MSNBC's coverage just helps Trump

[SamuelTheThird]

Has some talking head saying the troop deployment was 'non-controversial'

The fuck it is.

The herd instinct (like in the Kirk shooting) kicks in, including on this forum.

Normalizing troops on streets is incipient fascism, using them as bait is Trump's hope.

[oldinmtdem92]

1. i agree

when is it enough ,soon the people will revolt ,i just hope trump gets the Mussolini treatment.

[Melon]

2. Walking up and shooting a guardsman. Walking up and shooting a cop

Is an unbelievably cowardly and unjustified action for whatever reasons this guy uses to justify it. He’s a coward and should have been shot down on the spot. It doesn’t need to help Trump, although it does little to dissuade people that Washington was a safe city.

[SamuelTheThird]

3. Irrelevant to what I typed

I know it feels good to make obvious moral pronouncements, but you did not grapple one little bit with anything I said.

[PatSeg]

20. We can discuss current events and give opinions without

being snarky. That rarely goes over well on DU.

[Samael13]

4. The shooting is news they're reporting news

Sometimes you dont have to think through a political lense

[SamuelTheThird]

6. Saying the guard deployment is 'non contraversial' is not news

And it's on its face inaccurate, considering the legal case

Let's all try and read what I actually type, mmmkay?

[AZJonnie]

8. I get your point here but the last line is a bit uncalled for IMHO

If I had a nickel for every time over the years ...

[SamuelTheThird]

9. Alright , sorry

[erronis]

11. Thank you for asking people to understand what you said in your OP

I know I also go on tangents and hang my issue-du-jour on an existing post. You raised a valid point.

[paleotn]

15. Horse shit. Did you not even read the OP?

[dem4decades]

5. Don't watch the news, it's structured to piss you off.

[SamuelTheThird]

7. You're probably right

But I do want to see how things are presented to the public

[Celerity]

10. MSNBC no longer exists, it is MS NOW

[Mblaze]

12. Since a federal troop deployment in American cities

Ignores the Posse Comitatus Act, it's not only controversial, but it is illegal and unconstitutional.

[Martin68]

13. Only a MAGAt would call troop deployment in our cities "non-controversial."

[Iwasthere]

14. Anyone claiming troop deployment in major cities is non controversial should be met with

.. a powerful rebuttal. It should NOT be allowed to stand. These deployments are illegal imo.

[Attilatheblond]

19. Didn't a judge agree and recently order the administration to remove the National Guard from D.C.?

Did we start the timer to see how soon some lawyers for the families of the fallen are in court suing Trump, Miller, and Cos Play Kristi Noem?

[somsai]

16. msnbc is widely considered to be the liberal or progressive news network

[quakerboy]

18. considered by whom?

Its as close to left leaning as we currently have, which means its actually mostly center, with nods to center left. Owned by people who are either agnostic or on the right.

[quakerboy]

17. ownership matters

They do as they are paid to do.

[ms liberty]

21. Which talking head? What comment were they responding to? Do you have an exact quote, or a transcript of the convo?

Seriously, give us a link or a clip. We need more than criticism of a vaguely paraphrased comment by person not named on a show not identified at some undetermined time of day. Why? Because context and comprehension matter and way too many people misunderstand or mishear shit all too much.

And while the fluff puppets on teevee all have something to say, just because they say their piece on an MS Now show doesn't make it MS Now's position nor is that person's viewpoint held by every guest, contributor or show host - and probably was not on that same show.. MS Now's line up has always had a range of view points.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

22. Thank you. You took my mouth

right out of your words.

"Which talking head? What comment were they responding to? Do you have an exact quote, or a transcript of the convo?"

[Emile]

23. When are the talking heads going to point at Trump

for no good reasons for making the National Guard targets.