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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.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

They thought about making fun of duckworth for not having legs but then they realized she would kick their ass legs or not.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago

These people are the living embodiment of daddy issues.

[–] [email protected] 144 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (2 children)

What Ann said was not good.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This comment could probably work under any post about her.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But…. conservatives are the party of family values. /s.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 114 points 5 months ago (8 children)

The summary doesn't even mention that the poor kid has a nonverbal learning disability, anxiety, and ADHD, and these clowns are mocking him.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

There’ll sadly be a lot of MAGA people who think those conditions don’t exist.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 5 months ago (11 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (10 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Most probably don't even think those things are real.

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[–] [email protected] 271 points 5 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 167 points 5 months ago (3 children)

They don't understand kids loving their parents.

[–] [email protected] 119 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No, they don't understand sons loving their fathers.

They're weirdly into daughters loving their fathers though.

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 5 months ago

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