US Politics Thread

SebastianBlue said:
They’ve definitely been watching GB News.
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I know CNN changed their editorial stance a while back to move to the centre right. Shit like that without being challenged is turning it towards Faux News.

Caitlin Johnson - a known GOP member is the equivalent of our Tory K. She's everywhere on there promoting their policies.
 
Gareth Barry Conlon said:
She is in trouble. Colorado is more progressive than many neighbouring states. She had a tiny majority last time and that was before she wanked off a democrat in public.
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Well, she is in trouble, but not because Colorado is progressive. She's going to run in a much more conservative district (District 4) than the one she now represents (District 3). Trouble is, she's seemingly not at all popular in CD4.
 
TinFoilHat said:
I know CNN changed their editorial stance a while back to move to the centre right. Shit like that without being challenged is turning it towards Faux News.

Caitlin Johnson - a known GOP member is the equivalent of our Tory K. She's everywhere on there promoting their policies.
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We talked about it before, but it is actually fairly similar to what is happening in UK media. They are all moving nearer to the position on the political spectrum that will get them the most viewers as their belts tighten.

And younger people, who mostly skew progressive, are simply not watching cable/broadcast news at anywhere near the same rate as the older people (which came up on legacy media).

It is why the most progressive news outlets are mostly online (either via their own distribution platforms or via prominent social media platforms), where the younger demographic spend most of their time.

I am just in the middle of that age divide now, and am very progressive, and I honestly couldn’t tell you the last time I watched news on the TV. And I only consume BBC or CNN from posts sent to me in WhatsApp or on here, as I have gone off Twxttxr and Instagram completely in the last year, have never started on TikTok, and have proudly been off Facebook for about a decade.

I mostly read long form articles from The Atlantic, The Economist, and a few other more traditional outlets with a strong online presence, and watch Vox and expert analysis videos when available.

I have absolutely no interest in the “talking heads” (which is really now the “screaming gobs”) format of “news”. But many older than me seem to, and they skew far less progressive the further up the age pyramid you go, both in the UK and the US (though, as we have also discussed, the baseline in the UK would start near “dirty communists” in the US).
 
TinFoilHat said:
I know CNN changed their editorial stance a while back to move to the centre right. Shit like that without being challenged is turning it towards Faux News.

Caitlin Johnson - a known GOP member is the equivalent of our Tory K. She's everywhere on there promoting their policies.
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No surprise to hear the one who made that comment on CNN is a former George W Bush staffer.

Whenever you hear someone lament that Trump has taken over the GOP and pushed out the serious, responsible conservatives, remind them that they spent eight years talking about Obama this way as well.
 
BayernMan said:
No surprise to hear the one who made that comment on CNN is a former George W Bush staffer.

Whenever you hear someone lament that Trump has taken over the GOP and pushed out the serious, responsible conservatives, remind them that they spent eight years talking about Obama this way as well.
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The "serious, responsible Republicans" were that small number who disavowed Trump and called out his evil, and they lost their jobs, while those who rationaliz(s)ed him by saying "well, I'm voting for his policies" or gave him daily blowjobs like Lindsey Graham got to stay in their positions of power. The latter groups have absolutely no right to complain now, at all. They're craven, self-interested fucking cowards -- every last one of them.
 
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