The right’s got a new boogeyman, and his name is Tim. With all the time they spent debating whether or not Kamala Harris is black enough to call herself black or too black to be president, I guess they had to start on something else for a while.

Enter Tim Walz and his adorable dog Scout.

No, not the dog that Sarah Sanders’ brother hung at Scout camp, Tim Walz’ actual dog named Scout. Republicans just couldn’t handle all the nice stories about how Tim takes him to the dog park every morning, so they had to pounce on something ridiculous.

Walz posted a picture of himself with a dog at the aforementioned dog park. He captioned it “Couldn’t think of a better way to spend a beautiful fall day than at the dog park. I know Scout enjoyed it.”

Okay, drumroll, please… The dog in the picture was not Scout. That’s right, other dogs exist. Can you imagine Tim Walz ever being in a picture with a dog other than Scout! I mean, Tim’s posted pictures of him with Scout before, so we know what he looks like (the dog, I mean, not Tim; that guy’s right on Wikipedia and stuff).

Some genius picked up on the FRAUD of a picture and immediately called Walz out on his evil deception. How could he be talking about Scout while posting a picture of a dog who clearly ISN’T Scout?!

Man, if you type the word Scout enough times, all dogs are Scout and Scout isn’t even a word anymore. Anyway.

Despite the fact that the man who called out Walz is obviously one of the varying shades of unintelligent, Don Junior’s girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle — bless her heart — was equally taken aback by Walz’ treachery and doggie infidelity. She breathlessly reposted the man’s tweet, adding her own caption:

Wait so Walz is even lying about his dog?

Ruff stuff. https://t.co/cPf5GWkQOO

— Kimberly Guilfoyle (@kimguilfoyle) August 26, 2024

Yes, it is completely clear that Tim Walz is claiming that this STRANGER, this imposter Scout is his dog. You can tell by the way he typed “I know Scout, this specific dog right here that I’m posing with, enjoyed it.”

Just kidding he didn’t say anything like that. In fact, another user on X spent less than one minute searching before finding evidence of the real Scout playing with the dog that Walz was posed with. So I guess Tim was just, you know, at a dog park. Where dogs go.

That’s a thing you might notice before you retweet a now-viral tweet that ALREADY has a community note on it saying that Walz isn’t saying the second dog is Scout, just that his dog enjoyed the park.

Not Kim, though. You’ll never find a woman so utterly committed to being wrong about absolutely everything.

Seriously, though, it was right on Walz’ Instagram.

It took me exactly 45 seconds to go to @Tim_Walz Instagram page and see this is a video of his dog Scout playing with another dog at the dog park. https://t.co/worqW9nAOm pic.twitter.com/wFFGP8Maf8

— xtina (@xtina1229) August 26, 2024

As the “You’re so dumb” comments poured in, Kimberly bravely left the post up. In fact, as of this writing, it’s still up, despite, you know, being completely debunked as a thing in any way, shape, or form.

Other people were less kind. “The dog is real. Your face, on the other hand, is not.” “Calm down, Gargoyle.” “You f*ckin’ spoon.”

It could have been worse. Tim could have been standing there talking about the time he stuck Scout in a dog carrier on the roof of his car — wait, that was somebody else. Well, at least they didn’t demand that Tim Walz hand over the other person’s dog to Mitt Romney. Or to Kristi Noem for dispatch.

Maybe the right shouldn’t talk about dogs at all.