T
he Democrat post-defeat circular firing squad was guns ablazin' on Saturday's edition of The Weekend on MSNBC.
Co-host Symone Sanders dared to take shots at an erstwhile Dem sacred cow: Nancy Pelosi.
Referring to Pelosi's vaunted reputation as a vote counter, Sanders mockingly asked, "where's her calculator now?" An agitated Sanders tore into Pelosi for promoting an open "pri-ma-ry. For what," screamed Sanders, flinging her arms out wide [see screencap].
Sanders also trained her fire on the campaign strategists, accusing them of having "fleeced" Kamala. With a mocking "goodbye," she suggested that they be exiled, as was Robby Mook, Hillary's 2016 campaign manager, after his losing effort.
As Sanders unleashed that accusation, a shocked-sounding Michael Steele could be heard offscreen responding with an upset "uhh!" You can imagine that a number of those fleecing strategists are Steele buddies, and that he'll be hearing from them after the show!
Sanders raged that the strategists who "fleeced" Kamala left no money for "the turnout." How can that be? Talking heads repeatedly assured us that Kamala's amazing ground game was going to give her the winning edge! On Election Day, Joe Scarborough boasted that Kamala had 900,000 door knockers in Pennsylvania alone!
Note: It's odd. For a party that has largely lost touch with working-class Americans, Democrats love to talk about "the work," as in "doing the work," or one of Kamala's buzz phrases from the campaign: "hard work is good work." In just the first half-hour of today's show, we counted at least nine utterances of that w-word.
For good measure (and hours after this doozy of a meltdown), far-left MSNBC analyst and Princeton professor Eddie Glaude cartoonishly claimed too many debates about policy are from the perspective of Republicans:
[T]he Democrats have to stop playing the game of representation as a cover -- right -- economic policies are simply just benefiting the top rich? So, you can put out a woman, you can put out a person of color and think that's all you need to do. There has to be some substantive policies behind that that can affect the lives of everyday, ordinary people? We keep playing the damn on the Republican field. Let's change the terms of the debate and stop triangulating playing politics at the margins because you're going to lose every damn time.
Here's the transcript.
MSNBC's The Weekend
11/09/24
8:24 am ETLEAH DAUGHTRY: [W]hen you talk to people about the issues, what's clear is, even the white people who don't vote for us, align with us on issues, but they don't like our candidates. And so, there's this split that we often have with them, but we've got a lot of work to do on that. And it starts with an admission of the truth. And it starts with — hello — talk to the voters. Because with all due respect to our wonderful people on Capitol Hill, they don't have the answers.
SYMONE SANDERS: Well. Nancy, let me just be clear. I'm gonna say, if she ain't gonna say it. Nancy Pelosi, everybody talks about how the Speaker Emerita, you know, she's so strategic, she can count. And yes, she did all of that when she was the Speaker in Congress. But my question is, where is your calculator now? Because Democrats about to damn lose the dadgum House. And for her to sit on this podcast, we played a sound about how, you know, "it's up to -- oh you know, I don't -- I don't to deal with presidential politics." But she helped orchestrate—I'm going to say it.
DAUGHTRY: Well, she did this cycle.
MICHAEL STEELE: No, she orchestrated -- oh, ho.
SANDERS: She played in presidential politics this cycle. And she helped orchestrate the very public demise of the president.
DAUGHTRY: That's right.
SANDERS: And thank God for Joe Biden. He came out and, yes, endorsed his VP. [Flings arms out] Cause these people wanted [shouts] an open pri-mar-y! And for what?!
DAUGHTRY: When were we going to have an open primary between July 21st when he stepped down and August 20th when the convention was going to happen? When was that going to happen? Anybody who suggested that clearly wasn't looking at a calendar.
SANDERS [tossing papers]: I'm looking for the magic wand that apparently the Democrats on Capitol Hill think that we have. I hope, I surely hope, that Democrats eke out a majority in the House. But if they don't, I think the people that had so much to say about the President and the Vice President earlier this summer, I think that those people need to take a back seat. I think the strategists that obviously fleeced the Vice President's campaign, and made a whole bunch of money, okay --
EDDIE GLAUDE [gruntint]: Uhh.
SANDERS: -- and give no money to the turnout, they need to take a back seat, okay. They gotta get the Robby Mook treatment. Robby Mook lost in 2016. He was up in Harvard and just came back. Goodbye [waves mockingly.]
DAUGHTRY: Listen, we've got to talk to the folks who are actually doing work who were underfunded and overstressed but who are doing the work on the ground talking to voters and we need their opinions. We need to talk to voters to do this post-mortem.
GLAUDE: And -- and -- can I add just really quickly? And the Democrats have to stop playing the game of representation as a cover -- right -- economic policies are simply just benefiting the top rich? So, you can put out a woman, you can put out a person of color and think that's all you need to do. There has to be some substantive policies behind that that can affect the lives of everyday, ordinary people? We keep playing the damn on the Republican field. Let's change the terms of the debate and stop triangulating playing politics at the margins because you're going to lose every damn time.
STEELE: That last part is exactly what is happening. Welcome to our playground.
