Twitter's weird new policy on trending terms, whatever it is, has wreaked havoc on #Deflectotrend, but we get one today, thanks to the Rockefeller Center xmas tree being scraggly and sad.
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Chuck Todd must have said something stupid.
The greatest moment in #Deflectotrend history!
It's a #DOUBLEDEFLECTOTREND!!
A Trump supporter testified in Michigan. She looks like Jackson and sounds like Strong's (drunk) Girl You Wish You Hadn't Started a Conversation With at a Party character.
A new Taylor Swift song is reminding people of an old Chicks, nee Dixie Chicks, song called Goodbye Earl.
#Deflectotrend
Gene Simmons ... football? Wha??
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NFL quarterback Jalen Hurts, who is Black, celebrates a touchdown with a tongue wag, a white guy tweets a clip saying he "channels his inner Gene Simmons," and Black Twitter would like a word.
Jenna Ellis tried to dunk on Molly Jong-Fast for whatever reason by comparing their careers, and the entire internet reminded Ellis that the high point of her career was when she was sitting next to a guy and he farted.
#Deflectotrend
#Deflectotrend with explainer included at no extra charge.
Except to the taxpayers.
Typo in a politics tweet. #Deflectotrend
It appears Senator McConnell is very concerned with norms and rules and fairness toward the minority party in the wOrlD's gReAteSt DeLIBerBaTory bOdY.
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Larry King died. He and Jerry Seinfeld once had a memorable exchange on his CNN show.
Evidently this is a #Deflectotrend every year right after the Super Bowl halftime show.
Big Shot Bob is a #Deflectotrend because Tom Brady just won his Super Bowl ring.
I hoped, but wasn't confident, that Horry was being used as a way to debunk the asinine idea that Brady winning more NFL titles than anyone else makes him the greatest athlete of all time.
Yay!
Rush Limbaugh died.
#Deflectotrend
Rush Limbaugh died.
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Rush Limbaugh died.
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Rush Limbaugh died.
And people are quoting that thing Mark Twain never said about reading obituaries.
#Deflectotrend
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One exciting young ballplayer signs a huge contract, everyone talks about the non-huge — context matters, people — contract of another one. In case you can't follow the Twexplanation.
Ted Cruz is in the news. #Deflectotrend
It took a while but I finally saw this #Deflectotrend that @ChrisJRailey spotted earlier.
Some guy who's as dumb as Texas is big said Texans should blame their Democratic governor for the power grid failure, so people are talking about the last Democratic governor of Texas, who left office in 1995 and died in 2006.
#Deflectotrend
Shoo-wee is #Deflectotrend having a week.
Here we have Sen. Joe Manchin announcing that he won't vote to confirm Neera Tanden because she's "too partisan," and people remembering that he voted to confirm Jeff Sessions and
The #Deflectotrend boom continues.
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Jim Jordan evidently said something terrible — ma nishtana — so people are talking about a documentary about the athlete sexual abuse scandal at Ohio State that's being produced by
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A gold Trump statue at CPAC looks like
Chris Cuomo.
#Deflectotrend
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Andrew Cuomo held a press conference.
#Deflectotrend
Andrew Cuomo held a press conference.
A-Rod and JLo broke up.
#Deflectotrend
News item: @SenWhitehouse calls for investigation into whether the FBI background check into Brett Kavanaugh was fake.
#Deflectotrend
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President Biden stumbled on the steps of an airplane, something President Ford was known for doing, a little because he did it a couple times, and a lot because Chevy Chase spoofed him for it on SNL a lot.
Doubling up on the #Deflectotrend
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With Rick Moranis explainer.
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The Jeopardy account said Dr. Oz is hosting this week, and the world said dude come on.
#Deflectotrend
Some politician's goofy press briefing about meth went viral.
This might be my favorite #Deflectotrend of all time.
It's basically people answering the question whether Dr. Birx was a victim of Donald Trump.
#Deflectotrend
Roy Williams retired as men's basketball coach at North Carolina.
For non-sports fans: Coach K is Mike Krzyzewski, the coach at Duke, whose name I used to be able to spell from memory even though it's prounounced sha-SHEF-ski.
But even though I could spell Krzyzewski from memory, I always looked it up anyway.
blog.bleacherreport.com/2011/04/19/spe…
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Matt Gaetz scandal.
A #Deflectotrend perennial. It blooms every time an world famous, elderly, irredeemably horrible person dies.
I'm going to rule this a #Deflectotrend because I'm pretty sure it's a reaction to Transportation Secretary Pete saying there's racism built into America's highways.
Just in case, let's go to #Deflectotrend VAR:
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Won't be long now.
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Count it!
#Deflectotrend
Roger Stone is in trouble with tax evasion, which is how they got ...
#Deflectotrend
Jeopardy announces that Joe Buck is the next tryout host, and fans of the show rise as one to say, as they do when every tryout host is announced, who they want to be the next host. He's said he wants to do it too.
This is borderline because it's evidently just a derisive nickname for Sen. John Kennedy, but I'm going to count it because when I saw it I had no idea what it referred to, but I KNEW it was a #Deflectotrend.
The early returns are in on Caitlyn Jenner's candidacy for governor of California.
#Deflectotrend
People have picked up on the dogwhistle reference to the racist movie classic during Rick Santorum foghorn racist rant. Since he didn't say the title, I call this as a #Deflectotrend
Santorum's comments are evidently a #Deflectotrend factory this morning.
I hear from @jim_crumley that @fakedansavage has been trending, as he tends to do when Santorum says something particularly Santorumesque, but I haven't seen it so not an official #Deflectotrend
Federal investigators have executed a search warrant at Rudy Giuliani’s Manhattan residence, resulting in not just a #Deflectotrend but the second ever #DOUBLEDEFLECTOTREND!!
And that's right: BOTH of them have been Rudy-related! Here's the first one
As the most prolific #Doubledeflectotrend producer of all time, Rudy would surely want to throw this one back. But this is his large adult son.
As with a bloop single, so with a #Deflectotrend. As Vin Scully used to say: "A humble thing, but thine own."
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Former actor Ricky Schroeder made an ass of himself at a Costco and that got everyone talking about the last time we heard from him, when he supplied bail money to a white supremacist murder suspect.
It's been a while but at last a new #Deflectotrend
An article poses it as a problem that Simone Biles is too good, would run away with every competition if the scoring system didn't limit her. People are pointing out that Michael Phelps didn't have to wear weights in the pool.
#Deflectotrend
Trump gave a speech wearing pants that not only have no fly — they are either pullups, or he put them on backwards somehow, or both — but they're ridiculously wrinkled, and Hope Hicks used to steam his pants while he wore them.
Totally normal sentence.
I'll check later but I think this moves Al Franken into a first-place tie with Henry Kissinger as the most frequent #Deflectotrend
This is like a double bank #Deflectotrend in the side pocket.
An intern made a mistake that went viral. Monica Lewinsky tweeted:
dear intern:
it gets better.
♥️
Then Twitter started arguing about who was the villain in the scandal she was a part of. Winner:
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