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Atticus

(15,124 posts)
Sun Mar 19, 2023, 03:05 PM Mar 2023

"Why should I give a big brown rat's ass what this person says?" [View all]

I respectfully suggest that this is what we should be asking ourselves---and "journalists"--- several times each day.

Whether featured by cable networks desperate to fill 24 hours of air time or RWNJ interrnet whores desperate to generate clicks, some of the "opinions" voiced by the flickering visages on a variety of screens have but one appropriate response: "WTF?"

Dershowitz?

Taylor-Greene?

Biggs?

Many more, including, of course, Trump?

I am just saying that many of us at least somewhat credit what we hear on TV as significant simply BECAUSE "it was on TV". Maybe our reaction should often be "Pffft! Next---!"

ADDENDUM: Feel free to ask "Why should I give a big brown rat's ass what Atticus says?"

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