Minnesota Governor Tim Walz — in the running for VP — has gotten attention over the past week for purveying the word "weird," but he was calling Republicans "weird" a year ago.
Here's something I blogged August 21, 2023: "Who's the 'most normal' in this 'pretty weird group'?":
On "Meet the Press" yesterday, the Democratic Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, was invited to talk about the Republican Governor of North Dakota, Doug Burgum, who is running for the Republican nomination for President.... [H]ere's what Walz had to say about Burgum....
... The minute they all step on the [debate] stage, the American people have lost. Are they going to debate who can ban the most books? Who – you know, Doug, he didn't tell you this, but he signed a six week abortion ban, which is hugely unpopular and simply wrong in America. So yeah, we're friends, but I hate to see it go down this road. Those are very simple questions about – you were asking about the President, about the indictments and so I was a little bit tongue-in-cheek. And the sad part is, I do believe that Doug is probably the most normal of these. That's a pretty weird group of folks that are going to be on the debate stage. Doug's a pretty good guy, but he's trapped in a Republican party with no ideas.No ideas? Come on. At least give them credit for having weird ideas.
Anyway, it seems that "normal" is a very high standard this time around. But it's strange for Democrats to call the whole group of Republican candidates "weird" when, for so long, they've been stressing the singular weirdness of Trump. I'm very susceptible to the argument that we need a President who's at least normal, but there's something abnormal — perverse — about generating the feeling that all the candidates are weird.
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Purvey? New context on that one for me.
Maybe you need to create a "purvey" tab,
Heh
Surber made a good point in his Substack that calling someone weird only works if you are not weird. Walz can’t make this work.
Meh. One American’s normal is another American’s freak show.
I’ll tell what’s weird. It was weird for the Governor of MN to not call out the National Guard and let MPLS burn down.
FAT!!!
Isn't it weird to not have your biggest city overrun by Somali pirates?
Walzing Fatilda
I pray fervently that toad is the VP choice for the democrat party. He is the one if the more repulsive democrat hacks I’ve seen…as far as white boys are concerned.
First you garner, then you purvey.
Whoops, wish I could edit. Or proofread.
donald said...
He is the one if the more repulsive democrat hacks I’ve seen…
You must not come here often. Wait awhile. They’ll come for that challenge.
Little Mogadishu… votes found in the trunks of ‘84 Ford Tempos… Babe the Blue Ox… Bemidji… Garrison Keillor…
No ideas? Come on. At least give them credit for having weird ideas.
You do that and people are going to want to know what they are.
They find out what they are and realize they’re not weird.
Lesson: you must lie in a way that people won’t check the lie.
I find the Democrat’s ecosystem where the entire lot of them (media & politicians) adopted the “weird” narrative simultaneously very weird.
No they are stupid ideas hes sitting in little mogadishu where they still havent rebuilt the police station and giving advice please
Walz- “One person's socialism is another person's neighborliness.”
That's totally not a weird thing to say.
Somewhere today I saw a caution to Democrats/Journolists, because weird is the new deplorable.
As a MN resident, I hope Kamala picks him. As unserious and incompetent as Kamala is. He let Minneapolis burn and did nothing.
i was going to put this in the flower post.. But it's Truly Weird; so THIS is the place!
I (for reasons that aren't Too Clear), have been obsessing over the song: My Boyfriend's Back.
I wasn't sure which version i was obsessing for (turns out; it WAS the original Angels version),
so i went to wiki, to find a list of famous covers.. While there: THIS IS WHAT I FOUND OUT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Boyfriend%27s_Back_(song)#Description
musicians on the record include Herbie Lovelle on drums, Billy Butler, Bobby Comstock, and Al Gorgoni on guitar, and Bob Bushnell overdubbing on an electric and an upright bass. This song also features a young Ronnie Dio on the trumpet.
That's RIGHT! RONNIE JAMES DIO played trumpet! Played trumpet ON MY BOYFRIENDS BACK
This led to me digging (a little)
https://www.loudersound.com/features/ronnie-james-dio-the-early-years
WEIRD!
donald said...
He is the one if the more repulsive democrat hacks I’ve seen
As repulsive as the messenger is, somewhere in the greater DC/VA metro there’s an office of creepy lizards deciding weird is the new deplorable…
I just can't believe that They're going with "weird." I mean... just look at the pictures. Just read the headlines - you don't even have to dig into the articles most of the time. It's the most up-is-down propaganda imaginable.
So I have concluded that this is yet another stress-test to see how far They can push Their influence. They have already erased, in front of our eyes, all Their panic over the prospect of Biden's withdrawal from the race and Their being forced to accept Harris as Their candidate - now she's what They were waiting for all along. Just before that, They erased, as we watched, Their despair at Biden's debate performance - despair so deep that it made Them admit on live television that his ability to fulfill his functions as president was in question. Now, he's a brave and selfless patriot who is of course perfectly competent to hold his office for the next six months - he only withdrew as a candidate in order to unite his party and fight off the Existential Threat To Democracy...
... that They are now simply calling "weird." The side that celebrates polycules and thinks kids need to know about oral sex and thinks the term "master bedroom" is violence now defines "weird" as an Existential Threat To Democracy.
Why? I can't escape thinking that it's because They got caught, about Biden's capacity. So they're stress-testing, to see whether Their tried and true message coordination still works.
Walz is special because he’s literally nothing but a big fat toad and that’s it. He’s prey in the real world if he’s not a politician.
Republicans should embrace the "weird" label.
"Yes, we're very weird. We like mom, baseball, apple pie and America. They like drag shows and socialism. Vote for your flavor of weird."
Hey, hung up old Mr. Normal, don't try to gain my trust.
I'd like a normal president as well, but normal is not on the table.
Fortunately, competence is more important than normalcy and competence is on the table.
At least it was in 2016, when it won, and 2020, when it lost. There is no reason to think that Trump isn't still competent, even if he is getting pretty old.
He may have said it first but "Weird" is obviously the latest journolist word. We all remember "Gravitas" that thing that Bush lacked and how odd a word like that, a word you might find in a scholarly work, showed up in seemingly every news report. It's like all of these supposedly educated people have never heard of a thesaurus.
The funny thing it that this is such a Democrat talking point tell they just never seem to get.
Ah, Garrison Keillor. Fired by Minnesota Public Radio over allegations of improper behavior.
I guess his double secret probation for MeToo is done, for now, but subject to review if he varies from the narrative.
It's weird how Democrats start echoing the same word or phrase within minuyes of the directive having been issued by command authority.
There were no books banned, unless they claim that context does not matter. Progressive sects, their liberal acolytes, and abortion corporations can still, in the most moderate case, sacrifice human lives until the sixth week and bray abortive ideation. Walz is demonstrably, pervasively steeped in a queer ideology, but Americans have responded that it's not weird.
Weird? Trump has been called worse things by better people.
Weird how the Hack-D Democrat press won't touch Kamala's past and resent extremist statements and quotes.
and instead rush in to say "how dare you! you racist sexist!" if any criticisms surface.
This is one of the people calling Republicans weird.
The entire concept of this country is based on weirdness. The people who first settled the country were weird (by the standards of the places they came from), the idea of a constitutional republic was weird at the time it came into being. Everything about us is weird. This blog is weird! We love weird. What we don't like is other people telling us we're weird and that we have to stop being weird. Because that's weird.
I think Governor Walz has a bit of a checkered past doesn't he? Isn't he from Nebraska originally? He looks...corn-fed.
Damn, Christopher B, it’s weird to post something like that trying to pass it off as real.
Image of Pete Buttigieg wearing a breastfeeding device is digitally altered
From gravitas to weird in 24 years. They keep going to the well with these group think committee made one word slogans designed to assassinate an opponent's character. It's like the Socs versus the Greasers in the novel The Outsiders. The moronic Democrat elite have forgotten that America usually roots for the weirdos the freaks the outsiders.
I think voters already know and understand that Trump is kind of a weirdo, in a lot of different ways. I'm pretty sure a majority of voters just don't care -- even the people pushing this "weird" label don't really care since they oppose him for other reasons and were generally happy to support much weirder weirdos in the Biden administration, like that kleptomaniac transvestite who kept stealing womens' luggage at airports.
They're probably thinking back fondly to Obama's success at painting Romney as weird thanks to various Mormon religious practices (e.g. underwear), but I think that was effective more because Obama was deliberately exploiting a deep reservoir of anti-Mormon bigotry in the American public. They don't have that with Trump -- he's just what he is.
Its so cringe hearing Trumpists calling themselves “normies”.
@Christopher B…
Image of Pete Buttigieg wearing a breastfeeding device is digitally altered.
Look in the mirror people. Morbid obesity is The New normal. I was at the Mall of America about 10 days ago. It has almost a full level of restaurants and fast food joints serving up highly palatable very tasty irresistible junk food that encourages uncontrollable gluttony within the lizard brain. Fat Bastard from the Austin Powers movie franchise wouldn't be recognized as a satirical character.
That, my friends, is what is considered "normal" in America today. I remember slogans from the '70s Go Climb a Rock, Question Authority, Why be Normal? and then in the 80's, my favorite, Shit Happens.
Make America Weird Again
The same dark forces that brought us Covid, the radical response to covid, (forced, untested dangerous jab) illegal entrants by the millions thru an open lawless border - with a Joe Biden invitation to do so.... tell us JD is weird.
Inga - the loyal Jab-pusher, the loyal Russia Russia bullshit lie spreader and Trump-hate cultist says what?
Howard - Obesity is not new. and yes - obesity lives at the same place where Americans can indulge their taste-buds and shiny object purchasing power. and?
Kamala asked for money to spring radical arsonist rioters from jail.
(media now lie about it)
discuss.
Inga: "Its so cringe hearing Trumpists calling themselves “normies”."
Abnormal people and cultists, like you, that support chemical castration and lopping off penises and breasts of confused children and support fathers showering with their underage daughters and cant define what a woman is and teach children men can get pregnant, will always feel cringey around normal people.
Now dont you have a pro-Hamas rally to go to with your fellow New Soviet Democraticals? Or maybe a MS-13 "Spark of Divinity" Illegal Alien machete murderer support group meeting?
Let us know how that turns out. And dont hold back on details.
Dear childless cat lady…
JD's alright. I kinda like that weird fucker.
Just weeks ago Tim Walz was stating that Joe Biden was fit for another four years.
When will the new T-shirt appears that say "I'm a weird deplorable--Voting for Trump/Vance".
Each time the left tries to create a new narrative against Trump supporters, it seems to backfire. I suspect this one will as well.
On social media, people are posting pictures of Vance and his very normal looking family and then pictures of Buttigegg feeding his purchased infant with fake breasts. The caption is "Who is weird here?". They are posting pictures of Kamala surrounded by trans-GIBLETS next to pictures of Trump with everyday Americans with the same type caption.
A democrat posted a picture of Vance with Nevada Senate candidate Sam Brown who was disfigured in military action. Their comment was "Republicans are so weird". I just don't think most voters are going to buy into the entire "weird" thing. It reminds me of 12 year old middle-school kids trying to ostracize the newest student at school.
Minnesota...the place that elected Jesse Ventura? I guess that piece of information informs us on what is considered weird in Minnesota.
Would Vance be America's first sofa-sexual VP? I doubt it.
I spent the night on a gorgeous couch once, but nothing happened. I just fell asleep. Missed opportunity? Perhaps.
Would Dems call a woman weird for getting off with a wash machine on spin cycle? No. They would hold her up as an example of female independence or something. Just sayin'.
“On social media, people are posting pictures of Vance and his very normal looking family and then pictures of Buttigegg feeding his purchased infant with fake breasts. The caption is "Who is weird here?".”
The image of Pete Buttigieg wearing a breastfeeding device is digitally altered.
Buttigegg and his boyfriend purchased two children. There are pictures of them in a hospital bed pretending to have gone through the same birthing process that a women goes through. Who is the weird one here?
Childless cat lady
vs.
Asks for bond money to spring criminals from jail.
Normals know what is worse. Trump Hate-cult do not.
Inga's right about the fake breast photo. It's a fake, there are plenty of other "unconventional" photos of Buttigieg to choose from.
The image of Pete Buttigieg wearing a breastfeeding device is digitally altered.
So it's not true? Kinda like the stories about Charlottesville and Russia Collusion and injecting bleach and so forth?
That's why I never liked Governor Bumstead. He's "Normal" to leftwing Democrats like Walz. IF the Democrats don't think you're evil, stupid, or weird, than you're a RINO.
God, how I hope Walz gets the VP nod (even though I'm betting on Shapiro). The Guys a complete loser, a blue state never-steps-outside-the leftwing bubble, boring non-thinker.
“Buttigegg and his boyfriend purchased two children. There are pictures of them in a hospital bed pretending to have gone through the same birthing process that a women goes through. Who is the weird one here?”
YOU. I’ve seen pictures of straight fathers doing skin to skin contact with their newborns. No one was pretending going through a birthing process. What a weird take on fathers doing skin to skin care for their newborns.
“The benefits of skin-to-skin contact for dads include bonding with their baby, feeling more confident as a father, and feeling a surge of protectiveness toward their baby. Dads can also pass on the same benefits as moms do in terms of helping to regulate their baby's temperature and heartbeat.”
Why Dads and Their Babies Need to Go Skin-to-Skin. Fathers and nonbirthing parents benefit from skin-to-skin contact with their newborns
If the dullard knew what "normal" is we would hear much less from her. Instead she thinks people like Sam Brinton are normal.
Was Waltz the ugly one or fat one in Althouse's VP 6 pack?
“Instead she thinks people like Sam Brinton are normal.”
The senile doc seems to think he can read minds.
Inga is doing her gaslighting "best" motte and bailey act to try and divert from the psycho leftist trans and democratical beliefs that women and men can change their sex, "men" can get pregnant, "men" should "chestfeed" their newborns thru astonishingly stupid hormone treatments and make everyone believe that we are only talking about fathers and babies going "skin to skin"!!
LOL
Nice try psycho...and by "nice" I of course mean pathetic.
Tell us, how much "skin to skin contact" should there be when a "normal" and "honorable" democratical father showers with his 12 year old daughter and is responsible for sexualizing her?
Inga: "The senile doc seems to think he can read minds."
LOLxInfinity
There is no way YOU made that comment!
What an amazingly amusing morning this has been with psycho leftist Inga!
From another thread:
Kevin: "It’s clear the establishment is out to neutralize the negative of Kamala’s inappropriate laughter.
Labeling the Republicans as weird is part of this effort."
Correct.
Internal polling shows the independents/working class/industrial and blue collar voters in the key swing states are rejecting Kamala-la-la-la-la as a bizarre weirdo who does not and cannot connect with normal voters in any way.
The "weird" campaign by the New Soviet Democraticals is an attempt to mitigate this reality and naturally the New Soviet Democratical Party knows its base voters like Inga will say whatever they direct her to say.
Recall it took Inga YEARS after the contents of Ashley Biden's diary came out which documented Joey dementia's sexual sickness before Inga paid lip service to "normal-ness" and wrote that she did not approve of that...right up until biden began to run for reelection at which time Inga shut right the heck up about it and defended Biden.
Perfect Soviet behavior. Perfect.
“Recall it took Inga YEARS after the contents of Ashley Biden's diary came out which documented Joey dementia's sexual sickness before Inga paid lip service to "normal-ness" and wrote that she did not approve of that...right up until biden began to run for reelection at which time Inga shut right the heck up about it and defended Biden.”
Liar. Don’t you know that pathological lying is weird?
"Weird" is dangerous turf the Dems are treading. Their party is full of weird lunatics who struggle with the most basic concepts of biology. One has to restrain oneself from bursting into cackles of nervous laughter whenever a loyal Dem party member is around. They might do anything from sniffing some kid's hair to dropping a coconut on you.
I never thought I'd say this, but Donald Trump is the sane one in this race.
“One has to restrain oneself from bursting into cackles of nervous laughter whenever a loyal Dem party member is around.”
Haha! I always chuckle when Trumpists call themselves “normies”.
Inga -the Trump-Hate cultist... and radical Vaxxer - says tired loyalist BS.
People rightly get on Garrion Keillor's case, but his quote about daughters is so spot-on that I have to admire it.
"The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan."
Would love to see a campaign profiling the weirdos behind Project 2025 and descriptions of the things they actually want to impose on the rest of us.
LLR-democratical Rich: "Would love to see a campaign profiling the weirdos behind Project 2025 and descriptions of the things they actually want to impose on the rest of us."
LOL
You mean the New Soviet Democratical campaign you guys have ALREADY been running for a couple of months that has basically failed so you have desperately flexed to the "weird" campaign?
Too funny.
Try harder Rich. You're letting the team down...again.
"Haha! I always chuckle when Trumpists call themselves “normies”."
I did too until recently. The Demmies are putting on quite a show of weirdness. All the world old is weird save thee and me, and even thou are a little weird (hat tip to Robert Owen).
But I trust Inga. She would never sniff hair or start flinging coconuts around. And as I recall from her comments here, she stands with kindness, free speech, and the science of biology.
All hail Inga! May she always join the fun, and may her party never win.
So the head of the Heritage Foundation steps down but Project 2025, and all the Trump Republicans who wrote it, are still in place. And we are expected to think this represents the 'demise' of these noxious ideas? It's possible that the Leopards Will Eat Your Face Party fully intends to eat your face.
Trump’s genius is being both provocative and not actually saying anything which offends specific voter groups. In other words, he’s really a very old fashioned style politician. Trained by Roy Cohn. Who persuaded Joe McCarthy to take a strong position on a provocative issue—one sure to get headlines in 1954–but which had no real voter support in 1954, namely communism.
That’s Trump’s core skill. He’s against illegal immigration. Who exactly is offended? However, Project 2025 is taking real positions on real issues. Each position offends say 5% of the US. Take 20 positions and 100% are offended. Not at all Trump’s style.
Talk of Trump and his ‘base’ has completely missed that that’s what he’s doing.
Fortunately, my sense is the Democrats have finally figured it out. It took them long enough. Which is why Project 2025 has been, and will continue to be, so effective for them. It attached real tangible stupid positions directly to Trump. On issues that are real for specific voter groups. No wonder he doesn’t like that.
Vance similarly has been a disaster. Once again, he takes real positions on real issues as opposed to the normal meaningless Trump basically harmless blather—offending actually very few. Except of course those offended by pure nonsense. Representing sadly not a lot of any electorate.
The Dullard once again shows that she thinks those drag queens and transvestites are the normals.
"Rich" is determined to show that Inga is not the only Looney posting here.
LLR-democratical Rich: "So the head of the Heritage Foundation steps down but Project 2025, and all the Trump Republicans who wrote it, are still in place."
LOL
Poor Rich. He was provided directives by his betters on 1 talking point so thats going to be it for the day.
Its sad really. He's got nowhere else to go.
^^ Can you imagine being such an insecure beta male that you thought voting for a woman would turn you into a woman?
LLR-Democratical Rich: "^^ Can you imagine being such an insecure beta male that you thought voting for a woman would turn you into a woman?"
LOL
That's it? Really?
The tank is empty isn't it?
Does that usually work when you are posting with your pals at Media Matters or Democratic Underground
As the Democrats are the gold medal winners in the weirdness Olympics, they know what they are talking about.
“Chestfeeding” mother Pete Buttigieg says J.D.Vance is weird. 🙄
I wonder what weirdness the Fatman Walz has going on, other than the obvious.
Too many weirdo’s have their tit in a wringer over this….
"Digitally altered" how, Inga?
Was it originally pink?
John Henry
https://instapundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/VANCEWEIRD.jpg
They have been holding the "weird" blitz in abeyance until Biden is out of the picture, because just about everything about Biden is very weird (downright creepy, in fact).
Kamala isn't "weird," she is ditsy.
Funny how no part of the vast Victorian organism (HT Tom Wolfe) has allowed the word "gravitas" to pass their lips.
Is queer a weird thing, or is weird a queer thing?
He is the one if the more repulsive democrat hacks I’ve seen…as far as white boys are concerned.
What am I? Chopped liver? - Jay Inslee
Apparently, calling us racist, sexist, homophobic, deplorable Nazis isn't polling as well as they'd like. So, now we're weird.
I can live with that.
I think she will pick Buttiggeg. He is a DEI appointee but a white male so that checks all the necessary boxes.
I hope it is so I can get my bumper sticker:
"Vote Trump/Vance or you'll get a Harri/Butt"!
The Dems seem to think insulting their opponents will win their votes. If that's the case they need a stronger insult...something like "deplorables". That should work.
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