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#Trump #Biden #Politics

[@ameswho9548]

WHAT? First time in history that Mika stood up to and talked over Joe. I LOVED IT.

[@rt-420]

I’m astounded that 49% of that poll would even think of voting for the criminal defendant!

[@ladedalounge]

he is a Marter now....he has more votes than ever...DNC will not be in Chicago, the city went red and don't want it and hundreds of thousands heading there to stop it...won't happen. IL is red and ballot harvesting is not going to happen in the black hoods...I know, I am there

[@bryanmachin2152]

Remember: most people care about nothing but their OWN MONEY.

[@rt-420]

@@ladedalounge. Good for you, but the grifting serial loser, criminal defendant is far from martyrdom.

[@chuckcox4199]

¡El burro sabe más que tú!

[@rt-420]

@@chuckcox4199 Silly maga minion!

[@Gabriele-xk6zg]

How is it at all possible that this race will end close??????? So shocking!

[@The3boyslll]

It won't be close. Not as close as the media and paparazzi makes it out to be. Bet that.

[@lkfs55]

When I bought my house in 1988, interest rates were 10 3/4. And we just kept refinancing as the rates dropped and now we’re at 2 3/4

[@txhuntsman]

Cool story. Thanks for telling the world that after 36 years of making payments the bank still owns your home because you keep feeding the bank by refinancing a property that should have been paid off in 2003 or at the latest 2007 if you understood mortgages, interest, principal, and money management. Low IQ money manager and a low IQ voter.

[@venitasharon8541]

Our was too. My parents had the rates people have been enjoying for 20 plus year 3 and 4 % and that was 1963

[@smeer001]

I'm thinking the same thing. I bought my house in the late 80s when interest rates were a little over 10%. When rates fell, we refinanced. Rates are just under 3% now. Stop complaining and do what previous generations managed to handle.

[@mkay3310]

Pardon a traitor criminal defendant?! What a joke!

[@jackstrubbe7608]

Romney has always been a has-been.

[@jaygoren815]

"Just an insult with no substance behind it." the perfect description of almost every public comment that trump has ever made

[@hideaway7768]

Or every liberal comment about Trump on msnbc comments

[@jaygoren815]

Wow! Is that why you are here Natasha?

[@thewayweroll6692]

Mitt Romney, how sad are you. We, the American public are not dumb nor slow. The respect I had for you as being part of the old guard is now gone and that forever. Boy bye. Vote blue y'all. 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

[@debi1451]

Romney has been trash for a long time. Don't forget if you are very rich like Romney , Fascism don't effect you much. Think of Oligarchs everywhere who don't have a care in the World. He repulses me now!.

[@nativetexan6628]

I was saddened, too.

[@jackstrubbe7608]

He makes me sad for my country, but I am certainly not surprised.

[@RickyB1959]

Joe! I'm a big fan, and I agree with you 97% of the time... But, for the LOVE OF GOD!,... PLEASE?!?.... PLEASE?!?....I'M BEGGING YOU!.. Let other people on your panel finish their thoughts without interruption! You have a really bad habit of cutting people off when they're getting to the nexus of their point. "Morning Joe" is a great show. If you can control that tendency, it will be the best news show. Thank you.

[@debi1451]

I almost stopped watching today because of that. Joe likes the sound of his own voice too much , LOL!.

[@CaptEoNinja83]

Agreed

[@mcr1968]

I know, he's ridiculous.

[@jaygoren815]

7 of the top 10 states with the highest bankruptcy rate? The Republican-led states of Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Indiana, and Ohio.

[@feffygracie]

Why?

[@jackstrubbe7608]

​@@feffygraciewhy? Why do you need to ask!?

[@feffygracie]

@@jackstrubbe7608 I need this person to be honest and list the dem run inner cities that affect the stats.

[@The3boyslll]

​@@feffygraciemisappropriation of funds

[@BumBahKlat]

Although I do often agree with the points Joe makes, I also wish I got to hear what the other people have to say. It is hard to hear some of the important points with all the chaos and over talking.

[@karmakat77]

Car rental costs have gone down in Michigan and so has my auto insurance

[@shelleyhansen5206]

I LOVE Mika's facial expressions. Mika is awesome. I like Joe too, but Mika is my favorite.

[@Blessed-tn1wd]

Mika is hilarious lol. Love them both.

[@philly4444]

you like Joe too? LOLOLOL

[@deanbusch2727]

Inflation number of 2% is a target that's all it could be set at 2.5% or 3% this has been discussed by other nations, and maybe is a better target in todays world, also inflation has been below 3% since late 2023. The better target is loan rates and if you were to set the inflation rate at 2.5 or 3, your interests rates could be cut. Wages are up, markets are up, unemployment is lowest in 50 Years. The economy is doing well.

[@bereal6590]

Happyness comes directly when you have an equitable society. A society where everyone has enough, has enough to eat a home, personal space, healthcare, society is stable and people have extra to enjoy themselves be that a holiday a car or whatever. Happyness isn't something you see in societies with huge disparities and strife. It's not about be lonely, its about a stable, kind safe and fair society

[@joeyboulevard4475]

You just described everything we gave and continue to give to Israel. Now look at how we treat ourselves.

[@lynnglidewell7367]

I want to see Dark Brandon utilized more and more!

[@jaygoren815]

"God...a big, strong, tough Deity. .came up to me with tears in His eyes, and said 'sir...' "

[@bullettube9863]

Senator Romney just reminded us as to why we didn't make him president.

[@buzzychatman376]

Vote blue 💙

[@barbarabonanno1879]

Mika seems to be asserting herself more by continuing to talk even if Joe starts up. Stand down Joe...be a good guy.

[@thomasallen6980]

Mika has been doing that for 30 years. She just talks whenever she feels like it. I like her.

[@RedDiamond500]

It has been the cuckhold Joe show for awhile now.

[@Hot4prince.]

I’m glad someone else feels the same as myself. I can’t watch MJ just because of Joe. He is one of, if not the worst, news show host! He is extremely rude!! I feel sorry for Mika.

[@ChronicExcessiveManliness]

@@RedDiamond500 Cuckold....there is no "h" in the word...

[@christamead3753]

Mika is a blonde BIMBO using her father's reputation. Doyour research.

[@jaygoren815]

First they came for Alex Jones, and everyone cheered Then they came for Rudy Giuliani and I thought it even better. Then they came for Trump and i was like "Finally!" And then they came for me… Oh wait, no they didn’t, because I didn’t break any laws

[@michaelpurington9743]

Excellent!

[@iadorenewyork1]

I love it! 😀

[@Silence_Duder_Gooder]

Hackish at best.

[@markedly1013]

The title of Trump's book Art of the Deal has been changed to Fart of the Deal.

[@petarnovakovich240]

You mean "Fart of the Steal".

[@jenswetter251]

The next edition will be "Art of the Fart"

[@jaygoren815]

9 of the top 10 states with the highest poverty rate? The Republican-led states of Mississippi, Louisiana, West Virginia, Arkansas, Kentucky, Alabama, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas

[@venitasharon8541]

For real I am from ky so I have first hand knowledge but we have been getting a lot more better paying jobs here

[@karmakat77]

Polls drive me insane😅

[@ccrncindy]

Last time those two debated, trump tried to infect Joe Biden with COVID. Vote blue to save America! 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊

[@williamstafford8248]

My blue state has the highest gas prices in the Nation. No thanks

[@oliviaturner7388]

TBH I don’t see the point in the debate, it gives TFG the facade of legitimacy. I’m still very traumatized by the last debate.

[@petarnovakovich240]

@@williamstafford8248 Gas prices are set by the corporations, guess who've been showing record profits.

[@petarnovakovich240]

@@oliviaturner7388 Joe has insisted on mics to be muted when each debater's time has ended - for both of them. He's also insisted on no audience - nobody for Drumph to play to.

[@dthomas9230]

@@petarnovakovich240 They were also quite low when nobody was driving due to the Covid lockdowns.

[@MizzJazlynCrizztina]

"I removed the parts of the Constitution that I don't like and put the remainder in a Bible for the low low price of 59.99!" -: Donnie T

[@josephsonora3787]

Y0U 0UGHT 2 RUN 4 0FFIC£ & SUBMIT 4 A PR0N0UN BIBL£? 😂

[@Americasinertia]

I don’t use the constitution, I cheat. Gutless briben.

[@theartguy6776]

​@@josephsonora3787troll.

[@christamead3753]

stupid comment

[@jaygoren815]

@@josephsonora3787 Oh,Natasha, all caps again!

[@heyhandersen5802]

A more detailed and more severe Treason Act, with mandatory enforcement, is clearly needed.

[@joyrobin947]

I am not young and have never been financially comfortable enough to buy a house or condo.

[@Radcal487]

Hearing you all at 6 am keeps the people in touch with world affairs keep up the good work .the roll of the programe ,education unmeasurable God blessing

[@jaygoren815]

It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.” ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

[@user-zd9pi4ct3r]

I have now lost all respect for Romney. Have reverted back to seeing him as the "caught puppy" when he had that dinner with Trump after initially blasting Trump. Now glad Romney never made it any further - he was not fit for the Presidency based on his recent comments. Good riddance.

[@darlenedschuler509]

If you give Trump a free pass, what about the next president that wants to do the same thing? We have to show them the American people won't tolerate these kind of lawlessness.

[@christamead3753]

I assume you are referring to the crooked senile Joe and his disgusting son and family

[@ogathingo8885]

Unfortunately there are many such soulless characters among the GOP young and old….let us pray that GOD will save us from such characters without any decency and morality…..

[@jaygoren815]

Trump walked into a bar, and lowered it.

[@amyw6922]

Young voters? Middle aged voters can’t buy a home. If you are 30 years old and living with your parents, you are not alone.

[@granitestater1029]

KkKennedyyy wants to fix that for you!

[@JehBasquiat]

Eh debatable. 26 year old and currently buying house now that me and my wife are able to afford to do so.

[@bakenbeans420]

@@JehBasquiat That's good for you brother, I don't think you are the rule though. Might be the exception. I am also 30 and live with parents, and my young nephews. But I personally don't see anything wrong with that. I like living with the people I love. But I couldn't afford to moveout, even if I wanted to.

[@JehBasquiat]

@@bakenbeans420 I just helped my 36 year old brother move in with my 35 year old brother and my mom who lives in the basement there 🤷🏽‍♂️ nothing wrong with living with family brother. If I had it my way I’d own a neighborhood for me and mines only 😂🤌

[@thehamster2301]

Blame the corporations for the artificially hiked prices, not just inflation. Corporations are achieving record profits, they are price gouging because they can and that includes oil companies.

[@barbarabonanno1879]

Just as the German people, and the Allies as well (up to a certain moment), could not "imagine" the Holocaust. What was happening with the deportations and the genocide of the Jews just seemed totally unbelievable. Being completely optimistic makes people miss the evil stuff...willful ignorance.

[@zacharythomas8617]

Don't try to teach me about willful ignorance. It goes both ways. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

[@mymia731]

There is no way that the Germans living near camps could not know. Burning human flesh smells in such a way that you know it is human. They may not have wanted to believe but they knew.

[@GeorgeHenderson-rs5pv]

I can tell you the world is laughing at America.

[@anniehuckerby9281]

I'm with Mika getting PTSD 😂

[@iadorenewyork1]

Partly from the marriage with Joe Scarborough!

[@smeer001]

Once Trump gets back to campaigning full time, people will hopefully see how bad his dementia really is getting

[@terrierqueen4091]

Never assume. He's ben visibly 🦇💩 for DECADES, and still the great illiterate support him. They supported him enough to get him elected in 2016. The fight is still on.

[@christamead3753]

??? are you REALLY that stupid??? OMG

[@philly4444]

LOL, nice try

[@JaymeArceneaux]

Morning Joe is the best show on MSNBC 💕🔥Joe Meka are just the right combination for news and also❤😘

[@lilgiant6611]

Let's have a historic presidential debate at Rikers, from cellblock M, Cell#47!

[@craiglester3296]

I know this cannot be just me. Mika did something that made her even prettier than usual. That is just amazing she became a knock-out over night ! ! ! Wow 😊

[@williamhosp701]

Stephanie Rhule did her show from 11pm to midnight and then came back to Morning Joe the next morning? Great job!

[@vhooper3705]

So we have come down to this! God help us.

[@user-mz1kt6iz4e]

God? ...God, who ..?

[@elizaimogen6381]

Such great information and analysis. I thank you all. This is such a terrifying time for our beloved country. 🇺🇸

[@laciebanks4425]

It's maddening that Joe Scarborough interrupts every person on set. I would like to hear the other people on set finish a sentence!!!

[@dons3073]

I do not take orders I never have and I never will haha so funny

[@marcuscollins7018]

The 2 Steve’s! Love it.

[@allenkranawetter9482]

What highlights?

[@Blessed-tn1wd]

These are highlights….the show is 4 hours long.

[@davey6907]

Thanks Joe and co

[@user-pw3qm9yb4x]

A man who is a house builder and makes a wage of 40 dollars an hour has an income of about 80 thousand dollars a year which means that he cannot afford to buy the house that he has built for someone else. He would have to make 140 thousand dollars a year to buy a house that he can build.

[@jaygoren815]

"If she weren't my daughter, I'd be dating her" Actual Trump quote.

[@gregoryo8105]

2024 THE DIVIDED STATES OF AMERICA

[@steventheabcandsometimesd6865]

It has classically tough to buy a home unless you make many sacrifices. In 1981 I was in the middle class and making a decent wage of 11 dollars per hour. The best price I could find was 80,000. I could not qualify for a 30 year mortgage because interest of 14 percent. I bought a 50,000 home just barely. Then my sister paid 180,000 for her home in the San Francisco Bay Area. Today that home is worth well over 2 million. I say this because homes starting at 2 million sold out in the last two years even before they finished building those 30 homes. My sister’s home is on the back of a cul de sac with a huge lot. Whereas the 30 homes have a very small lot. I still contend that instead of complaining, use inflation to your advantage. My sister retired at age 62. And she doesn’t even have to sell her primary residence. She could survive by selling her rental home. Thus just make it work because it can be done.

[@michaelcooney4704]

... the Safety and Security of the Indian Ocean the Sth Pacific, Australia and Aotearoa are also included in those 'Classified Documents' not just Amaoricar'!!! 👽🌏👽🌎👽

[@Gretabpooh]

Initially, it wasn't Marco Rubio's Senate Intelligence report. Most of the investigation and report was while Burr was chairman of the committee. Rubio just tookmover after Burr stepped down from the chairmanship after his stock portfolio issue. But either way, it was Republicans in charge of the Senate Intelligence committee.

[@MizzJazlynCrizztina]

Help restore Revolutionary War airplanes!!

[@Americasinertia]

Cannibalism is great

[@naja13]

Troll 🧌

[@terrierqueen4091]

Already stocked up on Sharpies for this year's hurricane season. 😁

[@MurphyNavar]

Good one. I remember chump's 4th of July speech when he said that. He tried to blame it on the teleprompters - which proves that it came from his head!!! He should have blamed it on a speech writer. What a fool!!!!

[@MizzJazlynCrizztina]

@@terrierqueen4091 🤭

[@Jessecraft1954]

Love your beautiful hair❤

[@LogicAndReason2025]

Benedict Donald's idea of debate is Olympic Gish Galloping.

[@debi1451]

True that!.

[@zacharythomas8617]

The Dunmer will inherit Skyrim!

[@traewatkins931]

Wages are not keeping up with ACTUAL inflation, the inflation numbers are not taking into account for what it actually costs to LIVE.

[@kathleenpmaguire3377]

How do you talk to a LIAR, let alone debate one? You don't. Because you're just giving him free air time.

[@christamead3753]

you mean Biden, right???

[@ogathingo8885]

Mr. Biden need to learn how to be unpredictable and has to be a street smart with rough edges to overcome a professional liar….

[@pullmanstandard81203]

I hope they can get James Carville on as a guest or guest host. He has mastered political insight.

[@jaygoren815]

On his toilet, his golden toilet, the liar tweets tonight, cue the music

[@SeanPSchisler101]

Joe vs ice cream The ice cream had Joe melting.

[@matthewbarnes4424]

What does that even mean?

[@Mackalkka]

Written non-sequitur

[@maryhorn8531]

Young voters? teachers-in their 50's and 60's can't buy houses because of their low salaries!!!

[@jaygoren815]

We flushed 81 million times and Trump is still bobbing around the bowl.

[@danadkins6844]

TAX the richest the richest among us to help the poorest of us Free Medicare for all!

[@feffygracie]

You know what that will result in? No one will work. No one will try to achieve. The tax base will diminish and ultimately disappear.

[@ktsondru108]

Nicolle Wallace's "64 point font" cackling was priceless!

[@jenswetter251]

The definition of "happiness", valid and applicable at the time when the Declaration of Independence was written, the core meaning of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness", is definitely not about a mental state of positive and pleasant emotion, ranging from contentment to intense joy. "Pursuit of happiness" in the modern context is misleading, although happiness is almost always used with that connotation.

[@saundrakielborn2201]

“He begrudgingly accepted it, you never know”. Waaa! 😩 What a bunch of whiners!😂

[@stacyedwards5624]

I know it's his show. But I wish Joe would sometimes let the other talking heads talk and not cut across them because he has something to say

[@user-py8iy5sj4w]

Joe and Mika, love your chemistry! Also enjoying the panel! Keep the information flowing! Great reports!🌷🌹🫶🏻🫂❤️🔥

[@anniehuckerby9281]

I'd Love for Steve to show how the US compares to other countries regarding inflation since Americans are not taking this into consideration ❤

[@jedheart8059]

"Have one (Trump crowd) outside, whatever." Micha 😂😂😂😂

[@lisabrown4405]

A good START..PRUSING..HAPPINESS & THE CONNECTION TO LIFE 🇺🇸 IN AMERICA

[@Gretabpooh]

How much of the increase in insurance rates can be attributed to Florida alone? With so many insurers leaving the state, the remaining companies have increased their rates. And DeSantis and the Republican legislators haven't done ansingle thing to improve the problem.

[@mymia731]

It’s actually because of increased weather issues in all states. Florida and California have always been costly markets to insurance providers. Now, states like Arkansas and Tennessee have become higher risk states due to unnamed wind (tornadoes, etc…) have increased.

[@oidbio2565]

my gosh...stop interrupting the economist dude! It's like Italians at a dinner table.

[@sarahpamula778]

Real. What bar plays The Grateful Dead? Real.

[@snoopaloop65]

Wages are not keeping up with the rise of inflation are they crazy

[@JackieWight-lv8ir]

I so agree. Bet you're all still on Twitter

[@JJMHigner]

They don't make affordable housing because they don't make money on them. The smallest new house that developers build is twice the size of a Cape Cod, home from years ago or even twice the size of a relatively small ranch style house. And if they are smaller they're called patio homes and sell for twice as much to retirees ie: Those that already have made their lives. They're not gonna build it if it's not gonna make them money and a lot of us per development. If it is subsidized housing it is increasingly cheap and ineffective. They just fall apart. Cape cod and ranch style houses as we used to have them would be probably the best.

[@ACME18]

Anything to get rid of this dud!😢

[@pedrorossie]

For those who think that it is OK for Trump to be a dictator, even for a day, you should move to Cuba for a few years to fully understand what you are asking for. I know, I lived there for the first years of my life. I am a proud US veteran and citizen.

[@davidscarupa1429]

FDT Russian hack

[@monicagakdut6521]

Young people protect the democracy case, freedom for your future, people no dictator president

[@dennismusic9837]

Business travelers are covered by corporate expense accounts. Those entities whose profits are at seventy year highs. They can absorb higher car rental rates. The people who can't afford dependable transportation are those on fixed incomes and the ones forced to work for low wages. If corporate greed isn't brought under control, we will see civil unrest.

[@bruceduncan9532]

And a pardon would say what? It’s ok to try and over throw our democracy? Insane way of thinking, period…..

[@brianc.2839]

Joe ... please let your guests speak. You take waaay too long framing your point. It is rude to cut them off. ...really ... sorry to point that out. but just sayin' .... from 🇨🇦

[@eduardofelan6252]

Is this a Saturday night skit????

[@danmylecraine3796]

Stephanie Ruhle!!! Great news person!, hosts like a judge! Put my departing Sen. Romney in his place. He's my favorite Republican, but still only a Republican...

[@TheodoreBattaglia]

25:25 Tom and MSNBC agree, we must stop this by not allowing any American to think for themselves 😂

[@jaygoren815]

4 of the top 5 states most dependent on welfare? The Republican-led states of Louisiana, West Virginia, Mississippi and Oklahoma.

[@wandacarner4683]

I am going to say it again Joe should run for President. I believe he and Mika would be awesome team running the country

[@kennethsteen4908]

Hillary Clinton's Campaign Team was very confident in 2016, HMMM!

[@royparrish2515]

Romney doesn't want the Republican Party to go the way of the Dodo and he is way too late to try to save it.

[@gunner678]

They should not at all be complacent

[@honestbusiness1371]

We have lowest inflation in the world.

[@honestbusiness1371]

Inflation is 1% higher than average inflation so who cares. I don’t get it.

[@honestbusiness1371]

,

[@honestbusiness1371]

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[@globalguy1965]

I'm an American living in Germany. Our Inflation is still around 5 to 6 percent. Be thankful for your 3.x percent

[@maxnicks4661]

DJT: I will accept the results of this trial if I win.

[@ronniehartley-savill7203]

I hope Joe or someone from the show reads these comments. Joe really needs to shut up now and again. And whoever is constantly clearing their nose and sniffing really needs to stop, it's getting on my last nerve.

[@JoePolaris]

Engage in dealing with Social Media, we need regulation for all of them (not only TikTok) , there is an active threat to mental health for young people. Access for non-adults should be regulated. Acknowledge the challenges specific to men, per Scott Galloway (last week I believe on the show), specially young men. We have a mental health crisis at a national level which is not being discussed. We are heading towards a demographic crisis if we do not take steps to mitigate and improve the topics above and more. If we want to keep our way of life, we can't ignore this.

[@gregorykrug8034]

The election is going to come down to one question: Do you want Trump to be king?