Meltdown Joe begs you to love the US military

A screaming MSNBC tirade for anyone not happy with the military industrial complex

“AMERICA IS STRONGER AND MORE POWERFUL THAN EVER BEFORE!” yells Morning Joe at an uncomfortable panel of MSNBC pundits. He is LIVID with Fox News for their Hate America First propaganda, when they should be celebrating HOW STRONG WE ARE!

(If that seems like an exaggeratory amount of caps lock, wait until you hear how loud Joe’s pro-military sermon is.)

But while Joe Scarborough is fuming at Fox News for their fake reasons to be angry at America, what all of these corporate pundits are missing is that America really does have problems. As we’re bombing the rest of the world, breaking up peace talks, and blocking ceasefires with our impressive military, US citizens are suffering the highest rates of poverty we’ve ever seen – homelessness and suicide rates are up, healthcare is increasingly unaffordable, and more than half the country can’t afford to pay their rent.

So as Morning Meltdown Joe berates his audience with why America is the greatest it’s ever been, we take a look at what is actually going on under the watch of our powerful country.

In the House, an overwhelming majority of representatives just voted to ban the slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” because apparently equality for oppressed people is antisemitic. In the Senate, Chuck Schumer accidentally admits that the US’s proxy war in Ukraine was a complete failure and caused the deaths of huge numbers of Ukrainians, all while arguing we need to fund the war even more.

Congressmembers Raskin and Gottheimer are each finding ways to blame Russia for anything wrong in the US (and yes, using that to argue for more weapons money), and a CNN host attacks Cornel West with pre-written questions from the IDF.

As always, it seems like every week there’s more madness than the last. Stick with Katie and Aaron, they’ve got shovels to plow through it all. It’s our Thursday bonus episode. Let us know in the comments what corporate media monologues, interviews, or anything else you want to see on the next Thursday Throwdown.

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