Walz has a way with words


First, it was recognizing that conservative Republicans are “weird,” out of touch with common values. Now he has absolutely perfectly pegged Elon Musk: he’s a dipshit.

Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz on Tuesday joked that Elon Musk is Trump’s real “running mate,” and mocked him for jumping “like a dipshit” on stage with Donald Trump earlier this month.

“I’m going to talk about his running mate,” Walz said during a campaign rally in Wisconsin. “His running mate Elon Musk.”

“Look, Elon’s on that stage, jumping around, skipping like a dipshit on these things,” the Minnesota governor said. “You know it.”

Oh man, that brought back memories of my father, a bedrock union man and staunch Democrat, because that was one of his favorite words to describe clowns lacking in dignity and publicly making an ass of themselves. That’s Musk in a single word, a dipshit.

Comments

  1. StevoR says

    Well, I can think of a few ruder words to also accurately describe Musk plus a somewhat more polite Aussie version – dropkick.

    Douche and its variants also suits the Elongated Muskrat very well.

  2. dbinmn says

    “Dipshit,” just like all those great expressions of wisdom from my grandparents directed at morons: “They can dish it out but they can’t take it”; “Monkey see, monkey do”; “What the hell is wrong with those people?”; “They just gotta make a federal case out of it, don’t they?”

  3. robro says

    It’s a fitting description of Elon, although I could think of a few other words that aren’t heard in public often. While this may represent to some how the level of public discourse has declined, it’s far superior to a former president’s bizarre babbling about a deceased golf pro’s dong and how impressed other golfers were with it.

  4. wearsbellsonlegs says

    @StevoR. Polite? The two types of kick in Australian Rules football are drop kick and punt. Think rhyming slang.

  5. StevoR says

    @ wearsbellsonlegs : “Polite? The two types of kick in Australian Rules football are drop kick and punt. Think rhyming slang.

    Umm, not a big fan of AFL footy (to be slightly tautologous) but there’s definitley more than just tow types of kicks :

    The common types of kicks in AFL are:

    Drop punt
    Torpedo
    Check-side (also known as banana)
    Dribble
    Place
    Drop

    Source : https://anybodysfan.com/afl-kick-types-guide/

  6. birgerjohansson says

    From Spitting Image:
    Football terms in Italian.
    Il Bastardo: The referee.
    Kicko ballo: A fair tackle when the bastardo isn’t watching.

  7. birgerjohansson says

    Australian golf should have the option to tackle rival golfers, or launch balls directly at them. The players would be wearing protective gear compareable with that used in American Football.

    Baseball: MAD magazine believed the hybrid sport Basebrawl would be a greater TV sport. For instance, it should be allowed to launch a cannon ball just to see the fun when the opposing team tries to catch it with their hands.

  8. chrislawson says

    StevoR and wearsbellsonlegs:

    As someone who does follow Aussie Rules, I can assure you that dropkick is not an insult because of rhyming slang. Calling someone a dropkick is calling them useless, usually after they’ve repeatedly screwed up tasks that should have been straightforward. It belongs in the same rough category as ‘couldn’t organise a piss-up in a brewery.’ (A piss-up is a get-together where everyone gets drunk, for non-Australian readers.) We have plenty of other slang for pricks.

    Explanation: A drop kick is vastly more likely to go wrong than a punt kick. Drop kicks used to be common, but from the 1970s on they fell out of the game because they were much less accurate. You only see it occasionally now when someone makes a mistake or is trying to be lairish — as in ‘see, I can beat you even kicking drop kicks!’ but mostly that behaviour is shortlived because the coach drags the player from the field and yells at them for being unprofessional.

  9. raven says

    There are a lot of words to describe Elon Musk.
    So many it is hard to choose.

    Creep and wacko would work.

    He isn’t even an American except by citizenship.
    Born and raised in South Africa.

    And who let that guy in anyway?
    I keep wondering how much damage Elon Musk can do to our society before we can put him on a plane back to South Africa.

  10. chrislawson says

    birgerjohansson@9 — see also the Goodies episode that parodied bodyline via Rollerball, with a hyperviolent future version of cricket.

  11. chrislawson says

    Oh, and StevoR@7 — there are no place kicks in AFL any more; were written out of the rules nearly 70 years back.

    Anyway, enough on AFL. Suffice to say, getting back on topic, that ‘dropkick’ would also be almost as fitting as ‘dipshit.’

  12. Hemidactylus says

    chrislawson@12
    In junior high The Goodies were more my speed than Monty Python. I loved that show!

  13. Ridana says

    I have a button that says, “Wasn’t raised properly.” I’m thinking Muskrat could wear it better.

    8) @ birgerjohansson: That Italian football terms bit reminds me of Japanese for Dummies [actual phrases]:
    Hello: konnichihi [konnichiwa]
    Goodbye: seeyanara [sayonara]
    Excuse me: sorrymasen [sumimasen]
    Thank you: arigathanks gozaimuch [arigatou gozaimasu]
    Hold on: chotto a minute [chotto]
    What: nani the fuck [nani]
    Knock it off please: yamete kudyastop [yamete kudasai]

  14. cag says

    Recently bought an EV, an Ioniq 5. There were 3 reasons why I bought that one:
    1. It is not a Tesla.
    2. It is not a Tesla.
    3. It is not a Tesla.

  15. stuffin says

    @raven “He isn’t even an American except by citizenship.
    Born and raised in South Africa”.

    Musk and Murdoch (both non-Americans) are doing more damage to America that Russia or China.

  16. birgerjohansson says

    Returning to the weird bastard dipshit party:
    The swing states need wall-to-wall ads calling them out for the weirdness.
    Remind people of how Dump thought the Finns literally clesn up forests the way we clean buildings.
    Also, his belief of what “clean coal” is.

    The predictable way he completrly makes up stories.

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