I hate to come off as a liberal version of James J. Kilpatrick, but we need to stop calling Donald Trump and J.D. Vance “weird.” I say that, because they’re a lot worse than “weird.”
For someone like Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who is the Democratic running mate for Vice-President Kamala Harris, “weird” is term that someone from that area would use. Mind you, these are the same people who live their winters in a frozen tundra. I’ve heard from some people who lived in the “Land of 10,000 Lakes,” and the brutality of a winter means that bereaved people have to postpone burials until the spring time or when the ice/snow thaws enough to dig six feet deep.
People from Minnesota talk in a dialect that would sound fake in its pleasantry if it was any other area in America. What made movies like Fargo and Grumpy Old Men so popular, they were eye-openers to a way of life very few had only read about. I remember when my stepmother, who has a deep Southern accent, met Buddy Hackett. She said Hackett wanted to meet her because he thought the Southern accent was made up a long time ago by Hollywood producers.
So, yes, “weird” would be a term Walz would use because it couldn’t bring out any worse terms. Trump and Vance are not “weird.” Just look at Weird Al Yankovic. That’s a good representation of someone who’s “weird.” That’s because it also means they’re likeable. Someone who is weird may stray from the herd but you like them for their individuality and originality.
It’s the same as liking someone or something that is bizarre. That’s because “bizarre” invokes a level of mystery and wonderment. It’s like the Bizarro Seinfeld episode and how it showed that there was opposites of Jerry, George and Kramer. It came off as peculiar but it was also fascinating to see. Mainly because there are people out there who do have friends who are total opposites of each other. That’s not weird. It’s bizarre because it’s not universal. Most people tend to find common ground and similar likes with their friends. Thus, that’s why they’re friends. But very rarely, you might have a friend or two who are totally different from another friend or two of yours. You all will never hang out together but you haver become the common denominator in the circles of friends.
King of the Hill did a similar episode like this when Hank finds a friend in Hal, voiced by Drew Carey.
Also, Trump and Vance aren’t strange. Klaus von Bulow was strange. Strange is someone you don’t particularly like, but you don’t exactly despise or even hate them. They just live a completely different way of life than most people would understand. It doesn’t make them entirely bad people. They’re just strange because you don’t know much about them. That’s why they’re a stranger. And as Jeremy Irons as von Bulow famously quipped, “You have no idea.”
No, no, no. Trump and Vance aren’t weird. They’re not strange. They’re definitely not bizarre. I wouldn’t even say they were odd because when someone or something is odd, it means it’s usually mildly off-center. Odd is like when you’re in a room or at a party and everyone’s chatting but there’s that one rarity where everyone gets quiet at the same time. It’s not planned. It’s not orchestrated. It just happens.
Odd is actually amusing. You can make several good anecdotes about odd things. One time I was lost near the Georgia border in Alabama. So, my ex and I found two black men who helped us. Their instructions pointed out that I’d need to turn where there are two liquor stores. Of course, I thought it was odd they’d mention liquor stores but a half-mile down the road, I saw a plains clothes cop at a convenience store. He gave us the same instructions. Turn there at the two liquor stores. So, it was kinda odd that the two liquor stores were where you turned to get to a highway.
Nope, Trump is not odd. Neither is Vance. Walz might seem odd. And people may say Harris’ laugh as odd. No, Trump is totally out of his mind. I’d argue the man is suffering from the early stages of dementia or even Alzheimer’s. At 78, it’s very unlikely, he is suffering from a mental cognitive disease. Any man who would say during a Presidential Debate moderated by ABC that there are Haitian-Americans in Springfield, Ohio abducting, killing and consuming cats and dogs is totally out of his mind. This is an unhinged man who doesn’t need to be in the White House.
He doesn’t even need to stay in his own house, without constant supervision from medical officials. Has anyone thought this might be why he keeps wearing the same type of suit get-up? It may be because it’s the only thing that keeps him from really going over the top if he changes up his style. That’s why I think the bastard likes golf so much. It gives him something to do.
By now means would I ever defend “that sumbitch Reagan” But I heard before his health go so bad he couldn’t do much, his family found a way to keep him occupied day-by-day. It turned out Reagan enjoyed raking leaves. So, he’d get up in the morning, eat breakfast, put on some work clothes and go outside to rake leaves. Then, he’d go inside, wash up, and eat lunch. During this time, the Secret Service and his caregivers would take the leaves he raked and scatter them around the yard, so Reagan who had totally forgot he had done this, would spend the afternoons raking them again.
And when he went back in for supper, the leaves would be scattered again for the next day. And so on and so on.
Calling Trump weird is short-changing his true conditions and making it sound like something we’ll just have to learn to put up with. And we can’t do that. We can’t learn to put up with this behavior for four more years. It’s a shame the Republican Party has degraded themselves so much at this point to even be supporting someone like this. Of all those foreign countries with the power-hungry leaders, people like Reagan made their careers on rallying against, now the GOP embraces as the next chapter in their party’s playbook.
I’m not saying that both sides have had corrupted politicians on their sides. But both the Democrats and Republicans have been quick to distance themselves from these crooked people as much as possible. I know people have forgotten, but the Watergate Hearings were a bipartisan operation. That’s different now. When the Republicans criticized Hillary Clinton saying she’s not a “Stand By Your Man” style of woman, they have know become that type of person and more. And it’s almost became a cult-like mentality.
You don’t serve an alcoholic beverage to a drunk, but the GOP have given him an Open Bar. And that’s made Trump feel he is infallible. A narcissist never believes they are the problem. You ever heard the expression of a parent watching a marching band in parade thinking, “My child is the only one walking in step.” That’s what it’s like.
Narcissism isn’t weird. It’s a cancer that many people have. And worse, more people are subjected to it being told by enablers that they should just go along with it to make the person happy. I can’t tell you the number of I’ve heard “Just let them talk!” No, fuck no! You need to shut them the fuck up if they are blasting this bullshit! Pardon my language, but this is where we have gotten. Because letting people talk has led to violence and harassments.
Remember back when you were in school. There always was one asshole in just about every class who questioned everything the instructor said. Their goal was to keep the instructor from teaching that day, because they weren’t wanting to learn anything Yet, most instructors put their foot down and told the bad students to leave the room. However, we have not done this outside of the classroom.
WLWT News in Cincinnati is reporting the lies Trump spewed about Haitian-Americans originating in a motherfucking Facebook post, in 2024 nonetheless. Not 2008 nor 2012 where it might have been credible to be investigated further. But someone in Springfield named Erika Lee claims that her neighbors said her daughter said they saw a cat being hung up like a hunter will do a deer. Someone posted that someone told her that someone told them they saw this. That sounds as about as credible as seeing Sasquatch and Elvis Presley talking to someone on a payphone outside a Blockbuster Video.
So, Trump is a narcissistic senile frustrated old man who probably has cognitive memory skills. That’s not weird. That’s dangerous to have if he wants to be the next President. But the man who wants to be the President after Trump is a lot worse. J.D. Vance is just a creepy misogynist. Going back to school, he’s like that guy we all knew who pretended to be a preppy but we all knew he just was a little off because he’s too religious. The man can’t even order donuts like a normal person which is too order too much at first and then think about it, but lie to yourself that you’re going to share. Instead you’re going to eat them yourself cursing the stomachache you’ll get.
He was born James David Bowman, but his name was changed to Hamel and then to Vance. He took the initials J.D. in memory of his uncle. But people named J.D. don’t really become vice-presidential candidates. Someone named J.D. is a mechanic who is honest to you most of the time. Or it’s some guy who dresses like a cowboy but the closest he ever got to cattle was when he had to stop to take a piss at an Arby’s.
No, J.D. is one of those people you just don’t trust because you know they just want something out of you as their endgame. And worse, they want to get back at all the people who didn’t kiss their ass. I mean, this is the person who goes off to college and returns back and still thinks they can sit in the student section at the games even though they’re in their 20s. They buy all the alcoholic drinks but they don’t realize they’re being used by people 16-17. We all knew that person. They’re creeps.
Stop calling Trump and Vance weird because they’re not. And we all need to stop using the term “weird” like you’re Dharma and Greg. That’s because Dharma wasn’t weird. If anything else, she was the pre-cursor of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, one of these white 20-something women who think they are “free-spirits” just because they like The Clash and The Smiths and sit in chairs with feet up on the seat hugging their knees.
I’m hearing the word “weird” thrown away by Millennials and Gen Xers who were never weird back when they were kids. No, what’s happened is one of their friends or exes from childhood became a grandparent. So, they got to retain this idea that the world they’re in still revolves somewhat around them. Ergo, they post videos of themselves being “weird” saying that people have called them “weird.” However, no one has ever called them “weird.”
One woman I saw was in a life-jacket dancing. Well, dancing wasn’t the right work. She mainly was doing that twisting the hips thing women do to to make them look like dancing, most commonly expressed by Lois in this episode of Family Guy.
It also looks like she’s near a waterway like a creek, river or lake. So, that’s nothing weird. What’s weird if she was doing this in a life-jacket during the Christmas Parade. And her husband does a silly dance but that isn’t weird. What’s weird is if he doesn’t like watching shoes even to work.
No, weirdness is something that most of us would fully embrace in this day and age. If neither Trump nor Vance were seeking the highest positions in America, most Americans who support them would drop everything they were getting at Walmart or Target and immediately go to the exits, hoping they didn’t see you.
Because we all know why they really support Trump and Vance. Ted Koppel was interviewing people at the Wisconsin State Fair earlier this month and the people were saying, Trump wasn’t likeable but they liked his policies. Yeah, I know what “Policy Over Person” and “Person Over Party” really means. We all know what it means. I’m sure all the members of the Ku Klux Klan don’t like each other but if they’re part of a team, they can work together.
What do you think? Please comment.
Zane Says 