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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Hitting on this new sensation - weird is weird in itself. It’s like a bunch of kindergarteners throwing ‘poopy’ woods around at each other.
BEYOND WEIRD!!! FREAKS!
Someone needs to hand her a straw; all this grasping around for one is sad and worthy of contempt.
The party of trans freaks and Satanism (democrat) is lecturing about weirdness.
They are expert on weirdo’s. Has anyone seen Rachel Levin (cross dresser) or Sam Brinson (drag queen) or Pete Buttigieg and his husband, etc. /spit
I wish someone would make a where’s weirdo meme, leave Vance out but fill it all with freaks from the Biden admin.
Oh, goody. Dumbs want to Make America High School Again.
I’m don’t think it will work. “Weird” just isn’t threatening or dangerous. Rats have been sold this tactic by some consultant who over-thought it.
The origin of “weird” (wyrd) refers to destiny; having the power to control destiny.
Maybe being “weird” is not such a bad thing.
Cat ladies for Kamela are wierd. All their meow are belong to us.
In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is weird.
Normal is the new “weird.”
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