So I guess the new strategy is to just call Trump “weird”? pic.twitter.com/kBHlCiYXUv
— Russell Brand (@rustyrockets) July 30, 2024
The “weird” long cut
Apparently, the whole “Donald Trump is a fascist trying to destroy democracy” bit was getting kind of exhausting and everyone hated it, so the Democrats have done a switcheroo narrative with their switcheroo candidate: instead of calling Trump a fascist Hitler figure, they are saying he is “weird.”
This narrative was seeded by Minnesota governor Tim Walz, who is a potential VP pick for Kamala.
Or maybe this Kamala campaign email is where it came from.
Kamala Harris calls Trump “old and quite weird” in new campaign email.
Sold ✅ pic.twitter.com/sPhMuLhJQb
— Casey (she/her) (@MamaSissieSays) July 25, 2024
Regardless of where it first popped up, it is clearly organized, because now everyone is saying it.
JD Pritzker, the Jewish governor of Illinois whose family is behind the child tranny movement, has also been pushing the “weird” narrative, and is even using the fake “sex with a sofa” meme about “JD Vance.”
IL Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the bizarre past few days for the Trump-Vance ticket:
“There are a lot of weird, strange things coming out of both the Republican nominee and the vice-presidential nominee … Donald Trump’s fear of sharks … talk about couches and dolphins…” pic.twitter.com/lRtXfpC3Jn
— Heartland Signal (@HeartlandSignal) July 29, 2024
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) says JD Vance has had the “worst [VP] launch since Sarah Palin”:
“Donald Trump seems to be drifting away from his own nominee because he’s had so many weird views … He’s been just terrible on the stump. pic.twitter.com/2mHHqtahc7
— Heartland Signal (@HeartlandSignal) July 24, 2024
This “weird” bit is popping up everywhere like any good organized political narrative.
It’s all in the media.
Social media is being plastered with it.
The Trump team is of course responding with the obvious – “I’m not weird, you’re weird.”
“JD Vance is weird” – Team Kamala Harris pic.twitter.com/avMgy4Kp8M
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 28, 2024
Trump himself just responded by saying Kamala is weird.
The move to “weird” is itself weird.
Some of the attacks are probably valid.
RNC Chair Lara Trump filming herself drinking wine while her kid cries was pretty weird. pic.twitter.com/PT202OYJeR
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 30, 2024
Of course, everyone is a bit “weird.”
In my life experience, weird people were always more interesting. Some guy who had sex with a couch is probably going to be more interesting to hang out with than someone who hasn’t done that, which is why I said it would have been better if “JD Vance” actually did have sex with a couch.
The Democrats are more “weird” in a negative sense, with the child gays and other deviant sexual behavior.
But whatever.
Some people are saying that the “assassination attempt” (alleged) is a reason for the narrative switch. They are claiming that calling Trump a Hitler-fascist was too extreme and the kind of thing that leads to political violence, so they are dialing it back.
I don’t really think that’s the case. It seems more likely that this “Trump is a fascist destroying our democracy” talk just got tiresome and people thought it was dumb, and obviously with getting a new candidate, they’re going to change the messaging some, and “these people are weird” is probably a much better narrative than this “these people are Hitler” stuff.
Obviously, switching from “Hitler” to “just sorta weird” is a pretty big shift, but so was switching from Biden to Kamala.
What it does do is remove some of the urgency that the Democrats were so married to. They said before, during, and after Trump’s presidency that he is an existential threat, different from any other candidate in history, that every election is the most important election ever because Trump will destroy everything. Switching from that to “weird” definitely turns down the temperature some, no?
“He’s not just evil – he’s also weird” doesn’t really work.
This Doesn’t Even Matter
Sometimes I don’t even know if I should bother reporting on stuff like this. I would rather just complain about women. But I feel like I’m somewhat obligated to just cover “whatever is in the news” so that people know what people are talking about, and have some kind of angle on it.
After all, we all have to go around talking to people in real life and giving opinions on things.
However, I don’t think slogans will change the outcome of the election. It seems to me that the Israel issue will be the deciding factor, and it seems to me that Trump is the Israel candidate.
What we know from 2020 is that elections are not decided by how many votes a candidate gets.
Addendum
While Team Kamala has switched to “weird,” Team Trump has switched to “don’t vote for Kamala or she’ll put all the blacks in prison.”
The inverse of that is “vote for Trump and he’ll release all the black criminals onto the streets.”
The reason that Kamala, when she was a cop, was putting so many blacks in prison is not that she hates black people (although she probably does), but because regardless of party, locking up black criminals has always been a popular policy.
People are afraid of black criminals and they don’t like they on the streets.
“I’ll flood the streets with blacks” is not a good campaign slogan.