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[–] baeb66@lemmy.today 77 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Carlson also spent last week ranting about how the "civic religion" of elites is Israelism (whatever the hell that means). And he backed up that conclusion with the old "If you want to know who rules over you, just look for who you are not allowed to criticize", which is a quote from a Neo Nazi.

He's a bad actor who launders white nationalist talking points. He goes where he thinks his audience wants him to go. Don't give him credit for finally changing his rhetoric against Trump. It won't last.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 57 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Obviously Carlson isn't a good guy all of a sudden. What's interesting is that there is clearly a split in maga now because war on Iran turned out to be such an utter debacle.

[–] yottle@kopitalk.net 29 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

The split seems to have started with the Epstein files and It's starting to grow. I'm curious to see how overt it will become. Will it simply result in lower republican voter turnout? Or will a high number of former allies in government start to turn on him?

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I think Trump's days are numbered after Epstein and Iran debacles. And it's almost certain that Carlson is angling to grab a chunk of the base when the infighting get serious.

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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

There's always a split in maga.

First it was the epstein stuff, then it was tarrifs, then it's the iran war.

But they keep forgiving him and bowing down. I've reached the conclusion that maga are unsalvagable as people.

You can find the most angry violent hateful dog, and rehab them into being a better happier dog. I used to think you could do the same with maga.

Nope.

They're so braindead that they'll accept ANYTHING he does. Anything.

Place tarrifs? Booooooo......oh, alright.

Rape kids? Boooooo.......oh, alright.

Raise gas prices? Boooooooo......oh, alright.

Go to war? Boooooo.......oh, alright.

Break into my house, and rape my wife? Boooooooo..........oh, alright.

I made that last one up, but stand by the fact that's exactly how it would play out if trump went door to door raping peoples wives right in front of them.

These people are mentally absent and morally bankrupt.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What you're missing here is that people treat politics as sports ball when they fail to connect it to their daily lives. As the economic situation in the US continues to decline, Trump supporters will start having problems paying their bills and making ends meet just like everyone else. They will turn on him, and it will get ugly. What Carlson is most likely doing here is setting himself up as an alternative, and he'll harness that anger for his own purposes.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I read a story maybe 2 months ago where farmers in Idaho had everyone they hired on their farm deported from an ICE raid. Without cheap labor, they were forced to sell their farm. The farm owners said they realized it was trumps policies that did this.

There was a different story involving a family owned lumbermill. It had been family run for over a century. It wasn't ICE raids, but some other new policy trump enacted.

In both cases, they were trump voters. Full on maga. They admitted it was trumps fault. They also said they'd vote for him again.

[–] pwalshj@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

When your racism trumps your livelihood and generational legacy.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago

Right, and we'll be seeing more and more of this happening as Trump continues to destroy the economy.

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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 8 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

I know a couple of ex-maga. Now they're Blue maga.

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[–] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Turns out ultraracist white nationalists aren't big on American jews or Israel.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] ChristchurchAsshole@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago

Immature, but it gets a '+1' from me (former MAD reader btw)

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

It may last. It may not. Either way it's not authentic. It's just where he thinks the money lay.

[–] zd9@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He's only changing it outwardly because he's losing money finally. He smells MAGA going down relatively soon and wants to distance himself so he can run in 2028.

This smug white nationalist fuck will get what he deserves.

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[–] Tangentism@lemmy.ml 35 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is what controlled opposition does.

They (Carlson, Owens, Jones, et al), will all distance themselves from trump because they know he hasn't got long left so will play the "We got it wrong. This one's on us but stick with us" because they were grooming the maga crowd for his replacement and prepping the "blame it all on the last guy" routine.

[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 weeks ago

I've listened to how he talks about MAGA now. Dudes 100% playing a character. This is what he thinks libruls sound like

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 32 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Tucker Carlson at the end of the Trump regime, 2026, colorized.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 19 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

The Midterm Bloodbath is going to be the Dem's D-Day, and after that the fall of MAGA will become inevitable to anyone with half a brain.

Carlson, and a few others, realize that, and are trying to get in front of it, presenting themselves as the smart ones who realized that MAGA had become dangerous, and broke away. They are hoping that in the post-MAGA era, they will be seen as the reasonable ones who helped guide Conservatives away from MAGA, and into whatever lie they'll tell to replace it.

Tucker is just getting into position for the next 20 years of his career, doing essentially the same thing, spewing propaganda. He's pretending that he doesn't know that he's likely to end up in prison for a decade or so.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 weeks ago (39 children)

I think he's building his base right now so that he can run in the next election.

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[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I like your optimism. Unfortunately we have to get past the fact that the current regime is setting up the option to cancel the vote. And why do you think they are replacing so many top military leaders? November will be very interesting without a doubt.

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[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Tucker is a two faced bootlicking shill

[–] science4life@mander.xyz 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What face? The leopard ate both.

[–] Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

OK but how can anyone trust a guy who literally defended himself in court by saying that a reasonable person wouldn't believe him?

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Wasn't that Alex Jones?

Edit: just checked, it was this doofus too

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[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 9 points 2 weeks ago

This has nothing to do with the fact that all supporters of the current Israeli government are literally fascists genocidal racist antisemites… nothing at all…

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 7 points 2 weeks ago

Cool, put your head in this noose, please.

[–] torik@lemmychan.org 7 points 2 weeks ago

He did whatever he thought was going to make him the most amount of money.

He's still doing it.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

If it destroy Trump and all it's goons political careers it ia possitive. He still a white supermasist and is ideology should be fought

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