9/30/24

Why is MAGA so weird?

WEIRD! It’s what MAGA Republicans are tired of being called. 

TRUMP: No, we’re not weird. We’re very solid people.

But if they’re so tired of it, why do they keep being WEIRD?!

Donald Trump: “The late great Hannibal Lecter, he’s a wonderful man.”

JD Vance: “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives”

John Kennedy “This is what the bill would do to the penis”

Jesse Waters : “If a man votes for a woman, he actually transitions into a woman.”

What??

Now, I want to be clear — it’s MAGA Republican leaders who are being weird, not every single Republican voter. I know many Republicans, I’m even friends with some. You probably are too.

What makes MAGA Republican leaders weird isn't that they're awkward, unfunny, and unpleasant — it's that they want to impose their weird ideas on everyone else.

Trying to control when and how Americans can start a family is weird. Trying to restrict abortion, IVF, adoption, and even birth control is just weird.

So is trying to force one specific religion on everybody else. 

Trying to micromanage where children can go to the bathroom? That’s beyond weird.

Trying to ban books, Black history, or kids with same-sex parents from talking about their families in school is weird. So is opposing school lunch programs.

Claiming to protect kids while blocking regulations on guns (the #1 killer of American kids) is ….. weird.

Defending junk fees, or claiming Americans WANT to pay them…

[CLIP: “The vast majority of Americans think they’re legitimate…they don’t think they’re junk.”]

I mean seriously, raise your hand if you want to pay more junk fees!

Complaining about the deficit while offering tax cuts to the richest Americans…what’s the word for this? Oh right…weird!

Trying to slash programs as essential and popular as Social Security and Medicare is [softly and strangely] weird.

Blocking action against the climate crisis during the hottest year on record is…say it with me… weird.

Trying to deprive citizens of their right to vote and trying to overthrow democracy…is…guess what? Weird!

It’s not just that all of these ideas and policies being pushed on us by MAGA Republican leaders are weird — they’re also deeply dangerous, unpopular, and downright cruel. 

Keep calling them out. 

And keep calling them weird. 

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