Morning Joe and Mika Brzezinski disgrace their entire profession

and so does Dana Bash

have I mentioned lately that Morning Joe and Indeterminate Time Of Day Mika can fuck all the way off?

the co-hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Pantload Show debased themselves last Friday by heading down to Donny’s vermin-infested Florida golf motel and groveling at Dear Leader’s feet.

Mika Brzezinski: “Joe and I went to Mar-a-Lago to meet personally with president-elect Trump. it was the first time we have seen him in seven years.”

Joe Scarborough: “we talked about a lot of issues, including abortion, mass deportation, threats of political retribution against political opponents and media outlets. we talked about that a good bit. and it’s going to come as no surprise to anybody who watches this show, who has watched it over the past year, or over the past decade, that we didn’t see eye to eye on a lot of issues, and we told him so.”

Mika: “what we did agree on was to restart communications.”

o frabjous day! Morning Joe and Indeterminate Mika are going to restart communications — with a rapidly-dementing narcissistic megalomaniac who has made it his life’s work to lie straight into the face of everyone. thank you, Joe and Mika — you’ve saved the shit out of democracy.

here’s another barf-inducing quote from yesterday’s broadcast.

“he seemed interested in finding common ground with Democrats.”

oh my god, we’re nine years into this shitscape and they’re still Lucy-and-the-footballing Donny Convict.

yeah, this time it will be different, for sure — Donny will be spinning all new lies.

how does the media keep allowing themselves to get played, over and over? are they all like the protagonist of Memento? did they all suffer some kind of head trauma that keeps them from forming long-term memories?

I want to highlight two paragraphs from an essay by Roxane Gay that was published this past weekend in The New York Times — because it perfectly encapsulates how we ended up in the hellish nightmare we’re now living in.

Mr. Trump’s voters are granted a level of care and coddling that defies credulity and that is afforded to no other voting bloc. Many of them believe the most ludicrous things: babies being aborted after birth and children going to school as one gender and returning home surgically altered as another gender even though these things simply do not happen. Time and again, we hear the wild lies these voters believe and we act as if they are sharing the same reality as ours, as if they are making informed decisions about legitimate issues. We act as if they get to dictate the terms of political engagement on a foundation of fevered mendacity.

We must refuse to participate in a mass delusion. We must refuse to accept that the ignorance on display is a congenital condition rather than a choice. All of us should refuse to pretend that any of this is normal and that these voters are just woefully misunderstood and that if only the Democrats addressed their economic anxiety, they might vote differently. While they are numerous, that does not make them right.

Roxane’s exactly fucking right — and it’s not just that the media coddles the cultists.

they’re codding Donny, and giving him an endless series of free passes. Donny gets to live inside his own reality where immigrants are eating the dawgs, and tariffs are the magic answer to everything, and why won’t someone finally open that big-ass Canadian faucet and end California’s drought? — and the media’s response to all this is to pat Donny on the head and chuckle about what an irrepressible scamp he is.

everything’s cool, assures Joe and Mika — Donny’s all presidential now. he wants to restart communications — he wants to find common ground. poor misunderstood Donny — if only we’d listened to him all along.

what the fuck kind of common ground are we supposed to find with a power-mad lunatic who has vowed to imprison everyone who is insufficiently loyal?

the only common ground Donny is interested in is the kind where you agree with everything he says, and kiss his ass and tell him how amazing he is.

“Donny just wants to find common ground” might be the worst journalistic miscalculation since The New York Times assured us that Hitler was a changed man who wouldn’t be a problem any more.

what’s it going to take before the worthless scribblers of the corporate-controlled press finally figure it the fuck out?

are Morning Joe and Mika going to have to be broadcasting from Media Labor Camp Seventeen before it dawns on them that oh gee, maybe Donny was blowing smoke up our asses the whole time?

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hey, Dana Bash just enshrined herself in the Fuck Straight Off Hall of Fame.

this past weekend, a bunch of neo-Nazis marched through Columbus, Ohio — because of course they did. welcome to Donny Convict’s dystopian hellscape-to-come.

we can all agree that Nazis are bad news, can’t we? well, here comes CNN’s Dana Bash, with an all-new take on the subject: let’s not rush to judgment. first we need to find out what kind of Nazis these are.

“in Columbus, a group of neo-Nazis paraded through that city waving swastikas, covering their faces. this is not the first time this sort of thing has happened, in Ohio, in particular, and of course it’s continuing to spread. we don’t know what side of the aisle this comes from.”

*blinks in astonishment*

we don’t know what?

is Dana Bash seriously suggesting that there’s more than one flavor of Nazi? that there are leftist Nazis who want to raise the minimum wage and lower the cost of healthcare — just as soon as we take care of the Jewish problem first?

pro tip for Dana Bash: you never see a swastika and a Kamala for President banner in close proximity — but every fucking time you see a swastika in America, there’s a Trump banner right next to it.

but sure, Dana, let’s both-sides Nazism. excellent stuff. now, please kindly fuck off all the way to Fuckoffistan — and when you get there, send us a nice postcard.

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