"Weird" is NOT name-calling.

[AmBlue]

It is TRUTH-TELLING.

It's weird to change your name multiple times.

It's weird to bury your ex-wife in a nearly unmarked grave on your golf course after she mysteriously falls down a staircase.

It's weird to be sexually attracted to your own daughter.

It's weird to be obsessed with your fellow Americans' menstrual cycles.

It's weird to want your Vice President hanged.

It's weird to think you have the right to force women to give birth against their will.

It's weird to want to strip Americans' of their rights.

It's weird to be the principal of multiple failed businesses, a sexual predator, and compulsive liar, yet hold yourself up as worthy of the Presidency.

Just to name a few.

All of this is way more than just weird, but weird definitely applies. Need I go on?

Please feel free to add your own

[senseandsensibility]

1. No, but apparently it so rough

that it is literally shattering the republican party into a million pieces! Who knew that it would be so easy?

[AmBlue]

2. Yep... Tim Walz is a genius!

And definitely the right man for the job.

[unblock]

13. Timing has a *lot* to do with it.

People are finally ready to hear the obvious truth.

They've had enough of Donnie and his lies and hate and bizarre stupidity and ego and criminality and nepotism and despotism and dictatorial aspirations.

Many people have thrown many negative affective at Donnie for over a decade, I'm quite sure "weird" was among them. But people weren't ready to listen.

Now he's just a formulaic tv show that's long past its peak and it's time to shut it down and go into syndication.

Now, finally, people will listen when we say he's weird.

[haele]

28. It's bullying ;( and it hurts their fee-fees.

I mean, big ol' MAGA men and women with their obnoxiously huge truck flags, red hats and their "Trump - F*** your Feelings" tees are just bawling their eyes out, you old meanies...

Haele

[FalloutShelter]

3. You are right.

Weird is not a pejorative, it’s a descriptor.
You either for the description or you don’t.
and also

[TBF]

4. I agree - it's an adjective, not a noun.

It's simply descriptive like orange, elderly, insane, irrational, stupid, etc. There are many adjectives to describe Donald.

[AmBlue]

7. Precisely.

The only question is whether it's an accurate descriptor. Weird is accurate.

[magicarpet]

18. Weird - is an undisputable statement of fact.

If it bruises your ego,... to damn bad.

Stop being a recalcitrant, obnoxious, malicious Nazi boy.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. It's an adjective, can sometimes be a verb.

[MLAA]

6. It's weird to call war veterans and heroes suckers and losers.

[AmBlue]

8. And weird to worry how you'll look...

...next to a Veteran who lost his legs in a war.

[MLAA]

27. OMG, that was the worst!

And remember he couldn’t visit another important site in Normandy because it was drizzling?

[Deek1935]

25. It's also being a fucking scumbag asshole to say that.

[AmBlue]

29. Definitely rings true.

No question. "Weird," while applicable, certainly doesn't cover the enormity of that one.

[Blue Owl]

9. Images speak louder than words.... and this is the weirdest thing I have ever seen on a campaign trail

[AmBlue]

11. Someone here called it "Milking the Elephant"

And definitely weird!!

[Blue Owl]

20. So much weirder than, say, the Howard Dean scream

Yet FF45 gets a free "fail upwards" pass from the M$M yet again...

[AmBlue]

32. Totally.

The M$M are working hard to earn the descriptor IRRELEVANT.

I'm loving how Kamala doesn't seem the least bit in a hurry to sit down to be interviewed by those lazy jackals.

[Tadpole Raisin]

30. He is vomit inducing. That will never go away.

Also I’d much rather see Elaine doing her jerking kick dance.

Sorry I compared the two!

[Think. Again.]

10. How about "dirtbag fascists"? Can I use THAT to call them names? Please?

[AmBlue]

33. Fascists, proveably accurate

The dirtbag part is up to you. I say go for it!!

[Think. Again.]

35. Thanks!

[H2O Man]

12. Recommended.

While I agree with you, I think it can be both name-calling and lots of fun when done properly.

[AmBlue]

17. What's good for the goose...

But weird just has the added patina of truth, which is why it works so well!!

[Jerry2144]

14. It's not like we're calling Vance a

Heterosectional
Couch Vance
A Sectional Predator
Upholstery Plasterer
Love Seat Violator

Or any other names derived from the alleged, but not denied by him, proclivities he allegedly takes with his Lay-Z Boy

[Jerry2144]

19. We also didn't call Vance a

Divan Driller
Or a Cushion Stuffer

So why all the fists about name calling? Weird is an adjective describing behaviors and ideas. It’s not a name like any of those others

[Tadpole Raisin]

31. He just wanted sectional healing. nt

[The Unmitigated Gall]

15. It's weird to refuse to visit a cemetary

Full of America’s fallen soldiers from WW l because you’re afraid the rain will muss tour hair up.

Damned deucedly weird.

[Zeitghost]

16. Like Vance I changed my name as an adult and had it changed for me as a child

Please tell me why you think I'm weird...

[sanatanadharma]

21. Weird is a word used across so many areas, to label "not normal"

Whatever the measure of normal be, to be normal is to not be weird.
1000 year floods in Vermont, weird.
The Messiah arrives, weird.
Theologies say God picks winners and losers from among God's 'all-lives-have-equal-value' must-be-born, weird.

In the land of freepers, for example, there exist those among the weird to us, who are weird to them as well.

[Iwasthere]

22. It's weird to tie a 13 year old girl down and rape her

Actually that more than weird, it's downright sick , twisted and criminal. It's not out there enough. I still hear people say, "that's not true". Then there's the two 12 year olds, also swept away

[AmBlue]

26. Weird to "inspect" naked teenagers

Just because you own the Miss Teen USA pageant, and you can get away with it.

So much sicker than weird too, as in your example.

[LeftyLucie]

23. It's weird to paint yourself orange and wear a bird's nest on your head.

[Deek1935]

24. I see your point and agree generally, but it is also highly justified ridicule. They are WEIRD motherfuckers!

[AmBlue]

34. Truth hurts most.

Obviously. As they say, a hit dog hollers!!

[Self Esteem]

36. It's definitely name calling and that's fine.

Weird is subjective. What you find weird, someone else might find normal. The goth kids at my high school were insulted for being weird.

It's definitely a pejorative. But that's okay. We don't need to be nice to weird people.