with the lamest of talking points. It was truly was a waste of time.

The whole neighborhood could hear me. Now I read it. Like here. Still intrepid souls willing to be the intermediaries to help digest the news and pass it on to us. I’ll take it. My sanity is at stake.

an MSNBC anchor, because of his interview of Steve Bannon.

Can action of this kind become contagious? I rather like it. Can you imagine that ordinary, non-media types have an alternate perspective that's ahead of the smart people in the media? It's great news that those who are growing tired of anything connected to Trumpy are voting with their eyeballs.

Now, let's all vote with our ballots.

Just muted the sound.....I love Ari's panel responses to the interview...great stuff on MNBC this evening

I think he must have been on amphetamines of some sort as fast as he was talking and spewing his evil gibberish. All I wanted to do was

need to know that their regular viewers are not hanging around for this unpleasant stuff.

If his policies have to be discussed by third parties, I can get enough of what's happening governmentally and politically to keep informed.
But seeing and hearing that personage (45) is tawdry and not something I want in my presence.

I feel pretty much the same for Sarah Sanders. - Who needs that in their life?
Not me.

Can't stand to hear his voice for one second.

Ugh.

It is not healthy for either of you to ingest more than a few minutes of any of the 24/7 Breathless, Breaking News, (with just a bit of something that sometimes resembles news between a steady stream of ads for drugs we never knew we needed) Infotainment Stations.

My advice is to turn them all off.

She likes for me to change to channel when ever trump is on.

Thanks don.

... Turn Off the “News” and Social Media Now

http://washingtonsblog.com/2018/08/if-you-want-to-survive-this-election-with-your-mental-health-intact-turn-off-the-news-and-social-media-now.html

Since elections are extremely profitable for traditional media / social media corporations, your sanity will gleefully be sacrificed in the upcoming election – if you are gullible enough to watch the “news” and tune into social media. Elections are extremely profitable because candidates spend scads of cash on media adverts.

The greater the discord and derangement, the higher the media profits. The more outraged you let yourself become, the more time you spend online, generating insane profits for the corporations that own whatever platforms you’re addicted to.

Seeking an echo chamber of people who agree with you? We got you covered. Attracted like a junkie to emotionally corrosive “news”? That’s our specialty! Want an outlet for your spleen? That’s what we offer, because “we connect people” (haha).

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Propaganda doesn’t have to change your mind to be effective– all it has to do is disable your critical thinking by blinding you with rage, misdirecting your attention, generating an “Other” that acts as a target for projected frustration, creating either-or thinking, splinter the working / middle classes into divisive “tribes” supported by echo-chamber social media and addict you to constant drips of carefully tailored emotional derangement.