Joe Biden, in his ineffable fashion, managed to mess up the turkey-pardoning ceremony yesterday, confusing Taylor Swift with Britney Spears.
But to listen to Joe Scarborough today, you can imagine the Morning Joe host fretting that if Donald Trump were re-elected, he would replace turkey pardoning with an Execution o' the Week ceremony!
We've oft documented, as here, poor Scarborough's fascism fetish when it comes to describing Trump. Joe's mania reached a crescendo today, as variations on that f-word were deployed no fewer than 25 times in the show's first 17 minutes.
Joe hammered the DNC theme for 2024: "If you want to be fair, then you will frame this as Joe Biden being the candidate that supports American democracy, and Donald Trump, a candidate who supports a new form of government here that's authoritarian. It's really that simple."
That eventually led scare-mongering Scarborough to predict that —given the chance—Trump would "execute" as many people as he could get away with. Nobody fears "fact checkers" will get involved.
"If he is voted into office, then a lot of these people that are talking about literal, or figurative, or whatever the hell they're saying, are going to look like idiots.Because he will do, he will get away with, he will imprison, he will execute, whoever he is allowed to imprison, execute, drive from the country . . . He will do, he will get away with, he will imprison, he will execute whoever he is allowed to imprison, execute, drive from the country."
So, what do you foresee, Scarborough? On Inaguration Day, in addition to the viewing stands, will Trump also order the erection of a gallows -- or perhaps with some Gallic flair, a guillotine?
Do you object to this frightwig, er, forcecasting? Scarborough mocked critics: "a lot of these people that are talking about literal, or figurative, or whatever the hell they're saying, are going to look like idiots." So now the guy who always claimed "the walls were closing in" on Trump now says he'll be executing people with impunity. Who looks idiotic?
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough predicting that, if elected, Donald Trump would "execute" as many people as he could get away with was sponsored in part by Servpro, GlaxoSmithKline, maker of Trelegy, Abbvie, maker of Rinvoq, and Skechers.
Here's the transcript.
MSNBC
Morning Joe
11/21/23
6:16 am ETJOE SCARBOROUGH: If you want to be fair, if you want to be fair, then you will frame this as Joe Biden being the candidate that supports American democracy, and Donald Trump, a candidate who supports a new form of government here that's authoritarian. It's really that simple.
And by the way, Reverend Al, when people go, oh, you can't compare him to past Nazi leaders --
MIKA BRZEZINSKI [imitating Trump supporters with baying voice]: He's just kidding!
SCARBOROUGH: -- you can't compare him to this past Nazi leader or that past fascist leader, because he hasn't done -- well, what hasn't he done? He hasn't done the things that the American judicial system did not allow him to do last time, but may very well allow him to do this time. Or, a judicial system that will be ignored by Donald Trump and ran over by Donald Trump to create the greatest constitutional crisis of our lifetimes. Just because he hasn't done it yet doesn't mean he won't do it when he gets a chance to do it.
And if he is voted into office, then a lot of these people that are talking about literal, or figurative, or whatever the hell they're saying, are going to look like idiots.
Because he will do, he will get away with, he will imprison, he will execute, whoever he is allowed to imprison, execute, drive from the country.
Just look at his past. It's not really hard to read. Again, the only thing that stood between him and the destruction of American democracy was the federal judiciary.
He will do, he will get away with, he will imprison, he will execute whoever he is allowed to imprison, execute, drive from the country."
