This ticket is steeped in a toxicity that wants to be masculine but is not, and a deeply rooted misogyny.

It’s like the quote attributed to Atwood says, that what men fear from women is that they will laugh at them. This “weird” label hits a little too close to that for them to handle.

It’s fantastic. And so obvious.

One of the key features of authoritarian follower personalities is that they're desperate to be normal. Like, they're terrified of the idea that they're not just like everyone else despite the fact that they are big weirdos. People who are afraid of being weird, or who get weirdly judgemental about weirdness, is a big red flag for me, personally.

They honestly have spent their whole lives either wanting to define what is weird and/or associating with a set of people they think get to define what is weird.

It's an obsession with the conservative brain, I think. You could tell who many of these people were when they were in kindergarten or first grade. They could not STAND any kind of deviation from what they (or their parents, etc.) thought was a "normal" thing. So they'd yell taunts at anyone eating "weird" food", or taking up "weird" hobbies, watching "weird" TV/movies, or looking to take up a "weird" employment track, or they went to a "weird" church (or not at all, or - gasp - were going to some other building that was not a xtian church) and so on.

They defined themselves this way. And to have this turned around on them all so suddenly and uniformly. To be fair, people like Seth Meyers have been calling donOLD and friends weird for a very long time. It's just now the Democrats found some people with some goddamn spine and a platform to keep saying it and not apologizing for it. The Republicans ARE very weird. They spend their time obsessing over "murdered babies" (zygotes), where trans people poop, what gay men might be doing in the privacy of their own bedrooms, what religious doctrine other people may or may not follow, and so on. These are very deeply weird obsessions in a FREE country.

Free country means I and anyone else has freedom FROM their weird obsessions, including their little book club. I don't ever have to GAF about what they say their Jehovah/Yahweh/Allah (all same thing) says, because I have freedom FROM religion, just as they have freedom OF religion and can choose to stay in the religion they were likely born into.

It's because that used to be their code word for gay, trans, queer (basically anybody that doesn't fit in their view of society) before they decided that woke worked better.

They've been using weird as a soft-insult for a decades.

In his book he told his grandma he thought he was gay and she asked him if he likes "sucking dicks", and he said "no", so she told him he wasn't gay.

So no doubt he has some repressed feelings.

Edit - This of course could have been when he discovered he was into couches and dolphin porn.

That said, it’s funny to see how much “weird” gets under their skin.

Not that funny, really. Conservatism is all about defining normality and attacking any deviation from it. "Weird" is the very definition for not normal. It's the antithesis of their meta value. Of course they'd hate it.

We prefer eating crayons.

(Former Marine)

Good logic.

Same reason I don't fuck women. Most women are interested in guys, which is something they have in common with the gays. No thanks.

People who don’t use gay hook apps simply do not understand. You can hop on and find nothing but “straight” men, or blank profiles which are most assuredly married “straight” men. It can be frustrating if you are looking for a relationship/human beings who are okay with themselves.

We just need a black hat slutty queer to record themselves taking it from Mr. Couchfucker or some sufficiently big name Senator. It’s bound to happen eventually.

Yeah, this feels like straight and narrow by an old man using old slang. Not that I doubt Trump being a raging homophobe, it's just the other context clues in the sentence.

It was one of the things my mother told me to defend the orange bad.

He absolutely loves having someone kiss the ring who previously trash talked him. It's like a fetish

It could also be a "look I converted this non believer" to try and gain more fanatics

Straight for the furniture you mean.

Hide yo' kids, hide yo' women, and most defiantly hide yo' couch!