You can accept that they're fundamentally batshit insane and also be surprised upon learning about a specific new kind of batshit insanity.

And also, letting new batshit insane things slide is just complying in advance. If we're ever going to get back to a sane society (a big "if"), we can't accept the insanity until then, or it'll stick.

I didn’t say let it slide, I’m just over all the shocked faces, us doing the shocked step is something they bank upon, as it sorta stun-locks us sometimes for lack of a better term as they continue the bombardment.