Trump Is ‘Weird,’ Vance Is ‘Creepy.’ Finally, the Democrats Start Name-Calling

i find weird and creepy to be less name calling and more fact pointing

Back when Michelle Obama said when they go low, we go high--I told my wife "I really wish that worked in American politics, I really do....but it simply doesn't". My wife disagreed. Because my wife is a mature, kind-hearted Democrat. She thinks you can bring an informational brochure to a bar fight.

Maybe there is a way to de-escalate things and return to more civil "statesmanship" style in our politics. But my guess is that these things follow some kind of up-and-down cycle, and you don't want to be on the side that's lagging.

I think it's missing the point. It's not effective for being name-calling. It's just saying what everyone is already thinking. Like in the 2020 debate when Biden said "Will you just shut up, man?" It was relatable because Trump runs his fucking mouth all the time.
This is the same. It's a relatable feeling - Trump is deeply weird and out of touch. Vance is so creepy people didn't even bother to check if he really wrote about fucking a couch.

I don't like the implications for future political discourse...

but fuck it, for now it's refreshing to see the reactions of surprise by that camp... Did they think that Dems didn't dunk on them "playground style" cuz they couldn't?

Future Presidential debates:

"Shut up you lying little bitch"

"Come make me, fuckface!"

...deploying a bit of verbal jujitsu so delightfully petty it might just work

It's not even petty. It's just true. Republicans, with their obsessions over what's going on in everyone's pants and bedrooms, really are weird and creepy.

I was annoyed at that “when they go low, we go high” rhetoric. No you kick them in the teeth. Politics is a pig wrestling competition and you gotta get dirty.

Don't let Shady Vance go near your couch cushions.

Republicans are disgusting

So, this guy said he wants to bang his daughter back in 2016 and it took you 8 years to settle with “weird”.

Woah, slow down there cowboy!

My only issue with using weird to refer to them is how much I love Weird Al Yankovic...

Fuck it tho.. if weird works to get under the skin of fascistsI don't think it'll hurt AL in the slightest.

Trump is shit. Vance is stupid. Match made in hell. Wierd just aint cuttin it, comrades

They’re both weird and creepy in their own ways. The GOP is like a Petri dish that someone smeared rabid monkey shit on, and we’re all watching it fester and mutate.

Bout damn time we give up this "We go high" bullshit

The primary difference being that the Dems are backing up the name calling with actual policies or things they've done.

Trump is weird bc he constantly says off the wall things, does weird shit, and supports unpopular policies (which are weird).

Vance is creepy because he believes and says super weird shit about women. Like how he believes women have to have kids to have value - that is creepy. If somebody said that on a date, there would not be another date. And how he nevertheless has no problem with childless couches - pretty hypocritical and creepy.

And from the repub side:

Schumer is a "member of Hamas" because.... it is inflamatory

Kamala is "laughing kamala" because.... she laughs sometimes. She is also a "radical democrat socialist" because.... she supports mainstream, popular, dem policies

I think it's less about insulting them, and more a out no longer treating them with the utmost respect. We (and by we I don't just mean lefties) should have called them weird when they called themselves the the tea party, but we handled absolutely insane rhetoric by trying to meet it from a place of thoughtful and respectful academic discussion. It was always the wrong strategy.

That said it could very easily backfire. Going to far would look really childish. I think weird really hits home with how most reasonable people feel about these guys.

Every friggin' (R) are weird and creepy POS.

Can we make a meme referencing the MyPillow guy with Vance's sofa smashing? After that all we'll need is Trump embracing the Turks to get the Ottoman reference in there somehow and we'll have a completely furnished set!

Besides, I've heard that Trump smells kinda yucky.

(If this is more effective to steer away the followers than guilt on 34 points, rape and hush money, then let's roll with it.)

Apparently the only way to put Republicans in check is to strategically sink to their own inate level.

Poetic justice for the "fuck your feelings " crowd.

Name calling like that should work well with the youth vote. Smart. Politics is just a shit throwing contest. The other side will probably follow suit with terms that fit the demonized adjectives popular among the demographics of their base.

Contrary to the prevailing view that youth are rebellious, they always obey the patriarchy behind the scenes, the merchants of "the cool" dictating the popular image to them. Pretty hard to get milage out of calling a non-white woman creepy or weird. On the other hand, it is kind of a reflexive acceptance when those negative predicates are applied to any male over 20. Agreed. I think dicks of any age are weird and gross myself.

But will their POLICIES improve our lives?

fuck us politics.

Non of them ever adress the actual issues.

The declining middle class.

That you are just an industrial war machine that has to constantly be in war.

That you are ruled by wall street.

Seeing that thumbnail for the first time had me thinking "Who's the B movie token Russian guy?"

Adjectives are not nouns.

Democrats have become so right wing they're finally allowed to do name calling.

I fear this is Harris stalling on detailing her platform. Please, don't just bank on your age difference; even though Trump is a weirdo. Will someone run an actual campaign or am I just out of touch here?

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I'm still in the group of... This is childish behavior.

Finally?

It's all they have been doing for 10 years, this is just the latest programming as the others have all been disproven to the masses.

More of this bullshit? My god is this weak. No Republican gives a shit about this, nor does anyone not an already solid democrate.

Regulatory agencies have been captured, scotus is corrupt, women's rights have been taken, the largest industries are enriching a miniscule handful of Americans, fascism is increasingly coming into style and our noble democrats have only just started a new grand strategy of.... name calling?

Forget about getting people fed, using the new immunity ruling, stacking courts, or any serious material change for Americans. We are fucked.

Yes, nearly a decade into "Orange Man Bad" as their sole policy platform, the DNC is just now engaging in name-calling like the GOP 🙄 The paper of record!