Most Annoying in Politics: Hyperbolic Reactions to SCOTUS Decision
Author: Kymberly Bays
Published: 28 Jun, 2012
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Updated: 13 Oct, 2022●
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Everyone. Take. A. Deep. Breath.
The world, with America in the chaotic midst of it, will not end until at least December 21st, 2012. Today's ruling by the Supreme Court is neither the apocalypse nor a jubilee.
Also, where was all this fuss for the Patriot Act?
The most unintentionally amusing and annoying reaction tweets comes courtesy of Breitbart.com's Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro. Congrats on sounding ridiculous:
This is the greatest destruction of individual liberty since Dred Scott. This is the end of America as we know it. No exaggeration.— benshapiro (@benshapiro) June 28, 2012
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