How Tim Walz’s Big Dad Energy Went Viral

Offline with Jon Favreau

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News

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🗓️ 11 August 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Why is Tim Walz, a 60-year-old dad from Minnesota, so internet savvy? And why is he so good at making right wingers look not just weird, but also extremely, chronically and dangerously online? Jon and Max discuss the meme appeal of Harris’ new VP pick, why Republicans are sinking deeper into weirdness with transphobic attacks on Olympians, and what X’s latest legal tantrum is really about.

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0:00.0	There are a lot of different reasons that people would want to like meme Kamala onto the top of the Democratic ticket right?
0:05.6	She's generally this is a sentence that was said.
0:07.6	Not only since it was said, but a sentence that will like maybe determine the like course of democracy in the world's largest
0:13.9	richest country.
0:14.7	Like, we're game stopping the Democratic ticket
0:17.7	right to the White House.
0:19.3	You know, I've said it before.
0:20.4	The game stop shortsellers were right.
0:22.3	They were right. And now the short sellers were right. They were right and now the
0:23.7	Democratic Party is right.
0:30.7	I'm John Favreau. I'm Max Fisher. Max Fisher. Max. John.
0:34.0	The internet.
0:35.0	Okay.
0:36.0	Has gone from being coconut-pilled?
0:37.0	Oh my God.
0:38.0	To being walls-pilled.
0:40.0	I'm walls-pilled.
0:41.0	Me too.
0:42.0	Who isn't now? I literally don't know a single person who
0:44.8	isn't who's not named J. Vans. The next viral political sensation is a
0:51.9	60 year old dad from Minnesota who Kamla Harris tapped as her
0:55.6	running mate this week. Governor Tim Wall's was a dark horse candidate who
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