On MSNBC the panel is laughing about Trump being the God father.

[rickford66]

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It's serious. Back in 2015 a lot of talking heads laughed.

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I was horrified at how lightly they took the comparison. He's a real Marvel Villan with atomic weapons. His cult buys his trinkets and he receives tribute from the gated community people. He really has the power of life or death with the point of his finger. There isn't a bus big enough for the souls who will thrown under it. At some point, the people laughing about "Alligator Alcatraz" will "disappear" within its walls. "They always eat their own" only after eating everyone else.

[Chipper Chat]

1. I don't care for the multitude of M$NBC panel discussions.

They are so soft-pedaled and bland.
"We can't cross that line.gotta keep it inoffensive to Tump and maga".
I wish Michael Steele could just say what he wants to say but he would get JoyReided immediately.

[hlthe2b]

2. There are several members of those weekend "pundit panels" that I really do not like.

I've pretty much stopped watching MSNBC weekend (except for Velshi) as a result.

It really bugs me when pundits/anchors/analysts/interviewees talk about the horror that is the Trump administration and all that he has announced he would do and already doing--and start smiling and laughing--as though it were not real. How dare they take all this so damned lightly? It is as though (and this is a woman thing I hate to admit) they are so desperate to be "liked" by both audience and administration alike, that they behave this way. Unbelievably angering.

[Chipper Chat]

3. Rejects:

Phil Donahue
David Schuster
Keith olberman
Joy Reid
Medhi Hassan
Katie phang
And the list goes on

[hlthe2b]

4. Really? I don't/did not dislike any of those listed.

I am talking about the recent "replacements" only on the weekend--who may be fine for many, but nearly all of them "hit me" the wrong way, whether constantly spewing "the beltway truisms" no matter how well debunked, some who refuse to learn how to pronounce anything--including US names and places, much less foreign, or smile, laugh, chuckle in some obsessive need to appear "pleasant," immediately after referencing some of Trump/MAGA's most horrific announcements/actions.

I agree that Michael Steele, even somewhat unleashed (weekdays only now) is refreshing compared to the newbies. He may be a former R, but he has fully absorbed what has happened to his old party and is not having it just as Nicole Wallace has done.

Of course, if the worst-case scenario for MSNBC comes to pass with its spin-off from NBC and Comcast, there may be nothing and no one left to critique, so I do acknowledge my words to be an irrelevancy soon.

[Chipper Chat]

5. I meant NBC deep-sixed them .

I loved all of them.

[hlthe2b]

6. Yup... Our loss, for sure...

[malaise]

7. The Slobfather

and it is not funny