Tim Walz Fixed Your Bicycle
Immediately after Tim Walz was announced as Kamala Harris’s VP pick, the memes started. Most zeroed in on Walz’s potent Midwestern dad energy; he’s the kind of guy who would help a neighbor fix a car, pick you up from the airport, or bring you some soup when you’re sick. For his supporters, Walz is bringing the same kind of energy and hope to the presidential race as Obama did in 2008 and Bernie Sanders did in 2016.
And so of course someone made Tim Walz Fixed Your Bicycle; it’s a collection of things Walz would do for you because he’s just that kinda guy.
Each time you refresh the page, you get a new saying; some of the other ones:
Tim Walz remembers where you parked your car.
Tim Walz has room for a little slice of pie.
Tim Walz is glad to give you a hand with your stroller down those stairs.
Tim Walz will teach you how to parallel park.
The name of the site is a reference to Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle, a single-serving site1 built by Mat Honan in the run-up to the 2008 election that played on Obama’s likability and down-to-Earthness.
Honan even turned the site into a book. A few months later, folks on Twitter started sharing all the wonderful things that would happen when Obama won the Democratic nomination and I collected a bunch of those tweets into this site.
Thus concludes this short episode of Know Your Meme. ✌️
- Fun fact: Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle was the site that inspired me to coin the term “single serving sites”.↩
Discussion 6 comments
This has a serious Chuck Norris Facts vibe to it.
I would buy t-shirts with some of these Tim Walz sayings.
I have heard they are working on that...
Available now!
Ope! Here you go.
That was Mat Honan?? I did not know or totally forgot. Probably the latter.
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