FBI Director Comey’s unprecedented political ploy is just the latest in a line of stunts no one has pulled before this election cycle. Tongues will wag, but it won’t be long before we realize it’s just another distraction. We have a bigger problem.
The term “unprecedented” doesn’t have the impact it used to have. There’s a reason we are numb to the term. It has been used an unprecedented number of times this election cycle.
Forget about the GOP candidate’s unprecedented escalating attacks on the election process. That’s just meat for the fan boys. We got institutional issues to deal with here.
The GOP chose a candidate with a history of 3,500 lawsuits against him. For a community that says character counts, that’s …. unprecedented.
The GOP nominated a guy who has five kids from three different women. For the “family values” crowd, that’s ….. unprecedented.
The GOP supports a candidate who admits he regularly sexually assaults women. That’s …. unprecedented.
The GOP nominee for president says stuff so distasteful that makers of breath mints have had to join other candy manufacturers and explicitly distance themselves from him, lest the association damage their product. That’s …. unprecedented.
The GOP nominee has threatened to jail his opponent. That’s …. unprecedented and beyond bizarre. Even Nixon at his worst never went that far overboard. Even when we had public officials engaged in dueling, no one went that bonkers.
Bizarre is just the beginning. What do you call the unprecedented attacks on the President’s citizenship?
The list of unprecedented things people have to deal with is just so damn long, it beggars belief. I understand politicians lie, distort, stretch the truth, but 76% of the time? That’s ….. unprecedented. Hell, even Michele Bachmann, the personification of batshit insane can’t match that level of mendacity.
You know it’s bad when folks stop reporting on any particular falsehood and resort to the unprecedented step of simply reporting the number of lies in a single event. After awhile, the headlines just become a list of numbers.
Donald Trump Made Up Stuff 71 Times In One Hour
Donald Trump Said Seven False Things Yesterday
Donald Trump Said 35 False Things on Tuesday, October 25
Donald Trump Told 30 Lies in Two Days
I could go on, but why bother? At this point it is more productive to take the unprecedented opportunity to bet on the size of the GOP nominee’s penis size. After all, he brought it up so it must be worth discussing. Certainly no less newsworthy than a lot of stuff that is being covered.
Focusing on what really deserves to be called “news worthy” is kind of important. Last time I looked, the point of a presidential election is to choose the person who will lead the nation for the next four years. I don’t care how much infotainment reality TV spin you want to put on it, that’s still a BFD.
You know what else is a BFD? A little more than a week from now we will elect the next person to lead this nation and that will be the first of a long list of unprecedented actions she will be involved in. Some of those will be truly amazing, important and historic. We’re going to need a term to reflect all that. It seems foolish to cheapen the term “unprecedented” by wasting it on a guy whose actions are more accurately described as “no one has pulled that crap before.” There’s a word for that, and it’s not unprecedented. It’s outlandish.