Fox News’ latest attempt to churn up negative stories about Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz backfired immediately this week.

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I heard a rumor that Tim walz was once a little too happy about winning a bowling match. The scandals never cease!

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I heard Walz high-fived his wife and friends BEFORE he praised his opponent for a well-played game. The man is a public menace.

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Nice, Walzy

spoiler

(foreign policy wise tho…)

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imagine if he wore a tan suit or ate ice cream or something

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Remember, a tan suit is only presidential and acceptable if you’re white

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10 points

Please call Tara Reade a Russian asset, just so we’re clear on everything

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It’s a good thing Dijon mustard is too spicy for his midwestern tastes, right? Don’t have to worry about that potential fiasco.

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Shut the fuck up, Tim Walz would NEVER do anything so scandalous! Granted, he’s obviously not as wholesome as someone who poses with a fake family or insulting their wife’s culture and bragging on live tv about telling their children to shut up

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He did deploy the national guard to suppress protests. So there’s that.

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He did. And he publically acknowledged that it was a bad call and apologized. He also was the reason rotten cop who killed George Floyd was even prosecuted.

If we want to criticize someone, we should also acknowledge when they listen to that criticism and correct the behavior going forward.

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Walz was the tinyman tank-man

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I guess when you got two people who took a shit on your floor and you gotta pick one to house-sit for you over the weekend, it’s probably best to ask them why they thought shitting on your floor was a good idea.

When one says, “I’m sorry, I was trying to help by de-escalating, but this made more of a mess than I expected” and the other says, “I wanted to show off my Bible,” while holding their Bible upside down, then you’ve got a much more clear choice.

Someone who shits on the floor with good intentions shows that they’re aiming to please and can be trained to do better using positive reinforcement. Someone who shits on the floor for attention with sociopathic reasoning is a bit of a wildcard with no means or desire to be reined in.

Sure, you could consider someone else who hasn’t yet taken a shit on your floor, but you gotta wonder how they’re gonna keep your house safe from other floor-shitters when they don’t have the ability to work door locks.

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You do live in China and reside on hexbear. So there’s that.

Edit: lmao after getting their friends in here as a group they banned me from hexbear.

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in what way

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It’s in the article but here:

The implication of the headline was that Walz didn’t really do anything to help the struggling student and only cared about keeping him on the field to win football games.

However, an interview with the former student, a man named Dan Clement, showed that Walz encouraged him to continue playing because he thought it would give him a positive outlet away from alcohol and criminal activities that could help him straighten out his life.

“The caring attention he gave, that positive support can pull you through really dark times in your life,” said Clement. “And he was right. I was wrong. And later in life, when I continued to do that, when I continued to trust other people who love me, then it led my life in this beautiful direction. Just like it did back then.”

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Thank you.

But I meant:
In what way did it backfire? Are the Democrats getting more votes from this? Is Fox “News” getting fewer viewers, fined, or closed down? Did it change the opinions of any viewers?

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It made them look like dumbasses (as usual) which their viewers will likely drown out in the torrent of other anti-democratic tripe Fox shovels down their collective gullets.

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It backfired in that it called attention to something positive he did that Fox News tried to spin into a negative. How much it will change things probably isn’t a lot, but at least we can see two sides, Fox News and reality. Maybe others will see it too with the right story and lie exposed.

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