Tucker Carlson dunks hard on Ted Cruz. What?
Tucker Carlson dunks hard on Ted Cruz. What?
Isn't this guy part of the far right cabal? Why is he doing such a better job dunking on this ghoul than anyone else? There are so many libs cheering for foreign blood and imperialist war, but this is the guy making the hawks look stupid? Wild.
Edit:
There's another great clip from this interview here
For an American rightist, Tucker is on the sharper side. He knows which way the wind is blowing—the vast majority of Americans dislike Israel and don’t want war with Iran, and I have a feeling he’s trying to position himself as a more important “America first” figure when the Trump train inevitably collapses within the next few years and the reactionaries have to find a new personality to coalesce around.
Also, I don’t doubt he gets money from Russia. lol.
He's a tad more clever than the other grifters, but a grifter nonetheless.
He is an aristocrat, from an old industrialist family or smth. He has explicitly said that there IS a class war, and his role is to deceive and manipulate to benefit HIS class. He is fully aware of the situation, and he stands firmly on the side of his class.
He is married to the Swanson's food heiress
His background is super sus: https://www.mintpressnews.com/tucker-carlson-biography-nicaragua-cia/279782/
putin called him out on this during the interview
"We" means "the white christo western empire" but they'll never admit that is how the world is structured right now.
I first read that as "white casino western empire". Either way it's a banger
I hate having to shop for Casinomas presents
I'm rewatching Full Metal Alchemist at the moment and I can't help but see the global structure as the same way the Amestrian empire is structured. "Central" is just the US, while other districts of the empire under other commands are the EU, Aus, Canada, Japan etc etc. It all acts as one empire with the US at its core.
missed fascist but true
missed fascist but true
i have a simple take about this that i think is borne out by tucker's general history of spreading white replacement theory on his broadcast and being a cia guy: tucker is just on the antisemitic JQ side of the current fascism. there's video of him not long ago back in 2012 talking about how iran is a backwards nation of savages. i highly doubt he's turned around his tune on the ayatollah. he's also deep in the putin camp on the question of eastern europe. now that there's a conspicuous but not quite mainstream well of fascists that genuinely are relitigating the JQ as if it's a serious topic of political inquiry and not archbigotry.
especially telling is that he's not like, making an argument here about the rights of iranians or their personhood or their geopolitical position. he's pointing out simply that ted cruz is an idiot that doesn't care about the position he wants to put amerikkka in. that's not an explicitly antizionist position here, it's just not maximalist.
He's playing Cruz to make him look dumb while making himself look smart. He's not taking any actually positions here, he's just saying "HAHA LOOK AT THE STUPID MAN" which is really easy because Cruz is an absolute dullard.
Tucker knows the Trump Train is coming to an end, and he's positioning himself as the renegade outsider for the next round.
I feel like that tack works pretty well in media, and as much as I think people like Tucker and Tulsi Gabbard are freaks, I do appreciate them throwing up some barriers to US involvement. Not because I care about the US, I don't want our comrades to have their lives destroyed by the great satan.
I think it's this too. I think Tucker is looking at the likely outcomes here that either, despite all the bluster and some missile strikes Trump moves away from war with Iran in a climbdown that further splits his base & cooks him with Washington hawks, or he escalates and joins a war on Iran on behalf of Israel that's already incredibly unpopular before US planes start getting shot down and ships sank and bodies start coming home in coffins on TV at the airport. He's positioning himself outside of the lose-lose scenario using their incompetence as the predetermined arguement for why he's not a dove / pro-Iran etc.
Someone else described him as a contrarian, but I see your angle too. I had the impression that the cultural forces of anti-islam where much stronger than those of anti-semitism within his cabal.
Population? Ethnic mix?
Look, they're a bunch of angry Muslims, okay?!
Too funny.
Gary Johnson Allepo moment was just him being ignorant of something that he had no involvement in.
Ted Cruz not knowing anything about Iran while calling for literal war against them is beyond the pale. Aren't these ghoul's supposed to get information like this spoonfed to them through like a million power points for babies?
Man, he doesn't know population of Iran. If you ever feel inadequate for yourself, remember that one of the top politicians of USA does not know the population they want to fight. Holy shit the incompetence is mind blowing. These people probably care less about politics than anyone here
It seems he doesn't want to relive Iraq all over again. Cruz can't answer basic question but pushes a narrative Brutal
Quite a neck tucker is accruing for himself there
it's strange, he doesn't look like he's aged horribly or gained weight. his neck has just become more bulbous
Eh, people get old. Last 3 years of my life have aged me much more than I expected. I wouldn't let that be the focus here
I thought the most appealing part was the end when he says "we're bombing Iran" that I have to admit is a great gotcha that resonates a lot with normal people.
The not knowing anything about [insert country you want to bomb here] may wont be as appealing, its not like the average American can point to any of these countries on a map either and I'm not sure appealing to general incompetence matters as much as the more basic talking points like money or troops.
I'm at the point of thinking this dude is just a Russian Intelligence asset.
I can think of worse things to be
nah he is just a populist, a maga populist that is, he has been consistently that for some time. The average maga head don't want to go to war on a country they can't locate on a map. Going to war abroad is simply not a popular topic.
Also i think tucker finds it amusing, or has a personal thing against some of these neocons.
Isn't this guy part of the far right cabal?
Short answer, no. He has no allegiance to anything other than money. Dude's been grifting since his beginning at FOX, and now that he isn't welcome, there's another angle to be played.
This just shows how fucking useless the pmc journalists are. Even this clown tucker does a better job then them.
Politicians will likely avoid his show at least on this matter. For all the free speech they brag about they are not pressed nearly enough on war.
Yeah. It's one way they disincentivize actual journalism. But even without all the disincentives I don't think the liberal striver type journalists even have the ability to question politicians. The only thing they care about is maximizing how much they can leech out of the imperial system. Why learn how to do journalism when you have no interest in it and get your talking points from the Pentagon