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Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts) Tue Mar 8, 2016, 01:09 PM Mar 2016

You won't believe your ears: "It never trickles down"--Joe Scarborough

Tectonic rumblings on Morning Joe today. HE ACTUALLY WENT THERE.

He attacked the very tenants of Reaganism and trickle-down economics.

These are amazing times!

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You won't believe your ears: "It never trickles down"--Joe Scarborough (Original Post) Surya Gayatri Mar 2016 OP

Like we haven't known this for twenty plus years already? ananda Mar 2016 #1

Forty JHB Mar 2016 #5

. tk2kewl Mar 2016 #6

The horse and sparrow theory goes back to 1890 Major Nikon Mar 2016 #13

"Joe, you sound like Bernie Sanders" lumberjack_jeff Mar 2016 #2

And, much as I'm loathe to say it, thank you Donald Drumpf... Surya Gayatri Mar 2016 #3

Trump couldn't say it without Sanders plowing the road. n/t lumberjack_jeff Mar 2016 #4

But, if Drumpf's outlandish populist push wasn't destroying HIS own party, Surya Gayatri Mar 2016 #7

Bernie is not only on the radar, he's the vanguard of a populist revolution. lumberjack_jeff Mar 2016 #8

Joe would NEVER have considered Bernie as an existential threat Surya Gayatri Mar 2016 #9

when the Carrier plant announcement was made Angel Martin Mar 2016 #10

Truth be told he is giving the most important lessonsin the campaign malaise Mar 2016 #15

Indeed, his philosophy is driving the dialogue. I'm grateful that he's in the race. Surya Gayatri Mar 2016 #16

WOW grasswire Mar 2016 #11

Tectonic plates roiling, fault lines widening... Surya Gayatri Mar 2016 #12

Fear not, DUers gratuitous Mar 2016 #14

What time is it? kenfrequed Mar 2016 #17

now its about the people in the room bora13 Mar 2016 #18

now they want their party back bora13 Mar 2016 #19

Not so amazing when you remember this is M$NBCComcast AKA The Trump Channel. valerief Mar 2016 #20

television is so archaic redruddyred Mar 2016 #21

Some Republicans see they have to 'refudiate' Republicanism or * lose the party * Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2016 #22

of course rtracey Mar 2016 #23

ananda

(28,854 posts)

1. Like we haven't known this for twenty plus years already?

Reply to Surya Gayatri (Original post)

Tue Mar 8, 2016, 01:15 PM

Mar 2016

Sheesh

JHB

(37,158 posts)

5. Forty

Reply to ananda (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 8, 2016, 01:29 PM

Mar 2016

tk2kewl

(18,133 posts)

6. .

Reply to JHB (Reply #5)

Tue Mar 8, 2016, 01:31 PM

Mar 2016

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)

13. The horse and sparrow theory goes back to 1890

Reply to JHB (Reply #5)

Tue Mar 8, 2016, 02:20 PM

Mar 2016

Will Rogers joked about how it didn't work during the Great Depression. Over 100 years later it's just not that funny anymore.

lumberjack_jeff

(33,224 posts)

2. "Joe, you sound like Bernie Sanders"

Reply to Surya Gayatri (Original post)

Tue Mar 8, 2016, 01:17 PM

Mar 2016

Why yes, yes he does.

Thank you Bernie Sanders.

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)

3. And, much as I'm loathe to say it, thank you Donald Drumpf...

Reply to lumberjack_jeff (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 8, 2016, 01:19 PM

Mar 2016

If it wasn't his own party that's self-destructing, Joe wouldn't have touched this with a barge pole.

lumberjack_jeff

(33,224 posts)

4. Trump couldn't say it without Sanders plowing the road. n/t

Reply to Surya Gayatri (Reply #3)

Tue Mar 8, 2016, 01:24 PM

Mar 2016

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)

7. But, if Drumpf's outlandish populist push wasn't destroying HIS own party,

Reply to lumberjack_jeff (Reply #4)

Tue Mar 8, 2016, 01:31 PM

Mar 2016

Joe would never have gone there.

Bernie is barely on his radar.

lumberjack_jeff

(33,224 posts)

8. Bernie is not only on the radar, he's the vanguard of a populist revolution.

Reply to Surya Gayatri (Reply #7)

Tue Mar 8, 2016, 01:33 PM

Mar 2016

That revolution is crossing party boundaries.

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)

9. Joe would NEVER have considered Bernie as an existential threat

Reply to lumberjack_jeff (Reply #8)

Tue Mar 8, 2016, 01:40 PM

Mar 2016

to the RW if Drumpf wasn't systematically decimating the RW coalition.

Bernie is no threat in that regard, and wouldn't have elicited this heretical rant on his own.

Angel Martin

(942 posts)

10. when the Carrier plant announcement was made

Reply to lumberjack_jeff (Reply #8)

Tue Mar 8, 2016, 01:47 PM

Mar 2016

Sanders said: "It proves I was right about NAFTA"

Trump said: "I will put a 45% tariff on Carrier and force them to move that plant back."

Clinton has said nothing about this.

Democrats better get their act together, or they are going to get beat by a billionaire using populist economics as a wedge issue !

malaise

(268,846 posts)

15. Truth be told he is giving the most important lessonsin the campaign

Reply to lumberjack_jeff (Reply #4)

Tue Mar 8, 2016, 02:31 PM

Mar 2016

He is very important for the young people. Finally - the truth

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)

16. Indeed, his philosophy is driving the dialogue. I'm grateful that he's in the race.

Reply to malaise (Reply #15)

Tue Mar 8, 2016, 02:44 PM

Mar 2016

grasswire

(50,130 posts)

11. WOW

Reply to Surya Gayatri (Original post)

Tue Mar 8, 2016, 02:06 PM

Mar 2016

That is the most honest conversation Scarborough and Todd have ever participated in!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There's a ground swell coming.

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)

12. Tectonic plates roiling, fault lines widening...

Reply to grasswire (Reply #11)

Tue Mar 8, 2016, 02:12 PM

Mar 2016

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)

14. Fear not, DUers

Reply to Surya Gayatri (Original post)

Tue Mar 8, 2016, 02:31 PM

Mar 2016

Scarborough is still foursquare in favor of torture. So this may be an aberration.

kenfrequed

(7,865 posts)

17. What time is it?

Reply to Surya Gayatri (Original post)

Wed Mar 9, 2016, 11:42 AM

Mar 2016

My clock seems to have stopped.

bora13

(860 posts)

18. now its about the people in the room

Reply to Surya Gayatri (Original post)

Wed Mar 9, 2016, 01:07 PM

Mar 2016

All of a sudden, I am hearing that wall st doesn't apply to the republican party. now that is some serious spin on the old guard.

bora13

(860 posts)

19. now they want their party back

Reply to Surya Gayatri (Original post)

Wed Mar 9, 2016, 01:11 PM

Mar 2016

At first it was "We want our country back." Now they want their party back. lose something??

valerief

(53,235 posts)

20. Not so amazing when you remember this is M$NBCComcast AKA The Trump Channel.

Reply to Surya Gayatri (Original post)

Wed Mar 9, 2016, 02:05 PM

Mar 2016

They're paid to "trump up" Trump 24/7.

redruddyred

(1,615 posts)

21. television is so archaic

Reply to Surya Gayatri (Original post)

Wed Mar 9, 2016, 02:14 PM

Mar 2016

it's like you need a lobotomy to watch this shit

I've never paid a cable bill in my entire 27 years, and i don't intend to

thanks DU for always being a more than adequate surrogate

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,988 posts)

22. Some Republicans see they have to 'refudiate' Republicanism or * lose the party *

Reply to Surya Gayatri (Original post)

Wed Mar 9, 2016, 03:31 PM

Mar 2016

But if they do repudiate "trickle down" and other core beliefs, they will also lose their base.

rtracey

(2,062 posts)

23. of course

Reply to Surya Gayatri (Original post)

Thu Mar 10, 2016, 09:40 AM

Mar 2016

Of course Trump will be joining you ... MSNBC and NBC, actually all the media are so far up Trumps ass, they want him to win.... and my theory is this.... they know if he is president, our country will be in wars, tax hell, jobs will float away worse, mega rich will get richer, all because the media needs something to report. They hate Obama presidency because he is getting things done.. Unemployment at an all time low, 40 months of positive job growth, legal gay marriage, etc, etc.... so the media needs Trump to screw things up.

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