No, your remote is not broken.

[madamesilverspurs]

[Shandris]

1. On principle I maintain that if you HAVE a remote...

...it's broken by definition, but I guess some people do still watch cable.

(Funny pic, and seems to be true from everything I've heard (sadly (don't you love nested parentheses?!?)))

[Jamastiene]

2. Well, I know that now.

It had been so long since I had watched TV that the batteries had died.

[Mass]

3. Sigh. I wished it was broken. This would explain why this clown is on my TV screen.

Frankly, if they gave the rest of the field 1/10th of the attention they give him, may be the polls would tell us something different (not that I like any of the GOP field, but some of them are more frightening than others).

When does somebody start calling out the media for their in kind contribution to the Trump campaign?

[Fred Sanders]

4. Corporate media are as much the fools as the fool they are pumping up for a summer fling.

If you gave my pet gerbil the attention the media is giving this fool, little Mr. Mango would also have 25% of the GOP vote!

Mr. Mango also has an immigration plan he deposited on old newspaper.

[herding cats]

5. madamesilverspurs, I do enjoy you.

Well done! Once again.

[RufusTFirefly]

6. Honestly, if this stuff drives you nuts, you have only yourself to blame

[madamesilverspurs]

7. What drives me nuts

is the broad abdication of responsibility on the part of those gifted with the means and opportunity to be purveyors of meaningful information.

[RufusTFirefly]

8. Alas, this is the problem with the corporate media

Their responsibility isn't to provide meaningful information.
It's to make a profit.

It's disturbingly simple: They will only provide "meaningful information" on their own terms and when they deem it profitable to do so.

Rather than beating your head against the wall, look to media sources that are truly viewer or listener supported.
And no, that definitely doesn't include PBS or NPR, which are beholden to "corporate underwriting" -- otherwise known as ads.

To keep tuning in with the expectation that things will change comes perilously close to the popular definition of insanity.

[YOHABLO]

12. Entertainment = Profit & Trump is 'entertaining'

[RufusTFirefly]

16. Exactly right. n/t

[valerief]

9. The remote isn't. The government is. nt

[secondwind]

10. We cut the cord today!!! no more Comcast

[RufusTFirefly]

11. Congratulations! You'll do fine!

You're likely to be less stressed, better informed, and yet you'll find you have extra time.

[litlbilly]

14. I did the same thing 6 months ago, couldnt be happier. A laptop and a 50" hd tv, is great

[Stardust]

15. I cut the cord today, too (AT&T Uverse). I feel like I'm going through a painful divorce.

But the trajectory MSNBC was taking and wall to wall Trump made the separation easier.

[appalachiablue]

13. K & R. Great one. TRUMPENSTEIN is Unstoppable! MSNBC is going down fast.

[Bluenorthwest]

17. If you have cable you should not be watching that commentary crap...watch this:

'Show Me a Hero' on HBO. It's written by David Simon of 'The Wire' and directed by Paul Haggis of 'Crash' and it's about the fight to build public housing in white neighborhoods of Yonkers NY in 1987. It's pretty good stuff. But DU sez TV is bad, bad, bad because DU seems to only watch commentary shows it calls 'the news'.

[Eleanors38]

18. When there is no opposition anywhere you can expect the RW to

Whip off, like monkeys at the San Antonio Zoo. It's sport to them, and Trump is the Jon Stewart of the Far Right.

Makes you long for vast quantities of Kim Kardashian's butt.

[olddots]

19. it's so bad he is even on the classical music station

they played Hair On The G String this morning .=2bad jokes in one