{"id":2363003,"date":"2024-11-01T21:28:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T01:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-did-he-even-mean-by-this-tim-walz-sparks-outrage-after-internet-hears-what-he-called-elon-musk\/"},"modified":"2024-11-01T21:33:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T01:33:13","slug":"what-did-he-even-mean-by-this-tim-walz-sparks-outrage-after-internet-hears-what-he-called-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-did-he-even-mean-by-this-tim-walz-sparks-outrage-after-internet-hears-what-he-called-elon-musk\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;What Did He Even Mean by This?&#8217;: Tim Walz Sparks Outrage After Internet Hears What He Called Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhat-did-he-even-mean-by-this-tim-walz-sparks-outrage-after-internet-hears-what-he-called-elon-musk%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2363003&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>It looks like you&#8217;ve pasted some HTML and\u200c XML code \u2063that includes a news article discussing \u200bTim\u200d Walz and his comments about Elon Musk. \u2063The article seems to cover a\u200c controversial \u200cstatement made by Walz during a campaign event, as\u2064 well as \u200cthe subsequent social media reactions.<\/p>\n<p>If \u2062you need\u2062 a summary \u2063or analysis of\u2064 the\u200c content,\u2062 or if you have specific\u2063 questions about it, please\u2064 let \u2062me\u200c know! 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However, if you provide me with the main\u2063 points or excerpts from the article,\u200b I can definitely help summarize\u200b or analyze it, or answer\u2062 any specific questions you may have!  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_3)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Tim Walz continues to light up the internet &mdash; for all the wrong reasons.<\/p>\n<p>The Minnesota governor and Democratic vice presidential candidate has been in a proxy war with billionaire Elon Musk over Musk&rsquo;s support for former President Donald Trump &mdash; Walz effectively called Musk a &ldquo;dips*** last week, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/tim-walz-slams-elon-musk-dip-during-rally-obama-wisconsin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>And at a campaign stop in Detroit on Friday, he sparked a storm of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scotlands-first-minister-nicola-sturgeon-resigns-over-controversy-related-to-trans-policies\/\" title=\"Scotland&#039;s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon Resigns Over Controversy Related to Trans Policies\">social media responses<\/a> after he appeared to imply that Musk, a father of 12, is homosexual &mdash; and Walz was clearly insulting Musk at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative commentator Ian Miles Cheong was among many who posted the video clip.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;What did he even mean by this?&rdquo; Cheong wrote.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tim Walz calls Elon Musk &ldquo;that gay guy.&rdquo; What did he even mean by this? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VPxOLxaklG\">pic.twitter.com\/VPxOLxaklG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stillgray\/status\/1852407685775241608?\">November 1, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Walz was in the process of talking about the economy when he turned the subject to tax cuts for billionaires like Musk.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If you&rsquo;re a billionaire, Elon Musk for example, say, that gah &hellip; , that gay got &hellip;&rdquo; then he snickered.<br \/> &ldquo;Michigan knows that word,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Look, that dude got a tax cut and the rest of us got shafted on the whole deal,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>(The full video of the event is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PD_6iADOTvU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">available here<\/a>. Walz&rsquo;s &ldquo;gay guy&rdquo; comments come about the 6:30 mark.)<\/p>\n<p>Now, Walz almost certainly didn&rsquo;t start out intending to call Musk &ldquo;gay.&rdquo; From the sound of the butchered sentence, he was trying to say &ldquo;that guy got&rdquo; and it came out as &ldquo;that gay go&hellip;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But his juvenile leering &mdash; along with the &ldquo;Michigan knows that word&rdquo; aside he tossed to the crowd &mdash; showed that once Walz committed the error, he also committed to going ahead with what he clearly meant as a slur. (To give Walz credit, he did switch the troublesome word to &ldquo;dude.&rdquo;)<\/p>\n<p>Now, it&rsquo;s safe to say that if Musk were gay, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prince-harry-and-meghan-duchess-of-sussex-speak-on-cyber-bullying-signs-of-possible-suicide-in-rare-interview\/\" title=\"Prince Harry And Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Speak on Cyber Bullying, &#039;Signs of Possible Suicide&#039; in Rare Interview\">world wouldn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t have needed Tim Walz to break the news. And it&rsquo;s a damn good bet that he&rsquo;s not.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the dozen children he&rsquo;s sired, the uber billionaire&rsquo;s romantic life is the stuff of international tabloid fare (how many other guys have dated actress<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/elon-musks-name-comes-amber-heard-johnny-depp-trial-involved-tune-500000\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Amber Heard<\/a>?), and it&rsquo;s a better-than-even chance the news of any gay liaisons would have leaked long ago.<\/p>\n<p>More to the point, it&rsquo;s doubtful that Musk himself would keep any such thing hidden &mdash; he&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">built hugely successful businesses &#038;mdash<\/a>; as well as a remarkable public image &mdash; on very clearly not giving a damn whether the world approves of him.<\/p>\n<p>What&rsquo;s more important here is that Walz &mdash; a famously poor public speaker who refers to himself, without exaggeration, as a &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-tim-walz-scrambles-visibly-shaken-moderator-presses-china-controversy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">knucklehead<\/a>&rdquo; &mdash; knew exactly what he had done when he flubbed the sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of manning up, though, and clearing up the point immediately, he went deeper into the gutter with all the maturity of a schoolboy finding a smutty word.<\/p>\n<p>And a social media frenzy built &mdash; with plenty more insults for Walz than he could ever lob at Musk.<\/p>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s a small sample:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>WARNING: The following posts contain language that some may find offensive.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Used gay as an insult this has to be accentuated because they would cancel any republican using it that way<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sigmog (@manmanly76) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/manmanly76\/status\/1852422834464928041?\">November 1, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Did Tim Walz just call <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk?\">@elonmusk<\/a> &ldquo;that gay guy&rdquo;? Last week Tim Walz called Elon a &ldquo;dipsh*t.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He seems to have an obsession&hellip; he&rsquo;s probably jealous because Elon is a better and more accomplished man than he will ever be.<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Idke4Bb50x\">pic.twitter.com\/Idke4Bb50x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1852419481294848055?\">November 1, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">WHAT!?!<\/p>\n<p>Did Tim Walz really just call <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk?\">@elonmusk<\/a> a &ldquo;gay guy&rdquo; in a derogatory manner?<\/p>\n<p>Last time I checked, there are 12 children of Elons that disprove this claim.<\/p>\n<p>Walz will lie about anything! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jCVPLB7ltk\">pic.twitter.com\/jCVPLB7ltk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Gunther Eagleman&trade; (@GuntherEagleman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GuntherEagleman\/status\/1852409015814238513?\">November 1, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>For Democrats, the worst part of the never-ending drama around Walz &mdash; from his &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/kamala-harris-campaign-quietly-changes-website-tim-walzs-stolen-valor-scandal-intensifies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stolen valor<\/a>&rdquo; controversies and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/freezes-cnn-fact-checks-vp-pick-tim-walz-military-experience-making-kamala-harris-look-even-worse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">embellishing his military record<\/a> to his lies about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tim-walz-caught-sinister-lie-regarding-conception-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conception of his own children<\/a>, to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tim-walz-gets-torn-shreds-embarrassing-moment-shotgun-guy-beyond-weak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stunning incompetence<\/a> when it comes to campaigning &mdash; is that his presence is a running sore on the Kamala Harris campaign from a wound that is entirely self-inflicted.<\/p>\n<p>It was Harris who chose Walz as her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamalas-vp-leaked-harris-pick-goes-public-in-social-media-accident-report\/\" title=\"Kamala&#039;s VP Leaked? Harris&#039; Pick Goes Public in Social Media Accident: Report\">running mate &#038;mdash<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-cnn-analyst-drops-hammer-kamala-shows-tim-walz-useless-calling-mistake-may-cost\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passing over<\/a> Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Jew, almost certainly to avoid alienating anti-Semites in the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>It was Harris who decided that this boor &mdash; who has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/walzs-china-stories-begin-unravel-harris-campaign-scrambles-explain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strange fixation<\/a> on the Chinese Communist&nbsp; Party &mdash; would be a suitable substitute in the Oval Office if she were ever unable to perform the duties of the nation&rsquo;s chief executive.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats voting for Kamala Harris for president might not realize it, but they&rsquo;re voting for Tim Walz for president, too.<\/p>\n<p>This is a guy who hasn&rsquo;t made a right move since he stepped into the public spotlight as a potential veep.<\/p>\n<p>He isn&rsquo;t going to start any time soon. 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The Minnesota governor and Democratic vice presidential candidate has been in a public feud with billionaire Elon Musk due to Musk&#8217;s backing of former President Donald Trump. Recently, Walz referred to Musk as a &#8220;dips***,&#8221; according to Fox News. During a campaign event in Detroit, he stirred up social media controversy by suggesting that Musk, who has 12 children, is homosexual\u2014clearly intending it as an insult. Conservative commentator Ian Miles Cheong shared the video clip and questioned Walz&#8217;s comments.<\/p>\n<p>While discussing tax cuts for billionaires like Musk, Walz awkwardly said, \u201cthat gay guy,\u201d before laughing and adding that \u201cMichigan knows that word.\u201d He criticized how billionaires benefit from tax cuts while others do not. Although it seems he didn\u2019t mean to label Musk as gay initially\u2014his phrasing was likely unintentional\u2014the way he continued with the comment indicated he embraced the slur.<\/p>\n<p>If Musk were indeed gay, it&#8217;s unlikely Walz would be breaking such news; his personal life is widely covered in tabloids. Moreover, given Musk\u2019s outspoken nature about his life choices and relationships\u2014including high-profile romances\u2014it\u2019s improbable any such information would remain hidden.<\/p>\n<p>The more significant issue here is that Walz\u2014a notoriously poor speaker who refers to himself as a &#8220;knucklehead&#8221;\u2014was aware of his slip but chose not to clarify it immediately. Instead, he leaned into juvenile humor at the expense of maturity while sparking outrage on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Critics have pointed out how inappropriate it was for him to use &#8220;gay&#8221; as an insult when similar remarks against Republicans would lead to severe backlash. Many have expressed their disbelief over his comments regarding Musk&#8217;s sexuality given his numerous children and past relationships.<\/p>\n<p>For Democrats, this ongoing drama surrounding Walz\u2014from controversies about embellishing military service records to campaign blunders\u2014is damaging Kamala Harris\u2019s presidential campaign since she selected him as her running mate over other candidates like Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro. 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