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My three-year-old grandson just came up to me and asked, “Grandpa, why is Eric Swalwell seriously resurrecting the woke toddler meme long after it has become a national joke?” I was speechless.
A few years ago, it became common for Leftists to claim that their precocious children had revealed the manifest truth of Leftist policies with a simple and pointed question. These takes were so contrived that they became the focus of widespread mockery, and so it took someone as tone deaf as Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Fantasyland) to revive the meme with a straight face. On Monday, he tweeted: “My 4-year-old just FaceTimed to ask what I’m doing to “help the people in Buffalo” and “why did the bad man do this?” Absolutely gutting. This cannot be his normal. It’s time to BAN ASSAULT WEAPONS. #EndGunViolence”
This cannot be normal indeed. My five-year-old granddaughter took a long puff on her cigar, set aside her “GET YOUR ROSARIES OFF MY OVARIES” sign, and said to me: “Swalwell is full of it. His kid doesn’t watch the news, and whenever our Critical Race Theory focus group meets at the nursery school, he stays in the next room watching Mickey.”
I was stunned, but I know how woke Disney is, so I had to wonder if she had a point. Yet after he was inundated with ridicule, Swalwell doubled down in a follow-up tweet: “I love the ‘no 4-year-old would ask this’ takes. You’re in absolute denial if you think our kids aren’t watching the horrors we are allowing.” He included with this a screenshot of a text exchange in which someone, presumably Swalwell himself, asks: “What is he asking for?” The response: “He wants to know if you are going to help the family of the people who died at the supermarket massacre. He’s watching the news.”
Included in this was a photo of a toddler in a dress with a ribbon in his or her hair. Was this Swalwell’s son who had asked him about the Buffalo shooting? He has a son who was born in 2017 and a daughter who was born in 2018, so the photo could be of his daughter, although obviously, the context of the tweet suggests that it is a photo of his news-watching son. Is Swalwell’s son or daughter trans as well as woke on gun control? Does Swalwell use his children as walking billboards for all the Left’s pet fantasies and delusions? We cannot discount the possibility.
Swalwell was clearly stung by all the ridicule. He responded testily to one skeptic by sending the photo of the beribboned toddler again with the note: “Yeah cause I have time to make up s**t my 4 year old says.”
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notnolib says
TIL that President Swalwell has children. I was surprised at the whole schtuping Fang Fang the Chinese spy. I always thought he was gay. How else did he get elected?
Infidel says
Was Swalwell’s 4-year old born to Fang Fang?
gravenimage says
According to Wikipedia–admittedly not always the most reliable source–Swalwell has a son born in 2017, with his second wife who is presumably not a Chinese spy.
Pierre Delecto says
It is instructive that this moral pygmy holds a promising future as an active Democrat.
He embodies the personal qualities they value. He’s one of their champions. Democrats come no finer than this stallion. Unhindered by scruples or self doubt, he is a party guy. They made him, they protect him. And if you don’t like it, move to California and vote.
Like in a democracy. But better. Fortified, in fact.
CogitoErgoSum says
Does his kid watch the business news too? I wonder what he thinks about the stock market and if he’s asked his dad what he’s going to do about inflation and the cost of food and gas? I wonder what he thinks about electric cars … or if he knows he is probably only going to live to be 14, dying a fiery death due to global warming.
tgusa says
Was he having sex with Fang Bang the chinese spy while his wife was pregnant? Probably. Eric is the kind of creep that drove me out of the state where I grew up and spent most of my adult life. I wont suffer his and his constituents low standards. Its probably not nice but I do wish him and his voters the very very worst.
I was changing my Nieces baby’s diaper the other day and all of a sudden the boy looked up at me and asked, why are gas prices so high Unc? I said, Biden and democrats. He said, oh, president potato-head has struck again?
gravenimage says
🙂
somehistory says
why do these idiots want people to believe that their kids are so much smarter than they are, able to ask to ask questions and expect answers? Making stuff up just exposes further just how stupid they really are.
gravenimage says
Yes, it’s ridiculous. This is a secular version of the “out of the mouths of babes” meme. Never mind that even smart kids just don’t talk and think like this. I always cringe when I see kids under high school age carrying political signs of any stripe–this is just manipulation by parents.
somehistory says
I feel bad for kids in families like that. they don’t stand much chance of being normal, thinking normal and reasoning things out.
gravenimage says
Eric Swalwell’s Four-Year-Old Son Hates You. Here’s Why.
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At best this is utter twaddle; at worst child abuse. Grimly not uncommon claims that children are all hard-core Leftists at birth, though. No wonder this has become a joke; it deserves to be.
tgusa says
Eric is a authoritarian leftist (ban assault weapons, we have nukes) just like the shooter stated he was in his letter to the editor of some authoritarian leftist rag. So I guess Eric’s son hates his dad as well. I love the smell of schadenfreude in the morning.
In many cases an attacker will come at you with what the left calls an assault weapon. That’s why I call what the left calls an assault weapon an anti-assault weapon weapon.
James Lincoln says
It could be argued that bringing one’s child up as a “far left” Democrat of today is child abuse.
OLD GUY says
My 4 year old son just FaceTimed me? What BULLSHIT. Swalwell will say anything to get political attention, hell he might even lie to us. There are those who should NOT be parents.