Joy Reid Doesn’t Much Like the U.S., but She Has IMMENSE Respect for One Far-Off Country

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Joy Reid: America is a Christian form of Iran & women may have be better off there pic.twitter.com/mDAheewOPU

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Why doesn’t failed MSNBC host Joy Reid leave the U.S., as so many haters of President Donald Trump and his America-First policies have vowed to do? On Monday, she expressed her paranoid, fantasy-driven, and hysterical hatred and contempt for the United States during the second Trump administration, and compared the U.S. unfavorably to the Islamic Republic of Iran. So why not move to Tehran, Joy? It’s likely that real estate there is quite inexpensive these days.

Reid started out by claiming a moral equivalency between the Islamic Republic, which has murdered tens of thousands of its own citizens over the last few weeks, and the free society in which she lives, where she has grown quite wealthy and can criticize the government without the slightest fear of any reprisal at all. She said: “Our regime has secret police, they have secret police.”

Really? The U.S. doesn’t have “secret police,” although the CIA and FBI are wildly out of control and a compelling case can be made that both should be shut down, neither is operating any “secret police” force. The object of the open-borders left’s particular ire these days, ICE, operates out in the open, despite all of the efforts of crazed leftists to disrupt its activities.

“Our regime,” Reid went on, repeatedly referring to the Trump administration as a “regime,” as if it gained and was holding power illegitimately, which she no doubt believes, “is oppressing women, taking away abortion rights, taking away women’s rights in, like, twenty-six countr — uh, twenty-six states, some states where they’re trying to have the death penalty for having an abortion.”

Although some Republican lawmakers in several states have introduced legislation to have abortion treated in the same way legally as any other homicide is treated, no state is implementing a death penalty for getting an abortion. So Reid is equating a legal proposal that will not likely be implemented anywhere with the 47-year-old superstructure of the legal oppression of women in the Islamic Republic of Iran, where women have been given lengthy prison terms and even killed for the crime of not wearing a hijab. When she made this ridiculous moral equivalence between the U.S. and Iran, Reid did not have her head covered.

Reid, however, is not completely oblivious regarding the plight of women in the Islamic Republic of Iran. She acknowledged that “they also oppress women,” but then immediately began praising the situation of women in the Islamic Republic: “They have the highest rate of women that are in STEM [Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math] careers.” This is actually false; the countries with the highest percentages of women in STEM careers are Iceland and the Netherlands. Iran is nowhere among the leaders.

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