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Tim Walz Under Fire for Allegedly Inflating Bag Toss Score at Family BBQ in 1998 (thehardtimes.net)

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[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 62 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Don't give them ideas, HT…

His brother already shared that his "big story" was no one wanted to sit next to Tim on road trips as a child because he used to get car sick.

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The Hard Times

[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Edited. Thanks!

[–] doctortran@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Is that real? That legitimately sounds like an Onion article itself.

[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jeff-walz-tim-walz-brother-carsickness_n_66d8ae04e4b09a3ee66d3568

Walz had implied in his Facebook posts that he had stories suggesting that his younger brother isn’t “the type of character you want making decisions about your future.” But in the segment Wednesday, he admitted to NewsNation that he didn’t have any political bombshells ― just some stomach-turning anecdotes.

“Nobody wanted to sit with him, because he had car sickness and would always throw up on us, that sort of thing,” Walz said. “There’s really nothing else hidden behind there. People are assuming something else. There’s other stories like that, but I think that probably gives you the gist of it.”

[–] doctortran@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

What a weird thing to talk about out loud. That feels like a joke you'd make at Thanksgiving, not publicly in the middle of a vice presidential campaign.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

It’s real. Surprised that didn’t make it to nottheonion right away. Maybe I missed it.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I knew it! Tim Waltz, you're going down.