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packman

(16,296 posts)
Wed May 5, 2021, 11:06 AM May 2021

Dammit - Tucker has jumped the shark on this rant





"They (Obama,Susan Rice) understand perfectly well what actually threatens America because they've seen it up close. It's the culture that produced them," Carlson said.

No this wasn't a joke.

"It's the decadent rich people from their class at Harvard."

Tucker Carlson is from the elitist Swanson family

"It's the gender studies party at Cornell. It's the cat cafés in Austin and Asheville. It's the Monday editorial meetings at the Atlantic magazine."

In other words, Carlson and his white-hooded friends along with his FoxQ ingrates are taking the bogus cancel culture meme to its farthest extreme.

https://crooksandliars.com/2021/05/white-supremacist-hero-tucker-carlson-says
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gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
2. Your carefully constructed society can be brought down by cat cafes, Tuckums?
Wed May 5, 2021, 11:13 AM
May 2021

Then I'd say your society wasn't worth a tinker's damn.

lastlib

(23,243 posts)
17. I won't say he's a moron, but I think a leafy vegetable could take him....
Wed May 5, 2021, 11:54 AM
May 2021

...in a battle of wits.

PatSeg

(47,496 posts)
7. Exactly
Reply to KG (Reply #4)
Wed May 5, 2021, 11:26 AM
May 2021

In order to maintain his ratings at Fox, he has to keep coming up with more and more outrageous claims. He has no real talent or skills other than being an entitled egotistical disruptor. He wants the fame at any cost.

Ocelot II

(115,732 posts)
5. I knew it! It was cats all along!
Wed May 5, 2021, 11:20 AM
May 2021

They're behind all of it - gaps between toilet stalls, autotune, Crocs, processed cheese food - everything that's wrong with American culture. It was always cats. And Tucker has figured it out. He's doomed.


I_UndergroundPanther

(12,480 posts)
10. Hey,I like my crocs they are amazingly comfy
Wed May 5, 2021, 11:35 AM
May 2021

Don't diss on crocs
Until you have walked a mile in them.. 😂

Ocelot II

(115,732 posts)
13. Actually, I have four pairs of Crocs. They are ridiculously comfortable
Wed May 5, 2021, 11:38 AM
May 2021

and I wear them all the time, even in public. There are those, however, who consider them evidence of the collapse of civilization, or at least of a collapse of aesthetic standards.

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,480 posts)
14. My crocs are iridesent
Wed May 5, 2021, 11:41 AM
May 2021

And shine like a metallic beetle in shades of blue,green and purple the color under the finish is black..

My other ones are rainbow cats for when I want colorful crocs..

Might get the black and white marbled ones next.

Have a selection of Jibbets too.

captain queeg

(10,207 posts)
6. I had to look that one up. I pictured rich peoples cats being served
Wed May 5, 2021, 11:21 AM
May 2021

It’s a place cats needing homes are allowed to roam. I’m sure pucker had the former idea in mind, like that picture.

Ocelot II

(115,732 posts)
15. Cat cafes are all over.
Wed May 5, 2021, 11:42 AM
May 2021

They seem to have originated in Japan, where people love cats but can't always have them in small apartments. So cat cafes are a place where people who can't have cats of their own can hang out with them. In US cities they popped up as a combination of coffee shop and cat rescue outlet. You can have a cup of coffee, pet the cats and maybe adopt one. Evidently Tucker regards cat cafes as an example of privileged urban snobbery, which they are certainly not.

Cracklin Charlie

(12,904 posts)
8. I must not be racist enough...
Wed May 5, 2021, 11:26 AM
May 2021

Is that supposed to mean something?

Is it about disappearing white privilege?

He seems triggered.

 

packman

(16,296 posts)
11. Nah-Just the typical Repuke shit - divide
Wed May 5, 2021, 11:37 AM
May 2021

Us vs. "Them" . It's been their standard method of operation for decades (black vs. white, main culture vs. "hippies", women vs ??, manly people vs. gays, etc., etc., etc.). Tucker is pressing the elitist vs. the common Repuke idiot button on this one.

Caliman73

(11,738 posts)
16. It is all about the same thing in fascist ideology.
Wed May 5, 2021, 11:49 AM
May 2021

Degeneracy. Fascists like Carlson, believe that there was some perfect time when society was perfect, but that liberalism (openness and acceptance of new ideas) create a degeneracy and rot within society. The "elites" which Carlson and his ilk typically assign to academics, celebrities, and other creative types, have created or at least assisted this degeneracy by making popular these liberal concepts of openness and challenges to "traditional" ways of being.

It is all, ultimately bullshit because there was no "perfect" past, there was no time when Rome, Britain, or America were at their apex. The only thing that is constant in human society is change. We adapt to new information as we move through time. We attempt to correct situations that create poverty, disease, and other maladies for society, but we are not trying to "perfect" anything we are just trying to make life better for everyone.

Carlson decries that effort because it does not comport to his belief that Whites are inherently better than anyone else.

grumpyduck

(6,240 posts)
9. I would love to see a psychologist or psychiatrist
Wed May 5, 2021, 11:28 AM
May 2021

take a crack at Fucker. Either he's losing it because he sees his audience slipping away or because he needs attention, or something similar. Same thing for his writers and producers: something is going on.

For somebody who already has a niche and a hell of a paycheck to go off like he has been -- something is happening in his pisspot of a brain. He's trying too hard.

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