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Trump Insists He’s “Extremely Normal” During Incredibly Weird Speech
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I love that the weird label is the one that really hit the Republicans hard.
Fucking weirdos.
It should also be mentioned that it is weird that being called “weird” gets under their skin so much
Yeah like someone called me weird, or even better queer, I would thank them for the complement. Why yes, I am somewhat unusual!
Except Republicans are really, really creepy weird.
Yeah big ick
Skibidi, even.
Trump/Vance are very Ohio.
It's simple really, their entire worldview relies on them being the "normal" ones and the "others" being the ones they make fun of.
Calling them weird forces them to think about it, just for a second, and that second of thought short circuits them just long enough for it to get through and it makes them feel terrible. They immediately drive it away of course, but there was that brief moment of clarity before they shoved it back down.
Because they don’t understand properly descriptive terms like “fascist”.
"Trump & Vance, the weird fascists"
"Hey, we're not weird!"
I can’t wait for the speech where they insist they’re quite normal fascists thank you. The biggest fascists. Everyone says they’ve never met a bigger fascist
It's weird how they are impacted so strongly by weird. It was this weak insult the ended up being so incredibly based and true that it ended up sticking despite anyone's aversion. They owned the word the second it was used against them, but it wasn't a voluntary ownership... They just keep railing against it like morons, digging themselves deeper and deeper.