ok, but take it from most of us on here, that it sure came across as dismissive. That's certainly what "bright shiny object" means in nearly any such instance. "squirrel" being the same concept. "Nothing to see here, move along"..."squirrel"..."bright shiny object" offered up to distract. Not actually serious. Just shiny.old salt wrote: ↑Tue Oct 06, 2020 3:43 pmThanks. Even though we often disagree, I appreciate your honesty.CU88 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 06, 2020 8:21 amSorry, you are correct.old salt wrote: ↑Mon Oct 05, 2020 4:58 pmIt was not a joke, you know it, & it's dishonest of you to imply that it was.
It was in response to njbill saying this :
In any event, no one is going to pay any attention to this.
Trump being sick and in the hospital sucks all of the oxygen out of the room.
....& for MDLF76, it was not dismissive. It was in direct reply to bill accurately pointing out that covid has become the primary campaign issue that blocks out everything else. The only people still paying attention to the investigations are those like me who have been following them from the outset.
But no, you are not in a lonely group doggedly paying attention to these truly important issues instead of "shiny" ones like Covid. There's a whole bunch of Trumpist nut jobs trying to make as big a deal as they possibly can, rather desperately at this point. And the Russians love it.
But the rest of the populace is having none of it. They see it for what it is, this go round. And indeed, they really do have more important things with which to be concerned. And it ain't shiny.