Sorry Walter whoeverthefuck you are on Morning JoeScum

[malaise]

It is not authoritarian/populist/socialist- it is authoritarian.populist/plutocratic.
There is not one social good policy let alone socialist policy linked to the global fascist movement.

[John1956PA]

1. Good catch. Don't you just hate it when these so-called experts spread propaganda?

Thanks for watching and reporting the lies that appear in the corporate media.

[malaise]

2. Deliberate propaganda

And of course neither of the hosts corrected him.
Joe Scum always has to reply about when he was in Congress,

[Raster]

4. And if Joe really gets worked up...

... he might treat his assembled guests to a "Ronald Reagan is God" soliloquy, or a chorus of the "Bad Bill Clinton Blues."

Try as he may, Joe*s inner Republican always shines through.

[malaise]

5. You nailed it

[Raster]

9. And a good morning to you!

[2naSalit]

3. I heard someone say that yesterday too.

And I wondered how socialists fit into the fistful of terms that seemed more like a game of "one of these things is not like the other".

[malaise]

6. It is deliberate

[2naSalit]

12. It most certainly is.

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[Walleye]

20. They say socialist. Because poopy-head seems a little immature

[Celerity]

7. Walter Isaacson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Isaacson

Walter Seff Isaacson (born May 20, 1952) is an American author, journalist, and professor.

He has been the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C., the chair and CEO of CNN, and the editor of Time.

Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, he attended Harvard University and the University of Oxford as a Rhodes scholar at Pembroke College.

Isaacson is a professor at Tulane University and an advisory partner at Perella Weinberg Partners, a New York City-based financial services firm. He was vice chair of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, which oversaw the rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina, chaired the government board that runs Voice of America, and was a member of the Defense Innovation Board.

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In 2008, he was appointed to be a member of the Advisory Committee of the National Institutes of Health.

In 2009, he was appointed by President Obama to be Chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which runs Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and the other international broadcasts of the U.S. government; he served until January 2012.

In 2015, he was appointed to the board of My Brother's Keeper Alliance, which seeks to carry out President Obama's anti-poverty and youth opportunity initiatives.

[malaise]

8. He got it very wrong

Deliberately

[PCIntern]

10. Absitively.

It’s a deliberate , slow, insidious “reeducation” of America.

[malaise]

11. THIS!

[2naSalit]

13. Yes it is!

Something that should be called out, loudly.

[Celerity]

14. I didn't see it. nt

[Sucha NastyWoman]

15. Sharp minds in the morning

Right here on DU.

[Buckeyeblue]

16. You won't hear them utter the word fascist.

If I was running for office I would talk about facism until I was blue in the face. I wouldn't mention Hitler or nazis. I would talk about stone cold facism. And I would tell people that it's a threat to their middle class way of life. We need a national conversation about facism.

[Cosmocat]

22. WHY ... THE ... HELL ... Democrats don't say that word is why we are losing this battle

EVERYTHING and EVERY DEMOCRAT gets cast as socialists 24-7, even when it has has nothing to do with anything we are doing or advocating for.

Republicans, and the "conservative" movement are nothing other than full on fascist at this point, it would be spot on truthful to say they are fascists.

You won't hear a single Dem say it, cause they are operating from the pre Reagan / Gingrich mindset where there was an actual code of honor between elected officials.

That shit is LONG passed, and every day that Dems don't scream, hair on fire F A C I S M, that is their part in enabling the efforts to remake what was once the beacon of democracy into a chriso fascist idiocracy.

[Buckeyeblue]

28. Yep. The Democratic Party needs talking points about what facism is

And every time a Republican says the word socialist, Democrats should say, let me remind you what facism is. Congress person or Senator so and so voted yes or no on this bill. Let me explain how this relates back to socialism.

They will scream that comparisons to Hitler are desperate measures. To which we respond, you're the only one comparing yourself to Hitler...I'm talking about facism. And then define it. Give examples of what Republicans stand for that is facist.

I think it could be powerful.

[malaise]

33. THIS

But socialist means anything they make upon any given day.

[William Seger]

17. It's not "populist" either -- it's tribalism

[spooky3]

26. Exactly. John and Elizabeth Edwards were populists. Nt

[brooklynite]

18. With all due respect, I have a real problem with posts like this...

I WASN'T watching Morning Joe, so I have no idea who "Walter" is, what he was asked, what he said or what it was in reference to.

[DownriverDem]

19. Morning Joe

admits he's wrong about the repubs but folks here keep up the attacks. Why?

[localroger]

21. It's simple. Anything the christofascists don't like socialism.

It's last week's talking point though. Next week's newspeak will be that anything the christofascists don't like == pedophilia.

[vlyons]

23. Joe's speech ability seems to get more and more impaired

Have you noticed all the ahhs and umms and strugging to say the first syllable of a word?

[WiVoter]

24. He Has Been So Destructive

I can’t even quantify it.

[secondwind]

25. HOW TRUE!!!!!!

[jaxexpat]

27. I'm not particularly enamored of the way " populist" gets tossed around either.

It's a case of terms describing our times vs terms creating our description of the times. We could be suffering a world wide word shortage. malaise

[malaise]

34. Good point

[jalan48]

29. K&R

[PatrickforB]

30. The puppet mouthpieces of the oligarchy are skilled indeed.

They are attempting to move the Overton window by uttering the word socialist with authoritarian and populist. This way, socialism becomes conflated with fascism.

Cause, here in 'Murika, we ain't never gonna go SOSH-A-LIST, doncha know! Why, that would HURT shareholder profits! Can't have that. The dollar is way more important than human life here is this capitalist utopia!

Every.

Fucking.

Time.

24/7/365.

[Martin68]

31. Conservatives are so lazy and devoid of imagination. They stick to same old tired bullshit. Blame

"socialism" for every evil in the world, including fascism because the Nazis called themselves the National Socialist German Workers' Party.

[quickesst]

32. Gosh....

So many faithful viewers of Morning Joe, pads and pencils in hand. How thrilling for his fans that someone was able to find one word to hang an antii-Scarborough thread on. Since none of the three hosts spoke up, it's a shame there wasn't a retired general right beside him being interviewed at the same time that could have corrected the professor.. oh wait. 🤔

[keithbvadu2]

35. Socialist, fascist, communist, plutocrat, populist, Nazi, etc...

Socialist, fascist, communist, plutocrat, populist, Nazi, etc...

Most of them have no real/useful meaning as they are tossed out freely as the buzzword of the moment.

Mostly meaning; 'bad' if talking about the other guy.

'Good' if you can use it for yourself.