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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,123 posts)
Sun Jul 10, 2022, 12:38 PM Jul 2022

Tucker Carlson's greatest fear

Fox News star Tucker Carlson is the right’s avatar of grievance, the conductor of its orchestral whine about America’s tumble into cultural decadence, its principal hero in a fairy-tale battle against the dark magic of the Very Woke. There has been talk about him running for president, but that would be a demotion from where he is now, widely recognized as “the most powerful conservative in America.”

And yet, he’s also a wimp. He is afraid of a lot of things — CRT, immigrants, vaccine mandates — but lately it’s become clearer what his greatest source of terror is: women in power.

Unlike Carlson's other phobias, I think this one is rooted in reality. Critical race theory remains an opaque legal philosophy and not an instruction manual for K-12 students; immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than those born here; and vaccine mandates save lives. But women with agency? We threaten his whole world.

Just a few days ago, Carlson admitted it plainly: “In my mind, the archetype of the person that I don’t like is a 38-year-old female white lawyer with a barren personal life.” (Gosh, I wonder how that word “barren” got in there.)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/tucker-carlsons-greatest-fear/ar-AAZpKDk

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Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
1. Imagine having all that money given to you
Sun Jul 10, 2022, 12:40 PM
Jul 2022

You don’t have to do anything in life because you were born rich and yet you do what, you spend your life and what position you have, destroying all life.

elias7

(4,021 posts)
3. So he thinks in archetypes. No wonder he's such an A-hole.
Sun Jul 10, 2022, 01:06 PM
Jul 2022

Because all women become single barren lawyers, and all folks receiving public assistance are what, 28 year old people of color too lazy to work? He is so dangerous, and is the archetype of a middle aged ultra privileged white male who stokes fears in scared white people (non-archetypal) who are too stupid (non-archetypal) to see that he is just making all this shit up.

EarnestPutz

(2,120 posts)
4. "Avatar of grievance." "Conductor of ochestral whine." "Hero in a fairy-tale battle." Damn, this..
Sun Jul 10, 2022, 05:40 PM
Jul 2022

.....poetry is almost wasted on Tucker the Simple.

EarnestPutz

(2,120 posts)
6. Yep, when Bill-o went down in flames, Tucks saw his big opportunity to up his game....
Sun Jul 10, 2022, 06:14 PM
Jul 2022

......in the crazy and become the new leader of the rabid pack.

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