Dems Go All-In on Blasting Trump and MAGA as ‘Sick Freaks Who Everyone Hates’

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1. I mean-

2. Sick Fucks also works.

3. The quote is about Trump and Vance

4. These are weird joyless people who think making fun of someone’s laugh is a convincing argument.

   Trump is a weird motherfucker. Paints himself orange, doesn’t laugh or smile, makes vulgar comments about his daughter.

   He’s at Michael Jackson levels of weird. But I trust MJs diddle defense over Epsteins best bud.

5. … by pointing out what Trump and Vance are saying.

6. >“Shaking off the stink of … ‘when they go low, we go high,’” is how one Democratic operative put it, as they celebrated the sudden vibe-shift and re-energized messaging strategy within their party in the days since President Joe Biden bowed out of the 2024 race. 

   >According to an Democratic lawmaker on Capitol Hill who is regularly in contact with Biden-Harris (now just Harris) officials, one idea fueling this push is to hammer home an easily memorable point to swing voters about how Trump, Vance, and the GOP and [MAGA](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/maga/) elite are a bunch of “weird, sick freaks who everyone hates, and who want to take basic rights away.”

7. Sick freaks = understatement of the century

8. To be fair, they are also stupid.

9. The Walz argument. Whether VP or not he really made this work early in the week and everyone grabbed it.

10. The best things that the Dems have going for them are their opponents

11. “When they go low we go high” was and is an utter failure.

    I’ve long said that Republicans bring a bazooka to a knife fight while Democrats bring a policy paper.

    You saw that at the debate – Trump was bombastically lying his ass off and Biden was stumbling along reciting statistics.

    Harris needs to bring her own bazooka.

12. Good. The Democratic strategy of entering the ring with both hands tied behind its back in the name of “civility” was getting old.

13. “Freaky-ass [dudes] need to stay their ass inside”

14. About goddamned time. This should be like shooting fish in a barrel. These assholes are reprehensible human beings and they should be reminded of it every day, in every possible way. Make them know just how revolting and reviled they are.

15. JD Vance: America’s Couch Quarterback

16. I’m ready for the Dem ‘mean girl’ phase.

17. *FINALLY*

    This is probably the right/best/most effective attack line that they’ve (at last) figured out to use. Plain fact is that these screwballs are somewhere between weird freaks, anti-social eff-up’s, bizarre psycho- and/or socio-paths, people that nobody likes, or the ones that you don’t root for in the movies.

    The Trumpists are the ones that nobody invited to the parties, and so his whole schtick is to “own” his own or create his own, which is either half-ass or a weak imitation of the real thing and then give it a gloss of superficial crassness to intentionally thumb-his-nose at the “elites” that didn’t invite him in the first place.

    At some point though (maybe from the beginning?), it all just became a grift on other low-enders, which is really, really cynical and reprehensible.

    It’s long past time that they got called on their B.S.

18. Fucking finally. Ignoring bullies and finger-wagging has never worked.

19. I think I speak for most of this sub when I say FUCKING FINALLY.

20. They seem to get that they have to disenchant the culture surrounding MAGA. You can’t let them remain countercultural rebels. This is a way better tactic than “OMG they’re attacking the institutions!”

21. Well it’s true

22. Finally. If going high when they go low were a viable strategy, Merrick Garland would be on the Supreme Court.

23. I love this messaging. American conservatives are super weird and obsessed with sex and power dynamics. Call a spade a spade.

24. Maga is the amalgam of every playground bully, joining forces online, and their sole purpose is trolling. They offer zero policy – it can’t even be called politics, it’s whining that others exist, so they’re going to steal power and hurt people they don’t like.

    That’s a personality disorder, that needs therapy – that is not politics, people.

25. Going all in on telling the fucking truth, I’d call it

26. Good. Trump is a friggen weirdo and when you look up “Aqualung” in the dictionary you see a picture of Vance