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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,986 posts)
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 08:19 PM Jun 2020

Tucker Carlson Stuns Twitter Users With 'Most Racist' Thing He's Ever Said

Fox News host Tucker Carlson is coming under fire after a segment some critics called his most racist yet.

On Monday night, Carlson claimed Democrats and the Black Lives Matter movement were trying to eliminate the police and replace them with an armed “woke militia” to take over cities and increase the power of the Democratic Party.

“Democrats hate the police because they don’t control the police,” Carlson said.

He said the left had taken over the Pentagon and now planned to do the same to law enforcement.

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/tucker-carlson-coming-for-you-080611245.html

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Tucker Carlson Stuns Twitter Users With 'Most Racist' Thing He's Ever Said (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2020 OP
This was inevitable. With some Dems stupidly calling for... brush Jun 2020 #1
It Is Not A Slogan Of The Democratic Party, Sir The Magistrate Jun 2020 #3
Where ever it comes from it needs to be ditched. brush Jun 2020 #5
It Has Got Loose In the Wild, Sir, Unfortunately The Magistrate Jun 2020 #8
I can't help but think that "Defund The Police" is a good bargaining stance. Progressive Jones Jun 2020 #17
Of what worth is your opinion... ret5hd Jun 2020 #11
What does that mean? brush Jun 2020 #12
Indeed sir. Police the police IS the right slogan. Solomon Jun 2020 #10
Indeed, Sir: "Police the Police" brings much clarity.As you say downthread, the other, stupid slogan Hekate Jun 2020 #18
Biden was smart to stay away from that slogan while still calling for oasis Jun 2020 #4
We've Taken Over the Pentagon, Sir? The Magistrate Jun 2020 #2
It's all full of peaceniks and flower children now. eShirl Jun 2020 #6
Yeah, they gather in "happy circles" and sing Kumbaya songs. Blue_true Jun 2020 #14
The Pentagon will levitate any day now! nt crickets Jun 2020 #15
Oh Noooo! That will really piss off the right. nt Blue_true Jun 2020 #16
Well, you and I know repugs lie. When their lips are moving... brush Jun 2020 #7
these righties have a deeply rooted prejudice against Dems 90-percent Jun 2020 #9
Fear tactics zak247 Jun 2020 #13
Poor Tucker. I'd guess it's not easy being him struggle4progress Jun 2020 #19

brush

(53,778 posts)
1. This was inevitable. With some Dems stupidly calling for...
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 08:26 PM
Jun 2020

"defunding the police." That dumbest ever slogan leaves us open for these claims.

We have te be smater and ditch that slogan asap.

The Magistrate

(95,247 posts)
3. It Is Not A Slogan Of The Democratic Party, Sir
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 08:32 PM
Jun 2020

It is a slogan of academics and activists, who seem to make a point of coinages that won't ring true beyond the set of people already in wholehearted agreement with them, and even worse, are prone to radical distortion in all directions.

'Police the Police!' is the right slogan. It chants well, its meaning is obvious and proof against distortion, and it presents the actual desire of both most people in the streets and those at home who support them.

brush

(53,778 posts)
5. Where ever it comes from it needs to be ditched.
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 08:37 PM
Jun 2020

Police the police is good, or re-imagining policing, or just the good old evergreen, police reform.

Defunding the police is a loser that has the potential to make us a loser in Nov.

The Magistrate

(95,247 posts)
8. It Has Got Loose In the Wild, Sir, Unfortunately
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 08:41 PM
Jun 2020

But it is pretty much a creature of rightist smear already by now. It will not be echoed as an actual course by any but the most fringe radicals.

Progressive Jones

(6,011 posts)
17. I can't help but think that "Defund The Police" is a good bargaining stance.
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 11:55 PM
Jun 2020

Go from there.

Police are necessary. So is massive reform. No reform, no cash.
I would certainly go after all the militaristic shit that's nothing but a show for the most part.
It really only comes out to be a pepper spray operation.

Hekate

(90,686 posts)
18. Indeed, Sir: "Police the Police" brings much clarity.As you say downthread, the other, stupid slogan
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 11:56 PM
Jun 2020

...has escaped into the wild already. Today I heard Wolf Blitzer ask a Dem politician if they could defend defunding the police, at which point I changed the channel and resigned myself to the nearly-inevitable.

oasis

(49,386 posts)
4. Biden was smart to stay away from that slogan while still calling for
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 08:34 PM
Jun 2020

accountability of those in law enforcement. I'm certain Dem leadership will have the "defunding" tag in the rear view mirror before Summer's end.

The Magistrate

(95,247 posts)
2. We've Taken Over the Pentagon, Sir?
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 08:28 PM
Jun 2020

Why was I not informed? I do like to keep current. Why do I have to get such momentous news from the likes of Tucker Carlson?

90-percent

(6,829 posts)
9. these righties have a deeply rooted prejudice against Dems
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 09:07 PM
Jun 2020

I really mean that . They ascribe beliefs about us that are pure concoctions of fear and forty years of preposterous dis-information.

Some things about policing must change simply because until three weeks ago, they could lynch black people with impunity and without any consequences. Haven't there been something like 471 police lynches and 471 cops that got away with murder?

It must be hard knowing that a third to a half of all people you encounter in your normal life are card carrying members of the devil-dems bloodthirsty cult?

-90% Jimmah

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