On Friday, MSNBC co-host Joe Scarborough stated on his show “Morning Joe” that Republicans are going to lose elections elections because they are being too “harsh.”
Apparently people are too fragile these days and the truth is too harsh. What they need more than anything is a wakeup call because reality IS often brutal. As Ben Shapiro once said, “Facts don’t care about your feelings!”
Scarborough said while discussing the prisoner swap for WNBA star Brittney Griner from Russia, “Americans get it; Americans are smart enough to get it. There are people that care protesting during George Floyd. There are a lot of Americans that didn’t really get black athletes and some white athletes kneeling during the national anthem. They didn’t like it. They didn’t understand. But they understood, ‘I’m white, I don’t understand why they’re doing this, but this is America, right? This is part of America.’ You don’t put somebody in a Russian labor camp and keep them there because they’re protesting on a protest that you may not understand.”
Joe Scarborough on GOP criticizing Griner's release: "Americans don't want leaders who hate; they don't want leaders who divide and if they can't celebrate an American coming home and being freed from a Russian penal colony, they will never understand the goodness of Americans." pic.twitter.com/qgOQwyV0f0
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“This is a bigger point,” he continued. “Even Americans who didn’t understand the kneeling during the national anthem, again, there is a patience and an understanding. You remember the NFL when it happened, we heard time and again, people saying ‘never going to watch the NFL again,’ NFL ratings are down, all the right-wingers going, ‘Oh, this is the end for the NFL’ I heard people saying ‘I will never, never watch an NFL game again.’ Here we are two, three years later, NFL ratings have never been higher. The league has never been hotter. What does that mean? That means Americans are pragmatic. They get it. OK, that happened. We may not understand everything about the protests. We may not get why but it’s because we haven’t lived that experience just like we haven’t lived Brittney Griner’s experience. We weren’t a black woman. We weren’t a black gay woman in Waco, Texas. We’ll never understand, right?”
Scarborough added, “And why do I say all of this? I say all of this to say that Americans are pragmatic. Americans understand, for the most part. And these harsh Republicans that keep using these same stupid tactics, what am I going to say? They keep losing. This doesn’t work politically. Americans don’t want leaders who hate. They don’t want leaders who divide, and Republicans under Donald Trump using this strategy, they just keep losing, and they’re going to keep losing, and if they can’t celebrate an American coming home and being freed from a Russian penal colony, they will never understand the goodness of Americans.”
I think what Scarborough fails to realize is that people are not necessarily upset that Griner was released. People are upset that she was prioritized over American marine Paul Whelan, who is wrongfully sitting in a Russian prison, and the only leverage we had to get him back was traded for her instead.
