THEY HATE BEING CALLED WEIRD? As they used to say in the Chicago area, “Tough Shitskies.” When we criticized these assholes in 2016, here’s what we got in response:
So I’m going to call these muthafuckahs weird EVERY. DAMNED. CHANCE. I. GET.
Let’s get started!
This whole thread is priceless.
I think you get the idea. We need to mock and ridicule these LOSERS at every opportunity.
But there is something more sinister at work.
From The Times of Israel, excerpts from CNN anchor Jim Sciutto’s book The Return of Great Powers:
When Trump came to power in 2016, Sciutto recounted [John] Kelly as saying, “He was shocked that he didn’t have dictatorial-type powers…he looked at Putin and Xi and that nutcase in North Korea as people who were like him in terms of being a tough guy.”...
On one occasion, Kelly told Sciutto, that the former president mused that “Hitler did some good things” and praised him for rebuilding Germany’s economy in the wake of World War I. Separately, the former president was also said to have lamented that his staff were not as “loyal” to him as the Nazis were to Hitler.
Kelly had previously recounted Trump’s admiration for the German fascist’s economic policy in the 2021 book “Frankly, We Did Win This Election” by The Wall Street Journal’s Michael Bender, and his discontent at the perceived lack of loyalty in an interview with the New Yorker in 2022.
From The New Republic:
CURTIS YARVIN:
Yarvin’s disturbing manifestos have earned him influential followers, chief among them: tech billionaire Peter Thiel and his onetime Silicon Valley protégé Senator J.D. Vance, whom the Republican Party just nominated to be Donald Trump’s vice president. If Trump wins the election, there is little doubt that Vance will bring Yarvin’s twisted techno-authoritarianism to the White House, and one can imagine—with horror—what a receptive would-be autocrat like Trump might do with those ideas.
Trump’s first campaign was undoubtedly a watershed moment for authoritarianism in American politics, but some thinkers on the right had been laying the groundwork for years, hoping for someone to mainstream their ideas. Yarvin was one of them. Way back in 2012, in a speech on “How to Reboot the US Government,” he said, “If Americans want to change their government, they’re going to have to get over their dictator phobia.” He had also written favorably of slavery and white nationalists in the late 2000s (though he has stated that he is not a white nationalist himself)...
Yarvin is the chief thinker behind an obscure but increasingly influential far-right neoreaction, or NRx, movement, that some call the “Dark Enlightenment.” Among other things, it openly promotes dictatorships as superior to democracies and views nations like the United States as outdated software systems. Yarvin seeks to reengineer governments by breaking them up into smaller entities called “patchworks,” which would be controlled by tech corporations.
Remember, behind the weirdness, there is a terrifying evil at work. And these hardcore MAGA types aren’t just weird—they are VICIOUS AND HATE FILLED. They want a RIGHT-WING RELIGIOUS DICTATORSHIP, and they are willing to use violence to get it.
Yes, they’re weird. Yes, call them that repeatedly.
But remember what the weirdness really represents.
