Morning Joe’s ratings are now in the shitter. boo fucking hoo.

and Nancy Mace fucking sucks

during their Monday morning broadcast, as Morning Joe and Mika were vomiting out their saga of having slunk down to Donny Convict’s rat-infested Florida golf motel to grovel at his feet, and then blithering about how ‘maybe we don’t see eye to eye, but Dear Leader is the big guy now, and he really does want to find common ground,’ a super fun thing happened: viewers switched that shit off, as fast as they could.

Nielsen data shows that 56 minutes after the hosts began explaining their trip to the Trump residence, viewing figures began to tumble.

Between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m., they had fallen 17 percent from 839,000 to 694,000. Among the 25- to 54-year-old age group, viewing figures plummeted by 38 percent.

oh dear, it seems that ‘we’re going to kowtow to fascism’ isn’t what people tune into MSNBC for. no one could have predicted this, am I right?

news flash for Joe and Mika: no one wants this shit shoved in their faces right now. read the room. people are hurt and angry. they’re trying to figure out what the fuck to do next. this is a time for bringing people together and building communities. nobody is in the mood to hear about how we need to give Donny a do-over. fuck that shit.

so, has Joe learned anything from the pummeling his show has taken in the ratings?

fuck no — it was all a social media nothingburger, he says.

“yesterday I saw for the first time, what a massive disconnect there was between social media and the real world — because we were flooded with phone calls from people all day, literally around the world, very positive, very supportive.”

I’m sorry, but the massive disconnect is between Joe’s ears. Joe’s getting phone calls from his media-bubble cronies — and he thinks because they’re telling him how awesome he is, that translates to public acceptance.

if any of that horse shit were true, then Morning Joe wouldn’t be continuing to bleed viewers.

The day after the couple revealed they had traveled to meet Trump at Mar-a-Lago, the show's had its third lowest-rated telecast of the year. In total audience, the Tuesday program averaged just 683K viewers, compared to the 1.044 million viewers it has averaged all year long, according to Nielsen. In the advertiser-coveted 25-54 demographic, the show saw an even worse drop. It averaged 78K demo viewers Tuesday, down 40% from the year’s average of 129K. Ouch.

action, meet consequences. fuck around, find out.

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Nancy Mace — a.k.a the Scarlet Moron — fucking sucks.

two weeks ago, the voters of Delaware elected Sarah McBride. she’ll be the first trans person in Congress.

now, any decent human being will regard this as a pretty cool landmark event — but if you’re a Republican shitweasel, it’s an opportunity to be a vile, grandstanding asshole.

that’s Nancy Mace, who has now made it her life’s work to be as cruel to Sarah McBride as possible. Mace’s twitter feed has become a non-stop stream of transphobia — and she’s been shrieking at the top of her lungs about the bathrooms! oh my god, the bathrooms! what will we do about the bathrooms?

unsurprisingly, Holy Mike Johnson is totally down with Nancy’s performative ass-hattery.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) said Wednesday that transgender individuals would not be allowed into restroom facilities in the Capitol and House office buildings that do not correspond with their sex assigned at birth, announcing the rule change about two weeks after Democrat Sarah McBride of Delaware became the first openly transgender individual elected to Congress.

so, for those of you keeping score at home, it’s —

— trafficking teenage girls across state lines and paying them to participate in drug-fueled sex parties is good.
— being trans is bad.

here’s AOC to explain the problem with all this performative-nonsense bathroom clownfuckery: how are you going to enforce it?

“what Nancy Mace and what Speaker Johnson are doing are endangering all women and girls — because if you ask them ‘what is your plan on how to enforce this?’ they won’t come up with an answer. what it inevitably results in are women and girls who are primed for assault, because people are going to want to check their private parts, and suspecting who is trans, and who is cis, and who’s doing what. and so the idea that Nancy Mace wants little girls and women to drop trou in front of who? an investigator? who will that be? … it’s disgusting. it is disgusting.”

hey, here’s a fun quote. see if you can guess who said it.

“I strongly support LGBTQ rights and equality. No one should be discriminated against.”

“It isn’t a black-and-white issue. I do believe that religious liberty, the First Amendment, gay rights, and transgender equality can all coexist. I’m also a constitutionalist, and we have to ensure anti-discrimination laws don’t violate First Amendment rights or religious freedom.”

“I have friends and family that identify as LGBTQ. Understanding how they feel and how they’ve been treated is important. Having been around gay, lesbian, and transgender people has informed my opinion over my lifetime.”

that was Nancy Mace, back in 2021 — before Republicans decided that endless culture wars were the shining path forward.

and it’s all shameless hypocrisy — I guarantee that if it were Republican Caitlin Jenner who had been elected to Congress, you wouldn’t hear one peep out of any of these fuckers about which bathroom she uses.

meanwhile, out in the real world —

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and now, from the Department of You Have Got to Be Fucking Shitting Me —

is there nothing this little tinpot carnival barker won’t put his name on, and peddle to his gullible worshipers?

in 1976, Jimmy Carter put his peanut farm into a blind trust, in order to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest.

that was then. this is now. in 2016, Donny’s refusal to divest from his businesses was maybe a week-long story, and then the media moved on to the next set of atrocities. in 2024, Donny can openly use the presidency as a means to enrich himself — from using his media stocks as a way a launder foreign influence, all the way down to putting his name on the cheesiest drek imaginable — the press can’t even be bothered to wake up.

grift and corruption has been normalized.

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here’s your daily reminder that I can be found on Blue Sky at this link.

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this is going to be my closing message for the foreseeable future:

practice self-care. do what you need to do to keep sane. if that means you need to disengage with my daily posts for a while, I get it. this community of ours will still be here when you return.

to all the people who have signed on in the days since the election, welcome aboard. settle in as we all try to deal with the shitfuckery that’s ahead of us.

we are all in this together, and we are all here for each other.