Wait a second! We thought "America: Love It Or Leave It" was a phrase used by jingoistic, racist, sexist, homophobic, right-wing Neanderthals!
But there was Joe Scarborough on today's Morning Joe, breaking out a close facsimile of the phrase to condemn . . . Trump supporters!
Scarborough was reacting to Trump having yesterday said, in reference to the porous border that Biden-Harris have created, "We’re a dumping ground. We’re like a garbage can for the world."
Scarborough and Willie Geist got up on their super-patriot high horses to condemn Trump and his fans, with Scarborough finishing with this:
"If anybody believes that America is a garbage can, that's voting this election, they're just stupid. They just don't know the facts. They may want to move somewhere else if they think it's such a hellhole."
Sorry, Joe. But it's your fellow libs who always threaten to move to another country if their candidate loses--though sadly, they never seem to make good on their vows! Be assured that, regardless of the election's outcome, Trump supporters won't be going anywhere!
Scarborough, of course, deliberately misreads Trump's casting of America as a garbage can. Far from hating America, from the start of his political career nine years ago, Trump's goal has been to make America great -- again!
Wonder how Joe and Mika might feel if their hometown of Jupiter, Florida [current black population 1.5%] were turned into a Sunshine State version of Springfield, Ohio, with a huge influx of recent Haitian immigrants? We saw that when Governor DeSantis sent just a few dozen Venezuelan immigrants to Martha's Vineyard—a sister island to Scarborough's Nantucket hangout—locals quickly organized a more civilized version of the bum's rush.
Note: The liberal media loves to trash Trump for pronouncing Harris' first name as Ka-MA-la. But as you'll see at 0:55 in the clip, Willie Geist goes Ka-MA-la himself! In recent times, the formerly more moderate Geist has become much more lib-partisan. Could Geist be eyeing Scarborough's chair when he eventually vacates it?
But you don't suppose that despite his harsh on-air condemnations of Trump, Willie, with his Ka-MA-la, might be signaling his secret membership in the Orange Man Clan?
Here's the transcript.
MSNBC
Morning Joe
10/25/24
6:03 am EDTJOE SCARBOROUGH: The crazy thing is, again, these people that used to be flag wavers for America, now will wave their Trump flags. They sit back and smile and will vote for a guy that disparages the United States of America constantly, says he's going to arrest his political opponents, and disparages generals who have given their entire lives for this country.
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WILLIE GEIST: Yeah, in Donald Trump's eyes, being a patriot, a term that he has used and his supporters use, being a patriot means supporting him, doing what he thinks is right. It has nothing to do with the country or the Constitution. It has to do with Donald Trump.
Yesterday, calling America a garbage can. He's called America a hell hole, a Third World country. It brings to mind the line that Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro likes to use a lot, which is, "Hey, Donald Trump, stop s-talking America. What is it with you? Why do you think America is so terrible?"
Kamala Harris' campaign has kind of seized on this, as we saw at the convention first and ever since. And that is, patriotism has been reclaimed. We are, we support freedom. We support the Constitution, not Donald Trump.
But I think the good news is, I think most Americans do not believe that America is a hellhole or a garbage can. A lot of us are proud to have lived here our entire lives. We celebrate the country. And we'll see if people vote that way.
SCARBOROUGH: Well, let me just say, if anybody believes that America is a garbage can, that's voting this election, they're just stupid. They just don't know the facts. I don't mean to bore people --
MIKA BRZEZINSKIl: They might want to take a trip.
SCARBOROUGH: I don't want to bore -- yeah, they may want to move somewhere else if they think it's such a hellhole.
