Team Weird
We all know the truth about TFG and his enablers – cruel, hateful, criminal, liars, threat to democracy, and more. But no real descriptor has stuck, at least until now. The term that stuck? Weird. That’s right, weird and it’s derivative, weirdo, is sticking like glue and it’s pissing them off. Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota, got the party kicked off last week on MSNBC calling TFG and Fauxbilly “weird people.” Hillary picked it up on Twitter X with this little jewel: 
Let’s go through the weird list: People without children restricted from voting; people with children get an extra vote per child; government control of women’s menstrual cycle information; a nationwide abortion ban; short of a nationwide ban, pregnant women’s out of state travel should be monitored; jail sentences for doctors who provide reproductive care; jail sentences for women who get abortions; privatize schools; ban and burn “unacceptable books”; end marriage equality; ban medical treatment of transexual individuals; repeal Obamacare; impose Christianity on all Americans; ban Muslims from the country; mass deportations of immigrants; organize a private militia for the president; fire half of the federal employees, put loyalists in charge of all departments; politicize and weaponize the DOJ. It goes on and on, but this is a representative sample.
Republicans have weaponized language for decades, from “you hate the troops” to “death panels”, “death tax”, “pro life”, and many others. It’s nice that Dems have finally been able to turn at least a little of that back on them. The great thing about calling them weird? It’s because they are.
They’ve gone from a bunch of deplorables to a bunch of weirdos that are still deplorable and you can add despicable in case they haven’t got the point.
1And just when Republicans thought they had made weird normal. Surprise!
2You forgot, shoot pet dogs in a rock quarry!
3#Mwedicine Man# says “I forgot to take my medication ………” .
4It’s been a long time since I lived in Austin, but do people still have “Keep Austin Weird” bumper stickers? If so, I think we have a dilemma.
5They are not so much weird As Creepy. Like in get a extra battery for your stun gun Creepy
6While “weird” doesn’t cover all of their characters, It’s a great start. I think it should be combined with rastybob’s suggestion, “creepy.” “Weird and creepy” gets pretty close, since it can’t be mistaken for the good sort of “weird.” “Criminal” needs to be worked in there, somehow.
7Elizabeth:
8There’s a big difference between weird and “so far around the bend they meet themselves coming.”
I’m with rastybob and thatotherjean. Weird doesn’t convey the insistent self-righteousness, obsesssion with sex, and demand to control others’ lives. Creepy conveys that better. “Weird” can just be unusual coincidences; “creepy” is frightening. It’s also the go-to word for young women describing guys stalking them.
Regardless of the actual words, having a simple message and hammering it home is the right thing to do, and the Democrat party has failed at it since 1980. And unlike the Republicans, the messaging is backed by policies that would benefit the US. The Repubs have to use insults and bumper sticker slogans because their only policy is “keep control, and let the wealthy root around in the US treasury”.
9I see his whiteness (orangeness I should say) had a tense interview at a Black journalists conference where he questioned Kamala’s race among other rants. The audience gasped and scoffed. Seriously your lowness, keep it up. You need to provide JD with your new attack ideas so he can repeat them.
10I see another weirdo magat mouthpiece called her “Obama in a skirt.” Yes, keep it up white dudes.
Several stories out there. Even Fux News was aghast and he had to be rescued by his team.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-team-cuts-off-qa-with-black-journalists-as-he-gets-booed-by-audience/
Ya, I hope Kamala gets to skewer him in a debate. Doubt his team will allow him in the same room with her.
11@Steve in Beaverton:
Here’s the whole interview, in it’s entirety. I think it’s spooled up already for you. Rather than read people telling you what took place, why not watch the whole thing for yourself, and draw your own conclusions? It’s worth noting that they were a half hour late getting started, and Trump also has a rally in Harrisburg, PA he had to jet off to.
https://www.rsbnetwork.com/video/live-pres-trump-speaks-at-national-association-of-black-journalists-convention-in-chicago-7-31-24/
I thought he did pretty good, since it was an overtly hostile lead moderator from ABC. Certainly no objectivity there, in the same way Faux News is not objective…
The only thing I would fault Trump for is he whiffed on the “Is Kamalah a dei hire. I mean, objectively, she was. Biden specifically said he was going to be only considering women candidates, and intimated strongly it would be a black woman. So, if you’re a black man, or Hispanic man, Asian non binary, White anything….you expressly were not even going to be considered, no matter what your qualifications or what kind of voters you might attract. It had to be a woman. And his Supreme Court appointee was chosen the same way. It was only going to be a black woman. That’s pretty much the textbook definition of dei. Since we support dei, I don’t see why we’re going to attack people for pointing it out.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/21/politics/joe-biden-four-black-women-vice-president/index.html
12After today when it comes to trumpf and JD, weird is being very kind.
13Here are articles celebrating Kamala as the first Indian-American Senator in the US:
https://fortune.com/2024/07/30/rise-kamala-harris-indian-american-winning-bet-assimilation-paying-off-politics-success/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/fact-check-ap-headlines-called-harris-indian-american-in-2016-black-in-2020/ar-BB1qI7Ux
https://www.latimes.com/projects/how-has-kamala-harris-helped-indian-americans-in-politics/
https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/world/Kamala-Harris-creates-history-wins-U.S.-Senate-seat/article60615872.ece
Apparently Trump wasn’t the only one confused about this issue.
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