Sat May 30, 2020, 10:47 AM
grumpyduck (5,288 posts)
Hey, MSM, have you forgotten about the pandemic?
Just went on several MSM web sites. Hardly anything about the death toll. But lots of repetitive stuff about the riots.
Fine, the civil unrest is news too, and important news, but what about the people who continue dying? Man, if I were a tin-hatter, I'd be screaming that this whole thing is being orchestrated by that PoS to distract from the pandemic.
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grumpyduck | May 2020 | OP |
uponit7771 | May 2020 | #1 | |
EllieBC | May 2020 | #2 | |
procon | May 2020 | #3 | |
PoindexterOglethorpe | May 2020 | #4 | |
Buckeye_Democrat | May 2020 | #5 | |
demmiblue | May 2020 | #6 | |
grumpyduck | May 2020 | #8 | |
mitch96 | May 2020 | #7 | |
Andy823 | May 2020 | #9 | |
grumpyduck | May 2020 | #10 | |
BannonsLiver | May 2020 | #11 | |
Initech | May 2020 | #12 | |
Tipperary | May 2020 | #13 | |
msongs | May 2020 | #14 |
Response to grumpyduck (Original post)
Sat May 30, 2020, 10:49 AM
uponit7771 (88,609 posts)
1. K&R, looks like Trump signaled something ... the Bogaloo racist are out in force
Response to grumpyduck (Original post)
Sat May 30, 2020, 10:52 AM
EllieBC (2,523 posts)
2. Everyone has.
If some are correct we should see huge spikes now after all these tightly packed rioters and looters. The actual protesters earlier on seemed to try to distance.
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Response to grumpyduck (Original post)
Sat May 30, 2020, 11:02 AM
procon (15,805 posts)
3. I suspect we are going to see a spike in new
Corona virus cases in cities where there were protests and riots.
I noticed that protesters were allowed to get very confrontational in face to face contact with police lines. Protesters, who were often unmasked, were yelling and screaming straight at the police. That has to be worrisome for spreading the virus to the police. |
Response to grumpyduck (Original post)
Sat May 30, 2020, 12:09 PM
PoindexterOglethorpe (24,216 posts)
4. This is merely another example of how the news media can only handle one
story at a time. As well as how the news tends to exist without context, and often without any kind of follow up.
For instance, apparently the opioid crisis is completely over. At least I've seen nothing about that little issue in several months. |
Response to grumpyduck (Original post)
Sat May 30, 2020, 12:16 PM
Buckeye_Democrat (14,588 posts)
5. As soon as the riots started, my first thought was...
..."NOW?! Now that Trump keeps falling in the polls and it looked locked-up?! Is this stuff planned?!"
Oh, well. I guess we'll see how it plays out. Maybe a bunch of "law and order" voters will rightfully blame him for the state of affairs? Trump is dangerous as hell, and he's still got the damn nuclear football. So almost anything is relatively minor to me compared to the prospect of him starting a nuclear war. |
Response to grumpyduck (Original post)
Sat May 30, 2020, 12:18 PM
demmiblue (35,426 posts)
6. You're obvious. Always have been. n/t
Response to grumpyduck (Original post)
Sat May 30, 2020, 12:53 PM
mitch96 (12,034 posts)
7. "the news media can only handle one story at a time" If it bleeds it leads...
dRumph has them where he want's 'em.... He is controlling the narrative and it's not on the virus...
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Response to grumpyduck (Original post)
Sat May 30, 2020, 01:35 PM
Andy823 (11,478 posts)
9. You might want to check this out
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/30/politics/trump-distractions-pandemic-racial-unrest/index.html
It's been for some time now. ![]() |
Response to Andy823 (Reply #9)
Sat May 30, 2020, 01:44 PM
grumpyduck (5,288 posts)
10. Yup. Right on the button.
Response to grumpyduck (Original post)
Sat May 30, 2020, 01:54 PM
BannonsLiver (14,858 posts)
11. The pandemic will be back when the Floyd story becomes tiresome
We have short attention spans here. In a few weeks nobody will be talking about George Floyd. Case in point, anyone heard Ahmaud Arbery’s name come up this week? Me neither. Two weeks ago that murder was big doings. Celebrities doing tributes, people jogging in tribute. Now? Not so much.
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Response to BannonsLiver (Reply #11)
Sat May 30, 2020, 01:58 PM
Initech (96,213 posts)
12. Or when people have run out of stuff to loot.
I saw morons on social media talking about taking the LA protests from downtown to Rodeo Drive because, why not?
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Response to grumpyduck (Original post)
Sat May 30, 2020, 02:00 PM
Tipperary (6,930 posts)
13. I have seen it mentioned several times, for the same reason I am worried.
This protesters are screaming without masks on, touching everything- there will be hell to pay.
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Response to grumpyduck (Original post)
Sat May 30, 2020, 02:07 PM
msongs (65,338 posts)