As I mentioned a few months back, Republicans rarely care about the meaning of words (hell, they no longer care about facts, as witness J.D. Vance lying that Trump’s tariffs lowered prices). Words such as communism, DEI, political correctness, socialism, (click the first link for some examples) free speech and abortion bans. It’s not surprising that just as “communism” means “anything I don’t like,” now DEI has morphed from meaning “he’s a ni—” to “I don’t like them”: Fox nitwit Greg Gutfeld has declared Tim Walz is a white DEI hire.
Gutfeld, whose great accomplishment in life is being a Fox News Trump propagandist, ignores that, as LGM says, getting hired for being white is hardly a new thing in politics. Hell, Trump wouldn’t be where he is if he wasn’t lily white (even transmuted to tangerine). Normally it’s invisible because many people don’t want to see the advantages of being white or male — affirmative action/bias/identity politics is when women or POC succeed, not when white men achieve something (or, of course, rich people). As witness preacher Joel “Martin Luther King burns in hell” Webbon insisting he doesn’t prefer white doctors because of race but because white doctors have to work and study so much harder to earn their license.
How about the meaning of “bully”? According to Allie Beth Stuckey, a right-wing anti-feminist special snowflake (she hates sexism … directed at herself [though no, she shouldn’t have to suffer sexism]) doesn’t think Trump and his endless belittling nicknames is a bully (he’s a post-partisan negotiator!) but Kamala Harris is the mean bully in the room. How dare she call Trump and JD Vance weird! She will “trample on the weak and vulnerable.” Unlike Republicans, say? Of course, Stuckey thinks society’s problems are caused by premarital sex (but she can live with Trump’s adulteries of course) rather than random shootinga, bigotry, and a party that wants to end democracy.
As others have said, the “weird” label really stings the right, perhaps because they’ve spent so many years pretending they represent the American mainstream. They’re also upset by Democratic enthusiasm and joy at politics just now — Fox’s Mercedes Schlapp hates how the DNC was full of enthusiasm.
For weird, how about Fox’s Jesse Watters. He’s claiming Kamala Harris is Obama’s puppet candidate which is why he’s going with an old reliable, investigating Obama’s birth certificate.
I’ll close with Trump lawyer and acolyte Mike Davis claiming that anyone referring to Trump as a convicted felon just because he’s a convicted felon is defaming him and legally liable. Calling a convited felon a convicted felon is 100 percent accurate; I’m guessing it’s upsetting the Republican god-king to be reminded he lost that case.
Trump is a convicted felon. To make things perfectly clear.
