For every conservative who destroys their coffee maker, two liberals will now step up and buy one. We have one but use refillable cups to help the environment in a tiny way rather than use disposables which from what I'm reading here is not their business model. I don't think this will hurt their sales at all, in fact, they may even see a short blip upwards.

For every conservative who destroys their coffee maker, two liberals will now step up and buy one. We have one but use refillable cups to help the environment in a tiny way rather than use disposables which from what I'm reading here is not their business model. I don't think this will hurt their sales at all, in fact, they may even see a short blip upwards.

I don't go to cnn websites, for one I don't want to be part of their traffic, second, I don't give them much credit as a "news source".

that's funny because I nearly said "if you can bear to open a CNN story" but thought no one is that closed minded

kind of sums up your position based on party political lines.

maybe you can dien to find another source you're willing to read

I bet writing that made you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. smh

You may be right about a bump in sales.

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This is sort of the right-wing version of the "primal scream." Yes, let's throw a little tantrum on an appliance.

Nail on the head.

Lefties are snowflakes!!!

Um, righties are too.

Nothing makes me chuckle more than one side chastising the other side for something that they are also guilty of.

I want to know when these hannity snowflakes are going to start smashing their volvos for also pulling their ads. Heres a chance to show their commitment!

Speaking of commitment, remeber when that fucking idiot hannity promised to get waterboarded for charity as a stunt to show how non torturous it was? Hes such a snowflake

Fuck 'em, K-Cups are bad for the environment anyway.

There are both a reusable cup and compost-friendly cups. But yea, the original plastic cups are bad.

Our local waste management company recently told people to stop throwing the compost friendly ones in with the compost because it was too difficult for them to easily identify which were which so they all end up in waste anyway.

I must admit I got a chuckle over your Trumpesque dismissal of all things CNN being fake news.

I’m a Boulder liberal and I try to avoid CNN too. It’s not that it’s fake news it’s just over the top headlines and everything written like there should be three exclamation points after it. I don’t need the extra drama. It reads like a tabloid.

I now try to give my traffic to CBS News, ABC News, NBC News, BBC and NYTimes.

The headline writers for both CNN and FOX seem to be heavily invested in anti anxiety med companies and use their jobs to pump their investments.

I now try to give my traffic to CBS News, ABC News, NBC News, BBC and NYTimes.

I was watching CNN this morning and it showed the long drawn out introductions in the Sessions Congressional hearing. The introductions were nothing but hot air and it was going to take at least a full hour.

I turned the station to Al Jazeera and heard about the earthquake in Iran/Iraq, an in-depth look at the situation going on between Saudi Arabia and Lebanon, an analysis of the involvement of Iran in Lebanon and Yemen, a story about Italy failing to qualify for the World Cup, a story about the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar a quick story about the latest Moore allegation and a note that Sessions was being questioned by Congress.

In other words, one is an actual news channel and the other is CNN.

Dammit, I just remembered I have a broken Keurig in my garbage trailer - it IS good for something. I can sell it to a Hannity fan! Likely get $10 out of it!

For the opposite reason people like CrusVegas skewered Bill Clinton for the unproven (yet equally as believable and damning) assault allegations against him, save for the admitted affair with Lewinsky — convenient, tribal, brainless political stances where the party is more important than principle. It’s the same blah, blah, blah bullshit spewed from the bullhorn.