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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnd just like that! The news cycle changes
A renewal. New outrage. Out with the old.
El Paso? Whats that? Dayton? Never heard of it.
Angry white boys arrested with weapons of war? What?
Orphaned children? Huh? ICE? Who?
No. The talking head clock has struck midnight. Our short term memory now wiped clean.
Welcome to the 48 hours of Epstein
groundloop
(11,519 posts)malaise
(269,004 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,349 posts)to do. And the policy work distracts from Epstein. Did I have it backwards this entire time???????
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Because there was never ever multiple breaking news stories in a country of 300 million prior to Trump. Everything worked on a perfect delay, allowing for just enough media coverage before a new story neatly broke...
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)Though I'm inclined to grant the last three years have been unusual in the scope and scale of the unrelenting onslaught of major news. It does feel like trying to drink from a fire hose when you aren't even thirsty.
brush
(53,778 posts)IMO the timing of this alleged suicide is no coincidence.
pwb
(11,275 posts).
LexVegas
(6,067 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)shootings erased the islands from the map and the sufferings of 3-/2 million people from notice.
a kennedy
(29,663 posts)Done watching tv for the day.
superpatriotman
(6,249 posts)This story will be a footnote by then replaced by a new outrage.
zackymilly
(2,375 posts)Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)Rump's leadership and policies.
EVERYwhere.
What possible subject can they bring up that won't arrive in 2 mental steps at the nagging, knawing thought that 'but tRump fucked that up', in any average citizen's mind?
Paladin
(28,262 posts)...nobody was more worthy of minute-by-minute, second-by-second surveillance by prison authorities than Epstein. Somebody has some serious explaining to do.
New Breed Leader
(623 posts)It's gonna Epstein week all next week.
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)Chipper Chat
(9,679 posts)NO I WILL NOT SPEND MY ENTIRE TWO HOURS ON EPSTEIN.!!!!@ (stomps foot so loud that they felt it at CBS down the street)
brush
(53,778 posts)Last edited Sat Aug 10, 2019, 09:01 PM - Edit history (1)
the ICE raid in Miss.
Give credit where credit is due. She didn't let the white supremacist killings and the ICE raid with children suddenly orphaned because their parents were taken away be pushed aside by the admittedly loud and shiny new story.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)another day in his reality TV world?
None of the past three years should be surprising to anyone. He is dragging the world down into his personal depravity.
efhmc
(14,726 posts)No one in the Hispanic community cares about Epstein. Broken hearts and sad spirits will not heal because some scuz bag is out of this world.
Fla Dem
(23,675 posts)Such old news.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)Especially because Epsteins death is pretty irrelevant to the investigation of the coverup.
LiberalArkie
(15,715 posts)Javaman
(62,530 posts)funny that.
ancianita
(36,058 posts)elleng
(130,914 posts)spanone
(135,838 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Hope like hell it doesn't...we'll have to explain why there wasn't enough evidence!! Why not impeach then ? Same result. But with real Impeachment at least it's all neatly documented for the world to see and in future history books. And repukes as voting..no big deal...he's above the law !!!
The Liberal Lion
(1,414 posts)Which will it be for you dear reader, red pill or blue?
Me? I took the road less traveled.
superpatriotman
(6,249 posts)It's the shortest distance between two points in the sunlight.
brush
(53,778 posts)the facilitators/fall guys of the killing will suddenly surface and take over the news.
calguy
(5,309 posts)What was THAT all about?
The Wizard
(12,545 posts)calimary
(81,272 posts)Color me mighty suspicious. Weaponized distraction.
Little Star
(17,055 posts)MadDAsHell
(2,067 posts)They know they only have to hold out 48-72 hours and we move on to something else.