesn’t work - it’s like if they were colorblind, they lack the capacity to even understand it.
That’s because they’re “Christians” and nowhere in the Bible does it say to be kind to others, or to have empathy, or to respect each other… /s
Love thy neighbor
Edit: I stopped reading before the /s. My bad. This one’s on me
I almost didn’t add that /s at the end figuring “surely nobody would think I’m serious”. Apparently my comment wasn’t dripping with enough sarcasm!
Case of not seeing the wit for the trees. In the topsy-turvy landscape of the last 8 years or so, the problem is that “dripping with” part. The weirdos do always go for the double-down after all, so adding more starts risking confusion with that tactic of theirs.
And on top of that it shouldn’t even matter. I hope that one day my kids admire and love me the same way Gus showed.
Does that mean he’s not verbal?
No he is verbal, he said “that’s my dad!” the same way dads say “that’s my boy!”
I think one of us should look up the labels of his disabilities and what they mean, but I’ve so far been too lazy.
There’ll sadly be a lot of MAGA people who think those conditions don’t exist.
Good catch. I’ve added it to the summary. Thanks.
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It broke X, can’t tell if on purpose or some weird algorithm thing. I clicked on trending topics and Hunter Biden was trending but only 1 in 3 of the tweets under that trending topic mentioned Hunter, and all of them were about Gus.
Then the same thing for Barron Trump, and Kyle Rittenhouse. A series of young men became trending topics but all of the tweets were about Gus. Just odd.
Obviously some of it was people comparing Gus to the other guys but a majority were just straight up about Gus and no one else.
Twitter now leans super right after Elon’s changes, so it doesn’t surprise me in the least
These people are the living embodiment of daddy issues.
Fuck anyone who even says that anything.
I WISH my teenage kid loved me like that 🤣 These internet bitches are just jealous.
They think him crying for an extremely emotional event is beta yet this is alpha:
At least Gus was crying with happiness. Rittenhouse was crying in fear.
I guess it is:
Real tears for real emotions are beta.
Fake tears for emotionally manipulating a jury are alpha.
Some of us are old enough to remember John Boehner before he showed everyone that he stands for nothing and became a pro-cannabis lobbyist after retiring from his position as the GOP Speaker of the House of Representatives (fucking scumbag. Put people in prison for decades because of it while you have the power to change that, and then immediately becoming a lobbyist for cause when you lose that power.
Dude used to cry all the fucking time. It was like his trademark.
I was hoping this picture would be on this thread.
Crying is only allowed by men if you’re a conservative under oath I suppose.
Let’s add another one.
HE LIKES BEER OKAY?
Lol damn, these are both fucking fantastic comparisons. Love vs hate.
Rittenhouse was crying in fear.
Fear of punishment for having killed two men.
He went there specifically to do just that
Actually, they think he’s trans now apparently.
He criticized the cult leader.
Wasn’t this picture taken after the “not guilty” verdict was read?
He’s on the witness stand here.
Dad goal unlocked.
Of course their reasons weren’t love…
Jones has some Chester A Arthur vibes going with that facial hair. WTF?
