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Column: With a single word — 'weird' — Democrats may have found Republicans' kryptonite (barf alert)
LA Times via MSN ^ | July 30, 2024 | Mary McNamara

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.

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: californication; designatedasslamprey; gaslightmary; gaslightmarymcnamara; gaslightmedia; laslimes; latimes; libiotdems; marymcnamara; thegaslightwedia; weird
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Trump would be wise to embrace “weird” like they did Deplorable.

When things like the Olympics Opening Ceremony are “normal” then “weird” is a Badge of Honor.

Better weird than loser. Or incompetent. Or plain boring.

1 posted on 07/30/2024 7:44:28 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: DoodleBob

What a weird article.


2 posted on 07/30/2024 7:45:11 PM PDT by Indy Pendance (Jesus can't get here soon enough!)
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To: Indy Pendance

Pathetic and desperate were the two words I thought of.


3 posted on 07/30/2024 7:46:12 PM PDT by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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To: DoodleBob

Projecting is all they know.


4 posted on 07/30/2024 7:46:47 PM PDT by xoxox
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To: DoodleBob

Just call the lefties “ weird”. They’ll get tired of it in a hurry


5 posted on 07/30/2024 7:46:52 PM PDT by Fido969
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So the Administration that hired a cross dressing kleptomaniac to handle all the nuclear waste produced is calling JD Vance weird?

Do I have that right?

L


6 posted on 07/30/2024 7:46:57 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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Yeah, right. So say the weirdos ...


7 posted on 07/30/2024 7:47:11 PM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: Lurker

Or a president who showered with his 11 year old daughter.


8 posted on 07/30/2024 7:48:50 PM PDT by CA_soon_gone
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To: DoodleBob

“A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, ‘You are mad; you are not like us’”. —St. Anthony the Great


9 posted on 07/30/2024 7:49:23 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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Use “weird” every time you talk to a leftie. Any forum you’re on. Repeat it over and over. Just use it against them like ‘deplorable’


10 posted on 07/30/2024 7:51:56 PM PDT by Indy Pendance (Jesus can't get here soon enough!)
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To: DoodleBob
not weird...


11 posted on 07/30/2024 7:52:00 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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12 posted on 07/30/2024 7:53:57 PM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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I love the weird word.

If they want to go there then lets have it out.

Who will the voters think is the most weird? Butt plug? Or red-blooded Americans?

13 posted on 07/30/2024 7:55:01 PM PDT by politicket
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How is weird a bad thing first they called trump a dictator guess that didn’t work now he’s a weirdo


14 posted on 07/30/2024 7:56:28 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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They think they can win by finding a magic word.

Z lot of leftism is magical thinking.

15 posted on 07/30/2024 7:57:41 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: DoodleBob

Who is freaking out?


16 posted on 07/30/2024 7:58:03 PM PDT by Raycpa
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I read on another site that Iran has interjected itself into our election by joining several social media programs and influencing it through language. The word “weird,” according to what I read, came from an Iran site that spread like wildfire in the US. The word went viral.


17 posted on 07/30/2024 8:01:44 PM PDT by elpadre (y)
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To: DoodleBob

In a word, LOL;-)


18 posted on 07/30/2024 8:05:27 PM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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Goes to show that normal is pretty weird in the democrat’s bizzaro world.


19 posted on 07/30/2024 8:05:44 PM PDT by farmguy ( )
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20 posted on 07/30/2024 8:10:03 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s)
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