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AmBlue

(3,427 posts)
Tue Aug 13, 2024, 04:55 PM Aug 13

"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

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"Weird" is NOT name-calling. (Original Post) AmBlue Aug 13 OP
No, but apparently it so rough senseandsensibility Aug 13 #1
Yep... Tim Walz is a genius! AmBlue Aug 13 #2
Timing has a *lot* to do with it. unblock Aug 13 #13
It's bullying ;( and it hurts their fee-fees. haele Aug 13 #28
You are right. FalloutShelter Aug 13 #3
I agree - it's an adjective, not a noun. TBF Aug 13 #4
Precisely. AmBlue Aug 13 #7
Weird - is an undisputable statement of fact. magicarpet Aug 13 #18
It's an adjective, can sometimes be a verb. sinkingfeeling Aug 13 #5
It's weird to call war veterans and heroes suckers and losers. MLAA Aug 13 #6
And weird to worry how you'll look... AmBlue Aug 13 #8
OMG, that was the worst! MLAA Aug 13 #27
It's also being a fucking scumbag asshole to say that. Deek1935 Aug 13 #25
Definitely rings true. AmBlue Aug 13 #29
Images speak louder than words.... and this is the weirdest thing I have ever seen on a campaign trail Blue Owl Aug 13 #9
Someone here called it "Milking the Elephant" AmBlue Aug 13 #11
So much weirder than, say, the Howard Dean scream Blue Owl Aug 13 #20
Totally. AmBlue Aug 13 #32
He is vomit inducing. That will never go away. Tadpole Raisin Aug 13 #30
How about "dirtbag fascists"? Can I use THAT to call them names? Please? Think. Again. Aug 13 #10
Fascists, proveably accurate AmBlue Aug 13 #33
Thanks! Think. Again. Aug 13 #35
Recommended. H2O Man Aug 13 #12
What's good for the goose... AmBlue Aug 13 #17
It's not like we're calling Vance a Jerry2144 Aug 13 #14
We also didn't call Vance a Jerry2144 Aug 13 #19
He just wanted sectional healing. nt Tadpole Raisin Aug 13 #31
It's weird to refuse to visit a cemetary The Unmitigated Gall Aug 13 #15
Like Vance I changed my name as an adult and had it changed for me as a child Zeitghost Aug 13 #16
Weird is a word used across so many areas, to label "not normal" sanatanadharma Aug 13 #21
It's weird to tie a 13 year old girl down and rape her Iwasthere Aug 13 #22
Weird to "inspect" naked teenagers AmBlue Aug 13 #26
It's weird to paint yourself orange and wear a bird's nest on your head. LeftyLucie Aug 13 #23
I see your point and agree generally, but it is also highly justified ridicule. They are WEIRD motherfuckers! Deek1935 Aug 13 #24
Truth hurts most. AmBlue Aug 13 #34
It's definitely name calling and that's fine. Self Esteem Aug 13 #36

senseandsensibility

(20,299 posts)
1. No, but apparently it so rough
Tue Aug 13, 2024, 04:56 PM
Aug 13

that it is literally shattering the republican party into a million pieces! Who knew that it would be so easy?

unblock

(54,071 posts)
13. Timing has a *lot* to do with it.
Tue Aug 13, 2024, 05:16 PM
Aug 13

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)
28. It's bullying ;( and it hurts their fee-fees.
Tue Aug 13, 2024, 05:51 PM
Aug 13

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)
3. You are right.
Tue Aug 13, 2024, 05:00 PM
Aug 13

Weird is not a pejorative, it’s a descriptor.
You either for the description or you don’t.
and also

TBF

(34,021 posts)
4. I agree - it's an adjective, not a noun.
Tue Aug 13, 2024, 05:01 PM
Aug 13

It's simply descriptive like orange, elderly, insane, irrational, stupid, etc. There are many adjectives to describe Donald.

magicarpet

(16,186 posts)
18. Weird - is an undisputable statement of fact.
Tue Aug 13, 2024, 05:29 PM
Aug 13

If it bruises your ego,... to damn bad.

Stop being a recalcitrant, obnoxious, malicious Nazi boy.

MLAA

(18,508 posts)
27. OMG, that was the worst!
Tue Aug 13, 2024, 05:51 PM
Aug 13

And remember he couldn’t visit another important site in Normandy because it was drizzling?

AmBlue

(3,427 posts)
29. Definitely rings true.
Tue Aug 13, 2024, 05:58 PM
Aug 13

No question. "Weird," while applicable, certainly doesn't cover the enormity of that one.

Blue Owl

(54,516 posts)
9. Images speak louder than words.... and this is the weirdest thing I have ever seen on a campaign trail
Tue Aug 13, 2024, 05:11 PM
Aug 13

Blue Owl

(54,516 posts)
20. So much weirder than, say, the Howard Dean scream
Tue Aug 13, 2024, 05:33 PM
Aug 13

Yet FF45 gets a free "fail upwards" pass from the M$M yet again...

AmBlue

(3,427 posts)
32. Totally.
Tue Aug 13, 2024, 06:02 PM
Aug 13

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)
30. He is vomit inducing. That will never go away.
Tue Aug 13, 2024, 06:00 PM
Aug 13

Also I’d much rather see Elaine doing her jerking kick dance.

Sorry I compared the two!

H2O Man

(75,255 posts)
12. Recommended.
Tue Aug 13, 2024, 05:15 PM
Aug 13

While I agree with you, I think it can be both name-calling and lots of fun when done properly.

AmBlue

(3,427 posts)
17. What's good for the goose...
Tue Aug 13, 2024, 05:26 PM
Aug 13

But weird just has the added patina of truth, which is why it works so well!!

Jerry2144

(2,589 posts)
14. It's not like we're calling Vance a
Tue Aug 13, 2024, 05:21 PM
Aug 13

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)
19. We also didn't call Vance a
Tue Aug 13, 2024, 05:32 PM
Aug 13

Divan Driller
Or a Cushion Stuffer

So why all the fists about name calling? Weird is an adjective describing behaviors and ideas. It’s not a name like any of those others

The Unmitigated Gall

(4,451 posts)
15. It's weird to refuse to visit a cemetary
Tue Aug 13, 2024, 05:21 PM
Aug 13

Full of America’s fallen soldiers from WW l because you’re afraid the rain will muss tour hair up.

Damned deucedly weird.

Zeitghost

(4,268 posts)
16. Like Vance I changed my name as an adult and had it changed for me as a child
Tue Aug 13, 2024, 05:25 PM
Aug 13

Please tell me why you think I'm weird...

sanatanadharma

(4,067 posts)
21. Weird is a word used across so many areas, to label "not normal"
Tue Aug 13, 2024, 05:42 PM
Aug 13

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)
22. It's weird to tie a 13 year old girl down and rape her
Tue Aug 13, 2024, 05:47 PM
Aug 13

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)
26. Weird to "inspect" naked teenagers
Tue Aug 13, 2024, 05:50 PM
Aug 13

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.

 

Deek1935

(1,055 posts)
24. I see your point and agree generally, but it is also highly justified ridicule. They are WEIRD motherfuckers!
Tue Aug 13, 2024, 05:48 PM
Aug 13

Self Esteem

(1,453 posts)
36. It's definitely name calling and that's fine.
Tue Aug 13, 2024, 06:34 PM
Aug 13

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.

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