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

  • TehPers
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    2910 months ago

    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)

  • Ech
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    2410 months ago

    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.

    • P03 Locke
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      1610 months ago

      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.

      • Ech
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        410 months ago

        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?

    • @Truck_kun@beehaw.org
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      910 months ago

      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?”.

  • @Kwakigra@beehaw.org
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    910 months ago

    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.