Joy-ann Reid had to school another Trump apologist as she laid waste his fallacies and articulated the real Republican intent in words everyone could relate to based on a reality they can see. I so wish every progressive pundit could do it like she does.
Joy-ann Reid struck down another Trump apologist
Trump spokesman Jeffrey Lord typically gets the upper hand in arguments. Joy-ann Reid took him on fearlessly in a manner he could not refute. During the discussion on Real Time with Bill Maher Overtime, Charlie Sykes discussed the capitulation of the Conservative movement to Donald Trump. Maher pointed out that Trump’s budget looked as irresponsible as Reagan’s budget was
Jeffrey Lord using his typical misinforming verbiage attempted to rewrite the Reagan and Clinton economic realities. Joy-ann Reid would have none of it. Moreover, in one unstoppable narrative, she laid out the GOP agenda and what it would mean to us all.
“I don’t think Republicans would ever turn on Trump,” Reid said. “Because Paul Ryan has made it pretty clear that he is going to use Trump’s right hand to get the things that Paul Ryan wants. Paul Ryan essentially wants to repeal the twentieth century. He wants to privatize Social Security if he can. Gut Medicare. Gut Medicaid. Gut food stamps. Essentially throw the poor unto the mercy of charities and churches. Turn everything into a fistful of vouchers. A voucher for you to go to school which you are now going to have to pay for because Ms. DeVoss wants to privatize it. A voucher for you to buy health insurance. Good luck if the voucher isn’t enough for you to pay for a policy that can actually help you when you are really sick. And that fistful of voucher strategy, they can throw it on Trump and say well Trump signed it.”
“Do you really want to bankrupt Social Security?” Jeffrey Lord interjected. “Is that what you want to do?”
Reid did not allow the big GOP lie to go unchallenged.
“Are you kidding? You see, that’s the biggest myth that Republicans push,” Reid responded. “Social Security is not going to be bankrupt. Social Security has a seventy-year life span. You say that because you want to privatize it. You guys have been doing that since it passed. You never wanted it. Republicans had never wanted it to exist.”
Reid’s matter-of-fact manner of speech along with her extensive knowledge on the issues she chimes in on more so than not lays waste to misinformers who choose to engage her. If we had more fearless Progressives out there like Reid on air and in Congress, many more people would be informed and likely willing to fight for the cause. They would start voting in their interest.
