Joy Reid did a side-by-side comparison of the United States and Iran, and her overall takeaway was that if American women were better off than their Iranian counterparts, they were not better off by much.
Reid, who was ousted from her regular gig with liberal network MSNBC before NBC News jettisoned the now rebranded cable news network (MS NOW), argued that the United States had secret police just like Iran and was just as oppressive when it came to how women were treated — although she listed off the &#8220;oppressive&#8221; policies impacting American women and did not mention one of the many that affect Iranian women. The only real difference, she claimed, was that American oppression came at the hands of Christians and Iran&#8217;s oppressive regime was rooted in Islam.
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&#8220;We get told, particularly when it comes to Arabs and Muslims and Africans, that people are just diabolically evil for no reason, right? That they do things because they hate our freedoms. We were told this about Iraq, that they just hated us for no damn reason at all,&#8221; Reid said, suggesting that the narrative was invented out of whole cloth in order to justify American actions.
&#8220;Now, I’m not saying that that regime is not bad, but, by the way, our regime is not good,&#8221; Reid continued. &#8220;Our regime has secret police. They have secret police. Our regime is oppressing women, taking away abortion rights, taking away women’s rights in like 26 states — some states where they’re trying to have the death penalty for having an abortion.&#8221;
Reid acknowledged briefly that the Iranian rulers &#8220;also oppress women,&#8221; but omitted the <a href="https://iranhumanrights.org/2025/03/gender-apartheid-in-iran-is-crushing-womens-lives-and-futures/">extent of that oppression</a>. A number of the regime&#8217;s laws — and the punishment for breaking them — only apply to women.
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<li>Women must adhere to a mandatory dress code that requires covering their hair, arms, and legs in public. The regime&#8217;s so-called “morality police” — along with surveillance cameras — enforce the rule, and women who disobey could face hefty fines, prison sentences of five to 15 years, or be barred from travel. In 2022, for example, the morality police arrested Mahsa Amini for allegedly wearing her hijab improperly, and she died after they brutally beat her. Nationwide protests followed.</li>
<li>Women can be arrested or thrown in prison for social media posts showing them without their hijabs or for posting dance videos online.</li>
<li>Women must also wear a hijab when appearing in films or on television, because Iranian law requires the covering in all public media.</li>
<li>Women are not permitted to sing solos in front of mixed audiences, meaning that female performers are restricted to performing at female-only events or recorded performances.</li>
<li>Women have often been banned from attending men’s sporting events, especially soccer matches, leading to a number of women being arrested for dressing as men in order to attend such events.</li>
<li>Many women require permission from a father or male guardian to marry, regardless of their age at the time, if it is their first marriage.</li>
<li>Girls can legally be married at 13, but a younger girl can be forced to marry if her father or a judge decrees it.</li>
<li>Married women are not permitted to leave the country or obtain a passport without first getting written permission from their husbands.</li>
<li>A woman’s testimony in court is only worth half of a man’s testimony.</li>
<li>Women typically inherit less than men, meaning that daughters usually receive only half the inheritance that would be given to sons.</li>
<li>The Iranian constitution bars women from ever becoming president, and women are not permitted to become judges.</li>
<li>Married women can be legally barred from holding a job if their husbands claim that their work conflicts with their family obligations.</li>
<li>Men can file for and obtain divorces for any reason, but women risk losing inheritances and child custody — and are rarely granted divorces anyway.</li>
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Reid, clearly unbothered by that, went on to claim, &#8220;They have the highest rate of women who are in STEM careers. We’re kicking women out of the military, out of university. We’re saying that DEI means women can’t be hired for high positions in the sciences.&#8221;
While it has been claimed in viral social media posts that 70% of STEM graduates in Iran are women, data from the <a href="https://databrowser.uis.unesco.org/view#indicatorPaths=UIS-EducationOPRI%3A0%3AFOSGP.5T8.F500600700.F&amp;geoMode=countries&amp;geoUnits=IRN%2CUSA&amp;browsePath=EDUCATION%2FUIS-EducationOPRI%2Fgraduates&amp;timeMode=range&amp;view=line&amp;chartMode=single&amp;tableIndicatorId=FOSGP.5T8.F500600700.F&amp;chartHighlightSeries=&amp;chartHighlightEnabled=true&amp;chartIndicatorId=FOSGP.5T8.F500600700.F">United Nations</a> shows that 25% of Iran&#8217;s STEM graduates are female.
&#8220;So we’re marginally better,&#8221; Reid concluded. &#8220;And we’re doing it for Christianity, they’re doing it for Islam, right? So, it’s like we don’t get told those things because it would take away the kind of American exceptionalism narrative that makes it easy to take our people and send them off to die in a war that we have nothing to do with, that we don’t want.&#8221;
The Daily Wire&#8217;s Isabel Brown fired back at Reid, saying, &#8220;Forgive my Christian ignorance but when was the last time a woman was BEATEN TO DEATH BY THE MORALITY POLICE for a sliver of her hair showing in a Christian country?&#8221;

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Joy Reid Says Iranian Women Are As Free As Americans — The Brutal Reality Says Otherwise

Joy Reid Compares U.S. And Iran Side By Side, Concludes America Is Just Barely Better

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A recent video claims that the Christmas song &#8220;Jingle Bells&#8221; is racist. And lest you think that&#8217;s absurd, let me say that no less a philosopher than Joy Reid retweeted the video, because she had nothing better to do since MSNBC canceled her show when they found they couldn’t fit a camera into her padded cell. To be fair, MSNBC also canceled MSNBC, changing its name to MS-NOW, which caused the MSNBC audience to sit up and say, “Where the hell am I?” before she sank back into the marijuana-fueled haze she’s been in since 1969. 
The idea that &#8220;Jingle Bells&#8221; is racist emanates from the work of a Boston University professor who says &#8220;Jingle Bells&#8221; isn’t racist. The professor does say the song may have been first performed in a nineteenth century minstrel show, where white people dressed up as black people in the hope of tricking the audience into thinking they had musical talent. The author of &#8220;Jingle Bells&#8221; wrote songs for such black-face shows, and also fought in the Civil War on the side of the Confederacy, but he’s dead now so he got his. 
What’s left is the song itself. And yes, it certainly is a sinister anthem of racist bigotry with such offensive lyrics as “Now the ground is white,” which clearly suggests white supremacy to anyone who is so google-eyed crazy they wear their baseball cap backwards just in case someone should try to sneak up behind them. The very lyrics, “Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle all the way,” constitute an obvious and vicious attack on the aspirations and dignity of a race of oppressed people whose suffering cries out so loudly and persistently that it is inexplicable how I managed to fall asleep before I even finished writing this sentence. 
Thus, &#8220;Jingle Bells&#8221; joins other foul expressions of Christmas wickedness like “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” That song recreated the age-old ritual of flirtation and seduction that has given both men and women some of the most pleasurable moments of their lives. It thereby angered feminists by reminding them how unfair it is that no one ever flirts with them because their scrunched-up faces and shrill falcon-like voices would shrivel the desire of a satyr, not to mention the fact that squeezing even fifteen seconds of desirable femininity out of those shrikes is barely worth the trouble of lighting their cigarettes, so who cares how cold it is, go home already.
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Now, of course, I don’t mean to make fun of the ridiculous clowns who bring these matters to our attention. After all, it’s deeply important not to turn our eyes away from anything about this season that we can pretend is offensive. Otherwise, people might drift off into a state of complacent holiday cheer, humming merrily as they greet one another on the snowy streets with a reawakened sense of fellowship and well-being brought about by the knowledge that the savior of the world was born on Christmas Day to save us all from Satan’s power with his everlasting love and forgiveness. What a waste of our brief time on earth it would be to focus on that, when instead we could be dredging up centuries-old acts of unkindness that may or may not have been committed by people who, anyway, are now long dead — so they got theirs.
We must never allow ourselves to become so immersed in feelings of good will towards men that we miss the opportunity to poison the pleasure of seasonal merry-makers by twisting the facts until we can append some imaginary crime or other to yet another facet of what used to be the happiest season of the year. We must always remember that if we can manage to make even one person feel guilty for something he never even dreamed of doing, it will make us seem like virtuous culture warriors instead of the useless jerkwads we so obviously are.
So remember…. Even if someone just says, “Merry Christmas,” be sure to point out that that is not inclusive language, and it offends those people who don’t believe in Christ and thus cruelly reminds them of the lonely, tortured hell of godless eternity they will experience after death. Jingling all the way.
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‘Jingle Bells’ Is Racist, Says Joy Reid

'Jingle Bells' Is Racist, Says Joy Reid

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Ousted MSNBC host Joy Reid finally asked the same question Republicans have been asking for months: Why did Democrats have so little curiosity about the contents of the Epstein Files when President Joe Biden was still in the White House and could have done something about it?
Reid, speaking with popular &#8220;The Breakfast Club&#8221; host Charlamagne tha God, tore into former Attorney General Merrick Garland, who served throughout the Biden administration, for exactly that.
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🚨NEW: Joy Reid *TORCHES* Merrick Garland for failing to catch J6 Pipe Bomber &amp; release Epstein Files🚨
&#8220;Merrick Garland was there for 4 years! What were you doing!? The Epstein files. Merrick, what were you doing!? For 4 years!? You had the same evidence, the same files! Why… <a href="https://t.co/00rcNrlFJA">pic.twitter.com/00rcNrlFJA</a>
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonJournoDC/status/1998443634299994136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Reid began with a brief assessment of the January 6 pipe bomb case, noting that President Donald Trump’s Justice Department had wrapped that up rather neatly and pointedly asking what Garland had been up to that he couldn’t get the job done.
“I don’t understand why he escapes the smoke. Even the Epstein files thing. I’m like, wait a minute. You’re telling me nine months into this administration, the podcast guys are claiming they caught the — now, I don’t know if this young man is the person that put the pipe bombs … but I know they said we solved the case in nine months,” Reid said.
“Merrick Garland was there for four years. What were you doing?” she complained. “The Epstein files. Merrick, what were you doing? For four years? You had the same evidence, the same files. Why didn’t you release them? Merrick Garland did, to me, nothing for four years. He might as well not have been there.”
With regard to the Epstein Files, the Justice Department is currently working to comply with the recently passed legislation mandating the release of all relevant documents that do not contain classified materials.

Ex-MSNBC Host Finally Asks Why Merrick Garland Didn’t Release Epstein Files

Ex-MSNBC Host Finally Asks Why Merrick Garland Didn't Release Epstein Files

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Ousted MSNBC host Joy Reid admitted that she would probably &#8220;freak out&#8221; if she saw a naked man while she was changing her clothes in a women&#8217;s locker room.
Reid was discussing the issue on Sunday&#8217;s episode of her &#8220;Reid This Reid That&#8221; podcast, and she referenced a recent incident that took place in California. Singer Tish Hyman went viral after she confronted a man in the women&#8217;s locker room at a Los Angeles gym — and she was kicked out because the man in question identified as transgender.
&#8220;I would be disturbed. I would be alarmed. I’m alarmed enough when I see a woman with her dangling boobies,&#8221; Reid was careful to qualify her statement. &#8220;If I saw a penis in the ladies’ locker room, I would freak out, too.&#8221;
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&#8220;What it’s saying is if I turn around and I see a pee pee, a penis in front of me inside of the room, I would probably go to management and say, ‘Wait a minute. Why is there somebody — a naked man — in this room?’” Reid said. &#8220;Because just the world we live in, just from a safety standpoint and just from a privacy standpoint … I can see why she would have gone and reported to management.”
&#8220;Because if she’s uncomfortable, does she not have the right to be at least uncomfortable with the situation?&#8221; Reid asked.
Former collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines — who was forced at the 2022 NCAA championships to not only compete against a biological male but to change in the same locker rooms — was not terribly impressed with Reid&#8217;s sudden conversion.
&#8220;Ah. Joy Reid says she doesn’t want to see a penis in the women’s locker room,&#8221; she posted. &#8220;She’s going to pretend she’s believed this all along, never addressing the years she spent attacking and smearing women who said this exact thing.&#8221;
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Ah. Joy Reid says she doesn’t want to see a penis in the women’s locker room.
She’s going to pretend she’s believed this all along, never addressing the years she spent attacking and smearing women who said this exact thing. <a href="https://t.co/sNLz2DrvU7">pic.twitter.com/sNLz2DrvU7</a>
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1991095270353084819?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Reid sang a very different tune in 2016, when she used the phrase &#8220;bathroom panic&#8221; to describe the people who were freaking out about trans-identifying individuals using bathrooms that corresponded to their adopted gender rather than their biological sex.
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In 2016, Joy Reid repeatedly mocked anyone worried about biological males in women’s spaces:
“The sort of apocalyptic language… ‘bathroom panic’&#8230; which is the term I’ve coined for it as well”
“Should a transgender man with a mustache and beard be forced to walk into the… <a href="https://t.co/7xPRxuS5px">https://t.co/7xPRxuS5px</a> <a href="https://t.co/nrdBFCNzg8">pic.twitter.com/nrdBFCNzg8</a>
— Media Lies (@MediasLies) <a href="https://twitter.com/MediasLies/status/1990944055363350985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Ousted MSNBC Host Admits She’d ‘Freak Out’ If She Saw A Naked Man In The Women’s Locker Room

Ousted MSNBC Host Admits She'd 'Freak Out' If She Saw A Naked Man In The Women's Locker Room

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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.”

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>
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonJournoDC/status/1956397474525917282?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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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'

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;
Surprise guest <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@michaeljknowles</a> joins former MSNBC host Joy Reid on Piers Morgan Uncensored. <a href="https://t.co/MkW1px8HWZ">pic.twitter.com/MkW1px8HWZ</a>
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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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&#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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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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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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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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&#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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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’

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