MSNBC—Part 67

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Michael said “You’re watching the Weekend.”

Tsk.

Rachel is in 30 Rock with a new haircut.,

Lawrence is explaining foreign trade to Trump.

Lawrence just verbally slugged Trump for thirty minutes.

MSNBC’s New Daytime Lineup Is A Prelude To Network’s Post-Comcast News Division Plans:

Stop trying to make "Donny Two Dolls" happen, Lawrence.

Rachel’s greys are more prominent with this new ‘do.

Where did Chris Hayes go?

Did they even mention that Chris was not on tonight?

Odd if not.

He's no longer on Mondays, and hasn't been in a year!

My understanding is that he hasn't been in on Mondays for many months, ever since Jen added her Monday edition of Inside, which now goes away, replaced by the Weeknight.

Jem Psaki took over Mondays at 8 pm from Hayes nearly a year ago. Now that she's taking over the 9 PM slot from Alex Wagner (thank heavens!) her Monday at 8 slot is open, so they gave the extra hour to 'The Weeknight' (and not Wagner).

Pete Buttigieg will be on Jen Psaki’s show tonight.

First of the tariff's ripple effects that I've seen so far - only one overly ripe avocado remaining in the supermarket this evening.

I heard Katy Tur proclaim yesterday, “I’m not a Democrat, I’m an Independent…”

🙄🙄🙄

Ncole told her panel today "You all made me smarter. Thank You". They all (should have) responded : "Easiest thing we've done all week."

And then she boosts the panel's ego even further by adding; "I don't say that every day".

Which ALSO somewhat infers is that she's pretty smart herself. Interesting choice of phrasing while also stroking her own ego.

But in all seriousness, I find her one of the more in depth, educated, pointed, and interesting anchors, unlike Ms. "but what about the Democrats", Tur and that skanky party girl, Stephanie Ruhle. Uggggh

Another Nicolle fan. Katy Tur’s bothsiderism is beyond irritating. She is slowly becoming her “dad.”

Nicole, Rachel, The WeekNight and Lawrence. That's all, folks.

Lawrence is going to drive this president to drink.

Hit the gas, Lawrence! Floor it!

Symone and Rep. Victoria Spartz ... how many screens did their combined voices shatter this evening?

How come most of the highlighted Met Gala fashions were worn by the Blacks? Somebody didn't get the message that DEI is over.

Are the Met and AW Government Contractors, r24?

What's going on with Jen Psaki's hair this week? On the first 2 nights of the Briefing, and when she was on with Rachel Monday, it's looked kind of squared off and flattened on top. Doesn't frame her face as usual, not flattering.

As I think R24 knows, the theme was black style, and specifically the history of dandyism among "the Blacks".

And not one set of elegant, glittering chains and shackles.

Arrivederci, Claudio.

Scott Galloway for president!

Tim Miller just echoed my sentiment.

Can Miguel Diaz, former US Ambassador to the Holy See, please fuck me up my ass ? He's one hot daddy. Chris Hayes should have him on more often.

R30 I'd prefer Kara - the limp dick jokes were funny for maybe the first 7 or 8 times, until you realize he doesn't really have a second act.

Love that Lawrence hates trump as much as I do.

Jen Psaki on night 3 of white suits & flat hair.

R26 R35 New show, new stylist?

Lawrence is going to have a ball tonight! 🔥🔥

Wow, Lawrence! The thought crossed my mind earlier while admiring his lovely complexion! Life imitating art in conclave surprises!

I am delighted. All is right in the World.

I love watching Lawrence's hour long tirade calling Trump stupid, pointing out the stupid in detail and calling him stupid again.

Lawrence is pissed Trump is killing children and babies in Africa.

I have watched multiple clips of Chris Jansing announcing in an orgasmic eructation WE HAVE A POPE!

They must have had the stagehands peel her off her chair. Ultimately, it was cringe.

They scraped her discharge off her ass and Chris is on MJ Friday.

Really enjoying NJ rep Bonnie Watson Coleman! What an elegant, intelligent woman speaking against the President and MAGA. We need more like her.

Which program was she appearing on?

Agreed

Weeknight

This is the reason that we need Rachel on Mondays and Fridays.

Does Eugene Daniels wear a wig ? That fro of his has the exact same five curls falling on his forehead ever time he's on TV. And his from has that shiny look to it - as though it's made of nylon, with the lighting hitting it.

R47, It’s the most ridiculous shit on TV now.

Alicia’s brother, Rob, is hot.

ICE strikes again, this time Newark. Mayor arrested, don't know why.

ICE are the modern Nazis.

Ras Baraka (who's also running for governor) has been pretty vocal about that detention center in Newark for a while now.

I don't understand what the point was in arresting him.

I agree R49. Smoking hot. Move aside Ms primpy and preppy boy, Danny Cevallos.

I like Jen Psaki but she always seems very uncomfortable on-camera and frankly I don’t know what they think she brings to this hour that Alex Wagner didn’t. If she’s more popular with viewers than Wagner, then okay, fine, but otherwise they could have just given the time back to Wagner and let Psaki stay on Sundays.

Jen Psaki’s Botox!

Jen's fielding questions from today's WH press briefing is brilliant.

Psaki always comes across to viewers as "Remember, I'm faster, better and smarter than you".

[quote]Psaki always comes across to viewers as "Remember, I'm faster, better and smarter than you".

Which she obviously is.

R54 Psaki always appears quite calm and confident to me. But I'm also a Wagner fan. I say team them up.

They are two categories of host. Jen is a prior administration executive branch employee, like Simone in a Campaign way, and Alex is a journalist more like Hayes.

A Chris/Alex show makes more sense. This would have been brilliant.

R58 If it was obvious, she wouldn't have to try so hard to prove it.

What happened to the new female host who was there last week for 'The Weekend' ? Did she have enough of the Two Black Queens and quit already ?

Anyhow, I was flipping between MSNBC's newly remodeled 'The Weekend' and 'FOX and Friends' this morning. Despite it's flaws with the new trio, 'The Weekend' is far and away the best programming on weekend mornings, still.

R62 she said she decided to go on family leave to spend time with her newborn and would be back in a few months.

R63 WOW - she didn't decide to be with her newborn before she accepted the job ?

Daniels and Capehart on the same weekend show? Oh No - that’s who Rebecca Kutler is replacing fired anchors with? What a joke.

r61, she appears to do it effortlessly.

She was a phenomenal Press Secretary.

She ended the 1st Week of The Briefing with her assuming her old position as Press Secretary and giving honest answers to the fake questions asked by the Propaganda Press.

It was seriously brilliant. If she had played it for laughs, it would have killed on Comedy Central.

She really does it effortlessly.

It’s important to hear from people who have real-world political experience like Jen Psaki and Nicolle Wallace and even Symone, as opposed to just people like Rachel who have spent her life in academia before her media career.

That is the journalism parallax. Both are respected positions. Both are needed.

It sets up liberal media in opposition to the "Fair and Balanced" propaganda of Fox Nooze.

There is only one Rachel . She can tell stories and make history relevant. I wish Alex Witt would go to QVC.

Alex Witt is the only reason I tune in on weekends. Miss Capehat?…no.

R69, you sure you didn't mean Alex WAGNER?

[quote]She really does it effortlessly.

We must be watching different shows. I'm not seeing 'effortlessly' at all.

[quote]Oh No - that’s who Rebecca Kutler is replacing fired anchors with? What a joke.

Huh? Who was fired from the previous 'The Weekend' team ? Those three got promoted to primetime with 'The Weeknight' (M-F). No one got fired from the show.

We all have our favorites of course but I really can't stand Symone and Lawrence. I thought Kathie Phang and Alex Wagner were doing a great job and was surprised when they lost their shows. Psaki I find too bland, Chris is a yeller and I find annoying. I like Michael and Alicia but am baffled that Jonathan Capehart was kept on the air. I use to like Katy Tur but less and less. Another one that drives me nut is that Pablo Torres on Morning Joe. If he's on I will switch channels. Dial it down please...Anyone knows what happened to Danny Deutsch ? But my queen is Nicole. I just love her !

R74, how do you feel about Stephanie?

[quote] Chris is a yeller and I find annoying... Dial it down please... But my queen is Nicole. I just love her !

And then there's the DL'ers who swear they consistently have trouble hearing Nicolle - just her, everyone else on show is perfectly modulated.

I'm not here to judge, but when these peculiar audio or auditory problems arise, it might be wise to consider them as possible issues with the receiver.

[quote]We all have our favorites of course but I really can't stand Symone and Lawrence.

r74, those are the two vocal Trump haters right behind Joy Reid. But, both Joy and Lawrence fall in the government gravitas insiders group.

Not going until fired by the new owners of MSNBC, or whatever they will be called.

And Joe was at it again, recruiting Incels for the Evangelical church because nobody will fuck them.

Poor babies, poor uneducated babies who lost out on white privilege, and education and learning that real women need a partner not a "Husband to Submit to". While women, who will not fuck them, went to college and got great jobs.

Ultimately, Evangelical recruitment of Incels is just an extension of Rape Culture for Incels not smart enough to learn Frat Boy Rape Culture in college.

Their salvation is not having a personal relationship with the mythic Jesus, but to actually learn how to eat pussy. Eat pussy like a lesbian. That is what independent women need, today.

Julie Sirkin is a snake in the grass. A both sider in the mold of Kateless Tur. She’s done this type of thing before: sanewashing Twitler and the GQP. She reports GQP talking points as fact, without fact CHECKING them. She did it this am again on Jansing using GQP propaganda on “Medicaid Reform,” instead of the 880 billion in cuts that the psychopaths plan for the medically indigent. Btw, the 880 billion in cuts comes from AP reporting! WTF

Poor John Tester.

[quote]Their salvation is not having a personal relationship with the mythic Jesus, but to actually learn how to eat pussy. Eat pussy like a lesbian. That is what independent women need, today.

OH MY!

Jon Tester, R80. MSNBC's newest consultant.

r81, imagine if Phyllis Schlafley had a secular husband who ate pussy?

Michael Steele was talking and they cut away to Symone who was cleaning her teeth.

The Tech Booth doesn't seem to like her...

Someone should tell her that all-white outfits aren’t flattering to obese people.

Why the hell does anyone need to clean their teeth in the middle of a broadcast? Was she eating during the breaks? Wouldn’t surprise me.

Why does Tur have to relitigate the Democratic loss in 2024?

Whattacunt

It’s really hard to take Matt Dowd seriously anymore after he was so (publicly, at least) confident - & so wrong - about Harris winning. And no Matt, no one who voted for Trump -certainly not the “poorly educated” he so claims to love - cared a whit about Trump infringing on anyone’s constitutional rights.

Past two days just happen to see David Ignatius telling the truth about criminal president as that fucking clown Joe Scarborough defends the orange turd.

Author Omar El Akkad wears a pink sweater very well. Makes him more sexy and masculine. I'd love to bend over for him.

Jenn is wearing pumpkin garb tonight.

I love watching Lawrence's call Trump an idiot and then go on to prove it in detail.

Lawrence, singlehandedly, keeps me grounded and sane.

Stop it, Lawrence; you're killing it!! Have mercy on President Scrooge.

Tonight's beat-down is Pulitzer-worthy. Classic O'Donnell.

I love watching Lawrence call Trump an idiot and then go on to prove it in detail.

Lawrence, singlehandedly, keeps me grounded and sane.

Fixed it, r93

[quote]Stop it, Lawrence; you're killing it!! Have mercy on President Scrooge.

There is no mercy for President Lime

[quote]Tonight's beat-down is Pulitzer-worthy. Classic O'Donnell.

Lawrence is brilliant AND savage.

Thank you, —donalds-worst-nightmare

Last night audio...

I like to put on an audio rebroadcast and listen to it in the background as I surf.

R89, R96 As both of you might recall, Lawrence was just as certain of a Kamala Harris victory.

So was I.

Yet both refuse to acknowledge even the possibility that Elon got his hands into our voting system and disappeared 10 million votes across every single swing state.

THANK YOU R98!!!

We don’t have a “voting system.” Voting is decentralized and locally-controlled. No voting system is connected to the internet. How exactly do you suppose Elon “disappeared” ten million votes across multiple states?

The results were consistent with polling.

You’re just the left’s version of the 2020 lie.

If you went to any suburban areas in Pennsylvania, you would have seen there were 10 Trump yard signs for every 1 Harris sign.

R100 Thank you for your contribution. Fuck you for your closed-minded attitude. One of MANY links below, just for you!

As for the 2020 lie, it WAS a lie. So that when THEY then do what they've accused US of doing, we can't come forward because it's true??

R101 I recommend you stay out of suburban Pennsylvania.

R98 Thank YOU !!!

Hey, R100, you can also check out the video below. Give it 5 minutes and report back, that is, if you can pull yourself away from jacking off to John Fetterman videos!

That’s quite odd, r101, considering how they actually voted.

Bucks County: Bucks County, a key swing area, went to Trump by a narrow margin of a few hundred votes.

Montgomery County: Montgomery County, the most populous Philadelphia suburban county, favored Kamala Harris, though by a slightly smaller margin than Biden in 2020.

Chester County: Chester County also favored Harris.

Delaware County: Delaware County voted for Harris, but Trump narrowed the margin compared to 2020.

Why wasn't I surprised by Trump's win? Why I don't think it was "stolen"? Because, as R100 notes, the polling. Trump's polls in '16 & '20 consistently undercounted his vote total. I think it's forgotten by many how bad his polls were in the run up to the '20 election. I was supremely confident of a Biden blowout because of the polls in the Blue Wall states. The actual state results were much closer than any of us anticipated. We were assured that this problem had been corrected for the '24 election. I had my doubts. And when the polls in the summer & fall showed Trump doing better than polls in the prior two election cycles, I was most apprehensive.

R105 Anus Mouth's numbers were the same as 2020. The Dems just didn't show up.

Many people just didn’t vote, or skipped the Presidential box on their ballot, because neither candidate was appealing.

Talking about his poll numbers, R106. His pre-'24 election poll numbers, particularly in Michigan & Pennsylvania, were much better than they were in either '16 or '20.

[quote] Elon got his hands into our voting system and disappeared 10 million votes across every single swing state.

Why did he stop, then, last year?! As heavily invested as he was in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, why didn't he flip that race, too?

Two bald Black women at once.

As of last night, Lawrence was still claiming that Trump will not get his Palace in the Sky plane, but who's going to stop him? Does public shaming work with Trump? You'd think he'd be embarrassed to accept something 13 years old, that the Qataris have been trying to sell since 2020.

13 years old and a few BILLION in renovations. BILLIONS.

Lawrence is correctly calling IT AIN'T HAPPENING.

WTF is wrong with Claire?

Is she on steroids?

Her face ain't right.

R112, I noticed that, too. Something was definitely different about her. Her voice didn’t even sound like it usually does.

By the way, has anyone else noticed how Basil Smikel is looking thinner these days? Hope he’s okay and that it’s his choice, not because he’s ill or anything.

Claire has had too much work done…all of it bad. Now, she can’t fix it. Jocelyn Wildenstein here we come!

Why is Jonathan Allen so red tonight?

The Weekend gang this morning is like a laugh out loud fest and they are all talking one over the other. Folks it's 7 am please dial it down. In need of a strong and calm moderator.

Eugene Daniel is particularly grating today. Stop yelling and calm yourself down

Today? Just the sight of that bitch any day is grating.

Listening to Ms Eugene Daniel and Ms. Jonathan Capehart is the equivalent to listening to a nessssssssst of ssssssssssnakes in a basssssssssket.

🐍 🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍

I still can’t believe they gave those two snow queens their own show, and on a Sunday morning at that. Eugenia is especially bad with that horrific Afro.

I came across Alex Witt yesterday- that peasant blouse she was wearing really made her look like a blowsy old drunk, like the type of bitch who drinks the Franzia right from the spigot.

I’m not watching. As a guest in the last I thought Capehart was interesting, though not host material and Daniels never added anything beyond conventional wisdom.

Daniels is supposed to add gravitas with his White House Correspondents crap, but he comes off as an MSNBC Billie Porter knock off.

Mush-mouthed baby hippo Yamiche Alcindor praising this president's "collegial" tweet to President Biden.

I can’t stand her.

R124 It's time to finally call it. As the designated protégé of the truly great Gwen Ifill, she's not cutting it, and does not deserve the deference afforded her on that account. Bye.

R123 Yes-An Un-funny Billy Porter.

When did Alex Witt transition into Madonna?

A really rough looking Madonna, I may add.

Alex WItt always had the 'drag queen' look to her. She has very masculine facial features beneath all that makeup.

R128 She founded her own female rock/pop band, Mrs Robinson.

There is something smug about David Gura that makes me want to slap viciously.

Glad to see Claire’s face looking non-carnival like again.

Yes, R131, I also find Gura smug. Very slappable face. Reminds me of that other smug and pompous ass, legal contributor, Chuck Rosenberg.

It appeared to be a cake under her dome today, r132.

And paper whites.

OMG, the cameraman and the booth are scanning Symone for a good angle in that funky dress that looks like a black hole sucking time, matter and gravity into it.

Twinned black holes. They can only shoot her straight on.

What an embarrassment.

Maddow!

Yeah, I've slapped it a couple of times to Mr. Gura.

Watching Jen give answers to Press Coros questions gives me a duck tingle. Listening to Jen bitch slap Douchy is brilliant. Answering an Epoch Times bullshit question is brilliant.

Love Jen's Version. I wish she would have Karine in so they can tag team like Ruffin and Hagel but with the WH Press Corps

Where the fuck is Steph?!?

I believe that Steph has gone snatch scratching...

Jake Tapper is aging horribly.

It's from all his pouting.

R142 Compare that to his former date, Monica. Granted, there's a 5-year age difference.

Jake Tapper is a joke.

Jake Tapper has the support of John Malone.

Us a chimp on roller skates waving around a WSJ going to fill in for Stephanie tonight?

No, an NYU law professor who clerked for a Supreme Court Justice. Still boring.

Elise Jordan, Jonathan Capehart, Eugene Daniels--all talking about Jonathan's book.

JC's great lesson: "If someone asks you what you want, tell them." I want you to stop talking about yourself.

Whoever thought this was a good lineup is insane.

It's unwatchable.

They just ran a clip of Billy Porter telling Jonathan how wonderful his book is.

It brought a tear to MY eye.

She didn’t clerk for Sotomayor on the Supreme Court, but before she was appointed. Perhaps a cruel twist of fate in the legal status games, but that’s the deal. MSNBC and she should not be invoking Sotomayor’s name. Only Supreme Court clerks get to do that, and only when they are young.

Is Stephanie back on Monday or is she doing a week of snatch scratching followed by a Holiday weekend of snatch scratching, returning on Tuesday/

And what about Rachel?

No Rachel on Monday.

Elise Jordan is the real deal. She knows her shit on this show, and has plenty of confidence in sharing it. She could probably carry the show by herself, or at least get two better - much better - cohosts than 'Men on Film' wannabes. She is definitely someone to keep an eye on. Maybe move her to Primetime at 9 pm and get rid of the redheaded robot in that slot now.

Elise is a conservative plant moved from Holy Joe to the weekend, week night, the Twilight zone, in order to make MSNBC more saleable.

I see Elise Jordan posts here now at R156.

I always thought of Elise as only "the young widow," but she has come into her own journalistic identity these past many years.

Jonathan and Eugene: join "you know who" on Line 86.

R158 About time an adult joined this conversation, don't you think ?

Turned on evening Weekend and got the Tapper book. Ugh.

R154 Rachel has a wife who gives her all the snatch scratching she needs

Alex Thompson used to appear on WTE, looking way too cute for that hour of the morning. But he's anything but on this book tour with Tapper, appearing ragged and bug-eyed, with a rather unpleasant demeanor.

Elise always had that raised by wolves look to me. Something in the glint of her eye, and slightly halting delivery.

R162 Are they actually married? She seems to refer to her as either Susan or my girlfriend.

I believe that they are not married but in a long term relationship.

A traditional lesbian relationship, that without children involved, needs no patriarchal solemnity.

Just like Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein.

[quote]Alex Thompson used to appear on WTE, looking way too cute for that hour of the morning. But he's anything but on this book tour with Tapper, appearing ragged and bug-eyed, with a rather unpleasant demeanor.

I noticedd the same thing. But i realize I'd look ragged and bug-eyed at every interview, too, if I was being dick-whipped by Tapper every day. Tapper is 'the name' on this controversial book, and Tapper is obviously calling the shots. No doubt about it.

Looks like Joke and Mika are off for Memorial Day? First time watching since those two sucked up to and continue to suck up to dump.

Maddow keeps an apartment in Manhattan, but she decamps to the solitude of Northampton, Mass. on weekends, where she lives with her girlfriend of 12 years, artist Susan Mikula, and Poppy, their black Labrador. ...

Gay marriage was legalized in Massachusetts in 2004, but Maddow says she and Mikula have no immediate wedding plans. "We know a lot of people who have gotten married but I don't think we feel any urgency about it."

Later she admits that she's actually ambivalent about the cultural impact of gay marriage.

"I feel that gay people not being able to get married for generations, forever, meant that we came up with alternative ways of recognizing relationships," she explains. "And I worry that if everybody has access to the same institutions that we lose the creativity of subcultures having to make it on their own. And I like gay culture."

R169 Wrong. They've been partners for much longer than 12 years.

Just a few months ago, Rachel (who was covering Trump's first 100 Days) had taken a rare night off to celebrate their 25th Anniversary of their first date. Maddow met Mikula,15 years her senior, in late 1999 when she was hired to do 'yard work for her' which led to their first official date in early 2000.

Whatever, I am happy for the both of them.

I hope they have many more years together.

Watching Lawrence show up on a holiday was majestic.

The rest of the holiday programming showed future MSNBC buyers what a pile of reductive crap they would be buying.

Michael Steel has suddenly grown toothless.

Funny thing, didn't miss Stephanie one iota.

David Frum on Nicole's show right now. When did he transition into Wolverine?

Meanwhile, I have 3 words to describe Justin Wolfers, Professor of Economics at Michigan University. De - Lish - Ous

R174: Justin and his common-law wife, Betsy, are a hoot! Brilliant and relatable couple.

Symone is a living, breathing stereotype - The Mammy. Her minstrel act is sickening.

What is MSNBC trying to prove? How long before we're confronted with the Jezebel - Joy Ann Reid having personified the Sapphire - completing the disparaging trio?

Departed Black women journalists are spinning in their graves at the spectacle that exists today.

Yeah I do agree…

Anchymima

Michael Steele has gain a lot of weight-stress eating over the future. At least he can afford to relocate out of US if it comes to that.

When the camera does side-shots of Steele sitting at the table - he looks like a hippo. His head and face are too small for that body.

Jen has gone meek and mild while Lawrence is fire and brimstone.

Lawrence is alone.

TACO is brilliant.

Glad Stephanie is back, her cosmetic is decent, with the exception of her lips. She does look more like Janine Pirro though.

Michael Steele is scare of being the first anti Trump Repug to be investigated by Trump-walking a fine line.

Trump is replacing hard-earned educational degrees with White Privilege.

The Plantation wins again.

Is there any question why America's decline started with an actor and will end with an actor?

Listening to Trump's speeches over the holiday weekend were perfectly anodyne if you ignored his brain-damaged rants.

Listening to Jesus Joe, he needs to remind people that Trump negotiated the end of the Afghani war and Biden saved 120 THOUSAND people on the evacuation of Kabul. We lost 12 people IN A HOT WAR EVACUATION. It was not a bunch of people showing up at a train station.

Listening to David Drucker, you would have never noticed the explosion in Billionaires and Millionaires in America.

David, we need the safety net for the lower classes, the horror of taxing the rich to do this is the horror of Project 2025.

I am surprised that the Heritage Foundation is not suing the federal government for SLAVE REIMBURSEMENTS.

Can someone learn how to properly say “American”? It’s not aMEERican, like a meerkat. She’s unwatchable and unlistenable.

^Symone

Listening to Jesus Joe, he needs to remind people that Trump negotiated the end of the Afghani war and Biden saved 120 THOUSAND people on the evacuation of Kabul. We lost 12 people IN A HOT WAR EVACUATION. It was not a bunch of people showing up at a train station.

Can I spend a weekend with professor / columnist Arthur C Brooks, and just service him ? Damn, he's sexy.

Will Ari jump ship?

"Ari Melber, 45, has held meetings with rival networks and is considering departing the Comcast owned MSNBC as it prepares to be spun into a new company. He is also weighing whether to start his own media company."

[quote] Ari Melber, 45, has held meetings with rival networks

What rival networks? The only rival is CNN, unless Melber were to take a hard right turn and join Fox or Newsmax. I suppose he could join ABC or CBS or even NBC now that MSNBC will be spun off, but those networks wouldn't be able to give him a daily show. If Melber wants to remain a regular daily presence in TV news, I don't think he has many other options.

r192, it is strange when one of the weakest links leaves of their own volition.

He might do better in his search for BBC at BET.

Morning Joe needs to move to TBN

Good riddance to Ari. He's grown stale and predictable over the years, and he's not nearly as attractive as he once was. He's aging terribly.

R195-What a terrible thing to say AND a truer word never spoken. Ari-good luck that “rival’’ network just don’t sneak in the rap personalities and song quotes. You used to be The Man what the hell happened.

R196 Classic case : Once he hit 40, he refused to give in to 'adulting'. He wants to stay in his 20s forever.

Lawrence O'Donnell, and Amy Klobuchar are relishing in today's Federal Trade Court ruling to quash all of Trump's global tariffs.

Suck it fuck face.

Oh Steph.

And on Morning Joseph, Scarborough reports that Stephen Miller is upset over having courts piss on Trump's tariffs. But why is Miller so upset?

This court has cut the balls off of Project 2025 funding mechanism.

1] raise all tariffs as far as possible so the middle/working/poor classes pay for their government.

2] Institute a National VAT (Value Added Tax, national Sales Tax) and kill the 16th Amendment and IRS.

3] And then Evangelical Billionaires have fucked the US economy two hundred years after the North devalued their livestock and gave them the vote.

Morning Joseph ✝, needs to move to TBN.

Hey Joe, did you know that Willie Nelson's Blue Eyes was based on

the old Serbian Ballad, Plave Oche?

Mediate:

Overall for May, MSNBC dropped 41% in the primetime demo and 34% in the total day demo compared to May of 2024. In total viewers, the network was down 33% across total day and 24% in prime time. MSNBC’s total day demo viewership sank to 49,000 average viewers and 73,000 in prime time – its second worst ever showing for a month behind January of 2025.

NBC really doesn't want to sell.

Even a broken clock is correct twice a day= Joke Scarborough & Side Kicked Mika

It’s not up to NBC. It’s up to Comcast. NBC is just a division of a subsidiary. NBC News isn’t even that. Just a little box in an org chart

Finally they got a Lefty with crazy eyes.

Steven Pinker, get Botox and freeze those eyebrows!

Here's the article that explains MSNBC and CNN's ratings drops in May.

Interestingly, "The Weekend averaged 772,000 viewers, down from ReidOut's final month in February, which averaged 955,000."

Joy’s departure was all about MSNBC ridding themselves of her toxic personality. Her ratings were definitely higher than some of the other bozos they’ve retained and/or promoted.

[quote]Joy’s departure was all about MSNBC ridding themselves of her toxic

TRUMP and PROJECT 2025 RANTS.

I said this before, just after the election when ratings drop (as they always do after elections!).

I think MSNBC is taking the wrong stance. Instead of trying to be more center and attempt to win people on the right, (like by firing all their diverse anchors), they should do the opposite: go as far left as possible. Although for years pundits used to like to pair MSNBC next to FOX and claim MSNBC was the FOX of the left, it was a false equivalence. Yes, MSNBC is biased, but they didn't "spin" to the point of totally lying like Fox, and weren't nearly as extreme.

Now they should be. There's an audience for it. Bring back people like Joy Reid, Mehdi Hasan, etc. Add 2024 election deniers like Jessica Denson, Jim Stewartson, etc. I, for example, happen to agree with them as do lots of others, others who have shut off MSNBC because they felt they could no longer trust the coverage. These are the people they want to bring back. They will never get people on the right. But they can bring back some of their old viewers and those on the extreme left who are looking for news outlets to cover this and lots of other stories that are deliberately being buried.

Oh, but to clarify, unlike FOX, they shouldn't lie. Reporting stories that the 2024 election was rigged by Elon isn't a lie as long as they frame it properly; as in "There is increasing evidence the 2024 election might have been tampered with".

R212, Jesus Joe is sucking Trump cock to beat the band..

The Morning Joseph is one soft capitulation after another..

A school for quislings.

Not exactly 'breaking news'...

1.Ratings always drop after an election year. Always.

2. Days have gotten longer in month of May, and temperatures are warmer. People are doing 'outdoor' things to occupy themselves, not watch prime time TV during an 'off year'.

Where have all the flowers gone?

If NSNBC becomes simply another source of propaganda, it will lose much if it’s existing audience including me. Propaganda of any bent is for people who want their emotions stroked, not information. No thanks.

Nobody tears EL TACO a new hole better than Lawrence.

Mara Gay on Morning Joseph is doing a legal interview!

Fuck her and bring back Katie Phang.

Masha Gessen has transitioned to M. Gessen.

He has that Hot Rabbi look.

I wish I was a better person but I'm a little creeped out.

Lawrence really enjoys it because he thinks Trump is watching him. Trump has commented on the show from time to time, but I’m not sure that can be interpreted to mean he watches regularly.

With his retribution campaign in full swing in other areas, I'm kind of surprised that Trump hasn't directly come after critics who continue to humiliate him daily, people like Lawrence and Kimmel, if only to pressure their corporate patrons the way he's done with other media figures. Could he actually be smart enough to realize that efforts to silence them would backfire egregiously?

Trump 2.0 is just getting started, R221.

I used to enjoy The Weekend but not anymore since they changed the hosts.

It looks like the anchor changes are not going well. I am going to be interested in seeing how Tom Llamas does as Lester Holt's replacement over on NBC. I think people who are watching the news/stations don't take change well. I know if you mess with my viewing habits, I look for something different.

‘’The Weekend’’ is unwatchable.

It ought to replace the straight married chick with someone like

Nora J.S. Reichardt,

Marvia Malik,

India Willoughby, or heaven forbid,

butch Paola Ramos.

I no longer record 'The Weekend'. I used to watch it on Saturday and Sunday nights when I was home, but no longer. I do record 'The Weeknight' - still enjoying their banter and chemistry.

Alicia Menendez is their diamond in the rough.

R225 - "‘’The Weekend’’ is unwatchable."

True words were never spoken. Loathsome.

I noticed in the schedule, both The Briefing and The Beat have : Weekend versions. I'm guessing, like MJ, these are a collection of clips from throughout the week.

Alicia Menendez is great but I do worry which way she will turn should the Criminal President pardon her incarcerated father who has become an “independent” and has repeatedly requested the pardon because he’s been singled out buy the previous administration that had become WEAPONIZED.

I don't think she has a lot of love for him and his new wife.

Her brother has more to fear being a target

"The Weekend: Primetime" is the best of the franchise, hosted as it is by Mohyeldin, Rampell, Hylton and Jordan.

Scratch Jordan and you've got a winning crew

I like Jen Penske, but I am getting really, really tired of the total saturation of her content on that channel. They repeat her show 3 times a day, plus extra long segments. What is it with MSNBC? When one show does well they dont know how to keep it special, they exploit it and run it several times a day every day non-stop until people burn out on it. There are so many talented people that should be on there but they never take a bit of the unknown. It's always "lets fill in the gap" with this type of demographic. Market driven decision instead of any real search for real journalism.

Psaki?

Speaking of “saturation” if you’re going to go with that hair color, stay on top of the roots.

Ayman needs to take over for Breaking News.

Ayman would be a lot better for that. Jen is like "sunshine day" 24/7. While I prefer that for polite political conversation over screaming matches, it does not work with breaking news.

No to Ayman and his non-stop Hamas propaganda. Worship his thighs on your own time.

Ayman does not worship HAMAS you racist.

Ughh...Chris Jansing

R242 How is opposing Hamas propaganda racist, moron ?

Are you drunk, R242, or just new? You’re conflating the issues. Ayman’s local stans worship his thighs. No one is accusing Ayman of worshipping Hamas. Lolololol

[quote] Speaking of “saturation” if you’re going to go with that hair color, stay on top of the roots.

There was a time when she seemed to intentionally deploy it as a look.

Not to the extreme of Leigh Ann Caldwell, who has made it her brand, for better or worse.

Catherine Rampell seems to quickly be owning The Weekend. Looks like she is with child, wonder how long she will choose to be absent on parental leave as the show gets off the ground..

I like the way it's simply announced that Jordan is "off".

She certainly is.

Caught a few minutes of Morning Blow (first time since these skanks decamped to Larda-Margo) and was shocked how subdued Big Joe was and how much Mika actually spoke. None of the inane baseball yammering either. Hmmmm

The director and lead actor of 28 Days later were just on Morning Joe. The poster is cool if skulls don't bother you.

David Gurra again on with Nicolle. He looks like he is constantly doing a George Peppard imitation.

I think Deadline White House is more like Dinner at Tiffany's

Uggghh, watching Nicole now. The smirk on wannabe Superman, Ms. David Gura, is beyond slapable..

Now her other guest, Aussie Professor Justin Wolfers, University of Michigan - Economics, is quite charming and easy on the eyes.

Nicole just let him go, so we're stuck with Ms Gura (aka Clark Kent), for a while longer. Why can't I see nice things?

r253, because he has never sexted a dik pik

Nah, I'm good. Wouldn't change my mind.

R253 Dimetrically opposite read on the Aussie Prof - self-effacingly self-enamored, surprisingly mundane analysis, lame analogies, skeevy looking, and popping up everywhere.

It's hard to get excited about MSNBC chewing over old news and not doing original reporting.

R256 received an "F" in Justin Wolfer's economics class, and is now deeply disgruntled.

I haven’t watched MJ since Nov.

Are John Heileman and Donny Deutsch still appearing

Haven't seen Donny in a long time. Maybe I'm just missing the days he's on ?

R256 Maybe if he were to wash his hair?

Donny Deutsch, long the goodnatured victim of Mika's nice/nasty, passive-aggressive "teasing," probably decided it best not to renew his contract.

Much like a considerable number of viewers, Donny Deutsch had sufficient (I know I did)!

Lawrence is fire tonight.

Lawrence takes no tea for the fever!

I was disappointed to see Rachel, who hasn’t appeared on air for two weeks, spend a chunk of her show promoting Nicole’s new podcast. Let others who are on all the time do that.

Jaysus Steph, did you just come from Garden State Plaza?!? Those lips! Worst look evah!

She's giving her homage to Pat Benatar.

R266 Luke's lips look as enticing as ever.

[quote]Are you drunk, [R242], or just new? You’re conflating the issues. Ayman’s local stans worship his thighs. No one is accusing Ayman of worshipping Hamas. Lolololol

No, you must be the one hitting the sauce if you didnt bother to read two post above "No to Ayman and his non-stop Hamas propaganda. Worship his thighs on your own time. r241 "

I would call that someone accusing Ayman of being a Hamas support. And a racist for doing so.

[quote]Are John Heileman and Donny Deutsch still appearing

Heileman is back but not as much as he was before the Ring Kissing Event. All those guys abandoned ship like it was the Titanic, and for good reason. Now they are slowly drifting back with occasional appearances being very cautious of the Morning Joe husband /wife / Trump polyamorous throuple.

Joe is trying to play it a bit more down the right of middle, not attacking Trump but still pointing out his issues. Mika has stopped her hims and haws and her fake outrage and is now pretending to be a journalist offering very little of her personal opinion. Occasional wearing a tacky suit jacket instead of a parade of her $1,000 designer scarves draped over her breast implants.

Heileman is sparsely all over the place.

He ought to sing Mammy on Melber...

[Quote] I was disappointed to see Rachel, who hasn’t appeared on air for two weeks, spend a chunk of her show promoting Nicole’s new podcast.

Yesterday and today Nicolle’s podcast The Best People was number 1 in Apple’s Top Shows, followed by NYT The Daily. Rogan is down to 5, thankfully.

ESL vs. GED for R269

Heilemann, the 2nd n is silent. And he was on the week after the pilgrimage to Mar a Lardo. If I remember correctly, looking like he hadn't shaved his skull in days.

Joe Walsh is amazingly handsome at-63? A former Republican now embracing the Democrats and he’s on Nicole’s show right now-2:24 PST MSNBC. I know I’m grateful.

Is he a friend of Dorothy?

Poor Mike Schmidt. She giggled throughout discussion of his frontpage NYT whistle lower article, and in the face of her beleaguered guest, whistleblower Miles Taylor.

That girl ain't right.

^ whistle blower article

Eleven bucks for a box of cereal?! HA HAHA 🤣 Bwah ha ha. TeeHee. 😹. I can’t stop cackling!!

[quote]Joe Walsh is amazingly handsome at-63?

Every time I see him, I want to rip his clothes off and fuck him. He was a regular guest on 'The Weekend' up until the changed hosts.

He seems to be genuine, but seriously how does someone like that do a complete 180? You wake up one day and have an epiphany?

I mean he was a real raging hate-filled gas bag - and not that long ago.

R281, the MSNBC airwaves are dominated by former Republicans. Just as many former Democrats are now solidly in Trump's camp. It's all a part of the (very real) Great Realignment that Trump ushered in.

R282 Yes, as an adherent of The Bulwark, I am familiar with the breed. However they and their kind at MSNBC, are all people who I would still consider rational in their former lives. Joe Walsh is not.

I wish the best to the transwoman talking about the GLAAD report but i find her unrelatable. I continue to wish I was a better person.

[quote]Heilemann, the 2nd n is silent.

Are you serious?

I like how MSNBC is pushing their on air talents' podcasts. So, unlike Joy Reid, when the buyer of MSNBC fires people, they will have their podcasts to bridge to the next job.

Watching her on "The Briefing," it occurs to me how much Nicolle Wallace resembles a Cheshire Cat.

[quote]]MSNBC airwaves are dominated by former Republicans. Just as many former Democrats are now solidly in Trump's camp. It's all a part of the (very real) Great Realignment that Trump ushered in.

Uh, nope! Can you name any? Not the "Joe Manchin always played both sides type" but actual hard core Democrats that did a 180 for Trump? The only one I can think of was Kyrsten Sinema and she was not in politics that long, just used the party to get elected first term.

I like Jen Psaki.

R285 My comment was to point out people's propensity to misspell his name - only as serious as you need it to be.

Looks like Jen Psaki's new show is bombing in the ratings, according to Nielsen. She's doing worse than Alex Wagner (if that's possible).

Jen Psaki last night:

“I don’t know. Maybe Kristi Noem would be better at solving crimes if she dressed up as Sherlock Holmes. She loves to play dress up. Couldn’t hurt. Maybe she could try it.”

LOL

I think the lineup change gives people the opportunity to just not engage, a good excuse to not watch. Who wants to watch more news shows? Not me.

A new lineup is an opportunity to break habits.

I think the press secretary angle is a strong one. When people need more news - as major events unfold - they’ll discover her. See where she is after Labor Day.

I really liked Alex Wagner as well.

The whole network is a disaster from morning to night.

R294 is Jake Tapper

[quote] Can you name any? Not the "Joe Manchin always played both sides type" but actual hard core Democrats that did a 180 for Trump? The only one I can think of was Kyrsten Sinema

However (deservingly) frustrating Sinema was, she didn't do "a 180 for Trump." If she had, she wouldn't have voted for every single one of Biden's judicial nominees. I don't know what your definition of a "hard core" Democrat is - btw, I never said "hard core," just "former Democrats" - but unless it's just a member of NPR and/or MSNBC's audience, I cannot agree. It cannot be gainsaid that lots of males, young, Black and Latino, left their Democratic homes to vote for Trump last year. And then, of course, there's plenty of data establishing that many Obama & Sanders voters voted for Trump in '16.

Yes, the Great Realignment is real.

The Great Realignment is about as real as the Great Pumpkin. Trump won by 1.5% difference in the vote. Basically the margin of error. There is no Great Realignment anymore than a mandate. For reference, Ronald Reagan won by 50.7% vs Carter at 40.1% of the popular vote. That is a Great Realignment. Almost 10%.

[quote]Yes, the Great Realignment is real.

And yet:

R298, the Great Realignment is not a one-way street. It has resulted in the Democratic Party increasingly becoming more the home of the college educated, while the Republican Party, at least when Trump is the presidential candidate, has increasingly become the home of "the poorly educated" Trump professes to so love.

We will see a lot more of stories like r297 until the Democrats come back with a strategy to combat Trump-or until his approval levels drop so low that people will start shifting away from Dump.

He’s creating a lot of chaos for the Fortune 500, any benefit they get from one of his mercurial edicts is washed away by another one of his mercurial edicts. I thought businesses hate uncertainty?

R300, that's easy to say and yes there are a lot of uneducated people for Dump, but all those guys he's hired and all the Republicans in power mostly went to top tier Ivy League schools. Even if they are still a-holes.

Unfortunately, Dump has a higher approval rating among his cult than before. He has a 90% approval rating from Republicans. They LOVE what he is doing. They LOVE the hate and deportation, they LOVE the shaking down of Zalinsky, they LOVE the retaliation of lawsuits and investigations.

[quote] Are you serious?

Are you kidding?

This Nation writer always had a guilty fondness for Joe Walsh.

[quote]…or until his approval levels drop so low that people will start shifting away from Dump.

It will be this. The same way Trump is creating a new world order - indirectly. His instability is driving countries and trade blocks into new or renewed alliances. The U.S.’s loss is China’s gain.

Condescending Nicolle Wallace is trying to idiotsplain musk v. trump. As if!

CNN! Wait up!

Condescending Nicolle Wallace is doing a great job, 'splaining (Lucy!) musk v. trump. As if she wouldn't!

Condescending is talking down...

I'll confess that Angelo Carusone makes me stay to watch the segment.

Waitress Carol's grasp of English gained over 20 years is remarkably poor and is killing Ari's show.

I looked up cunt in the dictionary and it showed Nancy Mace.

r310, agreed but the segment producer should have booked a tighter block. Like having on her Waffle boss.

Cuomo better sqash this socialist free palestine asshole like a fucking bug.

R309 Love Angelo, his clothes, his apartment, his knowledge. Sometimes he applies his makeup a little too thick, and I want to nudge him, looking good boy, but...

Angelo is adorable.

^Oh, and smart.

Paul Rieckhoff is looking good on Nicole's show today. Handsome guy.

Melanie Zanona is now with nbc. Seems like she is both covering Congress and doing general assignment.

Best hair in news.

Jacob Soboroff is hot.

Ditto for Soboroff.

Another for Soboroff

Blonde chick running for Congress on Jen Psaki show lives with Onion publisher. Otherwise a thin resume.

R319 I know they're both straight, but I've had a fantasy about Soboroff and Gadi Schwartz getting hot and heavy.

With their glasses on.

Jacob and Gadi would make a hot couple, R323.

Is this the clip that's making all you guys salivate?

Los Angeles agrees with you, Steph. Great outfit.

Here’s a great pic that will kill your Soboroff boners.

Why do hot guys marry ugly ladies?

Trying to stomach ‘’The Weekend’’ All that lisping and incompetence from a self centered Eugene Daniels is too much to ask at this early hour or anytime really.

Truly Rebecca Kutler has assembled this hot mess with the intention for failure.

Kutler is white washing msnbc for its new audience as a Comcast spin off.

R329,

I disagree.

I'm here for the morning kiki. This has potential.

Capehart is still a bit of drag, but him having a cohost helps..

It’s fun-Joe Walsh trying to take these two fussy queens seriously.

Johnathan should be wearing a 45 rpm record on his head as they snap to a commercial.

Oh Good! 'The Weekend' tops off its Saturday morning broadcast with Laverne Cox, because we just can't get enough of Cox and her wearing her black gloves to hide her biological man hands. And with Capehart and Daniels talking to her, it's a triple treat.

Congressman Robert Garcia (CA) of Homeland Security Committee was also co-hosting at the end. Hot gay guy on the show - finally.

Congressman Robert Garcia is a hottie.

R329, a friend told me watching Eugene and Jonathan is like watching Men on Film. 😂

Garcia's overly tweezed eyebrows drive me nuts

Garcia was a Bush republican until he decided to run for a seat on the Long Beach City Council. He had his best shot in a district that included the port (and all that money) and a small collection of mostly poor , mostly liberal voters, so he changed registration.

[quote] Sometimes he applies his makeup a little too thick, and I want to nudge him, looking good boy, but...

Angelo's face is somewhat pockmarked -- not bad, but it was noticeable recently when he was interviewed on set at the MSNBC studios. Not noticeable when he Zooms in from home. He looks different on his Instagram where he's not in his normal sweater and button-down shirt attire.

DL needs to do a gofundme so Angelo can have laser work

One of my former roommates resembled Soboroff so closely I took to calling him Jacob. He wasn't as hot, though.

[quote]a friend told me watching Eugene and Jonathan is like watching Men on Film.

Scroll through this thread - I've been saying this here since they started over a month ago.

Soboroff is way too hot for that ugly mannish thing he’s married to.

Joe Walsh on Velshi now. What a boisterous blow hard. A party switching, fast talking used car salesman, who is desperately trying to be relevant in the Democratic Party. I don't trust him from here to there. He'd switch back over in a second, if the Republican climate was better.

Gavin Newsom should have gotten on one of the Sunday shows this morning.

Didn't know where to leave this, so here. I came across this pic of Ms Andrew Sullivan and was shocked. What happened to his youthful looks? Was it his constant insufferable whining that finally gave him the face he truly deserves?

And here's Zohran Mandani with his lack of any relevant experience.

He looks great!

The ballot box isn't grindr, young man.

It's time for the protests to move to Fox Studios and bring the pitchforks and torches for the Murdochs.

Fine interview with Newsom

R346 You didn't have to leave it anywhere here on DL.

Yes Fox is next but I did appreciate them showing the Belmont yesterday-Congrats Sovereignty!

Fox's broadcast of the Belmont was too much Terry Bradshaw, who has 0 relationship to horse racing and did a piss poor job.

Gavin Newsom!!!

That picture of Milky Loads must be 25 years old.

r346 = Catholic Apologist

LA Mayor Karen Basso will be on Rachel Maddow’s show tonight.

Yes, Prof. Eddie Glaude, things are as bleak as you say in your call to action. Pity you weren't so impassioned in 2016, before Trump was elected.

This is the first time I’ve watched The Weeknight with the former The Weekend crew. It is astounding to me that someone obviously did not pull Symone aside by now and give her some communication tips. She tends to do the same type of verbal stumbling that Jonathan Capehart does and it was the main reason I had to stop watching his weekend show. It’s very annoying, especially when compared to her co-hosts Michael and Alicia who are just better communicators.

Yeah Eddie Glaude pleading /demanding people do something but doesn’t have any examples of what to do. So ineffective is he and I almost alway turn the channel when he shows up. He goes on and on and off topic.

Agree R360. Glaude is a phony blow-heart, who preaches at the viewers but never actually gives concrete ideas.. He uses the race card over and over.

Rachel was beyond excellent this evening. Great show.

[quote]It is astounding to me that someone obviously did not pull Symone aside by now and give her some communication tips.

Putting her in this prime time slot is obviously an attempt by management to highlight how bad she is, so they can get rid of her once and for all.

Must we endure every Democratic mayoral primary candidate in NYC for the next few weeks ? They wasted so much time this morning on a candidate named Adams, who sits on the city council and would be the first female mayor of NYC (yes, we heard the same thing a few years ago when Maya Wiley was running - and came in last place). She's repeating the same campaign promises as the others (protecting their sancturary city, protecting immigrants, addressing housing, standing up to Trump).

The only people these candidates should matter to right now are NYC voters - so why give them all this time on a national morning news show ? I'm not interested in their campaigns - I'm not voting for them.

Lawrence used his intellectual napalm as usual. Great watching.

I watch Nicolle, Rachel and Lawrence.

Sometimes Jen. Sometimes Chris.

But Ari is unwatchable, the hodgepodge shows are unwatchable, and I like Alicia.

And Ruhle is insufferable. She is looking like she is auditioning for Fox post Comcast breakup. Needs to use her married name.

I like that Charlie Sykes corrected Nicolle's ridiculous statement that NOBODY supports what Trump is doing in LA.

When did Charlie Sykes become such a whimpering pro-trump wuss? He and the apologetic new guy reporting from LA in the mornings might want to consider a move to Fox.

SMH

^David Noriega is the correspondent's name.

Tell me you live in a bubble without saying so explicitly.

Charlie Sykes is a conservative republican with his own show R367, what part of that has change? He just happens to hate Trump. But he's still a conservative.

There is a big difference between maga and conservative. We need the conservatives, R370.

How is Nicolle Wallace, a longtime Republican operative at the highest levels, or any number of the many Never Trumpers for that matter, any different from Charlie Sykes?

And how does Charlie Sykes stating the obvious - that, yes, there are a lot of people who support what Trump is doing - mean that he remains a conservative, whatever that means today?! It's not like he said - or gave any indication - that HE supports Trump.

[quote] I like that Charlie Sykes corrected Nicolle's ridiculous statement that NOBODY supports what Trump is doing in LA.

The longtime Detroit News Tigers beat writer agrees.

Sykes said that people waving Mexican flags are doing themselves no favors. It's their right but I agree.

WOW! What an impassioned speech Gov Newsom is giving in his address to the country about what Trump is doing in CA. It sounded very much like a campaign speech.

Morgan Chesky’s hair looks strange in this light, like he put shoe polish on his head

It's Morgan Chesty to the DL.

r376, more like a declaration of war without making a declaration of war...

I prefer to call him Chesty Morgan.

I really wish Nicolle would dispense with citing various - meaningless - polls.

I like Nicole citing anything she likes.

Much better than Fox Entertainers.

It's twiggering, R382. It reminds me too much of the last election.

C'mon, Nicolle (or, more to the point, her producers), the Quinnipiac poll appears to be an outlier. Would that it were not.

Why is she laughing while Justen Wolfers describes his childhood memories of his parents' divorce?

Oh joy, Prof. Eddie Glaude will be on the next block.

Good to see Prof Glaude doing a segment on Racism in the military..

R385 It's her way of being polite, rather than saying, Oh no, not another one of your lame analogies and anecdotes.

Hope Trump's catheter breaks when he's on stage at his vanity parade rally.

I hope his hair is protected with the expected thunderstorms.

Hope he drops dead.

Isn't he going to the theater tonight? As a Civil War might be breaking out? Doesn't he claim he represents the party of Lincoln?

Maybe history can repeat itself.

Possibly not the reception he was expecting.

Remember Sadat’s assassination?

Lawrence is on 🔥

That film-maker on MJ this morning - Bernard-Henri Levy - was giving me a hard on. There was something sexy about this 76 year old man that really turned me on.

Why are all three Morning Joe hosts missing? Hmm, more drama? They didnt say anything about being on vacation or out for a few days. Joe has not been there all week. Then is was just Mika and Willy, then just Willy, now all seem to be missing.

I can see Trump and friends using video and ticket seat numbers/charge cards to identify and discipline those who dared boo dear leader.

Lawrence may be on fire, but he is saying the same thing night after night.

R394 I think about it all the time

r399, he is our Cassandra in the coal mine (mixed metaphor intended).

I could listen to Lawrence simply repeat: Trump is stupid, and my heart would rise with hope.

When they get to Lawrence we are dead.

Interesting, R397. Savannah and Craig were also missing on Today - Willie and Hallie Jackson were filling in - I preferred them actually during my morning routine getting ready for work.

Oh, no. I hope he's OK, R399.

And I’m here for it, R399. It’s why I tune in.

What would a majority of Americans think about what happened to Padilla? Really?! The same country that voted for an insurrectionist? A felon?

He looked Mexican!

Forecast is for rain and thunderstorms on Saturday in the nation’s capital.

What if a lightning bolt hits Dump in his fat head during the parade, live on TV?

[quote] Forecast is for rain and thunderstorms on Saturday in the nation’s capital.

Maybe this God thing is real.

So the real issues with trump and possible rain is not that they military will cancel, they said they will be there rain or shine, tanks don't melt. HOWEVER, they also said if there is lightening, large crowds of people on the ground are at risk and they will disperse them for safety reason. Which gets to the real reason, expected turnout will be dismal. Hotel rooms are not being booked up. And you know how Dump hates to be embarrassed.

Alicia Menendez is PISSED over Alex Padilla..

She is seething as she recalls an incident with Trump and Univision Ramos 11 years ago.

I have not seen her in high Latina dudgeon.

Obama's military/birthday parade was much better attended.

Lying Trumptards gotta go^

[quote] Maybe this God thing is real.

It was Trump's last parade, July 4th 2019, where he falsely claimed that God had stopped the rain when he came out on stage. This was the speech in which the stable genius stated that the brave Revolutionary War militia "took over the airports". Later mistakenly attributed by Joe Rogan to Joe Biden as evidence that he was senile and should be removed from office.

I just heard a tape of Trump speaking in 2019 & the degradation of his voice over the years is pretty pronounced. Only to get worse.

Kelly O seems to be gaining back the weight she lost.

She is one of those people that look a little better with a little more weight.

Ben Rhodes has been a guest on three shows today. Let him rest.

R417 Agreed.

Where is Andrew Weissmann? I haven’t seen him in a while. Maybe he’s been there and I’ve just been missing him.

Or he has been dissapeared...

He and Mary are still putting out their podcast on schedule, but you're right; I haven't seen him lately. His most frequent appearances seem to have been on Nicolle's and Lawrence's programs. I'm kind of surprised Trump hasn't issued an EO against him yet.

Mary forgot the SPF 50 on her recent run.

Andrew was on the Bulwark podcast with Tim Miller yesterday for the hour. There was some mention of him being on partial sabbatical. Didn't look to be zooming in from his loft, against some vertical shiplap and funky wall art.

Doyenne Susan Page is on. I miss the old Susan Page, pre-diet and surgery.

Susan Page is married to Carl Leubsdorf, longtime DC reporter & columnist.

I also think Andrew has been missing because a lot of the topics they’ve been focusing on lately (the situation in LA, Iran vs. Israel, the military parade) are not in his wheelhouse. I’ve seen a lot more of Tim Miller and former generals lately (although Lisa Rubin and Barbara McQuade have popped up a few times in the last week).

BTW, I think I’ve told this story before, but I have a friend who went to Michigan with Barb McQ, lived in law school housing with her, and said she and her now husband Dan had VERY noisy sex almost every night.

As the saying goes, still waters run deep! 😳

Eugene Vindman is very handsome.

Yeah the Vind-Twins are cute.

That Stephanie Ruhle had the most negative guest.Some older man who was trashing No King demonstrations set for tomorrow.We know all our efforts are a long shot but it’s all we have.

fat man = Steve Liesman, CNBC financial contributor

Thanks R431 that’s him. I couldn’t stand it long enough to catch his name.