Prickly City by Scott Stantis for April 07, 2023

The 3rd season of The Mandalorian is progressing nicely!

Stantis, you think the violent attempt to overthrow the government of the United States is a petty grievance?

Five people dying and 150 police injuries is trivial?

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And ever increasing wealth inequality is kind of a big deal to many.

And how many people died because ’it’ll be gone in April, when the weather warms up’?

Fox News makes money from stoking petty grievances. Even if they have to invent them.

Newt Gingrich and the Republican Congress fast-tracked Rupert Murdoch to citizenship and ended media monopoly laws specifically so Murdoch could have a TV station to spew his garbage.

They demonize honest Mexicans who just want to work and support their families, but hand citizenship to someone who was actually harmful.

You don’t want the country to unravel, Stanti, then steadfastly do the right thing and identify the sins, which far outnumber any other group’s sins, that of right-wing populism. Otherwise, wring you hands, helplessly and start quoting Helen Lovejoy……………“Think of the children. What about the children?”

Still haven’t gotten to Ted Lasso. It’s the age of too much Tv. That’s a straight line for anyone who wants it…

It isn’t petty grievances that is destroying the country, it is corruption and lying, not to mention trying to overturn a fair election.

From the earliest age of television to current social media, technology can be used to inform or to distract. Fox News is the worst example, but all media will pander to those who wish to be distracted.