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Scarborough pens ominous op-ed: 'A storm is gathering' in 2018
The Hill ^ | Dec 29, 2017 | Avery Anapol

Posted on 12/29/2017 10:30:27 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom

NBC’s Joe Scarborough on Thursday is predicting that 2018 will be the “most consequential political year of our lives.”

In a Washington Post op-ed, the “Morning Joe” host slams President Trump for his “anti-democratic” actions in 2017 and warns that a "storm is gathering" next year.

Scarborough writes that Trump's “low points” included his endorsement of accused sexual predator Roy Moore for an Alabama Senate seat and his statement that there was violence “on both sides” at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va.

“Others would surely consider the president’s malignant idiocy in foreign affairs to be the most damning legacy of his first year,” Scarborough writes. “World leaders continue to watch dumbstruck as the United States retreats from organizations that were created following the allies’ victory over Hitler. Those same alliances that Trump now undermines with reckless tweets and discarded treaties carried the United States to victory in the Cold War.”

Scarborough invokes former U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill, whose book “The Gathering Storm” warns that “isolationist conceptions” can follow even stable political periods.

Scarborough writes that Churchill’s warnings will be “more relevant to 2018 than at any time since it was written in the years after World War II.”

“While Trump’s eroding of U.S. prestige across the globe is disturbing, it is his administration’s undermining of democratic values that poses an even greater threat to our Constitution and country,” he writes.

“Borrowing again from Churchill, America’s constitutional norms tremble in the balance as Trump unleashes furious attacks on First Amendment protections, independent counsels and law enforcement officers who refuse to be bullied,” Scarborough continues.

“While the framers of the Constitution foresaw the possibility of a tyrannical president, they never let their imaginations be darkened by the possibility of a compliant Congress.”

Scarborough, a former GOP lawmaker, has been a consistently tough critic of Trump, and formally left the Republican Party earlier this year.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Alabama; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: alabama; douchejones; dougjones; joescarborough; mediawingofthednc; mikabrzezinski; morningjoe; msnbc; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; roymoore; smearmachine; winstonchurchill
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Joe's interns better head for the hills, it sounds like he's about to lose it completely.
1 posted on 12/29/2017 10:30:27 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

I really care what this nothing burger thinks. Not.


2 posted on 12/29/2017 10:31:48 PM PST by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

3 posted on 12/29/2017 10:32:58 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkey)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
“While Trump’s eroding of U.S. prestige across the globe is disturbing..."

Quite the opposite, in fact. This is the first time the U.S. has been respected in decades.

4 posted on 12/29/2017 10:35:06 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

He’s sounding more and more like Keith Olbermann.

Does he have small man’s disease too?


5 posted on 12/29/2017 10:35:32 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Joe, when the real storm hits, you and your ilk will not survive it.


6 posted on 12/29/2017 10:36:22 PM PST by Right Brother
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Is this the guy with the intern found dead naked in his office?


7 posted on 12/29/2017 10:39:26 PM PST by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
I like how if Republicans lose big in November 2018, Scarborough and the Lügenpresse will pretend it's unprecedented and something unique to President Trump, who's terrible and killing the GOP.

Remind me how the 2010 midterms went for Obama's party during Obama's own second year in the White House.

8 posted on 12/29/2017 10:39:32 PM PST by Trump20162020
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

JOe is helping the left in their efforts to justify violence. Churchill used violence against Hitler’s threats that Joe likens to Trump’s actions. The left is fomenting a rational for violent overthrow or the urging of lone wolf violent attacks which it is positing as as “heroic” resistance to “save” democracy. He is not alone - this is a coordinated effort on the left as Deep State and it’s water carrying MSM panic.


9 posted on 12/29/2017 10:41:53 PM PST by ransomnote
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Joe ejaculated the last of his brain matter into Mika last year at Martha’s Vineyard!


10 posted on 12/29/2017 10:43:55 PM PST by Noob1999 (As)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

"...Morning Joe Scarborough?..."


You mean the guy with the 28 y.o. intern who woke-up dead in his office under v-e-r-y mysterious circumstances?

11 posted on 12/29/2017 10:45:31 PM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: ransomnote

Obama took a bath cause we were forced to buy insurance we didn’t want instead of focusing on rebuilding the economy.
Since he had Congress he had to do it then, otherwise it was never going to happen.


12 posted on 12/29/2017 10:45:44 PM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: Williams

And his diatribe is relevant why? Is it because he and his fellow media pundits were so prescient and accurate in their 2016 election predictions?


13 posted on 12/29/2017 10:50:44 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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While I do agree with the headline, the rest of the story is the opposite of reality. The storm is gathering for those who Scarborough pimps for, and for himself and his propagandist ilk.

And has Scarborough ever actually been correct about anything?


14 posted on 12/29/2017 11:01:33 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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This IDIOT Scarborough is a MORON!

Scarborough & Mika kissed up to TRUMP during the Primaries because they wanted TRUMP to get the nomination so Hillary can demolish him!

Their stupid plan failed!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

15 posted on 12/29/2017 11:08:19 PM PST by KavMan
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Joe was once a marginal conservative representative. Today he is a hard left spokesperson. I do not know what his true political philosophical emotional beliefs are his co-host excepted as that is simply a subject not to be mentioned but it does involve a waning testosterone level,age does that.

He is simply a political whore with no true beliefs or standards. Joe is for sale, and Mika paid to damn much.


16 posted on 12/29/2017 11:10:20 PM PST by cpdiii (DECKHAND, ROUGHNECK, GEOLOGIST, PILOT, PHARMACIST, LIBERTARIAN The Constitution is worth dying for.)
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To: Williams

Oh boy! A chance to study the musings of a moron.

It might be different if Joe got one right occasionally, there is a law of averages in play. Even a blind pig finds an acorn now and then.

But not that drunken sod. His record of being wrong remains unblemished.


17 posted on 12/29/2017 11:17:33 PM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

FU Scarborough. Lying little know-nothing shitheads like you are the reason we hate the left.


18 posted on 12/29/2017 11:17:53 PM PST by Bullish (Whatever it takes to MAGA)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

The Roy Moore near-miss got our dear Rats salivating for big blue gains in 2018 election. None of them actually knows anything about political science other than the usual liemongering and poll stuffing. Or, about theology.

The Roy situation was a mixed blessing. I don’t think much of Christendom appreciates the magnitude of satanic shuck and jive that will appear if someone who is a serious threat to Satan (however imperfect) appears on the scene. Where were the pray-for-Roy rallies? I think we are on supernatural warning now. It was better that Roy lost than won, or we wouldn’t think much of the warning. As Jesus said, you need to muster an army as big as what you are intending to meet.


19 posted on 12/29/2017 11:19:51 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: RegulatorCountry

And he’s under Mika’s spell.


20 posted on 12/29/2017 11:24:00 PM PST by hsmomx3
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