r/politics • u/robot_pirate • 4d ago

Trump Should Never Have Had This Platform Paywall

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/06/debate-trump-platform-january-6/678818/
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u/ChucksnTaylor 4d ago

Oh come on… “CNN airing the answers of the candidate I don’t like is the death of democracy”. It’s a debate, that’s how it works, both sides get to speak. Ideally lies by one party are called out by the other party because again, that’s how debates work and again, Biden wasn’t up to the task.

I get it, people are unhappy about how last night went and are looking to point fingers but this one isn’t on CNN, sorry.

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u/Old-Rhubarb-97 4d ago edited 4d ago

Bullshit it is. Are you going to pretend most of what Trump said wasn't just insane lies?

Hold the media to a higher standard.

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u/ChucksnTaylor 4d ago

Huh? I genuinely don’t understand what you’re getting at. A debate was hosted last night and CNN effectively hosted that debate. Anything else is just wishful thinking.

I’m not thrilled Trump got to air his lies but it’s joe bidens job to counter those lies, not CNN.

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u/whitewater-goddess 3d ago

No, what’s the point of a moderator if not to call out the lies? If their only job were to ask questions, they would be called a questioner. It was absolutely their responsibility to counter the lies.

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u/Bubbly-Wait-225 4d ago

This subreddit wants Russia style elections if you haven’t noticed yet. Anything short of a totalitarian regime where the dem candidate is already chosen and shoe horned in is the “DEATH OF DEMOCRACY”

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u/theravenousR 3d ago

I'm so happy I left the Dems after 2016. That was the year I voted Hillary in the general, my last Dem vote, and I still regret it. These people want the very thing they accuse Trump of: the end of democracy, as long as it's their team ending it. Trump, meanwhile, wants the prestige and the salutes and the "Hail to the Chief" playing and portraits of himself and statues if he could get them. He doesn't care enough about democracy to end it, let alone know how. His VP will do the work, he'll take the credit, and then it'll be on to the next Rep that, according to Reddit, will be "for real a fascist this time, so much worse than Trump, literally Hitler." Such smug, self-serving hypocrites with zero self-awareness.