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Trump loyalist Roger Stone is making waves after watching the Harris/Walz rally in Las Vegas, where he made some interesting observations about “Tampon Tim.” Like many Americans, Roger was taken aback by Tim’s rather effeminate behavior on stage. In fact, Roger was so surprised that he quoted Mel Brooks from “Blazing Saddles,” using the word “faggot” to describe Walz. Predictably, this sent the left into a frenzy. But is there some truth to what Roger said?

Well, if you gauge the sentiment online, it’s clear that many people agree with Roger’s assessment. As a matter of fact, many people thought Tim’s overly excited behavior came across as effeminate, forced, and reeked of a cheesy game show contestant.

Tim may have even had a “gay Hitler” vibe.

What’s really curious is that we’ve been told Republicans are supposedly terrified of Tim’s manliness, yet his prancing, “Liberace style,” clearly didn’t align with the media’s earlier “manly” narrative.

Bloomberg:

Since Tuesday, when Vice President Kamala Harris introduced Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate, Republicans have scaled back their initial attacks on Harris’ race and gender. Instead, they have targeted the traditional signifiers of Walz’s masculinity.

It’s hardly surprising. Any liberal Democrat whose resume includes football coach, military veteran and sharp-shooting hunter is a challenge to MAGA mythology, which posits that liberalism and feminism threaten traditional masculinity, so you’d better vote Republican before marauding Amazons take your endangered man card away.

Those traditional manly traits are threatening enough on their own. But if such a marksman, state-title-winning football coach and regular guy can happily play second fiddle to a Black woman running for president, then what does that say about MAGA’s efforts to reverse-engineer the 21st century? After all, if a middle-aged, heterosexual White guy who likes to hunt doesn’t have to live in constant fear of losing status and doesn’t need traditional gender and racial hierarchies to validate his life choices, then what does he need Donald Trump and JD Vance for?

That’s a terrifying question for a Republican ticket that offers little beyond resentment, rage and a promise to restrict the freedom and democratic power of its opponents. It explains why Vance immediately began smearing Walz’s military record, claiming — without evidence, of course — that Walz had “abandoned” his unit when he ran for Congress before the unit was deployed to Iraq.

After watching that prancing dance, I doubt many so-called “toxic men” supporting President Trump would feel “threatened” by Tim’s non-existent “masculinity,” which now brings us to Roger’s latest observation.

Them:

Roger Stone, the far-right operative and former campaign advisor to Donald Trump, is back in the news this week after he used a homophobic slur to describe Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz.

On Monday, August 12, during his show The StoneZONE on the streaming platform Rumble — which also hosts Trump’s self-branded social media network, Truth Social — Stone referred to Walz as a “faggot” with a thin pretext of plausible deniability, should he need it, that he was just quoting the film Blazing Saddles.

“This guy, Tim Walz — saw him at a rally, I mean, I hate to quote Mel Brooks in Blazing Saddles, but he was jumping around like a Kansas City faggot,” Stone told his cohost Troy Smith and guest Caitlin Sinclair of the right-wing advocacy group Turning Point USA. Stone added, pointedly, that Walz was “really, really weird,” an apparent attempt to use Walz’s own language about Republicans against him.

There’s some context to the Blazing Saddles quote, not that it helps Stone’s case. In the film, the line is delivered by Taggart, a corrupt politician’s flunky, while berating his own gang of racists who were themselves tricked into jumping around and singing the minstrel song “Camptown Races.” If Stone wants to cast himself as Taggart, we suppose there’s nothing we can do about it, but it seems like a pretty transparent excuse to drop a slur.

Stone was likely referring to Walz’s recent appearance at a campaign rally in Las Vegas, which right-wing media have worked overtime to frame as freakish, despite nothing out of the ordinary really happening. Far-right propaganda outlet Breitbart called Walz — who, to be clear, simply waved enthusiastically to the crowd — “weirdly giddy” at the event, while U.K. tabloid The Daily Mail referred to Walz as “bizarre.” Stone also falsely accused Vice President Kamala Harris of changing her ethnicity over time, a rising talking point on the right that strongly resembles the racist “birther” conspiracy against former President Barack Obama (of which Stone was a major architect).

Keep in mind that Yahoo News, which claims Tim’s behavior was “nothing out of the ordinary,” is part of the same mainstream media that downplayed Joe Biden’s raging “dementia” as if it were also “nothing out of the ordinary.” And we all know how that turned out, right? Clearly, something’s off with the Kamala/Walz campaign. These are two awkward, unknown, and unpopular figures who were thrust into the spotlight under bizarre circumstances, and we’re supposed to believe they suddenly whipped up a political movement that makes Barack Obama look like an amateur? This plot reeks of the 2020 “81 million votes” scheme, and people are catching on.

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