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There's no way it lasts. They're going to do some shit like have Pharrel Williams make a Happy parody about being weird and encouraging people to vote. They're going to lean too far into the one word instead of calling them orgiastic pedophiles. Of course, if their politics allowed for it instead of being mutually exclusive (i.e. supportive of the LGBT and Palestine), they could call them genital obsessed freaks and genocidal maniacs.
In fact, either they do the Pharrel Williams route or their enemy is simultaneously weak and strong and they have to concede an anti-woke alliance or some such nonsense.
They're going to run it into the ground. That's my prediction. I'm already seeing it on Twitter and Reddit. A bunch of
responses to every post they make that just say "gee you sure are WEIRD sir!" They found one thing that works and they're just going to repeat it until it loses all meaning.
Yeah, what’s good so far is that weird is ambiguous enough to mean anything.
Ask dems how Repos are weird and theyll say some shit like ‘well, GOP says that they want secure borders and yet they keep allowing all these illegals in’
Right. I think it works best when really just used occasionally, and mostly by smaller-time actors. Harris gave a speech the other day that included a line like "and by the way, have you noticed how a lot of these guys are just plain WEIRD?" It felt unnatural and, well, weird. Waltz and people like him can deliver it convincingly because they can talk about normal things they do. Harris can't, because she is also weird. If they oversaturate with it, it's going to lose effectiveness.
Idk tho when they keep showing their ass in response to it every time by pulling out absurd transphobic memes they have saved on their phone I think it might just keep working forever.
This is my thinking. They've found gold and instead of using it in mixture with other things. They're going to run it into the ground.
Eh... we will see. Chuds getting self conscious is funny to me.
It reminds me of "ok boomer", but that stopped because teens found other things to say, which I doubt will happen this time
I’m waiting for Trump to start selling bumper stickers of it.
Idk. The whole fascade is sort of at risk with this, they won't be able to co-opt it or anything because weird is completely at odds with right wing messaging.
Even if they go "yeah well if it's weird to blah blah blah then I guess I am weird" it'll just come across like a bullied dweeb lol
They need Walz on the ballot. He's the one who used it first, not because it was a tested strategy, but because it's just genuinely something he believes. He's probably the most progressive and pro-labor candidate for VP. Obviously still a Democrat, but one of the few non-lizards in the party that can actually push against the emerging maga communism nonsense that the teamsters president was trying to feed into