“They’ve delayed and dithered for years, but CNN says they “rubber stamped” it.”
“rubber stamped” only in the sense that Parliament “rubber stamped” the will of the voters who overwhelming expressed their desire during the recent election for Parliament to waste no more time in Brexiting ...
In North Korea, the government tells the people that they are the only free people in the world! That every other country is enslaved, that what the citizens of North Korea experience every day is freedom!
Before they shoot someone in a firing squad for having in their possession a memory stick or a DVD containing TV programs from South Korea or Japan, the boss of the operation tells the crowd that the person who is about to be executed was trying to take away their freedom.
These leaders believe they can actually force people to believe the opposite of reality.
It's obvious that CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, etc., have bought into this concept. They seem bent on igniting a civil war, a war of two completely different views of reality.
Of course, it's a war that won't last very long.