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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They thought they would get mileage out of THAT.
My God, they are stupid.
All the Pubbies, conservatives were laughing all day long at this silliness.
Keep it up, you morons.
I predict tee shirts and baseball caps.
We wore “Deplorable” and “VRWC” proudly.
“Your candidate Kamala Harris didn’t get a single vote on the primaries. That’s weird.”
“Kamala was the Border Czar, and then suddenly she wasn’t. They even told us she never ea, although she was written up on the media for years with that exact term. That’s weird “
“Harris locked up black men on pot charges, and kept them in jail longer than their sentences. Now she says she supports the black community. She’s kind of weird.”
This is going to be fun... especially since there is nothing weirder than both Obama and Macron marrying dudes and the entire political elite pretending that their wives aren’t men. Now that is weird... right?
“NOBODY votes based on the VP.”
I sure did. Despised McCain; voted for Palin. This time around I’ll vote for Trump; still not sure about Vance. Time will tell, I guess.
“weird.org is available for a few bucks....”
Couldn’t someone on our side have fun with that?
"Weird" is a purely subjective and entirely unfalsifiable accusation.
Since it cannot be refuted, it cannot be part of a logical argument.
Regards,
Or perverse.
“Weird” is a word aimed at women. It’s what “mean girls” would say in middle school to socially ostracize some girl.
Guys would embrace it with pride.
Weird? Weird is Pete Buttigieg breast-feeding a baby. Weird is the trans SG Dr Rachel Levine (it is still an MD hence the honorific). Weird is cross-dressing luggage-stealing Sam Brinton. So who are the weirdos here?!
After Paris, for any progressive to call a normal person weird is just plain weird. It is uber-weird.
Ignore and embrace at same time
It’s easily turned back om the left as a minute on twitter can show.
The narrative phrase or word of the day or week has not come down from the white house so they made one up
Talk about PROJECTION!!! The Democrat Party is made up of FREAKS, DEVIANTS, and WEIRDOS!!
Sorry but looking at their base and policies democrats should be the last ones to label anyone weird.
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