TYT: A Fallen Empire

This is long, and maybe too long for most people.  It took me three days to watch it all.  But it is even handed, it is informative, it is well documented, and it is truly how I and so many feel.   I loved TYT, but about the time Cenk decided to run for office and gave a lot of control over the company / show to Anna, I noticed a shift / change in both hosts and the company direction.  Cenk became very bitter and anti-democratic party, while Anna became overly more assertive on every show.  When Cenk came back so bitter from being what he felt was unfairly treated by the democrats but others felt was him trying to claim a position without doing the work others had done before him Anna started talking over him, interrupting him, not letting him finish his sentences.  But at the same time if he tried to interrupt her she got very vocal about it and wouldn’t tolerate it.  She was now in charge and she wanted the world to know it.  It showed how she felt about her position, she had the authority and say, so don’t disagree with her.  That was very off-putting for me a long time viewer and supporter of the show.   But then Cenk’s constant vitriol against the Democratic Party started to interfere with his reporting on Biden.  Right from the start he wanted Biden to do the impossible and when he did not Cenk couldn’t even give him credit for what he did get accomplish.  Cenk being a bombastic fighter spent two years demanding Joe Biden attack and call out Joe Manchin and pushed for the most virulent attacks on him.   Which would have lost the democrats the control of the Senate and stopped any left leaning judge appointments.  Then Cenk got more bitter towards Biden and other progressive members of congress who did not throw the disruptive bombs he wanted to destroy the party, so he openly attacked the very groups he started along with attacking all progressives.  What crossed the line for me what his attacks on Biden and openly trying to promote primary challengers to him talking up fringe candidates, knowing historically any time a sitting president was primaried they lost, giving the other party the win.  He did not care, his bitter anger was more important to him.  He kept up his now constant attempts to tear down Biden to the point he is doing the work of a republican challenger for president.   I wrote that when I canceled my long time membership, that Cenk was doing the work of the Republican Party in tearing down and maligning Biden.  This hard right turn of Anna’s and Cenk’s weirdly not even willing to listen to any criticism of her was the last straw for me.  He is not even really addressing the issue that Anna made as the start of this problem, and keeps misrepresenting it.   If Anna wants to be called woman that is great, if trans women demand to be called women that is great and everyone would do as they ask.  But there are transmen with parts that medical people need to address and that are on medical forms / question forms.  It was pointed out so often that no one in conversation referred to Anna as a “birthing person” but she still took offense to the term even existing.   She was demanding a medical term to be inclusive not exist because she felt it diminished her as a female.  Total right wing maga fundamentalist thinking.  This is entirely a case of two people drinking their own Kool-Aid on their own importance and getting called out for it.  Their egos have gotten in the way of the work they were doing.  I can no longer support them as they are, and I hope people will watch this well researched and documented video.   Hugs