‘The Girls Are Fighting!’: MSNBC Panel Rips MAGA’s Civil War
MSNBC panelists Symone Sanders, Michael Steele, and Alicia Menendez practically brought out the popcorn as they recapped the ongoing MAGA civil war incited by Department of Government Efficiency billionaire co-heads Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.
In a Saturday discussion on The Weekend, the trio didn’t hide their glee as they recapped how Musk and Ramaswamy had soured relations with MAGA die-hards after they suggested that Americans didn’t have the skills to compete with foreign workers in the tech space.
“Honey, the girls are fighting! The girls are fighting!” announced Sanders.
Steele added, “Oh, this is fun! This is fun! So, let me get this straight, Vivek Ramaswamy, he just didn’t write a tweet, he wrote a —”
Menendez interjected, “Screed. It was a screed!”
The “screed” in question being Ramaswamy’s Boxing Day post in which he declared: “Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long…”
He added, “A culture that venerates Cory from ‘Boy Meets World,’ or Zach & Slater over Screech in ‘Saved by the Bell, or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in ‘Family Matters,’ will not produce the best engineers.”
The MSNBC panel seemed particularly amused by Ramaswamy’s apparent turn as a TV critic, with Steele musing, “I mean it just went on, and he laid out basically, ‘Y’all white folks out here should have been focused on doing a little bit more Urkel than anything else. Less Stefon.’”
He added, “I’m tickled. I’m tickled by this. Who would have seen this coming?”
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if…
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) December 26, 2024
Sanders weighed in, “Well, I mean definitely not the folks that voted for Donald Trump, and certainly American workers.”
Sanders continued, “But let’s be very clear, there is nothing wrong with people who are not from this country coming here, making a better life, contributing to the American fabric, okay? That’s something I fundamentally believe in. America is the land of the free, home of the brave, all that good stuff that Elon Musk was tweeting about. However, please don’t come for Americans.”
Sanders, Bernie Sanders’ former press secretary, then reiterated the “insanity” of Ramaswamy’s post and had a call to action.
“And I would like—let’s be very clear—I would like white Americans to stand up. This is your calling card, honey, where is your banner? Because they’re coming for you!" she said, adding, “They say white and lazy. That’s crazy! That’s crazy! And if I said it, you would be coming for me! I would never say it because that’s insane!”
