Today’s Thursday Throwdown has a theme: smug.
From Elon Musk giggling about accidentally cutting Ebola prevention, to Hakeem Jeffries smirking that the “extreme left” protests him more than the far right, to the smuggest-and-slimiest-man-of-all-time Bill Maher snarking about the US having one single Palestinian member of Congress, you’re going to need to scrub your eyes out after this episode.
But where would we be without our favorite smug boy Brian Stelter, a pundit who represents the very essence of what CNN is. We begin the show by watching his new take on why Americans aren’t rising up to protest Donald Trump’s alleged peace talks with Russia.
“It’s pretty obvious what’s happening,” he lectures on someone else’s CNN show (sadly, he lost his own a while back). “Some of this, I fear, is about illiteracy on the part of the voters, not knowing for example about the spending that’s going to Ukraine that’s actually funding American manufacturing plants. And by the time you do learn those facts, it’s too late.”
If Americans only knew that the hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars we’ve sent to Ukraine were also going to American weapons manufacturers, then of course they would form a revolution behind their noble leader Stelter. But unfortunately, unlike CNN hosts, we’re all too dumb, focusing instead on the wrong things like the destruction of Ukraine and how its people are used as fodder to weaken Russia in a deadly proxy war.
We can only hope CNN will give Brian Stelter his show back so he can enlighten us.
It’s all this, and more, on this week’s slimy edition of Thursday Throwdown. Thanks for supporting independent media, subscribe to watch the full episode here:
