MSNBC recently featured commentary about the new Supreme Court rulings from Elie Mystal which crossed the river of crazy.
Mystal framed his entire argument by saying, ‘Imagine Donald Trump wants to murder you.’
This sort of commentary is meant to do nothing but inflame viewers. It’s meant to push people over the edge. It’s also completely insane.
People like this need to be pushed out of the ‘news’ analysis business.
Transcript via Real Clear Politics:
ELIE MYSTAL: Imagine Donald Trump wants to do something illegal to you. Ali Velshi, imagine that he wants to murder you. Imagine that he and Stephen Miller released an entire policy explaining how they can murder Canadian journalists who are working in America because they’re taking the jobs from real American journalists. Right? So he’s going to murder you.
So you, Ali Velshi, you go to court. You go to court in the Southern District of New York, and you say, like, “I don’t—I don’t—I don’t think this murder thing is constitutional. It’s clearly illegal. It’s clearly unconstitutional. Donald Trump and Pam Bondi and Stephen Miller shouldn’t be able to have a plan to murder me.”
And the court says, “You’re right, Ali Velshi. There’s no way Donald Trump is allowed to murder you. We’re going to have an injunction. We’re going to stay the executive order saying that he’s going to murder Canadian journalists.”
And so you’re like, great. Awesome. And you go home.
And then Pat Kiernan shows up, and he’s like, “What about me? I’m also a Canadian.” Ashleigh Banfield shows up: “I’m also Canadian. What about me?”
And the courts say, “Well, I can’t help you because Ali Velshi is the one who sued. So, Pat Kiernan, if you don’t want to be murdered, you have to launch your entire own lawsuit in the Southern District of New York—again—to make sure that Donald Trump doesn’t murder you.”
Here’s the video:
Deranged Elie Mystal explains SCOTUS nationwide injunction ruling by describing how Trump could hatch a plot to m*rder people.
“Imagine Donald Trump wants to m*rder you…”
Totally sane, normal stuff going on over there at MSNBC.
Totally sane.
Totally normal. pic.twitter.com/Ql1ZEHq78z
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) June 28, 2025
This rhetoric does not inform or help people in any way. It’s what we used to call crazy talk, and it needs to end.
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