MAGA's Media Takeover Backfires and CBS Crumbles Under Trump's Propaganda

0:04All right, cable news is embarrassing. It is just, it is so embarrassing and it's so sad what's happened to the news and it's going to continue to get worse and worse. And I like this guy, this hairy guy I'm going to show you. He's the guy with a great voice. He's always talking about the polling. And here he pops out the most captain obvious poll that was clearly made and produced for a party of one and, you know, revving up for the Ellison takeover of CNN. And we're going to just this is the country we're going to live in now when we have people that have a political agenda that want to own the news because then they want to turn the news into propaganda for stupid people.

0:49So here is a stupid poll for stupid people on a stupid television station. Play the clip. This is one of those because just take a look here. MAGA GOP view of Trump approve 100 percent 100 percent if you are a member of mega and the gop you approve of Donald John Trump zero percent say that they disapprove you don't have to be a mathematical genius to know you can't go higher than 100 percent he is the 1972 Miami Dolphins now there are some Republicans who disapprove of Donald John Trump but they are not members of the make America Great Again movement. The bottom line is this. If you are a member of MAGA, you approve.

1:33Okay. If this were a real news channel, if this were real journalism, they would follow up with a psychologist immediately after that poll to discuss cults and to link that when you were voting for somebody who was actively abusing you, and make no mistake about it, Trump is actively abusing the members of his cult. He's sending them emails trying to grift off of them. He's, you know, no money, he's made$6 billion and it's not enough. He is using the caskets of dead soldiers. When these people go, I voted for Trump because he loves America. When he, when he dry humped that flag, I thought, honey, I'm in.

2:14I've never seen a man love America like this guy. This is a cult. This is a Captain Obvious poll. This was done for a party of one and that's so fucking dangerous because every moron that has Trump's cell phone number, which now we know everybody on the planet has a cell phone number, is sending him this video. Well, and I couldn't help but notice within hours of this being on TV, and it could have been minutes, Caroline Levitt reposts it about how popular he is. This is going to feed his narcissism and I can do whatever the fuck I want view of the world, which we've now seen tanks the US economy, throws everybody into war.

2:57I mean, it's just, it's unbelievable how poor his decisions are. And then immediately he's, they're just throwing fuel on the fire to this man who's in narcissistic spiral because everyone is humiliating him. That's not in MAGA. Yeah. And this is propaganda. This is North Korea propaganda. This should be teed up in a way that we are entering into a moment in American history where the president of the United States is a criminal, is committing crimes, is starting illegal wars. And despite all of these things, despite raising inflation, despite selling pardons out of the White House office, despite illegally bulldozing parts of a historic building, the White House, we could go on and on and on and on and on about all the shit he's doing, right?

3:54He still has 100 % support with those that identify as MAGA. So what is this phenomenon? The phenomenon is that this is a cult. But instead, this is presented in a sane, washed propaganda style. And if you don't hate cable news now, you need to start immediately. This is a sane, washing, propaganda, void of journalism. And they're committing their own suicide. And you know what? The guy that owns CNN now, Larry Ellison, he doesn't give a fuck. because he's one of the top 10 richest people in the world. So buying CNN and tanking it to assuage the toddler-like ego of our pudding boy, cook brain, Kankles McTaco tits, tax right off for him.

4:46That's how rich they are. This is a disgrace, an absolute disgrace. Shame on CNN. Shame on every media that sane washes this fascism. and these human rights violations in these war crimes think about it think about it harry you should say despite this regime killing 160 little girls that all they did that day was get up put on their school clothes and go to school and then a tomahawk missile comes and bombs them despite that the people that identify as maggots still 100 support him so what the is wrong with them The answer is they're in a cult. And here is Dr. Such and such and such and such and have a panel of them, a panel of people that talk about how dangerous this is.

5:35Instead, you normalize it and you sane wash it and you feed this insanity that will end up ruining journalism and CNN because Larry Ellison is so fucking rich. He doesn't give a shit. It doesn't matter. It'd be a great little line for his accountant. Losses from CNN, 250 million or 1 billion. that's great i get to pay even less taxes than before and i get to promote all this propaganda to these fucking cultist rubes it makes me so angry okay to prove my point larry ellison bought cbs and he put uh super zionist barry weiss in charge of it barry weiss is a complete nut unhinged over her skis has no business running a news organization but that's not the point of this.

6:26Larry Ellison is buying this media so that he can propagandize and also destroy it. He is intentionally attacking the credulity of news. CBS is off a cliff. Again, this will affect Larry Ellison's bottom line zero. That's how rich he is. Pop this up. CBS Evening News drops to 3.83 million viewers down more than 25 % from its peak as ratings have fallen to about 3.83 million viewers down roughly 30 % from about 5.4 million two years ago and far behind the more than 8 million watching its top rival and its leadership fractures. CBS News faces a deeper problem. It has unsettled its existing audience without yet building a credible replacement.

7:24Number one, I want to say this is sad, but it's also good news. I hate what they did to CBS News, but if their business model, if we were to see it succeed and see Fox News multiply, we've got generational problems. We'll never see a fix to this in any of our lifetimes that are on the screen right now in the comment section or just watching at home. So the fact that Americans are rejecting propaganda, rejecting oligarchy takeovers of our institutions, and Barry Weiss, that twat, she doesn't give a shit about human rights. She's the one that spiked the story. A woman who says, you know, I care so much about the story of the Holocaust that we need to do everything in our power to prevent one.

8:17Spikes a story about our government with mass men kidnapping people that have paperwork issues, not criminals. These are paperwork issues and taking them to C-COP where they were sexually assaulted. Who else sexually assaults people? Oh, the IDF. So CBS, I will miss forever. I'm hopeful that some benevolent billionaire will come and take back over our news. But I don't know if there is such a thing as a benevolent billionaire. But this is just, this is attacks on the truth. And I'm glad that it's failing. But I'm also sad because 60 Minutes, God, that was a great show. Great journalism. Oh, absolutely.

9:02And I was reading an article about this specifically. And there's no question that this comes from the, you know, propagandist switch. But instead of saying, you know, Barry Weiss, you have a problem, you need to look inward and do all that, what you would if you're trying to make money to your point about he doesn't give a shit about the money. They're saying, they're leaking that they're going to get rid of the executive producer because she has too many animal stories on the CBS news versus taking a look that they are not reporting accurate facts. And I found that to be also very disappointing.

9:42Yeah, I just, I don't think there's any world where Larry Ellison with his takeover of CBS, CNN, TikTok, and so many others. I mean, as you can put up a huge screen of all this stuff that this guy cares about the truth. And these are the people that the American system, we can hate the billionaire. We can hate Larry Ellison. We can hate Barry Weiss. It's easy. So easy to hate Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, neutered Mark Zuckerberg, fucking freaks, a puss boys, extraordinaire. No question about it. But the system, the system that has enabled this, The system that doesn't have up more guardrails about monopolies like this, the system that has allowed for propaganda to rise like this, the system that has allowed immigrant Rupert Murdoch, immigrant Peter Thiel, immigrant Elon Musk to come into this country and then scapegoat immigrants, the things that they were.

10:50to want to dismantle democracy, to want to create civil unrest in American citizens, all the while making billions upon billions of dollars, not paying taxes or paying very little, a far less percentage than the working class Americans stuck out in the suburbs or rural America that are just trying to make ends meet and figure out how the fuck they can get healthcare. It's that system that needs to be rebuilt. And beyond all the personalities of all of this, American culture made all of this. The worst parts of American culture, elected Trump, allows all of these billionaires to ascend. And think about what a walking, talking message against the consolidation and accumulation of wealth there is than the behavior of these billionaires.

11:40There's not an ounce of integrity in Larry Ellison, not an ounce. He wants to acquire all of these companies the same way Benjamin Netanyahu wants to acquire all of these countries around the Middle East. It's just, we need to bring back fucking integrity. You know, like that's, that's what the, the, the through line is with all of this. These people don't like the truth. they don't like integrity and they cheat. Propaganda is cheating. Creating propaganda is a form of cheating. And it's epidemic levels in this country. It really is. And look at the Washington Post, exact same things happening.

12:26Totally. I mean, and that started Jeff Bezos. And so I want to thank everybody for tuning in to our channel. And there are so many great independent journalists out there and to the journalists that worked at CBS, to the journalists that work at CNN, to the journalists that work at the Washington Post, I'm not mad at you. These institutions have failed all of us. And most importantly, journalism is the gold standard of accountability in this country. What Pumps and I do is not journalism. We find the work that journalists have done, we report on it and we share our opinion. But journalism is the gold standard.

13:09Pumpson and I are opinion makers. And this attack on journalism, on the free press, is such a massive attack to American democracy. And it started with Trump, starts with all autocrats, all dictators, all fascists. The press must be dealt with. And now he has partnered with these oligarchs in a Russian style takeover, and they are taking over the news. And the arrest of our colleague, Don Lemon, is to warn people like our channel and other independent channels that you're not safe either. And so that's why we never obey in advance. We will continue to call these people lying, homicidal, terroristic dipshits because they are.

13:55And not all Americans support this. The majority of us do not. I think we're at 70 % probably, maybe more that oppose this regime, but the propaganda will keep telling you, oh, it's 100%. Oh my God. And they'll say in Washington, Trump's thinking about ways to reduce inflation. And then you go look at the clip and Trump's sitting there drooling all over himself with a droop lip and a bruise everywhere. It's ridiculous. So hang in there, guys. We've got to get to the midterms, which will be for sure a lot of fuckery, but the worst thing we can do, any of us, is be as nihilistic as they are. And we have to stay engaged and we have to fight for this country because for them to be able to cheat in all 50 states is going to be tricky.

14:43This country's big and we have a lot of pride and we have 250 years and we cannot go down to these weak billionaires that have to cheat. They cheat. They can't even earn their money their own way. They have to fucking cheat that want their leader to be a cheater. It's just the worst of the worst. All right. Like, subscribe, comment, and we'll be back later with more news.

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