This is a reprise of Republicans being enraged at being portrayed as "weird". As Newsom creates a pitch-perfect mockery of Trump, JD Vance and Fox News can't handle the truth.
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Sorry, JD. The word you’re looking for is mock, not mimic.
aug 23, 2025, 4:08 pm • 1 0 • view
I firmly and genuinely believe that if Harris hadn’t dropped the “these people are a bunch of weirdos” angle she would’ve won.
aug 23, 2025, 1:41 pm • 5 0 • view
Everyone should call them that and add "gross". Weird and gross... they'll probably lose their minds over it.
aug 23, 2025, 1:22 pm • 19 0 • view
Look at the words Boomers used to denigrate people with, these are the words that the republicans hate being labeled with. Weird, gross, nasty, and anything that indirectly states they are stupid.
aug 23, 2025, 4:14 pm • 0 0 • view
I like dork ass losers for them
aug 23, 2025, 2:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Weird but not in a good way. Creepy weird.
aug 23, 2025, 1:38 pm • 7 0 • view
The best thing about the word 'weird' is that people who are weird in a good way don't get offended by being called weird and people who are weird in a bad way can't stand it and take it as a grievous insult.
aug 23, 2025, 3:56 pm • 10 0 • view
you've really nailed this. the connection had not occurred to me. but you are exactly right.
aug 23, 2025, 1:13 pm • 107 1 • view
They should've kept up the weird talk during the election season. It might've brought a few more votes.
aug 23, 2025, 1:46 pm • 1 0 • view
It did, earlier today when someone said “ for the first time, democrats…”
aug 23, 2025, 1:46 pm • 1 0 • view
The answer to the emperor showing up in his new clothes should never have been a wry eyebrow during the handshake, it should have always been to point, look directly at the camera, and go, "Look at this naked bastard! Crazy ol' Gramps forgot to get dressed!"
aug 23, 2025, 1:35 pm • 7 2 • view
Bigotry is really about status; whites-only drinking fountains or bans on trans athletes are signalling, sending messages that one group is better than the other. Mockery deflates the message, strips it of meaning.
aug 23, 2025, 1:24 pm • 51 1 • view
Satire has always been an appropriate reaction to the pretentiousness of fascism. From The Great Dictator to Newsom, deflating the authoritarian posers is an essential task of the opposition.
aug 23, 2025, 1:32 pm • 67 7 • view
I'd still like someone to identify the Harris campaign staffer who made the decision to have Tim Walz abandon the "weird" trolling.
aug 23, 2025, 5:35 pm • 8 0 • view
You'll be waiting forever since it's not actually a thing that happened. Walz never stopped doing it, it just stopped being a focus of his remarks.
aug 23, 2025, 7:08 pm • 4 0 • view
It was a Democratic focus across the board, with good reason. And as their focus, it evaporated.
aug 23, 2025, 7:13 pm • 2 0 • view
Also, one of the consultants who worked on the campaign said in an interview afterward that the shift was because they felt they needed to focus more on how dangerous Trump was, which was exactly the critique Bluesky leftists had when they first started doing it.
aug 23, 2025, 8:20 pm • 4 0 • view
It was working. Republicans were howling like stuck pigs. It was a mistake to discard it.
aug 23, 2025, 8:24 pm • 7 0 • view
You're forgetting how energized supporters were from the Walz debate strategy. /s
aug 23, 2025, 8:31 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m not at all disagreeing. It’s just extremely ironic that they didn’t do it because they secretly wanted Trump to win, but for exactly the reason those who now rip on them most in retrospect got mad at them for doing it in the first place. Hindsight is always 20/20.
aug 23, 2025, 8:39 pm • 0 0 • view
I supported it then, and saw no reason for the change. Democrats have trouble connecting with the electorate, and that strategy was clearly doing so on a fundamental level; it was reasonating with voters and Republicans were on the defensive for a change. It was an unforced error to ditch it.
aug 23, 2025, 8:43 pm • 1 0 • view
It didn't evaporate because nobody said it anymore. It evaporated because nobody cared when they said it anymore. Much like repeating the same joke over and over.
aug 23, 2025, 7:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Tim Walz was on late nite in mid-October still calling the Trumpers weird but you didn't even know this because, as I said, it got stale, and people stopped paying attention to it.
aug 23, 2025, 7:51 pm • 2 0 • view
They should ALSO bring back weird. And try as many variations of it as they can come up with and focus on the ones that drive these losers the most crazy.
aug 23, 2025, 3:45 pm • 2 0 • view
Yet the Dems reined in Walz and they lost 😞
aug 23, 2025, 1:16 pm • 11 0 • view
Can’t understand why they stopped doing something that was so effective. It drove republicans crazy, got media attention, and broke through to the public. For a short time, everything republicans did was seen through that lens. And Dems stopped it rather than going all in
aug 23, 2025, 5:10 pm • 2 0 • view
Most Dem leaders, strategists, etc. think this stuff is stupid. But, we live in a stupid world.
aug 23, 2025, 1:21 pm • 13 0 • view
Well after managing to lose to Trump twice i think their opinions can be safely disregarded forever
aug 23, 2025, 1:25 pm • 14 0 • view
Yes. Most left leaning political types would like to believe that voters make rational decisions based on informed self interest. Clearly, that is not the case. Politics is entertainment. What do Obama and Trump have in common? They love a crowd, and the crowd loves them.
aug 23, 2025, 1:47 pm • 4 0 • view
You make a very good point. Doesn’t explain W so I’m happy to think of him as an aberration.
aug 23, 2025, 4:07 pm • 0 0 • view
W never would have beat Bill Clinton or Obama, but he didn't have to. Dems put up Gore and Kerry. Two of the best qualified and least entertaining candidates you could imagine.
aug 23, 2025, 5:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Fascists and control freaks can never laugh at themselves.
aug 23, 2025, 3:10 pm • 7 0 • view
Newsom’s parodies work so well because they break through the “Trump being Trump” complacency. He reminds everyone how badly Trump mangles the English language and how inappropriate Trump’s rants are.
aug 23, 2025, 1:39 pm • 15 1 • view
And considering our crack major media are doing none of this - and remain too petrified to even use the word fascist to describe someone who is fascist to his core - I am thankful to Newsom for highlighting Trump's derangement.
aug 23, 2025, 1:42 pm • 14 0 • view
I'm not sure they even get that joke. Newsom isn't mimicing Trump, he is mocking him. Huge difference.
aug 23, 2025, 1:41 pm • 20 0 • view
At some level they do; hence, the outrage. They do not like it being shown that their fascist emperor is naked, bereft of reason, decency and competence.
aug 23, 2025, 1:45 pm • 23 0 • view
This. They get it and they understand how stupid it makes them look. But they want to pretend that is not why they are so outraged and butthurt.
aug 23, 2025, 3:57 pm • 4 0 • view
Not so much a laugh, more of a sensible chuckle
aug 23, 2025, 7:27 pm • 1 0 • view
OMG, it's nauseating. Shecky Vance is such a cut-up.🙄
aug 23, 2025, 1:52 pm • 2 0 • view
I would say it is more that they know it is a powerful counter attack and the punches are squarely landing and causing damage. They are trying the old rightwing bitch to get the left to unilaterally disarm on an issue.
aug 23, 2025, 2:25 pm • 1 0 • view