6mo ago

Why Republicans are calling Walz 'Tampon Tim' — and why Democrats embrace it

www.npr.org /2024/08/07/nx-s1-5066878/tim-walz-tampon-law-minnesota

today's example of why modern Conservatives are weird people

“Tampon Tim is hands down the best political nickname ever,” tweeted conservative commentator Liz Wheeler. “It’s so… savagely effective. In one word tells you EVERYTHING you need to know about Tim Walz’s dangerous radicalism.”
The moniker refers to a law that Walz, the governor of Minnesota, signed last year, requiring public schools to provide menstrual products — including pads and tampons — to students in 4th through 12th grades.

Tim Walz's dangerous radical agenda of....providing menstrual products to adolescent kids that might need them? lolol

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Tampon Tim will stop the red wave
- Fuck man, I'm so mad I didn't come up with this. It's so good
- This is my rallying cry

What's wrong with putting tampons in the men's restrooms at schools? Won't they come in handy if there is a shooting?
Anyway, this reads to me like free advertising for Walz.
(Disclaimer: do not try to use a tampon to patch a bullet wound)
- If you are in an emergency life or death situation and are bleeding, anything that keeps blood from leaking out is beneficial.
- The US Army says tampons are fine for patching bullet wounds in an emergency.
- (Disclaimer: do not try to use a tampon to patch a bullet wound)
  Unless you’re a Russian soldier, of course!
- Well, you can stuff your wounds with the silky smooth sand and shards institutional toilet paper, me, I'll be looking like a Yeti with all those tampon strings....Damn!

Wow, an active socialist. Helping people. We can't have that in Washington. Right, Republicans?

The rest of her tweets explains why they are crying "DANGER"
He put tampons in men’s bathrooms! He’ll trans kids. He took away parental rights. He’s woke & creepy.
So linking basic caring for children with the typical "groomer" bullshit.
- He put tampons in men’s bathrooms! He’ll trans kids. He took away parental rights. He’s woke & creepy.
  I mean, it's better than being so weird that they fuck couches.
  
  See, this is exactly why the whole "weird" shit is a mistake. They're straight up declaring it's "dangerous" to take care of children, and all you can think to contribute is the lie about jd fucking a couch? You really can't be bothered to address the child abuse and fear mongering? Just shitty memes?
- I've seen the news story since, but my first thought when I heard about it yesterday from someone was 'what is with conservatives weird obsession with little girls'.
  Now I know they are freaking out about the law being for all bathrooms, not just girls bathrooms. Trans panic aside, I can easily see a girl telling her boyfriend "the bathroom is out of tampons/pads, can you get me one from the boys bathroom?".

"They're unironically that creepy mom from Carrie"
Walz, next week or so

You know that puritanical piece inside a lot of religious and right-leaning people? The one that winces away from knowing anything about women's health because it's "yucky"? They're hoping to contaminate Walz with the yuck and hoping it stems some of their people from defecting.
- They’re just tampons. New, not used. What’s the problem?
  This eschewing of acknowledging basic body functionality as relates to reproduction is very juvenile. They are VERY willing to discuss abortion which most know very little about in regard to how abortion, spontaneous or otherwise, actually works and how abortion is actually defined in a medical chart, but then shy away from a basic item found in every grocery store.
  Let’s dig in on private matters but then treat a sanitary item like a taboo(ish) insult and giggle a little on the topic.
  It is, dare I say it? Weird.
  
  Some religions to this day decree when a female is "unclean" and should be isolated. The problem are people with that mentality.
  The same "yuck" factor lies at the root of not thinking rationally about tampons, abortions, childbirth, lactation, etc. Controlling a population's approach to inherent bodily functions, has been an effective way of brainwashing for ages. Stuff like vote of celibacy, vote of silence, vote of reclusion, fasting, and similar. Convincing people to sacrifice for a doctrine, gets them invested and pulls them into a sunken cost fallacy.
  I'd call it Evil... but that is going onto their territory, so laughing it off with Weird, is probably a better strategy.
- knowing anything about women’s health because it’s “yucky”
  Can we just rename Tampons for them, to "Jesus Sticks", and when they have to have an uncomfortable conversation, they can just pull one out and say "You need Jesus"? Or when asking someone for one, someone can proudly proclaim "I need Jesus" to their friends.
  I've gotten the seriousness out in other comments; I just had the thought, and had to share it somehow, somewhere.
  They've done a good job making menstruation 'yucky'; the majority of women I know have at some point apologized to me after periods come up in group or private conversations. It's just a period, nothing to be ashamed of.

Never forget that when you are speaking to someone who strongly identifies with American Conservatism, you are speaking to a child in an adult body. You can't have the same expectations that you would have of a mature adult. The fact that anyone would see this as an effective "attack" who is over the age of 8 is embarrassing.

Wow. They really are fucked, huh?

With all this talk I was just thinking.... I hope the products provided are better quality than the toilet paper you get in public restrooms...

@theangriestbird
“Tim Walz is a weird radical liberal,” the MAGA War Room account posted on X, formerly Twitter. “What could be weirder than signing a bill requiring schools to stock tampons in boys' bathrooms?”
It's so funny watching conservatives attempt to turn the"weird" thing around.

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