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Mike 03

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3. Even "media" that prides itself in being independent, non-corporate.
Fri Jan 10, 2025, 04:05 PM
Jan 10

I spent the last hour listening to one of my favorite talk show hosts play clips of Trump and other idiots, between bursts of reminding us to be angry and engaged... Meanwhile, he sounds close to a nervous breakdown, or maybe he's vaping, or just burnt out. Like he's not quite speaking into the microphone.

And in two hours another guy will come on and yell about how we need to fight, without ever giving an example, and he also sounds close to cracking up. A few weeks ago he said defending democracy might require his listeners to sacrifice their lives. Everything is getting too tightly wound.

It's requiring tremendous self-restraint not to start calling bullshit on some people. They are good people, though. I guess that is why I don't.

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