I simply can't understand why the hacks at M$Greedia refuse

[malaise]

to state that based on Supreme Court rulings, there is nothing illegal about Biden's vaccine mandate. Rachel Maddow and Ari Melber laid it out clearly - WTF is wrong with the rest of them?
I just watched someone at M$NBComcast discussing DeathSentence's response - did you know he got a standing ovation from ReTHUGs (at a fundraiser) for claiming that Joe Biden's mandate is unconstitutional. How is that even relevant? Of course he didn't mention that 2,000+ people died from Covid in Florida last week. And she didn't mention that President Biden's mandate is legal.

[Walleye]

1. They dutifully repeat Republican talking points propaganda all day long. Tiresome

Democrats deal with real life and it’s a little too complicated for TV punditry

[malaise]

2. I changed the channel

[Walleye]

3. Yeah. I've been watching the first season of Gunsmoke and film noir

Really couldn’t take all the macabre 9/11 stuff

[malaise]

4. I didn't watch any of it yesterday

They can get back to me when they show the same enthusiasm while covering the Slobfather's Covid failures, and his role in the attack on Capitol Hill on Jan 6.

[Walleye]

5. They've spent the morning talking about Republican "pushback" on the vaccines

And they called the Texas abortion law “a tough new law”. It’s very disappointing the way these so-called journalist just lay down for these authoritarian types. I don’t know what they’re afraid of. Beautiful day here. Looks like my hummingbirds have gone south so I’m trying not to be melancholy

[malaise]

6. I switches to the Food Channel

Normally we'd be walking but we're on lock down.

[Walleye]

7. I like Kevin Bolton's New Orleans cooking on PBS also simply ming because he's a sexy guy

[malaise]

8. Will check it out

[SoCalDavidS]

26. Kevin Used To Teach At New Orleans School Of Cooking

I was fortunate enough to see him teach there several times. He was a hoot. Definitely a nice guy. Glad that he's been able to branch out, but sad that he had to give up his teaching position at the School, because I enjoyed seeing him most of the times I visited Nawlins'.

[dhol82]

12. That's my default channel when things get heavy.

[malaise]

15. The only problem is that the recipes this morning

were heavy on the butter and sugar

[SoCalDavidS]

27. Got Something Against Butter & Sugar?

I'm pretty sure they each have high nutritional value.

[malaise]

28. Everything in moderation

[Mr.Bill]

39. Including moderation.

[malaise]

40. LOL

[Mr.Bill]

42. I forgot to mention

that our two posts add up to a quote from Oscar Wilde.

[malaise]

43. It's why I smiled

Love you very sharp DUers. Oscar was very deep

[dhol82]

29. And your problem is................

[madaboutharry]

9. The people who are running the media today are products of our "miseducation" system.

Americans are poorly educated. Years ago, I read an article about how an overwhelming number of high school students in the U.S. where unable to identify the century in which The Civil War took place. There was a shocking list of other things they didn't know. Going to college often doesn't seem to help this problem.

Journalist, television journalist in particular, like the many other Americans, never learned how to think. They are bereft of critical thinking skills. And worse, they have a sense of power by the mere fact that they are attractive enough to be on television and give some kind of an opinion regardless if whether it makes any sense.

[Tommymac]

20. This is by design. The indoctrination is continuing successfully.

Just as Raygun and the rethugs in the 1980's desired, public education in this country has been gutted and instead we are leaving our kids future in the hands of unqualified home school educators, i.e. parents with NO formal training.

A lot of whom are conservative religious whack jobs.

Move along, nothing to see.

[CrispyQ]

23. +1

The right started filling positions on Boards of Education across the nation back in the 80s, At the same time, we were running as fast as we could from the word liberal, cuz a two-bit actor poked fun at the word.

"As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing." ~Karl Rove

[KS Toronado]

25. The Karl Rove quote is insightful to his mindset, what he's really saying......

If we allowed free college education for poor & middle class people, they'll vote us out of office.
So let's make education as expensive as possible to keep us in office.

[malaise]

31. You nailed it

Their counter-hegemonic agenda began in the 1980s with Reagan

[Diamond_Dog]

10. The thing is,

If they refuse the vaccine, they have to be tested weekly. So how is it a vaccine mandate?

Drives me crazy too malaise.

[Tetrachloride]

11. Does Rachel call out the people on her own network?

for misinformation? other issues?

[CrispyQ]

24. I've never seen that. -nt

[rampartc]

13. drug testing has been constitutional for decades

repubs love drug testing.

[Maeve]

14. They are addicted to conflict and controversy

So even if there is none, they have to create it to drive ratings

[malaise]

35. to drive profits

[bucolic_frolic]

16. They do this to anyone and anything that doesn't feed capitalism to the max

That's why they are M$Greedia.

They view the Biden Presidency, much like the Clinton presidency, as feeding labor and human values too, rather than just corporations and capital like a Republican presidency. Democrats are just an interlude, occasionally allowed to occupy the White House before capitalism reigns supreme again. Wall Street feeds this beast.

Citizens have lost control of America because a plurality of citizens are hoodwinked or don't recognize this situation. We are enslaved to forces larger than us. The Bill of Rights was an afterthought for humans, and how they serve the legal system for propertied elites.

[cutroot]

17. Stirring the pot is the way that they make their bread

[Jon King]

18. Simple message, anti-vaxxers could kill us through variants.

Got to constantly keep hammering this home. Its NOT personal freedom that only affects them. Covid variants arise from the unvaccinated, the variants can get more deadly and avoid the vaccines. So the anti-vaxxers are risking all of us, not just them. The anti-vaxxers are risking the entire economy, not just theirs.

We need to hit this over and over, from Biden on down, those who do not get the vaccine are hurting the majority who have gotten it.

[malaise]

32. Agree

This needs to be repeated over and over and over again

[Farmer-Rick]

19. The corporate media knows better and knows the truth

But they are pumping out the propaganda to keep the GOPers stupid and in an attempt to convince you and I.

It's all about keeping the bare threads of capitalism from unraveling all the way.

What idiot knowingly volunteers to send their kids to get sick in schools?

No one, but feed them the lies with propaganda, thru religion, political identity, racism, news media and entertainment and you get them to walk their own children into a pandemic.

It also helps when you threaten them with lack of employment, never ending debt and deprivation, if they don't comply.

[love_katz]

22. Follow the money.

Most of the talking heads who have jobs with McGr$$dia get paid huge six-figure salaries. If they s a y anything that displeases the suits who hired them, they will be fired, and no one else in the industry will hire them. We have to use our critical thinking skills to challenge their lies. Our best opportunities to do that is with our friends and family. We can also do our best to support the bloggers and alternative news media who do take the risk of exposing the lies. And, we can boycott McGr$$dia and their sponsors. McGr$$dia has to sell ads to survive. They get more people reading or listening to their stuff by trying to create false controversies. Contact the sponsors and tell them why you are boycotting their companies. This kind of action can either put them out of business or maybe bring them to heel. Hang in there, friends. We can do this.

[dalton99a]

30. As predictable as sunrise:

[malaise]

34. What's is the NYT's vaccine policy?

[dalton99a]

36. Their editorial is pro-vaccine

but their unwritten policy is Both Sides

[malaise]

37. For profit whores

I get it