MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough opened up his Monday evening primetime particular with a solemn, but outrageous and profoundly unserious rant the place he accused Republicans, “cowards,” “pathetic souls,” and “vacuous creatures” of being the fashionable equal of “slaveholders and segregationists.”
In Scarborough’s view of issues, “Politicians idly stand by and watch as America’s youngsters and their mother and father are slaughtered… All as a result of these cowards concern gun lobbyists greater than they concern the following Uvalde, Parkland, or Sandy Hook.”
That accusation could be dangerous sufficient, however as is his nature, Scarborough proceeded to escalate, “Like these enablers of slaveholders and segregationists, these timid, empty, pathetic souls care extra about beating again subsequent 12 months’s right-wing main problem than they do saving younger youngsters’s lives. However there isn’t a doubt that these vacuous creatures will not escape historical past’s thunderous verdict.”
Each taking pictures, in response to Scarborough logic, is their fault, “The proof of their guilt is overwhelming. Over 1,400 deaths by weapons already this 12 months. Over 200 mass shootings over the primary 5 months of 2023. Greater than 600 youngsters killed already in 2023, persevering with the horrifying actuality that weapons are the primary reason for dying amongst American youngsters.”
Scarborough would later declare that the present second is outlined by mass shootings brought on that gun rights advocates aren’t doing something to cease and which supplied a possibility for extra horrible analogies:
As a lifetime gun proprietor, a longtime hunter, and an expensive buddy advised me earlier immediately, this isn’t who we’re. Because it was with slavery, segregation, Nazism, 9/11, and January the sixth, we’ll one day transfer past this terrible chapter in American historical past. However we’re not going to do it earlier than extra harmless souls die from gunfire in faculties, in synagogues, in church buildings, and in buying malls. No. We can not escape historical past. We will probably be remembered in spite of ourselves, so allow us to then redouble our efforts, do our half, elevate our voices, volunteer our time, run for workplace, and for God’s sake, get out the vote.
Later nonetheless, Scarborough would welcome on PoliticsNation host Rev. Al Sharpton who questioned, “And when will we rise up and say that if I take a look at my little one and a gun, what do I love probably the most? And I feel you had been right in beginning this system, speaking concerning the social actions that modified this nation.”
Sharpton additionally reached for slavery and segregation comparisons, “You need to bear in mind the folks in the Civil Conflict, the southern states protected their cash, which was cotton… Cotton was king. As was slavery. After which in segregation states that wished to guard that, we have seen Texas and others are these states that wish to defend gun producers.”
Someway, it obtained worse from there as Sharpton continued, “There are income in killing our youngsters. It have to be a motion and fortuitously, whenever you take a look at March for our Lives and others, it is interracial by way of these younger folks saying, wait a minute, we aren’t going to sit down by quietly and watch ourselves turn into goal observe.”
And but, MSNBC wonders why conservatives don’t belief Democrats on gun management.
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Here’s a transcript for the Could 8 present:
MSNBC Joe Scarborough Presents
5/8/2023
8:02 PM ET:
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Politicians idly stand by and watch as America’s youngsters and their mother and father are slaughtered, slaughtered in church buildings nonetheless, so slaughtered in faculties, nonetheless. Slaughtered at nation music festivals and outlet malls and in their very own houses. All as a result of these cowards concern gun lobbyists greater than they concern the following Uvalde, Parkland, or Sandy Hook.
Like these enablers of slaveholders and segregationists, these timid, empty, pathetic souls care extra about beating again subsequent 12 months’s right-wing main problem than they do saving younger youngsters’s lives. However there isn’t a doubt that these vacuous creatures will not escape historical past’s thunderous verdict. The proof of their guilt is overwhelming. Over 1,400 deaths by weapons already this 12 months. Over 200 mass shootings over the primary 5 months of 2023. Greater than 600 youngsters killed already in 2023, persevering with the horrifying actuality that weapons are the primary reason for dying amongst American youngsters.
The skyrocketing rise in violent gun deaths even since Sandy Hook a decade in the past, the explosion of gun deaths in Texas since 2014 due to radical gun legal guidelines that put lethal weapons within the arms of the untrained, mentally unstable, and unmoored folks.
Over that very same time, one mass taking pictures after one other mass taking pictures, after one other mass taking pictures performs out over our smartphones and TVs. In Texas and throughout America, after every Texas bloodbath, Governor Abbott mumbles meaningless assurances, desperately making an attempt to distract from the weapon that’s killing our youngsters: weapons. Extra particularly, he celebrates, he celebrates the proliferation of weapons and weapons of struggle, even after Sunderland Springs, even after El Paso, even after Uvalde.
And now Cleveland. And now Allen. And shortly, the following faculty schoolhouse slaughter that Greg Abbott and each different Texas politician is aware of, tragically, is bound to come. As a lifetime gun proprietor, a longtime hunter, and an expensive buddy advised me earlier immediately, this isn’t who we’re. Because it was with slavery, segregation, Nazism, 9/11, and January the sixth, we’ll one day transfer past this terrible chapter in American historical past. However we’re not going to do it earlier than extra harmless souls die from gunfire in faculties, in synagogues, in church buildings, and in buying malls. No. We can not escape historical past. We will probably be remembered in spite of ourselves, so allow us to then redouble our efforts, do our half, elevate our voices, volunteer our time, run for workplace, and for God’s sake, get out the vote.
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AL SHARPTON: And when will we rise up and say that if I take a look at my little one and a gun, what do I love probably the most? And I feel you had been right in beginning this system, speaking concerning the social actions that modified this nation. You need to bear in mind the folks in the Civil Conflict, the southern states protected their cash, which was cotton. Cotton was within the nineteenth century what within the twentieth century was oil.
SCARBOROUGH: Cotton was King. As was slavery.
SHARPTON: Cotton was king. As was slavery. After which in segregation states that wished to guard that, we have seen Texas and others are these states that wish to defend gun producers. There are income in killing our youngsters. It have to be a motion and fortuitously, whenever you take a look at March for our Lives and others, it is interracial by way of these younger folks saying, wait a minute, we aren’t going to sit down by quietly and watch ourselves turn into goal observe.
