Political satire and humor has taken a nasty turn when it comes to Governor Tim Walz, of Minnesota. X users floated a viral rumor that the candidate for Vice President on the Kamal;a Harris ticket once drank so much horse semen that his stomach had to be pumped.
But did it really happen?
After a hectic week at the Democratic National Convention (DNC), the scenario imagines Walz returning to his rural roots, spending time with his horses. The satire escalates when an absurd internet meme emerges, falsely claiming that Walz once drank horse semen, leading to the outlandish assertion that “his stomach had to be pumped.”
There was even a ‘news snippet’ shared.
This meme is a parody of the kind of wild and baseless rumors that often circulate in political circles, particularly in the realm of social media. The meme was created in response to an equally ridiculous and false claim made by Walz, where he supposedly accused J.D. Vance, a Republican political figure, of having a sexual encounter with a couch. The entire exchange is a satire on the absurdity of modern political discourse, where truth can sometimes be stranger than fiction, and where misinformation spreads rapidly, often in the form of memes and jokes that take on a life of their own.