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guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
Wed Feb 14, 2018, 09:08 PM Feb 2018

Abnormal is the new normal.

Nazis openly running for office on the GOP ballot in Wisconsin and Illinois,

the GP actively collaborating with Putin to subvert democracy,

school shootings and assorted instances of mass gun murder as regular news items,

an admitted serial abuser of women endorsing a pedophile for the Senate,

an admitted serial abuser of women defending other serial abusers of women as fine people,

a President calling Nazis and Klansmen fine people,

levels of economic inequality rivaling 1929,

and FOX news actively working to dumb down the voting population in service to the 1%.

Abnormal is definitlely the new normal.

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guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
2. Proving my point.
Wed Feb 14, 2018, 09:13 PM
Feb 2018

Thank you for the humor. we all need it.

That was an interesting game. No defense, but a lot of points scored.

RKP5637

(67,104 posts)
3. You summed up what I've been thinking too. As the abnormal is accepted more and more as
Wed Feb 14, 2018, 09:14 PM
Feb 2018

the new norm each day. Many outrageous things/events are just ho-hum. It's damn scary. And I wonder just where the F the US is headed.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
5. And this desensitizes people so that abnormal IS accepted.
Wed Feb 14, 2018, 09:19 PM
Feb 2018

I remember when cheating on taxes was something that criminals did. Now it is Presidential.

RKP5637

(67,104 posts)
7. Yeah, a president should set an example, what an evil crooked example he sets. I was just noticing
Wed Feb 14, 2018, 09:23 PM
Feb 2018

how even the 17 deaths are sort of just calmly discussed on MSM, just some more events.

Look at this guys postings, is this becoming the new norm too ...

https://heavy.com/news/2018/02/nikolas-cruz-florida-instagram-nicolas-nicholas-social-media/

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