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tucker carlson is the only competent imperialist left in america since kissinger died
If you went back in time 20 years and described the current state of politics in this country to someone, they would think you were having them on. Donald Trump is president, people are being snatched off the streets by masked thugs (and sent to fucking El Salvador and Uganda), and a former Fox News host and a congresswoman known for talking about "Jewish space lasers" are two of the only people standing up for free speech?
How the fuck is this where we are right now? Fucking dystopian nightmare.
Honestly, Tucker would've been a far better choice.
and i'm not talking about moral comeuppance for his actions (CIA safari adventure in Central America and all) but rather due to the fact that Mr Tucker is what we in the business might call a smart Fascist. ever since he got fired this man has just been out there moving and showing that he has the political smarts to maneuver and come out maybe not ''winning'' but definitely well enough from, well, practically any event he chooses to insert himself in; see the ukraine war interview, the zodiac killer's ''what's the population of Iran'', and this kirk thing that, frankly, anyone who's not a government outlet can see as an insane overreaction from the elites.
And he's clearly doing all this effort to appear as a rational actor in an otherwise irrational environment because he's trying to build up a serious portfolio, he wants to be next. he doesn't want to be the ''what's going on???'' guy he wants to be a serious political candidate. he's setting himself up as the most rational option for Republicans after Trump.
anyhow, side story; i was off my rockers when the Utahnasia happened and i got both these assholes confused so for a good 20 minutes i was really happy that a far more serious threat had solved itself, but nooo, turns out it was just the fuckass debate-me asshole
Yup, he was positioning himself extremely effectively to occupy the power vacuum that Trump would eventually (presumably) leave in the American right
There was an episode about Tucker on a meager/small podcast called Coexist Inc.
Coexist Inc's thesis on why Tucker is rallying against Israel - he is still a Zionist - and Trump is because Tucker, like Marjorie Taylor Green, can see where the wind is blowing. Grifters like those two aim to use rhetoric critical of capitalist decline or Israel and funnel it back into the right and away from the left.
The hope is that the restraining of Israel and US empire would rally politically malleable/ambivalent people back into the right and away from the left, away from solutions antagonistic towards capital and white supremacy, and ultimately fulfill the right's goal to use the power of the state to punish domestic enemies instead of stretching itself thin abroad.
On that point, the right would always use a martyr , authentic or fabricated, to destroy the remnants of the rule of law, liberal hegemony, and the power of activists, organizers, and labor. The ruling caste of US society is admitting openly that they will not redistribute wealth, allow labor to have leverage, and will enable and encourage a deteriorating social, economic, and environmental conditions.
It is difficult to determine whether we are in Lenin's Revolutionary Moment or just another phase & era of American distress.
tucker understands realpolitik in a time when everything is run by pissbaby failsons. he knows the empire can't waste all its resources on a 41 kilometer strip in the middle east if it wants to attack china. he would rather fight china
On that point, the right would always use a martyr , authentic or fabricated, to destroy the remnants of the rule of law, liberal hegemony,
Why would they bother? There's nothing out of reach for them already
and the power of activists, organizers, and labor
Not sure I've seen this in the US in recent decades
Why would they bother? There's nothing out of reach for them already
Because it makes it easier still when you have a pretense. Even the Nazis did that. The US still considers themselves "free" so you need to scare them with the occasional 9/11 or something like that to take their rights so they have some way to justify it at Thanksgiving dinner with their leftie niece.
Not sure I've seen this in the US in recent decades
They exist. It's the constant work of activists, organizers, and labor that have gotten the US to steadily dislike Israel. They've been slowly unionizing Amazon or Starbucks shops. They've been supporting student encampments in the universities. They've gotten the biggest city in the US to elect an anti-Zionist as the mayoral candidate in the primary for the party that always wins that seat. They've been in LA or Chicago fighting against ICE, saving immigrants in court appointments, warning against ICE raids before they happen by tracking their vehicles, or in the streets surrounding them with giant protests that force them to end the raids early with only 1 or 2 kidnapped instead of the dozens they captured in the beginning. They got a socialist Presidential candidate to win the largest share of votes for a socialist candidate in the history of the US since that guy in prison. They've allowed LGBT people to be out in the media and other places more proudly than before, a cultural victory the right wing can't abide apparently lol. They helped end the Vietnam war through increasing the unpopularity of it at home.
It's hard work in the belly of the beast, but there are people out there doing it, and they have losses, but they also have victories and get concessions. Which means they are worth crushing by the right in order to retain power.
gotten the US to steadily dislike Israel
I think that's due to Israel livestreaming a genocide, not the work of any activists
They've been slowly unionizing Amazon or Starbucks shops
What's that, 0.001% of US workers?
Tucker Carlson is lying and supporting the first amendment isn't "left wing".
During this same episode Tucker says that the First Amendment was inspired by Christianity and therefore since Charlie Kirk was a good Christian, he was the biggest supporter of the first amendment. Then Tucker plays a clip of Charlie Kirk telling a college student that she should be forced to carry a 2 week embryo to term, as evidence that Charlie was in support of the first amendment.
Does this line of reasoning make any sense to you? First Amendment = Christianity = Anti-abortion? If you're not a right winger, it probably doesn't. This is because words mean entirely different things to right wingers. To understand what they are saying, you have to interpret their words through their own framework.
Tucker Carlson engages in the same level of word salad as Kamala Harris or Mayor Pete. As a propagandist, the things that Tucker Carlson says are not meant to make sense, it is meant to engage the emotions of the audience, typically a right winger.
In the clip of the tweet, Tucker is only saying that he supports Free Speech to express that his own speech is being silenced. He is creating an expression of fear to add legitimacy to the second half of the episode. During the second half of the episode, Tucker says that pro-Israel people were trying to keep Tucker away from Charlie by taking away his funding. This devolves into a larger conspiracy theory.
During the last 2 minutes of the episode, he blames the left. He says that Charlie Kirk was anti-war, supported raising wages, supported affordable housing. Then he says that the left is pro-war, pro-death, pro-inequality. Tucker says "the left, the trans community are the shock troops of power". Tucker ends the episode by saying that he loved Charlie Kirk because he opposed the left and transgender people.
Tucker Carlson believes that Free Speech means supporting Kirk and being against transgender people. He believes that criticizing Kirk or supporting transgender people is against Free Speech.
Carlson vs Newsom in 2028 will be a massacre
accurate
him next pls
he and marjorie tayler greene are outflanking the democrats.
yeah those two are some of the more savvy Republicans right now. Trump will be lucky to live to the end of his term, they're trying to position themselves to cannibalize his base as he starts having Biden moments.
this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2025
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