YOU ROCK CBS!!!

[Canada Kid]

CBS news 60 Minutes is seriously kicking ass on the Trump administration, facing down a lawsuit against them by THE ORANGE PUKE! They are pulling no punches in exposing their nefarious garbage. GOOD ON THEM!! Where the hell is the Democratic Party??

[Sneederbunk]

1. I thought the Democratic Party was on a book tour.

[rich7862]

2. Schumer is not the Leader we need

Schumer is a speech writer who never leaves his padded desk chair. We need a fighter to Lead The Dems

Out of the Darkness.

[NotHardly]

8. Schumer isn't leading a damn thing.

[Hope22]

9. Tell me how you contacted the people who can correct this problem?

I want to follow up on this as well. I get so frustrated just hollering out about it. Thanks for your input!

[pat_k]

46. Here's my top lobbying priority

Lobby Democrats in Congress to write a joint House/Senate "Letter to America" (as advocated by Simon Rosenberg)

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220146722

[Hope22]

47. Thank you very much! 💗 Nt

[Emile]

37. Schumer needs to resign from his leadership.

[mcar]

3. Doing town halls in R districts

[Think. Again.]

27. Well, a few of them are.

More Please!!!

[ProfessorPlum]

4. care to link to what you are talking about? The last I heard, CBS was caving and paying Trump

for a bullshit lawsuit that they could have easily won but opted to put money in Trump's pocket to stay on the fascist's good side instead.

[spooky3]

5. Wasn't that ABC?

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/16/nx-s1-5230274/abc-settles-with-trump-for-15-million-now-he-wants-to-sue-other-news-outlets

[ProfessorPlum]

6. you're right, thank you

I stand corrected, and also support any shit CBS wants to throw in Trusk's way.

Thank you

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. tRump sued CBS for some $Billions over 60 Min. Harris interview editing. Was talk CBS might settle for lesser sum.

I think CBS might have pulled back and decided to defend against the suit but I'm not sure.

[Crowman2009]

43. Makes me wonder if some of the old crew like Dan Rather had a discussion with those in charge of CBS News?

Because the old news crew at CBS wouldn't put up with that s***.

[choie]

51. Speaking of Dan Rather

I wish he’d join Bluesky

[gab13by13]

7. Links are overrated

especially from this MSM.

I like good old 'my opinion" posts, then I know where the poster stands.

😍

[Hekate]

20. Links to sources are important enough that I think they are even mentioned in the TOS

Anyone who has ever done research of any kind (and there are a good many here at DU) has learned to cite their sources. Hell, any kid who ever wrote a term paper in high school should have learned that much.

Facts are valuable — opinions are cheap. Old-time DUers with a record of fact-based posts have much better credibility than those who don’t.

Some people show up to “show us where they stand” and do nothing but stir the pot.

[erronis]

40. Both are better. A well-sourced background article and a poster's personal viewpoint on the issue.

[Bengus81]

53. Link to them caving and paying Trump please.....

[orangecrush]

11. Great question.

[DownriverDem]

12. One more time for those in the back

The Dem Party is fighting every day. Why don't folks get that when you don't control the House, Senate and White House you have no power? The Dems have filed over 100 law suits against trump/musk. They are having press conferences. They are having town halls in red states and red districts. Please tell us what you think the Dems could do? As Whoopi said today. it's on us the voters to get out there and protest.

[W_HAMILTON]

16. The Democrats are using the powers that the American electorate gave to them.

People -- ESPECIALLY self-proclaimed Democrats -- shouldn't whine that the Democrats aren't doing more with the little to no power that the voters gave them.

[Think. Again.]

28. No, they are not using what power they have.

[LiberalLovinLug]

32. You mean like giving Trump what he wants in the budget?

With one provision allowing him the power to re-shuffle designated funding in the budget from one dept. to another without congressional approval? Increasing his power and abuse of the treasury?

OF COURSE they should be using "the little" power they have to maximum effect.

Its mind numbing that every Democratic voter isn't pissed as hell at them right now for their complicity and capitulation.

[mountain grammy]

23. My party made a mistake allowing the CR to pass, in my opinion,

not the first and not the last. Still my party. Still the only hope for humanity.

[Think. Again.]

29. Except the days the Dem leader of the Senate...

...is doing book signings.

[W_HAMILTON]

13. Posting about how much CBS rocks on an internet message board.

You are the Democratic Party -- aren't you?

[Amaryllis]

14. ARE you talking about 60 minutes from last Sunday, or something else?

[maxsolomon]

15. Welcome to DU.

Since you're new here, and Canadian, let me explain: the Democratic Party is in the minority in both houses of Congress, with no power over the Executive Branch.

Their power is limited to making public statements and stopping legislation in the Senate through the filibuster.

[Think. Again.]

30. Or voting against bills that...

...their constituents overwhelming want them to vote against.

Someone should tell the Senate that.

[maxsolomon]

33. That's what I said:

stopping legislation in the Senate through the filibuster.

[Think. Again.]

34. A filibuster is not necessary to vote against...

...a bill that the Dems were refused any input on and that our Representative's constituents wanted them to vote against.

Voting FOR fascist bills that go against the madates if the Constitution is NOT what our Dem representatives should be doing.

[Wiz Imp]

36. UM, the filibuster WAS required. That was the only way they could have stopped

the continuing resolution. They chose not to filibuster but it was the only way to stop the CR. The fact that the final CR vote got 2 votes from Democrats is completely irrelevant as they had 52 Republican votes - enough to pass it on their own.

[Think. Again.]

39. I was discussing the fact that not all Dems voted against the bill...

...there was no hope of keeping the CR from passing, we are the mnority, but voting FOR an unconstitutional CR that we had no input on, against the wishes of constituents, in such a way that caused division among our party and wrecked Democratic Party approval ratings should not have been done.

[DAngelo136]

42. A Correction

The Democrats are NOT the majority in either houses of Congress.
All they have IS the filibuster; cloture cuts off debate and thus the filibuster. They didn't nor have they voted "yes" on the Continuing Resolution, in fact it went according to party lines 54-46 (The Republicans are the majority in the Senate 53-47).
Now, as much as Senator Schumer should be criticized for NOT using the filibuster. How many of you here, were all gung ho about eliminating the filibuster not too long ago?
Are you now saying the former Senators Sinema and Manchin were *gasp* right? I'm no Sinema fan, but let's be for real, nobody is coming out of this painted with glory.

https://www.newsweek.com/aoc-spars-kyrsten-sinema-over-filibuster-after-senate-democrats-cave-2045473

A lot of you need to save your ire for the actual people in charge; the Republican Party.

[Think. Again.]

48. Correct, as I mentioned in one of my posts (#39)...

" I was discussing the fact that not all Dems voted against the bill...

...there was no hope of keeping the CR from passing, we are the mnority, but voting FOR an unconstitutional CR that we had no input on, against the wishes of constituents, in such a way that caused division among our party and wrecked Democratic Party approval ratings should not have been done. "

But you are also correct that I wrongly claimed some Dems voted "YES" for the CR, when in fact they unecessarily voted "YES" for cloture, knowingly allowing the unconstitutional CR to pass.

In this case, my ire is rightfully aimed at both the republicans for writing the unconstitutional and harmful CR (without any input from Dems) and at the Dems for offering their assistance in passing the CR at the expense of their Oath to defend the Constitution and at the expense of the continued support of their constituents and goodwill among their Democratic colleagues in the House.

[Hekate]

17. Highly recommend everyone watch Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. Every night she tells us ...

…. what the Dems and the outraged citizenry are doing. While some people hang out at DU and grouse that nobody in our side is doing anything and getting no results, masses of folks actually are.

Visit our own forum The Way Forward.

Also, Canada Kid, use links and provide more info.

[senseandsensibility]

18. Considering your username, I thought

this was something about Canadian Broadcast System (if there is such a thing) not an American outlet. Glad to read that it is in fact the CBS here in the U.S. Good job, CBS!

[Paladin]

19. Always nice to make common cause with a Canadian newcomer to DU.

Welcome, Canada Kid.

[MuchBetterThanThis]

21. With so much shit thrown around out there..

.. is it possible you could explain and articulate WHAT you are talking about.?
Would help some who are not following the same newsfeeds that you do🤷🏾

[Beck23]

22. Several Democrats like

Ro Khanna, Bernie Sanders, Tim Walz, and Chris Murphy are out there having town halls in Republican districts.

[twodogsbarking]

24. Divided within the party is not a good thing.

It even divides DU.

[Think. Again.]

31. Yes, our representatives should stop doing that.

[SunSeeker]

25. What are you screaming about, Canada Kid?

I really don't see the reason for the all caps excitement, looking at the CBS website. The headline over there right now is them repeating Trump's propaganda: "Trump says he had "very good" call with Zelenskyy"

https://www.cbsnews.com/

[dawgdan]

26. This just in....not so breaking news

There is no leadership in the Democratic Party.

[live love laugh]

35. HEY EVERYBODY!!?! REPUBLICANS ARE FUCKING THE COUNTRY UP BLAME DEMOCRATS ‼️‼️

[Hekate]

49. THAT SEEMS TO BE THE SUM TOTAL OF HIS MESSAGE EVERY TIME!! WELL SPOTTED!!!ll!

[oldmanlynn]

38. Call up Ken Martin. He is the leader of the Democratic Party

[czarjak]

41. Oughtta throw The Book At Dick?

Sunset Schumer shouldn't surrender. Not gonna bet against him long-term though. He does know the ground rules. Fingers crossed.

[louis-t]

44. Other news organizations need to follow suit.

Stand. Up. To. Him. Every someone caves to his whims, he gets stronger.

[wnylib]

45. The Buffalo area NPR is doing a fairly good job of reporting on the Trump/Musk takeover.

They are fact checking and having interviews with people who don't pull punches.

Also, Toronto, Ontario is in the radio audience area, so the NPR station has two time periods of BBC coverage. BBC calls it as it is.

[Hekate]

50. So where are you in Canada? I visited my cousin there once.

[paulrevere2018]

52. I'm not surprised. When AOC pushed to ban

Stock trading by members of congress I was "Yes! Here is the chance right out of the blocks to send a message to America." But the party leadership decided that its portfolio was more important that our freedoms.