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.

[sjmjax]

Yes. Democrats will tell you what scares them and what tactics are working.
One thing they can’t handle is ridicule.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

What an absolutely pathetic article. Nowhere does it address the sheer insanity and absurdity of putting FEMININE hygiene products in MALE restrooms. It wanders off yammering about normal women using the products and gets to toxic substances in tampons...but those are all irrelevant to the abject stupidity of giving boys tampons. It's fine if they are men on Search & Rescue or Paramedics who need to stop wounds from bleeding, but that's not why they are put into boys' restrooms.

Will the Minnesota boys will be as brave and outspoken as the Oregon boys?

[jcon40]

Blood on the Saddle by the Kotex Kid

A joke from the 1950’s

[your other brother]

Tampons in fourth grade boys bathrooms at that. Nobody really has a problem with providing feminine hygiene products to young women but 8/9 year old boys? Give me a break. Tampon Tim is a loon and apparently a coward too. The first time in 20 years his unit is ordered to deploy he bugs out and he is supposed to be a command sgt major. That is the top enlisted man in the unit. The guy who actually gives the orders and sees that they are followed. He is the very backbone of a military unit, a guy officers and enlisted men rely on to see that a plan gets executed.

[RasterMaster]

Backfiring my ass, it was #1 trending hastag and picked up by national news. Nice try, f'ing commie Fake News.

[HYPOCRACY]

Reminds me of this clown I knew. I gave him a real douchy nickname and he said “nice try. Nobody calls me that.” Two minutes later another guy walks in and calls him the nickname I gave him.

[Greenpees]

“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”.

I wish he could read this - ouch!

[P-Marlowe]

Obviously it’s working. Keep it up.

Tampon Tim.

Love it!!!

[vpintheak]

You’ve got to force yourself to be that stupid. It doesn’t come naturally.

[Pox]

These stupid twats really don’t understand that their narratives no longer work.

Most people I’ve talked to the last 2 days have actually come out and quoted “Tampon Tim” while discussing the election, and I’m pretty certain their lame ass efforts to stop the ridicule will have less than useful results.

[P-Marlowe]

Walz signed that requires public schools to provide menstrual products in student bathrooms.

Notice how he carefully avoids mentioning that the law mandated tampons in Boys Bathrooms.

[vpintheak]

Yeah. I know what CSM’s are. Army guy here. Tampon Tim, was temporarily assigned as the Sergeant Major. Went to school, dropped out (unheard of) when his unit was going to be deployed. He was never an E-9. His retirement paperwork says he was a Master Sergeant. Tampon Tim is a lying, sniveling POS.

[Pearfect]

Yep, it’s working.

TAMPON TIM !!!!!

[McGruff]

Where's the BARF ALERT?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Where's the BARF ALERT?

I just presume people are smart enough to know it without being told and there is no need to insult their intelligence.

I am guessing you need a laugh track for TV shows so you know when to laugh.

[MayflowerMadam]

“No comment from the la slimes on tampon tim’s stolen valor?”

I don’t think the stolen valor thing will play with the libs if we’re trying to make them think about how they’ll vote. They don’t grasp the basic concept of “valor”, stolen or otherwise. It’ll go over their heads totally.

They “get” tampons.

[Peter ODonnell]

CITIZENS: YOUR RIDICULE IS NOT WORKING. WE PLAN TO KEEP ON BEING RIDICULOUS.

— NATIONAL END RIDICULE DIRECTOR (NERD)
— MINISTRY OF ACCEPTABLE OPINION (MAO)

[MuttTheHoople]

Johnny Rotten says it best.

[brookwood]

“Periods have been a mainstream public policy priority for the better part of the last decade”
Because 9 percent inflation, a thousand Israeli’s murdered at a music festival, 15 million aliens bankrupting our welfare state, parents forced to watch their children get castrated, and trillions wasted on useless windmills, were not a public policy priority.

[dowcaet]

More proof we have no objectivity in the American media. They’re nothing but water carriers for the Democrat Party!