Joy Reid: Inaugural celebration was everything the GOP hates, and envies, about the left

[onetexan]

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/joy-reid-inauguration-program-was-the-answer-to-what-we-saw-on-january-6th-99767877960

Joy nails it spot on in this one sentence: Democrats have CULTURE. The right want the culture more than the politics, but they don't have it.

Also love the fact she was BEAMING throughout the entire coverage yesterday i thought the woman was going to turn into a high wattage lightbulb

Really enjoyed MSNBC's coverage of the entire thing. Kudos to Rachel, Nicole & Joy - love watching all their shows

[ananda]

1. Her show is my absolute favorite!

!!!

[servermsh]

2. I saw that segment and she is 100% correct.

It's also why Trump could only get C-list celebrities and worse to associate with him.

[Swede]

5. Chachi, Sorbo, that Cheers barmaid...

D-list is more like it.

[DownriverDem]

14. My husband kept joking

about where's Chachi, Ted Nugent, Kid Rock?

[bdamomma]

3. Joy had

a smile on her face all day, just had to smile with her!!

[iluvtennis]

25. +++ agree. I SMILED with her also. nt

[colsohlibgal]

4. So True.

We aren’t consumed with hate for the “Other”.

[Johnny2X2X]

6. Yes

The whole day was glorious and a celebration of the country. I kept thinking about how much Cons would hate it though. A celebration of diversity and multiculturalism to reflect America is what they are against. The celebrity elites all showing out certainly irked them to no end.

[onetexan]

7. yup, even Garth Brooks & Tim Mcgraw contributed to the awesome celebration

i saw postings of how they were betrayed. Apparently it was news to them these 2 have been liberals all their lives.
Wish Willie Nelson could have joined them but given his age i understand

[Johnny2X2X]

9. Country music stars don't live in a bubble

Their fans may think they do, but once you start traveling as a successful band, your world view will get changed pretty quickly. Being in a band that is getting started means engaging with venue owners and fans and promoting yourself. Not going to get very far by being a bigot. And then once you're a touring band you're seeing the whole country and then the whole world, you're getting exposed to great culture everywhere. Engaging with a diverse world in this way is going to snap you out of things pretty quickly.

Most of these country stars are probably pretty liberal, many just keep it to themselves, some probably pretend to be MAGATS.

[DownriverDem]

16. I wish Garth

wouldn't have said he was probably the only repub to perform. I didn't need to hear that.

[onetexan]

18. Did he say that? I thought he's been a life long liberal. He played for Obama too.

[catbyte]

28. That's odd, because he and Tricia Yearwood campaigned for Obama in 2008, 2012 & Hillary in 2016.

Maybe he was one way back when, but certainly not recently.

[rurallib]

8. Repugs don't want to do any work to attain more culture- they want to buy it

like they do everything else in their lives, use it for their purposes and then dump it or sell it and make a profit.

[NCDem47]

10. Art is expressing human emotion!

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Democrats understand the human condition and the FULL range of emotions (not just fear and disgust). We infuse this undertsanding into our values and party platform. Artists associate with that.

Republicans are the Borg. Devoid of ANYTHING!!

[Duppers]

11. Nailed it...

Except they have their hate, which seems to be the motivating factor in their lives.

[Hortensis]

12. They don't understand why it isn't them. They're better people in

virtually all ways, all that is right in America is really their culture. Democrats want free stuff and a socialist nanny state to take care of everyone and are intolerably smug and hypocritical in imagining that makes them superior. And here's everyone acting joyful as the nation circles the drain, big-name stars, fireworks and all. Helpless to stop it.

Btw, this is from the Public Religion Research Institute's annual survey, published last fall before the election. Yes, 81% of Pubs and half of indies believe the Democratic party has been taken over by socialists. Beyond stupid, but the fright is real.

PRRI also asked respondents whether they believed that, “It always makes the country better when all Americans speak up and protest unfair treatment by government.” Then, it asked the same question, but substituted “Black Americans” for “all Americans.”

Democrats made no distinction between the two questions: 71 percent answered Yes to both. Among Republicans, however, 49 percent believed it made the country better when all Americans spoke up and protested unfair governmental treatment, but just 24 percent believed it when Black Americans spoke up and protested. Among Republicans whose most trusted news source is Fox News, the gap was 47 percent Yes for all Americans, and a bare 10 percent for Blacks.

Indeed, 57 percent of Republicans believed that whites face “a lot of discrimination,” while just 52 percent believe that Blacks do. Among Democrats, 13 percent said whites encounter a lot of discrimination; 92 percent said Blacks do.

https://www.prri.org/research/amid-multiple-crises-trump-and-biden-supporters-see-different-realities-and-futures-for-the-nation/

[sarge43]

13. Not just the glamour culture

Democrats have the creative culture- writers, artists, poets, especially poets.

[onetexan]

19. exactly, and DIVERSITY is the underpinning of all of that literary & artistic culture

[sarge43]

24. Yup. The Big Tent

It can be rowdy and noisy, but it sure is color filled.

[iluvtennis]

26. +1000. nt

[Baitball Blogger]

15. Thank you for sharing that!

I missed so much yesterday between chores and changing channels. I would have hated missing Joy Reid's on point observations about culture.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. tRump is enraged that Biden & Obama got A-list talent and he only got B/C-list for inaugurations. nt

[Wounded Bear]

20. The cool kids vote Democratic!

[Botany]

21. That show was amazing and the production values were off the chart.

[Jon King]

22. Trumpers peaked in 10th grade....

Thats when they were on the football team or a cheerleader, could treat others like they owned the place, and its been all downhill since then. Boy are they angry life can't be like 10th grade was. Those dang nerds and immigrants they used to tease in school now run the world....with all that fancy education and stuff.

[durablend]

23. "Al Bundy and his four touchdowns in a single game"

[sdfernando]

27. I loved watching MSNBC's coverage yesteday...and the shear joy on Joy's face!

What an amazing smile she has!

[NurseJackie]

30. Yes it was indeed, sheer joy! I felt it too!

[catbyte]

29. I remember reading that folks were annoyed with Tim McGraw when he decided not to run for

the Senate and now we're all stuck with Marcia Blackburn.

[BobTheSubgenius]

31. Missing those shows is the price I pay for not having Faux.

It's either Hobson's Choice, or Sophie's.

[onetexan]

32. Do what i do - when i go to bed early (which is often) i watch it on msnbc.com the next day. OR the

replay much later if i'm up from midnight - 4am, in time to catch Way Too Early w/ Casey Hunt

[BComplex]

33. And Democrats have a great sense of humor!

Democrats are the best of this world!

I totally agree with Joy.