'Time for a New Approach': Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski Reveal 'Personal' Visit With Trump To 'Restart Communications'

WTF!?

Fuck them

Seriously.

Called her ugly and stupid. Called him a murderer.

And now they go kiss the ring.

Fuuuuuuuck them.

“Well, let’s go have Stella d’Oros and coffee with Trump. That’ll make it better. Come on, Joe!”

First of all if you are so-called news persons or journalists or co-anchors, why would you hobnob with elected politicians? Or are you going to be propagandists for Trump's second term?

I never trusted either one of them. Now they show what complete suck-ups they really are. They can both rat for all I care.

[quote] They can both rat for all I care.

And I guess they will!

One always picks the easy fight

One praises fools, one smothers light

One shifts left to right

Politics -- the art of the possible

He’ll just humiliate them again in a few months time like he did in 2016. Lather rinse repeat

Yeah. Listening to this right now while preparing for work.

Here’s the thing…

If Donald Trump, his “advisors” and now, MSNBC are all authentically on the path to some sort of reunification of a politically, culturally & socially splintered country, then why choose the clown cabinet that has been placed before us?

How in the fuck does Matt Gaetz as AG, or Gabbard as top dog of DNI, give us a clear signal that this time, it will be different or better than the first time?

Trump has one of the rarest and unique opportunities of all time in all of our history, to create a legacy in whatever manner he deems fit, and these people are his top picks???

Want to go out on top, then stop immediately with this fucking clown show and bring forward nominations of serious and experienced people who aren’t spending their weekends committing statutory rape of teeny boppers, or who have ZERO experience/qualifications to run our national security apparatus.

This time, he most definitely knows better & this is how it all begins?

It’s ALL up to him. He is a top notch showman and can sell ice cubes to Eskimos, so now let’s see if he’s actually interested in running this show like a top notch president, instead of surrounding himself with idiots & religious lunatics who want to infringe upon the civil liberties of every American citizen who he is now responsible for.

So far? Not off to a good start and he’s no dummy and knows this.

Trump is just the latest avatar of man’s God of Money. Capitalists know exactly where to go worship.

10/10 for the Stella d’Oros reference, R3!

Kneel before Zod!

Once a Republican, always a Republican.

I do wonder, though, if corporate politics could be at play here too. Comcast is most likely going to buy Warner Bros Discovery, and will need approval from the Trump admin to do so. So they start edging MSNBC away from the left to get in Trump's good graces.

I never liked them ever since they trashed Hillary in 2016.

Afraid of retribution?

There was an interesting article from Carole Cadwalladr yesterday - 20 lessons for the post-truth world. They've already failed number 6

[quote]6 Do not kiss the ring. Do not bend to power. Power will come to you, anyway. Don’t make it easy. Not everyone can stand and fight. But nobody needs to bend the knee until there’s an actual memo to that effect. WAIT FOR THE MEMO.

I never liked them because they are both self-centered cunts. Joe sometimes has something to say, but you know he doesn’t actually believe in anything since he keeps changing his stripes and his wives.

Disgusting. I'll have no trouble tuning out of MSN forever. I get why someone like Zelensky needs to kiss Trump's fat ass right now--he needs to in order to limit more massacre in Ukraine. But these assholes?

Scarborough is one of the most repulsively ugly men on television. Legacy media like this is dead in the water anyway. Trump has threatened to take away their broadcast license so that's probably what 's going on.

Progressives are not rats. They will stay with the party even take over the party while the party sinks and sinks until it is declared a total loss.

The country has moved on from progressives and DL.

Cable news and TV networks don’t have broadcast licenses.

Has the country moved on from DL has it R20?

I am being absolutely insufferable this morning to my MSNBC-addicted partner. "Who told you? WHO TOLD YOU???"

I made a comment on that Mediate article and it was deleted within 3 minutes.

They only like pro Trump comments.

Maybe there’s hope that the divisiveness in the country can be reduced. Extending an olive branch is not bending the knee.

Any interview means nothing- IF TRUMP IS TALKING TRUMP IS LYING.

Extending an olive branch to a wannabe tyrant is capitulation. Trump isn’t interested in civility and unity. Division is his stock in trade.

R24 welcome to DL where your time out given by the self appointed censors here will take more than 3 minutes.

Reduced to what exactly, R25?

Sadly, your post must be turned on its head.

[quote] He is a top notch showman and can sell ice cubes to Eskimos,

No, Eskimos aren't stupid

I can understand why Joe and Mika are doing this, particularly at the start of a new 4 years.

They will give Trump a chance to do well. Of course, he wont and then the news needs to call him out. If it doesn't viewers will get angry and drop them

[quote] Progressives are not rats. They will stay with the party even take over the party while the party sinks and sinks until it is declared a total loss. The country has moved on from progressives and DL.

Progressives are the one who brought us gay marriage, so FU.

Let's talk again in 2 years when the Dems take over Congress

[quote] Maybe there’s hope that the divisiveness in the country can be reduced. Extending an olive branch is not bending the knee.

I NEVER see the political right EVER trying to reduce divisiveness and extending olive branches. Divisiveness was stoked by the right for political gain.

The right demonized migrants, immigrants, and trans kids. Trump ran essentially a racist campaign to solidify his white supremacy credentials.

How exactly does one reduce the country's divisiveness when one side thinks you should not have equality at all?

The bootlickers are already all over this thread.

[quote] They will give Trump a chance to do well.

His mission is clearly to destroy the Constitutional system and enrich himself and his cronies in cooperation with foreign autocrats. Why would anyone wish him well?

People are so stupid.

If Joe sucks up to Trump again he probably expect him to call in and spill inside info.

Where the fuck did all these trumpers on this thread come from?

Stop watching these clowns.

I stopped on Nov 6th and feel so much more relaxed.

I never started watching them. They’ve always been hypocritical toadies .

How will Donnie Deutsch react?

Ditto, R38.

Cock sucking blowhards trying to play both sides against the middle. Fuck them.

I wonder if any of their regulars will step away. Claire? Eddie Glaude? Sharpton? Not Barnicle, surely. He doesn't have much else going on. I hope that at least one of the guests call them out on thier cowardice.

Having talked people onto the ledge, how do they now talk them off of it?

[quote]How will Donnie Deutsch react?

Who cares? He's a jerk. Sharpton, Glaude and Claire McCaskill won't be invited back. They're on most of the MSNBC shows, I'm sick of seeing them. I want Sam Stein and John Heilemann.

A leopard never changes their stripes.

If Dump follows through and yanks MSNBC's license, it'll be worth it to be rid of these two shit heads.

There is no MSNBC license to yank.

Broadcast stations are licensed . Not cable. Not networks.

Cowards, they think he'll have them arrested. Fuck them and all who watch them.

Obviously they don't have the pride of 2 pigs.

1 by 1 they all will fall in line

Are they fleeing the country in fear like so much of DL seems to be considering?

Talk about those willing to fight. Auto correction of course that should have been —-flee.

Mika fears her cat Meatball (who lives in Florida) will be harmed if she doesn't change her act before Trump is inaugurated.

I can see what Mika and Joe were trying to do here, but it won't work. Whether you term it as "extending an olive branch" or "kissing the ring," all that matters (to J&M) is that Trump received them. They think they can reach through the fog and connect in some meaningful way with Herr Trumpler, I hate to break it to them: their effort is futile. He's at the stage of the game where he think's he's invincible, has the backing of armed thugs and supplicants willing to do whatever he demands, and is about to seize the most powerful office — for the time being — in the world.

I don't know what it's going to take for the media to finally see Trump for the authoritarian dictator that he wants to be. The only thing stopping him at this point is us. We almost did. This was no blow-out election, no tsunami or even a margin that would confer a mandate on the incoming administration. Trump received less than half (barely) of the votes cast (and while trying to avoid conspiracy theory-land here, there is reason to question the numbers) to about a point and a half more than his opponent.

Since the election, the right has been furiously trying to put the idea that they are the overwhelming majority in this nation into everyone's heads. They are not. They are barely half of the people who voted, and more eligible voters didn't vote than voted for either candidate. The point is that they are not invincible, they have no mandate, and their grip on power relies on an electorate willing to go along.

We can turn the tide, but it's going to take tremendous effort. The Democrats must find a leader who can rally the troops, form a plan, and execute on it. The good news is that we've seen this scenario play out over and over. The Republicans will burst onto the scene, act like they're taking command, and then do a whole slough of things that will turn off the American people. The Democrats must be ready to capitalize on it (like the way that the Republicans capitalized on Biden's age: unrelenting attacks, constant criticism, and most importantly, making the opposition think that Trump is a tin pot dictator so out of his league it's harming [bold]them.[/bold]). His economic policies, such as they are, are going to crash the economy. Their culture war policies are going to cause a great deal of pain and even death for Democrats and Republicans alike. And ultimately, we never know what crisis is coming, but Democrats must get in array and be ready to pounce when the moment arrives.

And that's not to say that Democrats can't incubate problems for Trump. I applaud Biden authorizing Ukraine to use US-supplied weaponry deep into Russia. With any luck, they'll find Putin and kill him, which would derail Trump 2,0 long enough for the Democrats to put meaningful barriers to his progress, or at the very minimum, drive a wedge between Putin and Trump. Trump needs Putin more than Putin needs Trump (at this point, Trump has served his purpose to Putin and is now only around because he's a useful idiot), but that can change quickly. The last thing we need is formalization of a Putin-Trump alliance. We must stop that from happening.

Joe and Mika can't see, won't see, or worst-case, are willing to help with any of this. They are useless. Ignore them unless it looks like they're helping, and then they must be taken off the air .

I guess they know and fear how crazy he is.

R53 There were more registered GOP than Dems before the election. The GOP are today no longer the minority party. And they will grow for a while after the election. Winners grow losers repel. And besides the Dems got their asses kicked big time.

And you and me and we at DL and the Dems can’t stop shit. Every fucking thing that could go wrong for trump went wrong and he still won every battleground state.

You are pissing into a strong wind.

Do Mika and Joe think Trump hasn't been watching their show? That's all he does!

I don’t understand why they would need to meet with Trump about this. Wouldn’t they just need to meet with their producers and editorial team?

Who do they think they are?

The First Couple of the American political media.

SPINELESS GREEDY ATTENTION SEEKERS

They are both spineless, shape-shifting cunts. This is not very surprising.

Joe & Mika getting their asses dragged on both Twitter and BlueSky.

This was a stupid move that will lose them viewers. Why watch Fox Light when you can just watch Fox???

Did they NOT GET THE MEMO explaining the downsides of normalisation of a CONVICTED FELON, RAPIST, TRAITOR, and would be strongman autocrat?

NYT: Trump Mocks Mika Brzezinski; Says She Was ‘Bleeding Badly From a Face-Lift’

The president described Ms. Brzezinski as “low I.Q. Crazy Mika” and claimed in a series of Twitter posts that she had been “bleeding badly from a face-lift” during a social gathering at Mr. Trump’s resort in Florida around New Year’s Eve. The White House did not explain what had prompted the outburst, but a spokeswoman said Ms. Brzezinski deserved a rebuke because of her show’s harsh stance on Mr. Trump.

Speaking of low I.Q. individuals…has anyone ever tallied the number of times that Trump has brought up his uncle who was a professor at M.I.T.? He seems to think that some of his uncle’s smarts rubbed off on him by osmosis or something.

Good genes, r64. Good genes.

Joe said he and Trump disagree on many issues like, blah blah blah and abortion. I assume that means Joe thinks he’s for legal abortion and Trump is not. The REALITY is, Trump in real life is all for abortion and Joe is a fucking pro-lifer.

When did Joe become pro-choice? In response to Trump? Because Mika forced him to change? Scarborough was a Baptist freak against the right for women to control their bodies for the first ten years of the show.

They’re dead to me. I’ll only watch Nicolle Wallace and Lawrence O’Donnell now.

R65 NN

I’m with you R67. I can’t believe how quickly MJ folded under the pressure.

Do you think they were trying to get cabinet appointments by being like, “Hey! We’re on TV! WEEKDAYS!”

This sort of puts Mika in a Megyn Kelly mindset.

Q what will be the shortest tv show in history?

A the 2024 Trump nomination confirmation coverage. Over before you think it will begin.

[quote]There were more registered GOP than Dems before the election.

Indeed, R54. The Republicans went on a registration binge that completely eluded the Democrats. Which is not to say that there was [italic]a lot[/italic] that eluded the Democrats in this cycle, not the least of which is that nearly every rural county in the the country, including those in blue states, increasingly went for Trump. He tapped into the mindset in which rural Americans feel they've been left behind and worse, looked down upon by urban elites.

[quote]the Dems got their asses kicked big time

We live in a bifurcated country with a fucked up method of electing a president. This election was not a mandate, and when it comes down to the final numbers, It was pretty close. In a nation of ~340 million, if Democrats could have found about 275,000 votes spread across 6 battleground states, we would have won. We lost somewhere between 2 and 3 million who voted for Biden in 2020. And yet there was support there; in North Carolina, for instance, Democrats swept the state from governor to attorney general... but they split ticket voted for Trump. Pennsylvania is so close we're still counting the ballots to determine whether or not Bob Casey goes back to DC or if they'll send another buffoon... but Trump won. I could say the same for the rest of the swing states. When it's this close, a few votes (like one or two in every rural county in the swing states) can sway the entire election.

Democrats must sit up and take notice of the GOP registration efforts that did not stop with the election. They think they've turned PA red, and they are not setting their sites on New Jersey. If Democrats don't do something, they'll succeed. And if they hold PA and flip NJ, it's over. We won't see another Democrat POTUS elected in our lifetimes.

Nevertheless, despite registering millions of voters, more people who were qualified to vote (not necessarily registered but simply of age/eligible) didn't vote at all than voted for either candidate. There is a tremendous pool of potential voters that are up for grabs, and while Republicans have a plan, Democrats are still trying to figure out why Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters stayed home.

I'm not ready to give in. There is a shit storm headed our way. Democrats can weep, mourn and spend a couple months analyzing our loss, but it would be better for a leader to emerge, take charge, and turn the ship around. That won't be Kamala, Joe, Nancy, Chuck or any of the old guard. And to cut to the chase, it had better be a straight white 45 to 65-year-old man because the bottom line is that Republicans were able to spin a booming tent pole economy holding up the entire planet's economy with one major flaw — inflation — into what Trump voters called "the worst recession in 50 years". All it took was putting a Black liberal woman at the top of the ticket, tar her with trans bullshit, and sew enough doubt. And the diarrhea icing on that shit cake was that she was not vetted through a primary process thanks to Joe Biden's stubborn refusal to honor his commitment to be a one-term transitional president. What a costly, and sadly, legacy-destroying mistake.

We live in a deeply racist, deeply misogynist country and no matter how hard we want it to evolve, we must recognize that it isn't going to change rapidly enough that we will elect a woman, let alone a Black woman, to the presidency in the lifetime of anyone reading this post.

[quote] We live in a bifurcated country

It certainly seems like the country is in two parts, although the reality is that there is a spectrum. There are extremists and hyper-partisans on both the left and right end, and a range of people between them. The MJ show may lose the hyper-partisans on the left, but maybe MSNBC hopes to pickup people in the center to replace them. However, I don’t think they can pick up more moderate and independent viewers, because the show’s reputation is so fixed in everyone’s mind.

Mika and Joe are self-serving scum.

God, R53/R73, TOO MUCH.

[quote] God, [R53]/[R73], TOO MUCH.

DL needs an AI to reject tl;drs. It is really is ridiculous to post egregiously lengthy replies.

…that really don’t say anything at all. That was an epic chore to read.

[quote] Which is not to say that there was a lot that eluded the Democrats in this cycle, not the least of which is that nearly every rural county in the the country, including those in blue states, increasingly went for Trump

That’s no surprise to anyone.

[quote]and sew enough doubt

Go get your sewing machine, R73!

Why say in six words what you can say in eleven?

[quote]They’re dead to me. I’ll only watch Nicolle Wallace and Lawrence O’Donnell now.

Giving up American cable news across the spectrum is the best move.

Wow. Sell outs.

“Go fuck yourselves!” 🎙️

Two words to describe them.... sell outs

Palin lo lost to a Democrat in '22. Trump took Alaska by 10 points in '20.

She is finished. Ted Nugent doesn't return her calls.

[quote] Obviously they don't have the pride of 2 pigs

No, but apparently Mika still knows her value!

All those shrill diatribes delivered while approaching tears. All those punctuating sighs from off-camera as others talked. WTF was it for?!?

It didn’t take months, R8.

Joe and Mika should come to DL and join the rest of us that are losers hardly anyone cares about.

What a humiliation. If MSNBC had any standards they’d be taken off the air.

Is that real, R88?

R88 Oh shit. This is why basic people like Trump. What a cunt. How shady. Trump is trash but he will call it like he sees it. Holy shit.

Megyn Kelly can't stop licking Trump's ass, yet he will never give her the time of day again.

And they don’t owe their careers to him. He owes his political career to them and every other media outlet in 2016 who allowed about him to bloviate using the most offensive rhetoric since George Wallace.

Trump is such a cunt. Everytime I think about how this orange ugly fuck who has the emotional temperament of a middle schooler is our president I sort of get pissed. That tweet about them is hilarious but this is really sad yo. Shit is just sad.

Nicolle Wallace will have a come to Jesus moment too and go back to her Republican roots. Mark my words. You never saw her right before her MSNBC gig trashing Obama on Fox News. She is 1000% phony.

[quote]Nicolle Wallace will have a come to Jesus moment too and go back to her Republican roots.

75% of MSNBCs "personalities" have Republican roots.

Soon 75% of the country will have Republican roots. Winners grow and attract and losers repel and turn on each other. Winners smell sweet. Losers have a stench about them.

Then in time it will all swing back to the left. None of us might be alive to see it but trust me it’s going to happen.

Cowards.

[quote]Then in time it will all swing back to the left. None of us might be alive to see it but trust me it’s going to happen.

It will happen sooner than that. Republicans control everything right now...so every issue they fuck up or fail to correct is 100% their fault.

Keith is enjoying this.

R100 and that my friend will depend on how quickly the gop will make that swing back a whole shitload harder.

Trump in his second term will be unlike any president ever. And the true believers he will bring with him see the left as enemies of the country. Not the loyal opposition. People to be reduced if not eliminated.

It’s a new day

Good luck on 2028 but the smart money will be on the gop.

[quote] Is that real, [R88]?

A matter of some controversy, apparently.

Theyre so self important. "Start communications"? They're morning talk show hosts not the united nations.

They are important enough to have just like trump has, constantly running threads on DL.

The best Scarborough can do to defend this is "my friends who have my phone number think I did the right thing!"

R96 she doesn’t come across as phony to me. She just doesn’t. And I hope you aren’t being hyperbolic which many of you do on here. Criticizing someone per policy is not the same as bashing them. Let me see the receipts.

I agree with R107. R96 has no idea what they’re talking about.

Never watching them again. I shall miss Eugene Robinson, whom I love so much.

Nicolle “I can’t stop laughing” Wallace will instantly be a Republican again as soon as Trump leaves office.

'Time for a New Approach' I no longer watch Morning Joe that is my new approach.

That just isn’t true, R110. But feel free to keep posting your opinion.

The Republican Party no longer exists. It’s all MAGA now.

And Stella d’Oros aren't what they used to be either.

I want to know who is keeping all the receipts that someone keeps asking about in various threads?

Joe, Mika, Nicolle, Kornacki can all go straight to Hell.

No Words…

New? Haven’t they always slavered over him?

Massive ratings drop after visit to kiss Trump's ass revealed:

R107, she was on television all the time foaming at the mouth over Obama. She did a 180 the minute she got MSNBC. You simply didn’t see her before. No way she’s genuine.

^ are you willing to wager?

R120, Nobody's obligated to kiss obama ass anymore than they're obligated to kiss trumps

Stop worshiping politicians that dont know or care that you exist

According to an article on Daily Beast (which we can't link to), the backlash is the problem, not bowing and scraping to Trump.

I stopped watching MJ. I believe they will regret this and hope they do but like trump-they will shamelessly repeat they did the right thing in kissing the ring.

I realized Mika was a spoiled/damaged person years ago but gave her the benefit of the doubt. Now she’s just self seeking and controlling after becoming famous. Look to see her having tea with Melania soon.

R120 I’m familiar with her. She was a fucking republican. She worked on the McCain campaign and didn’t vote because of Sarah Palin. Like I said, I’ve never seen her bash him in a way not related to policy. And I’m not saying I agree with all her positions. So again show me the fucking receipts.

This event has already fallen off the radar. Joe and Mika thrilled- I won’t forget.

They worship power.

No it hasn’t, R127.

[quote] This event has already fallen off the radar.

And so have their ratings!