&#8220;The Office&#8221; star Rainn Wilson gave MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle some pushback during a recent interview, after she attempted to claim that public distrust in media could be traced directly back to President Donald Trump and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk.
Wilson actually posed the question, citing poll data and saying that some &#8220;40% of Americans don&#8217;t trust mainstream media.&#8221; He then pressed Ruhle to address that distrust and explain what she believed to be at the root of that problem.
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&#8220;Why is that? How did we get here?&#8221; he asked.
&#8220;Listen, we are seeing a huge loss of trust in all of our institutions. It&#8217;s the media. It&#8217;s medicine. It&#8217;s banking. It&#8217;s a huge problem because when you think about democracy and all of these pillars, they need to stand tall, they need to stand strong,&#8221; Ruhle replied, pivoting to blame Trump almost immediately.
&#8220;And sort of losing that trust is not by accident, it&#8217;s by design,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;If you remember when President Trump was running the first time, Steve Bannon once said, &#8216;The goal is to blow the whole thing up.&#8217; And so I think that you&#8217;ve got mistakes made or things starting to slip while at the same time there&#8217;s a concerted effort to destroy the media. Because the media — the news media — is, in my opinion, the last line of defense of holding power accountable.&#8221;
Ruhle went on to say that the &#8220;perfect storm&#8221; of Trump getting reelected and Musk drawing people away from traditional media had ultimately been what had brought about such high levels of distrust.
&#8220;This is where I would push back,&#8221; Wilson interrupted, adding, &#8220;When I see this kind of insight and passion being directed at the current administration and the lack of this kind of insight and passion being directed at the previous administration — where, again, I&#8217;m not talking about you, I&#8217;m talking about left-leaning news media organizations were kind of like, &#8216;La la la la, everything&#8217;s fine. Look, the environment&#8217;s — look, the economy is great, la la la, immigration’s not that much of a problem,&#8217; and really being Cleopatra, queen of denial. Thank you. Boom.&#8221;

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‘The Office’ Star Mocks Lefty Media For Digging Their Own Graves: ‘Cleopatra, Queen Of Denial’

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Politics

MSNBC anchor Symone Sanders claimed on Saturday that the deportation of Salvadoran citizen and suspected MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego-Garcia was just one step on the road toward President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration deporting black American citizens.
Sanders began with an article written for The Nation earlier in the week — in which the author had suggested the deportation of criminal aliens, designated terrorists, and gang members effectively heralded the fall of democracy in the United States — and argued that &#8220;people of color and vulnerable communities &#8230; are next in line.&#8221;
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&#8220;We&#8217;ve been talking about this all week, but Janai Nelson of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, she penned an op-ed in The Nation this week,&#8221; Sanders began. &#8220;And her op-ed talked about that we think democracies are — the way they die is dramatically, through these wars, and blood is shed, and it&#8217;s cinematic in a sense. But really, the realistic way in which democracies die, is it is dismantled brick by brick, piece by piece.&#8221;
&#8220;And she says that what we are seeing now with the lawlessness from this administration are really the canaries in the coal mine gasping for air,&#8221; Sanders continued. &#8220;I&#8217;m paraphrasing here. But to me, that is why Kilmar Abrego-Garcia&#8217;s specific case, the case of the gentleman who&#8217;s a make-up artist out of California who was also sent to that prison, that&#8217;s what the more — the 75% of the folks who have been sent, the men who have been sent there that don&#8217;t have criminal records — that is why this is so important.&#8221;
Sanders then pivoted to suggest that if illegal immigrants could be deported, it would not be long before citizens could also be deported.
&#8220;If they can do it to them, if they can snatch students off the street without any pushback or recourse, they will do it to any of us,&#8221; she declared. &#8220;To be very clear, it&#8217;s going to be the people of color, and vulnerable communities that are next in line.&#8221;
Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-MD) agreed with Sanders&#8217; assessment, saying that was why the black community appeared largely supportive of bringing Abrego-Garcia back to the United States.

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MSNBC Host Says Black American Citizens ‘Next In Line’ If Deportations Are Allowed To Continue

MSNBC Host Says Black American Citizens 'Next In Line' If Deportations Are Allowed To Continue

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Former MSNBC host Tiffany Cross quickly backpedaled when presented with the latest details about deported Salvadoran national Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, claiming that the real issue was not his individual case, but the larger picture.
Cross made the comments during a panel discussion on CNN, responding to Shermichael Singleton’s point regarding Abrego-Garcia and whether or not the federal government should have deported him to El Salvador.
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This is hysterical. After <a href="https://twitter.com/MrShermichael?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MrShermichael</a> rattles off the newly revealed Kilmar Abrego-Garcia MS-13 and serial domestic abuse evidence to CNN panel — 
— woke Tiffany Cross declares “we can’t make it about Kilmar. That’s just one person.&quot;
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Singleton laid out a series of reasons that he believed Abrego-Garcia’s deportation was not only justifiable, but a “national security issue,” noting among other things that Maryland gang units had determined that he was a member of the violent Salvadoran street gang MS-13. In addition, more recent reports showed a history of allegations of domestic violence against his wife.
Noting that due process was obviously a concern, Singleton added, “I think there’s absolutely enough here to send this guy somewhere else. One, he’s already broken the law. We’ve already established that. Now you do have evidence that suggests he was a member or is a member of MS-13, he’s also a serial abuser. This is not the type of individual I don’t think any one of us would want in our country: he should be deported.”
Despite the fact that many Democrats have seized on Abrego-Garcia’s case — including Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), who has tried unsuccessfully to persuade Salvadoran authorities to either release Abrego-Garcia from custody or at least allow him visitation — Cross jumped in then to claim that it was not really about him.
“We can’t make it about Kilmar,” she complained. “That’s just one person.”
“But that’s the case we’re talking about,” Singleton pushed back.
“It is,” Cross agreed, but then complained that the discussion should be about “the macro, not the micro.”
Cross went on to claim that President Donald Trump’s administration has been “indiscriminately” rounding people up for deportation.
“They are randomly deporting people without due process,” she claimed.

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Former MSNBC host Tiffany Cross aimed a barb at Republican commentator Scott Jennings during a panel discussion on Wednesday — and then complained about people resorting to &#8220;personal insults&#8221; when Jennings fired back.
The conversation centered on Greenland, and blew up when Cross insisted that Trump&#8217;s goals — with regard to claims he&#8217;d like to take control of the island nation currently controlled by Denmark — were obviously colonial rather than, as the administration has repeatedly stated, strategic.
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CROSS: &quot;You&#39;re not a member of government, so you&#39;re irrelevant.&quot;
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&#8220;You cannot just go and say, &#8216;I like it, it&#8217;s mine now,&#8217; it doesn&#8217;t work that way,&#8221; Cross said, as Jennings visibly reacted to her claims. &#8220;That is what they&#8217;re trying to do, and in this new world order —&#8221;
Jennings laughed aloud then, but Cross kept going.
&#8220;Yeah, absolutely, when they&#8217;re looking at Greenland, they say, &#8216;I like it, I want to take it for mine,&#8217; is a very colonizing attitude,&#8221; she said.
Host Abby Phillip stepped in, assisting Cross in pushing back on Jennings: &#8220;Scott, you have said you are pro taking Greenland.&#8221;
&#8220;I have never, ever said we&#8217;re going to go to Greenland and quote &#8216;colonize it&#8217; or &#8216;steal it,&#8217; that&#8217;s crazy!&#8221; Jennings shot back.
Cross held up a hand, waving Scott off and adding, &#8220;I&#8217;m not even talking about you, you&#8217;re not a member of government, so you&#8217;re irrelevant in that point, I&#8217;m talking about the President of the United States doing that.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, you were fired from your job, how relevant are you?&#8221; Jennings jabbed back, referencing Cross&#8217; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-one-will-miss-her-megyn-kelly-political-commentators-react-to-msnbc-host-being-dropped" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ouster from MSNBC</a> after two years — during which she earned a reputation for racially charged commentary.
Cross immediately pointed a finger at Jennings. &#8220;If you wanna — Scott, if you wanna engage in personal insults —&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t, but you do —&#8221; Jennings pushed back.
&#8220;What you lack in a legitimate point you make up for in personal — in personal insults,&#8221; Cross said, bulldozing over Jennings – who smiled and raised his gaze to the ceiling — and adding, &#8220;The point I was making is in this new world order, we are looking at countries, whether or not they are an adversary or an ally, it is being determined on what kind of deal we can get, and we cannot govern, we cannot legislate that way.&#8221;
&#8220;Why?&#8221; Jennings asked.
&#8220;We are increasingly isolated on the world stage,&#8221; Cross insisted, despite reports of dozens of countries already planning to negotiate better trade deals with the Trump administration.
&#8220;No, we&#8217;re not,&#8221; Jennings rebutted.
&#8220;So if you want to engage in personal insults —&#8221; Cross just kept going. &#8220;If I were you. I would reserve that for your party —&#8221;
&#8220;We are not. We&#8217;re not isolated,&#8221; Jennings repeated, and others around the table all began talking at once.

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Longtime MSNBC host Chris Matthews appeared baffled by President Donald Trump&#8217;s implementation of tariffs against Canada, asking how Americans were supposed to work around the fact that the United States imports a lot of lumber from its northern neighbor.
&#8220;We get so much of our lumber, our two-by-fours from — from Canada,&#8221; Matthews said during a Wednesday appearance on MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe.&#8221; &#8220;What are we going to do? Have more lumber made in the United States now?&#8221;
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&quot;We get so much of our lumber, our two by fours from from Canada&#8230;.What are we going to do? Have more lumber made in the United States now?!&quot;
&quot;What is our plan now&#8230;? We&#39;re going to create more wood. Is that it?!&quot;
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&#8220;This other thing — I watched on the evening news last night, one of the other networks, and I watched the issue of lumber,&#8221; Matthews explained. &#8220;Now, you see, we get so much of our lumber, our two-by-fours from — from Canada. That&#8217;s where we get it from. Canada! We get our newsprint from up there, for newspapers. The fact is, we get — what are we going to do? Have more lumber made in the United States now?!&#8221;
&#8220;What is our plan now?&#8221; Matthews continued in the same vein. &#8220;Oh, we&#8217;re not going to import wood, so we&#8217;re going to make more wood? We&#8217;re going to create more wood. Is that it?! I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re in a position to simply replicate the imports coming into this country with our own products. It can&#8217;t always be done. And I think — wood&#8217;s an example of that. Wood. Are we going to make more wood in this country because of our trade deal?! I don&#8217;t think so.&#8221;
Social media hit back, reminding Matthews of an Executive Action from the Trump Administration dated March 1, kickstarting the &#8220;Immediate Expansion of Timber Production&#8221; in the United States.
&#8220;That’s the idea,&#8221; an X post read.
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&#8220;Chris Matthews is unaware of the existence of trees in the United States,&#8221; Jim Verdi posted.
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Chris Matthews is unaware of the existence of trees in the United States. 🤡🤡 <a href="https://t.co/MCpflHWcIm">https://t.co/MCpflHWcIm</a>
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Townhall&#8217;s Matt Vespa added, &#8220;Market illiteracy is one thing. I don’t know what this is … we impose tariffs and libs think wood vanishes. Globalist mind rot is a thing.&#8221;
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market illiteracy is one thing
I don’t know what this is … we impose tariffs and libs think wood vanishes 
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MSNBC’s Chris Matthews Struggles To Wrap His Brain Around The Fact That Trees Grow In America

MSNBC's Chris Matthews Struggles To Wrap His Brain Around The Fact That Trees Grow In America

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Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) acknowledged on Wednesday that one aspect of the tariff wars had truly surprised him: how many countries the Trump administration said had come to the negotiating table, and how quickly they had done so.
Kennedy made the observation when he joined hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe,&#8221; admitting that he &#8220;frankly never saw that coming.&#8221;
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JOE SCARBOROUGH: Some of the smartest minds across the world are betting on a recession.
SEN KENNEDY: With tariffs, an eye for an eye just leaves both people blind&#8230;But then&#8230;an extraordinary thing happened! We have 195 countries in the world. Probably 40% have come forward —… <a href="https://t.co/30WYxnYuQ1">pic.twitter.com/30WYxnYuQ1</a>
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Scarborough set the oppositional narrative with regard to tariffs, saying, &#8220;Some of the smartest minds across the world are betting on a recession. What are you saying to your business leaders when they&#8217;re calling you about where this goes next?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, this is what I&#8217;m telling them,&#8221; Kennedy replied. &#8220;With tariffs, an eye for an eye just leaves both people blind. When a government imposes a tariff, it&#8217;s putting its thumb on the scale. It interferes with people&#8217;s freedom to exchange goods and services.&#8221;
&#8220;Some countries — China, the best example — have used trade barriers as a weapon to hurt the American economy,&#8221; Kennedy continued. &#8220;You said it — God created the world, everything else is made in China. President Trump decided to try to change this, and he, as we know, has imposed dramatically higher American tariffs on these countries.&#8221;
And that, Kennedy explained, was where the pendulum started to swing back: &#8220;But then, at least for me, an extraordinary thing happened. We have 195 countries in the world. Probably 40% have come forward — and instead of bowing up and fighting, they&#8217;ve said, &#8216;We want to lower our tariffs! Will you lower yours?'&#8221;
&#8220;I frankly never saw that coming,&#8221; Kennedy said, noting that he could not speak for what the president might do next, but adding, &#8220;I think it is a wonderful opportunity &#8230; I would pounce on this opportunity like a ninja. And I would use this as an opportunity to reduce or in some cases — Taiwan, Vietnam, European Union — go to zero reciprocal tariffs and then we can have free trade, let the best product at the best price win.&#8221;
Kennedy once again couched his comments by saying he did not know the White House&#8217;s plan and could only speak to what he would do in the current situation.

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GOP Sen. Reveals What Surprised Him About Tariff Battle: ‘I Frankly Never Saw That Coming’

GOP Sen. Reveals What Surprised Him About Tariff Battle: 'I Frankly Never Saw That Coming'

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Actor George Clooney was reportedly livid after &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; host Mika Brzezinski suggested on live television that former President Barack Obama was pulling the &#8220;Ocean&#8217;s Eleven&#8221; star&#8217;s strings.
Biden biographer Chris Whipple revealed details of the heated conversation — between Clooney and an unnamed MSNBC producer — in his upcoming book about the 2024 presidential campaign, &#8220;Unchartered: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History.&#8221;
The exchange began with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/george-clooney-joins-chorus-of-stars-telling-biden-its-time-to-drop-out-of-race" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clooney&#8217;s shock op-ed</a> after he attended a Hollywood fundraiser for former President Joe Biden, who was still running for re-election at the time. Clooney led with the fact that he considered Biden a friend — but then made it clear he believed it was time for him to step aside and bow out of the race.
&#8220;The one battle he cannot win is the fight against time. None of us can,” Clooney wrote at the time. “It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal‘ Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/morning-joe-biden-team-says-obama-pushed-george-clooney-to-turn-on-him" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brzezinski</a> was on the air the next morning and argued that it &#8220;wasn&#8217;t George Clooney&#8221; behind the op-ed.
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&#8220;This wasn’t George Clooney,&#8221; Brzezinski declared. &#8220;It just wasn&#8217;t &#8230; I think that Barack Obama has a lot of influence, and I think that there’s, there’s a lot there.&#8221;
Clooney, according to Whipple&#8217;s upcoming tome, was incensed. He reportedly called one of the &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; producers and gave him an earful, asking, &#8220;How the f*** could you let her link me with Barack Obama saying he made me write the op-ed?&#8221;
&#8220;You f***ed me… You’re my friend. You should have stood up for me,&#8221; Clooney continued, even as the producer pointed out he had nothing to do with Brzezinski&#8217;s comments, according to Whipple.
&#8220;George, this is not a f***ing movie,&#8221; the producer reportedly said. &#8220;There’s no script. It’s just not a movie where you go script page to script page.&#8221;

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George Clooney Unloads On Producer After ‘Morning Joe’ Host Claimed Obama Pulled His Strings: Report

George Clooney Unloads On MSNBC Producer After 'Morning Joe' Host Claims Obama Pulled His Strings

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Regular MSNBC guest and justice correspondent for The Nation Elie Mystal claimed on Tuesday that virtually all laws passed prior to 1965 should be considered &#8220;presumptively unconstitutional.&#8221;
Mystal made the assertion during a conversation on the ABC midday talk show &#8220;The View&#8221; while discussing his new book, &#8220;Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America&#8221; — and he argued that any law passed prior to the 1965 Voting Rights Act should be thrown out because until that law passed, &#8220;we were an apartheid country.&#8221;
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&#8220;One of the laws you write about is playing out right now — the Immigration and Nationality Act,&#8221; cohost Sunny Hostin said. &#8220;Now, this administration is using this statute to justify the detentions and possible deportations, actually, of visa and Green-Card holders who they seek to deem a threat to U.S. foreign policy. What do you make of the administration&#8217;s use of the act, and, more broadly, is Trump really setting up a First Amendment showdown, which is what Whoopi&#8217;s been talking about?&#8221;
&#8220;Yes, absolutely,&#8221; Mystal declared. &#8220;One of my premises for the book is that every law passed before the 1965 Voting Rights Act should be presumptively unconstitutional, right? Because before the 1965 Voting Rights Act, we were functionally an apartheid country. Not everybody who lived her could vote here.&#8221;
&#8220;So why should I give a **** about some law that some old white man passed in the 1920s?&#8221; he asked.
Mystal followed up his appearance on &#8220;The View&#8221; with a racially-charged post on X claiming that his book &#8220;seems to have pissed off the white wing so, as usual, I&#8217;m doing something right.&#8221;
Mystal often appears on MSNBC, and even joined network host and former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele just two days prior to joining &#8220;The View.&#8221; During that appearance, he claimed that the Trump administration&#8217;s efforts to deport criminal illegal aliens and gang members amounted to &#8220;fascism.&#8221;

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Multiple MSNBC hosts issued on-air corrections on Tuesday for falsely reporting that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin &#8220;are very good friends.&#8221;
The correction appears to stem from a recently <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/gabbard-says-trump-putin-very-213620262.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">retracted</a> Associated Press story, which claimed Gabbard said Trump and Putin &#8220;are very good friends.&#8221; The AP later corrected their reporting to clarify that Gabbard was actually referring to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, not Putin.
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MSNBC&#8217;s Stephanie Ruhle read a correction on air Tuesday night.
&#8220;Before we go though, last night we reported on excerpts of an interview between the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, and an Indian TV news network in which she said that Trump was good friends with a world leader. We said that world leader was Vladimir Putin, but the full interview shows that Gabbard was referring to Trump and Indian Prime Minister Modi. Clear that up,&#8221; Ruhle said.
The network&#8217;s Ali Velshi read the same correction an hour earlier during a different MSNBC news show.
&#8220;Alright quick note, last night &#8216;The Last Word&#8217; reported on excerpts of an interview,&#8221; Velshi began before reading the same statement as Ruhle.
In a statement on the error, the Associated Press <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/associated-press-removes-story-wrongly-claiming-tulsi-gabbard-said-trump-putin-very-good-friends" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> it had &#8220;removed its story about U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard saying President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin ‘are very good friends’ because it did not meet our standards. We notified customers and published a corrected story with an editor’s note to be transparent about the error.&#8221;
An updated version of the story now includes a note at the bottom saying the story was updated to correct &#8220;erroneous reporting.&#8221;
Gabbard made the remark during a visit to India for a conference in New Delhi.
“With President Trump’s leadership in the United States, of course Prime Minister Modi’s longstanding leadership here in India, we have two leaders of our two great countries who are very good friends and who are very focused on how we can strengthen those shared objectives and those shared interests,” she <a href="https://apnews.com/article/gabbard-russia-trump-putin-d4f20f73d1c16dd7e365eae782ff9c5f" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Trump&#8217;s first presidency was dogged by years of false claims about his supposed ties to Russia. Democrats have continued to criticize Trump&#8217;s approach to Russia over the first two months of his second term.

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MSNBC host Symone Sanders Townsend abruptly announced her departure from the Democratic Party over the weekend, shocking her cohosts as she declared that Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) — and the handful of other Senate Democrats who had voted with him to pass the Republican-led continuing resolution — &#8220;blew it.&#8221;
Townsend worked for a number of prominent Democrats and leftists prior to her stint on MSNBC, serving as press secretary for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and then as a senior adviser first to former President Joe Biden and then to former Vice President Kamala Harris — but she said that Schumer&#8217;s move to avert a government shutdown was enough to finally drive her out.
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&#8220;There’s actually little that the Senate minority leader can say, and the 10 Democrats that voted with the Republicans can say, to appease somebody like me,&#8221; she said, complaining that Schumer and the others had &#8220;folded like a paper napkin&#8221; when push came to shove.
&#8220;I’m about to change my registration to independent, first and foremost,&#8221; Townsend continued, adding, &#8220;I’m pissed.&#8221;
She did reserve some praise for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and House Democrats, who voted against the CR with only one exception — Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME). &#8220;Shout out to High King Jeffries, though, because the congressional Democrats stayed together,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;In 2024, Democrats ran on warnings that Trump was going to destroy democracy, and now that he and his team are very much in the process of doing just that, these same politicians are questioning whether or not to stand up to him and his party at one of the first opportunities they have to meaningfully do so,&#8221; Townsend said. &#8220;The only opportunity, I would add, there’s not another option for Senate or Democratic or Senate Democrats or House Democrats to effectively push back. This was it! They blew it!&#8221;
Townsend warned that Schumer had likely awakened something within the party, adding, &#8220;The Democratic Tea Party was born the same day that Chuck Schumer took to that podium to read that very well-crafted statement that told us he folded like a paper napkin.&#8221;

MSNBC Host Rage-Quits Democratic Party On Air, Blames Chuck Schumer For Caving

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For those who don&#8217;t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week&#8217;s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.
Sunday morning saw a lot of Democrats attempting to do damage control in the wake of Friday&#8217;s continuing resolution passing — which will keep the federal government funded through September — despite the vast majority of the party voting in favor of shutting down the government.
The most recent NBC News poll is not likely to assuage any fears regarding the chaos within the Democratic Party, especially since the survey was taken days before Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) agreed to support the CR, thus avoiding a government shutdown that would have been attributed to his party. In that poll, Democrats hit a new all-time low approval rating with just 27% having a &#8220;positive view&#8221; of the party and just 7% saying they had a &#8220;very positive view&#8221; of Democrats. To make matters worse, the poll also indicated that Democratic voters would prefer to see the party fighting against Trump more — fueling Democrats who opposed Schumer&#8217;s decision to back the CR.
On ABC News&#8217; &#8220;This Week,&#8221; former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Donna Brazile kicked off the conversation with a deflection and argued that it was the Republicans who had no cohesive strategy — despite the passage of the CR being touted as a massive victory for House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).
When asked to respond to Schumer&#8217;s support for the CR — and the ensuing &#8220;massive blowback,&#8221; Brazile opted to first attack Republicans instead.
&#8220;Congressional Republicans have a strategy. They want to pass the Trump agenda no matter how reckless it is. They want to pass the — I mean, make sure all of his cabinet people are secured and later on, his tax cuts. They have a strategy, we know it. It&#8217;s radical. It&#8217;s reckless. It&#8217;s producing all kind of uncertainty with the markets, Main Street, Wall Street upset,&#8221; Brazile complained before pivoting to argue that the Democrats should have been more prepared for the fight over the CR: &#8220;But where&#8217;s the Democratic strategy?&#8221;
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“Congressional Republicans have a strategy … It&#39;s radical. It&#39;s reckless. It&#39;s producing all kind of uncertainty with the markets, Main Street, Wall Street upset,” former DNC chair <a href="https://twitter.com/donnabrazile?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DonnaBrazile</a> says. 
“But where&#39;s the Democratic strategy?” <a href="https://t.co/1SVBmGiJia">pic.twitter.com/1SVBmGiJia</a>
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Former Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus agreed with Brazile&#8217;s assessment of the Democrats, adding, &#8220;The Democrats have had two horrific weeks.&#8221;
&#8220;They&#8217;ve got no leader. They&#8217;ve got no movement. The only thing they&#8217;ve got is &#8216;Trump derangement syndrome.&#8217; It&#8217;s the only thing that brings them together,&#8221; he said.
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“The Democrats have had two horrific weeks,” former RNC chair <a href="https://twitter.com/Reince?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Reince</a> says. 
“They&#39;ve got no leader. They&#39;ve got no movement. The only thing they&#39;ve got is &#39;Trump derangement syndrome.&#39; It&#39;s the only thing that brings them together.” <a href="https://t.co/U24qIvgdNO">https://t.co/U24qIvgdNO</a> <a href="https://t.co/TnAy0T0wxr">pic.twitter.com/TnAy0T0wxr</a>
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The Washington Post&#8217;s Marianna Sotomayor noted that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) had not supported the CR, leading to what she referred to as a &#8220;trust deficit&#8221; between Jeffries and Schumer over apparently differing strategies.
Sotomayor explained that while Jeffries was not one to publicly criticize Schumer, the fact that he was not taking questions on the topic was a criticism of sorts. &#8220;There is tension,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Hill Democrats are divided. They — House Democrats really felt like they had to respond to the base, not just the liberal activist base, but a very angry Democratic voting base.&#8221;
&#8220;The fact that Schumer took so long to make a decision — that really alienated and upset a lot of Democratic senators — and now there is this division,&#8221; she added. &#8220;There is a trust deficit now between the leaders.&#8221;
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WaPo’s <a href="https://twitter.com/MariannaReports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MariannaReports</a> says Democrats on Capitol Hill are “divided” over how Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer handled the government funding bill. 
“There is a trust deficit now between the leaders.” <a href="https://t.co/q3KfgfZZTA">https://t.co/q3KfgfZZTA</a> <a href="https://t.co/otmBrS8dD3">pic.twitter.com/otmBrS8dD3</a>
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On CBS News, &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221; host Margaret Brennan spoke with Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) about the disarray within her party — and Dingell was slightly less reserved than minority leader Jeffries in her criticisms of Schumer.
Dingell accused Schumer of &#8220;sending out mixed signals&#8221; with regard to whether or not he would support the CR, saying that the people she had talked to in recent days had preferred risking a shutdown to allowing the Republican CR to pass. &#8220;We have got to be united as Democrats,&#8221; she said, adding that her party needed to be prepared to push back during the upcoming budget reconciliation process.
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Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) says Sen. Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, sent &quot;mixed signals&quot; about the measure to avert a government shutdown, which Schumer and several other Democratic senators ultimately supported.
She says &quot;people are angry,&quot; but &quot;we&#39;ve got to move… <a href="https://t.co/anoD3qRiJc">pic.twitter.com/anoD3qRiJc</a>
&mdash; Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1901305138205089916?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Dingell went on to say that the constituents she&#8217;d spoken to wanted Democrats to fight back harder against the Trump administration and, in particular, cuts that were being made at his direction and through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
&#8220;People are scared &#8230; they want to see Democrats fighting back,&#8221; Dingell said. &#8220;My town halls look like a Republican town hall. I&#8217;m not taking it personally. They want to see us do something.&#8221;
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&quot;People are scared&quot; about the Trump administration’s cuts to the federal government and services, and &quot;they want to see Democrats fighting back,&quot; says Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI).
&quot;My town halls look like a Republican town hall. I&#39;m not taking it personally,&quot; she adds. 
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) helped to perpetuate the division during her appearance on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; where she lashed out at Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) for his criticisms of an influencer&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/female-dems-choose-your-fighter-promo-delivers-knockout-blow-to-illusion-they-were-ever-serious" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hype video</a> in which she&#8217;d appeared.
&#8220;He&#8217;s not the one to talk about anything,&#8221; she told anchor Jake Tapper before pivoting to mock Fetterman&#8217;s appearance. &#8220;I mean this is a guy that doesn&#8217;t seemingly want to own a suit, I&#8217;m not really sure. But I don&#8217;t show up in hoodies when I&#8217;m going on the floor, and so the idea that you would say that we could not have a moment in which — an influencer asked us to do this. Now, I&#8217;ll be perfectly honest with you, and tell you that when she asked me to jump, I said, &#8216;Did you ask my older colleagues to do this? Because I feel like you&#8217;re picking on me because my knees are a little younger.'&#8221;
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Speaking to <a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jaketapper</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/RepJasmine?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepJasmine</a> hits back at Sen. Fetterman after he mocked Democrats&#39; strategy to counter Trump: &quot;He&#39;s not the one to talk about anything.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/R1r421Msro">pic.twitter.com/R1r421Msro</a>
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A panel that rounded out the CNN Sunday morning broadcast also delved into what is apparently quickly becoming a civil war among Democrats.
Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) attempted to spin off into a discussion complaining about President Trump and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, but Tapper stopped her and put her back on course.
Stevens began by praising Schumer&#8217;s past actions and Jeffries&#8217; leadership, but then Tapper pressed her, asking whether Schumer was the right leader for the Democrats in the Senate at this particular moment. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think we should be talking about that and giving Trump any more wins,&#8221; was her reply.
Ashley Etienne, who previously worked as the communications director for former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) advised the party to &#8220;get out of the way&#8221; and let Trump &#8220;prove&#8221; that he is capable of fixing the economy. She then indicated that she was certain he&#8217;d fail, citing recent ups and downs in the stock market as proof that Trump&#8217;s policies would ultimately crash the economy.
Republican commentator Scott Jennings kicked off his comments with a jab at Democrats, saying that Schumer had helped to defeat the &#8220;racist Jim Crow filibuster&#8221; — which Democrats campaigned to eliminate until they wanted to use it against Trump. &#8220;I think he deserves a lot of credit this morning.&#8221;
&#8220;As Republicans this week, we have overdosed on popcorn watching this Democrat civil war,&#8221; Republican strategist Brad Todd added.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/BradOnMessage?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BradOnMessage</a>: &quot;As Republicans this week, we have overdosed on popcorn watching this Democrat civil war.&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/RepHaleyStevens?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepHaleyStevens</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ScottJenningsKY</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/AshleyEtienne09?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AshleyEtienne09</a> join <a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jaketapper</a> on the fallout from the shutdown fight, Democratic infighting, and the politics of Trump&#39;s… <a href="https://t.co/gbzIoR6Wmw">pic.twitter.com/gbzIoR6Wmw</a>
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One of the hardest things to do, especially when you&#8217;ve got a million other things going on in your life, is to think about the political tactics of people you don&#8217;t agree with. If you&#8217;re a conservative with a full-time job for example, it&#8217;s hard enough to keep track of what Republican politicians are saying, and what policies they&#8217;re implementing. It&#8217;s even harder to track what&#8217;s going on with the other side — especially since, if we&#8217;re being honest, we usually don&#8217;t want to think about it.
But there&#8217;s a significant change in tactics that&#8217;s taken place recently on the Left in this country that, at this point, cannot be ignored. We&#8217;ve known for a while that the Left is now, once again, openly celebrating political violence. That&#8217;s been obvious since the BLM era. What&#8217;s changing, more recently, is that the Left is becoming far more targeted in its attacks. Instead of torching random car lots in Kenosha and shooting security guards in St. Louis to demonstrate their solidarity with George Floyd, Leftists are now becoming more specific, if not necessarily discerning. Like all terrorists, they&#8217;re carefully choosing their victims, to maximize political impact. They tried to assassinate Trump twice, as we all remember. And now that Trump, as president, has the full protection of the Secret Service, they&#8217;re unleashing targeted violent attacks on people they perceive to be supporters of Trump, or enemies of their ideology. That started with the murder of the UnitedHealthCare CEO, but as we predicted, it&#8217;s not stopping there. We&#8217;re entering a potentially long-lasting phase of deliberate, targeted Left-wing terrorism in this country — like the Weather Underground, on steroids.
This is a change that is not happening by accident. In some cases, it&#8217;s coordinated and deliberate — and it&#8217;s very well-funded. But I want to start by highlighting exactly what&#8217;s happening, because for the most part, the national news media isn&#8217;t doing so. All across the country, Kamala Harris voters have made the conscious decision to attack anyone who owns a Tesla, or who works at Tesla. I&#8217;m not talking about one or two people here. I&#8217;m talking about mobs of Democrats who are assaulting other people, in public, because of their perceived political views.
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You may have seen the footage of shootings, firebombings and riots that have taken place at Tesla stores all over the country. And I&#8217;ll get to that in a second. But some of the most remarkable footage in this respect comes from New Orleans, this past Mardi Gras weekend. As part of the &#8220;Orpheus&#8221; parade, five Tesla Cybertrucks were carrying passengers through Uptown New Orleans. As the vehicles passed, for several miles, onlookers pelted the trucks with objects they found on the street — everything from beads to road barriers. At one point, a man charged the trucks and began punching the glass, which he ultimately shattered. He also threw an object at one of the passengers, after he gained access to the back of the vehicle. The footage from this convoy of Cybertrucks is truly incredible to watch. It&#8217;s like something out of a foreign country. Here&#8217;s some of it, as recorded by the camera on one of the trucks:
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Police were stationed all along the parade route. They saw everything that happened. But they made no arrests. They sat by, doing absolutely nothing, as the mob inflicted thousands of dollars&#8217; worth of property damage, solely because of the politics of the CEO of the company that made those trucks. As you might have seen, at one point in that footage, a mother encouraged her young child to join in with the mob and pummel the truck. 
Here&#8217;s what one of those vehicles looked like afterwards:
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Check out this footage from this parade, this time from the mob&#8217;s perspective. And as you watch, listen to the glee in their voices as they throw objects at people inside the CyberTrucks. And then ask yourself: When was the last time a mob of Right-wing protesters decided to team up and attack someone, solely because that person had purchased a product they don&#8217;t like? Has it ever happened in the entire history of this country? As critical as we were about Bud Light, did any mob of conservatives ever chase someone down and pummel them for ordering a Bud Light at a bar? I don’t think so. But that’s basically what happened in New Orleans just a few days ago. Watch:
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This footage is not the most extreme example of violence I could find, but it does illustrates how widespread this mob-like mentality has become on the Left. It&#8217;s not just a handful of Left-wing NGO&#8217;s who are pushing this (although that&#8217;s certainly happening, too). In reality, we&#8217;re talking about hundreds, if not thousands of people who are willing to make an American city feel like Fallujah for people who happen to be inside a truck they don&#8217;t like. And of course, this footage received thousands of positive &#8220;upvotes&#8221; on Reddit, which has become a central breeding ground for organizing and promoting Left-wing terrorism.
You&#8217;ll also find a lot of support on Reddit for the 41-year-old man who allegedly just threw Molotov cocktails at a Tesla location in Oregon, before returning shortly afterwards to open fire on the business with an assault rifle. Watch:
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Andy Ngo has reported that Adam Lansky, the man accused of committing these attacks, is a Portland trans activist who uses the alias &#8220;Allison Tesla&#8221; in his activism (and his pornography career). Meanwhile, another trans activist — Justin Thomas Nelson aka &#8220;Lucy Grace Nelson&#8221; — is accused of repeatedly attacking another Tesla dealership in Loveland, Colorado. Justin Nelson allegedly spray-painted the words “Nazi cars” on some of the vehicles, and then returned days later with Molotov cocktails before he was arrested. So he was booked, then let out on bond, then attacked the same Tesla location again. Of course, local news reports refer to &#8220;Justin&#8221; as a woman, because even when trans-identifying males are allegedly committing acts of arson, we have to respect their false identities.
Odds are, if you get your news from the mainstream press, you weren&#8217;t aware of any of this. You didn&#8217;t know that two trans-identifying Antifa activists are accused of attempting to firebomb Tesla dealerships in just the past month. And for that matter, you certainly weren&#8217;t aware that a trans-identifying suspect named Ryan Michael English — otherwise known as &#8220;Riley English — was arrested just a month ago, after arriving in D.C. with Molotov cocktails with the intention of assassinating members of Trump&#8217;s Cabinet. That&#8217;s according to court documents, which state. that Ryan has confessed.
This is an awful lot of violence that&#8217;s coming from a small subset of the population, in a very short period of time. It&#8217;s enough to make you wonder if men who pretend to be women might not be the most mentally stable individuals. And these are just the suspects we know about. Just a day after the FBI identified the suspect in the first attack on the Tesla store in Oregon, there was another shooting at a different Tesla location near Portland. Watch:
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These attacks aren&#8217;t just happening on the West Coast, of course. In Massachusetts, someone set fire to several Tesla &#8220;supercharger&#8221; locations, which Tesla owners use to charge their vehicles away from home. They’re like gas stations for electric vehicles. Watch:
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Within about 48 hours, Tesla had this location up-and-running again. So they were able to recover quickly from this particular act of vandalism, which every sane person would object to. But if you go on the Boston sub-reddit, you&#8217;ll find that they don&#8217;t object to this arson attack at all. Here&#8217;s one post on the Boston sub-reddit, for example:
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As you can see, they&#8217;re sarcastically saying that weather probably caused the blaze, and that it&#8217;s no big deal. Thousands of people are up-voting posts like this. There&#8217;s similar enthusiasm in New York, where protesters were just removed after attempting to shut down a Tesla store there. Those are protests, according to Elon Musk, that involved — at least in part — organizations that have received substantial funding from George Soros&#8217; nonprofit over the years.
But regardless of George Soros&#8217; culpability, there&#8217;s really no other way to interpret what&#8217;s happening here: We are witnessing a campaign of terrorism by the Left, which is openly being celebrated (if not coordinated) by thousands of Leftists using platforms like Reddit. And it&#8217;s leading everyday people to physically assault Tesla owners at every opportunity. This is footage from New York for example:
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We don&#8217;t have sound for this one, so in case you can&#8217;t see it, it&#8217;s some guy running alongside a Cybertruck, punching it repeatedly and giving the middle-finger to the occupants. And then at the end of the footage, a police car appears in frame. And of course the officer does nothing.
These kinds of attacks are becoming so common now that it&#8217;s impossible to keep up with them.
Late Sunday, the reporter Jonathan Choe uploaded this footage of Cybertrucks on fire in Seattle, in yet another suspected arson attack:
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No matter how hard you look, you will not find a single Democrat Party politician who is willing to condemn any of this violence. The &#8220;party of Democracy&#8221; is completely silent as Left-wing terrorists commit acts of political violence, all over the country, for the express purpose of intimidating Elon Musk and anyone who dared to vote for Donald Trump. And we all know why that is. They endorse all of it. The Democrat Party, and the media outlets they effectively control, have no problem with destroying the property of anyone they believe is a conservative. They also don&#8217;t mind destroying Tesla — one of the most important companies in the United States, which employs more than a hundred thousand people — in the process.
These are people who are not interested in progress, or the advancement of human civilization. They are the enemies of both. And, as if to prove that point, MSNBC anchors recently celebrated the explosion of SpaceX&#8217;s starship during a recent test launch. This is a test launch that, in case you missed it, included the &#8220;catch&#8221; of the booster rocket, which is one of the most remarkable technological achievements imaginable. But over at MSNBC, they didn&#8217;t even mention the booster catch. Instead, they burst out into song because the starship itself had exploded. Watch:
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We&#8217;ve done a lot of segments recently about how utterly dumb and inane Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) is. But really, all we had to do is play that clip. &#8220;If only Musk had more DEI hires, maybe Starship wouldn&#8217;t have exploded.&#8221; That&#8217;s the logic they&#8217;re going with at MSNBC. That is how utterly shameless these people are. Because as we all know, when you need to achieve something that&#8217;s never been achieved before in human history, you call in the DEI hires. After all, DEI hires are how NASA landed on the moon.
Of course, none of these people — even Jasmine Crockett — believe any of this. For all their demonization of billionaires and corporations, the truth is that the Left has this intense hatred for Elon because they see him as a class traitor. They know that the wealthy are supposed to be on their side. Elon is not only an Uber-wealthy man, but also a man of great scientific achievement, and he should be a devotee to their cause. That&#8217;s why they reserve for him the special kind of hatred that you have not for enemies, but for traitors.
Just think for a moment about the absurdity of the clip you just saw. The man is building reusable rockets, for the purpose of making space travel affordable enough that we can colonize Mars in the near future. The whole point of these test launches is to gather data so that the next launch — in just a few weeks — can be a success. That&#8217;s why no one was or is onboard the Starship. It&#8217;s a test flight. And these test flights clearly work, as anyone familiar with SpaceX&#8217;s history — and its progress in just the past decade — understands very well.
But increasingly few people on the Left actually care about SpaceX, or Tesla, or Elon Musk, or any of that. Instead, they care about political control, which they&#8217;re obviously losing. So, in some cases, they&#8217;re resorting to terrorism instead. And on television, they&#8217;re turning to juvenile, barely-literate criticism of a space program they can&#8217;t begin to comprehend. It&#8217;s difficult not to be reminded of Roosevelt&#8217;s famous speech on insufferable people like this, from all the way back in 1910. &#8220;It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.” I won’t recite the whole thing for you. But if you don’t know it, google it. There is no better way to describe cable news hosts who laugh while a man builds rockets to Mars.
Shut out of political relevance, Leftists are turning to violence and terrorism. They will only intensify their efforts in the coming weeks. But with every arson attack, and every insufferable segment on MSNBC, they&#8217;re only highlighting two things. First of all, they are irrelevant. And secondly, the men in the arena — the people who are actually committed to moving this country forward — aren&#8217;t going anywhere.

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