Morning Joe

Morning Joe is one of those podcasts that manages to be both entertaining and genuinely informative. The personalities are funny, engaging, and often make me laugh, but what I really appreciate is that underneath the banter, there’s real journalism happening. They bring you the facts, ask the tough questions, and don’t sugarcoat what’s going on. I enjoy getting the news while also feeling like I’m hanging out with people who have personalities and aren’t afraid to have a conversation. Informative, entertaining, and worth listening to every morning!

I love MJ, always have. The free associating monologues, tongue in cheek humor, references to the founding fathers and to the latest sports scores. This is such a fantastic and thoughtful Podcast and show. All that said, I notice an irritating tendency in Mika to speak in a lecturing/scolding tone. I’m a couple years older than Mika and I like and respect her, but she overdid the pathos on abortion, and she cuts off or talks over Joe too much. Let Joe talk! He is smart and leads the listener to his points. It doesn’t help when Mika sighs or cuts him off. Seriously please let Joe talk!!

I watch your show everyday. Countless times I’ve heard you ask: Why do Republicans lie for Trump? Why don’t they speak the truth about the 2020 election and Jan 6? Why did they allow their party to be hijacked by Trump? Why are Republicans risking our country becoming an autocracy and the possibility that this might be the last meaningful election we have? Minority rule. That is and has been the overriding mission for Republicans. Those Republicans who surprise and disappoint you with their recent behavior towards Trump’s MAGA party are likely embarrassed about the way in which they are getting the minority rule they so covet. That should tell you just how badly they want to impose their unpopular policies on the rest of us. I am 72 years old and have been observing the Republican Party for a very long time. For decades Republicans have been doing everything they could think of to achieve and perpetuate control of our country. They know they do not represent the interests of the majority of Americans. That leaves them only with the option of doing everything possible to achieve minority rule. They have been doing that by curtailing the voting rights of the majority and promoting false populist issues like immigration and abortion. I implore you to start using the term “minority rule” instead of authoritarianism or autocracy. Authoritarianism and autocracy are vague terms to the majority of voters. I hate to say it but it is going over the heads of MAGA voters and voters who do not appear to understand the stakes of this election, such as young voters. MAGA voters believe they want Trump to have the power to do the things they want the government to do (or not do). It seems not to occur to them that, if elected, Trump could then do none of the things they want and many things they don’t want. Please talk more about that. Please lead Democrats to talk about Trump and Republicans in that manner. Don’t rely on voters to read books about how awful autocracy is. And, most importantly, don’t expect Republicans in power to be swayed by those ideas. In all likelihood, they believe they can achieve minority rule without all-out authoritarianism. They are whistling past the graveyard of democracy. Minority rule is an easy concept to communicate and to understand and it has the added bonus of encompassing all Republicans and the Supreme Court, not just the presidency.

Daily listener here but really wish the folks on this show could occasionally acknowledge that women play college and professional sports too. Caitlin Clark has broken nearly every record in college basketball but no mention of her or the women’s NCAA tournament going on. Yet lots of talk about the men’s NCAA tournament. Talk about both men’s and women’s sports please.

I have watched and listened to Morning Joe for years. I didn’t agree with some of the views, but appreciated hearing other viewpoints and greatly loved the guests, especially John Heilmann, Jon Meacham, Eugene Robinson, Sam Stein, Katty Kay… but I unfollowed today. I cannot understand why Joe and Mika would go to Mar-a-Lago and kiss the ring of Donald Trump. We will need a resistance to him and his insane cadre of disgusting cabinet choices, not a capitulation by the press. Trump should never be normalized. Done.

I relied on this for morning news and commentary for years. Now the show doesn’t update quickly enough or consistently enough to be relevant to my morning routine. Very disappointing. Please get whoever used to do this back.