I’ve only ever seen Breaking Points content through either a Reddit feed, YouTube suggestion, or the TikTok ForYou Page. I was looking a little more into their show and who these hosts were after getting a video served to me today. Krystal Ball is a registered Democrat and one-time failed U.S House candidate for Virginia, and Saagar Enjeti is a political commentator, former White House Correspondent for The Daily Caller, and registered Republican.

They both describe themselves as “Populists”, and their show as a “fearless anti-establishment Youtube show and podcast.”

I’m not sure how useful the analysis would be from these two. They seem pretty intent on maintaining this “Plurality” of political perspectives thing they have going on. This was the video that got me looking into them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1JaVBYptaU

so what’s the temp check on Breaking Points?

  • OrnluWolfjarl@lemmygrad.ml
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    24 days ago

    I used to watch it on and off. I still do sometimes just to see what US liberals are thinking about. Is it better than CNN? Yeah, sure. Is it actually good? No.

    In the beginning, their show was actually anti-establishment. They spoke out about Syria, Palestine, Libya, corruption in the US, etc.

    Then they started slowly going downhill, and now they’ve basically become establishment news masquerading as an anti-establishment independent youtube news channel.

    Crystal Ball is a liberal hack who gained her “progressive” stripes by supporting Bernie Sanders the first time, and speaking out against the Democratic Party for a while. Then she immediately went right back to supporting them wholeheartedly when Bernie capitulated to Biden.

    Saagar Enjeti is closer to being anti-establishment, and he certainly holds better-informed and more nuanced positions that Crystal Ball from time to time. But since the Ukraine war he’s become more and more of a Russiagater.

    They are both fervently anti-China (considering it to be an “authoritarian” hellhole), they support Ukraine with a facade of being balanced about it, and last I saw them I understood that they consider BRICS to be a bad thing for the world.