Marc Elias: CNN is hopelessly broken.

[Dennis Donovan]

Marc Elias
‪@marcelias.bsky.social‬
CNN is hopelessly broken.

1. This "expansion" would require military invasions of several allies in violation of international law.
2. It would violate several treaties.
3. The Louisiana Purchase was the sale of land by a colonial power (France). These are sovereign nations.

December 24, 2024 at 11:58 AM

WTF, CNN...

https://bsky.app/profile/marcelias.bsky.social/post/3le2w42yrxk2s

[aeromanKC]

1. America is dead. Over.

The America the Framers envisioned and created is dead. Sorry Ben Franklin, we couldn't keep it.

[CousinIT]

3. Yep.

[whathehell]

17. Thank you.

I am so tired of all the negativity.

[oldmanlynn]

19. We are not done. What is right is right.

Please dont act like its all over.

[MadameButterfly]

33. I took the poster you are responding to as seconding your point

Maybe he/she should have responded to the previous post but I read it as an agreement with you.
IMO. We are in this together.

[MadameButterfly]

24. Thank you. The only thing dead is CNN

and in particular anyone there calling themselves journalists or high school graduates, even.

It is scary to have a major network lending credulity to these ridiculous ambitions much less comparing them to a major success in US history. Bad enough that anyone believes that, but worse it will embolden Trump. We need to make sure the country and the world not only push back, but ridicule him for such ideas.

We are in the fight of our lives. You don't give up when EVERYTHING depends on it. You figure out how to win.

[spapeggy]

34. I'm not sure I'd call the Louisiana Purchase a success

It was the opening door to a continental sized genocide.

[MadameButterfly]

42. Good point. An amicable purchase from France

but no one consulted the real inhabitants of the land.

But still portrayed by moset as a positive step in American history (besides Trump's idea of a great real estate deal). Invading countries won't be seen in the same light today despite CNN's general ignorance of history and modern sensibilities.

[GoreWon2000]

37. Bush brothers and repug controlled SCOTUS killed America on 1212/00.

[GoreWon2000]

36. America died on 12/12/00

thanks to the Bush brothers and a corrupt repug SCOTUS majority.

[Scrivener7]

2. Please, turn off CNN. Please don't contribute to this idiocy. Please.

Please vote with your eyes. Anything else at this point is complicit.

[mdbl]

10. Haven't watched CNN in years

No plans to in the future.

[The Wizard]

28. I haven't watched that band of presstitutes

since they were clamoring for Clinton's impeachment for non impeachable offenses to improve their ratings. CNN is now controlled by rightwing billionaires beholden to the bribing class. Reject CNN.
They started going sideways after Pox News came on the air and took some of their audience. CNN's response was to lurch right. This managerial mistake caused them to lose moderate and left leaning viewers. Their ratings cratered, and they haven't recovered.

[PortTack]

12. Legacy media deserves to die...yes, turn it off!

[GoreWon2000]

39. Agreed. Dems must now develop a viable alternative

to counter the far right online media eco system that's radicalizing a generation of young white anglo men

[sprinkleeninow]

18. Haven't been participating here much bc stuff...

I cut the cable cord last month. Saving $138/ month. Fed up with cable news. Got an interior antenna and not even watching OTA programs. And I'm feeling good!
🫡

[SheltieLover]

27. Good for you!

I quit with tv well over a decade ago.

Don't stress over what you don't have the power to change.

[sprinkleeninow]

41. I felt a modicum of relief. Got lots more to go.

A Good Christmas Holiday!
Peace be unto you and yours.
❤️💚😘

[LisaL]

4. And Putin considers Russia extension.

I bet he wants Alaska back. All righty then.

[SidneyR]

15. Alaska should be part of Canada.

[MadameButterfly]

43. i could imagine Trump giving it to him

[Silent Type]

5. What's broken is people thinking trump will purchase Greenland, annex Canada, and/or take over Panama. nt

[JI7]

6. Dumb fucks say he is a successful businessman so he can

maybe it happen.

[MadameButterfly]

32. Hasn't the businessman thing been debunked by now?

4 bankruptcies and needed Putin and the presidency to bail him out. He has lost civil and criminal lawsuits against him all over the place.

The base may not have noticed, but CNN? Really?

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

7. CNN: Certainly Not Newsworthy

[AllyCat]

21. Contains No News

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

23. Ha! That works too!

[Orrex]

9. Why doesn't just fucking die already?

[mdbl]

11. Just reproves to me there is no god

at least not the type described in the bible.

[bsiebs]

16. Well, to be honest, the bible contains a lot of stories about god doing some pretty shitty stuff...

[MadameButterfly]

44. maybe God is creating the conditions

for an enlightened population when the RW is finally ruined because of their corruption and destruction.

[mdbl]

45. I can't even get to the "glass is half full" scenario

Any chance of enlightenment has been swirling down the toilet since the 1980's.

[MadameButterfly]

46. I understand. I'm there sometimes

But then I have to pull myself out since we really don't know what's going to happen.
Then I come back to: All the intelligence and experience with democracy in this country can't be for nothing. The oligarchs and the MAGATs are idiots. Dictators do fall. Trump has dementia and we don't know if the cult transfers. If he implements a fraction of what he says he wants to do even his supporters will be up in arms.

If it has to get this bad for the pendulum to swing back, maybe this is the price we must pay for getting out of the recent logjam.
I'm not underestimating the price we must pay--pretty worried about that. But I have to hope there's an end to it.

[mdbl]

49. Do dictators fall without bloodshed?

That's what worries me. Add to that a society of morons with machine guns and things don't look like they will be changing for the good.

[MadameButterfly]

50. Sometimes they do. Velvet Revolution, for example

That doesn't mean I'm not plenty worried about what we have to go through before things turn around, and I'm well aware the other side has a lot of guns.

I dream of people learning their lesson and getting out of this mess without too much pain. I hope if there is destruction, suffering, and even civil war that we come out of it with a society more committed to positive change. The place I just can't go is the hopelessness of a permanent dictatorship and irreversible environmental damage.

[Blue Owl]

13. CNN has gobbled down the shit, now they can die

[boonecreek]

14. Just glad I dumped cable 12 years ago.

I blocked Faux Noise when i did have it
and I'd be blocking CNN if I still had it.

[spanone]

20. From CNN "Trump is teasing US expansion into Panama, Greenland and Canada"

eff’em

[DFW]

22. Note to CNN: if you think he's serious

Then you are not.

Comedy, Not News

[maxrandb]

25. People thought I was crazy

because I wasn't worried as much about Donnie Dipshit joining with Putin to destroy NATO, as I was about NATO joining together to destroy what America has become.

[MadameButterfly]

31. I hope they do

We rescued them from Nazis and might need some help with the same

[maxrandb]

26. The Press believes that if 49.9% of American Voters in the right combination of states choose fascism

That makes fascism democratic.

We are all about to fund out it isn't.

[uponit7771]

35. Disgusting

[GoreWon2000]

38. Pro repug media broken since 2000

when they made it so obvious that W was their candidate no matter what. The progressive media also failed in 2000 because they were busy helping Nader spread his big lie that their were no differences between Al Gore and W. Does the progressive media really think that Al Gore would've appointed Alito and Roberts to the SCOTUS? What a different world we would now live in had we had an honest media in 2000 and a majority on the SCOTUS in 2000 who believed that we the people should decide who occupies the White House. There would be no Nazi dictator being sworn in on 1/20/25.

[Initech]

47. Don't go full MAGA! Never, ever go full MAGA!

[ThePartyThatListens]

48. Anyone who's just now realizing this instead of 10, 8, 5 or even 4 years ago

Is hopelessly broken.

[comradebillyboy]

51. CNN has been broken for quite a long time now.

I remember Van Jones fawning over trump early in his first term. And he was far from the worst.