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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Weird" is NOT name-calling.
It is TRUTH-TELLING.
It's weird to change your name multiple times.
It's weird to bury your ex-wife in a nearly unmarked grave on your golf course after she mysteriously falls down a staircase.
It's weird to be sexually attracted to your own daughter.
It's weird to be obsessed with your fellow Americans' menstrual cycles.
It's weird to want your Vice President hanged.
It's weird to think you have the right to force women to give birth against their will.
It's weird to want to strip Americans' of their rights.
It's weird to be the principal of multiple failed businesses, a sexual predator, and compulsive liar, yet hold yourself up as worthy of the Presidency.
Just to name a few.
All of this is way more than just weird, but weird definitely applies. Need I go on?
Please feel free to add your own
senseandsensibility
(20,299 posts)that it is literally shattering the republican party into a million pieces! Who knew that it would be so easy?
AmBlue
(3,427 posts)And definitely the right man for the job.
unblock
(54,071 posts)People are finally ready to hear the obvious truth.
They've had enough of Donnie and his lies and hate and bizarre stupidity and ego and criminality and nepotism and despotism and dictatorial aspirations.
Many people have thrown many negative affective at Donnie for over a decade, I'm quite sure "weird" was among them. But people weren't ready to listen.
Now he's just a formulaic tv show that's long past its peak and it's time to shut it down and go into syndication.
Now, finally, people will listen when we say he's weird.
haele
(13,379 posts)I mean, big ol' MAGA men and women with their obnoxiously huge truck flags, red hats and their "Trump - F*** your Feelings" tees are just bawling their eyes out, you old meanies...
Haele
FalloutShelter
(12,688 posts)Weird is not a pejorative, its a descriptor.
You either for the description or you dont.
and also
TBF
(34,021 posts)It's simply descriptive like orange, elderly, insane, irrational, stupid, etc. There are many adjectives to describe Donald.
The only question is whether it's an accurate descriptor. Weird is accurate.
magicarpet
(16,186 posts)If it bruises your ego,... to damn bad.
Stop being a recalcitrant, obnoxious, malicious Nazi boy.
sinkingfeeling
(52,934 posts)MLAA
(18,508 posts)AmBlue
(3,427 posts)...next to a Veteran who lost his legs in a war.
MLAA
(18,508 posts)And remember he couldnt visit another important site in Normandy because it was drizzling?
Deek1935
(1,055 posts)AmBlue
(3,427 posts)No question. "Weird," while applicable, certainly doesn't cover the enormity of that one.
Blue Owl
(54,516 posts)AmBlue
(3,427 posts)And definitely weird!!
Blue Owl
(54,516 posts)Yet FF45 gets a free "fail upwards" pass from the M$M yet again...
The M$M are working hard to earn the descriptor IRRELEVANT.
I'm loving how Kamala doesn't seem the least bit in a hurry to sit down to be interviewed by those lazy jackals.
Tadpole Raisin
(1,379 posts)Also Id much rather see Elaine doing her jerking kick dance.
Sorry I compared the two!
Think. Again.
(17,201 posts)AmBlue
(3,427 posts)The dirtbag part is up to you. I say go for it!!
Think. Again.
(17,201 posts)H2O Man
(75,255 posts)While I agree with you, I think it can be both name-calling and lots of fun when done properly.
AmBlue
(3,427 posts)But weird just has the added patina of truth, which is why it works so well!!
Jerry2144
(2,589 posts)Heterosectional
Couch Vance
A Sectional Predator
Upholstery Plasterer
Love Seat Violator
Or any other names derived from the alleged, but not denied by him, proclivities he allegedly takes with his Lay-Z Boy
Jerry2144
(2,589 posts)Divan Driller
Or a Cushion Stuffer
So why all the fists about name calling? Weird is an adjective describing behaviors and ideas. Its not a name like any of those others
Tadpole Raisin
(1,379 posts)The Unmitigated Gall
(4,451 posts)Full of Americas fallen soldiers from WW l because youre afraid the rain will muss tour hair up.
Damned deucedly weird.
Zeitghost
(4,268 posts)Please tell me why you think I'm weird...
sanatanadharma
(4,067 posts)Whatever the measure of normal be, to be normal is to not be weird.
1000 year floods in Vermont, weird.
The Messiah arrives, weird.
Theologies say God picks winners and losers from among God's 'all-lives-have-equal-value' must-be-born, weird.
In the land of freepers, for example, there exist those among the weird to us, who are weird to them as well.
Iwasthere
(3,369 posts)Actually that more than weird, it's downright sick , twisted and criminal. It's not out there enough. I still hear people say, "that's not true". Then there's the two 12 year olds, also swept away
AmBlue
(3,427 posts)Just because you own the Miss Teen USA pageant, and you can get away with it.
So much sicker than weird too, as in your example.
LeftyLucie
(35 posts)Deek1935
(1,055 posts)AmBlue
(3,427 posts)Obviously. As they say, a hit dog hollers!!
Self Esteem
(1,453 posts)Weird is subjective. What you find weird, someone else might find normal. The goth kids at my high school were insulted for being weird.
It's definitely a pejorative. But that's okay. We don't need to be nice to weird people.