Tim Walz’s ‘Big Dad Energy’ Gets Buzz Among Progressives on Threads
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As the country learns more about Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate pick, some progressives picked up on a certain kind of vibe from the Midwesterner: Big Dad Energy.
Threads, which was launched by Meta as a direct competitor to Twitter/X, is still a viable platform a little over a year after its launch with 200 million users reported in the beginning of August. While it’s still nowhere near as dominant as Twitter/X, some things are catching on. This week, it’s the “BigDadEnergy” topic tag (the Threads version of a hashtag).
Walz has been making an impression with his homegrown biography — an Army National Guard veteran who went on to serve six terms in Congress, a former high school social studies teacher and football coach, and a governor who pushed for free meals for kids in schools. Add in videos like the one he made with his daughter at a recent Minnesota County Fair, and some were really responding to Walz’s flat-out silly dadness.
And on Threads, “BigDadEnergy” took over:
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Sometimes, it wasn’t even a joke, it was just Walz being Walz:
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But it was the relatable jokes that spread like wildfire, but going by what we’ve learned from this, Walz would have been right there with a fire extinguisher because he keeps two on every floor of the house.
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