A decade ago, there was a period of several weeks (or maybe months) where Miley Cyrus dominated celebrity news headlines by engaging in one provocative or shocking act after another, culminating in a raunchy performance of “Blurred Lines” with Robin Thicke at the 2013 VMAs. After that, Cyrus ran out of runway in the provocative acts department and we grew numb to her antics. She’d been shocking for so long that we lost interest.
Cyrus was 20 at the time and thankfully has matured into a kick-ass 30-year-old instead of going the Lindsay Lohan route (although even Lohan seems to have pulled it together). The same thing has happened to numerous celebrities before and since—Justin Bieber (remember when he peed in a janitor’s bucket?), Britney Spears, etc., but I still think of it in my mind as the Miley Cyrus effect.
This applies to politicians too, of course, most notably Donald Trump himself, who basically normalized insanity in the White House for four years. It blows my mind when an outlet like Fox News criticizes Joe Biden for going on vacation during, say, an extreme weather event brought on by climate change, as though they have completely forgotten that Trump visited golf courses 298 times during his Presidency, didn’t start work until noon, and spent most of the day watching cable news. I thought that after four years with Trump, it’d be impossible to criticize his successor because Trump had broken every norm in the book. Turns out, the norms only don’t apply to...
Kozhikode: The All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) leadership on Monday stated that the party has already withdrawn its support for P V Anvar, the former Nilambur MLA and UDF-backed candidate in B...