Fragile self-glorifiers with no grounding in reality.

This morning I saw this tweet from Vice.

NEW: Reporters who survived the deadly Capitol riot are still struggling. Some won’t go back into the building. Several have sought therapy to deal with trauma. Many still aren’t sleeping well. https://t.co/UzRIZg3GiQ

— VICE News (@VICENews) July 6, 2021

It was so obviously absurd, I did not click through to the thread.  One dead, an unarmed Air Force veteran shot dead by a Capitol Hill Police officer.  

But through the day, it keeps popping up for some reason in my feed.  

I finally click through.  There are further half dozen Vice tweets or so, quoting mentally unstable and ungrounded reporters pretending that they experienced something dangerous.  Good lord.  What unmitigated propaganda and self-serving drivel.  

Then I noticed the ratio.  Nobody is believing this.  The appropriate response to untruthful propaganda is apparently mockery and sarcasm.  I have to agree.

There is the occasional defender of journalists such as 

I saw video of many reporters/cameraman getting assaulted and equipment destroyed. Wtf are YOU talking about?

— Bubbe Hi (@BubbeHi1) July 7, 2021

Unfortunately, people are on to journalistic sock puppets.   Poppy Fins does the reveal of BubbeHi1

pic.twitter.com/b1NNuI4a24

— Poppy Finns (@FinnsPoppy) July 7, 2021

Then it has to be memed.

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What a pitiful bunch of sad sacks.