MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2026
Almost surely, Fox & Friends Weekend won't: It's true! Joe Scarborough did start today's Morning Joe with what could be called "screams of rage."
He was playing the remarkable videotape of the latest bizarre behavior by ICE. As part of this report, Mediate reports the bulk of what he said and provides the Morning Joe tape:
Joe Scarborough Screams in Rage Watching ‘Idiot’ ICE ‘Thugs’ Chase, Pull Guns on Woman
Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough screamed at the camera, trashing ICE as an “undisciplined paramilitary force” as he watched back shocking footage of the moment federal agents chased and surrounded an unarmed Minneapolis woman in her vehicle with their weapons drawn.
The woman is seen in the video from St. Peter, Minnesota, calling police as she’s being pursued by the agents on January 29 after reportedly observing and recording their actions.
As the woman requests help from police and gives her location, the agents’ red vehicle cuts her off, and officers step out to demand she exit her car.
And so on, at length, from there, with no lack of furious behavior involving threats from very large guns. The fuller story of this remarkable incident is provided by Minnesota Public Radio if you simply click here.
St. Peter police chief intervened and got federal agents to release resident, sources say
MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday to prevent federal immigration agents from taking a local resident into detention, although the city of St. Peter denied the intervention in a statement Saturday.
And so on from there. We offer one additional thought:
That seems to be the kind of behavior many Minneapolis residents have witnessed in recent weeks. Can we tell you who won't be witnessing this latest bit of videotape?
Almost surely, viewers of Fox & Friends Weekend will never see that tape. Neither will viewers of other programs on the Fox News Channel.
Why are people protesting in Minneapolis? As we noted in Saturday's report, Hurt, Campos-Duffy and Jenkins answered that question for Red American viewers on that day's Fox & Friends Weekend. The people were out there protesting in frigid temperatures because they're paid, viewers were told, and because they're "a little bit crazy."
That is the embarrassing way those three friends behave on the air. On Sunday morning, they continued along with that Song Sung Red, but we leave you with an obvious question:
Were some people in Minneapolis protesting last week because they've seen federal agents behaving in similar ways? Or because they've heard about such bizarre behavior? Or because they've seen the videotape?
We'll guess that the answer is yes! That said, viewers of Fox & Friends Weekend aren't likely to see that videotape. That very much isn't a "song sung Red." On programs like Fox & Friends Weekend, the songs involve different events.
Newspapers like the New York Times should be reporting the way our two Americas, Red and Blue, are exposed to different information and to different ideas—and to different pieces of videotape. This is a very basic part of our failing modern politics.
It's a basic part of our crumbling society's ongoing societal meltdown. For reasons only they can explain, most news orgs don't want to go there.
BalasPadam"Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough screamed at the camera..."
Ha-ha, nice. This means that everything goes well; the swamp is being drained. Thank you, Bob, for letting us know this, and thank you, Mr. President, for draining the swamp!
Squeal Democrats, squeal: your swamp will be drained!
Draining the swamp, sir!
Padam"Four days before Donald Trump’s inauguration last year, lieutenants to an Abu Dhabi royal secretly signed a deal with the Trump family to purchase a 49% stake in their fledgling cryptocurrency venture for half a billion dollars, according to company documents and people familiar with the matter. The buyers would pay half up front, steering $187 million to Trump family entities."
So Trump makes raising prices illegal, people don't need to get second jobs protesting ICE's fascism because no more inflation, and the Right continues to support child rape.
BalasPadamWhat's the hold-up?
These incidents are not "songs sung blue," they are facts on the ground. They are current events in Minneapolis. When Somerby mischaracterizes them as "songs" it implies that they are not real, but are somehow left wing propaganda, when they are actual incidents that occurred to real people.
BalasPadamIf Somerby wants to use the confusing language about songs, the idea that protesters are paid is a manufactured piece of misinformation, propaganda, and might legitimately be called a "song sung red" in Somerby's confusing usage.
Somerby however does not appear to understand how much more is happening in Minnesota, that is causing people to protest in the streets. Al Franken's podcast featured Norm Ornstein yesterday.
As described: "After spending time meeting with organizers in the Twin Cities, Al shares what he learned from constitutional observers and others making their community safer and caring for each other. We also discuss the danger of the federal government getting its hands on state voter rolls. Was Trump's invasion ever about enforcing immigration laws? Or was it more about retribution? "
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/norm-ornstein-on-ice-terrorizing-minnesota/id1462195742?i=1000747532599
Franken, who lives in Minnesota, described the way neighbors are helping each other to cope with the infestation of ICE agents. There are people who are afraid to leave their homes. They have lost their jobs. They rely on neighbors to go food shopping, to help their kids get to and from school, to others help run errands. Community members are not just observing ICE but also helping vulnerable targets (e.g., those with brown skin) protect themselves and their children from assault. If ICE were only targeting criminals and illegals, this widespread effort of Minnesotans helping each other, would not have been necessary, but ICE stops people regardless of citizenship or legal resident status, just because they can, and the effect is to terrorize everyone, not just those with sketchy immigration status. The people in Minnesota are protesting because they see the destructive impact of Trump's ICE terror campaign on their neighborhoods.
When ICE is rousting elderly white people attending church, this has nothing to do with immigration enforcement. People in Minnesota are walking around with their passports in clear plastic cases hung around their necks with a lanyard. That is to protect them from being shot by having to reach into a purse or pocket for their documentation. The law does not require that anyone identify themselves, but the residents in Minnesota are trying to prevent violence against themselves during ICE encounters.
If red voters do not understand this, it isn't because the info is being hidden from them, or is otherwise unavailable. This is all being reported in various news sources, beyond liberal blogs and podcasts. Somerby's idea that silos make it impossible for people to get the truth about current events is flatly wrong. It is a matter of individual effort -- red voters don't want to know what is going on. And no, it isn't the same on both the left and the right. We blues are not living in a separate bubble. We are living in a world where neighbors must help each other escape from ICE, who is punishing the people in a blue state because they are government by blue elected officials. And Trump is doing that on purpose.
Somerby is not one of us. He seems to have no idea what is happening in MN himself, and that is his fault. No one told him to join the Fox Silo and become an ignorant fuck.
"Biden is mentally sharp!" was a song sung Blue until the disatrous debate (and even now the deadenders still sing that song Blue). When Somerby was warning us in real time that Biden didn't appear all that sharp, many here -- including you, I strongly suspect -- screamed that Somerby was a Russian asset paid to promote Red themes.
PadamBiden showed himself to be mentally sharp by: (1) releasing his medical files, including a newly taken cognitive test, (2) participating in interviews and giving speeches after his bad debate, that were competent and clear, (3) soliciting evaluations from those who he worked with closely to attest to his mental fitness, (4) releasing a plausible explanation for the bad debate, including fatigue, cold, cold medicine, lack of sleep, (5) offering to debate Trump again, which Trump refused.
PadamSomerby didn't just warn that Biden didn't appear sharp, he piled on the crusade to push Biden off his own ticket. He joined the chorus of those advocating that Biden was too old and should step aside. Given how mealy mouthed Somerby usually is about taking a stand, this was noticeably militant. Because this position aligned with Trump's interests, it seems pretty obvious that Somerby was not being a good faith observer but was pushing the talking points on the right. The right created those deep fake videos that Somerby referred to as evidence, ignoring that they were FAKE and created by a Russian firm influencing social media. The Washington Post also pushed the videos (despite that they were discredited) and Somerby bought them whole hog. Whether Somerby was a Russian asset or not, he was plainly promoting Russian and right wing themes about Biden.
What does the comment have to do with Biden? It is talking about MN. Are you offering this as an example of the mainstream news taking a blatantly political position that influenced Biden's viability as a candidate? It shouldn't have done that. Somerby appears to be calling for more such involvement, not less.
A better example is the way the NY Times went after Hillary in 2015. They shouldn't have promoted the right wing hit piece "Clinton Cash" and they shouldn't have pushed Benghazi to hurt Clinton. They should have addressed the theft of her emails and Wikileaks relationship with Russia, and they shouldn't have spread Comey's Oct. surprise letter, which had nothing to do with Clinton at all, as if it were raising serious new questions (it didn't). Again, Somerby seems to be asking for more such involvement, not less. I think newspapers should stay neutral except for their editorials, which are clearly labeled as opinion.
Biden's sharpness was a dividing issue among blue voters, not a "song sung blue" in the sense that it provoked disagreement between those who supported Biden and saw nothing to worry about, and those who joined the right wing in criticizing his acuity (Nancy Pelosi, Jon Favreau, George Clooney, a bunch of Biden donors who didn't like his proposed increase in corporate tax rate, and of course, Somerby). That particular song was only being sung by a subset of blues who were not representative of the whole party by any means. Anyone who worked with Biden supported him and not those attacking him, including Congress members, the Clintons, foreign leaders who had met with him recently, his own staff and his White House physicians. It was the retraction of funding by donors that caused him to relinquish his nomination, not any recognition that he couldn't campaign and win aganst Trump. After Harris lost, Biden still felt he could have won if he had not stepped aside, and considered that a mistake.
PadamThat was before his cancer diagnosis, which changed things because of the need for treatment.
You could admit that you were wrong, and reconsider your priors, but I guess that's just not possible, is it?
PadamNo, because I was not wrong.
PadamIt must be nice to own such partisan blinders that you could watch the debate and conclude that Biden was mentally on top of his game.
PadamI’ve explained what I think caused the poor debate performance. Those calling Biden incompetent are the ones without evidence.
PadamIf you read the debate transcript instead of watching Biden stutter, it is better. Trump’s performances are much worse, especially lately. Trump is showing dementia symptoms, not Biden.
Is it possible to set a lower bar than “not as bad as Trump”?
PadamYou seem to think Trump was competent in his debate with Biden.
PadamIf you think that then your reading comprehension skills are even more limited than I could possibly have imagined.
PadamTrump was absolutely horrible — banging on about post-birth abortions, for God’s sake! — but Biden not only couldn’t take advantage, he was so bad that everybody focused on his obvious cognitive deficiencies and nobody noticed that Trump was exposed as a drooling idiot.
PadamIt was not cognitive deficiencies, dammit. That is just bullshit. He had a bad night. He froze trying to untangle the avalanche of twisted knots Trump was weaving.
PadamOh, and Putin told me to call Trump a “drooling idiot” so gullible liberals would believe I’m one of them. (I got the job by answering one of those ads saying how I could make big money at home in my spare time.)
PadamWow! Look who’s talking! Avalanche of twisted knots, indeed! You’re congenitally incapable of responding to the simplest of challenges without triggering multiple “avalanches of twisted knots,” to mangle and mix your metaphors.
PadamThat was me.
PadamIt was a stupid metaphor. Trumps avalanche of manure. Biden was not cognitively deficient.
PadamYesterday, I listened to an audio recording of a woman in Utah whose business (a body shop) was broken into by ICE agents. They broke a window to get in. She repeatedly asked them for a warrant and told them they couldn't do what they were doing. She told them her lawyer was on the way. She asked for their warrant, over and over and they said "We don't need a warrant." She said yes, you do, and they ignored her and entered her business.
BalasPadamThis was in the red state of Utah. And yes, they did need a warrant. ICE has been offering administrative warrants signed by an ICE administrator, but that is insufficient. The law and courts say that they must have a warrant signed by a judge (who would have reviewed their probable cause evidence). ICE needs a warrant to break into cars too, yet they routinely break windows and drag people out into the street, often injuring them, then they detain the people and leave the cars sitting in the street, open to anyone passing by. These cars are called "ghost cars" and they are increasingly frequent.
This is what a police state looks like. We should all be protesting this flagrant disregard for our constitutional rights (which apply to illegal and temporary residents not just citizens). Somerby should be as outraged as the rest of us about this mistreatment of people by ICE, with Trump's encouragement.
Where is Somerby's outrage? Joe Scarborough knows what he was witnessing. Apparently Somerby either doesn't know or doesn't care that this is wrong and shouldn't be happening in a free country. Where is Somerby's outrage?
New - Generic Ballot poll (Swing voters)
BalasPadam🔴 Republicans 38% (+8)
🔵 Democrats 30%
Cygnal #B - LV - 1/28
Thanks for posting these bs polls.
PadamDemocrats’ unpopularity stems less from Trump’s behavior and more from voter resentment over the party’s 2024 decisions, lack of transparency, and unwillingness to admit fault.
Padamhttps://www.stltoday.com/opinion/column/lynn-schmidt/article_d99cd7e3-0689-48cb-bc12-f5f8f912d11b.html#tncms-source=login
Fault?
PadamTexas has now spoken.
Padam"Newspapers like the New York Times should be reporting the way our two Americas, Red and Blue, are exposed to different information and to different ideas—and to different pieces of videotape. This is a very basic part of our failing modern politics."
BalasPadamThis is goofy. First, the NY Times is not a political organ, agent, or mouthpiece for either party. It's owners have views that influence the content of the paper, which we all understand is their bias, and they do publish editorials (some have said what Somerby calls for) but they are not explicitly political, which is why they are not going to perform as part of "failing modern politics." It is not their role.
Second, there are more than two Americas (red and blue) and there is free and unfettered access for people in any America to read and watch whatever they choose. It is not the fault of the NY Times if those who support Trump want to watch Fox 24/7, as Somerby says he does. Today, in our failing modern politics, there are more Independents than Democrats or Republicans, and there are more non-voters than there are voters. The complexity of the voting public makes predicting election outcomes more complex than Somerby has ever acknowledged.
Third, how is it "failing" that different people are exposed to different sources of info? The diversity and pluralism of America has always been a feature and not a bug. Our democratic system is designed to give a wide variety of people access to political decision-making because (as Ken Burns notes in The American Revolution, Episode 1), we have always been a highly diverse people.
Somerby's focus should be on protecting access to our political system by ALL people, not trying to achieve some homogeneity of exposure by all (one big Silo), much less homogeneity of opinion.
I object to the way Somerby refers to our politics as failing. I may not like the outcome of elections but I do consider that they are generally fair and honest. If Somerby has bought into right wing ideas that elections are rigged, he should say so and not just fling adjectives around without explanation. In what way are they failing?
Newspapers serve many purposes for communities, including predicting weather, reporting sports outcomes, advertising local businesses, describing social events, listing job openings, and public announcements of meetings and legal notices. None of this is particularly political. Somerby's insistence that newspapers be political is out of place.
PadamI wish Somerby had studied journalism or communications at Harvard, instead of philosophy.
PadamSomerby doesn't care what the ladies are doing, but he might have pointed out the extreme differences on Fox compared to all other news sources in the reviews of the movie Melania. On Fox, they are saying that theaters are packed and the audience atmosphere is explosive. On MSNOW and CNN, they are saying the theaters are empty with half the viewers assigned to be there solely to review the film. The mainstream reviews are scathing. Fox is living in a different world. I doubt that is solely because its audience is Red America, because there are blue Americans living in the south too. I think it is because Fox is "state media" and is told what to say by our Republican political apparatus, whereas the remainder of the media is not compelled to flatter Dear Leader's "Slovenian rent-a-wife".
BalasPadamGiven that half of the media is already as political as Somerby wishes, why does he keep calling for mainstream or legacy media to reflect lefty propaganda? Is that a step in the right direction? I don't think so. It would mean neither side would provide an unbiased report on anything.
I remember when Barbie came out and the manosphere tried to torpedo it by posting bad reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. It was a huge success despite that. Someone has to protect the purity of reviews of pop culture. So why does Somerby argue that the NY Times needs to get more political and dictate to people what they should be thinking about current events, just as Fox does?
Can anyone imagine actually thinking "reviews are scathing" means anything in 2026?
PadamPeople who go to the movies a lot do read trusted reviewers to decide which films to see with friends or on dates. Melania is not an actual film. It is a bought and paid for political advertisement and a vehicle to rehabilitate Ratner (or repay a debt to him of some sort). Ratner is in the new batch of Epstein documents and those who worked with him on Melania described him as creepy, but bros before hoes, as they say.
PadamUnmarried Democratic Party women love political violence and violent rhetoric. In poll after poll they are the group most in favor of political violence and most willing to excuse violent rhetoric. It excites them.
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PadamBetter trolling please.
He’s incapable.
PadamHere is the next threat to our democracy:
BalasPadam“No need to wonder why this administration raided an elections facility – Trump himself is making it clear it’s a pretext to conduct unprecedented federal intrusion into our elections," Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) posted on X."He’s a mad man and is just straight up telling us that they’re going to meddle with the election," Fox News host Jessica Tarlov posted on X.
"The last time he started talking like this, his allies minimized the risks and we ended up with Jan 6," Dartmouth political science professor Brendan Nyhan posted on X. "This time we must take him literally and seriously. These comments are a five-alarm fire for democracy. In a functioning republic, he would be impeached and removed from office." [Rawstory]
Very interesting. Can you provide a link to the comments you're talking about? Thanks.
PadamGo take a flying fuck, dickhead, you fucking fascist troll. That’s all you have to say? “Very interesting” pathetic, you piece of shit
Padamhttps://www.rawstory.com/trump-election-2675070515/
PadamRead to the end.
Pay no attention to the dickhead troll. He plays this game all the time.
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