Why do Putin, Trump, Tucker Carlson and the Republican party sound so alike?

[AZProgressive]

In a speech delivered last Friday from his office in the Kremlin, Putin criticized the west’s “cancel culture”, which, he charged, is “canceling” Russia – “an entire thousand-year-old country, our people”. It was the third time in recent months Putin has blasted the so-called “cancel culture”.

Which is exactly what Trump, Tucker Carlson, and the Republican party have blasted for several years.

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Putin’s fixation on transgender and gay people has also been echoed on the American right. Republican state bills aimed at limiting LGBTQ rights or discussion in schools are soaring. Last fall – months before Texas’s Republican governor Greg Abbott threatened to criminalize parents who give their transgender children gender-affirming care – Putin argued that teaching children about different gender identities was “on the verge of a crime against humanity”.

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Putin’s lies and the lies coming from America’s extreme right are mutually reenforcing. Carlson’s Fox News segments show up in Russian propaganda. And when the American site “Infowars” resurrected an unfounded Russian claim that the United States funded biological weapons labs in Ukraine, Putin repeated the Infowars story.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/29/putin-trump-tucker-carlson-republican-party

[applegrove]

1. They are synching up.

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[ZZenith]

3. And synching up, too.

And hopefully, before long, just plain old sinking.

[applegrove]

4. Damn I relied on spellchecker because I did not know how to spell "synching".

Thanks.

[ZZenith]

6. All good -

Just having fun with words.

[applegrove]

7. I was brought up to to laugh at myself and the situations I am in, so I do when I can.

[ZZenith]

8. Well, if you can't laugh at yourself

everyone else will have to do it for you.

Back on topic: Fuck Putin and fuck Trump and fuck Fox News.

[applegrove]

9. .

[TygrBright]

2. This entire piece, x infinity. n/t

[applegrove]

5. +1000

[Uncle Joe]

10. Well said Robert!

Thanks for the thread AZProgressive