The Florida senator just made things worse for himself.
“They called us weird so I’ll call them weirder. That’s what I used to do back in high school,” Rubio told HuffPost’s Igor Bobic on Tuesday.
Extreme, dangerous, weird: Rep. Jeffries goes after Trump platform
Ohio Capital Journal: JD Vance is making the political debate around parenting weird
If Vance wants Americans to have kids, he should spend less time insulting the childless and more time thinking about how he can use his position of power to make having kids an easier choice. Given how much he cares about this, you’d think he’d support paid parental leave, public investments in child care, and strong public schools, right?
Weird then that Project 2025, which former President Donald Trump pretends to not know about but features Vance as the foreword author, goes in the opposite direction. Their playbook would increase the cost of child care and starve our public schools by siphoning money for the wealthy’s private schools.
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Jacobin: Yes, They’re Weird
Appeals to vote against Trump rooted in a fear of authoritarian apocalypse puff up Republicans’ sense of their own power. Just call them what they are: deeply weird people.
Rolling Stone: Trump Flipped Out That ‘Lunatic’ Project 2025 Could Tank His Campaign
The former president effectively “birthed” the project. Now that it's a political liability, one of Trump’s foot soldiers is out of a job.
That’s Paul Dans, who has stepped down as director of Project 2025.
Trump had been privately — and very bitterly — complaining about the abortion policies laid out in the lengthy Project 2025 manifesto, and trashing the Project 2025-linked “lunatics” who keep demanding unpopular abortion bans and restrictions. Among the policy proposals in Project 2025’s policy road map are plans to end federal approval for abortion pills, use federal agencies for expanded “abortion surveillance,” restrict access to emergency contraception, end the federal requirement that hospitals provide medically necessary emergency abortion care, and revive a 150-year-old law that could serve as a de facto national abortion ban.
The.Ink: SPEAK UP: "Weird"
Is the new label du jour wise?
Yes, of course.
And to whom, exactly, should it be addressed?
Energized by the Kamala Harris campaign, Democrats have taken the fight to MAGA Republicans, and, led by Minnesota governor and Democratic vice-presidential short-list favorite Tim Walz, they’ve taken up the mantra that the positions taken by Republican leaders are just…weird.
In other words, they might be fascists, but they aren’t evil supervillains. What they are is ridiculous, out of step, creepy — yes, weird.
See the Boggarts in Harry Potter, who take on the forms of your greatest fears, but can be dispelled with the Riddikulus charm and loud laughter.
"That suggests that what you fear most of all is — fear. Very wise, Harry."
— Remus Lupin regarding what Harry Potter fears
