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highplainsdem

(62,134 posts)
Mon Jul 29, 2024, 11:41 AM Jul 2024

AOC for the win (I love this!)





Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC

Being obsessed with repressing women is goofy.

Trying to watch what LGBTQ+ people do all the time is abnormal.

Punishing people who don’t have biological offspring is creepy.

It’s an incel platform, dude.
It’s SUPER weird.
And people need to know.



Vivek Ramaswamy
@VivekGRamaswamy

This whole “they’re weird” argument from the Democrats is dumb & juvenile. This is a presidential election, not a high school prom queen contest. It’s also a tad ironic coming from the party that preaches “diversity & inclusion.” Win on policy if you can, but cut the crap please.

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AOC for the win (I love this!) (Original Post) highplainsdem Jul 2024 OP
Weird seems to be the catch word that pisses TSF off, weird of him. gab13by13 Jul 2024 #1
The simplest word finally gets to them. Baitball Blogger Jul 2024 #4
Bingo. Think. Again. Jul 2024 #11
I wonder how many of them even know the meaning of the word deplorable. Dave Bowman Jul 2024 #53
To quote back to them what they told us in 2016: Sky Jewels Jul 2024 #5
I've been doing that on FB for awhile. InstantGratification Jul 2024 #15
Trump and his followers have always believed they're cool. They can't handle people laughing at them. highplainsdem Jul 2024 #7
They dish it out plenty, but then get offended when it comes back at them oregonjen Jul 2024 #8
The Thing About Weird Is It's Much Catchier Than 'Woke'.... The Magistrate Jul 2024 #10
"weird" attracts attention of 17 - 21 yr old viscerally for some reason ... DNC knows political speech data, I'm ... uponit7771 Jul 2024 #48
That's why we need to say "weird' and "creepy" at every opportunity. TomSlick Jul 2024 #63
Vivek was JD's college roommate. Yeah. Birds of a feather and all. flying_wahini Jul 2024 #2
JD's wife, Usha, clerked for MontanaMama Jul 2024 #14
I had no idea. Well, she and Amy Handmaid certainly have something in common, in that case. Hekate Jul 2024 #20
Well, well, well. not fooled Jul 2024 #28
These weirdos are all in bed together. MontanaMama Jul 2024 #44
They certainly have been. Pinback Jul 2024 #70
Someone should ask him InstantGratification Jul 2024 #16
Nature thrives the more diverse it is Tweedy Jul 2024 #3
Mike Johnson is weird too. Irish_Dem Jul 2024 #6
That porn-app thing w his teen son is why I call him Li'l Pervy. But Weird will certainly do. Hekate Jul 2024 #18
Yes that shared porn app is creepy and perverted. Irish_Dem Jul 2024 #46
EXTREMELY weird birdographer Jul 2024 #29
Oh yes. The Squeaker of the House MontanaMama Jul 2024 #45
We don't need pubicklan crotch monitors or skin color sorting. Take Off Hosers IA8IT Jul 2024 #9
Bwaahaaaahaaa! MontanaMama Jul 2024 #17
You said it! MustLoveBeagles Jul 2024 #25
I approve this message! 2naSalit Jul 2024 #40
Joan of AOC notemason Jul 2024 #12
Fuck Vivy Traildogbob Jul 2024 #13
Another example of how they dread not being part Klarkashton Jul 2024 #19
AOC is genius. "It's an incel platform, dude" Hekate Jul 2024 #21
i'm not totally on board with "weird" being the word barbtries Jul 2024 #22
Sometimes the simplest words work the best MustLoveBeagles Jul 2024 #26
That's my Gov! geardaddy Jul 2024 #58
Yes, it's a simple word that those simple people can understand as a legit snark. Attilatheblond Jul 2024 #64
I agree with you that there are better words JoetheShow Jul 2024 #59
I love, the whole lot of them are weird hibbing Jul 2024 #23
Only in MAGAland Mblaze Jul 2024 #24
"Weird" is really catching on. Ocelot II Jul 2024 #27
I'm with AOC on this! liberalla Jul 2024 #30
In addition, they want to chart women's menstrual cycle. surfered Jul 2024 #31
And after all that... 2naSalit Jul 2024 #42
Hit a nerve, eh, Vivek? RussBLib Jul 2024 #32
snork. hem. to the posters response . good on aoc. AllaN01Bear Jul 2024 #33
Win on policy?!?!?! Glaisne Jul 2024 #34
AOC nails it! wordstroken Jul 2024 #35
The replies are brutal :/ Bonx Jul 2024 #36
She's got that exactly right, but she missed a couple of biggies: Warpy Jul 2024 #37
When Magats start crying like babies BlueKota Jul 2024 #38
kick. n/t Upthevibe Jul 2024 #39
repressing women is not goofy. its traditional. its WEAK. pansypoo53219 Jul 2024 #41
An incel platform - hits the nail on the head. Wow! n/t SpankMe Jul 2024 #43
Anyone who insists that "inclusion must include bigotry" is an ignorant fuckhead Orrex Jul 2024 #47
Lectures from you? czarjak Jul 2024 #49
Weird sound more down to earth than "basket of deplorables" I mean it sucks that that did mucifer Jul 2024 #50
"Weird" is one syllable Seinan Sensei Jul 2024 #66
She nailed it. Martin68 Jul 2024 #51
K&R Blue Owl Jul 2024 #52
Dear Rethugs: "D&I" refers to people treated less favorably because of spooky3 Jul 2024 #54
The positive reactions to AOC's tweet True Dough Jul 2024 #55
"Radical right wing republicans and maga are doing a great job uniting the Democratic Party. " Cha Jul 2024 #56
Anyway, it's not a "they're weird" argument; it's a "they're weird" observation. n/t Beartracks Jul 2024 #57
Exactly. It's good that so many more are stopping to take a good look Hermit-The-Prog Jul 2024 #62
Vivek promotes DEI for the weird, yet is excluded by his own party. Marcuse Jul 2024 #60
I think it's interesting that Farmer-Rick Jul 2024 #61
Vivek doesn't like it as he, himself is a weirdo Bristlecone Jul 2024 #65
PREACH IT SISTER Skittles Jul 2024 #67
Remember RexLipton Jul 2024 #68
Vivek perfected the Gish Gallop Seinan Sensei Jul 2024 #69
K&R! burrowowl Jul 2024 #71
Yup! WEIRDO Trump and WEIRDO Vance are SUPER WEIRDOS! Deek1935 Jul 2024 #72
Incel behavior is incel. mucholderthandirt Jul 2024 #73
Hey Vivek - Mr. Mustard 2023 Jul 2024 #74
K&R spanone Jul 2024 #75
Cut The Crap? DallasNE Jul 2024 #76
They are not normal in any way. Enola Jul 2024 #77

Baitball Blogger

(52,343 posts)
4. The simplest word finally gets to them.
Mon Jul 29, 2024, 11:47 AM
Jul 2024

Here we were trying too hard with words like cognitive dissonance, misogynists and such. Weird is about as high on their vocabulary list as they can understand.

 

Sky Jewels

(9,148 posts)
5. To quote back to them what they told us in 2016:
Mon Jul 29, 2024, 11:48 AM
Jul 2024

"You're triggered, Snowflake? Go grab a blankie and seek your safe space."

15. I've been doing that on FB for awhile.
Mon Jul 29, 2024, 12:22 PM
Jul 2024

Sometimes I go to the comments on news posted by the local network affiliates and troll MAGAs. Then when they cry about the mean libruls, I hit them with:

Are you triggered? Do you need a safe space, you poor, butthurt little snowflake?

highplainsdem

(62,134 posts)
7. Trump and his followers have always believed they're cool. They can't handle people laughing at them.
Mon Jul 29, 2024, 11:54 AM
Jul 2024

The Magistrate

(96,043 posts)
10. The Thing About Weird Is It's Much Catchier Than 'Woke'....
Mon Jul 29, 2024, 11:59 AM
Jul 2024

You don't have to explain what it means, everybody knows weird, and knows it when they see it. And when you point and laugh and jeer, people look, and see it for just what it is --- weird.

uponit7771

(93,532 posts)
48. "weird" attracts attention of 17 - 21 yr old viscerally for some reason ... DNC knows political speech data, I'm ...
Mon Jul 29, 2024, 03:04 PM
Jul 2024

... feeling even better today.

TomSlick

(13,013 posts)
63. That's why we need to say "weird' and "creepy" at every opportunity.
Mon Jul 29, 2024, 07:36 PM
Jul 2024

Give them words they understand.

flying_wahini

(8,275 posts)
2. Vivek was JD's college roommate. Yeah. Birds of a feather and all.
Mon Jul 29, 2024, 11:43 AM
Jul 2024

They ARE weird. I think the GOP has always obsessed about sex. It gets them up in the morning. 😂

Hekate

(100,133 posts)
20. I had no idea. Well, she and Amy Handmaid certainly have something in common, in that case.
Mon Jul 29, 2024, 12:29 PM
Jul 2024

What a weird bunch.

not fooled

(6,678 posts)
28. Well, well, well.
Mon Jul 29, 2024, 01:13 PM
Jul 2024

The GQPee is certainly not publicizing that piece of information. Understandable, given the low regard the rigged scotus has earned and the extremism of the six RW operatives.

MontanaMama

(24,721 posts)
44. These weirdos are all in bed together.
Mon Jul 29, 2024, 02:35 PM
Jul 2024

Probably planning the demise of democracy for decades.

Pinback

(13,600 posts)
70. They certainly have been.
Mon Jul 29, 2024, 10:22 PM
Jul 2024

Read Democracy In Chains by Nancy MacLean if you want an unsettling but revealing history of the long-term anti-democratic project of the American libertarian right.

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/nancy-maclean/democracy-in-chains/

Tweedy

(1,284 posts)
3. Nature thrives the more diverse it is
Mon Jul 29, 2024, 11:44 AM
Jul 2024

Vivek and many republican’ers like him need to take biology 101.

The whole bunch of them these days are creepy weird.

Hekate

(100,133 posts)
18. That porn-app thing w his teen son is why I call him Li'l Pervy. But Weird will certainly do.
Mon Jul 29, 2024, 12:25 PM
Jul 2024

Irish_Dem

(81,248 posts)
46. Yes that shared porn app is creepy and perverted.
Mon Jul 29, 2024, 02:41 PM
Jul 2024

I consider it a form of child abuse.

When I was in practice as a therapist, and if this family had been in treatment with me,
I would have told Mike the app has to go or I would phone it in (to proper authorities)
as sexually inappropriate behavior with a minor child.

Traildogbob

(13,017 posts)
13. Fuck Vivy
Mon Jul 29, 2024, 12:19 PM
Jul 2024

They spend every damn second gleefully pissing off liberals, With lies, threats of killing us and hate. Just to own a lib. Hate and violence.
We can, and should never let up there Vivy, drive them insane (🤔 hmmm) and into rage just by laughing at them. I have said it for over 8 years, laugh at them. We know it rages trump. Obama did it at the correspondence gala, and he still has nightmares.
So, laugh like hell at them all.
Laughing is great for our mental health. Hate, rage and guns will destroy them, and Make America Great, like we strive to do.
🤣😂😃😅😆🤣😂🤣😂=😡🤬😶‍🌫️😡😡💥💥🔥🌚🌚.
Besides, trump and his interviewed cultist are so damn funny. Stupid has always been a key to funny, Three Stooges, Dumb and Dumber.
And it should not control Nukes.
If there is a debate, Kamala should laugh like hell at every word he spews from that facial anus.
Then pull out a recording box of Hillary laughs.
He would stole and then the laughing would really get going, laughs of Joy.
Or not.
Vivy is really fucking weird, way weird. Funny weird.

Klarkashton

(5,292 posts)
19. Another example of how they dread not being part
Mon Jul 29, 2024, 12:28 PM
Jul 2024

Of the cool group. That guy is a pathetic piece of shit.

barbtries

(31,307 posts)
22. i'm not totally on board with "weird" being the word
Mon Jul 29, 2024, 12:45 PM
Jul 2024

hateful, creepy, unAmerican, abnormal, weird. it's almost too benign for me. they are so much worse than weird. give me weird all day long compared to these sick fucks.

ETA scrolled back to read the comments and the first 2 gave good reasons for "weird" being the word! i love DU

Attilatheblond

(8,876 posts)
64. Yes, it's a simple word that those simple people can understand as a legit snark.
Mon Jul 29, 2024, 07:49 PM
Jul 2024

But I really like that AOC tossed in incel cuz that hits Trump where he lives... alone unless he pays the wife for a public appearance. He doesn't have enough money for her to make a personal appearance.

JoetheShow

(155 posts)
59. I agree with you that there are better words
Mon Jul 29, 2024, 05:20 PM
Jul 2024

Psychopaths, fascist, pathological liars, etc. But weirdo has stuck to the wall and is triggering them, so let's see how far it will carry us. And if/when it runs out of steam we can find another on. I don't like politics by name calling, but it has worked well for them so we get to use it for a change and they can suck it!

hibbing

(10,597 posts)
23. I love, the whole lot of them are weird
Mon Jul 29, 2024, 12:47 PM
Jul 2024

I think it's great, and I hope they keep repeating the weird stuff the idiot says at his white supremacy rallies.

Forward!

Mblaze

(1,031 posts)
24. Only in MAGAland
Mon Jul 29, 2024, 01:03 PM
Jul 2024

Last edited Mon Jul 29, 2024, 06:03 PM - Edit history (1)

Are the terms diversity, equity and inclusion bad words. They put them in their same deplorable lexicon as empathy, compassion and altruism. Somehow they can hold that cruel and arrogant position and still claim to be followers of Jesus Christ.

I can't think of a better indication of those whom Jesus called "ravening wolves in sheep's clothing".

Ocelot II

(130,516 posts)
27. "Weird" is really catching on.
Mon Jul 29, 2024, 01:07 PM
Jul 2024

"It's an incel platform, dude. It's SUPER weird."

Thank you, Governor Walz.

surfered

(13,456 posts)
31. In addition, they want to chart women's menstrual cycle.
Mon Jul 29, 2024, 01:25 PM
Jul 2024

and look inside people’s underwear to see which restroom they should use. These people are not only weird, they’re perverted and extremely creepy.

Glaisne

(645 posts)
34. Win on policy?!?!?!
Mon Jul 29, 2024, 01:37 PM
Jul 2024

Are you freaking kidding me, Vivek? It's you guys who are whining about plastic straws, who falsely believe that childless cat ladies, or jews, or some other group is running the country, who have an authoritarian manifesto that will dismantle the country. Policy? you can't win on policy!

Warpy

(114,614 posts)
37. She's got that exactly right, but she missed a couple of biggies:
Mon Jul 29, 2024, 01:49 PM
Jul 2024

Saying a woman's only worth is as breeding stock with no self determination is deeply weird.

Reducing a woman to a body part or sex act is horrifying, viscerally disgusting.

But let's not tell them that, not yet. We'll wait until after JD sinks TFG completely

BlueKota

(5,342 posts)
38. When Magats start crying like babies
Mon Jul 29, 2024, 01:52 PM
Jul 2024

who crapped their diapers you know our side's strategy is working. Best way to beat a bully is to shove their nose in their own 💩.

Orrex

(67,110 posts)
47. Anyone who insists that "inclusion must include bigotry" is an ignorant fuckhead
Mon Jul 29, 2024, 02:57 PM
Jul 2024

I defy them to name anything else in the universe that they require to accommodate its incompatible opposite. It's a logical impossibility.

But every time one of those ignorant fuckheads rolls out that "argument," they think they've hit the jackpot. I don't care how rich or famous or well-connected they are; they're ignorant fuckheads.

mucifer

(25,667 posts)
50. Weird sound more down to earth than "basket of deplorables" I mean it sucks that that did
Mon Jul 29, 2024, 03:58 PM
Jul 2024

Hilary Clinton harm using that phrase. I'm hoping weird is a better one. Wait and see if they turn the tables on us.

spooky3

(38,631 posts)
54. Dear Rethugs: "D&I" refers to people treated less favorably because of
Mon Jul 29, 2024, 04:02 PM
Jul 2024

demographics. If you are treated less favorably because of your terrible behavior, that's a completely different thing--which you control.

But you guys likely already know this and are just trying to confuse people.

True Dough

(26,664 posts)
55. The positive reactions to AOC's tweet
Mon Jul 29, 2024, 04:04 PM
Jul 2024

are almost twice as many as Vivek's, so he can suck on that too!

Cha

(319,067 posts)
56. "Radical right wing republicans and maga are doing a great job uniting the Democratic Party. "
Mon Jul 29, 2024, 04:08 PM
Jul 2024

Hermit-The-Prog

(36,631 posts)
62. Exactly. It's good that so many more are stopping to take a good look
Mon Jul 29, 2024, 05:53 PM
Jul 2024

The Republican party has been self-selecting for extremism for decades. They've been so successful that all they elect to office are the weird and creepy people who have gravitated to the now weird, creepy and controlliing GOP platform.

Farmer-Rick

(12,663 posts)
61. I think it's interesting that
Mon Jul 29, 2024, 05:42 PM
Jul 2024

No one is asking, "How are they weird?" or "Why are they weird?"

Everybody just knows how and why Pedo Trump and his Nazi pals are weird. It's like "oh yeah, they are".

Bristlecone

(11,111 posts)
65. Vivek doesn't like it as he, himself is a weirdo
Mon Jul 29, 2024, 08:34 PM
Jul 2024

Keep at it. It is catching on. Because it’s true.

RexLipton

(110 posts)
68. Remember
Mon Jul 29, 2024, 09:11 PM
Jul 2024

Remember Lying Ted , Lil Marco & Sleepy Joe???

Real Mature!!!

Anyway, I’m rubber, you’re glue. Whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you!!

P.S., Whoever smelled it dealt it!

mucholderthandirt

(1,783 posts)
73. Incel behavior is incel.
Tue Jul 30, 2024, 07:59 AM
Jul 2024

Those guys hate women so much because they are afraid of us! That's it. FEAR. Because they know we don't want them, they have to pay in some way to get a woman. And they hate immigrants so much, Trump has to marry them with a huge prenup or no one would have him. He had to pay off porn stars to have anything to do with him.

Vance hates women and POC so much, but he married one. White girls not have anything to do with him? He defends her, somewhat, against what he and his own party think about her, which is weird.

So, a slogan: Call me "woke", but you're weird.

Mr. Mustard 2023

(361 posts)
74. Hey Vivek -
Tue Jul 30, 2024, 09:38 AM
Jul 2024

we accept that you exist and have the right to believe whatever weird, perverted stuff you want to believe, but that does NOT mean we must:

Pretend to like you.
Pretend to respect you.

And we do not like you, or respect you.

They think the "party of inclusion and diversity" is a gotcha moment. No it's not.

I say again:

We do not have to pretend to like you, or respect you and we don't.

DallasNE

(8,007 posts)
76. Cut The Crap?
Tue Jul 30, 2024, 11:20 AM
Jul 2024

He should look in a mirror. He has been goofy for so long that he doesn't know how to stop.

Enola

(37 posts)
77. They are not normal in any way.
Tue Jul 30, 2024, 12:46 PM
Jul 2024

Normal is living your life the way you want. Choosing friends, family, whether to have children, what education you get, what job to choose, where to live, hobbies and activities and who you love are all normal things most people do. Sitting down to write up a hate manifesto and how you would like to take over the government of the country and how you plan to do that through violence if necessary is not normal. The right-wing is not normal in any way. They all need serious intervention.

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