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Is Mika Brzezinski Really too Stupid to Obtain a Voter ID?

Is Mika Brzezinski Really too Stupid to Obtain a Voter ID?

The answer to the headline question is “yes” if you believe her own words – and those of her husband. The married co-hosts of MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, are complaining that President Trump’s Voter ID bill will disenfranchise millions of American – especially women and minorities who just cannot seem to lay hands on a simple photo ID. (Personally, I see it as a huge insult to the intelligence of women and minorities).

Joe, in a classic moment of genius, declared that even his co-host Mika would not be able to vote because she has “no idea” where her birth certificate is. This from the guy married to the woman who pulls down tens of millions of dollars a year, jets around the country, and struts into 30 Rock every morning flashing the photo ID.

But suddenly, when it comes to the most sacred act in a democracy — casting a ballot—Mika becomes a helpless waif. It is voter suppression, they claim — wringing their hands as if it is the 1950s in the Democrat-controlled Dixie, with Black folks being turned away in droves. Give me a break.

Brzezinski— supposedly smart, sophisticated and definitely fabulously wealthy—is the poster child for the left’s ridiculous argument that requiring an ID to vote is some insurmountable barrier. Meanwhile, 36 states already require some form of ID at the polls, including strict photo ID laws in places like Georgia, Texas, Indiana, Wisconsin, Florida, and Ohio. And guess what? The sky has not fallen. Turnout hasn’t plummeted. In fact, the percentage of women and minorities voting has increased in recent years. The only thing that’s been “suppressed” are the fraudsters favorite loopholes.

Here is the dirty little secret, but the dynamic duo will not admit it. Voter ID is not about suppressing votes. It is about preventing fraud. It is a prophylactic measure. And yes, despite the Democrats’ endless chant that “voter fraud is a myth,” it does exist.

The Heritage Foundation’s database alone documents over 1,500 proven cases in recent years. In 2022, a Wisconsin election official was charged with absentee ballot fraud for faking military ballots. In Georgia, canvassers were busted in 2024 for filing fake voter registrations. Iowa convicted a woman in 2024 of 52 counts of fraud for forging absentee ballots in her husband’s congressional race. Texas flagged over 2,700 potential non-citizens on its rolls. Ohio found more than 1,000 non-citizens illegally registered, many of whom actually voted. California auditors discovered nearly 95,000 deceased registrants still on the books. And dead voters? They have been casting ballots for years—remember the Illinois election judge who voted for her deceased husband in 2016? Or the Colorado woman who kept voting in her dead father’s name?

Millions of dead people and non-citizens linger on voter rolls across the country because lazy or complicit officials will not clean them up. Voter ID stops that cold. Showing an ID to vote is common sense—the same common sense we demand in so many other situations.

So why do Scarborough, Brzezinski, and their Democrat pals fight tooth and nail against the most basic security measure? Why the ridiculous sob stories about birth certificates and “millions” suddenly unable to vote? Because secure elections threaten their power. When every vote is verified, the game gets a lot harder to rig. And that, dear readers, is the real story behind the outrage.

Mika and Joe can keep whining. The rest of us will keep demanding elections that are free, fair—and actually honest. That means over IDs – among other safeguards.

So, there ‘tis.

About The Author

Larry Horist

So, there ‘tis… The opinions, perspectives and analyses of businessman, conservative writer and political strategist Larry Horist. Larry has an extensive background in economics and public policy. For more than 40 years, he ran his own Chicago based consulting firm. His clients included such conservative icons as Steve Forbes and Milton Friedman. He has served as a consultant to the Nixon White House and travelled the country as a spokesman for President Reagan’s economic reforms. Larry professional emphasis has been on civil rights and education. He was consultant to both the Chicago and the Detroit boards of education, the Educational Choice Foundation, the Chicago Teachers Academy and the Chicago Academy for the Performing Arts. Larry has testified as an expert witness before numerous legislative bodies, including the U. S. Congress, and has lectured at colleges and universities, including Harvard, Northwestern and DePaul. He served as Executive Director of the City Club of Chicago, where he led a successful two-year campaign to save the historic Chicago Theatre from the wrecking ball. Larry has been a guest on hundreds of public affairs talk shows, and hosted his own program, “Chicago In Sight,” on WIND radio. An award-winning debater, his insightful and sometimes controversial commentaries have appeared on the editorial pages of newspapers across the nation. He is praised by audiences for his style, substance and sense of humor. Larry retired from his consulting business to devote his time to writing. His books include a humorous look at collecting, “The Acrapulators’ Guide”, and a more serious history of the Democratic Party’s role in de facto institutional racism, “Who Put Blacks in That PLACE? -- The Long Sad History of the Democratic Party’s Oppression of Black Americans ... to This Day”. Larry currently lives in Boca Raton, Florida.

12 Comments

  1. frank danger

    I have no issue with providing ID to register and to vote. I am pretty sure Mika did not take Joe’s last name as has no issues finding her birth certificate, may not own a driver’s license, but certainly has a current passport.

    I would like to discuss the more onerous parts of this bill that Larry ignores in his biased passion against Democrats and MSNOW; there’s at least one poison pill that Larry does not even touch. More important where are proposed processes to help the tens of millions, perhaps over 100 million people who get fucked over by this bill at the last second before the 2026 mid-terms OR to help the States which have to fund and fix this shit with expensive expedited schedules to meet the mid-terms. Or can the States pull a Bondi and promise to deliver and then delay it until 2028 at which time the Epstein files may be fully released?

    On the timing: I have a major blocking issue with passing a bill in March or April of 2026 to take effect by November for the 2026 midterms; that’s a clusterfuck of a process waiting to happen for any new law in America highlighting the massive incompetence of this Republican Congress that exists not to serve the country, but to serve one man; the Felon King. You can’t even identify all the problems that will crop up, much less the mediations, much less the funding for said changes.

    The current bill calls for it to be in effect upon passage, that’s sheer lunacy. It’s timing is designed to please one man, the Felon King.

    You really don’t have to go farther about the trashy parts of the bill and they should refocus the bill to be in effect post 2026 at a reasonable schedule to meet the job.

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    • Hammon

      Dunger we are trying to get rid of the very real problem known as voter fraud. It’s real. It exists. And we are mad as hell and ain’t gonna take it no more. It’s your suck ass party who brought false charges against Trump. But guess who fucking arose from it all. And more than usual we have people saying they want be governed by the democrats if you crooked bastards ever get control again. Someday it will happen, maybe this coming November. But don’t tread on us.

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      • frank danger

        Ham-on -dung: I do realize you are mad and scream like a baby. Yes, you voted for a convicted Felon, but no, he was guilty as hell. Jury of peers, probably at least one, if not more, Republican jurors in that mix who could have hung the case, and so much Trump-originated documentation, the verdict was all but obvious to the casual observer. Guilty, guilty, guilty, he is a felon and he is your Felon King.

        My party did not bring charges, you are blinded to the truth. The people of the State of New York did. You just like to think it was my party because it rationalizes why you would be so stupid as to elect a real-life criminal to lead you. You are right, voter fraud. Trump’s felony involved voter fraud as he tried to rig the 2016 election. Thus the hush. Between him and his business, I think he racked up over 60 felony convictions. Your vote ignored his illegality and allowed Trump to escape other indictments like where he tried to rig the 2020 election in GA, and the people of the State of Georgia indicted him and his team of lawyers pled guilty to the charges and said they would testify to implicate Trump as he “was in the room.” You remember the damning phone call where Trump admits he wants GA to cheat on the vote. That case was dropped by a guy in your party. Then there are the cases that the Federal Government, not my party brought against Trump. The documents case was tossed by Trump’s hand-selected judge, pretty sure she’s from your party. The other Federal case for his attempt to overturn the 2020 election was tossed because of your vote. All 200 of the DOJ lawyers were on his enemies list and fired and now your party cannot indict a sub sandwich, literally. And you even squashed the Smith report so we cannot see what the investigation uncovered since you vote for Felons and don’t even want to know IF they committed crimes.

        You cannot prove massive voter fraud but are willing to give up State’s Rights and Federalize Voting under Trump. Face it, it’s one of the few ways your party can win. I was going to let this stand with one post, about how the bill’s timing is bad, the effective date ridiculous, and now I will provide proof, using Larry’s source, that you are chasing your tails and wasting our tax dollars. Let State’s Rights rule and let the State’s continue to govern the process; they do a great job with all those volunteers helping. It’s America doing America’s work: we don’t need your big, unwieldy, overspending Federal Government to control what the State does so well.

        And FYI: be mad as you want, bay at the moon about being tread upon, my only response is: Bite me. And see you at the show, it’s gonna be wild!

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      • Willie

        I’ve watched that dumb bitch a few times. She’s seriously stupid. She thinks manual labor is a Mexican. She thinks that mobey dick is a disease a man might catch in a cheap whore house. She thinks that Joe Scarborough is smart. Both of them are socially retarded. In this case Dunger might be a little bit smarter. I said might be.

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  2. frank danger

    I have no issue with providing ID to register and to vote. I have issues with this bill and find the effective date to be a ridiculous waste of taxpayer dollars plus creating a clusterfuck of confusion for the 2026 midterms which may be the intent of the Republicans writing, sponsoring and advocating, like Larry, this exercise in Federal Government mismanagement while negating some State’s Rights in the process. I also wonder why Republicans strive to get less people to vote but spend no time at all getting more people to vote. Like why can’t they create a secure system for mail-in or internet voting? Are they that stupid, incompetent, and lazy not to be able to accomplish that task that the IRS, Social Security, and every major bank and financial house in the US have created? I can move $100K at the push of a button, securely, my ID established securely, but you can’t do that for a vote?

    Larry shrewdly used The Heritage Group’s voter fraud database, probably the best out there given there is so little fraud that only the biased can find it. The Heritage Group is a right-wing biased organization with mixed factual reporting including a few false claims. They created Project 2025, many of it’s members are in Trump’s administration, so can be considered pretty biased. They were started by Coor’s beer. I have used their database to prove how little fraud there actually is.

    Larry thinks: “Mika and Joe can keep whining” when he screams like a baby whining incessantly about what he, himself, proves not true. That’s right folks, Larry proves Larry is wrong; I told the man he’s math challenged, but noooooo.

    Larry states his evidence: “The Heritage Foundation’s database alone documents over 1,500 proven cases in recent years.” Compelling, eh? Smoking gun.

    Using the database, to get to 1,500 cases would be a span from about 1995 to now. That’s over 30 years and about 50 per year: MASSIVE. If every one of those cases hit the 2024 election, it would represent .00000009% of the vote: MASSIVE. Like I said, I use this database to prove what a nothing burger you have your panties twisted over. Must have been in a piece that’s too loooong for Larry to finish. Sorry: BUSTED for inaccurate conclusions from an inaccurate database as follows (but I still use it):

    Further, when you look at the cases, the Brenan Center for Justice, leftist but highly factual, concludes: “President Donald Trump’s “Fraud Commission” members are relying on a Heritage Foundation database that claims to contain almost 1,100 instances of voter fraud. But a close review of the database reveals that it substantially inflates and exaggerates the occurrence of voter fraud.”

    The facts they present include: “Only 105 cases come within the past five years, and 488 within the past 10 years. Thirty-two cases are from the 1980s and 1990s. Indicative of its overreach, the database even includes a case from 1948 (when Harry S. Truman beat Thomas Dewey) and a case from 1972 (when Richard Nixon defeated George McGovern). Over the period considered by Heritage, there have been over 3 billion votes cast in federal elections alone, and many more when you include the state and local elections also covered in the database. The number of cases in the database represent a miniscule portion of the overall number of votes cast during this time span.”

    And “In reviewing decades of cases and billions of votes cast, the Heritage Foundation has identified just 10 cases involving in-person impersonation fraud at the polls (fewer than the number of members on the President’s Commission). Heritage thus confirms what extensive prior research has shown — it is more likely that an individual will be struck by lightning than impersonate another voter at the polls.”

    And those of you terrified by the “brown people” voting: “The database includes only 41 cases involving non-citizens registering, voting, or attempting to vote. This is particularly striking given the claims made by President Trump in setting up the Commission that millions of illegal votes were cast in 2016; on other occasions, he said 3 to 5 million unauthorized immigrants robbed him of the popular vote majority. The fact that only 41 such cases were identified over a time span of more than four decades highlights the absurdity of claims that millions of non-citizens voted in the 2016 election alone. “

    And that’s why I use the same database Larry used because it PROVE THERE IS LITTLE VOTER FRAUD, the State’s do a great job, and YOUR PARTY is wasting our time and money. Even more so if they pass this POS bill to be effective in 2026 causing a very expensive scramble to enact the NEW legal process at the last second. Larry, and you, see bogymen everywhere to the point Larry screams like baby that we need Federal protection against this evil which he proves does not exist.

    Be careful what you ask for and now you know why I vet my source databases before winging it like this seasoned professional partisan hack. And off to the show! Can’t decide whether to king’s it or go Epstein for my signage. Oh, to bring back my youth of the 70’s one more time!!!! Thank you Republicans.

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    • Uncle tom

      Dunger you can never know how proud we true patriots are of our felon. And the best part is he beat the odds and kicked Killery Cunton and kumbreath Harris out of the game. I’m believing that Trump was placed by God even with the lies and false charges against him. So you pathetic losers are still crying about it. And yes, the 2020 election was stolen. We are just trying to keep our elections honest. I’m glad that you didn’t mind showing identification to vote. We all should be required to do that. But in the meantime the democrats have shown themselves to be pathetic ass holes

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      • frank danger

        UTDung: Oh I am pretty sure of your pride given all you have sacrificed by having a Felon for your King. And yes, relive your glory days of vanquishing the evil Hillary and Kamala, over and over, like a middle-aged High School footballer reliving that big game in his 40’s.

        I bet you do believe the Godless Trump anointed by God, but I am sorry, the felonies that he was convicted for are as righteous as the Pope without false charges and, so far, no amount of Trump money and legal appeals has changed that, and he has spent a lot of your money trying. $60M in 2023 alone from his PAC and your donations for his campaign?

        Yes we lost, but cry about it? Not sure since you are the one whining about it here.

        I tend to talk about what he is doing and it’s more likely a rant than a whine; that’s your thing.

        You have never proved the 2020 was stolen; I have his felony conviction for his trying to rig the 2016 by paying to squash the news. Thus the hush. His lawyers pled guilty to trying to rig the 2020 in GA and would have implicated him at trial if the new Republican Prosecutor hadn’t dropped the case, without a good cause IMO. But in 65 court cases, half dozen recounts, and even in this story —– you lost the case to prove it was rigged by Democrats, Italians, whatever you lied and tried.

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  3. THOMAS J MORGAN

    To answer your questioj, yes, she is too stupid. She proves it daily.

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  4. Allen

    I would definitely believe she is too fing stupid. But what she and Joe are really upset is that Trump will not let them suck his Richard any longer. Both are worthless individuals. The world would lose nothing with their obituaries.

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  5. frank danger

    Allen, are you really so genteel to use the word Richard for dick in the same passage where you say the world would be better if Mika and Joe were dead? May your kindest of tidings be returned to you, as you desire for others, ten fold.

    Joe, if this is the type of extreme free speech you want to profit from, the Lord is my shepherd, and yours.

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    • Bill rhodes

      Dunger the world would be better without a lot of people. But it’s not our place to make it happen. We need to keep you around for laughs. Just don’t suck too many richards

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  6. frank danger

    Bill. Good advice and glad to see you are Christian about it. But when will you stand up and speak out about those here who do call for violence, happy when others get hurt or die? You talk a lot about dick, but will you do dick about it? Or do you just suck dog dicks in hell because you stand down when others around you support or condone this crap?

    We are all in this together, we rise or fall together and a rising tide lifts ALL boats. We can piss and moan, scream like babies at each other, or we can discuss the issues, with the decorum of gentlemen to try to come to a common consensus, or at least understanding of who we are and what we, together, want for our future.

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