Relatives of Donkey VP Pick Tim Walz Announce Support for Former President Trump

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A photo widely circulated on social media Wednesday shows eight members of Democrat vice presidential nominee Tim Walz's extended family showing support for former President Donald Trump.

The photo, reportedly initially shared by a family friend, was posted on X by former Nebraska GOP gubernatorial candidate Charles W. Herbster, and a representative for Herbster told the Daily Mail those posing are related to Walz through his grandfather's brother.

The photo shows the people wearing T-shirts that read, "Nebraska Walz's for Trump," and they are standing in front of a banner that reads, "Trump 2024 Take America Back." Walz was born in Nebraska and as an adult moved to Minnesota, where he became a congressman and then governor.

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The image, originally shared by a friend of the family, was later posted by Charles W. Herbster, a former gubernatorial candidate in Nebraska and a Trump ally. X Twitter

Herbster's caption, "Tim Walz's family back in Nebraska wants you to know something," further amplified the image's impact across Trump-supporting circles. The former president later reshared it on his Truth Social profile.

When asked about the authenticity of the picture, a representative for Herbster told Newsweek that those in the photo are related to Walz through his grandfather's brother and that it was shared by a family friend. The family gave Herbster permission to publish it online.

Newsweek reached out to the Trump and Harris campaigns via email for comment on Wednesday.

This is not the first time Walz's family has made headlines for their political differences. Jeff Walz, Tim Walz's older brother, has made a series of public comments that further highlighted the family divide. Jeff, a resident of Florida, posted on Facebook that he is "100% opposed" to his brother's political views.

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Jeff Walz, Tim Walz's older brother, made a series of public comments that further spotlighted the family divide. Facebook /
"Not the type of character you want making decisions about your future," Jeff Walz wrote, referring to his brother.

The Facebook posts, originally from March 2023, have galvanized Trump supporters, who view the comments as ammunition against the Democratic vice presidential nominee.

Jeff Walz later clarified that while he strongly disagrees with his brother's policies, it was not his intent to influence voters.

"I was just trying to make sure my friends knew I didn't share the same views," Jeff Walz told NewsNation in an interview.

Jeff also expressed frustration that the family was not informed about his brother's vice-presidential selection until it became public, while also acknowledging that they have not spoken in years.

Despite calls from some Trump supporters for him to publicly endorse the former president, Jeff Walz has refrained from making any formal declaration of support.

Many users have drawn parallels to other instances of family members opposing politicians, such as Mary Trump's fierce criticism of her estranged uncle, Donald Trump.

In 2020, Mary Trump, published Too Much and Never Enough, a tell-all book about the former president and his family. In it, she says he is "utterly incapable of leading this country and it's dangerous to allow him to do so."

Update 9/4/24 2:30 p.m. ET: This story has been updated with new information.

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More family members of VP Pick Tim Walz show support for Donald Trump

A leaked photo has circulated widely on social media, showing eight relatives of Governor Walz wearing "Walz for Trump" T-shirts.
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Tim Walz is a creepy pandering white male liberal who changes like the wind in the direction of political appeasement. He is a spineless wimp who deserted his guard duties to get out of going to foreign duty. He is not someone you would want running your country.
 
Redemptionman said:
Tim Walz is a creepy pandering white male liberal who changes like the wind in the direction of political appeasement.
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Speaking of weird, what's WEIRDER than some old, broken down Caucasian Dude (as in fellow BOOMER) ordering TAMPONS be placed in boys restrooms, probably to be accessed and used by preteen and/or prepubescent 8, 9, 10 year old males????


The greatest APPEASER of all time, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and the British government pursued a policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany to avoid war.

The world was soon to discover how his appeasement allowed the Nazi Regime to bombard the UK almost into capitulation, avoiding such submission thanks to Four term Donkey President FDR and our best on the planet at that time, US Military under Five Star Generals of the Army Eisenhower and Patton!



The pot calling the kettle black




"The pot calling the kettle black" is a proverbial idiom that may be of Spanish origin, of which English versions began to appear in the first half of the 17th century. It means a situation in which somebody accuses someone else of a fault which the accuser shares, and therefore is an example of psychological projection, or hypocrisy. Use of the expression to discredit or deflect a claim of wrongdoing by attacking the originator of the claim for their own similar behaviour is the tu quoque logical fallacy.


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The 'Weird' History of Tim Walz's Political Put-Down


Once, the word signified supernatural things. In the mouth of Kamala Harris's running mate, weirdness is much more earthbound.

Two inauguration days ago, after Donald J. Trump had been sworn in and delivered a raw diagnosis of "American carnage," his predecessor George W. Bush walked off the Capitol dais and said to Hillary Clinton, as she reported it, "Well, that was some weird shit."

It was a prescient observation! Strange things have taken place in America lately, and Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, whom Vice President Kamala Harris selected as her running mate on Tuesday, has made calling them out a rallying cry. "These guys are just weird," he told the "Morning Joe" kaffeeklatsch a few weeks ago, the first of many assertions of abnormality that helped propel a once obscure state leader to the national ticket.

May I briefly observe how curious it has been — how weird, if you prefer — to see this pithy term embraced so quickly? As a matter of political communication, weirdness can be a powerful epithet. But as a matter of cultural prestige, weirdness overtook normality long ago.
It is not so much in the eye of the beholder as the believer, and there are good weirds and bad. Are you fonder of the glamorous weird of Björk or Lady Gaga (who performed at President Biden's inauguration, for crying out loud), or the peculiar weird of Pee-wee Herman or Napoleon Dynamite? Are you, my dear weirdo, more like the bowling-alley oddballs of "The Big Lebowski" or the banana-nosed, chicken-besotted Muppet named Gonzo? Weirdness, as a cultural marker, is a designation of irregularity that is increasingly self-declared and celebrated. To turn it back to an accusation, as Mr. Walz has done, is wondrous strange.

Weirdness has always been formidable, literally so in centuries past. Before it was an insult (flinged or reclaimed), weird actually signified power — and before it was an adjective, "weird" was a proper noun. In Anglo-Saxon Britain, Wyrd was a pre-Christian personification of destiny, who governed the fate of all things. She is invoked early in "Beowulf," as the title hero prepares for battle with the monster Grendel. "Fares Wyrd as she must," says Beowulf to Hrothgar, the king of the Danes. Do not mourn me if I die. The weird is the lord of man.

In later centuries, the Anglo-Saxon Wyrd got tripled, in rough analogy with the three Greco-Roman Fates who spin the thread of human destiny. The Weirds (or Weïrds; the New Yorker-style dieresis signals it was two syllables) became a trio of female seers, most famously in "Macbeth," whose Weird Sisters foresee that the Thane of Glamis will become king of Scotland. The witches on their blasted heath are weird in the original sense: unearthly, uncanny, what Banquo calls "fantastical." Their warts and rags may make them scary. Their 5G connection to the spirit realm is what makes them weird.

Even by the 19th century, when "weird" took on its contemporary meaning of oddity or abnormality, it still carried supernatural overtones. Percy Bysshe Shelley writes in one poem of a witch's tricks as being "A tale more fit for the weïrd winter nights —/Than for these garish summer days." But we disenchanted moderns, even in weird and wild times, do not have such spooky views of snowstorms. Weirdness lost its paranormal character in the 20th century, and became merely a freakish disruption of the natural order. Norman Bates. Rocky Horror. The outlier, stripped of his eldritch energies, became simply the weirdo.

Yet American artists and writers have always had a soft spot for the maladjusted and maladapted, and the same Hollywood studios that have promulgated our view of the American normal have also made us find our reflection in adorable oddballs. From "Harvey" to "Ghost World," from "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" to "Mean Girls," the weirdo more often than not signifies freedom, dissent, imagination, and their normie antagonists smallness, conformity. For Minnesota's own Prince, and his fellow Midwesterner Michael Jackson, eccentricity was the proof of their innovation, and weirdness the mark of genius.

And in our own underachieving century, weirdness has gone from a possibly lovable quirk to a near obligation. Keep Portland weird, keep Austin weird; match my freak, as Tinashe demands; above all, do not be anything other than yourself, no matter how odd. "Everything Everywhere All at Once" rode its willful adolescent weirdness to the stage of the Oscars, and even in Greta Gerwig's blue-state-rules "Barbie," the living doll you're supposed to like is not Margot Robbie's pretty but empty Stereotypical Barbie, but Kate McKinnon's messed-up, Bowie-wigged Weird Barbie. I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo, and I am posting through it.

Mr. Walz offered an inversion of that old Radiohead single at his introductory rally on Tuesday night. "These guys are creepy, and yes, just weird as hell," he smilingly charged. From his mouth the word comes across as a somewhat spicy Midwestern revision of the coastal freakout, common during the Trump presidency, that almost every day was "not normal."

But it only lands with force because of a curious — we might say weird — ambiguity in the language. Today, "be normal" and "be weird" have become both antonyms and synonyms: fun house reflections of a dominant American ideology of standing out to fit right in, and self-acceptance as the highest calling. What Mr. Walz is calling "weird" is not atypicality as such, but an up-in-your-business insolence out of step with his American ideal.

Fair is foul and foul is fair, as the sisters in "Macbeth" conjured; to be weird is to be normal, and to want orthodoxy is just weird.


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The ‘Weird’ History of Tim Walz’s Political Put-Down

Once, the word signified supernatural things. In the mouth of Kamala Harris’s running mate, weirdness is much more earthbound.
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Redemptionman said:
Tim Walz is a creepy pandering white male liberal who changes like the wind in the direction of political appeasement. He is a spineless wimp who deserted his guard duties to get out of going to foreign duty. He is not someone you would want running your country.
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Oh puhlease.
 

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