Posted on 07/30/2024 7:44:28 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Last week, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz went viral with his observation that former president and current GOP nominee Donald Trump and his running mate J.D. Vance are “just weird.” After Trump wildly attacked Vice President and leading Democratic candidate Kamala Harris on “Fox and Friends,” the Harris campaign responded with a scathing press release titled “Statement on a 78-Year-Old Criminal’s Fox News Appearance” that included in its bullet-point takeaways: “Trump is old and quite weird?”
Since then the word has become a byword among Harris supporters, used to describe everything from Trump’s continued, and quite baffling, non sequiturs about “the late, great Dr. Hannibal Lecter” to Vance’s openly misogynistic charges that the Democratic Party is run by “childless cat ladies” and that people who do not have biological children are sociopaths.
"Weird" is the new "weak" — and it is driving Republican leaders crazy.
That is telling in itself. Democrats have also used “felon,” “rapist,” “Nazi,” “liar” and “fascist” to describe Trump, which most Republican leaders have simply taken in stride (felon being, of course, irrefutably true).
But “weird”? That conservative politicians and pundits think is childish and mean.
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So why are “weird” and its increasingly popular cousin “creepy” freaking Republicans out in a way that “fascist” or “authoritarian” never did?
Power. “Weird” does not convey a sense of power. Indeed, in its current usage, it is a dismissive term, a labeling of bizarre behavior or beliefs that implies not a threat but a diminishment.
“Weird” is not a shout of outrage or fear, but a shrug of derision and disdain. “Stop being weird” is what one says when another’s actions and attitudes are so ridiculous that it honestly isn’t worth explaining why.
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Ha! The weirdos are calling us weird. Pot meet kettle.
I feel free to go ahead and use the labels now, and I will be describing them.
They are weird. They are creepy. They have nor morals.
The older I get, the more I appreciate “punk”.
I remember John Sasso of the Dukakis campaign cooking up “I’m on your side.” The press breathlessly reported it ad nauseum as the 1988 election wound down. The Democrat media endlessly repeated that the golden populist “I’m on your side” message was changing minds and would result in a record finish for the little Duke. They were horrible even back then.
On election night, they held back state calls until the Bush landslide was apparent. Lou Harris, who had declared a dead heat that morning because of “I’m on your side” talked about gibberish. CNN ran their final “Inside Politics” program and never mentioned the winning candidate.
These people are insanely rabid partisans who do as they are told by their favored side. It’s not a very bright strategy. But if you believe it’s all fixed and a done deal, they could do or say nothing and it wouldn’t matter.
You know personally I’m fine with democrats wasting all their time attacking Vance and ignoring Trump, that is kind of Vance’s job, taking the flak off Trump. And the fact of the matter is, as any honest political pundit will tell you, NOBODY votes based on the VP.
For a long time.
….except a massive number of Palin/McCain voters in 2008.
Dukakis in a tank and Kerry as a human condom.
The propaganda arm of The Democrat Party Organized Crime syndicate is hard at work.
They either don’t realize that they’re trying to pass off propaganda as news, which makes them stupid, or they do realize it which makes them propagandists for criminals.
Lot to be proud of there.
“I don’t care if it’s Democrat propaganda as long as they pay for my lattes and spa treatments.”
I checked - weird.org is available for a few bucks....
Put a sign on the podium: TEXT “WEIRD 2024”
They brought a baseball bat to a gun fight...take it away from them and clobber them with it.
that party of weirdos calling anyone else weird takes some nerve.
Go to a gay pride parade if you want to see weird, and then know that nearly all of them are Democrats.
Dream on LAT faggots.
I cannot believe the Pubbies did exactly the right thing:
Almost all conservative Hosts were discussing the moronic word that ALL the Left Media were repeating:
WEIRD!!!
But when they discussed it, THEY WERE MAKING ALL SORTS OF JOKES ABOUT IT. I was hysterical.
Some would show pics of some of the Left “activities” and were saying the funniest things about it.
I believe THAT is ONE of Alinsky recommendations for the LEFT to do. We turned it around and BLEW IT OUT OF THE WATER.
I am a little happy tonight...guess I’m just WEIRD.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Have they looked in a mirror?
Thx, Jane Long...you saved me the trouble of naming all these weird D MoFos.
Walz was supposedly the ‘genius’ being the ‘weird’ meme which blew up in their faces with every politico obediently following today.
Your photo expo will explode the meme even further tomorrow leaving little doubt who’s weird.
Can you imagine, running a campaign centered on name calling...
They use something vacuous because there’s no policy decision they can defend.
From the people whose mantra is “Let your freak flag fly!” calling others weird seems quite hypocritical.
That’s so ableist of them.
Watch Kamala speak at the podium if you want to see weird and awkward.
Again, with the projection.
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