A tearful, unscripted moment between Tim Walz and his 17-year-old son, Gus, has unleashed a flood of praise and admiration – but also prompted ugly online bullying.

Gus Walz, who has a nonverbal learning disorder as well as anxiety and ADHD, watched excitedly from the front row of Chicago’s United Center and sobbed openly Wednesday night as his father, the Democratic nominee for vice president, delivered his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention.

Conservative columnist and right-wing provocateur Ann Coulter mocked the teenager’s tears. “Talk about weird,” she wrote on X. The message has since been deleted.

Mike Crispi, a Trump supporter and podcaster from New Jersey, mocked Walz’s “stupid crying son” on X and added, “You raised your kid to be a puffy beta male. Congrats.”

Alec Lace, a Trump supporter who hosts a podcast about fatherhood, took his own swipe at the teenager: “Get that kid a tampon already,” he wrote, an apparent reference to a Minnesota state law that Walz signed as governor in that required schools to provide free menstrual supplies to students.

  • TimeSquirrel
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    324 months ago

    Men cry, and cowards hide their emotions out of shame. Let it out wherever you are and fuck everyone else. I don’t trust anybody who doesn’t occasionally cry. That’s sociopath behavior.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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      74 months ago

      The last time I cried was last night watching a video about the LOFTID inflatable heat shield. Tears of joy for the team and for seeing something that’s only been in KSP actually become realized. It felt so cool I cried.

      • TimeSquirrel
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        44 months ago

        Whoa. It actually worked.

        seeing something that’s only been in KSP actually become realized

        They may be need to make sure to put the CoG of the vehicle near the heat shield to avoid flipping end over end…I may have a lot of experience with this 😉

        • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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          24 months ago

          They should put another one on the top if they’re going to Eve Venus