Trump's defense against the "weird" charges is to insist that his running mate is straight.
Donald Trump appeared to say that his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), isn’t weird because he’s “so straight.”
Trump was speaking at a town hall event in LaCross, Wisconsin, yesterday with former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii when he discussed how the Harris-Walz campaign has been calling Republicans – and especially Vance – “weird.”
“They picked this guy,” Trump said, referring to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), who has been vocal about calling Vance and Trump weird. “He is weird! Right? I’m not weird, he’s weird.”
“No, he’s a weird guy, he’s a weird dude,” Trump continued. “You know, they come up with soundbites, they always have soundbites, and one of the things is that J.D. and I are weird.”
Then Trump defended himself and Vance from the weird charges, calling Vance “so straight” and a “top student.”
“This guy is so straight? J.D. is so… He’s doing a great job, smart, top student, great guy, he’s not weird and I’m not weird. I mean, we’re a lot of things, we’re not weird.”
It's honestly hilarious how badly being called "weird" gets under their skin.
Like, normal people are pretty weird. If someone called me weird, I'd be like "Yeah, true." But these guys are so out there that they feel a need to deny their own weirdness so that people can identify with them. It's just weird, TBH.
This ticket is steeped in a toxicity that wants to be masculine but is not, and a deeply rooted misogyny.
It’s like the quote attributed to Atwood says, that what men fear from women is that they will laugh at them. This “weird” label hits a little too close to that for them to handle.
One of the key features of authoritarian follower personalities is that they're desperate to be normal. Like, they're terrified of the idea that they're not just like everyone else despite the fact that they are big weirdos. People who are afraid of being weird, or who get weirdly judgemental about weirdness, is a big red flag for me, personally.
Yea. Their entire structure of "give me power to fix your problems" quickly falls apart if people start to wonder whether the solutions will be ones they can empathize with or not.
They're sort of operating in this "I am your warrior" framework, making it seem like people are empowering one of their own, themselves, basically, to fix their own problems. That whole thing requires the chosen champion to be "one of them" though.
They honestly have spent their whole lives either wanting to define what is weird and/or associating with a set of people they think get to define what is weird.
It's an obsession with the conservative brain, I think. You could tell who many of these people were when they were in kindergarten or first grade. They could not STAND any kind of deviation from what they (or their parents, etc.) thought was a "normal" thing. So they'd yell taunts at anyone eating "weird" food", or taking up "weird" hobbies, watching "weird" TV/movies, or looking to take up a "weird" employment track, or they went to a "weird" church (or not at all, or - gasp - were going to some other building that was not a xtian church) and so on.
They defined themselves this way. And to have this turned around on them all so suddenly and uniformly. To be fair, people like Seth Meyers have been calling donOLD and friends weird for a very long time. It's just now the Democrats found some people with some goddamn spine and a platform to keep saying it and not apologizing for it. The Republicans ARE very weird. They spend their time obsessing over "murdered babies" (zygotes), where trans people poop, what gay men might be doing in the privacy of their own bedrooms, what religious doctrine other people may or may not follow, and so on. These are very deeply weird obsessions in a FREE country.
Free country means I and anyone else has freedom FROM their weird obsessions, including their little book club. I don't ever have to GAF about what they say their Jehovah/Yahweh/Allah (all same thing) says, because I have freedom FROM religion, just as they have freedom OF religion and can choose to stay in the religion they were likely born into.
It's because that used to be their code word for gay, trans, queer (basically anybody that doesn't fit in their view of society) before they decided that woke worked better.
They've been using weird as a soft-insult for a decades.
Human existence in general is pretty weird. The “normal” state of affairs for humanity is being weird. We’re just all individually weird. So to deny that they’re weird, is actually kind of weird in and of itself.
There is "good weird" and "bad weird". They are specifically being called bad weird. They aren't the weird that is made of odd people, with personality quarks, that make them unusual, eccentric, and possibly interesting. They are fucking creeps.
"I'll never forget the time I convinced myself that I was gay. I was eight or nine, maybe younger, and I stumbled upon a broadcast by some fire-and-brimstone preacher. The man spoke about the evils of homosexuals, how they had infiltrated our society, and how they were all destined for hell absent some serious repenting. At the time, the only thing I knew about gay men was that they preferred men to women. This described me perfectly: I disliked girls, and my best friend in the world was my buddy Bill. Oh no, I'm going to hell."
When he brought up the issue with his grandmother — known to Vance as "Mamaw" — she replied bluntly: "Don't be a fucking idiot, how would you know that you're gay?"
When Vance explained his reasoning, she laughed.
"JD, do you want to suck dicks?" she said, according to the book.
The young Vance, apparently "flabbergasted," said: "Of course not!"
"Then you're not gay. And even if you did want to suck dicks, that would be okay," she replied. "God would still love you."
If "gay" was interpreted as "weird" by young Vance, then honestly he might be hiding some genuinely weird kinks. Like... Dude might actually be a couch fucker.
That said, it’s funny to see how much “weird” gets under their skin.
Not that funny, really. Conservatism is all about defining normality and attacking any deviation from it. "Weird" is the very definition for not normal. It's the antithesis of their meta value. Of course they'd hate it.
In Trump's head, there's a clump of brain cells the size of a grain of rice that's a Markov generator for bullshit. Trump has no interior monologue as we know it, and no thoughts as such. Just a random BS module and a market-testing one, to correct the BS weightings. The rest of the interior landscape is anxiety, self-loathing, greed and, more than anything, complete and utter desolation.
Well yeah, follows the traditional, conservative rules that put men at the top of the hierarchy. These uppity women are just rule-breakers who dont know their place, they'd be much happier if they just shut up and follow our rules.
Also, donOLD doesn't follow any rules and is as crooked as they get, and has been his whole life, so trying to claim that "JD" "Vance" is some kind of morally upright person by FLIP-FLOPPING on his never-donnie position and aligned himself with donnie is quite a stretch.
BTW, I'm so glad that TikTok video of "JD" "Vance" is going viral. Everyone needs to know just how much of a flip-flopper the couchfucker is.
It's funny how well it doesn't work for them to deny it.
Especially when Walz does a good job of spelling out what is so fucking weird about the authoritarian party - it's basically: "mind your own fucking business, weirdo!" Stop obsessing with thinking you get to tell others how to live their lives.
Vance looks like he’s sucked a bit of dick in his life (it’s the guyliner). Plus he was a jarhead and those guys are super gay (i’m a former soldier so i can say this with confidence). /s
People who don’t use gay hook apps simply do not understand. You can hop on and find nothing but “straight” men, or blank profiles which are most assuredly married “straight” men. It can be frustrating if you are looking for a relationship/human beings who are okay with themselves.
We just need a black hat slutty queer to record themselves taking it from Mr. Couchfucker or some sufficiently big name Senator. It’s bound to happen eventually.
People are assuming “straight” is a reference to his sexuality. I just assumed he meant “straight” as in what a criminal says when they’re referring to someone who isn’t breaking the law.
Yeah, this feels like straight and narrow by an old man using old slang. Not that I doubt Trump being a raging homophobe, it's just the other context clues in the sentence.
Ok Donny, you got this. All you have to do is come up with the most natural and least bizarre reason that Vance (ugh!) isn't weird. Just come up with it now and you can say it over and over again for the next two months no problem. Ok ok ok here comes the moment, what are you going to say?
"so straight..."
What happened? I wasn't paying attention. Covfefe. Hamberder.
I'm still flabbergasted at how badly this "weird" label has affected him and Vance. OTOH, my not being able to even conceive of how their minds work is reassuring. But I love how they can't get over it. I hope Tim can come up with another one.
I really won't be shocked when it turns out that James Bowman (JD Vance's real name.. if he won't respect my chosen name I won't respect his) was faking being this fucking weird to tank Trump
It's just eating and eating at them, isn't it? Most especially donOLD.
He had nothing but #BidenSoOLD to run on before, and now he has to fall back on completely lame defenses of himself and the couch-fucker, while trying to attack Kamala by pointing out that she's black, a female, etc...the GOP are such losers for backing this dumbass.
The fact that you have to insist upon his heterosexuality is kinda suspicious. Like I didn't suspect he was gay but.. now I'm sure he only fucks male couches.
I would like to hear more about these other things. Rapists (Bergdorff Goodmans)? Pedophiles (Epstein)? Racists (1973)? Fascists ("day one")? Seems like "weird" might be the least of their issues.
Edgy zoomers that discovered 4chan regularly call me a "tourist normie" for liking certain things (and of course, for not hating minorities), despite me often being in those fandoms from a lot longer, and them going on and on about "degenerates" and such.
No, if anything, you're the "tourist normie" for being the "last straight christian white male in the VTuber fandom", while I'm both bi, and not only were there from the days of Kizuna Ai instead of discovering it from HoloMyth, but also knew some "proto-VTubers" and interacted with them.
Anyone that is "so" straight is like the guy at the gay bar that says he is "so" gay. We all know that guy is either a poser or just really hasn't even figured out their sexuality.
I think trump said straight to mean the opposite of weird, like he's straight and narrow, never makes a mistake, but he really put his foot in his mouth there huh? Well as far as the meme machine goes.