Hey folks, some people don't watch MSNBC 24 hrs a day

[CajunBlazer]

And, while I know it is hard to believe, some don't watch it at all. So when you are posting about something that just happened on that network, please include some substance.

Writing something like, "Rachel sure blew it open tonight" is not descriptive. Heck, there was more discussion of what degree she received and what university she received it from than factual information about what she revealed.

[still_one]

1. I am one that don't watch it at all, so yes, context is a good thing

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. I've not watched TV in 8 years, so I've learned to ignore the content-less teevee threads here.

[Warpy]

10. It's hard to tell which ones have absolutely no content until you click on them

That and all the fucking Twitter threads are making DU suck.

[TransitJohn]

11. +1

Agreed.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. What's a TV?

[hvn_nbr_2]

3. K&R, but frankly you're wasting your breath

The people who do that are never gonna change. For that mentality, POW ZAP BAM is much more satisfying than saying something meaningful or communicating information.

[BainsBane]

4. She showed how our new sec of Commerce

Is tied to money laundering for Russian oligarchs. She also pointed to a real estate deal in FL, in the midst of a bad real estate market, that netted Trump $60 million from a Russian oligarch. The deal saved Trump from a really bad financial situation at the time.

The implication was this may be the financial transaction linking Trump to Russia, possibly explaining how he came to be a shill for Putin.

[m-lekktor]

5. I haven't watched MSNBC since i got rid of my tv around beginning of Obama's first term! lol nt

[LovingA2andMI]

6. Don't Watch MSNBC....

Or Rachel......

[Amaryllis]

7. Thank you! I was thinking the same thing. CAncelled TV years ago. But if there is something

of interest posted, I will go check out the video of RAchel when it's posted, and would greatly appreciate more context and content to know if it's worth my time to look it up later.

[Gabi Hayes]

8. here:

Wilbur Ross Comes to D.C. With an Unexamined History of Russian Connections
Trump’s Choice for Commerce Secretary Holds a Top Post With a Mysterious, Russian-Controlled Cyprus Bank

By James S. Henry

...........Ross’ involvement in the Bank of Cyprus raises many questions about his judgment, but also about the Trump Administration’s seemingly endless direct and indirect connections with friends and associates of Vladimir Putin, who all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies say conspired to interfere in the November 2016 U.S. election on behalf of Donald Trump.

Whether or not these connections involve any criminality, these are the kind of relationships that most American business people would not tolerate for 30 seconds.

After all, as discussed below, since the 1990s Cyprus has served as one the top three offshore destinations for Russian and former Soviet Union flight capital, most of it motivated by tax dodging, kleptocracy, and money laundering.[4] As of 2013, just before the banking crisis, Russian deposits accounted for at least a third of all bank deposits in Cyprus. [5] As one leading newspaper put it, “Russian money is in fact at the heart of the island’s economy.”[6]

The Bank of Cyprus caters to the island nation’s large Russian population.

Nor is Ross’ Bank of Cyprus in particular – now probably at least half owned by Russians, as we‘ll see [7]—any stranger to money laundering,[8] tax dodging, or odious finance. With a market share of 30 percent, Bank of Cyprus has long been the market leader in Cypriot financial chicanery:[9]

https://www.dcreport.org/wilbur-ross-comes-to-d-c-with-a-long-and-profitable-history-of-russian-connections/?preview_id=944

just a snip of this detailed analysis of the trump/ross/russia connection

can you say Deutsche Bank? sure....I knew that you could

[Gore1FL]

9. Thanks. So may of DU headlines are click bait without substance.

I'd prefer substance over click bait, bit substance within the click bait is, at least, a pleasant surprise.

[CousinIT]

12. Video:

[msongs]

13. substance? "lnk to twitter" is about all the substance many people here can handle lol nt

[BigBearJohn]

14. Personally, I appreciate the fact that someone finds some important news and brings it

to my attention -- even if it is so-called "click bait"...I don't subscribe to MSNBC either. However, when someone tells me that Rachel just knocked it outta the park, I can usually find it on YouTube. i guess some people just want their news tied together in a cute little box tied together with a pretty ribbon.

Again, I am just happy someone took the time and energy to put up a road sign pointing out a tasty diner.

[ToxMarz]

15. You could just ignore it. MSNBC is not the enemy,

watch it or don't with the same careful consideration you should give ALL media. I'm sure there numerous issues and sources that interest you that others also have no knowledge or interest in, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be presented. There is no shortage of things we can learn.

[Cha]

16. Plus that way they get more people joining in the discussion

which is desirable, no doubt. Instead of asking .. "What?"

Mahalo, Cajun

[RandiFan1290]

17. Couldn't you just open that thread

and whine about it there?

[Amimnoch]

18. While MSNBC is only a small part of my own news information,

and I agree that there's many posts that tend to leave out rather important information that would make the message complete, do you realize you kind of just did exactly what you are having issue with?

As a third party to this discussion, I have no idea what thread you are referencing, since you did an OP without any link.

Great idea, but could use some more information as well.