Joe Scarborough Refuses to Say ‘Douchebags’ While Going OFF on Super Rich Finance Bros Complaining About Bidenomics

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough put on a brave show of restraint on Thursday’s show while he ranted against billionaires who blamed President Joe Biden for the current state of the economy, even though they are still, quite comfortably, billionaires.

While reporting on the soaring numbers of the Dow Jones Industrial Average — which signaled the possibility of several rate cuts by the Federal Reserve in the coming year — Scarborough and his Morning Joe co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist framed this as positive news for Biden.

But Scarborough knew there was a certain faction of economically secure folks who would never be satisfied with Biden and would “bitch” about the economy on the golf course in their “little vests.” He had a number of barbs for these super rich guys, but the one word he wanted to say but didn’t (so we’ll say it for him): “douchebags.” Joe Scarborough really wanted to say “douchebags” on television, but he didn’t. Here is some of what he did say:

But I got one thing that bothers me, Willie, just one thing. You and I both know I can’t use the word that I want to use. It begins with D. I’ll just say, fellas, they’re fellas driving around in convertible Porsches. You know what I’m saying? And they’re driving around their convertible Porsches. They’re pulling into their country clubs, they’re getting out, they’re having their caddies run up and get their bags. They’re going out, they’re going to the clubhouses, like with their, with their… I don’t know how much Rolex watches cost. Let’s say $30,000 Rolex watches that they first bought…

They can’t get through their conversations at like the grill, men’s grill, because they keep looking, I’m serious, at their stock, their stock counters to see how much money… Then they’ll go, “I made $16,000 just in the time I sat down here.” And then they’ll go out, and for 18 holes they’ll bitch about how Joe Biden is a socialist who’s ruining the economy. It happens non-stop these D… these d-guys…

Geist helped him fill in the blanks a bit:

Geist: It’s a French word, isn’t it?

Scarborough: It’s a French word. I think it ends with an “e.” But they drive around their Maseratis and their Porsches and their convertible Mercedes. They talk about how horrible the economy is. They made millions and millions in Joe Biden’s economy. Some billions and billions. And they attack him as a socialist. It’s just pure garbage.

Pour one out for the long-suffering “people of means.”

Watch the full video via MSNBC.

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