‘creepy, and, yes, just weird as hell’

“I promise you, Trump is watch­ing this ral­ly and throw­ing shit against the wall, ab­solute­ly los­ing his fuck­ing mind.
He hates how good she’s getting.
He hates that the au­di­ence … looks like Amer­i­ca in­stead of a con­ven­tion of in­bred cat­alyt­ic-con­vert­er thieves.”
—Rick Wil­son

“Their wor­ship of Trump is weird, the de­ifi­ca­tion of him is weird, their con­spir­a­cies around him are weird … They don’t re­al­ize how weird their de­vo­tion is to the rest of the world.”
—Siles­Dood
 

My thoughts on why Re­pub­li­cans are re­coil­ing so hard at be­ing called “weird”—

I grew up in Ne­bras­ka. I was into punk mu­sic, art, al­ter­na­tive com­e­dy, al­ter­na­tive mu­sic. You name it. I was dif­fer­ent. I just was. I just want­ed dif­fer­ent things. 

I can­not tell you how many times both me and my in­ter­ests were de­scribed by fam­i­ly and class­mates as “weird.”

It was dis­mis­sive and of­ten drip­ping with contempt. 

The mere act of want­i­ng any­thing dif­fer­ent seemed to re­al­ly, re­al­ly both­er a cer­tain kind of person. 

And those peo­ple were usu­al­ly the con­ser­v­a­tive type that fits the stereo­type you like­ly imag­ined: Foot­ball, chain restau­rants, mil­i­tary, fam­i­ly of 5 be­fore they hit their mid-twen­ties. Etc.

There’s noth­ing wrong with any of those things but they al­ways seemed to take per­son­al of­fense if you weren’t into all those things too. 

And that’s where “weird” came in. It was a lazy way to lash out at any­thing not “nor­mal.”

A way of say­ing “not like us.”

And I as­sure you it stings a cer­tain kind of per­son hard in a very pri­mal place in their soul. 

They can take hav­ing their hypocrisy point­ed out. Even call­ing them a “racist,” “fas­cist” or “trai­tor” doesn’t draw much blood. 

But you call them “weird” and their whole uni­verse and sense of self be­gins to im­plode around them.

 

 

And have you no­ticed, Trump has some­how man­aged to go full Bul­worth (1998) with­out any of Bulworth’s goodness?

 

—ja­son malmberg

Flom­mist Ja­son Malm­berg is a sim­ple man who be­lieves in brown liquor and small dogs. He also makes art some­times. Copy­right © 2024 Ja­son Malm­berg. Top im­age: Don and Mom­ma. Hed­line quote: Our next veep spit­tin it plain!

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