We thought we had heard the last of notorious racist Joy Reid when she got let go from MSNBC (recently rebranded as MS NOW) in February 2025. But no. Reid and her absolutely deranged political commentary keep cropping up.

Last week, Reid appeared on the “One54” podcast, hosted by former NFL player Akbar Gbajabiamila and comedian Godfrey Daneschmah, where she suggested that American women are just as oppressed as the women of Iran.

Here is her ridiculous tirade in its entirety:

Our regime has secret police; they have secret police. Our regime is oppressing women, taking away abortion rights, taking away women’s rights in like 26 states — some states where they’re trying to have the death penalty for having an abortion. …

They have the highest rate of women who are in STEM careers. We’re kicking women out of the military, out of university. We’re saying that DEI means women can’t be hired for high positions in the sciences.

So, we’re marginally better. And we’re doing it for Christianity; they’re doing it for Islam. Right? So, it’s like we don’t get told those things because it would take away the kind of American exceptionalism narrative that makes it easy to take our people and send them off to die in a war that we have nothing to do with, that we don’t want.

Joy Reid: America is a Christian form of Iran & women may have be better off there pic.twitter.com/mDAheewOPU

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 16, 2026

This attempt at moral equivalency is poppycock. Reid is claiming that America is oppressing women because, in many states, they can’t kill their preborn babies whenever they feel like it. Apparently, for Reid, sanctioned child murder is peak freedom.

Her assertion that DEI means women can’t get into the military or higher education is also false. Women, of course, can still get jobs in these fields. The removal of DEI under the Trump administration simply means that a woman must earn her position through intellectual merit, not chromosomes, skin color, or sexual orientation.

By the way, Iranian women do not have the highest rate of STEM careers. Only about 3.5 million women in Iran (12%-14%) are actually a part of the workforce, and of those, only 25% are in STEM. In the U.S., 79 million women (47%) make up the workforce, comprising about 35% of STEM jobs.

Reid claims that we are only marginally better than Iran. We are, in fact, significantly better. Islam forces women to be second-class citizens. For example, a woman’s testimony only counts for half of a man’s testimony. Therefore, if a woman gets raped, her attestation is essentially worthless because her accuser’s words are more valuable than her own.

Iran has morality police whose job is to enforce the regime’s dress code. You cannot be homosexual in the Islamic regime; they will kill you. (Unless, of course, you’re the new supreme leader.) Women aren’t allowed to show their hair, arms, or legs — this even applies to tiny little girls. Why? Because it’s supposed to protect them from men who would otherwise assume that they aren’t faithful or virtuous and therefore fair game for abuse.

Mahsa Amini was a young Kurdish-Iranian woman arrested by the morality police in 2022. She had apparently allowed a sliver of her hair to show out from under her hijab, and for this high crime, she was beaten to death in police custody. This set off a wave of mass protests, during which the IRGC gunned down protesters.

Forgive my Christian ignorance but when was the last time a woman was BEATEN TO DEATH BY THE MORALITY POLICE for a sliver of her hair showing in a Christian country? https://t.co/6G9mLFCrzn

— Isabel Brown (@theisabelb) March 16, 2026

But let’s fast-forward to more recent history. At the AFC Women’s Asian Cup, Iran’s women’s soccer team refused to sing their national anthem in solidarity with the protests happening in their country against the regime. This act was likely a death sentence for these women. Some sought asylum in Australia and were granted it. However, several of the players subsequently reversed course because the regime kidnapped, threatened, and disappeared family members to coerce the athletes into returning. Ultimately, only two of the initial seven who sought asylum chose to remain in safety in Australia.

When mediocre NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneeled for the national anthem in protest, he was not thrown in jail or killed. In fact, he was lauded by the legacy media for his “bravery” and woke activism.

Joy Reid is infamous for saying absolutely unhinged things, but comparing the U.S. to Iran is an obtuse, reality-free attempt to besmirch Christianity and our constitutional republic. If Reid truly believes that there is a better country out there, she is free to leave. And frankly, she should.

Conservative podcaster Matt Walsh hit the nail on the head. “So much of the political commentary in this country is just people saying things they don’t believe,” he posted. “That’s what makes debate unproductive, if not impossible. Most of the people involved don’t believe what they’re saying. So what’s the point?”

In other words, arguing with a mentally dishonest (or unwell) person is an exercise in futility. We are probably not going to change Reid’s mind or the minds of other brainwashed leftists who believe they have more in common with radical Islam than their conservative fellow countrymen.

Delusional Democrats admit they have more in common with RADICAL ISLAM than Trump supporters and would feel safer next to someone shouting ALLAHU AKBAR than someone in a MAGA hat. 🤦‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/JGTMmcxLmk

— Kaitlin Bennett (@KaitMarieox) March 16, 2026

At this point, they might be right. Perhaps they should all go to a place where they can enjoy the warmth of radical Islam and let the rest of us live peacefully in our free and amazing country.