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Carlson: The Ukraine War Is Dem “Payback For 2016”
Tucker clearly is pro-Putin and pro-Russia. The question is why. Is it political as they say Tucker is convinced, he is going to be president when he wants to? Is it financial, hoping for money from Putin? Is it kompromat, does Putin have something icky on Tucker maybe? Or is it just old fashion bigotry?
Media Matters has the transcript:
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Democrats have convinced themselves that Russia stole the presidency, which rightfully belonged to Hillary Clinton. And they mean it when they say it. And that’s why they are taking us to war with Russia.
So, that’s not their goal — saving Ukraine, saving human lives. No, that’s not their goal. Instead, the war in Ukraine is designed to cause regime change in Moscow. They want to topple the Russian government. That would be payback for the 2016 election. So, this is the logical, maybe the inevitable, end stage of Russiagate.
If you wanted to save Ukraine, its people, its infrastructure, its nation, you would push for a settlement now. You would have done it two months ago, but they’re not doing that. They’ve rejected it out of hand, so that’s not their goal, saving Ukraine, saving human lives.
We don’t arm Ukraine so we can help the Ukrainians, they are merely unfortunate pawns in all of this. We arm Ukraine so that we can punish Russia. Why? For stealing Hillary Clinton’s coronation.
Russian media asset claims US has ulterior motives for supporting Ukraine. Colour me shocked.
Yeah, how dare anyone dare to push back against Russian aggression. If we cared about Ukraine, we wouldn’t have helped them, and instead would have encouraged them to give up to protect themselves from what the Russians wanted to do to them. This is his attempt to hold onto his hard core of pro-Russian fascists and dullards.
“But Hillary Clinton!!!“
What a disgusting, smarmy little cuntling.
He really is Putin’s puppet.
Another useful idiot
So.. he’s saying that “Russiagate”, his claim that the Russia-Trump links were all made up, were designed to lead to Dems getting into power, so that Russia would invade Ukraine, so that Dems would take out Putin?
Want to add a couple mouse traps or bowling balls on rails to that Rube Goldberg setup, Tuck?
The Ukraine president was minutes away from being captured at the beginning of the war. No doubt he would’ve been killed. Ukraine would never surrender to Russia after that. And they will never surrender now that Russia is shooting civilians in the streets.
Making this about the Dems is just lunacy.
J.Martindale • 4 hours ago • edited
Here we have a situation where the Russians, without question, attacked their neighbor for no good reason other than territorial expansion. America, by Tucker’s reasoning, should simply press for a settlement. Can you imagine how Faux would frame that ? “Biden surrenders to Russian aggression! Biden is America’s Chamberlain! The weakest President ever! ” They would crucify him.
Portraying support of Ukraine in the war of Russian aggression as a Democratic plot to overthrow Putin is one of the most ridiculous things this propagandist has come up with yet. Why anyone would pay attention to the twit befuddles me!
Tucker Carlson’s influence and his increasingly extreme views
“Every night, that show teaches fear and loathing. He may claim to be a person who opposes racism and prejudice, but what the show tells you every night is to be afraid, to be afraid of people who are in the street asking for police officers to not shoot Black people, be afraid of Afghan refugees who helped us in the war who are coming over here now, to be afraid of Dr. Fauci, and to be afraid of immigration in general, which he posits is part of a cabal, a plot to destroy Western civilization.
That’s as dumb as Alito’s reasoning that only the legislature can make abortion legal, when the SCOTUS routinely guts laws passed by the legislature.
*See the Voting Rights Act.
Trump Lawyers Tried To Hide His Fear Of Thrown Fruit
Remember that tRump is desperate to keep the idea he is an alpha he-man, the toughest, smartest, the fittest, the most manly, the all powerful OZ … I mean tRump. It is a fiction like his wealthy, but …
The Daily Beast reports:
After a transcript leaked last week of former President Donald Trump decrying “very dangerous” fruits he feared protesters might throw at him, Trump’s legal team sprang into action. New emails show that Trump’s lawyers were so bothered by the deposition becoming public that they actually tried to un-make it public.
Even after The Daily Beast published a story about Trump expressing bizarre concerns about people hurling “pineapples, tomatoes, bananas” at him while onstage—“very dangerous stuff” in Trump’s words—his lawyers still tried to get the deposition that was posted in a court filing taken down.
Read the full article.
Schooling Ron DeSantis
Stupidest People in Congress Awards
J.D. Vance parrots a Tucker Carlson conspiracy theory that Biden is intentionally allowing fentanyl to cross the border to kill Trump voters
Is there a conspiracy theory these Republican right wingers won’t buy? Seriously you have to believe every border patrol officer, most who were over the last few years ripping babies from mother’s arms to sperate families, are liberals who support Biden enough to let drugs into the country specifically to be delivered to right wingers. Who is forcing these right wingers to take the drugs? Or do right wingers like the rest of the country have personal problems and need help with addiction?
The new right faux-populists blame immigration for opioid overdoses. It’s an old trick with a long, racist history.
On Friday, Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance pushed an anti-immigration conspiracy theory that alleged President Joe Biden was deliberately allowing drug smugglers to import fentanyl to the United States to kill Donald Trump voters. The theory has also been put forward by Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, whom the New York Times recently characterized as running “what may be the most racist show in the history of cable news.”
Vance made the allegations in a recent interview with Jim Hoft, founder of the far-right site Gateway Pundit. “If you wanted to kill a bunch of MAGA voters in the middle of the heartland, how better than to target them and their kids with this deadly fentanyl,” Vance told Hoft, later adding: “It does look intentional. It’s like Joe Biden wants to punish the people who didn’t vote for him. And opening up the floodgates to the border is one way to do it.”
This allegation sounds remarkably similar to a line of argument Carlson used on his February 8 show. After stoking fear about a Biden administration harm reduction policy for people who use crack, Carlson pivoted to the opioid overdose crisis. “I seem to remember reading somewhere that more than 100,000 Americans died last year from opioid ODs. What are we doing about that? Well, good question, and the answer is nothing,” Carlson said.
He then offered an explanation that hinged on a lie that Biden is pursuing an “equity agenda” that deliberately seeks to benefit people of color at the expense of white people, toward the ultimate goal of their political subjugation. “Those 100,000 Americans weren’t from officially marginalized groups. Their deaths have nothing to do with the equity agenda. In fact, their deaths may have helped the equity agenda by changing the demographics of the country in a way that benefits the Democratic Party,” Carlson said. “So as far as the Biden administration is concerned, it’s not a bad trend.”
Carlson concluded that although the United States had suffered high levels of overdose deaths, “these are exactly the kind of people the administration hates anyway, so with equity in mind, the White House plans to continue allowing as much fentanyl as possible to come into this country through Mexico.” In reality, border seizures of fentanyl in the final year of Trump’s term largely mirror the current rates under Biden. More broadly, the overdose epidemic in the United States is a complicated phenomenon, driven by drug manufacturers, a for-profit health care system, and economic precarity that’s resulted from deindustrialization and an overall decline in the power of organized labor. It is not caused by immigrants.
It’s not surprising that Vance might adopt this talking point from Carlson. His political life is dependent on the Trump-Carlson wing of the Republican Party, and his turnaround from flagging candidate to front-runner came in the wake of Trump’s endorsement. Vance’s main opponent in the Republican primary, Josh Mandel, has also modeled himself after Trump, but the increasingly acrimonious rivalry shows that simply adopting the former president’s bigoted rhetoric isn’t always enough to avoid the dreaded “establishment candidate” label, as Don Trump Jr. referred to Mandel on Twitter.
Beyond Trump and Carlson, Vance is a creation of GOP megadonor Peter Thiel, the far-right billionaire with ties to the faux-populist “New Right,” as well as to overt white nationalists. Last year, Thiel co-launched a new project called the Rockbridge Network that seeks to reshape the Republican Party in Thiel’s image. Vance, and his fellow Senate candidate Blake Masters, were recipients of Thiel donations totaling at least $10 million apiece.
This group often pays lip service to a narrow conception of the working class — basically white men in hard hats and their wives — but their pro-worker rhetoric is predicated on blaming immigrants for falling wages, and increased crime and drug use. Given the long history of associating immigrant communities with drug crime, stretching back to anti-Chinese racism around opium and anti-Mexican racism around marijuana, it’s not shocking that Carlson and Vance would recycle these tropes. But, as Vance might say, it does look intentional.
Rick Blackstone LaRue Williams • 5 hours ago
So is JD saying MAGA folks are a bunch of druggies? That would explain a LOT.
StuckNtexas Rick Blackstone LaRue Williams • 5 hours ago
If it’ll help thin the herd, I volunteer to smuggle. Can I set up a free samples table at the Republican National Convention?
Is this an admission that the Trumpsters are drug addicts?
Cute, considering COVID-19 has killed far more MAGAts, by their own stupidity.
The Party Of Personal Responsibility Blames Democrat For Their Own Actions Again.
Huh … he should be asked where the fentanyl is coming in from … cuz’ cousin Wheels Abbott said his Rangers found …zero .. drugs on their “border inspections”
So the GOP’s position is that Republican voters are ignorant drug addicts buying street drugs for recreational use? Way to respect the electorate.
Outrageous Republican TV Ads That Will Make You Cringe
“JD Vance, author and Republican Candidate for Senate in Ohio, has released a new campaign ad in which he asks “are you a racist?” and “do you hate Mexicans?” before blaming his mother’s addiction issues on immigrants. The Hillbilly Elegy author released the 30-second video on Tuesday. “The media calls us racist for wanting to build Trump’s wall. They censor us, but it doesn’t change the truth,” Mr Vance says in the video. “Joe Biden’s open border is killing Ohioans, with more illegal drugs and more Democrat voters pouring into this country,” he adds.”
Trump’s Candidate Puts On A Disgusting Show
“A second woman is publicly accusing Trump-endorsed Nebraska gubernatorial candidate Charles Herbster (R) of sexual misconduct after a Republican state senator alleged earlier this month that she had been touched inappropriately by Herbster. Elizabeth Todsen, in a statement provided through her attorney, alleged that she had been sexually groped by Herbster in 2019 and said her experience had been “thoroughly described” in previous reporting by the Nebraska Examiner. “For years I have struggled with an experience I had with Charles W. Herbster. At a political event in 2019, Herbster sexually groped me while greeting my table. This was the same night that Herbster aggressively grabbed Senator Julie Slama,” Todsen said.”
Former Staffer Reveals Trump’s TRUE Violent Feelings
“As Black Lives Matter protesters swarmed outside the White House in 2020, then-president Donald Trump reportedly proposed a solution: “Just shoot them.” That’s according to Mr Trump’s secretary of defense at the time, Mark Esper, in his upcoming memoir, A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times, which comes out on 10 May. In the spring of 2020, as protests over the brutal police murder of George Floyd convulsed the country, Mr Esper says the former president grew increasingly furious at the demonstrators flooding the streets of the capital. “Can’t you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?” Mr Trump allegedly asked, according to an excerpt obtained by Axios.”
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