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Atticus

(15,124 posts)
Mon Dec 20, 2021, 02:30 PM Dec 2021

It is technically true that a "huge meteorite" MAY crash into earth tomorrow.

It is also technically true that Manchin's vow to vote "no" on BBB COULD "destroy" President Biden's agenda.

BUT,----beginning a news broadcast with either "true" statement is irresponsible journalism and tells us that the network is more interested in agitating their viewers than educating them.

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It is technically true that a "huge meteorite" MAY crash into earth tomorrow. (Original Post) Atticus Dec 2021 OP
It's more like this berni_mccoy Dec 2021 #1
True, Sir The Magistrate Dec 2021 #2
 

berni_mccoy

(23,018 posts)
1. It's more like this
Mon Dec 20, 2021, 02:35 PM
Dec 2021

A extermination level asteroid has been detected on a collision course with earth and there isn’t much we can do to stop it so launching all the nukes on earth at it is a Hail Mary pass attempt to avert complete destruction.

That’s where Manchin and Sinema have put us. With Sinema’s vow to keep filibuster as is and Manchin’s vow to vote no on BBB, that’s exactly where we are.

The Hail Mary pass is bringing BBB to a vote in the senate anyway in the event Manchin is bluffing.

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