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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Dope1   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: How to Stand Up to a Dictator
Date: 04/22/25 4:05 PM
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Say, why would anyone want to "attack" a journalist? I mean, they're the paragons of truth in our society, amirite?

2. Beware of bottom up attacks on journalists through social media (journalist = criminal)

Or maybe...they're a) not truthful and b) arrogant enough to think their small minds and voices matter more than anyone else's. Or c): both.

I pick c).

Lots of folks are noticing:
YouTube: How Can We Trust the News Again? (w/ Stephanie Ruhle) | Soul Boom (Soul Boom w/ Rainn Wilson)

Actor Rainn Wilson. Hardly a conservative.
“This is where I would push back: When I see this kind of insight and passion being directed at the current administration and the lack of this kind of insight and passion being directed at the previous administration," he countered.

"Where again, I’m not talking about you, I’m talking about left-leaning news media organizations — were kind of like, ‘La la la la, everything’s fine. Look, the economy is great, la la la, immigration’s not that much of a problem,’" he said, fingers in his ears. "And really being Cleopatra, queen of denial."


60 Minutes' long time fabricat-, I mean, "producer" just rage-quit:
foxnews.com - Top minutes producer resigns from show cites lack independence

Over the past months, it has become clear that I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it, to make independent decisions based on what was right for ‘60 Minutes,’ right for the audience.

In other words: I can't craft the narrative to fit my political biases anymore because it's getting my parent company in legal trouble, so peace out, bitchez!

What a great thread this is!

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