GOP Senate candidate loses it & posts explicit videos after being called "weird"

I'm severely baffled. I don't understand how this is where they draw the line. The most mundane innocent everyday word.

Fascist? Sure. Nazis? No problem. Inhumane? Why not. Horrible? Absolutely. Deplorable? Proudly! Racist pieces of shit? Oh yes. Weird? How fucking dare you??!

Random ass.

It's blowing my mind how effective it is. Out of all the things to get offended by, that's one of the last things I would have expected.

I wonder how many of the people getting offended by being called "weird" are heavily closeted about something; and being called weird scares them because they think they're being outed.

My wife and I talked this morning about it. Initially I was the same way but she pointed out how simple it was. That makes it effective.

Most people on her I would consider more news/politically involved. The average voter is not that. Using Nazi, racist, or fascist requires people to do some kind of homework. Using a simplistic word like weird puts the bar much lower.

Want to examine kids to confirm their sex? Weird

Wondering what two people do in their bedroom? Weird

Saying a "Black job is a job they have." Weird

You don't have to be a genius to realize the old guy shitting himself on stage and saying he is always the best is weird.

Considering they are more crazy than weird, it may seem dumb:

Republican Senate candidate Royce White:

“We’re weird? You freaks support pride festivals where grown men are getting pissed on and sucking each other off in public,” White wrote. “You’re a clown and you’re lucky your term wasn’t up or I would’ve run against you. The People Are Coming! You communists are exposed.”

This is insane, because they claim to support personal freedoms, but in reality they don't. Instead they criticize it and discriminate against it.
Perfect example of being weird.

Calling them insane or crazy would probably not have as good an effect, because it would be considered overboard hyperbole, despite it's not.

Their bread and butter has been to stigmatize other people.

In DEI terms, they consider themselves the ‘in group’ and for reasons ranging from media companies with agendas, conservative billionaires with think tanks and PACs waging influence campaigns, to voter inaction and gerrymandering, they’ve largely felt that they were ‘normal’ in their beliefs, morally correct, ‘mainstream’ and on the cusp of winning the culture war they insisting is being waged upon them. The assumption that they are normal, right, and justified in their whack beliefs allows them to live an unexamined life.

Trump has largely been their figurehead for the last 9ish years, and he’s so shameless that people calling him weird has no effect on him. I think people have idolized and embraced that shamelessness. Now JD Vance is up there sharing the spotlight and instead of being unmemorable like Pence, he’s not only weird like Trump and his followers, but also awkward and doesn’t steamroll his way through the weird stuff he says. I don’t stay up on conservative news, but whenever I see news about Vance on my feeds recently, it seems like he’s having a ‘please clap’ moment. He’s throwing water on their whole movement with his lack of charisma, and it’s breaking the illusion, so when folks get called weird, that armor just isn’t there.

MAGA folks being called weird in mass media confronts the illusion of normalcy and stigmatizes them as being part of an ‘out group.’
I don’t think they’re mad about being called weird, necessarily. I think they’re mad at being told their beliefs are abnormal by what seems like a majority. It’s a crap shoot on whether or not that results in self-reflection, or that folks will be whipped up into more hatred against others.
I think so long as the response is continued mockery of the figure heads (Trump, Vance, etc), or attacks are on the beliefs but not the regular people, even the hateful ones will exhaust themselves.

It's a bit like how the Norwegians used humor as a method of resistance against the Nazis

Same, until I realized it was the anti-gop "u mad bro"...now I can't stop won't stop.

Well yeah they aren’t getting any gay sex

I mean the GOP National Convention took down Grindr in the area, or something, so yeah. Also, I guess some nobody had sex with a couch.

It's seems kinda weird. Not the gay part, just the obsession with porn. Kids sometimes study politics for school, do we really want them to start googling about sex acts to understand what a "trusted" public figure is talking about on social media?

But he is a weird nobody, and goes to lenghts to prove it.

I absolutely fucking love that this triggers them

Weird is a beautiful word. I'm a circus sideshow performer, aka professional freak. In the sideshow we celebrate the weird and unusual and outlandish (but not these two, we're all hippy communists).

So the fact that this word triggers them is just 🤌🏼😙

I'm not sure how it shows how it is effective, the article is really just "look some more people on Twitter called this no-name candidate weird." It doesn't touch on at all if this is an effective strategy that will sway voters.

It's just more of the hard hitting and deep digging "journalism" I've come to expect from lgtbnation.

WAR ON SCANDALGATE is their default headline, adjusted for whatever the hell they are mad about. They are not creative. They are old, boring, and weird.