The Rise and Fall of CBS News

I grew up watching the Big Three news channels - ABC, CBS, and NBC. There was no internet competing with legitimate news back in those days.

I still remember watching Walter Cronkite who anchored CBS's first nightly half hour news program delivering major historical announcements. He was part of a team at CBS that went to Vietnam to see what was really happening on the ground in the 1960s. 

The government at the time wasn't too happy with Cronkite because he revealed the ugly truth about our involvement in Vietnam. His broadcasts showed dead Americans and the chaos in that worn-torn South Asian country. He didn't have to worry about losing his job because the president of the United States didn't like him telling the truth.

Flash forward today. Under the Trump regime journalists are treated with contempt and suspicion. The Pentagon press corps no longer has legitimate news outlets reporting because they wouldn't sign an agreement to only report the news that the Defense Department provided. The group representing the press now is a collection of far-right propaganda outlets willing to ignore the truth in order to please dear leader.

Somehow, though back room deals and shady CEO's colluding with Trump, CBS news was absorbed by a right-wing CEO who is willingly destroying the iconic channel to further MAGA's agenda.

When I watched CBS's new anchor for the evening news, Tony Dokoupil, coddling Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in a vomit-worthy interview defending the regimes illegal invasion of Venezuela my heart sank. It was the death of CBS's credibility. 

The most important question CBS could have asked Hegseth had nothing to do with Venezuela. It was straight forward: why were reporters locked out of the Pentagon press briefings, and why should the public accept information delivered through a narrowed, controlled channel?

The final straw was the appointment of Bari Weiss as Editor-in-Chief, a move widely interpreted as accommodation toward the Trump regime. This is what democratic erosion looks like. It's unfolding in real time through polished interviews and familiar formats, when attacks on accountability infrastructure are treated as secondary rather than central.

What I'm seeing is quasi news making accountability impossible. They are no longer merely covering democratic decline; they are helping to accelerate it.

CBS has a rich history of credible reporting that goes back to 1948. In those days we could trust the broadcasters to tell the truth because they weren't intimidated by a criminal in the White House.

As it Stands, the way I see it, it's only a matter of time before ABC and NBC are heavily compromised by our corrupt government and we'll only get state TV. 

Trump's Enablers Will Be Sorry Someday

Anyone who follows a person claiming he regrew his whole ear after a bullet grazed the tip of it, can't be of sound mind and body.

Despite having a lizard brain, Trump can't regrow body parts at will. But that's what he claimed after the so-called assassination attempt against him last year.

A humorous aside from the incident was when his supporters all put a tampon on their ears in stupid solidarity.

That, however, is just one example of what Americans have to live with under Trump's fascist regime. His supporters have been on board for all of his conspircies and lies for years. However, that once solid relationship between MAGA and Trump is now slowly starting to unwind.

When Trump didn't release all of the Epstein files like he promised to his supporters during his re-election campaign, they turned on him and demanded transparency as it became obvious, he and his government minions, were loath to let go all of the documents related to the international sex trafficker.

Under pressure from their constituents GOP lawmakers joined Democrats into forcing Trump to sign a law demanding the immediate release of ALL the Epstein files. That law wasn't worth the paper it was printed on as revelations of millions of concealed documents slowly surfaced - past the deadline for accountability.

The disillusionment of dear leader has taken on a new phase when Trump invaded Venezuela and admitted he wanted to take over other countries - like Greenland. That's not what MAGA world signed up for. 

As Trump goose-steps over Congress, his minions there are already getting cold feet and quitting or retiring early to escape the carnage. History is not going to treat those traitors who enabled Trump to get as far as he has, kindly.

Assuming our republic holds on under Trump's assault, there will come a time of reckoning. Trials, similar to the Nuremberg Trials, will make Trump's cronies pay for their treason.

History has a way of repeating itself when we don't learn it's lessons from books or videos. Hitler's Third Reich was taken down thanks to our allies, but fascism is still alive and well in the world. 

America is once again at a crucial crossroad. This time we're facing a fascist government within our own borders.

As it Stands, coming soon, how CBS joined ranks with Fox News, Newsmax, and OAN to increase the flow of government propaganda.

Trump Unleased: 'Donroe' Doctrine' Exposed

It took a year for Trump to gear up for his goal of controlling the entire Western hemisphere, but now he's ready to wage wars on countries that don't capitulate to his will. 

He and his lapdogs are calling his strategy the "Donroe Doctrine" after the original Monroe Doctrine that advocated for western dominance.

After bullying the American public for the last year Trump is now extending his bullying to an international scale. 

He's openly threatening Canada claiming the country should be the 51st state in the union. He's threatening Mexico, Cuba, and Iran with savage interventions based upon lies. He's also threatening to invade Greenland because he wants their rich mineral resources.

Where the hell is Congress?

Do we even still have a Congress?

The cowardly scoundrels in Congress can be seen skulking among the hallowed corridors, but they aren't putting up any resistance to the sociopathic first felon. Democrats, being in the minority, are helpless to stop Trump's surge against democracy.

Democratic (and some Republican) lawmakers whine about what Trump is doing but they continue to get rolled over by the malicious narcissist in an unending barrage of corruption and crimes against humanity.

The illegal invasion of Venezuela was the springboard for future attacks against countries Trump doesn't like. The international community is appalled by Trump's war against a South American country that he intends to run and to steal oil and rich minerals from.

NATO is bracing for a new world order without America as a partner. Trump has moved the U.S. away from the collection of world democracies and into a dark space with Russia, North Korea, China, and Iran.

I know Democrats are counting on the midterms to take back Congress, but I'm concerned about the legitimacy of the midterm elections. If the Democrats accomplish their goal and resume control, they're up against a lunatic who will tie them up in knots in the courts. 

With a conservative Supreme Court enabling Trump, and a growing number of Trump appointed judges ready to bend laws in his favor, it's going to be an uphill battle for our freedoms.

Despite the enormous challenge, Americans must keep heart and challenge the crooked regime in power - by massive public protests. We the People are not powerless. We can boycott corporations that fund the Trump regime. Our very numbers mean we can't be ignored.

Like millions of Americans, I have been in a state of shock since Trump slunk back into the White House. 

The lengths that Trump has gone to take the limelight away from the Epstein files are numbing, but they still pose a threat to him regardless of his attempts to take attention away from them.

Because the Epstein files are still a hot potato in Congress and with the public, they will continue to be a thorn in his fat ass. Who knows what's going to be revealed as the DOJ slows walks five million documents this month?

I suspect that the infamous files goaded Trump into fast tracking his goal of controlling the Western hemisphere and all of its resources.

As it Stands, last year was bad, and it's obvious this year is going to be worse as we wrestle with an unleashed madmen bent on destroying our republic and world domination.