We need David Tenant to go on some social media platform and say to the world, “Doesn’t Ex-President Trump look tired?”

Probably for 2 reasons:

1. quote “all politicians are corrupt and criminal” so this tactic doesn’t land (look at the dem senator from NJ)

2. few people know convicted felons but they do know “old and weird” people, so they can better draw personal parallels

I think it’s because for so long they’ve relied on Democrats/people on the left (I say that because it’s not just in the US, it’s become the right-wing tactic all over the place) being serious and arguing in good faith, IE: they’ll just say the wildest shit that’s blatantly untrue, and people on the left tend to bust out the facts and links to long explanations of why that’s false, and they just counter it with more nonsense until their opponents get tired and quit, then they proclaim victory. But if you just go “you’re weird, fuck you” and then refuse to follow up on it they kind of don’t know what to do with it.

Also, the amount it’s pissing them off means it’s working, everyone keep doing it!

And they’re not even being real about it.

“You know there’s something wrong with people when they talk about freedom — freedom to be in your bedroom, freedom to be in your exam room, freedom to tell your kids what they can read,” Walz said. “That stuff is weird. They come across as weird. They seem obsessed with this.”

And buttigieg: “Republicans, including Fox News anchors, “will take a look at Donald Trump and say he’s perfectly fine, even though he seemed unable to tell the difference between Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi; even though he’s rambling about electrocuting sharks and Hannibal Lecter; even though he’s clearly older and stranger than he was when America got to know him,” Buttigieg said. “They say he’s strong as an ox, leaps tall buildings in a single bound. We don’t have that kind of warped reality on our side.”

I actually felt a strange sort of relief when I opened this article and saw the headline. But after reading it…that’s it? Why can’t they come out and talk like real-ass people? We get it, you’re professional politicians that are soooo smart. But level with people, for fucks sake.

Just in the middle of a typical dem speech, even if it’s scripted, go “off script” like:

[…]and…I mean. Maybe this isn’t ‘proper,’ but forget proper for a minute…what the hell is wrong with trump? And Vance, for that matter. Why are we all pretending this is normal? That what they say and do is normal? These aren’t normal people. They’re…weird. Really weird. And frankly—they’re just hateful assholes. We can’t let these freaks have any real power again. We remember last time, right? It was horrifying for a lot of people. Good people were being threatened for who they are. Forget that. We can’t let these weird, sad wannabe fascists take power. Give a wannabe fascist any power, and they’re not “wannabe” anymore. They can just be fascists. And with this corrupt Supreme Court? We would be in deep shit. I get it, we outside of the freak show that is the far right, have our differences. Those to the left of us don’t think we do enough. Those to the right of us think we do too much. But, no matter what, we aren’t those freaks. And right now, that is the most important thing. Keeping wannabe dictators and bonafide weirdos away from the adult’s table. We want to do more for everyone. And keeping trump and Vance and all of the equally strange and hateful Republican grifters and con artists will allow us to do more. So…let’s try to keep this asylum from falling to the inmates.

Democrats have just decided that “decorum” and appearances are still somehow the way to go. Be fuckin real with people. Don’t give us the form letter politician shit. That is obviously where we’re at as a country. The sooner they learn that the better chance they’ll have.

For sure, and it is absolutely true.

I just like “weird” because it only works one way. For people who value individuality and diversity, it doesn’t necessarily have a negative connotation. For people who value conformity, it’s a devastating insult. Apparently Ben Shapiro went on Megyn Kelly’s show to cry about it, which is great.

I like to also add “gross” to Trump and Vance’s descriptions. Really helps to complete the picture in my mind.

Does he have a cat? If you have the resources to have people take care of all the minor annoyances of having a loving furry friend (dog or cat) that you can call your own and still simply choose not to - you are fucking weird.

There’s two sides to that.

Some of them are like tucker Carlson or Boris Johnson. They look ridiculous on purpose so that’s what people talk about instead of the horrendous shit they’re advocating for.

So by all means laugh at them, it hurts their follower count. But don’t outright dismiss them.

They might be stupid and weird that doesn’t make them less dangerous

I tested it on the chuds in my fantasy football chat, and they lost their minds. It works.

They absolutely baller move right now would be to STOP saying it.

Let it sit there and don’t say it again. Move on to something else for a bit.

Let them get all frothed about it but never refer to it again.

Otherwise they’re going to regroup and have a response… stopping now means they waste their energy

Get out of my brain.

I was literally just wondering why it’s so effective and I think it’s this.

Most liberal “insults” are draped in facts and figures, to the point that Republicans just close their ears and say AlTeRnAtIvE fAcTs.

I think the simplicity, and it’s fact-less insult cuts through their reasoning brains (which there wasn’t much of) and hits them in the emotional centers.

I mean…it took Democrats 6 years to figure this out?

Better late than never but happy we’re finally hitting below the belt.

That might be part of it, but the Republicans tried a similar attack against Biden and it mostly didn’t land. It only works when it’s true in the sense that the average person genuinely finds the position or behavior in question disturbing.

Did you read the article? It explains this.

By taking a buffoon seriously, you help legitimize their buffoonery. Eventually, somebody has to say “Look, this is ridiculous! The emperor wears no clothes!”

We don’t need to stoop to their level

It depends. When Republicans steal elections, Democrats shouldn’t stoop to stealing elections, too.

When somebody’s slinging mud at you, though, it’s appropriate to sling mud back. You can’t just stand there and say “My, what an astonishing lack of decorum!” as the mud slides off your face and onto your shirt. That was Biden’s way, and it wasn’t working. It made him look like a wimp.

It’s messaging. The GOP has been so much better than the Dems at messaging. “Build the wall” , “lock her up”, etc is all easy to understand and convey.

I honestly couldn’t tell you what Biden’s was?

It’s about time the Dems started hitting back with stuff like “old and strange”. Taking the high road where it matters but getting in your hits when you can is exactly what the Dems need to be doing.