• 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?

    • ohulancutash@feddit.uk
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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.