Remember when it was a thing—pointing out how weird Republicans can be? For a fleeting moment, it was trendy to call out their bizarre obsessions and fringe behaviors. Then, suddenly, we stopped. We let that strangeness blend into the background noise of politics once again. But why? And more importantly, should we let it stay there? Republicans are still so weird to me. It’s so weird how fixated they are on things that impact them in no way while nothing gets done about the thing they said democrats needed to be voted out for. Inflation is still rising. Instead, they’re just dissolve critical departments overnight that our elected leaders on both sides of the aisle built over generations to improve our society.
One thing Republicans excel at is repetition. They hammer the same talking points relentlessly. Even when those points are debunked, fact-checked, and filed under “pure nonsense,” they just keep repeating them. Eventually, those tired narratives gain traction. It’s the old adage: say something often enough, and it starts to sound true.
Take a moment to think about their current focus points. Obsessing over things like banning books, raging about pronouns, and turning harmless public health advice into some kind of dystopian nightmare scenario. These aren’t just political positions—they’re cultural fixations. Weird fixations. They’re also busy drumming up outrage over completely fabricated issues like “furries in schools,” an internet hoax taken to absurd political heights. They zero in on trans athletes, a group that makes up a fraction of a fraction of one percent of the population, while blowing it up as if it’s the nation’s greatest crisis. Meanwhile, T***p, in his infinite wisdom, focuses on major national priorities like banning paper straws. These issues are distractions, plain and simple.
Seriously, we’re just going to forget about the fact that America elected the guy who brought up an unproven internet hoax about eating cats up at a Presidential debate?
So why don’t we hammer them back on these topics? Nail them to the wall over their outlandish priorities. Frankly, a lot of these priorities are based on imaginary problems with no real actions to take. Make people notice how absurd their talking points are and how outrageous it is that they were handed the reins of government to address real issues—like your grocery bill—but instead waste time on the most ridiculous, irrelevant nonsense. Meanwhile, it feels like we the opposotion move on too quickly, always chasing the next headline or scandal.
But the key to making people see through the noise isn’t constantly shifting focus. It’s sticking with one topic long enough to make it undeniable. Just like they do. Maybe we should have stuck with the real problems in the Mueller report a bit longer, moving on only made those who think there was nothing to it feel validated. Maybe we should have talked about T***p defrauding his own charity for more than a day in the news cycle. Perhaps that would have upset a few more people if they had even heard about it.
If they’re still shouting about fictional “deep state” conspiracies or imaginary voter fraud years later, why aren’t we still talking about their bizarre obsessions and falsehoods? Or as I mentioned, their very real scandals and cases of blatant corruption. Why aren’t we calling out their relentless attempts to turn basic human decency into “culture war” ammunition?
The lesson here is simple: don’t let weirdness be normalized. Call it out. Repeatedly. Consistently. Relentlessly. Because the minute we stop talking about it, they win by default. It’s baffling that we’re sanewashing T***p. He’s fucking insane. Period. I couldn’t even watch the super bowl this year knowing they were going to sanewash him there.
The facts and truth is on our side. Big time. Has been for quite some time now. Fucking stick to it and stop getting distracted.
