Everything he touches turns to sheet

[fskimospy]

As you well know, I don't share that opinion.

I've asked you to explain this opinion and I think I'm honest and fair with you - can you explain it?

How is asking Mike Pence to throw out legitimate election results so Trump could stay in power not a coup attempt? It is 1) illegal and 2) an attempt to stay in power. That's the definition of a coup.

 

[Perknose]

Trump did something wrong by not rolling over,

So . . . telling bald-faced lie after bald-faced lie, calling the Capitol policeman who defended the Capitol and democracy against a rabid mob he instagated a "thug," and calling the female moderator a "nasty woman" is, in your view, "not rolling over?"

Do you even hear yourself when you type those words???

 

[Indus]

It was. But I liked to keep track of their content a few times a week as a major player in the news space not named Fox.

Now it's the NYT, the Washington Post, of which I subscribe to both, then smaller websites and news aggregators and never again CNN. I emailed them as well to let them know.


Also when there is a big big news event, like from 9/11 to a historic hurricane or to see a debate, I would use CNN on the tube. Never again.

lately using apnews.com as was suggested to me but I also like cbs news website too.

PIX11 news website is ok for local.

 

[nakedfrog]

I've asked you to explain this opinion and I think I'm honest and fair with you - can you explain it?

How is asking Mike Pence to throw out legitimate election results so Trump could stay in power not a coup attempt? It is 1) illegal and 2) an attempt to stay in power. That's the definition of a coup.

There's the matter of the call to Raffensperger in Georgia too, that's just... fine, I guess, since he didn't go along with it?
Or maybe an unrelated, isolated incident, not indicative of an overall intent to remain in office illegitimately?
Perhaps fair game because of the "2,000 mules"?

 

[MrSquished]

There's the matter of the call to Raffensperger in Georgia too, that's just... fine, I guess, since he didn't go along with it?
Or maybe an unrelated, isolated incident, not indicative of an overall intent to remain in office illegitimately?
Perhaps fair game because of the "2,000 mules"?

Dude, he is trying to reason with Greenman who has long proven he is 95% a willfully ignorant dunce, just laugh at it at this point.

 

[mikeymikec]

as a man he's done things I despise.

Out of curiosity, is there a stronger term that you can think of to describe someone's conduct? IMO you chose the strongest and yet you're evidently not done with him.

 

[fskimospy]

There's the matter of the call to Raffensperger in Georgia too, that's just... fine, I guess, since he didn't go along with it?
Or maybe an unrelated, isolated incident, not indicative of an overall intent to remain in office illegitimately?
Perhaps fair game because of the "2,000 mules"?

Whether or not people went along with it doesn't matter - that's the Sideshow Bob defense. While Georgia and the fake electors and the 1/6 insurrection are elements to that I think it misses the central action that all of this was in support of.

The central action is Trump deliberately and repeatedly attempted to get the Vice President to violate his oath of office and exceed his powers under the Constitution to throw out electoral votes so that Trump could serve a second term as president despite losing the presidential election. That's an illegal attempt to stay in power, which is a coup.

 

[Ajay]

Well, among the cable news channels, CNN used to be the least biased. However, the money machine just wasn’t ticking over fast enough. First thing was the 'Alert - Breaking News', that seemed to become permanent. I got tied of that and stopped watching all together. Glad I didn’t watch the apparent train wreck show. One of my keys to not losing my mind over the upcoming presidential election is to not watch or listen to Trump at all. Not even if he’s in the 'debates' (Biden should skip them, IMHO). He'll just lie, misdirect and then blames the dems for everything). Complete waste of time.

 

[ivwshane]

I’m looking forward to the 2024 election. Even if Biden loses we have a gameplan to have him maintain his presidency that the right approves of (using greenman as the bellwether for republicans). Of course since Dems are more competent than republicans, they’ll be able to create their own fake electors and have democrat governors change the results in Biden’s favor.

I’m sure there will be some people who complain that the election was stolen and that what Biden did was not only illegal but also a coup but I know greenman will stand strong and correct them.

 

[fskimospy]

I’m looking forward to the 2024 election. Even if Biden loses we have a gamelan to have him maintain his presidency that the right approves of (using greenman as the bellwether for republicans). Of course since Dems are more competent than republicans, they’ll be able to create their own fake electors and have democrat governors change the results in Biden’s favor.

I’m sure there will be some people who complain that the election was stolen and that what Biden did was not only illegal but also a coup but I know greenman will stand strong and correct them.

Even easier than that - given what Trump attempted to do that Greenman thinks is totally not a coup attempt Kamala Harris can throw out any electoral votes she doesn't like. As long as Biden wins at least one state Harris can declare him the winner. The great part of this is that means we will never have another Republican president because once Biden's second term is up Harris can run and declare herself the winner and slot in a new VP, who will then carry on the plan until the end of time.

We don't even need to bother holding presidential elections anymore because the VP picks the next president and as we've already covered that is apparently not an illegal attempt to seize power.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

So they courted the MAGA base and lost their own base..

bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
excuse me
bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Oh, I deleted my CNN app, won't ever watch them or read them again.. so I guess I'm partly to blame!

Pretty much me, I stopped watching around last year. Coverage was crap with all these cheap ass hosted shows. I did frequent their website but I’ve mostly given up on that mainly due to the auto play videos which forced me to shut auto play off in chrome but that caused problems with other sites. Still browsed the mobile site however now I am done. CNN needs to decide what it wants to be and it appears the new CEO wants it to be a major money maker which is fine however if that means “I’ll put zero restrictions on anyone” that’s irresponsible.

 

[fskimospy]

Pretty much me, I stopped watching around last year. Coverage was crap with all these cheap ass hosted shows. I did frequent their website but I’ve mostly given up on that mainly due to the auto play videos which forced me to shut auto play off in chrome but that caused problems with other sites. Still browsed the mobile site however now I am done. CNN needs to decide what it wants to be and it appears the new CEO wants it to be a major money maker which is fine however if that means “I’ll put zero restrictions on anyone” that’s irresponsible.

The main problem here is that the news media is a moneymaking business and Trump makes them money.

This is a great example of why the whole idea of the liberal media has always been nonsense. Mainstream media exists to make money, not to push ideology. In this case the media knows they would make more money if Trump were president again so they give him a platform, even though that means they are giving a platform to the guy who tried a coup.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

The main problem here is that the news media is a moneymaking business and Trump makes them money.

This is a great example of why the whole idea of the liberal media has always been nonsense. Mainstream media exists to make money, not to push ideology. In this case the media knows they would make more money if Trump were president again so they give him a platform, even though that means they are giving a platform to the guy who tried a coup.

It’s about having at minimum some scruples about how you make your money, in this example they allowed a former President on, provided him with the most friendly audience imaginable and a interviewer who only minimally challenged him. They must have know he was going to throw shit at the court case & rape victim. They were cool with all of it.
Shitty way to make money imo.
For example when I worked in telecom and phone contracts existed there used to be one part of the company who wanted to bill early termination fees to literally everyone.
Son got in a bad accident and is in a coma? Well bummer that’s $150 to cancel that account 3 months early.
Brother died? That’s sad $150 to cancel his phone contract
You’re being deployed to Germany? Bummer our device won’t work there oh btw there’s a $150 charge to cancel it.
The argument the finance people made was all of the above deserve to pay the fee they agreed to it. Someone who is deceased or close to death we can still bill it and attempt to collect and even if we can’t collect we can sell that debt to someone for $8 and still get something from it.
Those are all shitty ways of making money imo.
CNN, fox, msnbc, breitbert or whomever has every right to earn monies. I have a right to say that’s a shitty way of making money and consume elsewhere.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

As an economist, I qualify a lot of the "follow-the-money" assumptions. People are motivated to do a lot of things for a lot of different reasons. The possible motives behind the JFK murder have always fed the speculations, but it derives less from someone trying to protect economic self-interest and more from that someone's access to financial and organizational resources to do the job and cover it up -- otherwise the Mastermind harbored jealousy, and wanted a "special grand project" that made up for the failure of his role in the Bay of Pigs invasion. People pursue careers oft times because they were only looking for a certain level of income and comfort, and they're equally interested in professional reputation or possibility of advancement on the same scale where they find themselves. There are all sorts of examples on this issue, and you can dream up some more that are logically possible.

There are two schools of journalism as classified by established schools of journalism: Advocacy Journalism -- like the Hearst and Murdoch news-media empires have practiced, and Objective Journalism, where the propaganda is nevertheless grounded in facts and a greater amount of factual information. Otherwise, newspapers and news media must make a profit. Demand is recognized, assessed, and addressed.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

More evidence of CNNs current shitty business practices and I am making sounds assumptions.
Who the fuck lists days like this? Only reason I can imagine is setting it so the Deplorable’s will get angered over title 42, which we all know is a hot button for them.
Seriously who the fuck writes days on a list in the way this image presents it. What possible purpose could listing the days in this fashion have? I cannot accept this happened accidentally.
Seems they are attempting to attract new deplorable viewers and maintain their old base with the words on the bottom.

 

[woolfe9998]

As you well know, I don't share that opinion.

So you think the VP decides elections rather than the voters? I'm just trying to understand your position. Do you think the Constitution gives the VP the authority to do that?

 

[fskimospy]

So you think the VP decides elections rather than the voters? I'm just trying to understand your position. Do you think the Constitution gives the VP the authority to do that?

Yes, I’ve asked him repeatedly to explain why it’s not a coup attempt and he won’t answer.

This is a genuine question and I’m open to hearing arguments. Why was this not a coup attempt?

 

[MrSquished]

How about you try and put into words why you think Green Man won't answer that and lots of other questions. Do a stream of consciousness

 

[ivwshane]

More evidence of CNNs current shitty business practices and I am making sounds assumptions.
Who the fuck lists days like this? Only reason I can imagine is setting it so the Deplorable’s will get angered over title 42, which we all know is a hot button for them.
Seriously who the fuck writes days on a list in the way this image presents it. What possible purpose could listing the days in this fashion have? I cannot accept this happened accidentally.
Seems they are attempting to attract new deplorable viewers and maintain their old base with the words on the bottom.
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That is a messed up graphic.

 

[Tsinni Dave]

As you well know, I don't share that opinion reality.

Ftfy

 

[ivwshane]

Ftfy

That’s really what it is.

 

[sportage]

CNN learned it's easier to just lie rather than send out actual reporters to see what's going on.
Very strange, who'd thought Fox would and CNN would trade places. And where does that leave Anderson Cooper? Is he still gay or what?

 

[cytg111]

More evidence of CNNs current shitty business practices and I am making sounds assumptions.
Who the fuck lists days like this? Only reason I can imagine is setting it so the Deplorable’s will get angered over title 42, which we all know is a hot button for them.
Seriously who the fuck writes days on a list in the way this image presents it. What possible purpose could listing the days in this fashion have? I cannot accept this happened accidentally.
Seems they are attempting to attract new deplorable viewers and maintain their old base with the words on the bottom.
View attachment 80692

I mean, when you understand your target audience and how to program it.

As you well know, I don't share that opinion.

 

[Ajay]

That is a messed up graphic.

Lol - that’s real?! CNN == video version of NYPost 😳

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

As you well know, I don't share that opinion.

Hypothetical, if the fake electors that attempted to alter the state votes had succeeded in their attempts and the SC upheld their decision, would you affirm that Trump 'won' the election in 2020?