>...and while people were engaging in this distraction...
>
>Roe v Wade was overturned.

Even if nobody engaged with this rumor at all, Roe vs Wade still would have been overturned.

Because that’s what they were all hired to do.

In fact, we already knew this was coming in more certain terms, because of the leak.

And even if we didn’t, there’s nothing any of us could have done.

This was no more a “distraction” than any given NBA trade rumor or reality show clip.