Several themes emerge from the early coverage of the 2024 Democratic convention. The first is the reinforcement of the manufactured “joyful” mood of the party now that Joe Biden has been successfully deep-sixed. The second, most notably on display tonight, are the “tears” that this deep-sixing trigger.

Our colleague Nick Fondacaro caught on to the theme early on, as CNN predicted a need for “Kleenex boxes”, and for “babies yelling for Joe Biden”. The ridiculousness is no different over on MSNBC.

Watch as Joy Reid melds both themes in a single take; tears within a joyful space:

MSNBC rhetorical arsonist Joy Reid declares that there will be "tears", in the "joyful space" that is the DNC, for Joe Biden who was "the AOC of his time." pic.twitter.com/fLow2ZBRK5

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JOY REID: I have to be- what I'm going to be watching for just sitting in this room, in this space- that is such a joyful space tonight- I'm expecting there to be also a lot of tears. This in many ways represents the kind of denouement, the kind of end of one of the longest and most successful political careers of any politician in U.S. history. Joe Biden has been in politics since the 1970s. Since 1972, when he was the youngest United States Senator at 29 years old. He was the AOC, basically, of his time.

Once you’re done processing that particular moment of cringe, consider the gross hagiography of it all. The Regime Media have been out in force for the past month, manufacturing consent for this candidacy and for the manner in which it was foisted upon the American people. 

Part of that manufactured consent involves gaslighting the American people into believing that Joe Biden is a patriot, equal only in stature to George Washington or Cincinnatus, who relinquished power and walked away from the office, as opposed to someone who had the presidency he chased for 40 years ripped away from him by his own party.

Part of that gaslighting entails the incessant imprinting of these convention themes, which the Regime Media will do joyfully albeit not tearfully. 

Click “expand” to view the aforementioned segment as aired on MSNBC’s Democratic National Convention coverage on Monday, August 19th, 2024:

MSNBC Democratic National Convention

8/19/24

6:06 PM

JOY REID: I have to be- what I'm going to be watching for just sitting in this room, in this space- that is such a joyful space tonight- I'm expecting there to be also a lot of tears. This in many ways represents the kind of denouement, the kind of end of one of the longest and most successful political careers of any politician in U.S. history. Joe Biden has been in politics since the 1970s. Since 1972, when he was the youngest United States Senator at 29 years old. He was the AOC, basically, of his time. He is now the oldest United States President and he has been through so many things. I mean, this was the sort of pivotal senator during so many Supreme Court nominations, including Clarence Thomas’s, he was the leading United States Senator- white United States Senator- who opposed apartheid. You go through the crime bill in the 1990s which was embraced at the time by the Black community, by Black pastors and people who were in communities who needed help, the assault weapons ban- historic, that he was able to get through, the Violence Against Women's Act. This man ran for president three times. When he finally became President, it was at the end of one of the most tumultuous and sort of, you know, divisive presidencies of our lifetime and he anchors not just the first Black president to whom he served as vice president, a big deal for a man of his generation to be willing to be second to a Black president. He then hands, in this incredibly dramatic way, the baton to potentially the first Black woman and Asian-American woman and woman president, period, in the United States. Joe Biden stands at the fulcrum of American politics in a way I think we don’t think about because he’s Uncle Joe. We're so used to him and he’s become such a normal figure in our lives that we kind of forget that he’s actually a big effing deal, right? He’s a pretty big and important figure in American history. And this is his swan song. And so I'm looking for this room to be filled with a lot of love for Joe Biden, a lot of tears about Joe Biden, a lot of encomiums to Joe Biden, and I think he’s gonna feel that love in a very big way.