Here is a very good piece on Reason about our corrupt justice department with regard to January 6th:
The problem with convicting members of the "western chauvinist" Proud Boys on seditious conspiracy charges is that it wrongly elevates a violent tantrum by a bunch of thugs to the level of an insurrection, and it lets officials who prosecute them puff themselves up as saviors of the republic. Worse, the case took liberties with a statute that is probably best forgotten to arrive at its conclusion when normal criminal law could have punished rioters without putting the criminal justice system through contortions.
Prosecutors High on Their Own Supply
"A jury in the District of Columbia today returned guilty verdicts on multiple felonies against five members of the Proud Boys, finding four of the defendants guilty of seditious conspiracy for their actions before and during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021," the Department of Justice trumpeted last week. "According to the evidence at trial, in the months leading up to Jan. 6, the defendants plotted to oppose by force the lawful transfer of presidential power, and to prevent the Members of Congress, and the federal law enforcement officers who protect them, from discharging their duties."
Also: Julie Kelly’s piece about David Frum’s ongoing, pathological hysteria in an attempt to tie Trump to “seditious conspiracy” and go to war on American citizens. Read that here.
Finally, yes, I know the news about Trump being convicted of defamation against E. Jean Carroll. It is, to me, sadly, more proof of making our legal system a weapon of one political party with the money and the lawyers.
It was a weak case and he is going to appeal it. I find it discouraging and it just makes me want to root against the Left. When does their bottomless, unending obsession end?
The “justice” system is not immune to the hysteria of hypocrisy sweeping this country, any more than any of the other institutions that have been infected by these rabid crazies. Billions of dollars have funded this wild psyop and those dollars have bought armies of red guards as well as lots of extreme goodies for compliant servants.
Until recently, I was devoid of any hope that what I thought was the solid foundation of this country world survive. The center simply could not hold.
But lately I’ve seen the tiniest green shoots appearing, like life returning to the forest floor after a devastating fire. Sasha, you’re one of those green shoots - a glimmer of sanity peeking through. I hope you feel the real appreciation many of us have for your clarity and your bravery.
You’re not only a Thoughtful Reader but also a very articulate and wonderful writer. I really liked the green shoots after forest fire metaphor (or is it an analogy?). Doesn’t matter; was true and elegant.
They believed the election had been stolen. We were all mocked and called terrorists just for asking to have the results verified. The way the Democrats did in 2000. No one called them terrorists as I recall. A reasonable request in both cases if you want people to respect our country's president and electoral process.
Clarence Darrow had grave doubts about the charge of conspiracy. His opinion was that it allowed authorities to prosecute before any criminal act had been committed. Now we have the intersection of sedition (encouraging others to oppose authority) and conspiracy. The charges relate to behavior and communication long before January 6. Many of us here might well be charged with seditious conspiracy for expressing opinions in public opposing the current office holders and encouraging others to think similarly. Given the broad protections afforded political debate under the First Amendment, these charges are probably unsupportable constitutionally but those charged and convicted will likely serve out their terms before a valid appeal can be heard. That's probably the whole idea. A DC jury could be counted on not to nullify as it ordinarily should have.
Agreed. Being stupid is not a crime. What the J6 rioter did was wrong, probably even a crime. But it doesn't pass the laugh test to think that they were trying to overthrow the government. They didn't even have firearms. Instead, some even came wearing body armor with the worry that they would be shot. (Which did actually happen, of course.)
The Capitol Police had a $500M annual budget, and 2,000 officers on the force. They failed at their job. That's why their top cop resigned. Far too little attention has been directed there.
I do blame Trump for getting them in that mess; he knew better. I blame the Capitol Police for letting it happen.
E. Jean Carroll is nuttier than a fruitcake. I remember reading a book she wrote about Hunter Thompson. All she talked about was taking dope and screwing him. Her brain is fried from all that dope. She saw something about how Trump was supposed to be a woman abuser and hallucinated the whole thing.
Yes! Her interview with Anderson Cooper showed how crazy she is. Carroll was saying rape was sexy; Anderson quickly called for a break. When she returned, she acted totally different, as if she had gotten a huge scolding.
It would seem that most people do not understand we are in an actual war (color revolution), it is being fought on many levels, two ‘arms' of choice are psychological and the political, in this case ‘law-fare’. 'WE the People’ are losing because people are ignorant of history, ignorant of God and want the ‘opiates’ of 'government and culture' more than personal and national sovereignty.
That's pretty dubious. Musk still censors, and at a higher rate than Twitter before Musk.
Most recently notable, he permanently banned a regretful Trans for revealing the psychological manipulations that led the trans, the lifelong medical problems, the realization that sex wasn't mutable coming too late etc, after warning the trans to shut up about it.
Then flew to England to tell the Brits what a great Free Speech hero he is, and to suggest the BBC interviewer must like Big Black Cocks.
If you care about who he really is, you should check out 2nd Smartest Guy in the World, here on Substack.
Just today he is talking about the possibility of challenging Musk and Carlson with his own show on Substack Notes.
Suffice it to say there is much evidence that Muskvis a CIA front man and Twitter Files a Damage Control Limited Hangout.
It's a certainty that there is more Twitter Files Musk sits on than released.
I just saw the video on Twitter. I've been on "Tucker watch." I did not see the Axios article, though. Thank you. I hope he takes those a-holes to the cleaners.
On another note, anyone know how Twitter does "shows"? I guess an old(er) dog is going to have to learn new tricks.
Couldn’t find Trump guilty of rape, which was impossible to do with no evidence and Carroll couldn’t even give the date, time, or day of week. So how they twisted this show trial to a guilty verdict of assault and defamation is absurd. Carroll got what she wanted (for her book deal) and if she never gets the undeserved 5M, she can still prance around like she won. Typical liberal NY.
How can you find one but not the other? When you don't dare to go all the way because you know the whole thing is B.S. and you can't keep a straight face.
I hope you look more into the Proud Boys (using sane, honest sources, of course, which are hard to find). They're not even in the same ballpark as "thugs." Truly.
Democrats do not appear to understand that the NYC "verdict" not only makes President Trump stronger, but also is further confirmation of their crypto-fascism.
Tucker is now Other Adversarial Entity #1, with Musk as #2 for giving him a platform. This is a reason for optimism. I wish them both courage and success in this war on the bureaucratic leviathan and the corrupt media that protects them.
It is going to be interesting when a Republican DOJ brings sedition charges against say Antifa or BLM marchers who tear down statues, set fire to government buildings etc.
Manhattan is the Sanctuary Convict Anything & Everything Trump. Why not bring a flood of lawsuits claiming all sorts of things over the past forty years and get a few million bucks out of it. It’s a sure bet!
It says something about the current legal system that if someone accuses you and you respond that they're lying, they can now also accuse you of defamation.
No matter what Trump had said or how he behaved in 2020 that they would have just kept counting until he just barely lost. There is no way Joe Biden received 15,367,706 more votes than Obama received in 2012. Not given all the prior vote totals.
Trump, in 2020, exceeded Obama's 2012 result by 8,308,180. Is the excess for Trump real? The total turnout in 2012 was 127 million to 156.5 million in 2020.
Both 2008 at 129 million and 2016 at 129 million total were historic with a black and a woman candidate, but then they're telling us that you throw some hate for one side into the mix and a candidate who did absolutely nothing on the other side and the totals go up by almost 20%?
Almost as if someone wants us to doubt our electoral process. Assuming a Biden win required cheating, why so many unnecessary ballots? He didn't need that many for a victory. And if Trump was so concerned about having the election stolen (from HIM) why didn't he do anything to secure the voting process?
I believe DJT is part of the Swamp he was pretending to drain. He's played us for fools.
The election results were decided long before January 6 took place. That's why "Stop the Steal" made no sense. David Knight's explanation is the most plausible.
😂 you’re right, of course. I’m still with Colonel X on this. (I can hold my breath a long time! and dont count on me "turning blue"...not.gonna.happen. )
No gaslighting liars of MSM. Nothing will restore your credibility with the majority of the public you so plainly despise. Surprise. The feeling of contempt is mutual.
We do not idolize and adore you as intellectual bastions or the epitome of culture. We consider you to be mean-spirited halfwits with pretty hair. (Except for that fat guy with the funny voice Mark Dice makes fun of.)
Watch the videos of Trump saying Carroll is not his type. Hilarious. Trump is a notorious MEGA-germaphobe; he is very unlikely to search out 'the worlds oldest profession' much less skanks like Carroll. David Frum? Grifter of the lowest class.
The majority of American KNOW that the 2020 election was fraudulent. Hell, 2016 was rigged so HRC could win, but they didn’t count on Trump blowing them out of the water! Hillary couldn’t contest the election back then bcuz she knew the fraud would be exposed. The D’rats were bound & determine not let that happen again in 2020...so....BRING ON COVID....BRING ON MAIL IN VOTING...BRING ON Marc Elias TO EFF UP ELECTION LAWS IN NUMEROUS STATES!
So much smug, hysterical, self-righteous moral outrage over a man who groped a woman in a department store 30 yrs ago.
Tell me, Birtha. Does any of that moral outrage extend to Hunter Biden, now fighting in court to avoid paying child support for a 4 yr old girl whom DNA tests prove he fathered? Any moral outrage there?
I just ignore her. She is brainwashed like so many liberals. Like my sister who thinks the MSM are all broadcasting "the truth" without any partisan bias. Who despises Trump, Tucker, Fox and believes the all the lies. Hasn't had an original thought in years. Like Birtha, just repeats ad nauseum what she has been told.
My prediction is Tucker/Musk will go out of their way to show bias/propaganda on both sides, and make even more mainstream the term ‘Uniparty’ while doing so. I would welcome that. At this point the voice of Schumer and McConnell are the same to me, except when it comes to SCOTUS nominations. Get ready for interviews w/ RFK Jr. as well, and offers to both parties to host debates
No, it won’t. Can you not see that those across the political aisle are coming together under the banner of seeking/wanting/knowing the Truth, about issues that matter to the fabric of our nation?
Birtha, you have shown yourself to be closed to engaging in this kind of discussion.
Your go-to is personal and character issues.
His audience will grow IMO because there are sensible people on both sides starved for authenticity
I think Tucker has earned his stripes, and you will not see someone again on MSM for quite a long time who is allowed to speak out against the Ruling Class, as Tucker did. Tucker street cred is high because he took contrarian views to the Uniparty and those views were authentic and rooted in intellectual honesty. His cult as you describe it is me and many on this board, and we will follow him until such time as he shows inauthenticity.
Here’s other anecdotal evidence why Tucker is likely to now thrive outside MSM:
He freely calls himself out when he sees his prior position or viewpoint, as wrong. And on journey to finding Truth, Humility is attractive.
Some examples:
He used to be a Neocon, and Iraq War supporter. Now he’s not and sees Bush/Rumsfeld WMD as lies, driven by our sick perpetual war machine that was probably also at work in JFK’s assassination, Gulf of Tonkin incident and maybe 9/11 too. For sure NATO’s creep right up Russia’s ass (and the CIA helping to install a pro west government there in 2014) has just a wee bit to do with Ukraine war here a decade later. Who else on broadcast network ever touched these kinds of inconvenient truths about our government?
Right before Tucker was fired by Fox, he gave a speech at the Heritage Foundation (his first job, year 1991). In this speech Tucker touched on how wrong and embarrassed he was about having led on his viewers that a Red Wave midterm election result was coming, which clearly did not happen.
In the same speech, Tucker highlighted DOJ felony charges against members of the African People’s Socialist Party and Uhuru Movement (leftist organizations Tucker disagrees with) who were being prosecuted for speaking out against Biden Ukraine position. Tucker pointed out how this was an assault on free speech, and how much he opposed it and how it should alarm all of us, no matter our political leanings.
Here’s the prosecution Tucker highlighted. Nobody in MSM, and I mean nobody, is allowed to talk about this :
I’m hoping one of Tucker’s very first guest will be Matt Taibbi and 2020 Aspen Roundtable. Get that subject out to more eyes & ears. Then 2nd episode can be Seymour Hersh and his brilliant (and NY Times suppressed) essay on USA clandestine cutting of Russia/Germany Nord Stream energy pipeline.
Tucker can call his show ‘Truth and Reconciliation’ because that is what our country needs, especially after Covid and 2020 election, the results of which are big portion of our country having lost faith in our institutions and basic fairness of the electoral process.
Juries render bad verdicts all the time. Look at all those who have been set free because of DNA evidence that came along after they were convicted. This was a jury in Manhattan, a jury made up of Trump haters.
Yes, I'm sure you are. In the E. Jean Carroll case, she had zero evidence. It was all what she said and a couple of friends who claimed she "told" them about it at the time. This case should have never gone to trial. It probably wouldn't have anywhere else. After all, the only reason she was able to bring suit is because New York's leftist legislature passed a screwy law allowing suits passed the statue of limitations. By the way, the jury did NOT find that Trump raped the nutcase. They found that he had defamed her. They threw in something about sexual assault to make it look good. Trump will appeal and it'll be overturned. She won't get a dime.
The “justice” system is not immune to the hysteria of hypocrisy sweeping this country, any more than any of the other institutions that have been infected by these rabid crazies. Billions of dollars have funded this wild psyop and those dollars have bought armies of red guards as well as lots of extreme goodies for compliant servants.
Until recently, I was devoid of any hope that what I thought was the solid foundation of this country world survive. The center simply could not hold.
But lately I’ve seen the tiniest green shoots appearing, like life returning to the forest floor after a devastating fire. Sasha, you’re one of those green shoots - a glimmer of sanity peeking through. I hope you feel the real appreciation many of us have for your clarity and your bravery.
You’re not only a Thoughtful Reader but also a very articulate and wonderful writer. I really liked the green shoots after forest fire metaphor (or is it an analogy?). Doesn’t matter; was true and elegant.
Oh goodness - thank you! That’s really kind of you to say!
Well put. Sasha deserves the appreciation.
Probably, the Proud Boys intent, in their own eyes, was not to impede the lawful transfer of power, but to impede an unlawful seizure of power.
They believed the election had been stolen. We were all mocked and called terrorists just for asking to have the results verified. The way the Democrats did in 2000. No one called them terrorists as I recall. A reasonable request in both cases if you want people to respect our country's president and electoral process.
The 2020 election was rigged. That's a fact whatever your politics may be.
There was undoubtedly a lot of fraud. Biden did NOT win more votes than Obama. I voted for Trump.
More votes than voters. And videos of briefcases stuffed with ballots.
But I agree that is not sufficient proof that Trump won. And since it was not examined as evidence in court it cannot change anything. Especially now.
No court would even entertain the idea that it was manipulated. Therefore no court cases with evidence presented.
No. Most were thrown out for lack of standing. They never got to evidence or lack of it.
No incumbent gains 12M or more votes and loses. He was up 800K votes in PA... and they stopped counting. Yeah...
Yep, that's the election I watched.
Clarence Darrow had grave doubts about the charge of conspiracy. His opinion was that it allowed authorities to prosecute before any criminal act had been committed. Now we have the intersection of sedition (encouraging others to oppose authority) and conspiracy. The charges relate to behavior and communication long before January 6. Many of us here might well be charged with seditious conspiracy for expressing opinions in public opposing the current office holders and encouraging others to think similarly. Given the broad protections afforded political debate under the First Amendment, these charges are probably unsupportable constitutionally but those charged and convicted will likely serve out their terms before a valid appeal can be heard. That's probably the whole idea. A DC jury could be counted on not to nullify as it ordinarily should have.
Agreed. Being stupid is not a crime. What the J6 rioter did was wrong, probably even a crime. But it doesn't pass the laugh test to think that they were trying to overthrow the government. They didn't even have firearms. Instead, some even came wearing body armor with the worry that they would be shot. (Which did actually happen, of course.)
The Capitol Police had a $500M annual budget, and 2,000 officers on the force. They failed at their job. That's why their top cop resigned. Far too little attention has been directed there.
I do blame Trump for getting them in that mess; he knew better. I blame the Capitol Police for letting it happen.
Undoubtedly true.
E. Jean Carroll is nuttier than a fruitcake. I remember reading a book she wrote about Hunter Thompson. All she talked about was taking dope and screwing him. Her brain is fried from all that dope. She saw something about how Trump was supposed to be a woman abuser and hallucinated the whole thing.
Yes! Her interview with Anderson Cooper showed how crazy she is. Carroll was saying rape was sexy; Anderson quickly called for a break. When she returned, she acted totally different, as if she had gotten a huge scolding.
When even a Manhattan jury won’t buy all the way in to the fantasy, you know how ridiculous it is.
Indeed.
We play by lefty rules now, context doesn’t matter.
Especially in your posts.
Hey, "context" = "distraction". Where have I heard that? We play by Lefty rules now. Cry me a river.
Just Google it. It’s bizarre.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7177743/Anderson-Cooper-abruptly-cuts-commercial-E-Jean-Carroll-calls-rape-sexy.html
It would seem that most people do not understand we are in an actual war (color revolution), it is being fought on many levels, two ‘arms' of choice are psychological and the political, in this case ‘law-fare’. 'WE the People’ are losing because people are ignorant of history, ignorant of God and want the ‘opiates’ of 'government and culture' more than personal and national sovereignty.
This is a big deal for Tucker, Elon Musk, Twitter, and everyone except the MSM. They are done. Toast. In the archives...
That's pretty dubious. Musk still censors, and at a higher rate than Twitter before Musk.
Most recently notable, he permanently banned a regretful Trans for revealing the psychological manipulations that led the trans, the lifelong medical problems, the realization that sex wasn't mutable coming too late etc, after warning the trans to shut up about it.
Then flew to England to tell the Brits what a great Free Speech hero he is, and to suggest the BBC interviewer must like Big Black Cocks.
If you care about who he really is, you should check out 2nd Smartest Guy in the World, here on Substack.
Just today he is talking about the possibility of challenging Musk and Carlson with his own show on Substack Notes.
Suffice it to say there is much evidence that Muskvis a CIA front man and Twitter Files a Damage Control Limited Hangout.
It's a certainty that there is more Twitter Files Musk sits on than released.
Rupert Murdoch? Is that you?? 😂
I just saw the video on Twitter. I've been on "Tucker watch." I did not see the Axios article, though. Thank you. I hope he takes those a-holes to the cleaners.
On another note, anyone know how Twitter does "shows"? I guess an old(er) dog is going to have to learn new tricks.
I don’t know but I am going to learn fast and will get back to you.
Couldn’t find Trump guilty of rape, which was impossible to do with no evidence and Carroll couldn’t even give the date, time, or day of week. So how they twisted this show trial to a guilty verdict of assault and defamation is absurd. Carroll got what she wanted (for her book deal) and if she never gets the undeserved 5M, she can still prance around like she won. Typical liberal NY.
They found him guilty of being Donald Trump.
How can you find one but not the other? When you don't dare to go all the way because you know the whole thing is B.S. and you can't keep a straight face.
That stench in the air is the smell of the Roy, er, Murdock clan collectively fouling their britches.
This moment is the equivalent of Bugs Bunny declaring, "Of course you know this means war." We all remember how that always played out.
"A jury in the District of Columbia..."
That's how you know it was truly impartial.
I hope you look more into the Proud Boys (using sane, honest sources, of course, which are hard to find). They're not even in the same ballpark as "thugs." Truly.
A lot of the Proud Boys are non-white. Yet the MSM continually compares them to the KKK.
You ain't Black if you didn't vote JoeBama
Wow that's huge, big for Twitter. Gonna have to check in there for that.
Democrats do not appear to understand that the NYC "verdict" not only makes President Trump stronger, but also is further confirmation of their crypto-fascism.
Tucker is now Other Adversarial Entity #1, with Musk as #2 for giving him a platform. This is a reason for optimism. I wish them both courage and success in this war on the bureaucratic leviathan and the corrupt media that protects them.
It is going to be interesting when a Republican DOJ brings sedition charges against say Antifa or BLM marchers who tear down statues, set fire to government buildings etc.
Tucker won’t be the last one. Twitter will be YouTube in a few years.
Manhattan is the Sanctuary Convict Anything & Everything Trump. Why not bring a flood of lawsuits claiming all sorts of things over the past forty years and get a few million bucks out of it. It’s a sure bet!
It says something about the current legal system that if someone accuses you and you respond that they're lying, they can now also accuse you of defamation.
It’s Manhattan New York—of course they’re Democrats. Prove me wrong
No matter what Trump had said or how he behaved in 2020 that they would have just kept counting until he just barely lost. There is no way Joe Biden received 15,367,706 more votes than Obama received in 2012. Not given all the prior vote totals.
Trump, in 2020, exceeded Obama's 2012 result by 8,308,180. Is the excess for Trump real? The total turnout in 2012 was 127 million to 156.5 million in 2020.
Both 2008 at 129 million and 2016 at 129 million total were historic with a black and a woman candidate, but then they're telling us that you throw some hate for one side into the mix and a candidate who did absolutely nothing on the other side and the totals go up by almost 20%?
I don't believe it.
Sir, With respect, you don’t give Biden enough credit for hiding in his basement or betraying his country to the highest bidder for Big Guy services.
Almost as if someone wants us to doubt our electoral process. Assuming a Biden win required cheating, why so many unnecessary ballots? He didn't need that many for a victory. And if Trump was so concerned about having the election stolen (from HIM) why didn't he do anything to secure the voting process?
I believe DJT is part of the Swamp he was pretending to drain. He's played us for fools.
https://rnichols.substack.com/p/why-i-no-longer-support-trump
Lol. I like breathing.
The election results were decided long before January 6 took place. That's why "Stop the Steal" made no sense. David Knight's explanation is the most plausible.
😂 you’re right, of course. I’m still with Colonel X on this. (I can hold my breath a long time! and dont count on me "turning blue"...not.gonna.happen. )
She didn’t say “all”.
No gaslighting liars of MSM. Nothing will restore your credibility with the majority of the public you so plainly despise. Surprise. The feeling of contempt is mutual.
We do not idolize and adore you as intellectual bastions or the epitome of culture. We consider you to be mean-spirited halfwits with pretty hair. (Except for that fat guy with the funny voice Mark Dice makes fun of.)
Grande Tucker!! Looking forward to watching him in the new platform! The whole world will be listening to him for free !! 👍
Displaying wisdom once again, gal.
Watch the videos of Trump saying Carroll is not his type. Hilarious. Trump is a notorious MEGA-germaphobe; he is very unlikely to search out 'the worlds oldest profession' much less skanks like Carroll. David Frum? Grifter of the lowest class.
Tucka!!
The majority of American KNOW that the 2020 election was fraudulent. Hell, 2016 was rigged so HRC could win, but they didn’t count on Trump blowing them out of the water! Hillary couldn’t contest the election back then bcuz she knew the fraud would be exposed. The D’rats were bound & determine not let that happen again in 2020...so....BRING ON COVID....BRING ON MAIL IN VOTING...BRING ON Marc Elias TO EFF UP ELECTION LAWS IN NUMEROUS STATES!
I don’t really remember liking the movie, or Woody Allen for that matter,
but Sleeper has been coming to mind for me as well recently. Also, a couple of lines from Bananas. 😬
https://twitter.com/laralogan/status/1653219598425047041
https://odysee.com/@weveread:7/cia-agent-tucker-carlson-involved-in-the:7
https://rumble.com/v2kmt10-meet-the-so-called-independent-alternative-media-dig-into-rumble.html
I have YouTube and all other evil censorious Google domains blocked. Why feed the beast that is trying to kill us?
Here's Tucker's announcement on Rumble instead:
https://rumble.com/v2mxlr4-tuckercarlson-were-back.-on-twitter.html
So much smug, hysterical, self-righteous moral outrage over a man who groped a woman in a department store 30 yrs ago.
Tell me, Birtha. Does any of that moral outrage extend to Hunter Biden, now fighting in court to avoid paying child support for a 4 yr old girl whom DNA tests prove he fathered? Any moral outrage there?
Of course you didn’t answer the question.
I just ignore her. She is brainwashed like so many liberals. Like my sister who thinks the MSM are all broadcasting "the truth" without any partisan bias. Who despises Trump, Tucker, Fox and believes the all the lies. Hasn't had an original thought in years. Like Birtha, just repeats ad nauseum what she has been told.
My prediction is Tucker/Musk will go out of their way to show bias/propaganda on both sides, and make even more mainstream the term ‘Uniparty’ while doing so. I would welcome that. At this point the voice of Schumer and McConnell are the same to me, except when it comes to SCOTUS nominations. Get ready for interviews w/ RFK Jr. as well, and offers to both parties to host debates
No, it won’t. Can you not see that those across the political aisle are coming together under the banner of seeking/wanting/knowing the Truth, about issues that matter to the fabric of our nation?
Birtha, you have shown yourself to be closed to engaging in this kind of discussion.
Your go-to is personal and character issues.
His audience will grow IMO because there are sensible people on both sides starved for authenticity
I think Tucker has earned his stripes, and you will not see someone again on MSM for quite a long time who is allowed to speak out against the Ruling Class, as Tucker did. Tucker street cred is high because he took contrarian views to the Uniparty and those views were authentic and rooted in intellectual honesty. His cult as you describe it is me and many on this board, and we will follow him until such time as he shows inauthenticity.
Here’s other anecdotal evidence why Tucker is likely to now thrive outside MSM:
He freely calls himself out when he sees his prior position or viewpoint, as wrong. And on journey to finding Truth, Humility is attractive.
Some examples:
He used to be a Neocon, and Iraq War supporter. Now he’s not and sees Bush/Rumsfeld WMD as lies, driven by our sick perpetual war machine that was probably also at work in JFK’s assassination, Gulf of Tonkin incident and maybe 9/11 too. For sure NATO’s creep right up Russia’s ass (and the CIA helping to install a pro west government there in 2014) has just a wee bit to do with Ukraine war here a decade later. Who else on broadcast network ever touched these kinds of inconvenient truths about our government?
Right before Tucker was fired by Fox, he gave a speech at the Heritage Foundation (his first job, year 1991). In this speech Tucker touched on how wrong and embarrassed he was about having led on his viewers that a Red Wave midterm election result was coming, which clearly did not happen.
In the same speech, Tucker highlighted DOJ felony charges against members of the African People’s Socialist Party and Uhuru Movement (leftist organizations Tucker disagrees with) who were being prosecuted for speaking out against Biden Ukraine position. Tucker pointed out how this was an assault on free speech, and how much he opposed it and how it should alarm all of us, no matter our political leanings.
Here’s the prosecution Tucker highlighted. Nobody in MSM, and I mean nobody, is allowed to talk about this :
https://apnews.com/article/russian-interference-florida-elections-americans-charged-32324ddc67b2f32b0cdab13db6f6acb4
I’m hoping one of Tucker’s very first guest will be Matt Taibbi and 2020 Aspen Roundtable. Get that subject out to more eyes & ears. Then 2nd episode can be Seymour Hersh and his brilliant (and NY Times suppressed) essay on USA clandestine cutting of Russia/Germany Nord Stream energy pipeline.
Tucker can call his show ‘Truth and Reconciliation’ because that is what our country needs, especially after Covid and 2020 election, the results of which are big portion of our country having lost faith in our institutions and basic fairness of the electoral process.
Tucker has reached critical mass in terms of his social/political/journalistic influence. Now when things start to get interesting.
So true! Whenever you are commenting, it’s one chuckle after another.
Birtha, you have tried my patience and now I’m going to devastate you. UR A STRAIGHT WHITE DUDE!
Juries render bad verdicts all the time. Look at all those who have been set free because of DNA evidence that came along after they were convicted. This was a jury in Manhattan, a jury made up of Trump haters.
This definitely wasn’t a jury of his peers. The judge, prosecutor, and jury members all Democrat.
How do you know they weren’t?
Yes, I'm sure you are. In the E. Jean Carroll case, she had zero evidence. It was all what she said and a couple of friends who claimed she "told" them about it at the time. This case should have never gone to trial. It probably wouldn't have anywhere else. After all, the only reason she was able to bring suit is because New York's leftist legislature passed a screwy law allowing suits passed the statue of limitations. By the way, the jury did NOT find that Trump raped the nutcase. They found that he had defamed her. They threw in something about sexual assault to make it look good. Trump will appeal and it'll be overturned. She won't get a dime.