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Thu Feb 21, 2019, 03:39 PM Feb 2019

A timely reminder re the gathering shit-storm

Regular contributor at Balloon Juice, Betty Cracker, has some timely advice for us all:

https://www.balloon-juice.com/2019/02/21/the-gathering-shit-storm/

TL;dr version: Check into things before you react. There's going to be a lot of fuckery going on during the coming months, both malicious and by happenstance. Betty Cracker cites the recent turmoil stirred up by a post at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's political blog that Amy Klobuchar snubbed Stacy Abrams in her visit to Georgia. The juicy story is spoiled by the inconvenient fact that it didn't really happen that way.

There's going to be lots of rumor, innuendo, and gossip posing as substantive fact in the months to come. Calibrate your bullshit meter accordingly, and stay frosty.

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