My mother in law is completely addicted to MSNBC, and since she retired a few years ago she's watching that shit like 10 hours a day. She gets hyped as hell about all these motions and it's straight up the only thing she's able to talk about at all anymore. My partner and I have tried to get her active in literally anything so she doesn't just watch TV all day but nothing sticks. Like we spent a ton of money to have her antique family piano repaired (she was always talking about how she'd love to play again but just can't find a good piano tech) and I'm not sure that she's ever touched it. Now she wants to learn guitar. Recently she told us that she is getting out of the house more though! ..... because she signed up for free adult university classes. Political science of course. She's more obnoxious than she's ever been about politics.

I have a dying relative who blocked all mention of Israel and Palestine on Twitter because they don't want to be depressed in their final months, but they still have MSNBC on all day and are hypervigilant about whatever it is Trump is up to.

every single show on MSNBC might as well be called the "Trump hour" because it's 80% of what they talk about

And it's going to be so fucking funny when he gets a slap on the wrist or pardons himself when the USA goes mental over trying people for "treason" and upholding the constitution or w/e but the president can just sic his goons on Mike Pence and it goes to court instead of a firing squad lmao

It is literally dumbfounding they have been able to tell liberals "this breaking news will lead to Trump being in prison" for 8 years now and literally none of them have caught on.

I listen to it for a little while every day just to stay familiar with the broad topics.

Today it's been about how it's not a big deal biden didn't know one of his high ranking foreign policy advisors (like cabinet secretary level) was in the hospital unresponsive getting treated for pancreatic cancer for two full days.

Which I mean I agree with but their argument wasn't exactly "the president is just a geriatric corpse used to lend legitimacy to the legislation oligarchs crank out so who cares if he knows what day it is"

Melted my mom’s brain

My dad still watching trump like he's gonna do something subtle. Like dude, Biden is in office fucking people up. Trump isn't the president anymore and giving him attention isn't going to make him go away. It's been eight years now, Jesus Christ

They have it on at the place I pick up burritos from sometimes and it just sends my senses into overdrive, shit's exhausting

When 2016 first happened my parents were glued to CNN uninterrupted while I was at college. When I came back my hard-working father had a budding respect for that fool Michael Smerconish and tried sending some tweets at Chris Cuomo in Italian. Those two fail sons never deserved my father's consideration considering they've done nothing but fail upward while he's had to grind himself down just to stay where he's at. They're just mouthpieces for the powerful, after all.

On one hand I get it

BUT ON THE OTHER HAND BREAKING NEWS THE WALLS ARE CLOSING IN

Eh, YouTube reactionaries and certain "leftists" on YouTube melt your brain too

the thing i find the most amusing is that right after Trump won, the #StillWithHer crowd were talking about how the media gave Trump so much free coverage and that's why #She lost. and here we are 4 years later with the media.... still giving Trump a bunch of free coverage, and they are absolutely ravenous for more.

It is a very small consolation to me that my extremely lib pilled parents are actually burning out on all the msnbc trump coverage. They still watch some of it. They're still lib pilled. But their brains haven't been completely melted. They still think biden is "at his heart a good man" while having the smallest fledgling criticisms of some of his administration. When the Gaza siege started popping off my dad, unprompted, said "Bibi needs to go" and "two state solution" so I'll take it.