Thanks for the talk, I think my blood pressure has had about all it can handle of this story.

Again, even if that is true, the systemic aspect is that the news cycle must change every X days to avoid losing viewership. That doesn't answer the question of why this preposterous story (that if anything, actually helps Trump!) was deemed big enough to hype and totally hijack a news cycle that was shifting…

Good for them, but all of them should be since it's an issue that could actually really fuck things up for the GOP in the midterms.

Even taking all of that as true at face value, it doesn't mandate covering this extremely bad story at that extremely crucial time. If you have to, talk about what a gigantic, obscene racist Steve King is. Dig up some more shit that moron said. Talk about how Jeff Sessions wants to bring the Bush-era drug war…

Conservatives only care because the liberals fucked up gave conservatives the opening to divert attention from the AHCA's "Heaps of Moldering Bodies" score from the CBO.

I understand that, but it doesn't explain why this story and why then. The news cycle was following a series of stories about an actually important issue and this was a complete left turn motivated solely by one side's interest in some trivia that they hoped would get Trump deposed.

Who except liberals cares about Trump's tax returns? Seriously, the generalization is completely accurate.

Oh my god, this both-sides-ism is the absolute worst. Conservatives were losing the news cycle, dude—of course they latched onto this. They would not have had anything to latch on to if not for Maddow's gigantic, unforced fuck-up.

Dude, what is the media coverage about? It's about Russian spies and this fucking tax return. Yesterday is was about healthcare, which is an issue that has serious importance in people's lives and actually really hurts Republicans. I have no idea why that is so hard to comprehend.

I'm talking about this particular case, which is liberals shooting themselves in the foot while they were winning on healthcare by following a tangent that appeals to their desperation to find some kind of impeachable evidence against Trump.

Right. Mea culpa.

That's not a strawman since I think it's pretty uncontroversial that Maddow and most of her audience are liberals. And here all the liberals are, talking about this shitty segment when yesterday this time we were talking about how bad the Republicans were fucking up their response to the CBO scoring of their garbage…

Right, and the liberals gave conservatives fodder for their own stories about how shitty the liberal media is. This was not only a giant journalistic flub, it was a serious strategic error.

The news cycle is now all about this one fucking tax return so yeah, it would seem that way.

I'm suggesting liberals are obsessing over bullshit like old tax returns and "Russian connections" instead of hammering Republicans on their immensely unpopular healthcare policy—which is actually hurting them with people who voted for Trump—and advancing a plan for universal healthcare.

Hot take: if liberals had their goddamn priorities straight and cared as much about stuff that actually matters (especially healthcare) instead of a 12 year old tax return that was probably leaked by Trump himself, this wouldn't have been such a colossal failure.

He looks like a dimwitted aristocrat from a Monty Python sketch.

This is almost as good as Spencer's little Nazi cosplay organization losing tax-exempt status.

It was awesome how quickly this whole story went from "lol, that's adorable" to "this man is a misogynist" to "OMG someone check on this monster's family and make sure they're safe." Now it's looped back around to adorable, so I guess here we have definitive proof that the internet is a flat circle.

What honestly makes me laugh are vaporizers with smartphone apps that are obviously not going to be especially secure. But hey, what if one day your vaporizer wants to share information with your fridge so you know you're out of ice cream before the couch lock hits, right? Totally worth the potential for disaster,…