MSNBC host Joy Reid has deleted her X account, announcing the news in dramatic fashion with a social media video for her followers.
“Today, I finally did something I’ve been meaning to do for a while,” she said, showing screenshots of the account deletion process.
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Reid, who has held a post at MSNBC despite lacking the talent necessary to provide salient political analysis, offered an odd explanation for the move.
“The reason for doing it and kissing goodbye my 1.9 million followers over there is because I haven’t been posting for a long time,” she said. “I just didn’t want to contribute content once it was purchased by its present owner.”
Joy, you haven’t been contributing much to the public discourse on MSNBC either, but you’re still over there trying to incite race riots and spreading conspiracy theories.
Anyway, things get truly interesting when she offers another reason for her dramatic exit. (Why do liberals leave social media platforms by posting “look at me” videos instead of just deleting the account?)
Joy Reid just deleted her X account 🤣 pic.twitter.com/sqwZyJkBYA
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 14, 2024
“I was only holding onto it because I, ya know, really didn’t want someone trying to take over that name and using it for nefarious purposes,” Reid claimed.
Wait — you held onto the X account so nobody took over your name, but now … it’s okay if somebody takes over your name?
And you’re worried that somebody might pretend to be you? Like, say, when you pretended somebody hacked your blog in the mid-2000s?
Reid might not recall this — she has the intellectual heft of a potato and can only juggle one or two thoughts at any given moment — but she had the crack staff of the FBI on the case to find who “hacked” her blog and posted antisemitic and homophobic messages.
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Why would she flee X knowing somebody had done this before? By the way, to my knowledge, the Keystone Cops over at FBI headquarters were never able to track down the “hacker” who used Reid’s old blog for “nefarious purposes.”
Most likely, they abandoned the case after the digital breadcrumbs led to Reid’s basement laptop. Just speculating.
your periodic reminder that joy Reid’s blog was filled with “homophobic” put-down. When this was discovered, she claimed that she had been #Hacked by Russians. She claimed she contacted the FBI. Strangely, the FBI has never investigated this alleged Russian #Hacking. https://t.co/Dgq20Vw6gf
— Ace of Spades (@AceofSpadesHQ) November 11, 2024
Reid’s flight from X comes just 72 hours after former podcaster Megyn Kelly suggested MSNBC was just biding their time until they fired her. They’ve been biding for way, way too long.
MSNBC “is allowing her (Reid) to spew this racist hate on their channel,” Kelly pointed out.
“It’s a tick-tock situation until her a– is fired.”
MSNBC suddenly coming to its senses is a good thought, but Reid has been spewing racist hate on that channel for years. Most recently, she accused Blacks and Hispanics of “identifying with whiteness” and siding “with David Duke” by voting for Donald Trump.
What could possibly motivate the network to actually do something about it now?
Well, for one thing, their bottom line. MSNBC’s ratings have been in a freefall since the election as viewers are flocking to Fox News following Trump’s historic victory.
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Prime-time viewership at MSNBC has plummeted 53 percent from last month alone, while Fox News saw a 21 percent jump in prime time since Election Day.
Does Megyn know something we don’t, or is she just reading the ratings tea leaves? Is Reid’s X departure another sign that her job is in peril?
That remains to be seen, but if you’d like to have your IQ drop 25 points on any given day, you can continue to follow Joy over at the liberal alternative to X, BlueSky.
She’s over there as we speak, ranting about Kelly.
So apparently Megyn Kelly (who is obsessed with Black women) is upset that I had a psychiatrist on my show who said people should feel free to avoid Trump voting relatives and friends over the holidays if that will preserve their peace. Do you agree or no?
— Joy-Ann Reid (@joyannreid.bsky.social) November 13, 2024 at 11:46 PM
Oh, and her show is still on X. Let’s hope nobody uses her account for nefarious purposes.
