“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal

I’m going to hold your hand when I say this: 2014 was ten years ago. Shocking, I know—it feels like it was just yesterday. But in the decade since, so much has changed, both in the world around us and in our own lives.

Recently, Redditor u/Ok-Squash8044 sparked an interesting conversation, asking others to share things that would have been unimaginable back then but are completely normal now. Many users chimed in, and the thread quickly filled with thought-provoking insights.

Read on for some of the best answers—and don’t forget to upvote your favorites!

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A felon running for president.

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That in 2024 we would be fighting about the abortion issue.

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Reading headlines about more women dying bc they were denied lifesaving healthcare when their pregnancies went wrong, because that procedure they needed is also a type of abortion.

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A politician with free reign to say or do anything they want, with absolute impunity, and still have a legitimate number of votes to make it close or f*****g *win*.

In Clintons presidency, even ONE of these transgressions would endanger everything. The man fought tooth and nail to hide a blowie, and the nation reeled in the controversy.

Today, every day, an indictment worthy statement is shot across the news, and no harm no foul. Just keep rolling towards consignment to oblivion. All conditions normal at two minutes to midnight.

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“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal People being able to live a long life while being HIV positive.

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“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal Subscriptions for damn near everything!

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*gestures vaguely at the state of U.S. politics*.

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“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal Diseases that have been dormant for decades coming back.

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“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal Computers making art, and people still doing mindless repetitive tasks. .

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I think almost everything about current US politics was unimaginable 10 years ago. 10 years ago we thought our country and our constitution was strong. Now we know better.

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“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal Working remotely.

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“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal How much spying our electronics do on us and we're totally cool with it.

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Going to the store to buy marijuana legally.

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“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal Paying more than $10 for a fast food combo.

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A president who discusses the size of Arnold Palmer’s d**k.

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Two very uk based ones:
1. Brexit - I was a final year politics student in 2014 and no one thought we would vote for Brexit, let alone a hard Brexit as that would be economic madness.

2. The normalisation of the far right - UKIP were on the rise but very much a fringe minority. The Conservatives were dogmatic in austerity but socially they had legalised gay marriage, promoted the big society, and were at least performatively tolerant. Worlds away from the culture war nonsense now. .

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“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal Leave a pizza order on someone's front porch without even knocking.

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The cost of living. 10 years ago it was possible to have disposable income, and save up for nice things. Now the entire pay cheque goes towards bills and other living costs, then the credit line has to cover the rest.

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There’s been massive student-led protests in Thailand against the military junta throughout 2021 with the leaders being jailed yet barely a peep from western newspapers.

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“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal Kids having constant access to an AI that will effortlessly do all their homework for them.

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People plastering presidential candidate flags and stickers all over their cars and houses like it was their favorite sports team. Even in a sports lens that would be seen as a mental illness.

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A new Cure album.

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“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal It being 95 degrees in f****n October.

Edit: not unimaginable as in "didn't know it could happen." But unimaginable as in ***surely those at the levers of power will be reasonable and take decisive action to prevent it***

Despite the decades long screams of "do something" [emissions have only fallen a little](https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-us-greenhouse-gas-emissions).

There are success stories like the [banning of CFCs](https://gml.noaa.gov/hats/publictn/elkins/cfcs.html) and the reduction of acid rain by lowering sulfur and NOx emissions. 2014 me thought that green house gas driven climate change would be another success like that that if not abated, would at least stabilize. There have been multiple international agreements since the 90s that haven't been ambitious enough or that were not signed by the US/pulled out of by the US. *Any progress is good* but its not enough. .

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“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal Maybe not 10 years ago (more like 20), but according to my grandma, everyone having tattoos. She said not a lot of people had them and even less would show them proudly, but now if you go to a waterpark or any place where lots of skin is exposed, you’ll see so many people with tattoos.

My grandma is very against tattoos, it’s so funny to hear her rant about them. I have a small one that I’ve been hiding from her for 2 years now lol.

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“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal Everything, including Walmart, being closed before midnight.

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“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal $17 pints.

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“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal Just a reminder that 10 years ago was 2014. A lot of stuff on here was already well underway by then: Political division in the US really jumped into high gear after 9/11, your smart phone has been spying on you since at least 2010, etc.

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Girls suddenly being not just 'okay with' but 'active facilitators in' distributing their own nudes and amateur porn for a quick buck.

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Fear Factor guy interviews the game show dude and it's one of the post important political events ever.

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“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal The government no longer denying the existence of UFOs.

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What do you think ?

Uncommon Boston Premium 1 week ago

The increase in ignorance.

7points

Janelle Collard Premium 6 days ago (edited)

Yeah, in the 2020 election campaigns, t-rump said he loves the poorly educated. I wonder why? 😁

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WonderWoman 1 week ago

Russia, China, North Korea have already joined forces, now that trump was installed, the world as we know it has ceased to exist.

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Mason Kronol 1 week ago

The fact that Elon Musk was giving away a million dollars a day to voters was concerning. Him communicating with Putin while offering starlink access to Ukraine while trump complained about the money Biden was sending is weird. Trump influencing the GOP while Biden was president didn’t seem to concern enough republicans. Elon sitting in on trumps recent call with Zelenskyy scares the c**p out me! We handed NASA and the ISS over to Elon and Russia. And don’t forget how much money trump owes the Saudis.

9points

Guess Undheit 1 week ago

Wait a year. In yankland, the number of babies born and marriages will drop dramatically as women adopt the South Korean feminist 4B policy: NO dating men, NO sex, NO babies, NO marriage. This is REALLY going to drive cis hetero males up the wall - if incels think they have no luck now, wait until the "chads" can't get dates either. Nightclubs will close, romantic restaurants, and plenty of other "date places" will see a serious loss of business.

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Traveling Lady Railfan 1 week ago

An interesting proposal. Women adopting the strategy of celibacy (while these laws are in place) is one way not to have a medical complication regarding pregnancy, but what would this "off the market" strategy do to the national ®ape rate? I think it's gonna be bad times all around. Not a good time to be in possession of a uterus.

michael reid 1 week ago

What about people walking around the street waving their arms and shouting and not looking where they're going?

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apinecone 1 week ago

As a leftist American (in the sense that I live here, not a nationalist) a lot of you folks seem to have some misapprehensions. Kamala Harris was not a good candidate. She walked back every single progressive promise she ever made, including her support for immigrants, healthcare reform, and environmental protections. She ran a platform more conservative than most Republicans 10 years ago, and with Trump running the same far-right platform as always, she lost credibility. A Harris Administration would have been ecologically destructive, economically conservative, and geopolitically unstable. She would have been a better president than Trump, but that's about the lowest bar there is. My fellow citizens were given the choice between two liars, and chose the one who was better at it. Our governmental system is so fantastically flawed that this result was all but inevitable. The "American Experiment" has proven that liberal democracy is doomed. Now our job is to try something new.

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Abe Hartman 1 week ago

Exactly what I've been trying to say (albeit less elegantly) and getting downvoted for

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Nikole 1 week ago

“Woke” just means not prejudiced.

The only social engineering in hollywood was making movies and TV with only white faces, i.e. the way incels like you pathetically wish it still was.

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Orysha 1 week ago

Using the meaningless word woke means YOU are part of the problem

Manny 1 week ago

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“Liberal tears”… I have BINGO! Sweet!

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