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Recently updated on August 10th, 2024 at 07:41 pm
The fabricated story claims that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz had his stomach pumped “after overingesting horse semen.” The meme posted by Don Jr is making fun of Walz and the fake story that he had his stomach pumped. Can we please make note of how disgusting the lie is, and the fact that the Right’s all-encompassing obsession with pornography is likely what led to this lie? Please don’t act like we don’t know how popular videos of women with horses are to some men—most definitely Don Jr. being one of those men.
Republicans think this is a hilarious attack, but they are wrong. It’s not funny, it’s disgusting. They are trying to clap back after the JD Vance couch story that has become a joke on the Left, but there’s a big difference. The couch story started out with an X post that made it look like it came from Vance’s book, Hillbilly Elegy, complete with a citation and page numbers. Everyone now knows it’s not true, but it’s believable and funny, which is why it has become popular. It isn’t mean-spirited or cruel because it’s already been debunked. They are attempting to spread a disgusting and mean attack on Tim Walz. It’s not subtle or funny. It’s just gross.
Here is part of the fact-check by the amazing PolitiFact.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz alluded to a lewd fake claim about Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance after Vice President Kamala Harris introduced Walz as her 2024 presidential running mate.
Now, Walz is the target of another crass allegation: that nearly 30 years ago his stomach was pumped after “an unusual overingestion incident.”
“Local man’s stomach pumped after ‘neigh’-borhood dare goes wrong,” reads what looks like a headline in a newspaper called the West Point Daily News.
Local man, in this case, is “Tim Walz, a local resident of West Point, Nebraska.” The story says he was rushed to West Point General Hospital in August 1995 “after reportedly overingesting horse semen.”
