Tucker tonight has gone batsh**! (Heather Cox Richardson)

[applegrove]

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/

"SNIP......

Tonight FNC personality Carlson called for his audience to start direct action. He told them to confront people wearing masks, which he says are signs of “political obedience.” He maintained that 64% of white Americans who called themselves “liberal” or “very liberal” “have been diagnosed with an actual mental health condition.” He called them “aggressors” and told supporters, “it’s our job to brush them back and restore the society we were born in.” He said to call the police immediately if they see children wearing masks and keep calling until someone arrives: it is child abuse, he says, and his audience is “morally obligated to prevent it.”

The chyron under his monologue read: “THIS ISN’T ABOUT SCIENCE. IT’S ABOUT POWER.”

......SNIP"

I think it is a sign of weakness. They know they have lost actually about 64 percent of the whole country to good healthcare, mask wearing and being all in something together. (Applegrove)

[Celerity]

1. He is trying to kick off the beginnings of a shooting war.

Itching for a race war that Nazi berk is.

[msongs]

2. republican josef goebbels....scary dangerous nt

[A HERETIC I AM]

3. "Have been diagnosed with a mental health condition "?!

Really?

I don’t recall being diagnosed in such a way.

The man is flailing and failing and I have a feeling his days are numbered.

You can only poke the beast so many times before you get eaten.

[Thtwudbeme]

5. I agree- I think we are seeing the end of

his career. He's babbling now-

[FBaggins]

14. A recent Pew study does indeed say that...

... but it could be as simple as liberals being more willing to speak to doctors about their mental health... combined with being much more likely to tell the truth about it to a pollster (perhaps due to not considering such a diagnosis in any way shameful)

[-misanthroptimist]

17. No. No, it doesn't.

The highest percentage reported is for a sub-group and that is barely over half.

Additionally, it should be noted that it is one survey. It is self-reported for both political ideology and mental illness.

The very best one can say about that survey is that it needs further work.

[SergeStorms]

15. Yes, we have.

We've been diagnosed as "Sane", whereas Tucker and his acolytes have been diagnosed as, "Full tilt, barking at the moon crazy". Some mental health professionals will use different terminology, but the baseline diagnosis remains the same.

[YoshidaYui]

4. Awww poor little Tucker doesn't like masks

Fuck off Tucker, you are a Republican Asshole.

[SunSeeker]

6. Well that explains why a MAGAt I know posted tonight on Facebook how "stupid" mask wearers are.

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Seemed kinda out of the blue since she normally talks about family and God. But I know she is a Tucker Carlson fan, so obviously she got her marching orders from Tucker tonight!

[Buckeye_Democrat]

16. I've experienced that several times.

Whenever some right-wing coworker excitedly mentioned a crazy idea that I hadn't heard yet, I later looked up what Fox News had covered the previous night. Sure enough, it originated from them!

Not as much in recent years, though, with so much insanity across the internet.

[Mike Nelson]

7. Poor thing...

... he must feel rotten. Remember how we felt when Crooked Donald was in office... but we knew Hillary won the most votes. A lot of non-gay people support Gay marriage, now. A lot of White people march with Black Lives Matter. We had the people... poor Tucker has no President and he knows the majority is against his White Nationalist ideal. He must feel awful!

[Buns_of_Fire]

8. Did he say masks were a sign of "political obedience"?

You'll have to speak up, Tuckie. Your voice is muffled by all those layers of orange cellulite you have your lips pressed lovingly against.

[rateyes]

9. Just like the damned chicken hawk he is.

Calls on everybody else to do what he is too afraid to do himself. Chicken shit coward!

[eShirl]

10. I will never eat a TV dinner again.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. "restore the society we were born in" -- white supremacy uber alles, Cucker Tarlson's wet dream. .nt

[underpants]

13. Yea definitely. That's what it took it as too. Nt.

[underpants]

12. "Power" and "control" have been big in their lexicon for a couple of years

When in doubt they claim the left is only focused on CONTROLLING YOU and tightening its grip of control. Nothing new to them but it more of an isolated point and it fills a lot of air time especially on talk radio.

[-misanthroptimist]

18. More projection from the right

The right is the side that dismisses Climate Change, evolution, and science generally. The right is the side prone to make accusations based on nothing at all. The right is the side much, much more prone to kill.

One survey isn't going to change any of those things.