Societal Sheet

Joy Reid’s Race-Baiting Circus Hits Peak Delusion

Written by Scott K. James

MSNBC’s Joy Reid goes full woke by claiming Trump & Elvis are just ‘mediocre white men’ who steal from other cultures. Irony died again.

Joy Reid just threw another race grenade on MSNBC because when you have zero ratings and even less credibility, yelling about ‘mediocre white men’ is apparently the go-to move. In her latest broadcasted tantrum, she painted Donald Trump and Elvis Presley as cultural thieves—white dudes who allegedly can’t create anything original without stealing it from Black America. Because obviously, running the free world and redefining American music history is just theft if you’re melanin-deficient.

The Bullet Point Brief

  • Joy Reid implies Trump and Elvis are talentless culture-thieves infamously propped up by whiteness.
  • She claims white men contribute nothing innovatively – just exploit ideas from other races.
  • Elvis’s musical influence? According to Reid: cultural appropriation wrapped in a pompadour.
  • Trump? Merely another basic white guy riding the unearned privilege train straight to MAGAville.
  • Her commentary was served under MSNBC’s signature sauce of bitterness and race obsession.

My Bottom Line

So let me get this straight – Donald Trump rebuilt a billion-dollar brand empire, flipped the political establishment on its butt, won an election no one thought he could win…and that’s considered mediocrity? And Elvis, the King of Rock ‘n Roll whose influence still echoes through decades of music, is just some racial pickpocket with a guitar? You gotta be on a spiritual ayahuasca journey to believe that BS. But hey, never let facts – or reality – get in the way of a good victimhood narrative over at MSNBC.

Joy Reid’s entire rant reads like a Woke Mad Libs: insert ‘white man,’ insert ‘stealing,’ add some faux outrage seasoning – and presto! Instant cable segment applause from beanbag chair activists. Here’s a truth bomb for Joy and her ilk: screaming ‘racist’ while engaging in nonstop racial generalizations makes you exactly what you claim to hate. It’s projection wrapped in a smug smirk aired nightly on corporate TV.

Not everything invented by white people is stolen. Not every successful person owes their achievements to systemic theft. Sometimes, you might wanna sit down for this, people work their asses off and earn things through actual effort and talent. But admitting that would tank the fragile cathedral of woke identity politics that MSNBC worships in.

The irony? Joy gets paid handsomely by a mega-corporation to accuse others of being exploitative culture thieves… while parroting the same divisive talking points we’ve all heard 1,000 times before. If there’s any theft going on here – it’s five minutes of airtime I’ll never get back listening to this asinine sermon.

About the author

Scott K. James

A 4th generation Northern Colorado native, Scott K. James is a veteran broadcaster, professional communicator, and principled leader. Widely recognized for his thoughtful, common-sense approach to addressing issues that affect families, businesses, and communities, Scott, his wife, Julie, and son, Jack, call Johnstown, Colorado, home. A former mayor of Johnstown, James is a staunch defender of the Constitution and the rule of law, the free market, and the power of the individual. Scott has delighted in a lifetime of public service and continues that service as a Weld County Commissioner representing District 2.