I think all the child abuse and neglect by his mother left this guy not only unhinged, but blaming all women for the actions of one. Please get this guy into therapy!
AOC has it right. Being obsessed with other people's genitals and what they do with them is weird on a creepy way.
Joanna Coles, though, is talking about quirky and out-of-the-mainstream: good weird. She wants the campaign to activate a dislike of that kind of weirdness, and she does sound like she's in middle school. Way to confirm Vivek.
“No one wants to sit with the weird people. You want to sit with the popular people or the cool people, you don’t want to sit with the weird people.”
I was one of the good-weird people, I want to be one forever, and frankly Ms. Coles sounds like one of the classmates we called "assholes."
Much as I respect and admire Thomas Friedman, the basic problem is he’s living in a different world because of his age and lifetime of experience. I’m 65 myself, so hardly Gen X/Y/Z/millenial. It’s hard to change your entire thinking to adapt to what younger people think and feel, so I’m sympathetic…and I also think the “Just Plain Weird” campaign is a gold mine. Because they ARE weird. What else do you need to know? It taps into the majority view on every single important social/financial/political issue that vastly favors mainstream Dem values over those of MAGA Republicans. I’m rather surprised Friedman doesn’t see that clearly. Maybe it’s time for him to retire like Joe just did, too?
I think the "weird" campaign is brilliant. How do you counter that? Stamp your foot and yell "I'm NOT weird!!" ?They only need it for 100 days or less, so it's not going to get old like it would in an 18-month political campaign. Additionally, it's not really mean or cruel, certainly not like "Crazy Hillary" or "Lyin' Ted."
I think VP Harris's entry into the presidential race at this point is a good demonstration of how stupid 18-month (or longer) campaigns are. 2 months to 2 weeks are what other countries have, and that's plenty. The money needed to be raised to campaign for that long is obscene and wasteful, not to mention an invitation to corruption. House members spend their second years in office raising money all day instead of getting any work done (and of course it's worse right now with a dysfunctional House.) We need to mandate a three-month (or less) campaign season.
And WHAT Trump policies?? He has never laid out one policy when asked! In the debate, in the Q and A yesterday, all he does is whine, rant, lie and whattabout when asked a direct question.
Let's not let them terminate Project 2025 this far into term, they've been carrying that link on the Dolts website for nearly a year (if not longer- archivists please provide earliest known heartbeat) and the evil twin Agenda 47 is viable if the most vile isn't soundly defeated at the ballot box. Vote 💙 because good needs to triumph and Justice needs to be served.
The Daily Beast said tonight that Dumpy got the primary author of Project 2025 fired. Of course Dumpy's spoxes are saying he has nothing to do with it still, but everything in it would give the president more power and that's what Dumpy desperately wants. Something's going on behind the scenes that we don't know about yet.
On some ways, Proj 2025 can be enacted whether or not Dumpy becomes president. Some states, like OK, are working on it already by making the school voucher system usable at all private Christian schools. Of course, when VP Harris is elected president, the right will find it very difficult to apply it nationally, like replacing all civil servants or a national abortion ban. But I think the only way to stop it completely is for majorities in both houses of Congress pass laws against specific parts of the plan. If a conservative is elected in 2028, the plan will still be on then shelf, waiting for the right to revive it.
I don’t even know where to start with Thomas Freedman other than he can keep banging that “rural, uneducated, white men” drum all he wants. Some of us have been able to figure out over the past decade that they’re not worth the energy. If energy equals successful politics, the youth are where it’s at. I couldn’t care less what those men think of this ad, but I know how most women will feel. Wowza!
I think this is good, however they must clearly talk about building this country as they have been building the country out of Covid, that they are focused on the middle class than billionaires breaking away from trickle down and of course diametrically opposed to Project 2025, Presidential immunity and will continue the fight for the inalienable right of the citizens including women’s right to choose.
I am pleased as punch that my governor could contribute "weird" to the Harris campaign.
Since the days of Rush Limbaugh, the ultra right-wing has been giggling and snuffling as they pulled out each new fifth grade playground term to attack liberals with. "Libtard." "Snowflake." "Soy boy." The list is as long as it is tiresome.
The Obama-era strategy of "When they go low, we go high" didn't work any better than a teacher scolding the fifth graders on the playground did. It simply reinforced the stereotype of a liberal "Nanny-State" trying to tell people what to do.
In order for a torpedo to sink a ship, it has to explode BELOW the waterline.
Now to Tim Walz's use of the term "weird." It may be because I am from the Midwest to begin with, but one of the very worst things a kid could be tagged with in elementary school was "weird." I do not know if this is true in other parts of the country, but in the Midwest, a kid on the playground who was weird was someone you stayed away from. It is a black box term, really. They didn't fit in; they weren't quite right. Maybe that kid laughed too loudly, or at the wrong time. Maybe that kid would suddenly hit you for no reason. Maybe that kid talked to themselves. Maybe that kid tried to touch other kids in ways that didn't feel right. Maybe that kid doesn't like to play games, but only read books. Maybe that kid speaks with a strong accent, or has very unusual features.
From a liberal perspective, you may well perceive symptoms of autism, mental disorder, family troubles at home, developmental challenges, cultural displacement, or social disengagement. Kids don't break things down that way. They lump every last bit of it into "weird." Because of that, any kid in the Midwest Instinctively knows what it means to label somebody as weird. It can be very cruel, but it is what children do. We were all children once, and when confronted with this, we all instantly understand it.
It is a label that sticks like tar, and that is why it will work.
Because tfg would never ever admit he made a mistake, and his malignant narcissism would not allow him to step out of the run for the presidency, he assumed Joe Biden wouldn’t do it either. That’s his loss, because Joe cares about We the People, and tfg cares only about himself. The entire feel of the country is more upbeat and hopeful. It’s glorious! Vote for the prosecutor, not the convicted felon!
I'm so into weird, but we do need to tie it into more than his fumbling craziness. "Isn't it weird what trump doesn't know about tariffs?" "Isn't it weird that trump keeps forgetting what he thinks about cutting Social Security." I like "weird" because it has an interrogative element missing in more derogatory terms, including fascist or evil or crazy." It provides a chink for someone to wonder "why is that weird" as opposed to just passing off the comment as Trump Derangement Syndrome."
I think all the child abuse and neglect by his mother left this guy not only unhinged, but blaming all women for the actions of one. Please get this guy into therapy!
AOC has it right. Being obsessed with other people's genitals and what they do with them is weird on a creepy way.
Joanna Coles, though, is talking about quirky and out-of-the-mainstream: good weird. She wants the campaign to activate a dislike of that kind of weirdness, and she does sound like she's in middle school. Way to confirm Vivek.
“No one wants to sit with the weird people. You want to sit with the popular people or the cool people, you don’t want to sit with the weird people.”
I was one of the good-weird people, I want to be one forever, and frankly Ms. Coles sounds like one of the classmates we called "assholes."
OT, but has Jay closed his Comments section to non-subscribers on his "Status Kuo" Substack page? Tried to post as non-subscriber and got flagged.
Much as I respect and admire Thomas Friedman, the basic problem is he’s living in a different world because of his age and lifetime of experience. I’m 65 myself, so hardly Gen X/Y/Z/millenial. It’s hard to change your entire thinking to adapt to what younger people think and feel, so I’m sympathetic…and I also think the “Just Plain Weird” campaign is a gold mine. Because they ARE weird. What else do you need to know? It taps into the majority view on every single important social/financial/political issue that vastly favors mainstream Dem values over those of MAGA Republicans. I’m rather surprised Friedman doesn’t see that clearly. Maybe it’s time for him to retire like Joe just did, too?
And he was one of the creeps that wrote brutally about his “friend.” Lost a lot of respect for him.
Does having a tattoo of Richard Nixon on your back qualify as weird? Just askin'.
I think the "weird" campaign is brilliant. How do you counter that? Stamp your foot and yell "I'm NOT weird!!" ?They only need it for 100 days or less, so it's not going to get old like it would in an 18-month political campaign. Additionally, it's not really mean or cruel, certainly not like "Crazy Hillary" or "Lyin' Ted."
I think VP Harris's entry into the presidential race at this point is a good demonstration of how stupid 18-month (or longer) campaigns are. 2 months to 2 weeks are what other countries have, and that's plenty. The money needed to be raised to campaign for that long is obscene and wasteful, not to mention an invitation to corruption. House members spend their second years in office raising money all day instead of getting any work done (and of course it's worse right now with a dysfunctional House.) We need to mandate a three-month (or less) campaign season.
Amazing collection of creepy weirdness 🧌
Fuck the NYT in general, and Tom "Six Months" Friedman specifically.
And WHAT Trump policies?? He has never laid out one policy when asked! In the debate, in the Q and A yesterday, all he does is whine, rant, lie and whattabout when asked a direct question.
Let's not let them terminate Project 2025 this far into term, they've been carrying that link on the Dolts website for nearly a year (if not longer- archivists please provide earliest known heartbeat) and the evil twin Agenda 47 is viable if the most vile isn't soundly defeated at the ballot box. Vote 💙 because good needs to triumph and Justice needs to be served.
The Daily Beast said tonight that Dumpy got the primary author of Project 2025 fired. Of course Dumpy's spoxes are saying he has nothing to do with it still, but everything in it would give the president more power and that's what Dumpy desperately wants. Something's going on behind the scenes that we don't know about yet.
On some ways, Proj 2025 can be enacted whether or not Dumpy becomes president. Some states, like OK, are working on it already by making the school voucher system usable at all private Christian schools. Of course, when VP Harris is elected president, the right will find it very difficult to apply it nationally, like replacing all civil servants or a national abortion ban. But I think the only way to stop it completely is for majorities in both houses of Congress pass laws against specific parts of the plan. If a conservative is elected in 2028, the plan will still be on then shelf, waiting for the right to revive it.
I don’t even know where to start with Thomas Freedman other than he can keep banging that “rural, uneducated, white men” drum all he wants. Some of us have been able to figure out over the past decade that they’re not worth the energy. If energy equals successful politics, the youth are where it’s at. I couldn’t care less what those men think of this ad, but I know how most women will feel. Wowza!
https://youtu.be/vP5Gx18D4-c
Finally!! Something that hurts their FEE-WINGS!!
And they call US triggered.
I think this is good, however they must clearly talk about building this country as they have been building the country out of Covid, that they are focused on the middle class than billionaires breaking away from trickle down and of course diametrically opposed to Project 2025, Presidential immunity and will continue the fight for the inalienable right of the citizens including women’s right to choose.
I am pleased as punch that my governor could contribute "weird" to the Harris campaign.
Since the days of Rush Limbaugh, the ultra right-wing has been giggling and snuffling as they pulled out each new fifth grade playground term to attack liberals with. "Libtard." "Snowflake." "Soy boy." The list is as long as it is tiresome.
The Obama-era strategy of "When they go low, we go high" didn't work any better than a teacher scolding the fifth graders on the playground did. It simply reinforced the stereotype of a liberal "Nanny-State" trying to tell people what to do.
In order for a torpedo to sink a ship, it has to explode BELOW the waterline.
Now to Tim Walz's use of the term "weird." It may be because I am from the Midwest to begin with, but one of the very worst things a kid could be tagged with in elementary school was "weird." I do not know if this is true in other parts of the country, but in the Midwest, a kid on the playground who was weird was someone you stayed away from. It is a black box term, really. They didn't fit in; they weren't quite right. Maybe that kid laughed too loudly, or at the wrong time. Maybe that kid would suddenly hit you for no reason. Maybe that kid talked to themselves. Maybe that kid tried to touch other kids in ways that didn't feel right. Maybe that kid doesn't like to play games, but only read books. Maybe that kid speaks with a strong accent, or has very unusual features.
From a liberal perspective, you may well perceive symptoms of autism, mental disorder, family troubles at home, developmental challenges, cultural displacement, or social disengagement. Kids don't break things down that way. They lump every last bit of it into "weird." Because of that, any kid in the Midwest Instinctively knows what it means to label somebody as weird. It can be very cruel, but it is what children do. We were all children once, and when confronted with this, we all instantly understand it.
It is a label that sticks like tar, and that is why it will work.
I was that weird kid. And know that the bullying that the Republican party needs to be dealt with to tear down the bully, not placate them.
I was the one who preferred reading books to playing sports.
Because tfg would never ever admit he made a mistake, and his malignant narcissism would not allow him to step out of the run for the presidency, he assumed Joe Biden wouldn’t do it either. That’s his loss, because Joe cares about We the People, and tfg cares only about himself. The entire feel of the country is more upbeat and hopeful. It’s glorious! Vote for the prosecutor, not the convicted felon!
Secretary Pete on The Daily Show Monday 🤗👏🤸♀️🤣🎉
Holy crap, he was amazing.
I'm so into weird, but we do need to tie it into more than his fumbling craziness. "Isn't it weird what trump doesn't know about tariffs?" "Isn't it weird that trump keeps forgetting what he thinks about cutting Social Security." I like "weird" because it has an interrogative element missing in more derogatory terms, including fascist or evil or crazy." It provides a chink for someone to wonder "why is that weird" as opposed to just passing off the comment as Trump Derangement Syndrome."