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have a normal one en · VERB
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(Internet, humorous, sarcastic) To have a public meltdown, especially on the Internet.
Sick or high or just having a normal one, it is perfectly understandable that Trump would be melting down in spectacular fashion. His only concern for the last four years has been getting re-elected for four more years, and that's not going well at all at the moment.
2020 October 7, Heather Digby Parton, “Trump's incoherent COVID bluster is destroying him — but America continues to suffer”, in Salon.com, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2022:Arizona Rep. John Fillmore, pictured here having a normal one
2022 January 27, William Vaillancourt, “GOP Lawmaker Pushes Bill to Let Him and His Pals Overturn Elections”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2022:Once again, guys, a normal comment on the internet. This person is clearly having a normal one. [Laughs]
2025 March 10, NFKRZ [Pseudonym; Roman Albertovich Abalin], 4:48 from the start, in I GOT MY EU RESIDENCY! 3 years after I left Russia 🇷🇺, via YouTube, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2025:Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has launched its Twitter competitor, Threads, and Twitter owner Elon Musk is having an extremely normal one about it. Threads is top-to-bottom a Twitter copycat and is launching at a time when Twitter seems to be having a turbulent old time of it, thanks largely to Musk's fiddling ever since he took over. Now Musk's sending in the lawyers, and getting really quite petty about it.
2023 July 7, Rich Stanton, “Elon Musk mocks 'the false happiness of hide-the-pain Instagram' as he sends Twitter's lawyers in on Threads”, in PC Gamer, archived from the original on 15 Jul 2023:President Donald Trump is having a normal one. On Sunday morning, he mused that perhaps the people behind Saturday Night Live should be sued or prosecuted, which, in fairness to Trump, is a thought most Americans have had at some point or another.
2018 December 16, Matthew Dessem, “Watch the Saturday Night Live Sketch That Enraged Donald Trump”, in Slate, archived from the original on 23 Dec 2022:The House GOP is having a normal one
2019 November 19, Ryan Bort, “Republicans Now Questioning Whether Purple Heart Recipient Is Loyal to the United States”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2022:How are Republicans taking all of this? ¶ They're having a normal one.
2022 August 9, Sara Boboltz, “What To Know About The FBI's Surprise Raid On Trump's Mar-A-Lago Resort”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2023:Scientists, having a normal one, created mutant toxic fruit flies using CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing.
[2019 October 2, Maddie Bender, “Scientists Edited Fruit Fly Genes to Give Them Butterflies' Toxic Abilities”, in VICE, archived from the original on 09 May 2023:
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see have, a, normal, one.
After a weird couple of years, Phoebe Bridgers is ready to have a normal one.
2021 September 21, David Brusie, “Phoebe Bridgers stayed home and became a star. Now she's finally on tour”, in The Boston Globe, Boston, M.A.: Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2023:
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