Joy Reid Justifies Climate Crazies’ Run-In At Congressional Baseball Game

JOY REID: As for the chaos at home, allow me to share a story you don’t hear much about, you probably didn’t hear much about: last night's congressional baseball game, an annual affair that's normally pretty innocuous, a vestige of bipartisanship and congeniality that raises money for charities. But this year, it was interrupted by climate protestors. Eight people were arrested as they tried to protest on the field wearing shirts reading “End Fossil Fuels”. Meanwhile, Representative Lauren Boebert was reportedly flouting Nats Park rules by vaping where it's forbidden. The whole affair is in some ways emblematic of our politics, where crucial issues like the climate catastrophe are no longer debated in the halls of our completely dysfunctional Congress. Particularly, the embarrassing hHouse of Representatives where Boebert is the typical Republican member. Flouting the rules of class and decency. Which leaves people who care about crucial issues for our planet or our country to try to litigate them with lawmakers in the public square.