• Carrolade@lemmy.world
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    lol This is almost as good as getting him to say out loud that he’s never had sexual relations with any living room furniture.

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    “we’re very normal guys”

    definitely something that “normal guys” need to clarify.

    We totally believe you.

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        JD is probably also having some discussion with his wife like

        Honey! Why’d you sign up for all these gawd damned furniture magazines! Don’t you know people are talking! How do we get rid of these! THE LIBERALS ARE GOING TO DESTROY ME! STOP LAUGHING!

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      Hahahahahaha! This is what’s making me laugh so hard about this whole weird campaign.

      “NO NO We’re not weird! See?”

      Does something weird anyway.

      It’s great that this very simple campaign about calling them something as basic as “weird” is shaming them so fucking much.

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        It’s because it gets at a core aspect of their identity. They want so badly to turn back the clock to an imaginary perfect 1950’s (or 1850’s), and since that’s how they think the world ought to be, they behave and live like it is that way. They want doing that to be normal, and it is… but only within the context of their imaginary reality.

        Calling out how weird they are makes that reality fall apart. It makes them see actual reality, with all its complications and messiness, and in that context… they’re fucking grade-A weirdos.

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        There was research done on people who tend to support authoritarians, and one of the big commonalities was the need to see their authoritarianism as normal, as something that most people support and that it’s only a vocal minority that oppose it. This “weird” narrative is proving to be so effective, I think, because it’s shattering that image.

        There are, I think 2 ways to counter being called weird:

        1. Lean into it
        2. Be normal and mock those calling you weird

        They can’t do number 1 because so much of their rhetoric depends on people believing their positions are popular.

        They can’t do 2 because they’ve fallen into the same media silo as their constituents, and are so insular that they’ve detached from what most people see as normal.

        So instead, they’ve chosen to stand there and say “no, I’m not weird, I’m normal” which is not something someone normal does.

        In the same way that publicly announcing “No, I did not fuck that couch” doesn’t lead people to think “oh, this guy doesn’t fuck couches”

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    “Weird” would have been such a nothing insult if they didn’t get so weirdly upset by it

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      It’s very telling about the republican party. Being truthfully called authoritarian, against democracy, etc. doesn’t bother them, but being called “weird” does. It shows how much more they value conformity more than anything else

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      You can’t disparage fascists by telling them they are racist or misogynist. They like it.

      But when you call the weird? It hurts, why?

      Because they think they are the norm, “everyone” thinks like them. Saying they’re weird - as they are - reinforces the fact that they are outside the norm.

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    “We’re normal guys!” says two of the least-normal weirdos in the country

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      We’re just normal everyday billionaire fascists. I don’t get it… We’re just your run of the mill, woman and minority oppressing, gender obsessed, ownership class regular joes!

      You’d find us on line with you to get seated at Atelier Crenn, or Masa. We’re just like you!

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    Vance faulted Walz for not kissing his wife at a recent rally.

    In the meantime, Melania hasn’t shown up for months, and almost none of his family could be bothered to show up at his trial. Meanwhile, Mr Emhoff and Mrs Walz are right there with their spouses the entire way. [Also, I don’t recall seeing anything with Vance and his wife on the campaign trail, but I wish cba to even try to look.]

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      I don’t recall seeing anything with Vance and his wife on the campaign trail

      Maybe she’s upset about the couch and all

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        Rumor has it that every hotel room that Vance has used on the campaign trail has had a couch in it. Coincidence or “hoes in every area code”?

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      She’s been there at least a couple of times that I’ve seen. I know this because there were articles about how Republicans immediately started being racist toward her and their kids.

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    Stalking someone around the country and trying to enter her personal vehicle to confront her about her behavior - totally normal. Women everywhere find that entirely not creepy and aren’t at all worried around that guy.

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    These two weirdos are the farthest thing from normal I have ever seen running for president and vice president.

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    Couch fucking weirdo, and there’s no way Dementia Don the racist rapist with 34 felonies isn’t a really weird guy. I mean look at him, he’s orange and that hair!?!?!?!?! Those comments about his own daughter? Weird.

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      It reminds me of all the posts making fun of Ted Cruz saying things like “I too and a regular earth human who consumes the flesh of animals.”