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Chapter 1: Why is Joy Reid leaving MSNBC?
Well, folks, nature is healing, and nowhere is it healing more, apparently, than at MSNBC. Now, I have to say, I have mixed feelings about this news. Joy Reid is apparently losing her show at MSNBC, and that is a loss for, I think, all of us, considering that approximately 11% of the content of the show was simply provided by Joy Reid and her asinine commentary on politics.
On Sunday, Variety and The New York Times reported that Reid's 7 p.m. weeknight show, The Readout, is being canceled and will air its final episode this week. Apparently, she is leaving the network completely as a result, which, of course, is not a shock. She's not going to want to stick around and play second fiddle. Perhaps she will join Jim Acosta at a brand new network. Ooh, maybe Jen Rubin.
There's a lot of options out there for Joy Reid, who is the kind of psychotic leftist who helped run the Democratic Party directly into a ditch. MSNBC, by the way, insists that they are going to continue with their progressive move. They are not, in fact, going to move toward the center, which, again, genius-level stuff from the leadership over at MSNBC, apparently.
They're going to move Jen Psaki, who is the former White House press secretary under Joe Biden. They're going to move her to anchor one of the primetime hours during the week. She could be named anchor of MSNBC's 9 p.m. hour, where Rachel Maddow currently is. Maddow might be moved as well. Alex Wagner will remain with the network as a correspondent. So.
The people who are apparently going to replace Joy Reid in that 7 p.m. slot are Simone Sanders Townsend, who, of course, was a press secretary originally for Bernie Sanders before becoming a press secretary for Kamala Harris. Michael Steele, the former RNC chairman who has moved far to the left, and Alicia Menendez. They are currently the co-host of MSNBC's weekend program called The Weekend.
So they are moving into the 7 p.m. hour. According to MSN.com, Sanders Townsend, formerly a spokesperson for Harris, was hired by MSNBC in 2022. Meanwhile, the leadership over at MSNBC suggests that they are going to add Politico's Eugene Daniels and NYU law professor Melissa Murray to the network's lineup as well. So they are continuing to move over to the left.
And this reflects a serious problem for the Democratic Party. They do not know which way to move. They are stuck because of identity politics and largely because of immigration. They are now stuck in a rut of their own making, and it is very difficult to break out of that rut. And so you're seeing Democrats struggle against the box, thrash against the box of reality.
Former Bill Clinton pollster Mark Penn points out the Democratic Party is more unpopular than they've been any time in his lifetime. Here he is running down the polling data.
Frankly, the Democratic Party is falling off a cliff. The ratings, which were in the high 40s, are going to be like 35 percent. And I think the basic question, who's doing better job as president, Biden or Trump? Trump is winning that with 57 percent. I think you're seeing a retrospective assessment of Biden and the direction the Democratic Party was going.
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Chapter 2: What challenges do Democrats face post-Trump victory?
And then one candidate who is really interesting, he's been talked about, and he comes from a really hot part of the world that's been important to the church from the very beginning, and certainly today, is Cardinal Pierre Battista Pizzabala, who has a delightful and whimsical last name, Pizzabala. Also, he is the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, and he is considered more conservative.
He seems to be open to the traditional Latin mass, which is so important, especially to many young people in the West. But He's dealing with the most difficult, complex area in the entire world. So he also has great skills at diplomacy, and he could be a really interesting choice. Those seem to be the candidates right now. But then, of course, who knows? The Holy Spirit might surprise us.
So how does the process actually take place? Because obviously we all know about sort of the black smoke that's rising from the conclave and then the white smoke when they finally figure out who exactly is going to be the next pope. But how does it actually take place on sort of a day-to-day level?
And actually sometimes, Ben, as you saw after the conclave that followed the death of Pope Pius XII, sometimes you get the white smoke, but then the black smoke comes up again. And, you know, it's kind of unclear. Do we have a pope? Do we not have a pope? So it's all very confusing. If... If this is the end of Pope Francis's earthly sojourn, and we're getting reports, you know, he has bronchitis.
He only has one full lung. He has reportedly received a blood transfusion, at least one. He's been on oxygen, seems to have mild kidney failure. You know, the man is 88 years old in ill health. We all shuffle off our mortal coil at some point. If that happens, the conclave will kick off. So a lot of people... especially who are hoping that the papacy might move in a new direction.
They notice that Pope Francis has appointed the majority of the cardinals. He's been a pope since 2013, so that's a really long time. However, a lot of the places that Pope Francis has appointed cardinals are the New World. And these New World cardinals... They ain't leftists. You know, the German cardinals at this point are so far left, it's hard to recognize them as Catholic.
But in the new world, these are pretty hardcore Orthodox traditional people in many ways. So the conclave will kick off and all the people in the red hats will go into the room. And there's no politicking officially, no campaigning officially, but I've never been inside one of these rooms. So, you know, who knows? I'm a little skeptical. And this could go on for days. could go on for weeks.
We just don't, you just don't know. And there will be, at that point, obviously the funeral for Pope Francis, those rights have already been put into place. They've been planning this for some long time. I'm seeing mixed reports that the Pope has received last rights. So even that is a little bit unclear. But if I were a gambling man, If it be not now, you know, it will come.
It seems that Pope Francis has lived a good long life. And so whether this is tomorrow or weeks from now or even months from now, this is probably happening soon.
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