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Boring is the new thrilling. Predicable is the new exciting. And normal is the new extraordinary.
Van Jones on Joes speech.
Karadeniz
(22,279 posts)Cave, dying for air, groping your way through the gloom, nothing recognizable, lost and unsure. Then, normal light, not fireworks, not search lights, just everyday light means the world.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,788 posts)unblock
(51,974 posts)carter was just the right man the country needed after watergate. very clearly ethical, prudent, deliberate, calm, statesmanly, etc.
it helped us get passed watergate in a way ford inherently couldn't, not only due to being from the same party, owing his presidency to nixon, and ffs, pardoning the dirtbag.
carter helped heal us as a nation.
but by 1980, having helped the nation get past watergate and get past vietnam, boring and calm and reasonable and ethical and so on no longer was of any great interest, and reagan clobbered him.
so while "normal" and "boring" seem great *now*, and, don't get me wrong, they *are* great, *now*.
but that narrative will stick and it will *not* play well in 2022 or 2024.
Freethinker65
(9,934 posts)After all of Trump's lies, have an official WH Malarkey meter (with footnotes to accurate information) to keep up with the GOP disinformation.
RestoreAmerica2020
(3,433 posts)..than listen to bloviated obnoxious odious racist #45's hate propaganda, unending lies.
Mr jones is wrong not boring to the 74 plus million Americans that said loud and clear--BASTA! Enough!