Harris dismisses Trump as the ‘same old show’ as he rips into her on race

Trump and Harris held dueling events in Pennsylvania and Texas on Wednesday night.

 

You will get nary a pol, for whom the rule is "every attack answered in the same news cycle"  to agree, but I do agree with this dismissive response to Trump. Here is Kamala's lead-in:

"This afternoon..." She's already smiling. Her audience knows what's coming. They begin to laugh.

Pause. Smile. Doesn't say anything.

Pause. She still hasn't spoken. The audience's laughter increases. She laughs, it is audible.

"Donald Trump spoke at the National Association of Black Journalists."

And then quickly, and dismissively, she spreads and then folds her arms together again and says, "It was the same old show."

Folks, I have watched this. I have thought about the CW, and I honestly think this, bemused, dismissive, like "Okay Boomer", this is the way she should handle Trump. She does not take what he says seriously, she is confident in who she is and in who he is. I go against the CW. This is the way for her to handle him.

It is the "same old show" from him, again, and again, and agayne. I agree with Sen. Mark Kelly that Trump now sounds like 

“a desperate and scared old man. He's afraid to lose an election to her in November, and he's afraid about his own future. ...She's a fantastic, historic candidate. And who is he? He's a convicted felon...Of course he's going to continue to do it. That's all he can do. This is all he has in his playbook

“I think he’s worried, and she’s going to continue to do this, and she’s going to win the election in November,”

Both Trump in his rally in Harrisburg, Pa. and Bowman/Hamel/Couch/Vance, in his rally in Arizona, are trotting out a new coordinated attack. She's a "stone cold phony", Trump said; an old headline was projected onto the megatron, “California’s Kamala Harris becomes the first Indian American US senator.”  "A phony" was Couch's simpler attack. 34-time convicted felon-fraudster-rapist-serial liar-Project 2025-denier calling a D.A., an A.G., a U.S. Sen., the V.P. a phony?! Couch, three names, initials-no initials, evangelical protestant-atheist-Christian/Hindu wedding-Indian wife-Catholic calling her “a phony who caters to whatever audience is in front of her.” 😂 What's a better response to them than dismissive laughter?! Couch, calling HER a phony who caters to whatever audience?! Nah-ah, those dogs won't hunt. They are desperate, they don't know how to deal with her. This is all that they can do. And it is not working. Not from these dogs. Not on her. "She is going to win."

🎵Each evening, from December to December
Before you drift to sleep upon your cot
Think back on all the tales that you remember
Of Kamalot

Ask every person if he's heard the story
And tell it strong and clear if he has not
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Kamalot

Kamalot! Kamalot!
I know it gives a person pause
But in Kamalot, Kamalot
Those were the legal laws

Where once it never rained till after sundown
By 8 a.m the morning fog had flown
Don't let it be forgot that once there was a spot

For one brief shining moment
That was known as Kamalot 🎵

Eleven Cat for Kamala Cat Vice President

Kamalot

 

Maya Rudolph To Play

Kamala Harris On

‘Saturday Night Live’ 

Through 2024 

Presidential Election

 

“Mamala” is getting back to work, as Maya Rudolph will reprise her Emmy-winning role as Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday Night Live this fall as the NBC late-night comedy program covers the final stretch of the 2024 Presidential campaign.

Rudolph’s impersonation of Harris has been so popular, the moment the Vice President emerged as the presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee after President Joe Biden dropped out on July 21, fans had been urging her to clear her schedule for an SNL return. And she has.

Kamalot

 

UAW endorses Kamala 

Harris for president

 

Why it matters: The UAW had been one of the few large unions to withhold an endorsement, as both parties vie to be seen as supporting labor and working-class Americans.

What they're saying: "Our job in this election is to defeat Donald Trump and elect Kamala Harris to build on her proven track record of delivering for the working class," said UAW President Shawn Fain in a statement.

• "We can put a billionaire back in office who stands against everything our union stands for, or we can elect Kamala Harris who will stand shoulder to shoulder with us in our war on corporate greed."

Recent Blacks for Kamala

 

Trump Questions Harris’s 

Racial Identity, Saying She 

Only ‘Became a Black 

Person’ Recently

Kamalot

Harris campaign sees increase in Florida 

volunteers, most in any 

state

Kamala Harris campaign 

deployed 1,400 Florida 

volunteers during 

'Weekend of Action'

We have so much TALENT! I LOVE Tim Walz, Gov. of MN, Mn. originator of "weird." I LOVE Josh Shapiro, and my heart and my head are in PA. but damn, it's overchoice! LOVE Pete Buttigieg. LOVE "Big Gretch"😂. Man,, when Detroit rappers are writing songs about you, you have skeels😂. I wish this was like the Moose Club or something where you have a first vice-president, a second vice-president, a third...If you're a Gopie, you have JD Bowman/Hamel/Vance, the evangelical Christian/Atheist/Catholic who got married by a minister and a Hindu pandit. THAT'S DEI!🤣

Kamalot

They're like the apes before the monolith in 2001 Space Odyssey.🧐 They don't know what to make of her or what to do with her. I've never seen a group so stumped. 🤨😂

Bowman/Hamel/Vance Should Get His Ear Pierced in Solidarity With Trump

I would suggest the same place Trumpie got pierced on July 13: 

He has already adopted Trumpie's white power hand symbol.

 

Adebayo-led helps U.S. topple South Sudan (Espo) 

103-86 final

The $200M that kamala has raised? The big checks, like from Melinda French Gates, probably came so quickly because big donors anticipated kamala was going to choose a governor for the two slot, and SEC rules prohibit Wall Street types from giving to a ticket with a sitting governor on board. I didn't know that.

Zolan Kanno-Youngs
July 31, 2024, 2:47 p.m. ET1 hour ago

Zolan Kanno-YoungsReporting from Chicago
ABC’s Rachel Scott fact checks Trump as he questions whether Harris passed the bar exam. “She passed it,” Scott says.

“Is she Indian or is she Black?”

Former President Donald J. Trump questioned the racial identity of Vice President Kamala Harris during a tense appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists conference in Chicago on Wednesday, asking, “Is she Indian or is she Black?”

"play toy"

On the segment on the rightwing cable channel’s The Ingraham Angle, with host Laura Ingraham, Trump said that if his Democratic rival beats him to the presidency in November’s election she will struggle to deal with foreign leaders on the world stage.

Trump said: “I think they would walk all over her. She will be so easy for them, she will be like a play toy.”

He added, of foreign leaders: “They look at her and they say, I would believe, ‘We got so lucky,’ and they are going to walk all over her. I don’t want to say as to why but a lot of people understand it.”

Yes, we do! Because she's a woman of color.

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh is killed in Iran by an alleged Israeli strike, threatening escalation

I take this as a "sign"...

 

Harris to hold first rally with running mate Tuesday in Philadelphia

The vice president is expected to announce her pick sometime before the appearance.

(Polly)

The two will barnstorm cities in seven swing states in four days. In addition to Philadelphia, they’ll hit western Wisconsin, Detroit, Raleigh, Savannah, Phoenix and Las Vegas.

I LOVE to see that kinda schedule.

Bowman aka Hamel aka Vance

The last thing JD Vance probably wants to be associated with right now is a couch. But for some reason, he's still talking about it.

"I've been the beneficiary, I have to say, of a number of strong women in my life, especially my beautiful wife, who you guys saw earlier," Vance said. "I would call her up here to speak, but then I think I'd have to sleep on the couch tonight, so I'll leave her alone."

"He will always be my first choice"

Trump himself has expressed nostalgia for running against Biden (“He will always be my first choice”)

97 Days to the Election

Kamala is behind in AZ and can make it to the WH even if she loses here, in GA and in NV. But Arizona is different. That is a prickly, "maverick" group of Republicans they have there. They embrace their independence and are really pissed off that, as Mayor Giles says, their state was made Ground Zero for Trump's election denialism and shenanigans. And it angers them. YOU, you New York City flim-flam artist, are telling US we didn't hold a fair election?! It's insulting to Arizonans. As it should be. Probably a majority of Democratic decision-makers are about ready to write Arizona off. Let's see how the polls go in the coming weeks but this is one we may be wise to keep an eye on, and keep in play.

Why, as a Republican 

mayor, I support Kamala 

Harris over Trump

Arizona Republicans like me can emulate Sen. John McCain's motto of 'Country First' and beat back Trump and his threat to democracy.

John Giles

opinion contributor

 

...since Donald Trump refused to accept the outcome of the 2020 election, Republicans have yet to course correct. The Republican Party with Trump at its helm continues down the path of political extremism, away from focusing on our fundamental freedoms. 

 

I believe my party has a moral and ethical responsibility to restore faith in our democratic institutions. In the spirit of the late Sen. John McCain’s motto, “Country First,” I call on other Arizona Republicans to join me in choosing country over party this election and to vote against Donald Trump.  

 

Trump did not support Arizona cities

In Arizona, we have faced the brunt of misinformation, election denialism and an erosion of trust in our justice system.

The Grand Canyon State is ground zero in the fight against repeated false claims to disrupt our electoral process — from fake presidential electors attempting to undermine Arizona’s election, to a sham “audit” by Arizona Senate Republicans that was spurred by conspiracy theories.

Significant reforms to immigration and border policies that would have addressed the crisis at our southern border were blocked by Trump because he didn’t want the problem solved. He wanted to exploit it for personal political gain.

Since 2014, I have had the honor of being mayor of Mesa, the nation’s 36th-largest city and one of the most conservative. Under Trump, American cities didn’t get the support they deserved. Infrastructure week was made into a joke.

But under the Biden-Harris administration, Mesa has seen historic federal funding for the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, along with investments to make sure our streets and public transit systems benefit from modern technology.

With the CHIPS Act, Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden are delivering thousands of new jobs to Arizonans and helping us grow critical industries.

The time has come for my fellow Arizona Republicans to return to the core foundations of the Grand Old Party.

Our party used to stand for the belief that every Arizonan, no matter their background or circumstances, should have the freedom, opportunity and security to live out their American Dream.  

But since Donald Trump refused to accept the outcome of the 2020 election, Republicans have yet to course correct. The Republican Party with Trump at its helm continues down the path of political extremism, away from focusing on our fundamental freedoms. 

Now more than ever, we need leaders who will put country over party.

I believe my party has a moral and ethical responsibility to restore faith in our democratic institutions. In the spirit of the late Sen. John McCain’s motto, “Country First,” I call on other Arizona Republicans to join me in choosing country over party this election and to vote against Donald Trump. 

Harris is the competent leader we need

Trump poses a serious threat to our nation. We can’t have a felon representing us on the national stage, let alone one who would threaten to abandon NATO and ruin our standing abroad.

We are in a moment that only happens once every few generations, when we have to defend democracy, and stand up for the right to vote and our civil rights. It is essential that we proceed in a manner that strengthens, rather than diminishes, public confidence in our democratic institutions.

What kind of country do we want to live in?

Vice President Harris is fighting to make sure Americans can get ahead and be safe from gun violence and to restore and protect the rights of women...

Arizona leaders like McCain and Sen. Mark Kelly have embodied the commitment to country over party. And it’s that same high caliber of character and leadership I see in Vice President Harris.

That’s why I’m standing with her. Kamala Harris is the competent, just and fair leader our country deserves. This year too much is at stake to vote Republican at the top of the ticket.

It will take Arizona Republicans, independents and Democrats standing together against a far-right agenda. Let us put country over party by voting to stop Trump and protect our democracy.

Republican John Giles is mayor of Mesa.

We'll Always Have Parasitosis

There were no winners or losers in men’s triathlon, which was as postponed because of concerns about the water quality in the Seine River amid a heat wave that made life difficult on some athletes and fans in Paris.

Not AI

Not the same face.

*

Volume One:

Volume Two *Updated:

(more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump in an interview on Tuesday claimed Vice President Kamala Harris, who is married to a Jewish man, “doesn’t like Jewish people”...

...

“You can see the disdain,” he said, adding, “No. 1, she doesn’t like Israel. No. 2, she doesn’t like Jewish people. You know it, I know it and everybody knows it and nobody wants to say it.”

...

As Trump continued on, he again said of Harris, “She dislikes Jewish people and Israel even more than Biden did.”

The interview host, Sid Rosenberg, then mentioned Harris’ husband, second gentleman Doug Emhoff and said, “He’s Jewish like Bernie Sanders is Jewish. Are you kidding me?”

“Yeah,” Trump said.

“He’s a crappy Jew,” Rosenberg said, continuing.

“Yeah,” Trump said again.

Rosenberg went on, saying of Emhoff, “He’s a horrible Jew.”

...

Trump made a similar claim about Harris disliking Jewish people on Friday while speaking to a Christian group at a Turning Point USA gathering in Florida. He has also ignited blowback in the past for making similar remarks about Jewish people, like when he said in March that Jews who vote for Democrats “hate Israel” and hate “their religion.”

Kamalot

We're going to look back on this Summer of Weird someday, oh maybe on Nov. 6, and say "What just happened?"

In case anybody missed today's Senate committee hearing on Trump's ear piercing procedure, I took some screenshots to catch you up:

You're welcome.

Do you think this is AI?

That's the same face, no?

Loolll

 uly 30, 2024, 5:43 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Reid J. Epstein
Vice President Kamala Harris’s event in Atlanta tonight will be the Biden-turned-Harris campaign’s largest rally to date, the campaign said. The recording artists Megan Thee Stallion and Quavo will perform before Harris speaks — a sign, if there ever was one, that this is no longer President Biden’s campaign.

 Maya King
July 30, 2024, 6:40 p.m. ET1 hour ago

Maya KingReporting from Atlanta
Supporters have packed just about every seat in the Georgia State convocation center for Vice President Kamala Harris’s rally. Organizers have said about 10,000 people are here, and the energy is electric

Kamalot

July 30, 2024, 7:12 p.m. ET53 minutes ago

Maya King Reporting from Atlanta

Vice President Kamala Harris has taken the stage in Atlanta to a raucous crowd. Supporters were so excited to see her that she had to calm them down, saying, “I’m getting to some business now,” as many continued to cheer.

 Lisa Lerer
July 30, 2024, 7:18 p.m. ET46 minutes ago

Lisa Lerer

At one point, after she juxtaposed her record as a prosecutor with the criminal and civil cases against Trump, the crowd burst into a chant: “Lock him up!”

Maya King
July 30, 2024, 7:22 p.m. ET41 minutes ago

Maya King Reporting from Atlanta
It’s really hard to overstate just how different the environment is for Democrats now. Just two weeks ago, it would have been nearly impossible to imagine President Biden turning out a rally of Georgia Democrats like this one, with around 10,000 people here at the Georgia State University convocation center tonight

(Same NYT live blog)

trash bags for kamala

 

Lara Trump compared Kamala Harris to Balenciaga’s faux ‘trash bag.’

...Fox News’s Laura Ingraham, noted that Democrats have highlighted that quote as evidence that Mr. Trump would end elections, and urged Mr. Trump to rebut what she called a “ridiculous” criticism.

But Mr. Trump declined to do so...

 The exchange began when Ms. Ingraham told the former president: “They’re saying that you said to a crowd of Christians that they won’t have to vote in the future.”

...

He then reiterated his statement from Friday.

“I said, vote for me, you’re not going to have to do it ever again. It’s true,” he said. “Because we have to get the vote out. Christians are not known as a big voting group. They don’t vote. And I’m explaining that to them. You never vote. This time, vote. I’ll straighten out the country, you won’t have to vote anymore. I won’t need your vote.”

Ms. Ingraham offered him an off-ramp: “You mean you don’t have to vote for you, because you’ll have four years in office.”

Mr. Trump began talking about gun owners not voting, but Ms. Ingraham interrupted him. 

“It’s being interpreted, as you are not surprised to hear, by the left as, well, they’re never going to have another election,” she said. “So can you even just respond —”

Mr. Trump cut her off, claiming again that Christians “vote in very small percentages,” and digressing into how he would change voting practices.

He then repeated his statement from Friday once more, saying his message had been: “Don’t worry about the future. You have to vote on Nov. 5. After that, you don’t have to worry about voting anymore. I don’t care, because we’re going to fix it. The country will be fixed and we won’t even need your vote anymore, because frankly we will have such love, if you don’t want to vote anymore, that’s OK.”

“I said, vote for me, you’re not going to have to do it ever again,” Trump said in a Fox News interview.

No attempt to quiet the uproar: Mr. Trump repeated his recent assertion that Christians will never have to vote again if they cast their ballots for him in November, brushing aside several requests to walk back or clarify the statement in a Fox News interview televised on Monday night. Mr. Trump’s initial comments, to a group of Christian conservatives on Friday, were interpreted by many Democrats as evidence he would end elections.

 

 

Kamalot in GA

The novelty of Harris’s energy and charisma has not worn off. She is forceful, confident and responsive – unruffled by applause or unexpected chanting.

 

Harris holds onto 1 point lead over Trump in latest Reuters/Ipsos poll

kamala in Georgia: The crowd loses it.

 'If you've got something to say, say it to my face,' Harris says as she challenges Trump to a debate

“There are signs Donald Trump is feeling” the competition, she says.

“You may have noticed he pulled out of the debate.”

She repeats the assertion made by her campaign in recent days that Trump is “just plain weird”.

“I do hope Trump will agree to meet me on the debate stage, because as the saying goes, if you got something to say, say it to my face.”

The crowd loses it.

Georgia Right Now!

Harris takes 4-point lead in Pennsylvania

Kamala Harris Wipes Out Trump’s Swing-State Lead in Election Dead Heat

The vice president is polling better than Biden was before he dropped out, according to the latest Bloomberg News/Morning Consult survey.

🎵O Kamela, you're going to beat Weird Trump 🎵

Harris narrows gap with Trump after Biden exit: Poll

Vice President Harris is narrowing the gap with former President Trump after President Biden’s historic exit from the 2024 White House race, new polling shows.

The latest Harvard CAPS/Harris poll puts Trump ahead of Harris by just 3 points...48 percent to 45 percent...down from the 7-point lead he held over Biden in June. 

Harris also saw a 9-point jump in favorability after she took over Biden’s bid. She and Trump are now effectively tied at 47 and 48 percent, respectively, in terms of favorability. 

...

The poll, a collaboration between the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard (CAPS) and the Harris Poll and HarrisX, was conducted July 26-28 among 2,196 registered voters. The margin of error for the total sample was plus or minus 2.1 percentage points.

He's LOSING IT!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!

 Your own veep wrote the FORWARD, Trumpie, you dumb fuck! How you gonna escape THAT?! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

You're in a "subordinate role" to a GIRL, Trumpie!

Woman on top, Trumpie! How do you like that position?! Kamala is making you her BITCH! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

Nor have I!

“We did not expect we would have cat lady news cycles,” a Harris campaign aide told The Washington Post. “This is organically happening without us pushing. … I’ve never seen anything like it. It’s so weird.” (Daily Kos)

 

'People feel good': Georgia Democrats galvanize base ahead of Harris visit

Georgia Democrats say enthusiasm is at levels unseen in years as the vice president holds a campaign rally in the state. Is it enough to put Georgia in the middle of the 2024 map?

I Resemble That Remark

 

‘White Dudes for Harris’ is the latest in a series of Zoom gatherings backing the vice president (Apie)

 

The Zoom calls haven’t been organized by Harris’ team...“Winning campaigns are powered by real, organic support"...

3 Now Murdered in UK Knife Attack at Swiftie Kids Dance

Let me count the ways...

 

Harris and Democrats keep calling Trump and Vance ‘weird.’ Here’s why (AP)

98 Days to the Election

NC Gov. Roy Cooper Withdraws From kamala V.P. Consideration

"not immediately clear why" per Quasis.

4.9 Quake in SoCal

baby girl on daddy's arm🥹

Where's Kamala?

Google's aggregated top news items:

1) Biden's Supreme Court plan

2) Venezuela's elections

3) Izreal-Hezbollah

4) FBI Trump interview assassination attempt

5) Sinead O'Connor cause of death

6) Trump: Christians won't have to vote again

7) Baseball trade deadline

8) California wildfires

9) Whitmer says Kamala will announce v.p. nominee in 6-7 days

Show Me, Millennials, XX Chromosomes

"White women supported Trump over Hillary Clinton in 2016, 47% to 45%, Pew Research shows. In the 2020 election, an even higher number of white women, 53%, supported Trump."

-White women defeated the Equal Rights Amendment.

-Millennials want to be "listened to and respected".

Every generation faces a defining moment. You wanted it, you got it: For millennials and for white XX chromosomes generally this is your moment. Elect kamala and the "torch will pass" to you as leaders; fail and you will be ignored as those who were tested and found wanting, subjected to pressure and found "anxious" and "not okay".

Weird Defense of Wife

He Could be a Great President or a Great Candidate But Didn't Have the Energy to be Both

The White House

JULY 29, 2024

FACT SHEET: President Biden Announces Bold Plan to Reform the Supreme Court and Ensure No President Is Above the Law


From his first day in office—and every day since then—President Biden has taken action to strengthen American democracy and protect the rule of law.

In recent years, the Supreme Court has overturned long-established legal precedents protecting fundamental rights. This Court has gutted civil rights protections, taken away a woman’s right to choose, and now granted Presidents broad immunity from prosecution for crimes they commit in office.

At the same time, recent ethics scandals involving some Justices have caused the public to question the fairness and independence that are essential for the Court to faithfully carry out its mission to deliver justice for all Americans.

President Biden believes that no one—neither the President nor the Supreme Court—is above the law.

In the face of this crisis of confidence in America’s democratic institutions, President Biden is calling for three bold reforms to restore trust and accountability:No Immunity for Crimes a Former President Committed in Office: President Biden shares the Founders’ belief that the President’s power is limited—not absolute—and must ultimately reside with the people. He is calling for a constitutional amendment that makes clear no President is above the law or immune from prosecution for crimes committed while in office. This No One Is Above the Law Amendmentwill state that the Constitution does not confer any immunity from federal criminal indictment, trial, conviction, or sentencing by virtue of previously serving as President.Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices: Congress approved term limits for the Presidency over 75 years ago, and President Biden believes they should do the same for the Supreme Court. The United States is the only major constitutional democracy that gives lifetime seats to its high court Justices. Term limits would help ensure that the Court’s membership changes with some regularity; make timing for Court nominations more predictable and less arbitrary; and reduce the chance that any single Presidency imposes undue influence for generations to come. President Biden supports a system in which the President would appoint a Justice every two years to spend eighteen years in active service on the Supreme Court.Binding Code of Conduct for the Supreme Court: President Biden believesthat Congress should pass binding, enforceable conduct and ethics rules that require Justices to disclose gifts, refrain from public political activity, and recuse themselves from cases in which they or their spouses have financial or other conflicts of interest. Supreme Court Justices should not be exempt from the enforceable code of conduct that applies to every other federal judge.

President Biden and Vice President Harris look forward to working with Congress and empowering the American people to prevent the abuse of Presidential power, restore faith in the Supreme Court, and strengthen the guardrails of democracy. President Biden thanks the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States for its insightful analysis of Supreme Court reform proposals. The Administration will continue its work to ensure that no one is above the law – and in America, the people rule.

###

98 Days and another...FIFTY MIL?

99 Days until the election

 “She was a bum three weeks ago. She was a bum. A failed vice president in a failed administration."

...

Trump took things a step further, describing Harris as “evil”, “sick” and “unhinged” and saying if she became president, “the American dream is dead”.

"lunatic"

"dumb as a rock"

"absolute radical"

"crazy liberal"

You're WEIRD, Trumpie! You're so WEIRD you're going to a Black GIRL!😁

"Trump escalates rhetoric against Kamala Harris at campaign event"

Former President Trump criticized Vice President Kamala Harris as "a lunatic"...

So, he's tried "Laughing Kamala", "Lying Kamala", "dumb as a rock", "bum"...There's one I'm missing. I'll think of it. Oh! "Evil"! And "sick". And "unhinged". Trumpie, you're confusing me. I can't keep 'em all straight!

Now, I am not minimizing the threat to kamala. Any Trump low-life could be incited to violence against her. The point is to see the real power and not get distracted by the impotence masquerading as power. These insults are like water off a duck's back because they're...WEIRD!😂

The Summer of "Weird"

But “weird” is what seems to be sticking, in part as an apparent simplification of warnings about the threat to democracy that Trump poses – which dominated 15 months of Biden’s re-election campaign.

Minnesota’s Democratic governor Tim Walz appears to have started the “weird” political trendline. He posted on X, “Say it with me: Weird,” in response to a video of Trump speaking about Lecter. Walz later followed up with “these guys are weird” to describe Trump and Vance.

During a Sunday appearance on CNN’s State of the Union, Walz was asked if “weird” had replaced existential threat to democracy as a more effective attack strategy. The retired high school educator and football coach replied: “It’s an observation because being a schoolteacher I see a lot of things.”

Walz added that a second Trump presidency could indeed put women’s lives at risk over reproductive rights after three of his US supreme court appointees helped eliminate federal abortion rights in 2022. He also said Trump could end other constitutional liberties – but musing about his embodiment of a threat to democracy “gives him way too much power,” Walz argued.

A KEY observation! "You're not as bad as you think you are, Trumpie. You can't overthrow our democracy! A person who thinks that is just WEIRD!" "Weird" minimizes power without minimizing the real threats he poses.

"Trumpie, you told your Christian friends you're going to "fix it" so that this is the last election they'd have to vote in? I would have thought being arrested four times in a year and convicted of 34 felonies would have taught you that there are severe limits on your "fix it" powers."

...

“Listen to the guy. He’s talking about Hannibal Lecter and shocking sharks and whatever crazy thing pops into his mind,” Walz said.

You could play a laugh track to Trumpie's speeches!

“I think we give him way too much credit."

"If you just ratchet down some of the scariness and just name it what it is.  

"Have you seen the guy laugh? It seems very weird to me that an adult can go through six-and-a-half years of being in the public eye and when he laughs it’s at someone – not with them.”

I HAVE MADE THAT SAME POINT FROM AS FAR BACK AS 2016! HE DOES NOT LAUGH! HE HAS NO SENSE OF HUMOR! Calling someone "weird" is telling them you don't take them that seriously. You're laughing at them, and the one thing autocrats and proto-crats cannot abide is being made fun of. It emasculates them.

“That’s very weird behavior,” Walz explained on State of the Union. “I don’t think you call it anything else. It’s simply what we’re observing.”