Megyn Kelly appeared to channel her Gretchen Wieners on Wednesday ― besides as an alternative of attempting to make “fetch” happen, she tried to show “Tampon Tim” right into a trending time period.
The appellation for Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) is supposed to be an insulting reference to his determination final yr to signal a invoice requiring faculties within the state to provide free menstrual products in all public college bogs.
The invoice permits for the female hygiene merchandise to be positioned in boys’ bogs in addition to women’ ― one thing that conservatives are hoping they will weaponize towards Walz, whom Vice President Kamala Harris has chosen as her working mate within the 2024 election.
On X, previously Twitter, Kelly approvingly responded to a submit that described “Tampon Tim” as “Kamala’s useless weight.”
“Tampon Tim is the identify,” Kelly wrote to her 3-million-something followers. “That’s it.”
The unique tweet additionally declared that “Biden was Obama’s useless weight” and “Kamala is Biden’s useless weight,” referring to Democratic presidential tickets that voters elected to the White Home in 2008, 2012 and 2020.
If Kelly anticipated folks to fall in line behind her and promote “Tampon Tim” as a mocking nickname for Walz, she was sorely mistaken.
As a substitute, many people, together with Dr. Jennifer Gunter, an OB-GYN in Canada, identified that the invoice Walz signed is definitely, nicely, good for people.
“Think about being upset that somebody didn’t need youngsters leaking menstrual blood onto their garments,” Gunter wrote in response to Kelly’s tweet. “You’re professional interval poverty, which appears to me to be very anti Christian. Would Jesus have stated, ‘Allow them to leak blood onto their garments as a result of they deserve it?’”
Others additionally piled on Kelly, and declared that “Tampon Tim” actually seems like extra of a time period of admiration than derision.
