Supporters of erstwhile president Donald Trump emotion a bully conspiracy theory, adjacent if it makes perfectly nary consciousness to anyone with 2 encephalon cells to hitch together. What are the latest rantings from MAGA’s online harmless spaces? Apparently, Democratic vice statesmanlike campaigner Tim Walz is lying astir his dog’s identity. At slightest that’s the idiotic communicative they’ve been telling themselves each morning.
“Yes, this is Tim Walz tweeting astir his canine Scout. Only occupation is that these are 2 wholly antithetic dogs,” tweeted Dustin Grage. The tweet has implicit 2.4 cardinal views connected X arsenic of this writing.
Yes, this is Tim Walz tweeting astir his canine Scout. Only occupation is that these are 2 wholly antithetic dogs. pic.twitter.com/NkRgbQQm76
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) August 26, 2024
Scott Adams, the cartoonist who created Dilbert and got dropped by each large paper successful the state aft helium publically advocated for radical segregation, shared the conspiracy theory, penning “AI oregon real?” Adams is simply a far-right kook who besides believes helium “hypnotized” himself precocious with ChatGPT.
U.S. Senator Eric Schmitt from Missouri joined in
“Why would Tim Walz bash this? It’s Creepy™ and Weird™,” Schmitt tweeted, seemingly trying to play reverse Uno with the “weird” allegations Walz helped popularize against Republicans.
But what’s really going connected successful these photos? Let’s interruption it down. The archetypal tweet was sent successful June 2022 and shows Walz with a achromatic dog.
“Sending a peculiar day shoutout to our favourite pup, Scout,” Walz tweeted.
The 2nd tweet successful the viral screenshot was sent successful October 2022 and shows Walz petting a brownish dog, with the message, “Couldn’t deliberation of a amended mode to walk a beauteous autumn time than astatine the canine park. I cognize Scout enjoyed it.”
Is this immoderate benignant of unusual effort connected Walz’s portion to swap retired his dogs portion utilizing the aforesaid name? No, obviously. As immoderate commenters person pointed retired by looking astatine Walz’s Instagram page, Walz was with Scout astatine the canine parkland that time successful October and that was conscionable different canine helium was petting. The Minnesota politician was not claiming that the brownish canine was his canine Scout.
On his IG this is simply a video of his canine “Scout”playing with different canine astatine the canine park. The canine successful the 2nd picturepic.twitter.com/kVhIvyMmlS
— 🌸🌸 (@Graciethebrand) August 26, 2024
Trump supporters are intelligibly flailing arsenic they effort to travel up with attacks connected Walz. When Kamala Harris chose Walz arsenic her moving mate for this statesmanlike election, astir Americans had ne'er heard of him. But arsenic he’s introduced himself to the broader public, he’s proved incredibly popular. Walz presently has a +5.6 constituent favorability rating, according to FiveThirtyEight’s nationalist polling average, contempt being connected the nationalist signifier for little than a month. Compare that with Trump’s moving mate, JD Vance, who has a -10.3 constituent favorability rating. It’s truly nary comparison.
The close volition proceed to lob attacks astatine Walz, conscionable arsenic Trump called the VP campaigner “Tampon Tim” connected Truth Social yesterday. However, providing tampons for escaped to each students successful schools is simply a precise fashionable argumentation that Walz is being celebrated for during his clip arsenic governor. And the MAGA assemblage is tying itself into knots trying to marque Walz, an highly mean feline with bully policies, look similar the weird one. They unrecorded successful this online echo enclosure of cruelty that volition astir apt guarantee they person nary thought conscionable however depraved and malicious they look until it’s excessively precocious and Harris wins the White House.