I'm Taking A Time Out From MSNBC Since Nov. 6th......

[global1]

Why? I guess it's because I feel let down by it. They didn't prepare me for the outcome we wound up with.

When I tuned in on the 5th there was a sense of giggyness. Like it was almost a sure thing that Harris would win and she bring along taking back the House and expand our seats in the Senate.

From the time Harris was made the nominee that's the impression I got from MSNBC. I was breathing easy knowing that the Tr**p nightmare would be over.

After we lost I felt demoralized and let down.

We were that close!!! Like the Chicago Bears in the last seconds of today's game.

I'll probably go back to watching MSNBC but for now and at least for a little while I'll be watching Hallmark movies. At least I can be sure of their outcomes.

[Deuxcents]

1. I'm only watching Nicole and Lawrence O

90 million people did not vote, or so they’re telling us. Hurricanes and the disasters in NC and Tennessee didn’t help. I think a lot of people got caught up in the enthusiasm and figured it was a done deal for Harris/Walz and didn’t even bother to vote. Jmo

[leftieNanner]

2. For my own mental health

I have been avoiding almost all news sources. They talk about TFG 24/7, as they have been since 2015.

I can't handle it anymore.

[LSparkle]

4. I'm with you

I’ve tried turning it on a couple of times since the election but I can only take about 10 minutes and I have to turn it off — maybe even less time than that if they show shots of XC. I get a physical repulsion and can’t take it.

[onecaliberal]

3. I'm not supporting the corporate. They're all owned. All of them.

[Hekate]

5. Nicolle & Rachel are plenty for me. Intelligent women with really good guests. The other day ...

…Michael Steel was on preaching such an outraged sermon about concentration camps and the rest: “Don’t act surprised: you voted for that! “

Claire McCaskill likening our depression and grief to a “warm coat” we could wrap around ourselves and stay comfortable in — but we have to get up, get out, resist…

Yeah, I needed to hear that

[Thunderbeast]

6. Nobody in my family has watched the teevee news since election day.

Most of us were MSNBC junkies until November 5.

I don't blame the network. They continuously told us that this was a toss up race.... We have been selective in what we wanted to hear.

Our level of outrage toward the media is misplaced.

Those of us with educations and comfortable coastal lifestyles underestimate the underlying resentments that dwell in middle America. They just don't trust us. They don't believe that unions are the key to prosperity; Unions are just another bunch of cronies that want a piece of their paycheck. They have lost sympathy with addicts and the poor, believing that they, themselves, have comfortable lifestyles due to their own hard work and cleverness. In their view, poverty and addiction signs of moral failings.

Those of us in the liberal bubble don't get that. It is not the ignorant clowns in the MAGA hats interviewd by Jordan Klepper that elected Trump. It is the disenchanted folks carrying resentments from the sixties that feel left behind, and Trump provided the scapegoats necessary to Channel their resentments.

[Ms. Toad]

8. A lot of us still don't get it.

Just read the threads here.

I think the media was giddy when Kamala entered the picture because it suddenly seemed a Trump presidency was not inevitable. But anyone paying attention knew it was never a slam dunk.

Blaming the media because of our own confirmation bias is silly.

I turned off NPR for a while after the election -not because I blamed them for misleading me, but because I couldn't stand to listen to the Trump chatter they had a journalistic obligation to present.

[malaise]

7. I turned them on this morning around mid day and had to turn it off

I’m enjoying the break