• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      That’s not true at all …

      What the actual fuck about today do you think is normal for the entire existence of America?

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        The use of leaks to the press to gauge reaction to a hypothetical policy or announcement? The subject of this comment chain?

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          Yes…

          None of those are happening normally.

          If a bus slams into the bus stop at 90mph, you don’t just step onto it. Even if it arrived at the right time.

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            No idea what that’s supposed to be an analogy of.

            Are you actually claiming that Trump is the first to practice kite-flying? Because that’s a bold claim.

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        They’re right though. “Floating a trial balloon” and “Testing the waters” wouldn’t be idioms if they weren’t a common behaviour.