CNN announced on Thursday that it will partner with the Human Rights Campaign to hold a town hall with the 2020 Democratic candidates on LGBTQ+ issues.
Tried to watch last nightâs climate town hall, but CNN kept behind a paywall so I only got a 10-minute slice.
I wonder if theyâll do that with all the town halls. Or just climate, because climate action poses the greatest and most direct threat to corporate profits.
So let me ask this:
Can there, PLEASE, be a question related to corruption in high places and how the candidates might confront it, if elected? Climate change is important, as continuing to ignore it may destroy the country in 30 - 50 years. Ignoring corruption ignores the fact that it may destroy the country in 30 - 50 weeks.
If CNN partnered with the American Psychiatric Association for a town hall with the 2020 Democratic candidates to address Trumpâs mental illness, I would totally watch that.
Iâm sorry, but I donât understand why this is the least bit necessary. Iâm queer, but I donât need my queerness pandered to in order to get my vote â I assume that the Democratic candidate is going to do the right thing on queer rights absent contrary information (hullo Tulsi!)
So the candidates are going to spend 40 minutes each (thatâs how long they got for the climate âtown hallâ) saying variations on the exact same things concerning their commitment to equality, blah, blah, blahâŚ
Do a town hall on how each candidate plans to deal with the destruction that Trump has wrought on our institutions â with a focus on how they will address human rights abuses and other crimes done under Trumpâs leadership. I want to hear each of the say how aggressively they will pursue these criminalsâŚ
Yeah, I heard that he hates the moniker, Moscow Mitch. To which I say, tough toenails, Moscow Mitch.
Perhaps he should start with his buddy, the fake president, if he wants people to not call other people names as if they were still in the seventh grade.
Seriously? Behind a paywall regarding a Presidential primary involving voters and the entire countryâs future? That should be against all the rules for holding one of those events. It shouldnât be made proprietary with limited access.
Thomas Jefferson said that a well-informed electorate is a prerequisite to democracy.
Hard to do that if you have to pay first to be well-informed.
I missed it because I was out of town but thatâs bullshit.
Iâm with you and @becca656 â discuss something truly critical.
@demosthenes59 I donât know what went wrong but I accidentally retweeted the Moscow Mitch ad to the Senate Majority Leader. Whatâs worse is I inadvertently added the hashtags #MoscowMitch, #MassacreMitch and #GriftAlongWithMitch. My bad.
As Roseanne Roseannadanna would say, âItâs always something.â
The pandering, I think, is on CNNâs part regarding ratings.
Somehow, I donât see six hours of discussion on queer issues being a ratings bonanza.
I think they should invite Mike Pence now that the WH claims heâs not anti-gay. Put him in the hot seatâŚ
Point taken 
Snowflake.
As mentioned earlier, I donât agree with an entire forum on this, but letâs be honest:
The idiot in chiefâs administration is doing all it can to remove your rights from just about every quadrant of society - service in the military; jobs; housing, etc. I think it is necessary to hear at least one question on how this stupidity will be reversed by a Democratic administration. At the same time, it should go without saying that it would be reversed by a Democratic administration but, anymore, can anyone be sure.
Bottom line for me: I want more than this, if theyâre going to take up an hour or three of my time on yet another forum with too many candidates. And thatâs why my previous angle of what about corruption should come along with this.
Since none of this stupidity was the result of legislation, it can all be changed as easily as it was implemented.
Indeed, given the Trump administrationâs aversion to following procedures, and the attendant lawsuits that have resulted, in many cases a Democratic administration could âsettleâ with a plaintiff by simply reversing the policy itself.
But Iâd like to get that all on record, along with the reverse of most of the climate, money switching and other malfeasance.
110 projects going undone because the money was pilfered for his vanity project - that can never happen again. Period.
I liked the Climate Change Townhall last night. Iâm game for another topic specific townhall.
I support their rights. See you.
oopsie, I accidentally liked & retweeted.