Opinion: Republicans’ ‘Tampon Tim’ joke about Walz is already backfiring

Los Angeles Times ^ | Aug. 7, 2024 2:27 PM PT | Jennifer Weiss-Wolf

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Before Tuesday, vice presidential contender Tim Walz was hardly a household name. Now that the Minnesota governor has been the subject of round-the-clock news interviews and viral videos, he has also picked up a new nickname. Enter “Tampon Tim,” conservatives’ response to the 2024 state law Walz signed that requires public schools to provide menstrual products in student bathrooms.

It hardly feels like much of a “gotcha” moniker, though. Periods have been a mainstream public policy priority for the better part of the last decade. And California has been at the forefront. Since 2017, the Legislature has passed a series of laws — including ones that eliminate the state sales tax on menstrual products; mandate the provision of menstrual products in all public school restrooms for students in grades 6-12, as well as at California state universities; and require county jails and state prisons to provide free access to tampons and pads to people who are incarcerated.

California has also proposed legislation to improve public health disclosure requirements around the ingredients in menstrual products — an especially timely effort in light of recent headlines: A study last month out of UC Berkeley shows that toxic chemicals including lead and arsenic were found in several name-brand tampons.

While California is a leader, it is hardly an outlier. It is one of 30 states that have scrapped the “tampon tax” in the past eight years; the latest to join the roster is Texas, with a signature from Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on a bill that garnered notable bipartisan support. Across the country, 28 states also mandate the provision of menstrual products in public schools; another 25 states require the same in their jails and prisons.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Opinion: Republicans’ ‘Tampon Tim’ joke about Walz is already backfiring

Backfiring how? Are there polls showing that this is negatively impacting Trump's campaign? No - just a lot of wishful fantasizing by white liberal women.

[Robwin]

I suspect Walz got the idea for putting tampons in the boys’ rest room as he neeeded one for himself when he deserted his troops before going to Iraq.

[gundog]

Big Gulp and Tampon Tim. A couple of inspirational nicknames.

[Indy Pendance]

I like it! Big Gulp and Tampon Tim is catchy. It’s not going away.

[Robert DeLong]

“Weird” Tampon Tim.

[No name given]

Anytime soon, if at all ever.

[Albion Wilde]

It hardly feels like much of a “gotcha” moniker, though. Periods have been a mainstream public policy priority for the better part of the last decade.

Oh, ho-hum, Jennifer Weiss-Wolf. That doesn't mean that normal folks aren't grossed out. It means they've been grossed out for the better part of the last decade.

[mikey_hates_everything]

“Tampon Tim’ makes a lot more sense than “weird”.

[cowboyusa]

It enforces that Harris is a radical leftist.

[BenLurkin]

“Periods have been a mainstream public policy priority for the better part of the last decade.”

Yeah, that’s kinda part of the problem.

[MinorityRepublican]

I’ve seen some videos. Kamala is comfortable in discussing Marxist ideas. She’s not good at lying so we see her laughing a lot. Gavin Newsom and Bill Clinton are used to lying, that’s a skill she did not have to develop.

[Gaffer]

Nope. It’s funny and the fact they have to explain it by CA rules shows it hurts them

[Organic Panic]

“Periods have been a mainstream public policy priority for the better part of the last decade.”

Bullcrap! Absolute udder bullcrap..... it hasn’t been an issue EVER and the world welcomed when A MAN invented “period products.” I am old enough to remember my mother and grandmother rinsing out homemade ‘pads’ in the garden because the blood helped the plants grow, It was nothing to be ashamed of, but or course, they didn’t want us kids to see the “unmentionable” process. Literally that’s what my grandmother and mother said when they were in the garden. “I am getting rid of the “unmentionables.”
It has only become an issue when tranny fags and democrats hijacked the issue claiming men can get menstrual periods too.

[ETCM]

Tampons in a Boy’s Bathroom is WEIRD...

[God luvs America]

They are correct- it is an opinion- not fact....

[rfp1234]

They always b!tch about privacy. Why don’t these libtard busybodies stay out of people’s bathrooms?

[BEJ]

Tampons in the boys room
Tampons in the boys room
Now, teacher, don’t you fill me up with your rule
‘Cause everybody knows that tampons ain’t cool in school
Hey, hey

[Songcraft]

Joe Biden said Tampon Tim was quite helpful to him when he (Joe) started using tampons as "anal plugs", whenever he has to go somewhere.

[chiller]

Hey leftards, it’s referring to tampons in BOYS bathrooms. Get it?

Oh, but wait....those are for the masses of trans girls now using boys bathrooms. That is their concern

Sheesh.

[chief lee runamok]

Opinion: Republicans’ ‘Tampon Tim’ joke about Walz is already backfiring

No comment from the la slimes on tampon tim's stolen valor?

Or attempt to deflect attention from the same?