The right's gleeful cruelty to 17-year-old Gus Walz says it all.
  • kescusay@lemmy.world
    182·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
      130·
      3 months ago

      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

      • whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        46·
        3 months ago

        It’s funny(depressing?) to think that someone probably had to tell him that his explanation for the first tweet wasn’t making anything better and that he did not get it by himself. And I’m sure he still doesn’t understand what he did wrong

    • bradv@lemmy.ca
      81·
      3 months ago

      MAGA doesn’t care. They were fine with Trump making fun of someone with CP in 2016, and they’re fine with this.

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    58·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • saltesc@lemmy.world
      24·
      3 months ago

      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.

      • dirthawker0@lemmy.world
        13·
        3 months ago

        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.

        • BertramDitore@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          3 months ago

          So true. For me, one of the most masculine things a man can do is cry in public without shame. It shows that they’re secure enough in their emotions to know that crying is a completely natural and usually quite helpful thing for people of any gender to do.

  • jlewis@lemmy.world
    11·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • Etterra@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 months ago

      I’d forgotten she even existed. I mean conservative media is infested with “blonde” taking heads without conscience or empathy.

  • Snapz@lemmy.world
    9·
    3 months ago

    Oh hey look, the new ann coulter proposal video just droppe… And, he called it off.

    Just think of the fucking human sludge it would take to propose to ann coulter in the first place, and then realize that those dudes STILL couldn’t go through with it. They got one full whiff and said, “LOOK lady… I literally pay millions of dollars to hunt human children for fun in Luxembourg, I have a Michelin chef flown in to prepare their livers for me for dinner… but YOU are just a god damn irredeemable monster… I can’t go through with this…”

  • ATDA@lemmy.world
    4·
    3 months ago

    I mean hell I’ll make about any joke and even I don’t think I’ve gone in on their kids.

    Now once an adult and they become adulterating, addicted, unwed parents while giving abstinence lectures that’s another story.

  • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 months ago

    That end wokeness take… As bad as a lot of SP takes have been, they have a long record of treating disability with respect. If they did make a bit about it, it would not be what end wokeness is looking for.