political partisan sh!t show constantly shouting at me trying to convince me of whatever they think I should be thinking.
My spouse put on Rachel Maddow again because there was absolutely nothing on satellite as usual. She has become so shrill over time. I remember when she was laid back when her show was first on the air. Now, the tension is hard to take.
But at least she's more truth-oriented than Hannity, even though she likes to leave out context that helps to establish the bigger picture (generally how the Dems are just as corrupt as the Republicans). Today's example is how she showed that Trump lied to the public about the Russian hacking report (what a shock) and how Putin torpedoed Hillary because he blamed her for protests against his phony election back in 2011. But what she didn't mention is:
a) The Dems' corruption didn't sit well with the public. If there hadn't been corruption to expose then the hack would have been less successful.
b) The Dems have thrown unions and blue collar workers under the bus for a long time now. Obama and his people literally mocked unions for funding a pro-union candidate instead of the anti-union corporatist candidate favored by the Washington Democratic establishment. Throwing these voters under the bus enabled Trump to get them.
c) The Dems' force-feeding of Hillary Clinton as the nominee, without even tossing blue collar voters a scrap by having her pick a populist veep, didn't sit well.
d) If Obama hadn't made a deal with the health industry to give them everything they want (the "mandate") then the GOP wouldn't be able to use "Obamacare" as a propaganda tool to get voter support. In reality, the GOP worked in cahoots with the Dems to get the mandate without the public option and the Dems played their role in the charade. Maddow, though, doesn't talk about that. Similarly, did she mention the Harvard/Northwestern study that found that Congress completely totally utterly ignores 90% of the American public?