Amid loads of laughter from the panel, MSNBC Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough’s Wednesday response to the State of the Union was extra cathartic group remedy than critical evaluation as he wasted no time in calling Republicans “silly” and “the dumbest political celebration that’s ever existed” whereas labeling them “jackasses” for daring to object to President Biden’s lie about them reducing Social Safety and Medicare.

Morning Joe kicked off this system with a extremely and selectively edited montage of Biden’s speech in addition to Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s response. The fast edits made it appear to be Biden was an uplifting unifier whereas Sanders was a bitter divider.

After all, Sanders’s complete job was to supply a rebuttal to Biden’s self-congratulatory speech and 5 second clips will be deceiving, however information have been in brief provide as co-host Mika Brzezinski led off, “Very completely different tones final night time between President Biden’s principally optimistic wanting State of the Union—”

A very theatrical Scarborough then interrupted, “Wait, wait, wait! Cannot anyone play this recreation! Why is my former celebration so silly?”

Brzezinski then tried to say that Biden plaid Republicans like a fiddle, “he fed it to them and so they – boop.”

Scarborough agreed:

We stated yesterday on the present, Republicans, he needs you to yell. He needs you to shout. As my grandmom from Dalton, Georgia, would say, he needs you to behave such as you have been raised in a barn. Good job. You probably did all of these issues. No, Willie, critically. I swear to God, I stated this a couple weeks in the past, I actually do assume that there’s a plant contained in the RNC. And it’s a Democrat that was planted in there someplace like 2013, 2014 with the only real goal of creating Republicans the dumbest political celebration that is ever existed. Like, Biden did not even have to provide a good speech final night time. The Republicans repeatedly simply alley-oop—

After Brzezinski interjected with, “Helped make it superb,” Scarborough added “Growth. Arrange one jam after one other.”

Later within the dialogue, Scarborough got here to Biden’s protection on the declare that Republicans need to lower Social Safety and Medicare:

After which — after which, that is the one which will get me, when speaking about how –speaking about sunsetting Social Safety and Medicare each 5 years, no person dreamed that up. That was the pinnacle of the Republican Senate Marketing campaign Committee. He will not say his title. I’ll say his title. Say his title. Rick Scott, probably the most highly effective Republican in the US Senate for operating campaigns. In order that they’re performing like jackasses as a result of they can not deal with the reality, simply cannot take care of the reality. And so they make themselves look silly. 

Talking of not with the ability to take care of the reality, Scott was probably the most highly effective Senate Republican campaigner, however he’s since been demoted. In the meantime, the precise legislative leaders, Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell, have stated no, the previous as just lately as Monday.

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Here’s a transcript for the February 8 present:

MSNBC Morning Joe

2/8/2023

6:01 AM ET

MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Very completely different tones final night time between President Biden’s principally optimistic wanting State of the Union—

JOE SCARBOROUGH: Wait, wait, wait! Cannot anyone play this recreation! Why is my former celebration—

BRZEZINSKI: No—

SCARBOROUGH: —  so silly? 

BRZEZINSKI: Babe, they like — he fed it to them and so they – boop—

SCARBOROUGH: The booing—

BRZEZINSKI: Yeah.

SCARBOROUGH: The — like, we stated yesterday on the present, Republicans, he needs you to yell. He needs you to shout. As my grandmom—

BRZEZINSKI: Please carry a balloon.

SCARBOROUGH: — from Dalton, Georgia, would say, he needs you to behave such as you have been raised in a barn. Good job. You probably did all of these issues. No, Willie, critically. I swear to God, I stated this a couple weeks in the past, I actually do assume that there’s a plant contained in the RNC. 

And it’s a Democrat that was planted in there someplace like 2013, 2014 with the only real goal of creating Republicans the dumbest political celebration that is ever existed. Like, Biden did not even have to provide a good speech final night time. The Republicans repeatedly simply alley-oop–

BRZEZINSKI: Helped make it superb.

SCARBOROUGH: — Growth. Arrange one jam after one other. 

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SCARBOROUGH: After which — after which, that is the one which will get me, when speaking about how –speaking about sunsetting Social Safety and Medicare each 5 years, no person dreamed that up. That was the pinnacle of the Republican Senate Marketing campaign Committee. He will not say his title. I’ll say his title. Say his title. Rick Scott, probably the most highly effective Republican in the US Senate for operating campaigns. In order that they’re performing like jackasses as a result of they can not deal with the reality, simply cannot take care of the reality. And so they make themselves look silly.