White people “can’t originally invent anything more than they were able to invent good music,” Joy Reid claimed last week in a podcast interview with New York Times contributing writer Wajahat Ali, who echoed Reid&#8217;s sentiments.
The host of The Joy Reid Show made the comments during an episode of Ali’s Left Hook <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQbVyNEN_C8">podcast</a> titled &#8220;How Mediocre White Men and their Fragility are Destroying America.”
“We black folk gave y’all country music, hip hop, R&amp;B, jazz, rock and roll. They couldn&#8217;t even invent that,” Reid said.
Reid notably did not attribute all music genres to black people. She also did not touch on inventions beyond the realm of music, besides vaguely mentioning “food” and “the economy.”
“We make the food better. We make the economy better. We make the music better,” Ali added.
“Even Elon Musk didn&#8217;t invent them damn Teslas. Two other men invented it. He just bought it,” Reid continued.
Tesla’s two co-founders, Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, are both <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/06/tesla-founders-martin-eberhard-marc-tarpenning-on-elon-musk.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">white</a>.
Reid’s comments come as President Donald Trump, now the board chair of The Kennedy Center, recently <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-kennedy-center-announce-honorees/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that he would be hosting the 2025 Kennedy Center Honors.
Trump helped pick this year’s honorees, including George Strait, Michael Crawford, Gloria Gaynor, KISS, and Sylvester Stallone. He says he rejected a lot of artists because “They were too <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/trump-2025-kennedy-center-20815951.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">woke</a>. I had a couple of wokesters.”
Liberals — Reid included — are upset that Trump is “taking over” The Kennedy Center and the awards ceremony.
“These people cannot create culture on their own. So they need to take over, dominate, appropriate, and control. Without black people, brown people, the DEIs, there’s no culture in America,” Ali insisted to Reid.
According to Ali, Sylvester Stallone receiving a Kennedy Center honor is emblematic of white male fragility.
“Sylvester Stallone became famous because Rocky is all about a white man, a mediocre white man who has no chance in hell of ever ever ever ever ever beating Apollo Creed,” Ali concluded.
Rocky Balboa beats Apollo Creed at the end of “Rocky II.”

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Joy Reid: White People ‘Can’t Originally Invent Anything,’ Just Steal From Black People

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Recently ousted MSNBC host Joy Reid lashed out at President Donald Trump during a recent video for her &#8220;Welcome to Joy’s House!&#8221; Substack, claiming that he was &#8220;the physical embodiment of all of America&#8217;s sins.&#8221;
Reid spoke with writer Wajahat Ali about the state of American politics, in a conversation that was also featured on Ali&#8217;s accounts, and Reid repeatedly attacked both Trump&#8217;s character and his appearance.
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🚨NEW: Joy Reid *GOES OFF RAILS* as she declares Trump &#8220;EMBODIMENT OF ALL OF AMERICA&#8217;S SINS&#8221;🚨
&#8220;People try to say God put him in the White House. I don&#8217;t believe God is that cruel.&#8221;
&#8220;But in a way, I&#8217;m thinking the way you could justify saying that: Donald Trump is the physical… <a href="https://t.co/6NbYpPWtMx">pic.twitter.com/6NbYpPWtMx</a>
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&#8220;People try to say God put him in the White House,&#8221; Reid began. &#8220;I don’t believe God is that cruel. But in a way, I’m thinking the way you could justify saying that: Donald Trump is the physical embodiment of all of America’s sins.&#8221;
&#8220;Yeah, I agree completely,&#8221; Ali voiced his approval.
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Reid then went on to list some of the &#8220;sins&#8221; that she said justified her position: &#8220;He’s sloppy. He’s unkempt. Everything about him is false. His hair is a pretense of non-baldness. He’s old, but his followers try to pretend that he looks like Superman.&#8221;
&#8220;He’s a terrible businessman and a failure who gets to fake success because he’s white, so banks keep lending him money even when he’s failing,&#8221; Reid continued, attempting to make it about race as well. &#8220;His father scoops money out of his siblings’ inheritance to give him when he fails. He’s a f***-up but he’s able to be a success because white America keeps saying, ‘No, no, no, that guy is what success looks like.’ He’s only a success on that TV show because when he was at his brokest, he gets hired to be on ‘The Apprentice.'&#8221;
She went on to claim that the last time First Lady Melania Trump had allowed her husband to touch her was when their son Barron was born, adding, &#8220;He doesn’t believe in marriage. He doesn’t have morality. He got three baby mamas, five children. Everything about him is a lie. He’s not a Christian, but Christians love him. But he embodies the greed, the shamelessness, the lasciviousness of capitalism.&#8221;
Reid, who often invokes race to attack Trump and other Republicans, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/msnbc-axes-joy-reids-show-as-ratings-yo-yo-who-theyre-bringing-in-proves-theyve-learned-nothing">was let go</a> by far left cable news network MSNBC in late February.

Ousted MSNBC Host Says Trump Is ‘The Physical Embodiment Of All Of America’s Sins’

Ousted MSNBC Host Says Trump Is 'The Physical Embodiment Of All Of America's Sins'

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Daily Wire podcast host Michael Knowles slammed former MSNBC host Joy Reid in a surprise appearance on &#8220;Piers Morgan Uncensored.&#8221;
Morgan was interviewing Reid when he asked her to respond to a clip from &#8220;The Michael Knowles Show&#8221; that aired shortly after &#8220;The ReidOut&#8221; was canceled.
Knowles said at the time:
<blockquote>Joy Reid — probably the nastiest figure on MSNBC, the most Left, the most vicious against conservatives and white people and men and all the rest — she has just been canned, fired, kicked to the side of the road, her show is over. This saddens me a little bit, because I did not yet have the opportunity to go on it.
I am celebrating that there is no longer a market for her disgusting product. That’s what I’m genuinely happy about. There has been a major shift. Her show, and shows like her show, no longer have value. And that’s not just because of Joy Reid’s favorite villains: the evil white man or the Christians or the conservatives. It’s because no one watches her show.</blockquote>
&#8220;So, Joy, I’ve actually got Michael Knowles waiting in the wings,&#8221; Morgan said after the clip aired. &#8220;What did you make of his critique of your show?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I mean, the reality is that obviously people watched the show,&#8221; Reid said. &#8220;That’s the reason that the show was on for four and a half, nearly five years. So if he didn’t like the show, I guess, sorry you didn’t enjoy it, but I really am not that interested in his views on it.&#8221;
Knowles fired right back.
&#8220;I guess I would agree with Joy’s take. People watched the show, in the past tense,&#8221; Knowles said. &#8220;And now there’s no longer a market for that absolutely vile content, and I think that’s good for the culture broadly.&#8221;
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&quot;People watched the show, in the past tense, and now there&#39;s no longer a market for that absolutely vile content.&quot;
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Reid accused Knowles and Morgan of &#8220;[trading] in grievance.&#8221;
&#8220;White grievance is very good for your bottom lines,&#8221; Reid said. &#8220;So having me here to be able to continue to traffic in that, that is your shtick.&#8221;
Knowles said Reid&#8217;s accusation was pure projection.
&#8220;When she&#8217;s talking about this anger, this grievance — I think, frankly, Piers, you and I are two of the least aggrieved people in the entire media,&#8221; Knowles said. &#8220;Generally pretty chipper, cheery people.&#8221;
Knowles added that while the Left pushed grievance politics, President Donald Trump decided success would be the best form of revenge.
&#8220;He did bring on a lot of people, many more than just white people, to his coalition: 46% of Hispanics, one in five Black men, 40% of women under 30,&#8221; Knowles said. &#8220;So, he built a very large coalition here.&#8221;
That coalition, Knowles said, is concerning liberals such as former President Barack Obama, who pushed grievance politics.
&#8220;Obama was one of the big promoters of proto-wokeness,&#8221; Knowles said. &#8220;It spun out of control, so now you&#8217;re seeing this run away with them.&#8221;
Knowles said the Left is now trying to backtrack on grievance politics.
&#8220;The Democrats got creamed in the 2024 elections. And [Obama&#8217;s] saying, &#8216;Whoa, whoa, guys, bring it back. Don’t seem so aggrieved,'&#8221; Knowles said. &#8220;I just think it’s a little bit too late. He’s being hoisted with his own petard.&#8221;

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Regular MSNBC guest Elie Mystal called on other countries to sanction the United States, claiming that especially after the American military carried out strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities, &#8220;we are the bad guys on the world stage.&#8221;
Mystal, who also serves as justice correspondent for The Nation, joined ex-MSNBC host Joy Reid on her new eponymous show to discuss the targeted strikes against Iran, and they both appeared to take the side of the world&#8217;s most prolific and eager state sponsor of terror.
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Elie Mystal: &#8220;Our country is THE bad guy on the world stage. The world needs to stand against America. Sanction us.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/3OjPx52Ryn">pic.twitter.com/3OjPx52Ryn</a>
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&#8220;Joy, I’ve argued — and I don’t say this lightly — but our country needs to be sanctioned,&#8221; Mystal declared. &#8220;We are the bad guys on the world stage. We are a menace to not only free people everywhere, but we are a menace to peaceful people everywhere at this point.&#8221;
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&#8220;And I’m not even gonna say that we’ve only been a menace for the past three or four months, right? Like when does the international community decide that enough is enough?&#8221; Mystal continued. &#8220;I know we’re rich. I know we’ve got a lot of money. I know that people want to buy things from our country because we’re rich, or want to sell things to our country because we are rich. But at some point the international community has to stand up to us because we are a bad guy on the world stage, right? And so we should be sanctioned. We should be sanctioned and rebuked.&#8221;
Mystal has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/regular-msnbc-guest-all-laws-passed-before-1965-should-be-presumptively-unconstitutional">also claimed</a> in the past that all laws passed prior to 1965 — specifically, before the passage of the Voting Rights Act — should be considered &#8220;presumptively unconstitutional.&#8221;
&#8220;Before the 1965 Voting Rights Act, we were functionally an apartheid country. Not everybody who lived her could vote here,&#8221; Mystal told the hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View.&#8221; &#8220;So why should I give a **** about some law that some old white man passed in the 1920s?&#8221;
Just two months before President Donald Trump won his second term in the White House, Mystal argued on Reid&#8217;s now defunct MSNBC show that Trump only had a following because he&#8217;d rallied around supporters &#8220;just as despicable.&#8221;
&#8220;The reason why it doesn’t end his career is because his supporters are just as despicable, all right?” Mystal said. “Like Trump’s whole thing, he’s a narcissist, right? And so his whole thing is to have a complete lack of compassion and empathy for everybody else. It’s all about him. It’s all about him, him, him, me, me, me. He’s probably the least compassionate president we’ve had in 200 years since Andrew Jackson. And it works for him because his supporters are just as ungenerous, and have just as little compassion and empathy for others.&#8221;

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MSNBC Regular Wants Other Countries To Sanction U.S.: ‘We Are The Bad Guys’

MSNBC Regular Wants Other Countries To Sanction U.S.: 'We Are The Bad Guys'

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Former CNN anchor Don Lemon slammed Megyn Kelly who said she wouldn’t be crying any tears for MSNBC’s anchor Joy Reid losing her MSNBC show “The ReidOut” — and her subsequent exit from the network.
Speaking out on his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lscf4ARflpg">YouTube</a> show, Lemon went on a rant against Kelly, saying first that he “usually doesn’t like to talk about her,” and labeling her “a troll” and “a racist.”
“I usually don’t like to talk about her because she’s one of those people, she thrives on it,” Lemon said. “She has built the second part of her career on being a troll.” 
“Let me just say to Megyn Kelly, in my 30 some years as a journalist, and my 50 some years as a person of color, go f*** yourself,” he added, after playing a clip of Kelly saying something similar on her show about Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski and their visit to Mar-a-lago following President Donald Trump’s victory.
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— Don Lemon (@Donlemonbsky) <a href="https://twitter.com/Donlemonbsky/status/1894113478341779775?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
Lemon, who was fired from CNN in 2023, also said that “the worst person from television was fired from NBC and the &#8216;Today&#8217; show a few years ago, and that’s Megyn Kelly.”
The former CNN host’s rant came after Kelly posted on <a href="https://x.com/megynkelly/status/1893692907665686539">X</a>, “good riddance,” in reference to Reid.
“Remember when Joy Reid laughingly mocked ‘White women tears’ as pathetic and offensive to her? Who’s crying now, Joy?” Kelly wrote. “Good riddance to the absolute worst person on television, and shame on NBC for letting it go on this long.”
“Joy Reid has viciously mocked the tears of every white person she’s helped cancel over the years for some imaginary racial slight,” she <a href="https://x.com/megynkelly/status/1894120519063998544">added</a>. “She’s had zero empathy for anyone. Now she wants us to feel sorry for her. WE DON’T.”
Later on “The Megyn Kelly Show” podcast, the host played <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dqlgUvgLaP0">clips</a> of Reid’s “most racist moments” and said, “I’m thrilled she’s gone. She literally was the most racist person on television … But we won’t have her to kick around anymore, there’s a little sadness in that.”
“Single tear, White woman tears happening right here, Joy,” she <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8smx_6kwZac">added</a>. “She was officially fired over the weekend because she’s a racist, horrible news anchor with no ratings.”
At one point, Kelly pointed out that Reid could try independent media, like Don Lemon, who got fired from CNN and later announced his plans to start his own YouTube show. “Don Lemon’s podcast, abject failure,&#8221; Kelly said.
On Tuesday, Kelly <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DGguJtPRfXS/">addressed</a> Lemon’s rant against her and said “Don Lemon has no viewers. He has no listeners whatsoever. He has not been able to make it in the cable news world where he was repeatedly demoted. And then fired.”
“He was fired two minutes after getting hired by Elon [Musk], which should have been a lifeline to him, but he was too stupid to actually take advantage of it,” she added. “And now he’s too stupid to actually make it in the digital lane. So, he did the one thing he could think of to do which is get into the press by attacking me.”
“And now he’s gotten more ink than he’s gotten in the past four years,” Kelly continued. “But he’s a sad, pathetic little man who actually cannot make it in business on his own. And really at this point, thoughts and prayers, Don.”

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Don Lemon Slams Megyn Kelly After She Celebrates Joy Reid’s Termination

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Rachel Maddow put MSNBC on blast on Monday for firing host Joy Reid, saying the decision was “very, very, very hard to take.”
It was announced on Sunday that Reid’s daily 7 p.m. show “The ReidOut” would end this month. Maddow announced that &#8220;The Rachel Maddow Show&#8221; would air only on Mondays after President Donald Trump&#8217;s first 100 days in office, but she went on to mention that some of her colleagues wouldn’t be on the air at all.
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NO JOY: MSNBC&#39;s Rachel Maddow in the wake of Joy Reid&#39;s show being cancelled: &quot;I think it is a bad mistake…&quot; 
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It’s &quot;unnerving&quot; to see the network&#39;s decision to cancel shows hosted by nonwhite anchors: &quot;That feels indefensible.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/qBXhsYwmkX">pic.twitter.com/qBXhsYwmkX</a>
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&#8220;I am 51 years old. I have been gainfully employed since I was 12. And I have had so many different kinds of jobs, you wouldn&#8217;t believe me if I told you. But in all of the jobs I have had, in all of the years I have been alive, there is no colleague for whom I have had more affection and more respect than Joy Reid,&#8221; Maddow said. 
&#8220;I love everything about her. I have learned so much from her,” she said. “I have so much more to learn from her. I do not want to lose her as a colleague here at MSNBC, and personally, I think it is a bad mistake to let her walk out the door. It is not my call, and I understand that, but that&#8217;s what I think.&#8221;
Maddow said it was &#8220;unnerving&#8221; that MSNBC canceled primetime shows with &#8220;two non-white hosts.&#8221;
&#8220;And that feels worse than bad, no matter who replaces them,&#8221; Maddow said. &#8220;That feels indefensible, and I do not defend it.&#8221;
The TV host failed to mention that “The ReidOut” time slot is being replaced by current weekend hosts Symone Sanders-Townsend, Michael Steele, and Alicia Menendez. Two of these hosts are black, and one is Latina. 
Reid <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/im-not-sorry-tearful-joy-reid-claims-her-anti-trump-anti-israel-screeds-were-of-god">reacted</a> to the news during a podcast interview on Sunday, saying she was “not sorry” for some of the more controversial statements she’s made on the show, including statements on Black Lives Matter, immigration, Gaza, and criticism about President Trump. 
“And where I come down on that is, I’m not sorry. I am not sorry that I stood up for those things because those things are of God,” Reid said.

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Rachel Maddow Slams MSNBC For Firing Joy Reid: ‘Indefensible’

Rachel Maddow Blasts MSNBC For Firing Joy Reid: 'Indefensible'

Nature is healing. 
Nowhere is it more healing than right now at MSNBC. 
Joy Reid is apparently losing her show at MSNBC and leaving the network completely.
But MSNBC insists they are going to continue with their leftist views. They are not going to move toward the center. Genius-level ideas from the leadership over at MSNBC.
They are reportedly going to move Jen Psaki, former White House press secretary to Joe Biden, to anchor one of the primetime hours during the week. She could be named anchor of MSNBC&#8217;s 9 p.m. hour, where Rachel Maddow is currently holding court. Joy Reid is apparently going to be replaced by Symone Sanders-Townsend, who was a press secretary for Bernie Sanders before being a press secretary for Kamala Harris; Michael Steele, the former RNC chairman who has moved far to the Left; and Alicia Menendez. The leadership over at MSNBC suggests they are going to add Politico&#8217;s Eugene Daniels and NYU law professor Melissa Murray to the network&#8217;s lineup as well.
So they are continuing to move over to the Left. This reflects a serious problem in the Democratic Party: They do not know which way to move. They are stuck because of identity politics and, largely, because of immigration. They are now stuck in a rut of their own making, and it is very difficult to break out of that rut.
As a result, Democrats are thrashing against the box of reality. Former Bill Clinton pollster Mark Penn points out the Democratic Party is more unpopular than they&#8217;ve been any time in his lifetime, <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/former-clinton-pollster-tells-fox-news-democratic-party-support-is-at-record-low-and-falling-off-a-cliff/">saying</a>, “I have never seen anything like this. This is a record low for the Democratic Party in terms of favorability.”
Democrats are trying to figure out exactly to whom they should turn in the wake of Donald Trump&#8217;s victory and the fact that he&#8217;s now steamrolling through his agenda. Do they turn back to the supposedly moderate types, the Joe Biden types? Or should they double down on Kamala Harris, who is still wandering the landscape.
Democrats themselves are torn as to how to approach the Trump administration. On the one hand, they want to go back to resistance-style anger. They want to just scream at the wind — a lot. The problem for them is that they can&#8217;t find a point of consolidation because much of what Trump is doing right now is quite popular.
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So, they&#8217;re stuck in a weird in-between. On the one hand, they want to preach that Trump is non-empathetic and more empathy is needed.
But people don&#8217;t see the Democrats as empathetic.
At a town hall event in Roswell, Georgia, a Democrat woman went on a rant over the weekend that got a lot of attention from the Left. She <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/news/town-hall-erupts-at-blistering-anti-trump-rant-torching-tyranny-gets-standing-ovation-in-trump-district/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blustered</a>:
<blockquote>It&#8217;s clear from all the writings of our founding fathers that our great republic was never meant to be ruled by a dictator nor a king. It’s clear from all the writings of our Founding Fathers that our great Republic was never meant to be ruled by a dictator, nor a king. … So you can imagine my shock and pure horror when I woke up to find that our president had given himself unprecedented executive powers, and then, within a few days, named himself King to his followers. … Tyranny is rising in the white House, and a man has declared himself our king. So I would like to know. Rather the people would like to know what you, congressman, and your fellow congressman are going to do to rein in the megalomaniac in the White House.</blockquote>
All of this rings hollow. It is sound and fury signifying almost nothing at this point because the Democratic Party does not know what it stands for. On the one hand, they want to say they are for everyone. On the other hand, they want to push identity politics. On the one hand, they want to talk about no dictatorship. On the other hand, they want government to control every part of Americans’ lives. On the one hand, they want to rave that Trump is breaking down foreign policy. On the other hand, they want to surrender almost everywhere.
So which is it?
In the end, the answer is that, for Democrats, their future hinges on one thing: Trump&#8217;s failure. If Trump fails, they win.
It&#8217;s that simple. They don&#8217;t have anything else. Their only point of consolidation is if Trump and his administration fail at making America succeed. That is the only way that they have a pathway back to power.
Democrats are betting that it&#8217;s all going to fall apart for President Trump. And massive collapse doesn&#8217;t appear to be on the horizon — unless there is some sort of serious economic problem. And that is why the central focus of the Trump administration right now must be on bringing down inflation; it must be on economic growth. That&#8217;s what the central focus has to be.
Yes, we want to see President Trump keep all of his promises — and he will with regard to immigration. Sure, we would like to see President Trump bring an end to the war in Ukraine in a reasonable fashion.
But the thing that Americans care most about — and this is always true — is their economic well-being. We have a real estate bubble because fewer people are selling their homes and demand has remained. We have a stock market bubble which is likely to break at some point. These are the worries the Trump administration has to deal with.
Inflation is driving both of those things because the currency was wildly inflated over the course of Biden&#8217;s tenure. Inflation remains at 3% right now, which is 50% higher than the Federal Reserve generally prefers. That means interest rates are unlikely to come down, which means it will be tough to get a loan. At the same time, someone who has a loan will not want to spend their money on inflated assets.
This is a bit of a sticky patch for the American economy. Productivity gains will help; more competition, less regulation, more investment in newer things will help.
But DOGE alone is not going to solve these fiscal problems.
It&#8217;s very good to talk about waste, fraud, and abuse, but those three elements amount to a negligible percentage of actual federal spending.
To unshackle the economy and see productivity gains, business growth, and an economic boom, the kinds of programs that no one is politically willing to target must be targeted.
The single most important op-ed of the last five years was <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/welfare-is-whats-eating-the-budget-10c9d093?mod=e2two" target="_blank" rel="noopener">penned</a> by House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington and former U.S. Senator Phil Gramm in September of last year. In it, they discussed what is actually driving America&#8217;s systemic national debt. The actual systemic drivers of the debt, as Arrington and Phil Gramm pointed out, are in the means-tested social welfare spending programs — precisely the things that neither party actually wants to touch, such as Medicaid, food stamps, refundable tax credits, Supplemental Security Income, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, federal housing subsidies, and almost 100 other programs.
What&#8217;s actually to bring long-lasting success is not going to be cutting around the edges. It&#8217;s not going to be posturing. What&#8217;s actually to bring long-lasting success is what is most politically difficult.
But if nobody&#8217;s willing to do it, then basically we&#8217;re just going to end up in a leftist populist horseshoe where, despite all the talk about innovation, government just continues to grow and gobble up an increasing portion of Americans’ earnings and savings where a smaller and smaller percentage of the population is actually working while the government continues to spiral out of control in terms of growth. And productivity does not actually outpace all of the spending of government and the taxation of government.
That is the problem President Trump is facing.
The easy route for Democrats to take when things fall down because of all these giant programs that they themselves have enshrined is just to claim that capitalism failed.
At some point, Congress, particularly, is going to have to stand up and President Trump is going to have to start pushing for some real systemic change on the regulatory side.
He&#8217;s going to have to push for some real systemic change when it comes to these means-tested welfare programs.
If the premise of the current American political moment is that we are in a moment of scarcity with scarce resources, that we are in danger of being out-produced by countries like China, that the American budget is too large, that our tax burden is too high, and that we&#8217;re spending too much money, then we have to look at the right places. Looking at the wrong places does not lead to solving the problem, and then things will go from bad to worse.
And that’s the only hope Democrats have.

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Newly-ousted host Joy Reid gave a tearful interview just hours after it was reported that her 7 p.m. daily show &#8220;The Reidout&#8221; was being canceled — and that she was leaving MSNBC entirely as a result.
Reid made an appearance on a Sunday episode of the &#8220;Win With Black Women&#8221; podcast, where she talked about the breaking news and doubled down on positions she&#8217;d taken over the years with MSNBC.
&#8220;I’ve been through every emotion from, you know, anger, rage, disappointment, hurt, you know, a feeling that, you know, guilt. You know, that I let my team lose their jobs,&#8221; Reid said. &#8220;But in the end, where I really land and where I’ve landed on today is just gratitude. Just pure gratitude and gratitude — not just because people would take the time to get on a call like this or to take care of me, but also that my show had value and that &#8212; I’m sorry &#8212; that what I was doing had value.&#8221;
Reid apologized then for getting emotional, saying that sometimes the instinct was to feel guilt that she &#8220;went hard&#8221; on issues that she&#8217;d believed were important.
&#8220;Whether it was the Black Lives Matter issues of a young baby or a mom or dad that was killed, or when we opened up people’s eyes to the fact that Asian Americans were being targeted and not just black folks,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;That – or went hard for immigrants who’ve done nothing but come to this country like my parents did and try to make a life and defended them.&#8221;
&#8220;Or whether we’ve talked about what the president is doing that is subversive to the Constitution, that is injurious to our liberty, you know, defending books that people find inconvenient, you know, that Nikole Hannah-Jones put into our spirit that we need to understand 1619 as the real founding of this country,&#8221; Reid continued.
&#8220;Whether it’s talking about any of these issues and, yes, whether it’s talking about Gaza and the fact that we as the American people have a right to object, to have a right to object to little babies being bombed,&#8221; Reid concluded, making no mention of the Israeli babies who were killed on October 7th and in the months since. &#8220;And where I come down on that is, I’m not sorry. I am not sorry that I stood up for those things because those things are of God.&#8221;
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‘I’m Not Sorry’: Tearful Joy Reid Claims Her Anti-Trump, Anti-Israel Screeds Were ‘Of God’

'I'm Not Sorry': Tearful Joy Reid Claims Her Anti-Trump, Anti-Israel Screeds Were 'Of God'

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MSNBC may be dropping Joy Reid&#8217;s daily show &#8220;The Reidout&#8221; at the end of February, but a wide selection of the far-left host&#8217;s hot takes will live forever on the internet.
With just days to go before Reid is replaced by a trio of leftists — Symone Sanders-Townsend, Michael Steele, and Alicia Menendez — here are a few of the hottest of Reid&#8217;s hot takes from recent years.
<h4>That time she claimed that Joe Biden surviving COVID was no less bada** than Donald Trump surviving an assassination attempt.</h4>
&#8220;These two men are both elderly. Donald Trump is an elderly man who for whatever reason was given nine seconds to take a … iconic photo op during an active shooter situation — weird situation, we’ll figure that out one day,&#8221; Reid began.
&#8220;But his survival of that, and bouncing right back and going right to his convention is being conveyed in the media world as a sign of strength,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;This current President of the United States is 81 years old and has COVID. Should he be fine in a couple of days, doesn’t that convey exactly the same thing? That he’s strong enough — older than Trump — to have gotten something that used to really be fatal to people his age. So if he does fine out of it and comes back and he rallies, isn’t that exactly the same?&#8221;
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Throwback to when Joy Reid suggested that Trump surviving the shooting and going immediately to the RNC was be exactly the same as Joe Biden beating Covid and going to the DNC. Unsurprising her show is cancelled. <a href="https://t.co/gL0zENSuSf">pic.twitter.com/gL0zENSuSf</a>
&mdash; T.J. Moe (@TJMoe28) <a href="https://twitter.com/TJMoe28/status/1893656955316486633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
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<h4>Then there was the time she scolded minorities who supported Trump, claiming that they signed up for the &#8220;humiliation&#8221; that came with being in his orbit.</h4>
&#8220;Part of the price of MAGAdom, particularly if you are a person of color is to take the humiliation, you know? I mean, Nikki Haley was not even invited, she was ostentatiously disinvited from this convention. Yet, she still said, ‘I pledge all my delegates to Trump,’&#8221; Reid said.
&#8220;Tim Scott humiliated himself daily and then has continued to do so on this stage. I am stunned. And sad for him in the display he just did. But the humiliation of Tim Scott is part of the game and it’s part of the price,&#8221; she added, arguing that they also allowed Trump to &#8220;abuse&#8221; their communities. &#8220;Marco Rubio has been allowing himself to be humiliated by Donald Trump since he drank the tiny water bottle. Like, he’s never going to stop letting Trump humiliate him.&#8221;
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Joy Reid claims &quot;part of the price&quot; to be minority and in the MAGA movement is &quot;to take the humiliation.&quot; She lashes out at Tim Scott, Marco Rubio, and Byron Donalds and accuses them of enabling &quot;an abuse of these communities to make these people walk the plank.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/4lvK50T9uc">pic.twitter.com/4lvK50T9uc</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1813052352594694473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<h4>Who could forget the time she complained that Trump got a PR boost from getting shot during the rally in Butler, PA.</h4>
Demanding that the media stand up and &#8220;be the guardians of memory,&#8221; she fretted that the shooting would &#8220;allow Donald Trump, as he’s you know bathed in the glory and grandeur of his party to rewrite himself as both a hero and a victim that people who are the most vulnerable to not just the things he’s done but the things he’s promising to do, and that that will happen without a guardian saying wait, stop, and then the media will acquiesce to this rewrite.&#8221;
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Joy Reid fears that, after the assassination attempt on Trump, &quot;the media will acquiesce&quot; to Republicans and not label Trump &quot;the greatest purveyor and promoter of political violence&#8230;since George Wallace.&quot;
She doesn&#39;t want Trump to &quot;rewrite himself as a victim.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/f5QSVcYwkO">pic.twitter.com/f5QSVcYwkO</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1812991398758486524?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<h4>She not only bought into the notion that the legal cases against Trump would be what ended his political career, but was convinced that they were evidence of &#8220;racially-based vengeance.&#8221;</h4>
&#8220;But for me, there is something wonderfully poetic about the fact … the first person to actually criminally prosecute Donald Trump is a black Harvard grad,” Reid said. “The very kind of person that his former staff, the people who worked for him, Steven Miller, etc., want to never be at Harvard Law School. But he was. And he came out and graduated, and he’s prosecuting you, Donald.”
Reid went on to reference Willis in Georgia and New York Attorney General Letitia James, noting their roles in other cases against the former president.
“And a black woman is doing that same exact thing in Georgia and a black woman forced you to pay a $175 million fine,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Donald Trump is being held to account by the very multicultural, multiracial democracy that he’s trying to dismantle. … It says something good about our country that we’re still capable of having that happen. Go, DEI. My DEIs are bringing it home.&#8221;
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Joy Reid suggests that the criminal cases brought against Trump is racially-based vengeance by black officials:
&quot;Go DEI. My DEIs are bringing it home.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/r9THOyWMGn">pic.twitter.com/r9THOyWMGn</a>
&mdash; End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1780345671163273582?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<h4>She even compared calls to protect the southern border to the old south&#8217;s resistance to racial integration.</h4>
Reid complained that Republicans had the ability to come up with a real solution to the illegal immigration problem, but &#8220;they just refuse to do it because many Republicans now see calling for zero tolerance on the border as the only way to animate their base.”
She concluded the thought by claiming that Texas Republicans sounded “like the old southerners who said that we will resist integration by any means necessary.&#8221;
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MSNBC&#39;s Joy Reid compares <a href="https://twitter.com/chiproytx?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@chiproytx</a>&#39;s call to protect the southern border to &quot;the old Southerners who said that we will resist integration by any means necessary&quot;. To the racial demagogue, everything looks like racism. <a href="https://t.co/a876itUHCb">pic.twitter.com/a876itUHCb</a>
&mdash; Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) <a href="https://twitter.com/BonillaJL/status/1750358635534848375?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 25, 2024</a></blockquote>
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MSNBC is axing far left host Joy Reid&#8217;s 7pm show, &#8220;The Reidout,&#8221; as ratings flip-flop in the wake of President Donald Trump&#8217;s second inauguration — but if the batters on deck to take Reid&#8217;s place are any indication, the network has no interest in embracing an ideological shift.
Variety reported that Reid&#8217;s final episode is set to air in the last week of February — and other reports indicate that Reid, much like former CNN anchor Jim Acosta, plans to leave the network entirely. Alex Wagner, who hosts weeknights at 9pm except for the Mondays hosted by longtime network star Rachel Maddow, is also out.
But reports also indicate that despite the shake-up, the network is not going to change direction anytime soon.
Sliding into Reid&#8217;s slot on Mondays will be the trio that currently hosts &#8220;The Weekend&#8221; on Saturday and Sunday mornings: Symone Sanders-Townsend, who previously worked for Bernie Sanders&#8217; 2016 presidential campaign and former President Joe Biden&#8217;s 2020 campaign in addition to working for former Vice President Kamala Harris; former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, who has been sliding progressively leftward since leaving the party; and Alicia Menendez, daughter of disgraced  former Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ).
Sanders-Townsend, Steele, and Menendez will get two hours on Mondays beginning at 7pm ET, and one hour at 7pm Tuesday through Friday.
Wagner&#8217;s spot will go at least in part to current the Sunday morning host of &#8220;Inside with Psaki,&#8221; former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki. Wagner&#8217;s title will be changed to &#8220;contributor.&#8221;
Newly-named MSNBC President Rebecca Kutler, who was just named to the position on February 12, is said to be behind the changes. SpinCO CEO Mark Lazarus promoted Kutler from interim president to president, saying that he believed she was the one to move the recently-spun off network forward.
&#8220;In the short time that Rebecca was the interim president, it became clear to me that she has the big-picture strategic view and the right leadership skills to ensure MSNBC delivers on its brand promise and is positioned for growth during a time of industry change,&#8221; he said at the time.

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Far-Left MSNBC host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joy-reid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joy Reid</a> falsely claimed Wednesday night that Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro was funded by an oligarch.
During MSNBC’s coverage of President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a>’s farewell address, Reid claimed that Shapiro and other conservatives were being propped up by a hidden group of wealthy oligarchs. Reid made the comment after Biden used his speech to claim that there was a rising American “oligarchy” endangering the country.
“And these oligarchs, they’ve always been there. Who do you think was paying for, you know Rush Limbaugh? He was a very wealthy man. Fox is owned by an oligarch. Who do they think is funding the Ben Shapiro [Show] and other podcasts?” Reid claimed. 
“The oligarchy has been hidden in the background the whole time and Biden is this pivot president as America is hurtling toward sort of falling in love with these rich tech gods, these tech bros,” Reid added, seeming to take a shot at Trump ally Elon Musk, who is promising to bring reform to the government. 
Reid was mocked online for the claim, including by Daily Wire co-founder Jeremy Boreing, who pointed out Shapiro helped to create The Daily Wire, which generated over $200 million in revenue last year.  
“In which Joy Reid &#8211; who reportedly makes over $3M a year &#8211; claims Ben Shapiro is funded by an oligarch when, in fact, the company he helped create generated well over $200M last year in advertising and subscription revenue (plus a few razor sales!),” he said. “Joy Reid lives in such a bubble she doesn&#8217;t know there is an actual audience for conservative ideas, and she is so economically illiterate she doesn&#8217;t know how value is created.”
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In which Joy Reid &#8211; who reportedly makes over $3M a year &#8211; claims Ben Shapiro is funded by an oligarch when, in fact, the company he helped create generated well over $200M last year in advertising and subscription revenue (plus a few razor sales!).
Joy Reid lives in such a… <a href="https://t.co/ci9vvFdZTv">pic.twitter.com/ci9vvFdZTv</a>
— Jeremy Boreing (@JeremyDBoreing) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyDBoreing/status/1879927117128794291?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“Daily Wire creates value, and we&#8217;re always working to create more,” he added. “Still, if there are any oligarchs out there who would like to fund us, I can only say we may not be very good, but we&#8217;re real expensive…”
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Reid made her claims when reacting to Biden&#8217;s assertions that the United States was being taken over by an “oligarchy.” 
“Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power, and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead,” Biden <a href="https://www.kshb.com/politics/the-president/biden-says-oligarchy-is-taking-shape-in-america-in-farewell-speech">claimed</a>. “We see the consequences all across America. And we’ve seen it before, more than a century ago.”

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Far-left MSNBC host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joy-reid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joy Reid</a> complained Tuesday night on the network that President-elect Donald Trump was pressuring the Hamas terrorist organization to release the dozens of hostages that remain inside Gaza.
Reid compared Trump to mob boss Tony Soprano from the hit HBO show &#8220;The Sopranos,&#8221; complaining that he was &#8220;muscling other countries&#8221; on social media, like threatening BRICS countries — Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa — with tariffs if they moved away from the U.S. dollar.
Reid then complained that Trump was &#8220;demanding Hamas release all hostages being held in Gaza before his inauguration, or there will be, &#8216;all hell to pay in the Middle East.'&#8221;
An estimated 63 hostages are still alive inside Gaza after they were kidnapped from their homes by Hamas during the Iranian-backed terrorist group&#8217;s unprecedented attack on October 7 last year. Several Americans are believed to still be alive.
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HAHAHAHA Joy Reid is melting down over Trump joking about annexing Canada and threatening Hamas
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— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1864108104041836898?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 4, 2024</a></blockquote>
Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-calls-on-hamas-to-release-hostages-or-there-will-be-all-hell-to-pay" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> a statement on Truth Social after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said this week that American-Israeli hostage Omer Neutra — who for months was thought to be alive in Hamas captivity — was killed on October 7, 2023, and his body has been held by the terrorists in the Gaza Strip.
“Everybody is talking about the hostages who are being held so violently, inhumanely, and against the will of the entire World, in the Middle East – But it’s all talk, and no action!” he wrote. “Please let this TRUTH serve to represent that if the hostages are not released prior to January 20, 2025, the date that I proudly assume Office as President of the United States, there will be ALL HELL TO PAY in the Middle East, and for those in charge who perpetrated these atrocities against Humanity. Those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied History of the United States of America. RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW!”
Hamas murdered 1,200+ people during the attack, wounded thousands more, and took hundreds hostage. The attack ignited a multi-front war throughout the Middle East against Iranian-backed terrorist groups outside of Gaza, including Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and various groups in Iraq and Syria.
The conflict has also erupted into a direct shooting war between Israel and Iran after Iran fired hundreds of missiles in response to Israel killing top terrorist leaders.
Zach Jewell contributed to this report.

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