Welcome to the Weird Era

What liberals are pushing backmost against, then, is seeing each of these things cobbled unneurotic and demonized. “This infinitesimal is important, I think, for radical to telephone out,” Phillips says. “You've got this unusual minoritarianism, this obsession with children and genitals and resistance queens and librarians and each of this worldly wherever you're like, ‘What is incorrect with you guys?’”

Backlash, it’s worthy noting, is already afoot. Last weekend, onetime Republican statesmanlike hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy took to X to telephone the “they’re weird” statement “dumb and juvenile,” adding, “this is simply a statesmanlike election, not a precocious schoolhouse prom queen contest.”

Derek Guy, aka X’s Menswear Guy, responded to Ramaswamy’s station with an representation of the erstwhile campaigner and the caption “big ass shoes,” zooming successful connected what looked similar ill-fitting footwear. It was an effort to telephone retired Ramaswamy’s ain weirdness, but 2 days aboriginal Guy posted a new connection to X that “the sermon astir ‘weird’ strikes maine arsenic not great.”

Calling anyone “weird” implies that idiosyncratic other is “normal” oregon deviant, and that has consequences. “That is however trans radical get attacked, that is however women who don’t person children get attacked,” Phillips says. Trump and his supporters aren’t going to crook astir and rethink their actions, and yet “weirdness” could extremity up being “weaponized successful ways that past makes maine nervous, adjacent though I besides deliberation that not calling attraction to the weirdness is dangerous,” she adds.

“Weird arsenic a framing works truly good arsenic a meme,” Phillips says, “but it doesn't enactment truly good arsenic an outreach strategy.”

Katiyar says it volition yet travel down to whether liberals, and the Harris run specifically, tin backmost up the memes with thing else. “Young voters truly bash attraction astir societal issues, astir lodging prices, the economy, precise substantive issues,” she says. “So I bash spot [“weird”] losing efficacy if they don’t proceed to displacement argumentation to make a difference.” That, to usage past week’s buzzword, would beryllium so brat.

Loose Threads

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Sure, you’ve heard of walking connected water, but person you heard of lasting connected the aerial supra it? Brazilian surfer Gabriel Medina has, and this photograph of him doing conscionable that has gone incredibly viral.

South Korean sharpshooter Kim Ye-ji is cooler than you. Everyone thinks so.

Finally, we’d similar to permission you with this: A video of gold-medal Olympic gymnasts Simone Biles and Jordan Chiles dancing with Snoop Dogg.