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.
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.
They don’t understand kids loving their parents.
No, they don’t understand sons loving their fathers.
They’re weirdly into daughters loving their fathers though.
Yeah they 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…
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.
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.
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.
Rittenhouse was crying in fear.
Fear of punishment for having killed two men.
He went there specifically to do just that
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.
Tangential to the point, but any writer that unironicslly uses the phrase “broke the internet” in a headline needs to be sent to a gulag.
Special exception when you’re covering Cloudflare, Solar Winds, and Crowdstrike
The summary doesn’t even mention that the poor kid has a nonverbal learning disability, anxiety, and ADHD, and these clowns are mocking him.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
I’m a Republican trying to Protect The Children and I see NOTHING WRONG with Bullying a Nonverbal Child!
It’s odd to place the emphasis on your crying male child and then be appalled there is an emphasis on your crying male child.
The kid stood up and owned his fierce emotions for his family. He displayed it instead of hiding it.
You know Trump’s youngest is crying for completely different reasons while hidden away from the public for being on the spectrum
It’s a public event. The occurrence was blasted by the DNC. The son is open to praise or criticism just like anyone else. The rules didn’t change just because he is the potential VP’s son. Either you believe in equal treatment or preferential treatment?
