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.
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 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.
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.
Fear of punishment for having killed two men.
He went there specifically to do just that
I guess it is:
Real tears for real emotions are beta.
Fake tears for emotionally manipulating a jury are alpha.
Wasn’t this picture taken after the “not guilty” verdict was read?
He’s on the witness stand here.