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NullTuples

(6,017 posts)
1. CNN has truly gone to the dark side and I don't know if there is a coming back from it.
Mon Sep 5, 2022, 11:15 PM
Sep 2022

Every day for the past several they've shown how much the new CEO wants to be the head of the next Fox News or OANN

mucifer

(23,569 posts)
2. The issue to me is how many regular viewers of cnn are being slowly brainwashed vs how many are
Tue Sep 6, 2022, 06:52 AM
Sep 2022

turning it off or going to MSNBC. I believe there is a lot of dangerous brainwashing going on right now.

NullTuples

(6,017 posts)
3. Especially Boomers + Gen-x who grew up w/ CNN as a being a serious news source
Tue Sep 6, 2022, 10:55 AM
Sep 2022

Republicans have truly embraced the private equity company mindset:

Buy something established, borrow against its reputation, burn it to the ground.

calimary

(81,500 posts)
5. Hey, that's JUST what we need, kids! MORE wrong-wing-slanted "news" channels.
Tue Sep 6, 2022, 06:41 PM
Sep 2022

For Pete's Sake - Pox Noise isn't enough. OANN isn't enough. Newsmax isn't enough? Well, I heard that CNN's ratings were not what they used to be. They're not gonna boost back up doing this. Especially with so many other already-established and wrong-wing-trusted other channels that cover that turf and further subdivide it.

MSNBC's gonna get my vote from here on.

How come there is such a crowded field of CON networks, and only one major network left for us liberals and progressives? Offering more CON-slanted coverage isn't gonna win this viewer over any more than any of the other knuckle-dragger outlets have. There's a principle operating here. And I STILL won't buy books by crooks (something that started during the post-Watergate era).

Uncle Joe

(58,424 posts)
4. The Marines were a perfect backdrop.
Tue Sep 6, 2022, 02:12 PM
Sep 2022

1. President Biden is Commander in Chief

2. As President he swears an oath to defend the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic.

3. Any political party that supports a physical violent attack against the United States in order to prevent the peaceful transfer of power in a legitimate election is by definition an enemy of the government.

4. Any President that steals top secret and other classified information from the United States Government, which said President has no right to and refuses to give it back is by definition an enemy, spy or traitor take your pick.

Since the January 6th attack the United States has been in a political crisis unseen since the Civil War Era and there is precedent for a former President literally becoming an enemy of the United States.

Remember "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too"?



(snip)

President Harrison died just one month after taking office, and Tyler became the first vice president to succeed to the presidency without being elected. Amid uncertainty as to whether a vice president succeeded a deceased president, or merely took on his duties, Tyler immediately took the presidential oath of office, setting a lasting precedent, though some denied he was fully president. Tyler signed into law some of the Whig-controlled Congress's bills, but he was a strict constructionist and vetoed the party's bills to create a national bank and raise tariff rates. He believed that the president, rather than Congress, should set policy, and he sought to bypass the Whig establishment led by Senator Henry Clay. Most of Tyler's Cabinet resigned shortly into his term and the Whigs expelled him from the party, dubbing him "His Accidency". Tyler was the first president to have his veto of legislation overridden by Congress. He faced a stalemate on domestic policy, although he had several foreign-policy achievements, including the Webster–Ashburton Treaty with Britain and the Treaty of Wanghia with Qing China. Tyler was a firm believer in manifest destiny and saw the annexation of Texas as economically advantageous to the United States, signing a bill to offer statehood to Texas just before leaving office and returning to his plantation.

When the American Civil War began in 1861, Tyler sided with the Confederacy despite his initial support of the Peace Conference. He presided over the opening of the Virginia Secession Convention and served as a member of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States after Virgina seceded. Tyler subsequently won election to the Confederate House of Representatives, but died before it assembled and he could take his seat. Some scholars have praised Tyler's political resolve, but historians have generally given his presidency a low ranking. Today, he is seldom remembered in comparison to other presidents and maintains only a limited presence in American cultural memory.[1]

(snip)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tyler




Thanks for the thread TexasTowelie

calimary

(81,500 posts)
6. Agreed wholeheartedly, Uncle Joe!
Tue Sep 6, 2022, 06:43 PM
Sep 2022

How much more do we need to see, to corner the donald and give him some nice new "bracelets" to wear, and give him a new home address?

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