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Tucker Carlson says Trump admin using Charlie Kirk’s killing to trample free speech
(www.independent.co.uk)
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What fucking bizarro world have I stepped into where fash-lite bowtie man is making sense
Tucker's a smart guy with a clever tongue. He can lay out an exhaustive, reasoned, rationalist case for basic civil liberties. And then he can come back a day later to lay out an exhaustive, reasoned, rationalist case against them.
Just depends on which side of the line he's standing. Dude's a talk radio mercenary. He'll fight for whichever side he thinks will turn him a profit.
No, Tucker Carlson, the guy who tells idiots what they want to hear.
He's honestly been right about very niche things for a while, sometimes for the wrong reasons, and never a good person. But he's sometimes right
I've noticed this happening more often than I would have imagined, actually. There are some times where Trump or one of his sycophants will make an off-the-cuff remark that is actually, genuinely, a good and logical thing to do. it doesn't happen that often, but it does happen. The bizarre part is that when that idea fails to manifest media coverage detailing how bad it is, they just... give up on it. It's like the conservative political philosophy has completely morphed into being a contrarian force against liberalism, in spite of whatever their personal beliefs might be. If democrats are ambivalent on an issue, so are they.
He was full strength fashy before 2021. He was the one floating a lot of these ideas to see how they play, like locking up your political rivals or news media.
I suspect that it turned out that Carlson's mean words towards his superiors at Fox News did him in more than anything. They held grudges after being called dumb fucking cunts or whatever and took the excuse to ask him.
Everyone getting a Russian paycheck is becoming visible right now.
Trump had a falling-out with Russia, Russia wants the US out of Israel, so you will notice that every single right-wing pundit who is suddenly screaming about government overreach are also the same ones who have been saying that the US shouldn't get involved in Israel.
Seriously, it's like a line-item list. Owens, Shapiro, Carlson, MTG and whatever other assorted midwits who have spoken out against US involvement in the middle-east, same ones who have had the most glowing praise for Russia or Putin.
Russia wants the middle-east via Iran and they don't like Trump anymore because he's too hard to manage and will likely die soon, so the window for shaping policy is rapidly running out.
(It's not going to get better when Trump dies.)
edit: save your insane replies, I don't care if it hurts your mental health to learn that the world might be more complicated than you think and there is no real binary of "good guys and bad guys" and absolutely everyone is a bad guy.
This comment is almost entirely divorced from reality. Just as bad as the nonsense that trumper dipshits spew. Ben fucking Shapiro has spoke out against US involvement in the Middle East? Lol, pretty much his sole life mission is to ensure that that continues. Gtfo with this shit.
Some people have "Russia Russia Russia" as their core identity. It's a fact-free flight of fancy.
Thank you for letting me know that you can be safely blocked without me ever missing anything important. Have a good one!
Gotta maintain that echo chamber. Have fun with absolutely fucked world you're helping to create.
Add me to the list, chief.
i wonder what your response will be once you learn that marjoree taylor green has tried to stop weapons shipments to isreal, but aoc helped stop her... twice
AOC voted to stop the amendment but voted no on the actual bill.
Sounds like there's a host of details you're leaving out.
But then that's a classic Tucker trope.