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.
The time of the Settling of Accounts draws nigh. The Day of the Rope beckons. Ask not for whom the bell tolls, Joe...
A conspicuous lack of bloody shirts for the Dem media to wave nationwide (”O look, O people, at what you will get [spewing distortions and lies] if you vote for [this controversial fellow]”) might be the safest way to go. I think Trump will initially recommend that way as well. The political dominos don’t have to go in showily and noisily — especially in the Senate — if they are setting up for more Gorsuches in the USSC. That’s where Trump’s political capital is wisest spent.
High road Joe was banging his married co-worker. I really don’t care what this clown says.
accused sexual predator Roy Moore
Ever notice how the left creates an accusation and then pretend it is real from that point on.
I noticed that after Fridays release of damming information on Clinton’s email her defenders were quick to respond with “water under the bridge”.
A 40 year old accusation that can not be proved becomes a fact and a couple of year old evidence of a real federal crime is just water under the bridge.
I am not surprised since the left has no shame only an agenda.
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Joe is tone deaf to the truth.
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.... fell and hit her head on a desk.
lol
I think it was reported that she had run a long distance race just a short period before the incident. Then he quit his job shortly thereafter.
Hmmmmm?
Now he may be compromised.
....and his Hilda prediction for 2016?
That guy is a boob.
He has earned the name that Trump gave him: Psycho Joe.
If a civil war ensues, the FIRST people that need to be hunted down and subjected to justice are media opinionaters like Joe Scarborough. Those guys are the Goebbels for the Deep State.
It is in Joe’s interest and the interest of countless other fifth columnists that law and order be maintained.
Actually, he’s notorious for berating the little people in his office. At least that was the way it was at WABC.
He’s a bad man.
Who is little Joe going to kill THIS time
by smashing her head on his metal desk?
And will NBC coverup up his murdering of
innocents again, like last time?
I predict that in 2018, Joe comes to his senses, is dumped by Mika and is fired by MSNBC. Joe goes on to start his own chain of coffee shacks across the country by 2020. Becomes poster-boy for the Trump Economy during the 2020 landslide.
The hell they didn't. Two, four, and six year terms give people the opportunity to vote out perceived abuses in relatively short order. The real abuse was when voters tirelessly spent roughly six years trying to block the tyrannical Executive branch under Obama, constantly betrayed by their elected representatives which back-stabbingly continued to pass, fund, and promote his anti-America agenda.
Our founders so very clearly foresaw these abuses and through the new media (despite your attempts to paint him as an incompetent, tax-evading Nazi), Americans saw through your orchestrated lies and ultimately placed their trust in the hands of a political outsider to counter the evil bastards you've been protecting for so many years.
Your whole corrupt media machine was bypassed by the most incompetent man on the planet. He's been running circles around you clowns every step you've taken, yet it still hasn't dawned on your tiny minds that incompetence, corruption, and evil lay at your feet, not his.
Cuckborough
Sorry.
I meant Mika’s beech....with a dog collar...
Presstitute
No one has told Joe that the choir he keeps preaching to is becoming discredited and it is shrinking in self-disgust.
The Dims identity politics has over-played itself immensely and has gone to such extremes it is turning off former advocates who have seen the hand writing on the wall.
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