The "normalization" process is going according to plan.

[kentuck]

Trump will put his daughter and son-in-law in the West Wing, in direct conflict with our nepotism laws, which were pushed by Republicans when Bobby Kennedy was the Attorney General for his brother, John. They will travel around the world and meet heads of state and important people and America will look at it as something "normal". It is not.

Trump will say that he will show his tax returns and that he will turn over his businesses once he is in the White House. We now see that business has never been better for the Trump brand. China has been especially kind to Donald Trump. There are treasures untold waiting to be gathered. It is not normal. It is not legal. It is not Constitutional.

There are so many things that are now being passed off as "normal" by this Administration and are getting a free pass from the media, more or less. It is not "normal".

The American people are beginning to accept Donald Trump as just a little different but not that much out of the mainstream. But he is. We cannot permit this "normalization" to continue on this slide.

[FSogol]

1. The RW likes to sputter, "but Bobby Kennedy." Remember, RFK passed confirmation by Congress.

The examples are in no way equivalent.

[Bettie]

10. Because Bobby Kennedy was

actually qualified for the job he was confirmed for!

[FSogol]

12. Trumpy doesn't know the meaning of the word, "qualified."

[Bettie]

15. No, he doen't

because he's that dumb guy who thinks he's the smartest person in the room and he's had a lifetime of people telling him only what he wants to hear.

I feel sick every morning, just waiting to see what fresh horror awaits us.

[DK504]

20. But Bobby actually did his job and fought crime.

These idiots don't read history, they have no idea.

[dalton99a]

2. We're being held hostage by thieves

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Hitler (theme and variation) did the same thing using Josef Goebbel's wife, Magda.

He had her as his unofficial First Lady. She hosted social and political events.

She had six children by Goebbels (and one by one of the founders of BMW in Germany) and was held as the model of motherhood, femininity, and wholesome German families.

She made Nazism appear to be not just normal, but to emulated.

BTW, she poisoned all six of those children before she and her husband committed suicide.

[2naSalit]

9. So then...

the question arises, how can we encourage the whole clan to take themselves out of the population?

[no_hypocrisy]

11. You can't.

Forget the family fidelity.

If any of those kids cross their father, they're out in several ways.

Out of the will. Out of the business. He'll destroy them or they think he will.

They like their Turtle Bay condo/townhouses. They like the perks. They like being in the media. They like their lifestyles.

They will leave when Trump leaves. And I'm not even certain that will encourage them to go away.

[2naSalit]

14. Probably so, however...

I was thinking of the entire West Wing and many in other offices and on the sidelines. I wasn't thinking of just the dump clan but all their enablers too.

[jmg257]

4. Yep - thought that this AM listening to CNN/MSNBC

Now the situations are "unique".
Weird moments are "learning points".

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. Comparing Jared Cushner to Bobby Kennedy...

Comparing Jared Cushner to Bobby Kennedy is like comparing some guy who rides the pine with Lebron James.

[FSogol]

6. Not really, the guy riding the pine earned his spot. Kushner is more like the frat boy who was

given front row tickets by his father-in-law's company and is harassing the beer vendor.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. "They will travel around the world and meet heads of state"

Which makes you wonder what the hell is Tillerson doing in the job as SOS (outside of focusing on Exxon-Mobil's stake)?

[tiptonic]

8. Remember

What is normal? It's what trump says it is. Have a good day sheeple.

[JHan]

13. So many are in on the normalization.

as if grading Trump on a curve last year wasn't bad enough.

[world wide wally]

16. Another day... Another milestone in corruption

[Saviolo]

17. Never stop thinking about how abnormal this is:

Things to watch for in an emerging fascist state:



This is -NOT NORMAL- and we can't be allowed to think it is. No matter how far down the crazy hole this goes, we can't think, "Oh, the stuff he did at the beginning is practically normal compared to this dog and pony show!" Nope!

It's all abnormal, and we have to keep calling it abnormal.

[ancianita]

18. I don't think they are beginning to "accept." I think they are beginning to cope, ignore, resist

and 'go along to get along,' but the first chance they get they are going to open a new door for the fresh air of truth, with all the factual maps of science and news that the world lets them in on.

The Russians who've escaped generations of that kind of world have much to show Americans about how freedom is hard to cope with when one is inured to the rule of force, secrecy and bullshit.

Thankfully, Americans get to change the decor of their political environment every two, four, six years.

I'm always going to be with you. We must never permit Bullshit Mountain to be any "normal" place for Americans to live on.

[Bigredhunk]

19. -

It's amazing. The reich can make a scandal out of absolutely nothing. They have actual scandals on their side and nothing happens.