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 slicing 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 short edits made it seem like 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 info 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—”

An excessively theatrical Scarborough then interrupted, “Wait, wait, wait! Cannot anyone play this sport! Why is my former celebration so silly?”

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

Scarborough agreed:

We mentioned yesterday on the present, Republicans, he desires you to yell. He desires you to shout. As my grandmom from Dalton, Georgia, would say, he desires you to behave such as you have been raised in a barn. Good job. You probably did all of these issues. No, Willie, significantly. I swear to God, I mentioned 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 present a good speech final night time. The Republicans again and again simply alley-oop—

After Brzezinski interjected with, “Helped make it wonderful,” 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 minimize 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 one dreamed that up. That was the top 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 america Senate for working campaigns. In order that they’re performing like jackasses as a result of they cannot 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 mentioned 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 sport! 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 mentioned yesterday on the present, Republicans, he desires you to yell. He desires you to shout. As my grandmom—

BRZEZINSKI: Please convey a balloon.

SCARBOROUGH: — from Dalton, Georgia, would say, he desires you to behave such as you have been raised in a barn. Good job. You probably did all of these issues. No, Willie, significantly. I swear to God, I mentioned 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 present a good speech final night time. The Republicans again and again simply alley-oop–

BRZEZINSKI: Helped make it wonderful.

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 one dreamed that up. That was the top 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 america Senate for working campaigns. In order that they’re performing like jackasses as a result of they cannot deal with the reality, simply cannot take care of the reality. And so they make themselves look silly.