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I have been reading the comments sections on articles about Joe and Mika's abdication of sanity. My favorite was some guy who was watching at 6 am Monday morning when they announced the Mar-A-Lago pilgrimage. He said after seeing that he burned his Morning Joe fleece in a firepit outside. When you lose the merch-buyers, you're in trouble.

I don't even use social media! Just yesterday I was bemoaning that the fireworks were happening on Twitter and I can't see it. Scarborough is saying in effect-- and in this he is consistent (except of course when social media praises him) -- that opinions on social media, and the people from which they flow, are beneath contempt. He is very Barbara Bush on this point: he will not waste his beautiful mind thinking about social media. Now, back to reality. What are the odds Joe's band will be playing Mar-A-Lago on New Year's Eve? I'm like that with most everybody on TV. (Not Molly Jong-Fast)

Listen up, Morning Jokers! Apparently WE are the problem. We, the Backlash! A certain wing of the media (hint: not left) is tripping over itself to defend Joe and Mika bowing down before the one they serve (hope they're gonna get what they deserve!) In the process, they are accusing the naysayers, the backlashers -- that's us, friends and neighbors -- as the reason why our country is fractured right now. You have to go along to get along, don't we know that? Joe and Mika have SEEN THE LIGHT (from a nearby tiki torch, no doubt). Why can't their audience? It's gaslighting on a major scale, with Scarborough himself asserting there is a YOOGE DISCONNECT between social media and reality. It's not us, it's you. Nathan Thurm would be proud. I didn't watch the show today. All I had to do was read about it.

I just wish it wasn't all happening on Twitter. Never been a part of that, never will.

deck chairs meet titanic Joe is trying to save black women from having to vote in the rain ever again.

can you please provide a link to the MSNBC comments?

Right wing radio and God-rock stations have been proliferating in my vicinity over the past couple years. Most annoying is the fact that the right wing stations (which used to be confined to AM) have made the leap to FM; in fact, this year one media company killed the rock format FM station I have been listening to for 35 years and replaced it with right-wing talk radio. All this to explain that I was just running errands and flipping between rock stations on the FM band when I heard Mika's voice pouring out of my speakers. Turns out my tuner had landed on one of those right wing stations and the hosts were discussing the Scarboroughs' appeasement. I didn't listen long, just enough to hear one host say: Joe Scarborough is the poster child for the towel boy who thinks he's the star quarterback. The guy imagines he's a mover and shaker. He's not. He's a useful idiot for the Democrats and nothing more. And I thought, He's not even that now.

Remember that scene in Braveheart where Wallace gets knocked off his horse by the black knight ... then when the knight moves in for the kill Wallace pulls the knight's helmet off and discovers it's really his comrade-in-arms Robert The Bruce?

I guess I'm not very demanding. I thought it was okay. Sorry to see Anna die. She classed the place up. I can't imagine what they'll find in England. Could it be ... oh, I don't know ... a seemingly idyllic community run by a fascistic paramilitary organization whose leader is a bullet short of a clip? Just guessing.

Olivia was the batshit party in that situation. I will never be able to figure that one out.

Batman can't be everywhere at once -- he says as much in the first minutes of The Batman. However, he also says the criminal element of Gotham City is on edge because they never know where he'll turn up. So even if (unbelievably) Batman was able to overlook a giant explosion in Crown Point, or the gassing of the Falcone clan, it absolutely beggars belief that the Penguin, his cronies and every other criminal in the show would never worry about him or even mention him.

No pun intended, but you captured it perfectly! Yes, desperation in real time. Sir, just a note to thank you for placing your balls in Mika's purse for safekeeping. They would have only caused you great frustration over the next several years. On the bright side, sir, you can safely use less product in your hair now, as the risk of mussing your pompadour will decrease commensurately with the decline of your self-righteousness.

I admit it, I looked in because I thought "Matt Gaetz as attorney general??? Oh, this should be good. I just have to watch this morning, if only for a few minutes ..." It was like the two of them have been transformed into Stepford Wives. Without the least bit of irony, they boasted about all the cards and letters they have received from Trump supporters thanking them -- thanking them! -- for their (dare we say it?) fair and balanced reporting on the election. Mika proceeded in careful monotone to pledge that they will remain impartial as the new administration comes to power and of course, of course they welcome members of the new administration to come on the show and discuss important matters like how to make that big faucet in the mountains easier to turn (okay, okay, so they didn't mention the faucet). Astounding. Just fucking astounding. It's as if they concluded that the 50% of viewers who have abandoned MSNBC must be those with good judgment and a strong instinct for self-preservation, and those who are left are amnesiac schlubs won't hold it against them if they just start pretending like the past ten years never happened. It was exactly the closure I needed.

I misread that. I think it's called a "pivot."

Less than impressed by this series. I simply couldn't suspend disbelief to accept that a) Batman wouldn't have gotten involved at some point, or b) that Penguin expressed not even the teensiest concern about the Bat vigilante emerging from the shadows at any one of numerous points in these episodes -- especially given the very dramatic encounter he had with Batman not so long ago. Not even a passing reference to Batman. Not by Penguin and not by any of the forty or so other mobsters we saw despite that Batman had already established a significant reputation among the Gotham criminal element. To the annoyance of my watching partner, I kept yelling at the TV "Where's Batman in all of this?" So all that, and the feeling at times that I was watching an off-brand Sopranos.