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Joe Scarborough (Morning Joe) is leaving the Republican Party
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Plasticine
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Judging by my Twitter feed, the Cult of Trump has been calling Joe a liberal for weeks now. From what I can tell, a liberal is anyone that doesn't like that cowardly, treasonous, short fingered pile of orange shit they worship.
metalslimer
Member
Huh he even calls himself a Republican just without the name
god damn
Dude Abides
Banned
should have waited a week to get the attention you want, Joe. This week's all Fredo.
An insane manchild is in the White House while the party controlling both houses of congress tries to gut millions of people's healthcare. Faith in legitimate media and higher education are low among significant swathes of the population.
No, that is not what's wrong with America in the first place.
Ninja Scooter
Member
Joe longs for the days when Reagan quietly disenfranchised minorities instead of so openly like Trump does.
Fuck Joe. He stood by Trump after he posted those fake black crime statistics, he stood by Trump after his sexist attacks on reporters and his opponents, he stood by him after his racist comments about that Mexican Judge, and he found his way back to him after the Pussy tape came out.
Who gives a fuck if he's independent now? Independents are mostly just insincere Republicans who don't wanna be honest about their own bad opinions.
Who gives a fuck if he's independent now? Independents are mostly just insincere Republicans who don't wanna be honest about their own bad opinions.
Big Baybee
Member
Child please
Permanently A
Junior Member
In regards to the bolded, source? Cause in the Colbert clip he was admonishing republicans for that.
I'll take his vote thanks. I mean, yeah fuck him, but you know...
SporeCrawler
Member
isnt he married to a democrat or something? maybe she convinced him?
He didn't stand by him after the Mexican comments and screamed at the GOP to abandon Trump after the pussy tape. I don't know what you're talking about.
Autodidact
Banned
He will be like those surburbanites who voted Hillary at the top of the ticket but still reelected their Republican representative.
Again, avoid deeming someone a Moderate Darling or reformed Republican just because he criticizes Trump. He still holds 99% of the same repugnant beliefs he held last year or ten years ago.
The enemy of your enemy is not always your friend.
Randolph Freelander
Member
True story: I left the Republican party last year.
Became unaffiliated.
I hadn't voted Republican since 2000, though. Also hadn't voted since 2000. Starting shifting in the liberal direction during the second Bush term.
Became unaffiliated.
If he eventually comes back to Trump, his initial criticism is just hollow garbage. Jason Chaffetz said he couldn't look his daughter in the eye if he continued to support Trump, then he happily voted for him. Remember Joe saying "He's changed after becoming President"? That's just Joe retroactively trying to justify his tolerance for his bullshit. Morning Joe is part of what elevated Trump, and Trump knows this.
I distinctly remember when I first saw Scarborough. It was on a news show during the 2000 election, where he was shilling and shitting it up with the best of them. Think Kellyanne Conway-lite.
I'm never going to be able to look at the man favorably, but it's good to hear about anyone leaving the Republican party.
I'm never going to be able to look at the man favorably, but it's good to hear about anyone leaving the Republican party.
polyh3dron
Banned
So he finally realized that the GOP voter base is racist as fuck, and that the GOP actively panders to their racism to fire that base up?
Welcome to 1964, Joe.
He just didn't like seeing Donald Trump trading in his standard issue GOP Racism Dog Whistle™ for a megaphone.
Welcome to 1964, Joe.
He just didn't like seeing Donald Trump trading in his standard issue GOP Racism Dog Whistle™ for a megaphone.
NintendoGal
Member
Well that's nice. I'm nearly 35 and along with my husband who is 40 are libertarians. But I guess in your eyes we're not grown up because we don't believe the same things. K.
Anyway, I don't think he'll go back. Probably will still continue to vote the line I'm betting though.
Rran
Member
I don't think he deserves your respect--it would be nice, though, if more people on our side if the aisle could be more welcoming and less judgmental towards those who are making steps (from our vantage point, at least) in the right direction.
EDIT:
VVV ugghhh...
MetalGearZed
Member
no. its never too late. the more people that turn away from that shit excuse of a party the better. no matter how long it takes.
If a guy enters AA you don't tell him to go fuck himself and leave because he was an alcoholic for 30 years, you let him sit down.
Emulated Hype
Member
Cool, who cares if he's late to the party. If he can sell a small subset of conservative followers who are on the fence to splinter off then it's a win in my book.
Autodidact
Banned
No, but you certainly don't expect the people he hit with his car to be nice to him.
Ninja Scooter
Member
That's a poor comparison. Being a Republican is not a disease. It's perfectly fine to call out Joe's hypocrisy and question his actual motivation and intent when he was perfectly fine and in come cases complicit when the GOP was shitting up other people's lives, and only turned a corner when things got too close to home.
Randolph Freelander
Member
Not so sure about that.
He was a former GOP Congressman in Florida.
welcome to the chorus of liberals who take it as granted someone will forfeit their long held beliefs cause you have different opinions. learn to respect a change of opinion dude.
I mean, an earthworm passes that standard.
He mentions it in like every other sentence.
He's engaged to one and her late dad is one of more famous democrats in the late 20th Century.
Rran
Member
I don't think anyone would disagree with calling somebody out for being a hypocrite or questioning another's intentions, but I also don't see the compulsion some people have for tearing a person down after moving in a direction we all find more agreeable--sure, the guy has made a few stupid remarks in the past (and we voiced our discontent then), and if/ when he spouts something objectionable in the future, I'll join you in lambasting him again. But until then, I'll gladly take the time to appreciate the occasional step, however incremental, forward (or at the very least commend him for going against the grain and condemning the state of his former party).
RPGCrazied
Member
Mika probably made him do it. You sleep with me, you leave the GOP!
But he has been coming out hard on Trump recently.
But he has been coming out hard on Trump recently.
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THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
Simpsons moment?
BronsonLee
Member
Are you daft
He switched because Trump is a fucking jackass and went after Joe/Mika, and he noticed that they aren't doing a damn thing
Both sides are the same
Conciliator
Banned
Whenever joe scarborough talks it seems like he already practiced saying it in the mirror this morning
Mammoth Jones
Member
Bullshit. Just cause someone ain't in party doesn't mean they support the opposition by default.
DontBeThatGuy
Member
The Republican Party hasn't changed though. Trump just meant some of these people can't ignore it anymore.
RPGCrazied
Member
Could Trump still be inside job to bring down the GOP? I know his actions he has done recently shoots this down, but its like he ripped the band aide off and exposed the GOP for what they truly are.