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NRaleighLiberal

(60,031 posts)
Wed Mar 1, 2017, 12:47 AM Mar 2017

Got home from my concert - scanned news sites - and one word comes to mind.

Normalization.

The best analysis I read was TPM's Josh Marshall - http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-few-thoughts-on-trump-s-speech--2

one of his thoughts - "I can't in good conscience not add here that the speech was strewn with demonstrably false claims. But we expect this now."

But shit I read elsewhere - Van Jones crying? "with this speech he became president"?

I knew this would happen and it was utterly predictable - because the media is largely incapable of doing anything like a competent job.

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Got home from my concert - scanned news sites - and one word comes to mind. (Original Post) NRaleighLiberal Mar 2017 OP
yep.. but don't worry nini Mar 2017 #1
Who, Don or Van? dchill Mar 2017 #2
Donny nini Mar 2017 #4
America is over BannonsLiver Mar 2017 #3
Mine came here from Norway. Foo Fighter Mar 2017 #5
I'm currently on vacation in Mexico BannonsLiver Mar 2017 #7
From Norway to Texas? Foo Fighter Mar 2017 #10
yeah, good luck with that MF m$m Cha Mar 2017 #6
Trump didn't go off the rails like he did at his press conference. LeftInTX Mar 2017 #8
Don who? I'm more interested in who or what you went to see in concert? HipChick Mar 2017 #9
Eric Whitacre - link below NRaleighLiberal Mar 2017 #11
Our daughter has been in choirs conducted by him. She loves him :) nt phylny Mar 2017 #12

nini

(16,672 posts)
4. Donny
Wed Mar 1, 2017, 12:50 AM
Mar 2017

Van is an idiot.

Trump will make an ass of himself by mid day tomorrow again. I do see the normalization thing too but He is just too stupid to not be a dick.


BannonsLiver

(16,542 posts)
3. America is over
Wed Mar 1, 2017, 12:49 AM
Mar 2017

That's the takeaway I have for tonight. I'll go to bed tonight cursing my ancestors for emigrating from Ireland and Scotland, the stupid fucks.

BannonsLiver

(16,542 posts)
7. I'm currently on vacation in Mexico
Wed Mar 1, 2017, 12:58 AM
Mar 2017

Met a nice woman from Norway who moved to Fort Worth six months ago. The whole time I was talking to her I just wanted to blurt out "Why?!".

Foo Fighter

(743 posts)
10. From Norway to Texas?
Wed Mar 1, 2017, 01:10 AM
Mar 2017

Oh my. That must be one helluva culture shock.

BTW, love your username. Unfortunately, it probably won't last very long. Then again, my liver probably won't either with Trump in office. I swear, this is may be the first time in history where the population is aging faster than the president occupant of 1600 Pennslvania.

LeftInTX

(25,720 posts)
8. Trump didn't go off the rails like he did at his press conference.
Wed Mar 1, 2017, 01:06 AM
Mar 2017

He stuck to a script.

I didn't watch much of the speech, but from I didn't hear "bigly" or his usual off the wall stuff. His speech was better than his inaugural address. He didn't sound as hyper as he can be.

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