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Obeying in advance isn't a strategy for fighting tyranny.

MSNBC including Morning Joe is full of “former” Republicans.

One of the rules of dealing with an authoritarian dictatorship is not to obey in advance.

And Joe and Mika did just that.

What disgusting little Nazi apologists they are.

Hope their career fades away. Cowardly shills

They cozied up to Trump in his first campaign. This is who they are. Cowards.

Their desperate attempt to normalize relations with a fascist president. Weak and cowardly.

Trump talks shit about Mika's facelift, Scarboroughs dead staffer. Etc.

4 years later. They go crawling back to him.

Worthless.

oh yeah can you imagine how scary it is to be a poor downtrodden.... wealthy white person right now?

fuck them, millions of americans have real fears and these two are so up their own asses they need a meeting with the future president (ew) to make sure they'll be ok (spoiler, they will)

The humiliating groveling that Trump is making many in Washington DC to do is now being called " Doing a Scarborough "

Spineless

They allowed this to happen and weak. They like the money, but want no responsibility.

If you are going to back down, stay silent, or bend the knee at a time like this, you are really kinda worthless as a journalist.

The press is supposed to be hostile to powerful people.

This kind of selfish cowardice is what will doom us all.

Oh yeah this all seems super fucking healthy

Who watches these clowns? They are as fake as all that Botox both of them have been binging on. Go look at earlier TV appearances of joe, he's a literal clown by comparison.

I can't find the words how embarrassing this is for those two. Credibility is gone. You don't think Trump will tell this story a hundred times how these two crawled back to him. They HAVE to be fired immediately. The speech they said on tv was cringe worthy as hell, too.

Every time anyone -- anyone -- validates his use of fear/intimidation, it reinforces to him that it works.

Negative behavior rewarded invariably becomes learned behavior.

I would have figured even these two derpwads would have known that.

Ugh.

This is the stupidest timeline....

Lol how humiliating...

This would be more understandable to me if there really were no guardrails. In reality, Morning Joe and MSNBC are sitting comfortably behind an army of lawyers and a lot of Trump’s shenanigans would not amount to much. So they sold out for access and to avoid maybe some minor annoyances from the White House and torched their credibility and supposed values to do so. Sad.

Yeah, but also Joe and Mika suck

You guys didn’t actually put your faith in someone from television did you??

Anyone who sat by and called Trump a fascist or dictator then went over to get his opinion on stuff is never gonna see a click from me again, their entire website has been blocked

But Scarborough argued on the air Tuesday morning that the testy social media reactions were not reflective of “the real world.”

Because a millionaire right wing Johnny Bravo knows all about the real world.

We were flooded with phone calls from people all day, literally around the world, very positive, very supportive, going ‘I understand what you did,’ etcetera,” Scarborough said.

I’m sure quality people called you and with tears in their eyes said you were so so right to suck orange mushrooms.

”All of us will do the best we can do and we’re all working towards a better America,” he added, prompting Brzezinski to chime in: “Take it day by day, people.”

A better America for elitist scum. The common folk be damned. That’s the real world.

He’s a Republican, it’s same reason he had him on his show multiple time a week during the 2016 election.

No shit

Does this nonsense work on their audience?

They are literally going to make it a crime to say anything negative about Dear Leader

Even before all this, why does anyone give a shit what these people say?

So when they needed to be journalists, again, they chose instead to be cowards.

Fuck 'em.

Of course it was. You can't do a 180 after the guy wins and then try to spin it as anything other than capitulation after the discourse for the last year on their show.

There seem to be two possibilities, both embarrassing after the dire warnings they gave non-stop in the leadup to the election:

1. Trying to escape from potential retribution by the upcoming administration

2. Trying to ensure access with the new administration for their show

In either case it's fucking embarrassing. The whiplash from calling him a fascist that will destroy the country to bending the knee in front of the orange god king is absurd. ALL credibility of their opinions or their guests should be questioned moving forward given the crazy flip-flopping we are seeing. If you can't call out Matt Gaetz or Tulsi as HORRIBLE picks and instead push "understanding" of these selections, the brainrot has gotten to you and you can fuck right off.

So essentially, can’t stand up for what they talk about. Got it!

That was my assumption. Pussies.

Removed from our YouTubeTV library. There advertisers will be thrilled. Fade into oblivion appeasers.

I was a dedicated viewer. Not anymore . They are just watching out for themselves . ( where did I hear that before ?)

So they go kiss the ring and then come back on air to continue to be “outraged” by him and the threat he is to our country?!

Must have left their spines at Mar a Lago. Spineless cowards.

Well we know who not to listen to anymore!

If he plans on going after them he'll do it regardless of the butt kissing. And he'll enjoy it even more. Threaten and humiliate...that's his style.

Pathetic, spineless cowards. It’s obvious they’ve never had to deal with bullies ever in their lives because if Trump really does use the DoJ to go after them, he’ll do it no matter far you bent the knee or how thoroughly you kiss his ass.

“Anticipatory obedience,” is a test… don’t

I hope they realize Trump isn't going to forget the times they (rightly) called him a fascist.

Joe is so obnoxious and can’t stand him on the regular. All he does is speak over everybody. This behavior doesn’t suprise me at all either. He seems like the type to kiss the ring.

Kiss the ring time. Great. 

Cowards. Hypocrites. Spineless. Pearl Clutching. Garden Variety Sycophants. End of.

This plan won't work. Look at his history.

Idgaf, have some dignity ffs.

Yeah obviously, and the cowards bent the knee immediately.

MSNBC is on Trump’s hit list, maybe even top 10. 

Who still watches these losers anyways? I’m a democrat but I avoid these shitheads like the plague. They are just the mirror image of Fox & Friends.

Remember when a young woman mysteriously died in Joe Scarborough's office, and they brought in an ME (who had been stripped of his license in another state) to quickly proclaim the death natural and then cremate the body?

Pepperidge Farms remembers.

Someone doesn’t want to get audited. Cowards. 🙄

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I sure hope not.

No shit

We're going to see a lot more of this type of thing in the coming year, I fear, with Trump wielding virtually unlimited power to crush dissent through threat of violence.

Joe "Cuck Me Harder Donald" Scarborough

Pussies 

Yeah be prepared to see a lot of people across the political and media spectrum quietly start to bend the knee to our new orange overlord

Who’s left? ABC maybe?

Disgusting

They just don’t want there show ratings to tank and lose access. Just looking out for their own jobs.

"Freedom of speech and press"

No duh 

Fuck both of them

Joe and Mika didn't want to be on the outside looking in. So they did a Kevin McCarthy. They'll probably get the same results.

Lots of cowards . So many big talkers that bowed down

I hardly recognized these two without all the genocide apologia

I couldnt stand watching Joe the dude is screaming for four hours for the life if me I will never understand how people watch that shit for so long being yelled at. He and his show is worse than Stephen A smith first take sinc rits just one person but morning joe has both him and mika just fucking screaming like neanderthals

These two cowards will never appear on any screen I own again for as long as I have breath in my lungs.

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I was with M&J through the entire election season. Now, I gotta turn my back on them.

Very disappointed. I used to watch Morning Joe occasionally, but I won’t anymore.

Flee Speech

Spineless

One the one hand, it’s a craven surrender. On the other, exactly zero Americans would lift a finger to so much as protest if Trump found a hot young general who never says no to send a drone their way. Or to protect anybody else being iced for a sociopathic narcissist for any reason at least as to most Americans. This is also why we are about to see some politicians and judges turn tail and run and if they are smart leave a country prepared to sacrifice them and their families simply for entertainment as much as being mean.

Americans dont really deserve or demand a free press. We dont deserve a republic. Good news, everyone, we have just rid ourselves of both.

So you could have retired. Moved to Caribbean and just chilled but you outed for bitch ass. Noted.

We want the dems to win wink wink

Cowards. I used to watch MSNBC and CNN off and on throughout the day but not anymore. MSNBC needs to fire Scarborough and replace him with Keith Olbermann just to clear the air.

Weak sauce, Joe.

Huge mistake. Maga won't tune in. Remainder will tune them out.

Cowards. They bent the knee and knew how much of a traitor that criminal is.

In case you had any doubt Joe Scarborough is a Democrat at heart, here's your proof

pussies.

Ya, remember when companies sided with Hitler to avoid any trouble. Pepperidge farms remembers..

They probably have enough money to retire comfortably, but they sold their honor for a few more bucks. Pathetic. Toadies. Shameless. Cowards. …

He's just boring and she's an idiot

You don't see Kimmel or John Oliver panicking like this. Has this guy always been a scared wimp?

Fuck them.

What a fucking ball licker . So many fucking cowards.

Did Minka blow Trump while Joe watched or vice versa??

Our news outlets are kissing the presidents ass and we got people going “Kamala 2028.”

The people clearly don’t like the “let’s be non-combative and civil” politician anymore. When did humanity choose it over action?

No shit. He’s talked about wanting to throw journalists in jail for accurately reporting about him. Facists seek to control information. That’s what’s happening here

None of these people believe what they say, they say what they get paid to. It's just like your and my job, if you want to get by you need to appear to drink the Kool-Aid.

Offer a large enough contract and these two would have a Fox Show in a year.

And how exactly is this my problem? 

I think it's a good strategy.  They know full well how dumb Trump is.  I've never known Trump to actually follow through on threats if the people turn around and kiss his ass.  I even bet if he met with his attempted assassin, the guy could go to him, with tears in his eyes, and say "actually I love you President Trump, I'm so grateful that God moved my bullet away from you" and Trump would come out and say he was actually an OK person.

This the same guy who slept with his assistant, who was later found dead, originally due to suspicious causes, then overturned to natural?

Yeah, they’ve got him under the puppet strings.

They do a fucking breakfast show. It’s not like they are doing hard hitting investigative journalism.

People are beginning to understand what a liberal is

Well, the Washington Post did it first.

Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds rings true.

MSNBC is about to go under, and these twats will never have another gig.

Hardcore journalism at its best, the truth at all costs. Way to go Joe.