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I’m a ‘Weird’ Sister from Portland, Oregon
It’s hip to be weird, but not always
If you’re not living under a rock, you know the Harris campaign strategy of calling DJT and his oddly-chosen running mate JD Vance “weird.” It’s a strategy that’s apparently working.
In an article by Meg Kinnard with the Associated Press, she discusses the W word to describe the Republican duo. Harris supporters use it with “gusto,” she notes.
In Kinnard’s article, the use of “weird” is a smart political strategy, according to David Karpf:
“I don’t know who came up with the message, but I salute them,” said David Karpf, a strategic communication professor at George Washington University.
If you watch CNN for any period of time, you’ll hear “weird” sprinkled around like talcum on a baby’s butt (or flea powder on a cat, depending on your gender?).
It’s now a campaign strategy. As much as I hear “weird” used, it could be a drinking game. Turn on any network news, and settle in with your friends!
There is truth to Trump and JD Vance being outside of the norm, which is one definition of weird. And they say things far outside.
Today’s “weird” event on the “CNN NewsNight (July 30) with Abby Phillip” is Trump’s ridiculous condemnation of Kamala Harris’s husband, who he says is a “bad Jew.” Can you imagine Trump criticizing someone’s religious or spiritual leanings or practice? Trump? Can you imagine anyone doing that?
Catherine Rampell, Washington Post Opinion Columnist, noted, in the discussion, that when Jewish folks are called good or bad — value judgments — it isn’t a positive thing. No kidding.
Thanks to the internet for keeping JD Vance’s horrific pronouncements alive for us.
It is weird to suggest people who have children should have more voting rights. It is weird and inappropriate to criticize women who don’t have children. And JD’s denouncement of Trump years ago with his odd flipflop bromance-like embrace of him now is, well, weird. Very weird.
