CNN chucked another dagger into the heart of our democracy tonight.

[boston bean]

What a bunch of fucking cynical losers they are.

I am done with them.

[NewHendoLib]

1. They are a business. They're just not really into us - or truth.

Just money.

[dchill]

2. I quit watching while Chris Cuomo was still there.

[wryter2000]

3. I saw snippets of it on MSNBC

It sounded like they used a laugh track. The shit that audience was laughing at was disgusting.

[riversedge]

4. @JoyceWhiteVance 2 minutes did me in. Literally. I have never been so frightened for our country.

I trust Joyce. Must be pretty bad. No, I did not watch but did see a few vile Trump clips from the town hall



@JoyceWhiteVance
2 minutes did me in. Literally. I have never been so frightened for our country.

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[Cha]

7. TY rivers.. Of Course I didn't watch.

[riversedge]

18. Hi. I did not watch either and just saw a few clips. As I said-I take Joyce's word for it.

[RockRaven]

5. FWIW, anyone who has cable with a package that includes CNN is subsidizing this whether they

watch or not. Same with FUX.

[Marius25]

6. I have Verizon Fios. Really want to drop them after this.

I like having MSNBC, but don't want CNN or Fox on my channel list.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

12. Dropped cable 2 years ago

Wish I could do it again.

[Johnny2X2X]

8. This was alarming

But it was not a good night for Trump. He doubled down in crazy. He did not win back any votes tonight.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

9. people know all they need to know about Trump. a townhall doesn't change anything

the only change would happen if Trump happened to behave presidential... never gonna happen

[W_HAMILTON]

24. He's not looking to win over voters. He's looking to further radicalize his supporters...

...into going even further than they did on January 6th so that voters are irrelevant.

CNN giving him free air time and doing the same sort of shit they did to help him get elected in 2016 is a disgrace.

As many have said, democracy suffered yet another blow tonight.

[Johnny2X2X]

26. He's running for President

I hate to break it to you, but candidates from Major parties get hundreds and hundreds of hours of free air time. He's going to be covered endlessly the next 18 months.

While I thought the format was garbage, there is no avoiding Trump and his band of traiterous MAGAs.

He did not come off like a reasonable alternative to Biden, and that's what he needed to do.

[W_HAMILTON]

27. No, he doesn't need to come off that way. Once again, I hate to break it to YOU...

...but he has abandoned the democratic way. He has shown that. He doesn't need voters now. It matters not one bit to him whether he comes off as a "reasonable alternative" to Biden. He's well past that point. There is no changing the viewpoint in the minds of the typical voter. He's far too gone from that. But that's not his goal. He showed you his goal on January 6th and afterwards. What he has plans for, he doesn't need voters. He just needs his supporters and he needs them even more radicalized and extreme and willing to do whatever it takes this time around to install him as president.

And to that end, CNN giving him free air time only hurts our democracy and shames themselves in the process.

It was a terrible night for democracy.

[Blue Owl]

10. CNN is on its knees tenderly licking the diarrhea off tRump's gold toilet

Fuck those propaganda whores

[Cha]

19. Yeah, I don't see how they

could Grovel to the Sexual Assault Predator any more.. But I'm guessing they'll find a way.

Fucking Pimps for Propaganda Ratings.

May it Blow up in their Fucking Fascism Promoting Face.

[Blue Owl]

20. Taking the low road usually doesn't end well....

So here’s to the new propaganda network’s rapid demise, and indeed — may it blow up in their sleazy, evil-enabling goddamned face!!!

[Cha]

21. Fucking Cheers to That!

[iemanja]

13. They learned nothing from the first time they did this

They are happy to repeat it and put a sexual assailant, coup plotter, and instigator of murder in the White House.

[WarGamer]

14. I think this is the wrong idea...

Democracy is an ideal... Democracy is a vision.

The US isn't a Democracy and I DO NOT mean that in the "it's a Republic" way...

The US has never been a fair and equal country with the power in the hands of the people.

So... Democracy is an ideal to make progress TOWARDS...

We're in a "tug of war" in this country.

[Silent3]

15. Mince words however you like, CNN only helped us regress AWAY from the ideal of democracy...

...rather than make progress TOWARDS it with their propagandistic Trump shitshow.

[WarGamer]

16. the American people have the final say...

November every 1, 2 and 4 and 6 years...

[Silent3]

22. And so?

The American people are vulnerable to propaganda techniques. The American people are poorly served in making informed choices when media companies like CNN push propaganda like this so-called "Town Hall" with Trump.

The fact that the American people ever put Trump in the White House even once is more than enough to question their wisdom. The fact that, having already once seen Trump serve as President once, we can't absolutely, categorically rule out the American people electing Trump a second time is terrifying.

Do you wish to try to dull or dismiss that terror with yet another bland observation?

[W_HAMILTON]

25. And Trump is trying to radicalize his supporters so that they have the final say.

Not voters.

And that's why CNN giving this cretin air time is so dangerous.

His aim is not to win over voters. It doesn't matter if he came off terribly to the average person, because he's always come off terribly to the average person.

His aim is to radicalize and push further to the extreme his supporters so that they will go even further than simply voting to support him.

How you and some others on the left haven't realized this, I have no clue.

Trump got what he wanted tonight.

And CNN should be ashamed for helping him accomplish that.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

17. Not at all.

CNN did what a free press in a liberal democracy ought to do.

The shined a light on Trump's narcissism and total dishonesty.

American's will rightfully flee from this chaos agent.

[GenThePerservering]

23. Don't give CNN that kind of power

It was an obviously staged spectacle with a hand-picked audience who were no better than mindless high school boys who suck up to the school bully and guffaw at everything he says. Only they're supposedly adults. I know - I grew up around people like this.