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Donald Trump appeared to say that his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), isn’t weird because he’s “so straight.”

Trump was speaking at a town hall event in LaCross, Wisconsin, yesterday with former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii when he discussed how the Harris-Walz campaign has been calling Republicans – and especially Vance – “weird.”

“They picked this guy,” Trump said, referring to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), who has been vocal about calling Vance and Trump weird. “He is weird! Right? I’m not weird, he’s weird.”

“No, he’s a weird guy, he’s a weird dude,” Trump continued. “You know, they come up with soundbites, they always have soundbites, and one of the things is that J.D. and I are weird.”

Then Trump defended himself and Vance from the weird charges, calling Vance “so straight” and a “top student.”

“This guy is so straight? J.D. is so… He’s doing a great job, smart, top student, great guy, he’s not weird and I’m not weird. I mean, we’re a lot of things, we’re not weird.”

Totally straight and not weird.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 months ago (6 children)

He appears to be referencing the ”straight and narrow” idiom. So “straight” as in “follows the rules,” not “heterosexual.”

That said, it’s funny to see how much “weird” gets under their skin.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

That said, it’s funny to see how much “weird” gets under their skin.

Not that funny, really. Conservatism is all about defining normality and attacking any deviation from it. "Weird" is the very definition for not normal. It's the antithesis of their meta value. Of course they'd hate it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I personally don't think he puts that much thought into what he says, just kinda gets into his own strange type of flow and goes for it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

In Trump's head, there's a clump of brain cells the size of a grain of rice that's a Markov generator for bullshit. Trump has no interior monologue as we know it, and no thoughts as such. Just a random BS module and a market-testing one, to correct the BS weightings. The rest of the interior landscape is anxiety, self-loathing, greed and, more than anything, complete and utter desolation.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well, not the “don’t have sex with the sofa” rule.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I'll bet he identifies with that old Plastic Bertrand song Ça Plane Pour Moi: "I am the King of the divan!"

Though I doubt if the divan's at all impressed.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well yeah, follows the traditional, conservative rules that put men at the top of the hierarchy. These uppity women are just rule-breakers who dont know their place, they'd be much happier if they just shut up and follow our rules.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Maybe so but it's still weird af

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Also, donOLD doesn't follow any rules and is as crooked as they get, and has been his whole life, so trying to claim that "JD" "Vance" is some kind of morally upright person by FLIP-FLOPPING on his never-donnie position and aligned himself with donnie is quite a stretch.

BTW, I'm so glad that TikTok video of "JD" "Vance" is going viral. Everyone needs to know just how much of a flip-flopper the couchfucker is.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

That said, it’s funny to see how much “weird” gets under their skin.

I'm willing to bet that "creepy" or possibly "skeevy" might be a good followup.