When "Weird" stops working, we can use "Dorky" to keep it going!

[Nictuku]

Calling TSF a Fourth Grader will be a good one too! (there was an article today that compared the first 30,000 words of presidents, and used AI to 'grade' the speeches. Trump was a 4th Grader (the lowest!! Hoover was highest, and Carter 2nd. Obama was up there too)

But now... I just read an article with a quote from JD's wife: "I think I want them to know that he's a real person," Usha Vance said. "He has all sorts of dorky interests that anyone of our age could relate to."


Hahahaha.... OK, JD is Dorky, and TSF a Fourth Grader.

It will Drive them Nutz!!!

Edit: Adding Link to the 'dorky' quote:
https://www.rawstory.com/usha-vance-scrambles-to-explain-weird-husband-listen-to-the-words-that-he-says/

[babsbunny]

1. Evil

Or Freaky

[Nictuku]

3. Creepy is another good one

[ms liberty]

33. Creepy works particularly well with abortion, women's healthcare and womens rights

Because the policies they're promoting, the things they're saying and the laws they're promising to pass regarding women are very creepy.
Would work for the LGBTQIA+ community as well.

[live love laugh]

2. I doubt that will drive them nuts.

[Nictuku]

5. TSF is very defensive about his intellect

I do think 4th Grader or 4th grade speech level will get under his orange skin.

[live love laugh]

7. Doubt it.

[Celerity]

15. addlepated

[RidinWithHarris]

4. Creepy would be better, and more to the point

Because weird itself isn't always bad. It can be fun. Republicans are creepy weird.

Dork, on the other hand... hey, I'm a Star Trek/Star Wars loving retired software engineer. I embrace dorkdom!

[Nictuku]

8. You do, and I do too

.... but I don't think TSF will. Very defensive about his looks, intelligence, hand size, and so-called wealth.

[hlthe2b]

6. "DORK" (adding the "y" makes it far too cutesy)

[Enter stage left]

9. There you go...Dork and Dingy!

[Walleye]

10. I always thought of the word dork when I saw Ron DeSantis

[EarthAbides]

11. Unnatural...

Keep them coming!

[Arthur_Frain]

12. Well lets move on quickly.

I've been meaning to point out that we've been doing an incredible disservice to one of my favorite musicians, "Weird Al" Yankovic.

[Abolishinist]

25. Mr. Yankovic is apparently not too happy with all of this.

[FuzzyRabbit]

13. I vote for creepy weird.

[wcmagumba]

14. Nah, dork is not necessarily a bad connotation (IMHO)...

I have always been one and the name was fine in my careers as an IT person and other areas...

[EYESORE 9001]

16. 'Dorky' just doesn't hit the mark IMO. Not in this instance, and not as a political buzzword.

‘Dorky’ is much milder due to its common usage as an almost ‘affectionate’ term - even mildly self-deprecating in the way Ms. Vance used it. Some may take great offense at being called dorky, but it falls in a category with ‘geek’ or ‘nerd’, and there aren’t many folk biting the heads off live chickens for a living anymore, so I hope I didn’t offend.

[2naSalit]

17. He really hates...

When someone challenges him with, "what do you think you're smart or something?"

[Sky Jewels]

18. Creepy is more effective and accurate.

[struggle4progress]

19. Trump has a first grade mind! Too bad most voters aren't in the first grade

[meadowlander]

20. Dorks are adorkable. Republicans are creeps.

[kentuck]

21. They are never going to stop being weird.

It's never going to stop working.

[onenote]

22. If weird isn't working, dork, dorky, creepy, etc won't work either.

At that point, it would be time to move to a different approach.

[TheKentuckian]

23. I don't see how dorky hits anywhere near the same.

[PCIntern]

24. Howzabout: Mushroom Jerkoff?

Just a thought…

[Demobrat]

26. I like weird. Weird isn't name calling.

It’s describing. It’s taking it to them without descending to their level.

Dork. Nerd. Those are name calling, but they can also be compliments. Computer nerd. Math nerd. Means you are knowledgeable. Weird is never a compliment, unless it’s qualified. Weird but cute. Weird but nice. And lots of things can be weird, not just people. It’s so versatile!

Creepy is descriptive, but it lacks the fun edge of weird that makes people want to be in the not-weird in crowd.

All in all, I really like weird. Does that make me weird? (Is my thinking outside the mainstream in a way that repulses people or just makes them cringe?)

[RockRaven]

27. I would favor "creepy" or "strange" or "awkward" to dorky.

[GiqueCee]

28. "Skeevy" seems broadly applicable...

... Or, "Sorry, I won't shake hands; I haven't has the shots." Yeah, I guess that's a little long. Works, though!

[obnoxiousdrunk]

29. Dorky doesn't have

the oomph factor.

[BlueInPhilly]

30. Dork is a good word

Along with nerd. Not an insult enough.

“Dumb” will get to him more.

[Nictuku]

31. OK, what about Scallywag?

... I know, 3 consonants, it might be too much for a fourth grader reader.

The perfect word for TSF is cockwomble, again, 3 consonants, and it is more a UK term, but has made it to the Urban Dictonary: US Trumpsters (who do speak English) might not get it.

Cockwomble

(noun) A person, usually male, prone to making outrageously stupid statements and/or inappropriate behaviour while generally having a very high opinion of their own wisdom and importance.

synonyms: fuckwit, shit-for-brains
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cockwomble

[ms liberty]

32. Dorks run from kinda neutral to loveable on the ick scale though

I think creepy is the word we need to use. Creepy is way up there on the ick scale.

[cpamomfromtexas]

34. Treasonous Benedict Donald

[orthoclad]

35. Nah. "Evil".

Up the ante. No more mr nice guy.

[Hugin]

36. Chicken.

That gets the yellow coward every time.

[Quixote1818]

37. How about low testosterone? Or Incels? Nt

[ecstatic]

38. No. Dorky usually has one connotation

A geek who is socially awkward.

Alternative words to describe trumpvance's type of weird are strange, creepy, psychotic, stupid, dumb, unhinged, insane or crazy.

[Skittles]

39. there's nothing criminal about being weird or dorky

Trump is a fucking CRIMINAL a CON ARTIST and SEX OFFENDER and his sick supporters are FINE with that

[anamnua]

40. 'Dysfunctional' is a good

all purpose putdown.