There’s no crying or whining in soccer.
… Except your coach is Democratic vice presidential nominee and present Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (whose football coaching career seems to be one of many few issues the factually-challenged Walz has been sincere about).
Walz — the oddball working mate of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris — appeared on screeching daytime talkshow “The View” on Monday and pontificated in a lot the way in which one would anticipate him to.
Specifically, he spewed half-truths, outright lies, and regurgitated speaking factors.
However Walz unveiled a brand new ploy from his bag of methods, as effectively: He unveiled a powerful little bit of whining that might belie his age (60).
On this specific occasion of a fully-grown man channeling his internal sniveling youngster, Walz took challenge with, of all issues, a reasonably innocent marketing campaign stunt from the staff of former President Donald Trump — the GOP presidential nominee.
On Sunday, Trump donned the enduring apron of McDonald’s quick meals staff and helped serve some fries to appreciative clients in Pennsylvania.
It was, fairly actually, as benign of a marketing campaign “stunt” possible — the type that numerous different campaigns have performed beforehand — however that didn’t cease Walz from whining over barely understandable causes on “The View.”
The present shared the viral clip beneath, and please understand that Walz is ostensibly a fully-grown grownup:
Gov. @Tim_Walz: “[Vice Pres. Harris] truly labored in a McDonald’s. She didn’t go and pander and disrespect McDonald’s staff by standing there in your crimson tie and take an image. [Trump’s] insurance policies are those that undermine these very staff that have been in that McDonald’s.” pic.twitter.com/axYqbAOILo
— The View (@TheView) October 21, 2024
Walz, after trotting out the exhausted speaking level that Trump’s household is rich (as if that in some way precludes an individual from empathizing with others), tried to pivot to match how each he and Harris are truly blue-collar.
“Vice President Harris and I grew up middle-class. We perceive [the struggle],” Walz mentioned with no trace of irony. “She truly labored at a McDonald’s. She didn’t go and pander and disrespect McDonald’s staff by standing there in your tie and take an image.”
This author could be remiss to not point out that loads of McDonald’s managers — individuals within the day by day grind — may also put on ties to work, however that’s neither right here nor there.
What’s extra related is that this absurd notion that Walz is a few arbiter of respect and deference relating to routine marketing campaign path stops. Everybody, from Walz’s personal Democrats to Trump’s Republicans to whomever’s Inexperienced Get together/Libertarian grift, does this type of token photo-op look. It’s a complete non-issue that Walz is throwing a weird tantrum over.
Who’s he to name this “disrespect” when it appeared that everybody concerned within the cease appeared cool with it?
However maybe extra importantly — and maybe unsurprisingly — it seems Walz was caught parroting a extremely doubtful speaking level once more.
Specifically, the speaking level that Harris is a few middle-class hero who labored her method up from a humble McDonald’s fry prepare dinner.
As The Washington Free Beacon broke down in late August, Harris’ sudden claims on the presidential marketing campaign path that she needed to “toil beneath the Golden Arches” is predicated on little or no precise proof. Actually, she had by no means talked about it till Joe Biden was forcibly faraway from energy stepped down from his re-election bid.
So the factually challenged Walz was peddling a doubtful speaking level from an much more doubtful presidential candidate? One thing one thing birds of a feather, proper?
Fortunately, primarily based on some new polling, it seems the American public is beginning to catch on to this diabolical duo’s serpentine lies. Good.
This text appeared initially on The Western Journal.
