Tucker Carlson: "I don't care about Ukraine Conflict and I'm rooting for Russia."

we know he's rooting for Russia; he supports Trump

The irony is that these conservative pundits pander to the very demographic which, in the past, greatest argument was: "You don't like it here? Fine, why don't you move to Russia then?". And now they praise Russia and are team Russia.

R2 it’s the Twilight Zone.

We need to give him a nickname like we did to Moscow Mitch. That's a Trump tactic that makes them bristle. Comrade Tucker. The entire GOP needs a Russian nickname.

I believe he said it to be provocative. The context was that he indicated that there wasn't reason for the U.S. to get involved in the ancient feud.

^^ so in other words, it's a big Nothing-burger. Lame excuse.

[quote] Comrade Tucker.

"Comrade Carlson" is more alliterative.

That a-hole has been on TV far too long. I think he was fried 3 times before Fox decided to hire him. I mean why not, out of thousand of applicants, lets get the 3 time loser.

[quote]Carlson's parents divorced after the nine-year marriage reportedly "turned sour."[6][7] Carlson's father was granted custody of him and his brother. Carlson would later claim that his mother left the family when he was six, wanting to pursue a "bohemian" lifestyle" Wiki

So basically, he has mommy issues and equates liberals with his mommy.

Russia supplies the Chicken fat that he’s getting injected into his head and neck.

Where can I get a guillotine?

Of course he's rooting for Russia. It's not just trolling or sarcasm or (least of all) Tulsi's bullshit anti-interventionism. All of the alt-Reich types look to Russia as a model, with their own versions of Putin to crush all opposition into dust. They're gunning for an international realignment that favors permanent right wing dictatorship. Democracy's too messy for these people.

Scary times

Comrade Carlson can’t defend Trump (each of his excuses for Cheeto’s abuses have been debunked).

All he’s got left is normalizing Russian aggression

Comrade Carlson can’t defend Trump (each of his excuses for Cheeto’s abuses have been debunked).

All he’s got left is normalizing Russian aggression

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Traitor Tucker

I like that.

Russia is a quasi-fascist kleptocracy. Of course Republicans don’t fear it. They see it as a role model.

People said the same about Nazi Poland. Charming people!

He's a piece of whitebread shit.

The Republican Party

makes one wonder if ANY FOX ADDICT WATCHER ESPECIALLY OLDER PEOPLE, VETERANS, ever ever EVER stops and thinks just for a moment "wait, wait wait a minute, russia is good now, their okay, so we should be okay with them"????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????????

I like #TraitorTucker

I grew up during the cold war, Repugs were always in fear of Russians and pro war. I never thought I would see the day they flipped on a dime and suddenly become fuck buddies.

That whore that pissed on Cheeto must have been laced with some mind altering drug designed to bring down a nation.

[quote]makes one wonder if ANY FOX ADDICT WATCHER ESPECIALLY OLDER PEOPLE, VETERANS, ever ever EVER stops and thinks just for a moment "wait, wait wait a minute, russia is good now, their okay, so we should be okay with them"????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!? - ??????????????

You would think that would've happened with McCain and Khan. Military people who vote Trump are stupid motherfuckers. I have no respect for them whatsoever because they clearly have no respect. for themselves.

Russia under Putin has invaded its neighbors and taken their land and made it their own, it has murdered reporters, it has traded spies with western countries and then murdered those spies who they gave up to get their own back, it has attacked all western Democracies and tried to corrupt our elections. Russia has cheated on treaties with the US, backed corrupt dictators around the world, Putin has stolen from his own people and murdered his own people.

Vladimir Putin is living the dream. Who needs another cold war? With the right combination of bribery and blackmail the Western powers will just hand themselves over to him.

Russia has a declining, drunk cannibal population, so why don’t all these Russia lovers move there. If Comrade Carlson and Moscow Mitch love it so much, go live there! Repopulate the country, pay your salary to your Emperor Vlad, and have at it. Just get out of here. Take Boris Johnson and his Brit cabal of fascists with you.

Now tucker is trying to say he was just KIDDING. ...right.

Trump allies, from Tucker Carlson to Sen. Kennedy, keep inadvertently defending Russia

Sen. Kennedy reacts to McGahn subpoena, clarifies Ukraine election meddling comments

President Trump’s long-running embrace of Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, has been taken up recently by some of his staunchest Republican supporters, who have publicly sided with Moscow over Ukraine, an American ally, in comments they subsequently disavowed or dismissed as jokes.

During a Sunday interview with Fox News’s Chris Wallace, Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., was asked whether he shared Trump’s belief that Ukraine, rather than Russia, hacked a computer server belonging to the Democratic National Committee in 2016 to interfere with the U.S. presidential election.

“I don't know, nor do you,” Kennedy responded.

“The entire intelligence community says it was Russia,” Wallace retorted.

“Right, but it could also be Ukraine,” Kennedy said. “I’m not saying that I know one way or the other.”

Kennedy’s doubts — of the unanimous judgment of U.S. intelligence agencies and the conclusions of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators and the grand jury that indicted Russian operatives for cyber-meddling in the 2016 election on behalf of Trump — came just days after Fiona Hill refuted that view.

“Based on questions and statements I have heard, some of you on this committee appear to believe that Russia and its security services did not conduct a campaign against our country — and that perhaps, somehow, for some reason, Ukraine did,” Hill, a top Russia expert with the National Security Agency, said during her opening statement at last week’s impeachment inquiry hearing. “This is a fictional narrative that has been perpetrated and propagated by the Russian security services themselves.”

On Monday, Kennedy walked back his assertion that Ukraine may have been involved in the DNC hack.

“I was wrong,” Kennedy told CNN. “The only evidence I have, and I think it’s overwhelming, is that it was Russia who tried to hack the DNC computer. I’ve seen no indication that Ukraine tried to do it.”

Trump faces impeachment over his attempts to convince Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, and over a debunked conspiracy theory that the hacked server resides in that country.

Do these people ever stop and think about the fact that they consistently find themselves taking the word of Vladimir Putin over their own intelligence community? And all because of Donald Fucking Trump, of all people? If you'd told them ten years ago they'd be in this position they would have been appalled.

Putin is a piece of shit but why would we want to antagonize a country that has strategic interests with Iran and Syria? Tucker's point was that the Democrats anti Russian stance could provoke another war and that it's best the US doesn't involve itself in an area of the world where there are no US strategic interests. The US currently allies itself with Saudi Arabia and is in negotiations with China, which is far greater geopolitical threat to the Unitied States.

I wish he'd move to Moscow and leave us alone

Good deflective whataboutism Boris r32 but the piece of shit comment, while honest, was out of line. No Borscht For You!

r32 is a bloody stool.

I'd love to be spanked by Tucker.

My parents have a nonagenarian friend, WWII vet, who's become a Fox News addict and total Trumpoid. When they ask him why he's so pro-Russia, when for conservatives Russia used to be the enemy, he says, "They're not communist anymore." My parents are too polite to press the issue that Russia may not be communist, but it's still authoritarian and anti-freedom (AND SO ARE REPUBLICANS).

I would love to shit in Comrade Carlson's mouth.

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[quote]Trump allies, from Tucker Carlson to Sen. Kennedy, keep inadvertently defending Russi

Inadvertently? They know exactly what they are doing, just heard someone on Nicole Wallis' show on MSNBC saying they are siding with Russia as a means to stay in power.

For years the far left sided with dictators. Funny that the right is doing it now too.

It's a Bizarro world when Putin is really our shadow POTUS. His tentacles are on the GOP. I remember Paul Ryan and someone else chuckling about it,....no, it's not a laughing matter.

When the Right accuse the Dems of socialism, we need to strike back that they've aligned themselves with Russia/Putin.

R42.....

Tucker now claims he was just joking.

Yuk yuk.

Proud member of the Russigan Party !

My nickname for him is Motherfucker Tucker.

I'm not changing it.

Trump's Idiot followers at his rally....

“We need to give him a nickname like we did to Moscow Mitch.“

Pucker Carlson

You know, I feel like saying to those guys in R47 post what my Repug dad used to say in the 70's to hippies. " Love it or leave it!"

Isn't it ironic that progressives and liberals are the ones who should be saying that now?

It's funny that no one is talking about the really explosive segment on Tucker's show last night where a whistleblower claimed to have evidence that the Syrian chemical attack by Assad was faked.

Has anyone even asked themselves why we appear to be drawn into a conflict where we have no business?

Who's viewpoint of "no business" Ivan r51 ? 2 minutes after the US decides that Ukraine is no longer their business, Russian tanks roll in. That might be the plan for r51 but the people of Ukraine might have other ideas

There must be a videotape of Tucker as the center of attention in a Russian twink piss party.

I doubt it, R53. He and people like McConnell benefit via special interest from Trump remaining president. People are making this more complicated than it is. Trump is a fucking idiot to everyone including Carlson and McConnell, but they make money for lobbies and for themselves. Trump is a very useful idiot as are his even stupider supporters.

R54, making it sound like a Nothing-burger ....I'd like to know where the Russian money has gone to, what politicians.. Who are the Pacs that Russian money hides behind. Putin's tentacles are everywhere and foreign money and influence should be weeded out to get our country back.

Oh Tucker

[quote] The irony is that these conservative pundits pander to the very demographic which, in the past, greatest argument was: "You don't like it here? Fine, why don't you move to Russia then?"

That’s because Russia has changed and is now basically a neo-fascist state. Just like conservatives want to set up here. So it makes sense, in a way.

I noted this trend a few years back when southern trash vocally supported the Russians for ousting the Democrats.

R57, Russia has not really changed. Putin was a high ranking Communist who still believes on ruling the country with an iron fist by shutting down opponents. The same tactics he learned as a Communist are still being used. Republicans are being cuckolded if they do not realize the Russians are still coming.

I don’t think Congreve would let him, but I can see Trump ditching NATO in favor of a new (public) alliance with Russia.

CONGREVE? Congress.

Putting is living better than most kings in history, yet the drunken thugs, whores and cannibal that live in Russia think he is god.

my christmas wish : somehow, someway soon to know ALL the republicans who have taken russian money and/or who are blackmailed by them and how!.

Russia has changed. The main difference is now Russian money is available for corrupting/entrapping weak US politicians.

He's rooting for Russia for what? Rooting for it to take more of Ukraine's land???

R22, I witness a FOX addict indulging their FOX addiction regularly, and let me tell you, they are experiencing what is best described as persons who have been inculcated into a cult.

FOX “News” paved the way for authoritarian leadership by propagating conspiracy theories and anti- democracy rhetoric regularly. All they needed was a personality to slot into a position of leadership, and bam! They found that personality in Trump.

It is a mix of celebrity worship & an erroneous understanding of what true democracy is, as well as a removal of internal safeguards that ring alarm bells for people who still have strong safeguards and enough rationale, or critical thinking skills, in order to detach from the drama and frenzy that further clouds neutrality of thought.

It is actually really mind blowing to watch, at least for me. I love to study how these processes take place, and develop, in celebrity/fandom culture, and I feel that the main objective used in order to render a specific goal, is that the dissemination of the message only succeeds, if the message or narrative of choice, is consistently bludgeoned into the minds of those receptive to it. In this particular case, the people who are most vulnerable to this type of “mind hijacking”, are people who very likely were exposed to an authoritarian upbringing as children. If those people also happened to leave their households as young adults into the armed forces, they are further susceptible to rhetoric which makes them adhere to rigid, black or white, trains of thought.

People who worship Trump are people who usually lack in creativity, and view creativity as a subversive agent of change within their erroneous understanding of democracy. They face difficulties when attempting to navigate through political nuances, and hence, immediately pull their own “switch” that allows them to restore a safe zone for them, and that safe zone is the rigidity of Black or white, good or bad, that they were exposed to as children, and as young adults. It’s a place of profound comfort for them, and people who are taught to view the world in these terms are not capable of deploying tools used by critical thinkers. Furthermore, they have also been taught via exposure to religion, that analytical thinking is actually subversive, and a rebellion against God, God’s biblical word, and God’s commandments.

In some ways, I have compassion for these people, because what I have come to understand is that their belief systems are extremely fragile, and what we, as objective observers, believe is hatred from them, it isn’t. So, what is it? It’s fear. Pure, unbridled, fear.

Anyone who opposes what they have created as their own safe zones, are their enemies. They are fighting to the death in order to keep what they have been taught is patriotic, and they are not going to give actual facts and evidence get in between them, and their “leader” because if they did, they would have to question EVERYTHING they have known and believed to be true, just, and righteous. And that’s just way too much to ask of them. It’s probably a devastating proposition to most.

These people are terrified of emotional and intellectual independence. They are also mired in profound hubris, that has allowed them to sustain their need to be “better than”, and “above the rest”. No way in hell are they going to ask themselves the hard questions, or grapple with reality. And no way in hell will they EVER allow themselves to believe that perhaps, just maybe, they have been mislead, manipulated, and exploited, even if it’s not entirely their fault.

FOX: Obamas' terrorist fist bump.

All you need to know about that network.

R66 Certainly no one would mistake Trump for an educated 'elitist', because of course having an intellectual in high office is somehow a bad thing. What's really interesting is this idea that a (supposedly) rich guy has appeal to the not-rich. Hating the rich is generally a go-to for the not-rich, and you'd think that Trump's arrogance would only seal that deal - it certainly was enough to hang Romney.

But no, Trump is a TV train wreck who delivers distraction from the boring daily grind of the working class. Ditto for Fox, who has always played to fear and the notion of wrecking things for 'those other guys'. It certainly does qualify as a cult in some senses, reaping considerable $$$ from the masses of deplorables, and otherwise angry drones.

R68, people have to accept that most Trump voters voted for him because he appealed to their racism and bigotry. We have to stop pretending that something even LBJ knew 50 years ago isn't true.

The same people in "real 'muricah" who go off about Godless NYers being arrogant, obnoxious, elitist sinners who live in a bubble, gravitated to every bad stereotype of a NYer. A wealthy, born-on-third, limo-riding, golden apt-dwelling, obnoxious, arrogant NYer who has screwed over working people and his own family. Are we really going to pretend we don't know what it was about him that made them ignore that he is otherwise every fucking thing they usually hate about NYers?

Yes, let's continue to pretend we don't know what it was about him..

Who on here pretends that, r69?

Trying to get this thread back on topic. If you want to know Tucker's entire viewpoint then just watch him interview Max Boot on his show. Tucker argues that toppling the Assad regime would just be another foreign policy disaster like Iraq or Libya. If Assad were to fall, the Kurds would not take over. Meanwhile, there is still bipartisan support for diplomatic talks with Iran, which shares strategic interests with Russia. Tucker's point is that Russia and the Assad regime are taking on ISIS.

Boot's points is that we should acknowledge Russia as the greatest geopolitical threat to the United States. How has toppling foreign dictators worked in the past? Where are all the Democrat voices who opposed the Iraq war?

If you're interested in Tucker's true thoughts, he lays it all bare in this interview.

Is Tucker a diaper fetishist?

WASP-y filth.

it isn't just the culties not getting that trump is the antithesis of the wealthy their suppose to hate.. it's also

them not realizing he's "hollywood" when they claim he's not one of those liberal evil out of touch hollywood elites minus the fact he has hobnobbed with hollywood for decades, appearing in tv shows and b movies and a reality tv show host!

it's them not realizing that a wealthy real estate developer having to work and hobnobbed with politicians for zoning laws and so on, IS a politician just not with a official title or office, when they state "he's not one of those politicians!' excuse..

it's the evangelicals who claim him as the chosen one of god and their savior when he violates every single sin their suppose to be against and because he's allegedly pro-life, never mind, how many abortions and/or those no no use of birth control do you think all the women trump has cheated on his wives have had!...

it's literally brainwashing in a massive scale! the asshole who talks tough and is their knight in armor, minus everything that is the truth about him!...

R74 How is pointing out that Trump is more like a Democrat supposed to be a winning strategy unless you want to coopt his message? You have anti establisment types like Sanders and Warren but they themselves are not immune from the same type of criticism? However, the fight for the white house will most likely be between Trump and another moderate so again the point is moot.

It's like arguing that Trump's foreign policy is hypocritical because he approved of the Iraq war on Howard Stern, but so did the entire political establishment who are still in power.

But that's not the point, R76. Russia cyber-attacked us in 2016. They are the enemy.

R77, you can keep talking about Russia all you want, but what you have to ask yourself is why -out of all of the assholes within the GOP circus- did the biggest asshole clown even get so far and become the nominee in the first place? Because Republicans are racist assholes and the party plays on fear-mongering and scapegoating of human beings who aren't white. Period. I don't want to hear bullshit about "fiscal responsibility" because we sure as hell know that isn't true.

R70, after I sent my post, I realized it looked as though I was blaming you. Apologies. I actually meant it as a general commentary on so many both in media and on DL who are constantly attempting to normalize and rationalize and dismiss what is patently obvious about Trump supporters. They're racist trash.

Of course, we know that R78. Don't be so condescending.

The problem is that our greatest enemy cyber-attacked us and meddled in our elections and Trump makes political and foreign policy decisions in Russia's favor. He blackmails Ukraine. His enablers can't make excuses for Trump anymore but downplay Russia as a bad guy. The white racist Deplorables don't think Russia is so bad because they identify with its racist, anti-gay policies.

R79, certainly agree with you with that last bit.

R79, I believe most deplorables motivated primarily because of racism, don’t care about Russia’s interference, nor do they even believe it’s true. Actually, let’s just move all Trump supporters into this box, because I don’t see any difference between most of them, at this present moment in time.

As a matter of fact, I’d wager that they purely driven by a desire to “win”, regardless of the cost.

Again, these people aren’t highly analytical, though they have been led to believe they are. They have also been led to believe in conspiracy theories as fact, rather than the bullshit narrative they’re being fed.

Yes, plenty of them are covert or overt racists, however, that’s not what’s primarily at play here.

They just want to have their way, and what Tucker Carlson said, is just a random, yet apt sentence in which this sentiment is crystallized: “We do not care if Russia interfered, we don’t care about truth, justice, rule of law, or adherence to constitutional norms, all we care about is WINNING.

The feeling of “winning” is very seductive to people who are being challenged everywhere they turn, especially when they realize that none of their excuses or justifications make any sense.

What they’re currently witnessing is closer to a cage match between two MMA fighters, rather than a fight between a party that is being forced to draw a line in the sand, because a little less than half of the voting population has decided that they would rather see blood, guts, and glory, rather than rule of law and democracy prevail.

These people are being triggered within a realm that is adjunct to base, animalistic, survival, and this is why they don’t give a flying fuck about what’s really going on. They have been fooled into believing that they’re fighting for their physical lives, and when people are operating on primordial instincts, all reason and logic fly out the window.

Correction:

Again, these people aren’t highly analytical, though they have been led to believe they are. They have also been led to believe in conspiracy theories as fact, and deny all evidence proving otherwise, viewing the truth as an attack on their good judgement, & decline to even consider the alternatives, rather than the bullshit narrative they’re being fed.

[quote] these people aren’t highly analytical, though they have been led to believe they are. They have also been led to believe in conspiracy theories as fact, and deny all evidence proving otherwise,

This doesn't explain Tucker. He's supposedly more educated. Is the point of winning so strong that they ignore ethics?

Carlson is a child of nepotism and entitlement. He pretends he doesn't benefit from the former and believes strongly in the latter.

Carlson is a child of nepotism and entitlement. He pretends he doesn't benefit from the former and believes strongly in the latter.

R85 This describes almost every pundit on TV, yet that doesn't disqualify them from talking about the impact on the middle class.

R85 Anderson Cooper and Chris Cuomo are far more privileged than Tucker.

R86? Except that it DOES disqualify him because he specifically pushes the REPUBLICAN agenda which is strictly for the wealthiest. Are you a troll or genuinely this naive?

It's pathetic to see Republicans making excuses for that old Orange POS in the oval office. Sometimes hilarious, like Jim Jordan quizzing Sonderland and people laughing at his stupid statements. This was just as stupid but I'm worried that it may actually be true.

[quote]CONGREVE? Congress.

I'm glad you clarified, because for a minute there I thought you meant Sir William Congreve, inventor of a type of early military rocket used by the British in several campaigns during the wars against Napoleon.

I was having a devil of a time figuring out why he would attempt to intervene in Trump's Russia plans, especially considering that he's dead.