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.
this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2025
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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.
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.
Ego more than shame I would think.
Exactly. Show him what is going wrong. He can win elections because he promises everything. You can not deliver anything
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.
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
What a brave call to action. Why didn't the Allies think of that??
Trump looks pretty fucking weak to me, but I wouldn't be surprised if he was actually weaker than my already low standard.
I'm not sure how that's possible. He appears to be the weakest, most fragile coward one could imagine.
Rafael Cruz is right over there.
Dude looks pretty fucking weak to me.
Weak yes. But weak minded is the noticeable thing that I don’t see enough people talking about. I may be missing something. His sentence structure and repetition of the same adjectives, as well as the slowed speech show that something ain’t right. Why is this not pointed out more? Maybe I’m reading the wrong articles.
deliberate or emergent, it resonates with a shockingly large number of people. shared brain damage, if you will.
It's not called out because his name isn't Biden.
Many of us called it out breathlessly for the last ten fucking years...
He has normalized it.
I would fucking hope so, but if he's as powerful as he and his party would like us to think he is, then may God help us all.
Two words will describe the next four years: Dumpster Fire.
Hey if the first 2 are bad enough maybe we can do something about the next ones. It's the only hope I've got right now.
Well, the people sitting it out apparently didn't think it was that big a deal.
He looks pretty fucking weak. Just saying.
He looks like an elderly man who is addicted to spray tan.
Cruelty is a weak person's desperate attempt at looking (not even being) strong.
And neither one works.
The nastier he becomes, the weaker he is.
He's like a frail newborn with no neck control and tiny little baby hands
Bet I could take him in a fight
I think a wet napkin can take him in a fight
I'm surprised his tiny hands can hold up that heavy paper.