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maxrandb

(15,360 posts)
Tue Apr 25, 2017, 12:55 PM Apr 2017

Here comes the 100th day normalization

It saddens me, but does not surprise me to see the “normalization” of Donnie “Short Fingers” (his mob moniker) by the media.

Seems like everyone has gotten into the act.

Here’s Yahoo News who desperately recruited and solicited for someone, anyone…hello…please would someone please let them know that they didn’t vote for Trump but now would

https://www.yahoo.com/news/contrarians-didnt-vote-trump-now-090051867.html

Why, I’m sure you all remember how Yahoo desperately looked for Romney or McCain voters that “wished they had voted for Obama”. Come on, you remember that, don’t you? Hell, I remember it just like it was “yester-NEVER”

According to the “media”

- This Administration is not a Train Wreck…it’s “unconventional”

- Dropping a bomb just barely below the destructive power of a Nuke is not a feeble attempt to enlarge his small penis AND a possible war crime…it’s “presidential”. Look out media! If he drops a Nuke, that would make him “Emperorential”

- The appointment of Neil Gorsuch was not the theft of a Supreme Court seat, or an unprecedented and blatant move to politicize the court…it was a “victory”

I guess the media can take comfort though.

The monster they helped create may very well start World War III, destroy America and potentially get us all killed, but hey, at least he gets better ratings than 9/11


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Here comes the 100th day normalization (Original Post) maxrandb Apr 2017 OP
What may be happening - and I've seen this noted elsewhere - The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2017 #1

The Velveteen Ocelot

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1. What may be happening - and I've seen this noted elsewhere -
Tue Apr 25, 2017, 01:07 PM
Apr 2017

is that at least some people in the media are so used to "normal" politicians, presidencies and administrations that they are trying to fit 45 into one of their established models. Is he "conservative"? Is he "unconventional"? Is he just "inexperienced"? They have no model for him. They don't know what to do with him so they try to fit him into an existing box and they haven't quite figured out that he isn't like any previous American president (although he resembles some other rather unsavory leaders from other places). Some have finally started to realize that he is something else altogether, and that it's not a good something. With the exception of Faux "News," I don't think the attempt at normalization is in most cases conscious or intentional; it's more that they don't have a box to fit him in or a vocabulary to describe him.

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