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[–] [email protected] 54 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Trump and the rest of the right wing nutjobs want to seem powerful and unstopped. But the are not strong and fractured. I think we should get back to calling them weirdos again. It undercuts their aura of menace which is their only real power. Nothing scares right wingers than people different from them being themselves unsacred and proud. They are all a bunch of weirdos and should be called out for what it is.

[–] CharlesDarwin 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I think we should get back to calling them weirdos again.

I so fucking hate that someone pumped the brakes on that. Seeing Walz calling them weird was like manna from heaven, because it is so fucking TRUE. They are freaks and weirdos. Musk is a freak. Donvict is definitely a freak. That freak Mike Johnson and the porn sharing thing with his son? Marge, having a meltdown over a normal question about why the J6 terrorists were released?

None of them can be called even remotely normal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Exactly. As much as they want to pretend like they are the "silent majority" but they are so weird. Weird obsession with everyone else's genitals, bathrooms and what people are doing in their own homes. Weird, weird weird

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

And call out the president for everything wrong anywhere in the world, calling for him to fix it. Call out every failure, constantly. Make him feel the weight of the presidency, the weight of each and every failure.

[–] krashmo 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It sounds like you are suggesting that we attack via Trump's sense of shame. I don't feel like I need to explain why that's not going to work out.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Ego more than shame I would think.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Exactly. Show him what is going wrong. He can win elections because he promises everything. You can not deliver anything

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

What a brave call to action. Why didn't the Allies think of that??