As PJ Media’s Stephen Green covered yesterday, the intrepid MSNBC duo that is Morning Joe, along with his side-piece and Deep State nepo-baby, Mika, ventured into the Heart of Darkness (Mar-a-Lago) to ostensibly kiss the Don’s ring.
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I can’t say for sure what the play is here, but in very strange developments of late, #Resistance liberals have appeared to express some actual deference to the incoming Trump regime and its popular mandate.
Here is Morning Joe and Mika, the reigning royal couple of liberal cable news, explaining how they visited Trump recently at Mar-a-Lago for a diplomatic dining experience. Consider the uncharacteristically muted, almost congenial language they use in reference to their meeting; we’ll follow up on what it means on the other side.
Via The Daily Beast (emphasis added):
The co-hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe made the bombshell announcement Monday that they’d visited President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, who were once friends with Trump but became arguably his most prominent critics in the media during his first administration, said at the top of the show they had been given the opportunity to meet with the former president on Friday. “Joe and I went to Mar-a-Lago, to meet personally with president-elect Trump,” Brzezinski said. “It was the first time we have seen him in seven years.”…
“What we did agree on was to restart communications,” Brzezinski said…
“In this meeting, President Trump was cheerful,” Brzezinski said. “He was upbeat. He seemed interested in finding common ground with Democrats on some of the most divisive issues, and for those asking why we would go speak to the president-elect during such fraught times—especially between us—I guess I would ask back, why wouldn’t we?”
Brzezinski went on to say that she and Scarborough have been “as clear as we know how in expressing our deep concerns about President Trump’s actions and words,” but that his latest election victory called for a new approach.
“Joe and I realized it’s time to do something different,” she said. “And that starts with not only talking about Donald Trump, but also talking with him.”
Now, for anyone who has even occasionally followed this pair of blowhards over the past eight years, this current rhetoric is totally anathema to what they’ve been saying forever — the “existential threat to democracy,” “Russian agent,” etc.
If you believed a fascist regime — one that’s going to holocaust immigrants and transgenders and basically everyone — just occupied the White House, you’d be organizing an actual, armed, kinetic, no-hashtag, small-r resistance. What you would not be doing is visiting his residence and performing what amounts to kissing his backside.
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And it’s not just the Morning Joes reversing course 180 degrees; they are merely a microcosm and avatar of the phenomenon.
I will offer some theories; the truth could be none of these, all of them, or some combination thereof.
What explanations explain the inexplicable?
Is this an access journalism issue?
Trump means big ratings for a dying cable news industry, as explained in humiliating fashion to CNN human-potato hybrid Brian Stelter.
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After being told by Ted Koppel that the networks ratings would tank without Donald Trump in the White House, CNN anchor Brian Stelter denied the claim pic.twitter.com/5DlXE0hG2H
— The Hypocrisy Files (@HypocrisyFiles) February 10, 2023
So the ratings game is one likely reason for détente.
One of the more outlandish but, I believe, fully plausible theories here is that Trump knows where some bodies are buried — real or metaphorical — in the Morning Joes' backyard. As we learned from Jeffrey Epstein, compromising material held as leverage among and by elites to maximize their control is common practice. And the Morning Joes are clearly in the Big Club — Mika being the daughter of longtime top Swamp monster Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński, revered for his warmongering almost as much as Henry Kissinger. There are some skeletons, almost certainly, in their Manhattan penthouse closet.
Or, could this be an effort to gather intelligence on Trump under the guise of rebuilding burnt bridges? The Morning Joes were, once, close friends with Trump before they got the orders that he was persona non-grata once it became evident he could actually win in 2016.
Time will tell what game these people are playing — but, indeed, they’re up to something not great for the American people.
