Posted on 05/22/2018 6:06:49 AM PDT by Magnatron
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. — Bertrand Russell
Belonging is a drug and we are all addicted to it. When a “like” validates our social worth, or we ignore work to respond to our most recent email, we confirm our identity in a tribe. Our brains reward the recognition with a dopamine rush.
For years, I started my day with a dopamine hit at six a.m. from Morning Joe.
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It was great television. At its best, TV is an ensemble medium, an instrument of belonging. Whether we watch a local TV news program, sit-com, or talk-show, we tune in to become part of a TV family that reflects our own.
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The conflict between mom and dad is gone. The relationship that once ignited sparks has been dimmed and homogenized. Every cast member reads the same script, disowning differences and drama. Morning Joe has become a sea of sameness. The performers play indistinguishable parts, predictable bobble-head dolls that hate Donald John Trump.
Every morning, Joe trods the same path: “Can you believe what Trump has done? He does not respect the institutions that we, the establishment, have been running. He does not understand the principles that we, the establishment, have been upholding. He is disrupting the status quo that validates our superiority. When will Republicans in the Senate say “enough” and stand up to Donald Trump? And when will someone pass the Grey Poupon?”
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The show’s monotone political chanting makes for incredibly dull television. From six to nine a.m., Morning Joe is where Washington goes to learn it need not change at all.
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He went up against Bill Clinton. They impeached Bill. The Clintons turned the screws on those folks afterward and picked them off one by one via various temptations.
Thanks.
LOL, yes explain the dial to millennials.
Millennials don’t know what VHF and UHF are all about. They also don’t know about VHS and Beta, since they have lived their whole lives in the DVD era.
Morning Joe and his smiling sycophants - as boring as watching a stain set in at a backyard barbecue...
(Snicker, Snicker!)
Kids of Millenials won’t even know what a DVD is.
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Was always dead to me. No loss.
Please don’t listen to the average person. They don’t know anything. Joe is a world class a—hole. FReepers can back me up.
He ran once and had a term as a dingbat GOP office holder. Then the wind changed. He had a chance to get past Mika’s chaperons and court her as a factor in mate selecction,if he would betray everything. He said Yeah.
Instant anti-Trumper like Mika.
LOL. Some millennials I know, never have listened to AM radio, and are barely aware of AM and FM radio.
Off topic, but terrestrial radio as we know it is going to change. Young people go online for music, and sites such as Pandora and Spotify become their favorite listening. They won’t have a favorite radio station in the manner we oldsters did.
“Change the Channel” if You Don’t Like our One-Note Trump Hatred
Someone lied to you.
I was unaware that it was ever alive to be officially declared dead. Shows how little I know. 8>)
Good to know.
Joe was a conservative at one time. I remember seeing him at some conferences and I only go to conferences if they are truly conservative.
Don’t know what happened to him.
I watched a few minutes this morning. They were not discussing the spy scandal. They were bemoaning how Trump does not care that Russia is ruining our elections. Seriously.
“That butthead quit congress to ‘spend more time with the family’. Announced it in June and made it effective September when kids go to school. He could of spent the whole summer ‘with his family’ but didn’t. A two faces ‘conservative’.”
But now he’s divorced that wife and is banging his co-host!
“Millennials don’t know what VHF and UHF are all about”
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So what? There are people that don’t know what a TV antenna is, a mimeograph,or a crystal set.
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