This week, we learn that the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States is bringing "America's Dad" to her first interview.
I took that screenshot at Axios.
August 28, 2024
Last June, we learned of a study that found that 25% of Gen Z job applicants brought a parent along with them to a job interview.
See "So what if Gen Z applicants bring their parents to a job interview?" (L.A. Times).
If you're at all skeptical about whether Tim Walz has been presented to us as America's Dad or you just want to experience some good, old fashioned sad laughing watch this:
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I don't know why people infantilize Gen Z. They're considerably younger than I am, but there are more than enough who can manage their businesses, join the military, and take back the country. I'm surprised the ones who made it through the pandemic haven't started slitting throats.
Then again, the establishment press loves articles for which the only response is "okay boomer."
@doctrev Thanks for inspiring me to boldface the point of this post!
Let's remind ourselves of what we've seen recently on this blog: KH's actual father:
“My dear departed grandmothers...as well as my deceased parents, must be turning in their grave right now to see their family’s name, reputation and proud Jamaican identity being connected, in any way, jokingly or not with the fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking joy seeker and in the pursuit of identity politics,” he wrote. “Speaking for myself and my immediate Jamaican family, we wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from this travesty,” he added.
Notable word in the professor's essay: joy.
I wanted to watch video, but Facebook demands the ability to track everything else I do in order to watch it.
Why does the potential first female President need a bicycle, err man, to attend her first interview as a candidate for President in the general election? And yeah, Walz is portrayed as the patriarchal leader we all need. I thought these people destroyed classical liberalism, but now they mock feminism and progressivism.
The 25% figure is hard to believe. I've also never met a Gen Z person who is afraid to order food in a restaurant. I'm sure these things happen sometimes and that they happen at all is astonishing, but still, 25%?
Do you think Daddy "Stolen Valor" Walz will yank Kamala's hand real hard to make sure she sits in the correct chair?
I get a real creepy vibe from Tim Walz. He's so fake over the top. Just like Kamala's cackle.
That woman's Tim Walz-trapping video is a great spoof. This LA Times parents-at-interview article is a spoof too, right? Right?
Is she gonna lipsynch Tammy's "Stand By Your Man" for an encore?
I don't blame her for bringing Tim. It's CNN! They could ask her to spell her name!
One could only speculate what wonders we'd see if Zappa were still alive!
The normal way to respect the writer is to put their direct words in quotes, Professor. Is that a quote? But if a 59-year old woman needs a minder to keep her from humiliating herself on friendly TV, she has zero business in public office, and that has zero to do with much younger people.
As seen in almost all commercials today, a woman of color needs a white man.
My interactions with younger people have been pleasant. I’m not seeing this snowflake stuff first hand. Sounds like it’s a small percentage of 16-29 year olds (or whatever the Gen Z age range is). I will say I know too many parents who hover and try to control outcomes for their kids, mostly moms.. But their kids are alright
This interview is going to be Jeeves & Wooster. Maybe Lewis & Martin. George & Gracie.
Get with it, ladies!
https://x.com/langmanvince/status/1828588973662372310/mediaviewer
CNN should have a hotline call in during the interview so you can call in and tell Tampon Tim you saw your neighbor not wearing a mask.
I'm at a loss to even guess how this is going to come across, even given CNN's willingness to prostrate themselves and be completely humiliated on their own network. My guess is that anybody watching that's a diabetic, should probably have an insulin shot ready.
Not to mention, a bucket.
America's dads are universally depicted in pop culture as idiots.
I still can't quite believe this hasn't been pointed out in regards to the Walz PR.
Of course, the same people demeaning dads are supporting the Dem ticket.
A lot of Democrats are seriously pissed with CNN for driving Biden out of the race. A real tongue bath interview might salvage their reputation, but at the cost of real mockery.
The kids are all right. People love to believe the worst.
We all knowed Kamala Harris has Daddy issues. Coach Walz is acting as her doula helping birth her presidency
She could be the first female President of the United States, and she can’t even do a friendly interview without having a man around to support her. Is that what America’s feminists want for the first female President?
I see that Harris now supports building the rest of the border wall, after 3 1/2 years ignoring the border despite being the administration’s “point person’ for border issues. In 2019 she cosponsored the Zero-Emission Vehicles Act, mandating zero emission (meaning “electric”) vehicles. Today she s trying to claim that it’s a lie that she ever supported an EV mandate. She was opposed to fracking but now she’s for it. She now opposes taxing tips. Really, anymore plagiarizing Trump’s policy positions and his campaign will have to send her a MAGA hat
She’s dumb enough to wear it.
First time I got this notice on one of your links: "Do you want to allow “facebook.com” to use cookies and website data while browsing “althouse.blogspot.com”?"
The problem for Kamalamadingbat is that if you bring two 95 IQ people to an interview the combined IQ is less than 95. This is Yancey's Law on IQ.
Wait-that was supposed to be a positive message for Awaltz?
Homer Walz.
aren't they the same age,
Will it be Wayland Flowers and Madam, or Willie Tyler and Lester?
I expect his role will be to jump in and tell everyone "what she means is...".
"Say goodnight, Kamala"
"Good night, Kamala."
Kamquat will do what she gotta do…
This makes her look weak. Very weak.
No, they were all funny. The interview is going to be extremely lame and stupid. More frightening that funny.
Harris and Walz are the same age (~60) and are both Boomers. The campaign's use of him as the "dad" in their relationship is creepy.
Slow news day
We don’t believe a survey that says 25 pct of gen z take their parents to a job interview, but we believe in a survey that says Kamala is 1.5 pct more popular than Trump. Even if the mean moe is 3 pct.
“She really is a couple of days away from saying that she's never been vice president.” - Charles C.W. Cooke
https://x.com/ambermarieduke/status/1828486757727322342
Walz is going because Harris is a giggling idiot who needs someone there to hold her hand. As if CNN is going to ask any tough questions or leave in embarrassing answers. I wonder how many takes on some of these responses CNN will allow?
Or worse, they could ask her to pronounce it.
"As if CNN is going to ask any tough questions or leave in embarrassing answers."
They'll be yes/no questions and they'll be given to someone to review before the interview so that Kammie can be provided with the correct answers.
Walz and Harris were both born in 1964 (this is the first election I'm aware of where the majority of major party candidates are younger than I am)
By Strauss-Howe reckoning they are Gen X (as am I, born 1962), not Boomer and even by other standards they are the very last Boomer year.
Keep in mind that very little of Gen Z is actually near adulthood.
Gen X born 1960-1980
Gen Y aka Millennials born 1980-200
Gen Z born 2000-2020
I think father/daughter is the wrong paradigm. I'm thinking something more like Burns & Allen or Mary & Mr. Grant. Well, the latter might be tough to pull off. I don't think Kamala has Mary Tyler Moore's likability. Maybe a variant on the Lucy/Desi dynamic. Walz shouldn't affect a Cuban accent. That would be racist, but maybe he could use a kind of Fargo accent. Then when Kamala does something really daffy he could threaten to put her over his knee and spank her. He shouldn't actually do it though. That might cause some loss among the female voters, but just the threat would show that this is an adult, no nonsense administration.
Is she going to bring Walz to the debate too?
Kumtwat
I replaced the Facebook video with YouTube video (of the same "Daily Show" segment). Thanks for the heads-up about the badness of Facebook video.
That link broke for me, without the mediaviewer at the end it worked.
https://x.com/langmanvince/status/1828588973662372310/
Tim Walz has some big shoes to fill if he wants to be "Americas Dad". Remember these dads?
Danny Thomas - Make Room for Daddy
Ward Cleaver - Leave It To Beaver
Ozzie Nelson - The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
Robert Young - Father Knows Best
Brian Keith - Family Affair
Michael Landon - Little House On The Prairie
Chuck Conner - The Rifleman
Just to name a few.
"The normal way to respect the writer is to put their direct words in quotes, Professor. Is that a quote?"
You think I appropriated someone else's words and failed to name them? The hell! I would never do that. What are you even talking about?!
If you're talking about putting "America's Dad" in quotes. Those are scare quotes. He's not literally our dad. It's an epithet that was bandied about for the last few weeks. Is epithet denialism extending to "America's Dad" now (as it did for "Border Czar")?
Walz is Jeeves? Jeeves is smart, knows everything, and is always right. Walz is a frickin' Commie who shoots paintballs at people for being out on their porch.
who;s the straight man, see burns and allen
My mistake. I apologize.
It might be the Three Stooges. Dana Bash is Moe. Kamala is Larry. And Walz is Curly.
Most generational measurements class the Baby Boomers as being born 1946-1964. I'll grant you that Harris and Walz barely made the cut, but they are Boomers.
What did the Howard brothers and Larry Fine ever do to you?!?
The girl in the Daily Show clip is clearly mildly retarded, so it's a surprise that Walz didn't show up to yank her by the arm.
its a prerequisite for employment there,
Well...I mean, it's not like they're going to actually let her make decisions. She's Johnny Bravo- she fits the suit! Ergo, bring your dad to work day on CNN must be okay...
The Politico article on this "interview" somehow manages to leave out the fact that it won't be live.
Point of parliamentary procedure! Boomers don't go beyond 1960, only because I'm also a '62 and would rather die than be associated with Boomers.
The plus is she’s starting the interview circuit. The minus is, given this particular scenario, we won’t really know if she can handle the job. As Van Jones said, “the Presidency is a speaking role.” She’s gotta be able to do it well, at a minimum. The crazy thing is we already know she can’t speak well, so what are we really watching for? See if she’s improved enough after all this time?
Her basic problem is a lack of understanding of how things in general actually work. She thinks she can just make up a policy position and it makes total sense. So without coherent policies, she’s really got nothing of value to say.
People born in the early 1960s are Generation Jones. Our resentments are our strength. Not seeing much of that in Harris and Walz, though. The Boomers can have those two.
The media is trying to sell that fish!
Imagine it's the August of 2016: Hillary! is giving her first interview since clinching the nomination and she brings Tim Kaine along to share the moment.
Bill Cosby - The Cosby Show
And the left is acting like all of this is normal. Joyful, even.
Ha ha! I feel your pain, as a '61 (me and Barack).
That's all you got? Really?
Better than trying to defend the indefensible, I suppose. But that's never stopped you before.
It has to be…
That link broke me up, NT Dave!
"Idiocracy" (2006) becomes more of a prophetic documentary every day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clYwX8Z43zg
The smartphone is quite literally causing an outcome similar to the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Game":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is12anYx2Qs
Put down the phone or you will become the phone. Every single dystopian science fiction plot is coming true. Every single plot.
Harris is such a weak lightweight. Pathetic.
...think we had one mom show up. Neither of them were hired...
What's the over/under of internal edits per minute of Kamala answers to questions? 10? 12?
Finally got to see it. A bit overdone but funny enough. The funniest part was the reporter standing in front of Tim Walz while Walz ghosts him. I can't imagine the reporters of the 20th Century getting behind that behavior, but here we are today.
Thank you!
Let me get this straight, the first black woman to serve an elected position in the White House needs a white man to support her during interviews?
Sorry Kate - they’re all yours
We already know what happens when you ask Kamala questions for which she has not been prepped. She goes into word salad, starts cackling, and/or proves to be mostly, if not completely, ignorant of the topic. Her zinger against Biden in the debates just tells you how predictable Biden is such that they could prepare her for that moment.
Walz is actually competent speaking to the public. He lies constantly, especially about his bio, but he understands how to answer questions like a politician. Occasionally his mean side slips though. He's not a nice person.
Pay no attention to the Walz behind the curtain!
Kamala is the understudy who has been called up to play the President on TV, due to the previous actor's indisposition. She is a bit rusty at reading the lines, and certainly lacks stage presence, not to mention gravitas. The management could have done a better job of casting the role, and the Writer's have a job on their hands making her believable.
Walz is America's dad, Kamala is America's Mamala, Obama was America's boy-friend and Hillary was America's bitter x-wife and her mother all rolled into one.
Enough with the nepotism already, America.
that "dude" aint my dad
It is like she is tethered to Walz.
You left out Elizabeth Warren, America's mother-in-law.
America’s dad vs. its demented, abusive grandpa.
Mommy and Daddy government.
Here's a great example of it... in action.
Don't ask questions, racist...!
Do 25% of Gen Z's even have parents...?
How many of the 25% are under the age of 18? Seems important to know before we get alarmed. I certainly don't think its unreasonable for a parent to drive a HS student to a job interview. My son is Gen Z. We had to drive him to his first job interview last year because he was fifteen years old.
Walz will be doing a live translation to Mandarin.
Corruptocrats do what they need to do - to secure their "Democracy"
Tim who??
Is Walz’ role her protector or her foil? Is he there to buttress her or to make her look good by comparison?
I expect the interview will be some version of the skit they did already where Walz pretended he doesn't eat anything spicy because he's white. They'll sit around a table and just tease each other good naturedly and laugh and laugh. It'll have the vibe of an old married couple. I wouldn't be surprised if they were on a set designed to look like America's kitchen table.
Then Dana will ask a scary question about Trump and Walz will scowl and furrow his brow and warn her darkly about the danger we're all in and tell us what he learned about dictators during his time in the military. Dana will nod soberly all the while. Then Kamala will come out with a laugh line insult belittling Trump and they'll all laugh and laugh some more.
Waltz is Kamala's training wheels.
FWBuff ... if you go purely by the dates of the Baby Bulge after WWII you get those dates, however turning 16 in 1972 was a very different experience from turning 16 in 1976. A few years can make a big difference in life experiences which is what I think we should be looking for in generational divisions (within the normal parameters of the human life cycle)
okay, i dug through the archives, and read the survey.
It's NOT %25 bring parents with to interviews..
It's %25 said they'd brought their parents to AN interview (in the last year)
As people here have pointed out; gen Z'ers are YOUNG.. REALLY Young
I wonder how many meant: "my mom DROVE ME to an interview (because i don't drive).
No data (that i saw) on parent being AT the interview.. Just TO the interview..
On The Other Hand.. Back 18 years ago, when i was dating a professor (adjunct at that time, then asst, then asoc), she called me from San Marcos Texas (go Bobcats!) to tell me in STUNNED DISBELIEF; that one of her student's PARENT had called her to complain about the grade her daughter had received (on an assignment! not even a final grade).
Back then, it staggered her, and wanted me to explain what sort of people these kids were (the professor was born in '80)..
today is Aug 28th, 2024..
on THIS POINT.. I agree with DD Driver
That was part of my comment above. Once the 'Boomer' identity became the rage people got the idea you can salami-slice the population into any sort of age bracket and call it a 'generation'. "Gen Z" got that monicker because 'Gen X' began about 60 years ago or roughly three generations ago (X, Y aka Millennials, Z)
Ace at AofSHQ had a running gag of people 'not positioning Harris for success'. Looks like Walz is the next one in the box.
Joe Biden isn’t running anymore, so you can leave him out of it.
The Babylon Bee
@TheBabylonBee : "Strong, Capable Woman Asks Man To Come With Her To Job Interview In Case They Ask Any Hard Questions" - Link to BB
“ Bill Cosby”
And he was that way in real life too. My wife knew them when he was playing at the Hilton in Las Vegas. Way back when his 5 kids were little. He brought the entire family along. Well behaved kids. She would sneak them through the flower shop in the hotel, to avoid the paparazzi. And he and his wife would invite her up to their suite for champagne.
Good point! We were more Bee Gees than Beatles.
Not being able to drive makes sense. Know some Gen Zs like that. The absurdity is that in suburbia, that means that they need someone to drive them around - parents, siblings, etc.
I know that I wouldn’t hire anyone who actually brought a parent in to a job interview. I would worry about hearing from that parent, if anything negative ever happened with their precious kid. Bad review? Lower than expected raise? Problems with other employees? No thanks.
“Tim who??”
Timmy Tampon! For the tampons he put in boys’ bathrooms.
That video was terrible. The actress was terrible, the script was terrible, there was no progression, no surprises, nothing that would make it register as "funny".
I love Megyn Kelly's descriptor "her emotional support Governor". That said, not only is it CNN, Dana Bash (LoL) but, recorded and, we all know it, edited.
Joe Biden couldn't string two sentences together in response to a question.
There's no reason why Kackula will have to do so.
The last "America's Dad" turned out to be a serial rapist. Maybe wanna pick a different title. How about "Fat Old Communist"?
America's last "America's Dad" was Bill Cosby, the serial rapist. Want to rethink that?
Years ago a new hire for my wife's staff had "Mom" show up on the first day of work. She wanted to know what the plans were to advance her little boy's career. My wife gave a generic tools to excel, mentoring and opportunities to grow.
And she did (she's a much better manager than I was). He was actually smart and advanced quickly.
A few years later the guy was "allowed to resign". Once he reached the point of working independently he disobeyed direct orders and misused his position for kickbacks.
It's a Brave New 1984: Censorship and Soma
America’s Dad?
So Walz is really Stan Smith, who is a CIA agent - or more likely whatever the name is of the equivalent Chinese agency is? I could totally see him having an alien in his house, though.
My American Dad wouldn't lie about deploying to a war zone in order to undermine my right to own a common firearm.
And he wouldn't bug out from his military commitment to run for office.
GEEZ, those two are unscrupulous used car salespeople.
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