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Tucker Carlson says he'll no longer support the Republican Party

Carlson supported Trump in 2024. After the war began, he apologized for supporting the then-presidential candidate and “misleading people," saying it wasn't intentional.

But of course...

“Not gonna support the Democratic Party,” Carlson was quick to add, speaking late last week on the show “Can't Be Censored.” “I don't know what I'm going to do.”

(When it comes to the "Tuckers" of the world, no matter how much they might hate the GOP, they still hate the Democrats just as much, if not more.)

https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/tucker-carlson-says-he-ll-no-longer-support-the-22315958.phpOpen linkView original on lemmus.org

Too passive.

You helped build this empire of shit; nothing short of maximal effort and resources at bringing this regime down will do.

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He's an actual Christian nationalist white supremacist, so it doesn't really matter what he says or does. He's even worse than MAGA and really the natural evolution further right down the radical extremist terrorism pipeline.

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KC_Royalzreply
lemmy.world

I forgot about Glenn Beck. Is that whack job Michael savage still around?

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Tucker was fine right up until there were enough Republicans orphaned from the party to grift to. Don't forget he said he fucking hated Trump long before he showed any sign that he didn't wanna gargle his nuts. If you think Tucker shows an honest face, ever, you're delusional. He has clear aims, but his method of achieving them always includes deception.

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He's genuinely dangerous. He has the strategic evilness of Steve Bannon, the ruthlessness of Stephen Miller, with the charisma of Trump. He's very smart, and knows how to build an audience. I'm the most worried about him running for office.

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

Agreed. But I agree with him just this one time in terms of not knowing what to do. GOP is awful, but democrats don't have what it takes to get Israel off the tit and solidify the change and stability we need. We need the purple party made up of people who want to address bipartisan issues first. (pointless wars, term limits, proportionate taxes, data center limits, etc)

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Completely agree. It would be a dream to have us agree and work together on almost all the issues and make politics boring again.

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person, career bad, runs out of relevance, says surprising thing to get headline

Ann Coulter Richard Spencer and this guy

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Former MAGA pundits like this asshole are quick to bring out criticism and taking credit for it, while the left has been saying "I fucking told you so" since before the election.

I wouldn't be surprised if he winds up supporting JD Vance for 2028 after all this.

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zd9reply
lemmy.world

I think you mean "Nazis only support Republicans". The way you said it makes it seem like Republicans has no other supporters than Nazis which isn't true.

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zd9reply
lemmy.world

Yeah I guess that's true, but I'm just saying in some idiot MAGA's mind they're just "sticking it to the libs" or "protecting children from free thought that leads to trans evilness" whatever bullshit.

Then in some classical conservative evil billionaire, they're trying to squeeze as much money and resources as possible from their customers and the earth, but they're not explicitly like "I hate all Jews". It's a big tent is what I'm saying, and literal Nazis are part of it.

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lemmy.world

i esteem them about the same as i esteem Nazis who joined the Nazi party to "stick it to the Commies" or "protect children from viral spongiform gay" or whatever hateful bullshit rhetoric they made up to justify it, they still Nazis

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zd9reply
lemmy.world

then we have different definitions of "Nazi"

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lemmy.world

Not conservative enough for him huh? Or it's not the correct version of the conservatism.

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Him starting his own party i don't think is the third party anyone wants but it might be the one we get.

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i mean i wish ross perot tucker carlson all the luck in his political aspirations.

i swear we had one more in between but i forget

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Rats are starting to leave the ship.

MTG did her move at the perfect moment. She resigned from Congress when she could have stayed and fought. I expect to see her doing a lot of TV appearances as the midterms heat up.

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lemmy.world

Is this the Overton window being moved a bit when a "reasonable" right party pops up and says racist shit but with less angry words?

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Sure, he says that, but until he actually endorses a bunch of good candidates, this should be taken with a few boulders of salt.

More likely is that he still supports the same evil morons he always has, but now he prefaces it with a "you all know I'm no blind Republican supporter, BUT"...

He's trying to backdoor a false sense of balance to fake his way into credibility.

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lemmy.zip

I really think the only way out of this mess is to start fresh. Not vote Democrat, vote for something brand new that's better than both of the old choices. Hopefully get rid of the two party system entirely.

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I worry, after seeing someone else mention it somewhere, the whole apology / change in tune is actually all build-up for a presidential run.

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I see it as more of seeing the writing on the wall that this regime is f***** over and f***** up, and trying to distance himself so he can remain relevant in some way. It's all about the grift.

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Tucker and Snowden are both untrustable at this point for the same reason: Russia is too involved in their lives to believe that their words are entirely their own. Every opinion from either of them will get an asterisk in my brain for as long as I live.

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explodiclereply
sh.itjust.works

If Tucker backed up his claims with proof, then you wouldn't need to trust his motives.

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You reached the end