Why the hell is M$NBC talking about Dump's success in reshaping the courts?

[thegoose]

We're going to be living with extreme right-wing, incompetent assholes for years. This is nothing to fucking celebrate.

But oh! "After last night's election disaster, Dump can point to one of his successes." 157 rabid assholes.

Fuck you, M$NBC!

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. Except for a couple of exceptions, MSNBC is just

Faux Snooze lite.

[shanti]

11. Oh please

It is not. There is a world of difference. If you don't like a host, don't watch them!

[FiveGoodMen]

15. If the station can't avoid praising Trump, then it's no damned good

[RichardRay]

20. Knee jerk?

If you’re playing the electoral politics game, you need to play it skillfully.

[beachbumbob]

2. bottom line, because its been THE SUCCESS and may take a generation or 2

to overcome

Makes that "lesser of 2 evil things" so much worse

[JustAnotherGen]

3. Unfortunately they are right

McCconnell has done the GOP's bidding, and Trump has selected the Judges. This is why even when this Admin ends - we will be living with Trumpism for a long long time.

My core concern next year - SCOTUS. I'm 46 and I expect for the rest of my life, however long that may be - I'm voting Appointments.

[pnwest]

5. Exactly, cause it's the truth. It's been the

sneaky, quiet agenda from which we’ve been distracted. Packing the courts with righties.

[snowybirdie]

4. Don't kill

the messenger. It's true.

[riversedge]

6. msm has mentioned it several times lately. I do not want to hear it but

I force myself to listen. msnbc also mentions the lower appellate courts that are being filled with conservative judges. I have been emailing my Senators-both a Dem and a Repug. They need to know my feelings. I advice all to do so.

[brooklynite]

7. MSNBC isn't supposed to only report "good" news.

It's factual that Trump has shifted the Court, and that's something his base voters support.

[BigmanPigman]

8. This is newsworthy and important.

We should know that this is happening. 150 judges is a lot! Sucks but it IS true unfortunately.

[SCantiGOP]

9. A wild guess why they are talking about it:

It’s news; they are a news outlet.
I for one don’t care to watch a liberal version of FOX News.

[Hortensis]

10. MSNBC reports real success, but it's REPUBLICAN, RELIGIOUS RIGHT

AND BUSINESS/PLUTOCRAT success. If it was left to Trump to fill all these positions, he'd have run out of favorite donors and caddies the first month and been naming tweeters and faces in rally crowds ever since.

[AncientGeezer]

12. Because the dumpster has....and he's not done yet

[StarfishSaver]

13. Because it's important information we need to know

They under-reported the federal judiciary during the 2016 campaign. People need to understand the ramifications.

[elleng]

14. because it's a fact?

[Hekate]

16. Because it is actually important. I'm always shocked at how many Dems & lefties DON'T GET IT...

During the 2000 campaign voting for Nader was all the rage because people were "gonna send a message," and nobody could talk them out of it. I've been here at DU since 2002 and by gods there are STILL people who can't get it through their heads that they may not like the eventual nominee, but FEDERAL COURTS INCLUDING SCOTUS ARE FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.

Mitch McConnell, majority leader in the Senate, lives for this.

MSNBC is reporting important news. Don't shoot the messenger.

[thegoose]

17. You can go to ABC for the news

I expect M$NBC to give us a consistent warning sign about our country as they do every night with Rachel and Lawrence, not just give us sparkly newsreaders during the day.

[Hekate]

18. In my time zone Katy Tur is on at 11 am, Nicolle Wallace at 1 pm, and Rachel Maddow at 6 pm

They all have good panels and interviews, and I have consistently recommended them because of that. That's 3 hours a day (or 2 if I skip Katie), and that's more than enough. I very seldom bother with the rest, so they don't bother me and I don't complain that MSNBC isn't Liberal News Network. I go local for things like regional fires.

[11 Bravo]

19. Fingers in ears won't make the truth disappear.

It's happening, and if MSNBC reports it, isn't that kind of their job?

[Blue_Tires]

21. While it's bad for the rest of us,

Trump's stacking of the judiciary with young nuts and zealots obsessed with shaping policy from the bench *HAS* been an unqualified success in execution for him, at least, along with the concentration camps/family breakups for Latinos, that stupid tax cut for his country club billionaire buddies, and systematically reversing/deregulating everything Obama/Clinton ever signed into law... Of course everything else he's tried to accomplish has been a biblical fuckup.

[GulfCoast66]

22. Because it's true?

I generally don’t like news programs that ignore facts I don’t want to hear. That what Fox does.

It encourages me to work harder to regain power for the Democratic Party.