That was disappointing but he now acknowledges the 2020 election was dubious. He said so much in tonight's episode. If Tucker had doubted the election in 2021, then Fox might have dumped him two years ago and it's important that he gained more followers and increased his reach since then.
On thing I like about Tucker is that he is not dug in. He can see things differently, change his opinions and say so. And explain where her went wrong. He has a mature relationship with his ego and is not ruled by it.
He took a long-term strategic view. It's obvious he was holding back. The key to grasping that was when he aired a Chinese professor's talk on the fact the CCP had assets in every level of the U.S. government, business, education (so-called), entertainment and media. When Joe gave $85 billion in high tech military equipment that could easily be reverse engineered by the CCP, I knew.
I really don't know what to think, because, Tucker's right. They can say what they say no matter how ridiculous, because there is no accountability for their words. No one on the left or elites(both sides) with governmental power is held accountable for truth, justice, & common sense. What happened to real journalism? Where the fight was for truth based in goodness and morals to advance citizenship and our nation. Now, it is all a farce. Unvarnished, and in plain sight, they lie and blur the lines. I love that Tucker says it all out loud, lets it hang out there. Hopefully these twitter drops will seed in the hearts and minds of people watching. I read the book, 1984. It is what we are beginning to live. I pray that America stands, because if she falls, there is no where else to go. We are still the most free here, than anywhere else. But, Now I do not automatically trust. The blinders have been ripped off. I suspect that when the media complex starts "noticing Biden's irregularities and commenting on them" then, it's because there is a coordinated effort to do so by someone else who is behind the curtain. Biden is a dumb man, but the Democrat Machine has proven that they can win with dumb, or sick or corrupt candidates. Gavin Newson can go pound sand! They are jackels all of them. Tucker is unfettered. Let's hope he can keep shooting across the bow with many arrows and that truth pierces the mental fog that most people live under.
I love that Tucker says out loud what he thinks and he is not censored anymore like he was at Fox I get that you don’t agree and that’s great too I hope that people who agree with Tucker and people who disagree with Tucker can agree that there is a-lot wrong on all sides of the political spectrum. But I do like plain speakers
Does he really say out loud what he thinks? Or does he say out loud what you want to hear? And then say what he really thinks in private with texts to his cohorts?
I really hate this particular "gotcha" because, as with everything, it's such bullshit. That told YOU what you wanted to hear. It gave YOU a chance to write him off and to find SOMETHING you could use as a wedge between him and those who trust him. As with the nonstop Trump surveillance, no one could escape having their texts read and exposed, especially with the ongoing hysteria on the left. This particular thing bugs me because it reminds me how narrow-minded and insular the world I left actually is - how easy it is to slip into that kind of robotic thinking. There is not a SINGLE PERSON ON THE LEFT in media -- NOT ONE on cable news who will criticize a single Democrat. Ever. NOT ONE. Tucker goes after people on both sides, which remains unique and admirable.
Also - he has no incentive on Twitter now. He's not getting paid. He's doing it because he wants to. So to answer your question, yes, he is saying out loud what he thinks.
Your previous comment is pretty clear, you think you have all the answers. So why don't you stand up and own it instead of pretending to hide behind your obviously leading "questions" which you are, again, sure you have the answers for.
Tucker has voiced out loud on many occasions how wrong he was about Bush and the Iraq war. I happen to agree, as I was duped too at that time in my life. I was caught up in the propaganda. What is your thought on that? Was it what he wanted me or others to hear or a heart felt realization?
My take is that it communicates growth, and a critical thinking & learning mind. Maybe that’s because I’ve lived and experienced an Uncle Sam war zone.
More importantly, are there any positions you held in past, that you no longer do? Because brother Dave, that is an underlying premise of this site.
Well. I think he chose the harder path. He could have kept silent and sucked up his 20 mil a year for staying silent But. He chose a different path. He seems like a man on mission to me His choice I think. Gives him more credibility. Not less
After watching his videos, I get even more excited about my opportunity to give the middle finger to the Uniparty next November.
And while I think there are several good candidates (on both sides, thanks to RFK), I can’t think of a better, bigger middle finger than giving Trump another 4 years.
Gavin ‘Newco’ Newsome. New boss, same as the old boss. How about a cage fight between RFK Jr. and Gavin, they can be opening act for Musk and Zuck. Facemash in the octagon
I also lived in Portland but am now living in Mexico. The biggest political group here are Democrats - They are having a JUly 4th party which I am sure will also turn out to be a fundraiser for Biden. They are VERY active - around election time they were almost like Avons salespeople attacking you at every corner encouraging you to vote but not to JUST vote, to vote for Democrats. If there are Republicans , they hide. If RFK runs, I guess I will have to give in and show up at a fundraiser.
I live in Oregon and a registered Republican… here (for many years) Republican nominee for president will have zero chance of gaining the electoral vote. 2024 unfortunately will be no different. It’s why I intend to vote for RFK Jr, even if I have to write him in. He is Dem yes, but fiercely independent. I will send a one-vote message that anyone other than Biden (or whoever becomes the next Biden ‘surrogate’)
Exploiting crisis has been the political playbook for a while. And why not? It enables so much to get done that would otherwise never get passed through Congress. This is setting the stage for a “Presidential Crisis” whereby the media will portray an eternally noble patriot in Biden having to step aside for the good of the country (and democracy, of course) Kamala will be given sec of state before letting Gavin be the VP. Newsom gets a presidency he could never achieve via the voting public. The Leftist agenda moves forward as if Trump never existed.
He promotes skepticism. There is nothing wrong with that. This war should never have started. There IS sticky business between Biden and the Ukraine. His JOB is to be skeptical. That is what journalists are supposed to do. Maybe they didn't always do that but they should be doing that now. Zelenskyy behaves as though the entire world OWES him. And he acts like we owe him. Why does he think we owe him? Well, maybe we should ask the President that question. They tore up the deal that would have stopped the war. And now we're bogged down with nukes on the table. It's grotesque. Thank god one person has the balls to talk about it.
Actually, the Alt-Right and the far left talk about appeasement all the time. I am OK with “skepticism”, but there is no moral ambiguity here, Sasha. The war started because useful idiots (to borrow a term) like Tucker stood by and did nothing when Russia invaded and annexed Crimea. Appeasement only emboldened the Russians. We do owe Ukraine - everything. They fight and die so we don’t have to - at the moment. China watches as well. As one American general once said, the only thing worse than war is the idea that nothing is worth fighting for. I appreciate you responses, and I like your show, but I can’t go with you on this.
You are actually stating the war in Ukraine started because Tucker didn’t speak up in opposition when Crimea was annexed? I suspect you are a young and naive person. I too was that way, once. So sympathy to you. I hope the scales will someday drop from your eyes.
Lance, here’s an opinion article from 9 years ago. Give it a read (chance?). I too didn’t recognize the war machine our government perpetrates until later on in my life
Lance, Welcome Home from your military overseas tours! Which did you enjoy most? Your tour in Vietnam? Iraq? Afghanistan? Sudan? Ukraine? I bet they were all great and the Dems and RINO Neocons appreciate your service to perpetual war-mongering. You may find that few here do and especially the vets don’t. Russia is fighting Nazis in the Ukraine, taking back land that was recently theirs and securing their eastern border from NATO missiles and artillery. Ukraine is a pawn and it’s leader is hoarding billions of USD now that his gig as a dick playing pianist is over. He’s actually worse than Demented Joe.
2021 was a great year. Biden commands the mystifying withdrawal from Afghanistan while Zelensky joins in on the US hobby of
poking the Russian bear by wanting in on NATO and freezing the assets of opposition leader Viktor Medvedchuk, the Kremlin's most prominent ally in Ukraine. As military operations escalate, instead of pushing for peace, the DC bloodlust funds and encourages waging the proxy war in Ukraine against Russia. Protect the dirty politicians - Biden Pelosi Romney Kerry Clinton Foundation et al - money interests there, weapons, 48 bioweapon labs, money laundering, human trafficking, every dirty and evil thing they have their fingers into has been going on in NAZI Ukraine for decades now. With the government's formation of the reconstruction banking venture with BlackRock and JPMorgan Chase, all will profit from both the destruction and reconstruction of Ukraine.
Ukraine is so important that we’ll sacrifice every last Ukrainian to save it. While Zelensky’s inner circle is buying up expensive real estate in Switzerland, he stockpiles billions in accounts overseas, and the little Mrs. goes on a $40K shopping spree in Paris.
By the way, where did all the lib Ukraine support flags go?
I want our gov to draft and put biological females in combat units in the same proportion as men (ie 50%) because then I think moms, aunts, grandmas, will quickly vote out the Neocons in both parties and we’ll have a sustainable peace.
I don’t see the connection. Let your friend know that Tucker is a buffoon and I’ll take back my comment if Ukraine wins the war and fails to remain a democracy.
Fails to "remain" a democracy? Have you read the latest ? Seems there will be no elections until they "win the war" - what did he say - there should be no elections except in peacetime? That almost makes BIden look like Thomas Jefferson -well maybe not quite.
Notice how he notes "The only opponent to the war..(06:29)" - Trump - and doesn't name him.
Think Twitter isn't in on the 'game' against the greatest president in modern history that successfully used economic leverage against our enemies rather than sending our men downrange?
There is still not free speech on Twitter. Remember that.
The big question these days is, "Does Tucker Carlson or any other public intellectual, pundit, commenter or influencer report anything that isn't already known?" No they do not. At this point, the overarching thrusts of news and propaganda in the U.S.A. are nothing but a constant drumbeat of variations on the godawful themes of corruption\perversion\depravity. By now the whole world knows the entire FEDGOV bureaucracy and those who lead it are laughably, pitifully, ridiculously corrupt. The crews of Joe Biden & Obama are the terror-clowns leading the corruption. Such wicked folk will not\cannot redress or reform themselves. Being massaged with innumerable reports about how really, really bad the corruption is is an exercise in self-induced distraction. To my shame, I'm as guilty of this pointless exercise as anyone else. I am resolved to break this bad habit.
I disagree in that I think a lot of people don’t know about the corruption or realize how pervasive it is. That said, let us know if you find a new fun hobby.
Thanks. There ain't one thing that's fun about any of this. It's more like the Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting times." I hope you are correct about some folk needing the information. By now even elementary school children are aware (more aware than adults, I dare say) of how outta whack the adult world is. Is learning how to fight for your liberty and your way of life a hobby?
Listening to these ghoulish politicians mouthing the same "war for democracy" line is sickening. These mass murdering psychopaths have the blood of millions on their hands. They're always ready to open up the purse strings for endless war, but, hey, Social Security might go bankrupt so maybe we'd better raise the retirement age and lower benefits. And get those freeloaders off of food stamps.
What more can be said abut these people? But unless the American people are more vigilant, they'll continue to get away with it. If we are further enslaved, it's because we fell asleep at the wheel.
We may have one last shot at preventing our country from slipping away, but it's going to be a battle for the ages to dislodge and hold to account the criminals that rule us.
They have control of all of the levers of power. We have only the truth.
Always a great watch. I hope he keeps it up. Might have trouble with guests since Fox News will probably tell people they can't come on if they go on Tuckers show. But at the same time I'd rather go on Tucker than Fox if I'm a conservative or just generally.
Quite some time ago Tucker totally dissed scientist Bill Nye, a man I respect. I had tuned in because I wanted to hear what Bill had to say. Tucker’s mind was made up, his intent was to destroy argument with his his own point of view and my guy Bill could not get a word in edgewise.
After that I really didn’t give a damn what Tucker Carlson had to say. Some years later he emerges as the darling of conservatism, and I for certain am no liberal; so I started listening again. We were doing okay until this episode.
Ukraine was promised protection from attack before NATO even became an issue or a part of the picture. It was given by Ronald Reagan in exchange for the 1,900 nuclear warheads that Ukraine gave up after the Soviet Union was dissolved. This is a matter of history. It does not take into account any government or leader or national failings of anyone.
Bill Nye is a hack and shill. He is wrong about everything (probably) and you would do well to be skeptical about him.
What you are missing on the agreement to protect is there were other agreements for NATO not to expand. But the biggest blindspot to this position is the US led coup of Ukraine in 2014. The US has broken the promises which were made to keep peace between Russia and the rest of the world.
How many thousand ethnic Russians had to be killed in the Donbas before Russia was justified in protecting them? The number was already more than 10k.
I’m betting you have at least two usernames, and I’ve recognized you as a complete idiot before this remark, so I’ll keep it short. You already know all about short.
If you know Bill, apologize. He at least has an education.
To my knowledge, most Russians like yourself don’t support Putin, not even his mother. Or his dog. NATO was formed as a defensive alliance to defend against Russian aggression. End of story.
Thanks, again, Sasha, for posting Tucker's commentaries...you know he must be over the target, for the trolls are out in force. But the weakness of their arguments only validates his points.
Countries suspend general elections during wartime. It is a state of emergency. Not the US, we never did. The U.K. suspended elections during WWII and voted in 1945 for the first time since 1935. I am sure Carlson knows it. Ukraine has declared a state of emergency. It is under attack.
Tucker’s willful ignorance about what’s happening in Europe is stunning: “Let’s hand Ukraine to the Russians and the world will be safer - and give Taiwan to China for good measure”. I like Saha’s well argued and heartfelt takes on current issues, but why she keeps recommending this loser is beyond me. Hate me all you want, Tucker stooges.
I provide these videos because Fox News fired him when he was the highest rated cable news host and was a voice for many. I appreciate his POV even if I don't agree 100% but maybe I will find a way so that people can decide if they want to see the videos or not.
Thank you for alerting them to us, Sasha, and please continue to do so.
To dumb down this situation to “let’s hand Ukraine to the Russians…” is an attempt to rewrite history and hand a pass to the neocons and NATO who have been thirsting for this MIC money making endeavor for years.
Let the voices in the wilderness speak the truth…and eventually they’ll form a strong tribe.
I find significant value in the comments of most of your audience because they are thoughtful, insightful and often motivating. Well done on developing and fostering this community of otherwise strangers.
I, for one, most appreciate your posting these videos!
Being able to express differing views and debate issues has nearly become a lost art, and an extremely necessary component to any functioning “democracy”.
I, for one, also am irritated by that phraseology now, as it does not mean what the most prolific purveyors of it actually mean. When they say it, it’s more “my way or the highway”, by no means freedom of expression and all that goes with that precious freedom.
He never said to hand Ukraine to Russia. He simply asks questions that everyone should be asking. Is it the best policy to fight a proxy war against Russia? Then he points out the obvious bullshit that our politicians spout of why we must support Ukraine, “to save democracy,” and then the guy they all worship, Zelensky, suspends democracy. Kind of messed up and proves his point all along, that their reasons for fighting this war are not what they are telling us and that real reason has to do with what the real reason always has to do with...MONEY! The many industrial complexes that fund our politicians campaigns and lifestyles are always the ones that benefit. Many American lives have paid the ultimate price for decisions like these, as has many lives of Ukrainians. Maybe, just maybe, we could have prevented this war in the first place. And, if not, we certainly could have helped bring it to an end many, many months ago. But then the raid on our treasury wouldn’t be open to defense contractors or to the investment banks that will get in on the action to rebuild Ukraine whenever this tragedy comes to an end.
Or you could just keep pretending that none of that is happening, and that he has no clue what he is talking about.
Impossible, and dangerous from a logistical POV to have an election when your country is at war and under attack. USA suspended elections during WWII as well, as do all countries - nothing to do with “cancelling democracy”.
Maybe so. Or, maybe Biden can show him how run an election off mail-in ballots. Regardless, the point is to highlight the BS that this had anything to do with “democracy” in the first place. This was, and is, about raiding the treasury and transferring more wealth from middle and lower classes to the elites. That’s what Iraq, the length of the Afghanistan conflict, this conflict, COVID, the Great Recession, and “the climate catastrophe” were/are all about too. At this rate, we will be serfs in the next decade or so.
Mail-in ballots! If the post office hasn't been blown up by the Russians. Or the voter's house...or city. The Russians are and have always been ruthless imperialists against their neighbors. Tucker said he's rooting for them. Tucker loves the Hungarian autocrat Orban. Tucker earns his money being a professional agitator feeding red meat to people like the commenters here. In a few years he will be apologizing for being wrong about this. If the Russians takeover Ukraine it will be a genocidal bloodbath.
Mail-in ballots was a poor attempt at humor. Yes, Tucker is an agitator, something we need when the entire media machine is in lockstep with our government. I can’t speak intelligently about Orban in Hungary other than to say he has been elected, but when you toe the line of the media establishment, which obviously hates him, it makes me think he is probably doing something right, and you are likely being mislead. I could be wrong here, but our media normally is so I like my chances.
Ukrainians committed genocide against Jews, Gypsies, Russians in WWII. The Germans enlisted 250,000 native Ukrainians for duty in five separate formations including the Nationalist Military Detachments (VVN), the Brotherhoods of Ukrainian Nationalists (DUN), the SS Division Galicia, the Ukrainian Liberation Army (UVV) and the Ukrainian National Army (Ukrainische Nationalarmee, UNA).[6][31] By the end of 1942, in Reichskommissariat Ukraine alone, the SS employed 238,000 Ukrainians and only 15,000 Germans, a ratio of 1 to 16.[32]
I’m not as cynical as you - it’s not always “all about the money”, but if you feel that way, that’s fine. Ascribing profit motive to all things is intellectually lazy to some extent, though sometimes it’s appropriate.
Trying to insult someone else’s intelligence is the ultimate example intellectual laziness. But, based on your name calling in your original post, I should have known better than to think you might want to exchange ideas. Typical.
Don’t hate you, Lance. Can also suspect by your comments you never served a day in US military in your life. Recommend you attend a Memorial Day Service in coming year, and hear from some Gold Star families.
I’m sorry to see how they have over taken the comments section of AD and seem to have a passion for criticizing you beyond all reason and I’m particularly nasty ones. Must be hurtful to have done so much for that community and now be their target. I think the AD site is very informative and explains aspects of the film industry and history at a much deeper level than 95% of us understood. But it’s a great learning place and fascinating.
"And here I thought it was the Russia war against Ukraine."
Never mind the 2014 coup in Ukraine that overthrew the democratically elected government, engineered by the likes of neocon Victoria ("F*CK the E.U.!") Nuland. Never mind the thousands of ethnic Russians killed by Ukraine in the Donbass since 2014. Never mind that prior to this war Ukraine was universally recognized as the most corrupt country in the world. Never mind that they worship the Nazi Bandera. Never mind all the biolabs set up by the U.S. in Ukraine. Sure, we'd have no problem with Russia doing that in Mexico, right? Yeah, it's all about "democracy" in a country where there is no opposition media or political party.
Maybe you should go volunteer to fight for them since you love their "democracy" so much.
Actually laughed out loud several times. Tucker nails it as always. It's always a relief when he pops up.
When Tucker drops a new episode, I stop what I'm doing and watch it.
You're commenting on a Tucker Carlson episode thread but the power to you.
There are currently 15 comments and you’ve submitted 6 of them.
About a topic you admit you haven’t watched.
That was disappointing but he now acknowledges the 2020 election was dubious. He said so much in tonight's episode. If Tucker had doubted the election in 2021, then Fox might have dumped him two years ago and it's important that he gained more followers and increased his reach since then.
On thing I like about Tucker is that he is not dug in. He can see things differently, change his opinions and say so. And explain where her went wrong. He has a mature relationship with his ego and is not ruled by it.
He took a long-term strategic view. It's obvious he was holding back. The key to grasping that was when he aired a Chinese professor's talk on the fact the CCP had assets in every level of the U.S. government, business, education (so-called), entertainment and media. When Joe gave $85 billion in high tech military equipment that could easily be reverse engineered by the CCP, I knew.
He is a strategist (I hypothesize ENTP).
You truly don't see the possibilities. Elon could be Ragnar. I don't know. But it's possible.
I really don't know what to think, because, Tucker's right. They can say what they say no matter how ridiculous, because there is no accountability for their words. No one on the left or elites(both sides) with governmental power is held accountable for truth, justice, & common sense. What happened to real journalism? Where the fight was for truth based in goodness and morals to advance citizenship and our nation. Now, it is all a farce. Unvarnished, and in plain sight, they lie and blur the lines. I love that Tucker says it all out loud, lets it hang out there. Hopefully these twitter drops will seed in the hearts and minds of people watching. I read the book, 1984. It is what we are beginning to live. I pray that America stands, because if she falls, there is no where else to go. We are still the most free here, than anywhere else. But, Now I do not automatically trust. The blinders have been ripped off. I suspect that when the media complex starts "noticing Biden's irregularities and commenting on them" then, it's because there is a coordinated effort to do so by someone else who is behind the curtain. Biden is a dumb man, but the Democrat Machine has proven that they can win with dumb, or sick or corrupt candidates. Gavin Newson can go pound sand! They are jackels all of them. Tucker is unfettered. Let's hope he can keep shooting across the bow with many arrows and that truth pierces the mental fog that most people live under.
You lost me at “Tucker’s right”
I love that Tucker says out loud what he thinks and he is not censored anymore like he was at Fox I get that you don’t agree and that’s great too I hope that people who agree with Tucker and people who disagree with Tucker can agree that there is a-lot wrong on all sides of the political spectrum. But I do like plain speakers
And yes. My “ bit” was too long
Does he really say out loud what he thinks? Or does he say out loud what you want to hear? And then say what he really thinks in private with texts to his cohorts?
I really hate this particular "gotcha" because, as with everything, it's such bullshit. That told YOU what you wanted to hear. It gave YOU a chance to write him off and to find SOMETHING you could use as a wedge between him and those who trust him. As with the nonstop Trump surveillance, no one could escape having their texts read and exposed, especially with the ongoing hysteria on the left. This particular thing bugs me because it reminds me how narrow-minded and insular the world I left actually is - how easy it is to slip into that kind of robotic thinking. There is not a SINGLE PERSON ON THE LEFT in media -- NOT ONE on cable news who will criticize a single Democrat. Ever. NOT ONE. Tucker goes after people on both sides, which remains unique and admirable.
Also - he has no incentive on Twitter now. He's not getting paid. He's doing it because he wants to. So to answer your question, yes, he is saying out loud what he thinks.
Simmer down, Sasha. I'm just asking questions !!!
Your previous comment is pretty clear, you think you have all the answers. So why don't you stand up and own it instead of pretending to hide behind your obviously leading "questions" which you are, again, sure you have the answers for.
Dave,
Tucker has voiced out loud on many occasions how wrong he was about Bush and the Iraq war. I happen to agree, as I was duped too at that time in my life. I was caught up in the propaganda. What is your thought on that? Was it what he wanted me or others to hear or a heart felt realization?
My take is that it communicates growth, and a critical thinking & learning mind. Maybe that’s because I’ve lived and experienced an Uncle Sam war zone.
More importantly, are there any positions you held in past, that you no longer do? Because brother Dave, that is an underlying premise of this site.
Really well said, Matt. Especially last para.
Well. I think he chose the harder path. He could have kept silent and sucked up his 20 mil a year for staying silent But. He chose a different path. He seems like a man on mission to me His choice I think. Gives him more credibility. Not less
Just an absolute home run from Tucker (again).
After watching his videos, I get even more excited about my opportunity to give the middle finger to the Uniparty next November.
And while I think there are several good candidates (on both sides, thanks to RFK), I can’t think of a better, bigger middle finger than giving Trump another 4 years.
You sure do attract a lot of trolls Sasha. Which is a badge of honor because it means you’re over the target!
She also thumps they very well when they pop up.
There’s at least 2 in this thread
Thank you, Sasha 😎
Gavin ‘Newco’ Newsome. New boss, same as the old boss. How about a cage fight between RFK Jr. and Gavin, they can be opening act for Musk and Zuck. Facemash in the octagon
His wife is a better actress too. Newsome’s wife couldn’t even convince a jury she was raped by Weinstein.
I also lived in Portland but am now living in Mexico. The biggest political group here are Democrats - They are having a JUly 4th party which I am sure will also turn out to be a fundraiser for Biden. They are VERY active - around election time they were almost like Avons salespeople attacking you at every corner encouraging you to vote but not to JUST vote, to vote for Democrats. If there are Republicans , they hide. If RFK runs, I guess I will have to give in and show up at a fundraiser.
Hey Dorothy, how is living in Mexico? I really have no idea. Is it reasonably safe and affordable? Biggest surprises? Advice?
I couldn’t vote for RFK- his environmental/energy policies are wrong. He’s full-on renewables and anti-nuke. Completely wrong approach.
Your comment is off topic and repulsive. Do you always joke about rape or just when it involves a Democrat?
Always.
I live in Oregon and a registered Republican… here (for many years) Republican nominee for president will have zero chance of gaining the electoral vote. 2024 unfortunately will be no different. It’s why I intend to vote for RFK Jr, even if I have to write him in. He is Dem yes, but fiercely independent. I will send a one-vote message that anyone other than Biden (or whoever becomes the next Biden ‘surrogate’)
Exploiting crisis has been the political playbook for a while. And why not? It enables so much to get done that would otherwise never get passed through Congress. This is setting the stage for a “Presidential Crisis” whereby the media will portray an eternally noble patriot in Biden having to step aside for the good of the country (and democracy, of course) Kamala will be given sec of state before letting Gavin be the VP. Newsom gets a presidency he could never achieve via the voting public. The Leftist agenda moves forward as if Trump never existed.
Viable forecast for sure.
Cows may come and cows may go, but the bull in Washington goes on forever.
Taking exception with the euphemism ‘cow’ otherwise yep. Democrats don’t want a leader. They need a team player.
For what it’s worth, it seems like the Republicans are to the Democrats as the Washington Generals are to the Harlem Globe Trotters.
Democracy!
They keep using that word. I don’t think it means what they think it means.
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” -Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride. Best movie of all time.
Precisely! Thanks for the quote.
The only blot on that movie now is the director, but not a reason to not watch it.
“The vaccine was tested on 8 ROUS-es.” - Humperdink, maybe.
Sasha, congrats, I think you finally have a troll - see if you can find him. He might make a good mascot!
LOL. I’m trolling because I think Tucker’s an idiot? I know that Putin appreciates American weakness and lack of courage, which Tucker promotes.
He promotes skepticism. There is nothing wrong with that. This war should never have started. There IS sticky business between Biden and the Ukraine. His JOB is to be skeptical. That is what journalists are supposed to do. Maybe they didn't always do that but they should be doing that now. Zelenskyy behaves as though the entire world OWES him. And he acts like we owe him. Why does he think we owe him? Well, maybe we should ask the President that question. They tore up the deal that would have stopped the war. And now we're bogged down with nukes on the table. It's grotesque. Thank god one person has the balls to talk about it.
Actually, the Alt-Right and the far left talk about appeasement all the time. I am OK with “skepticism”, but there is no moral ambiguity here, Sasha. The war started because useful idiots (to borrow a term) like Tucker stood by and did nothing when Russia invaded and annexed Crimea. Appeasement only emboldened the Russians. We do owe Ukraine - everything. They fight and die so we don’t have to - at the moment. China watches as well. As one American general once said, the only thing worse than war is the idea that nothing is worth fighting for. I appreciate you responses, and I like your show, but I can’t go with you on this.
lance I guess i missed it when you went to crimea to liberate the people that wanted russia there, funny
You are actually stating the war in Ukraine started because Tucker didn’t speak up in opposition when Crimea was annexed? I suspect you are a young and naive person. I too was that way, once. So sympathy to you. I hope the scales will someday drop from your eyes.
OK, the scales have dropped from my eyes: Russia is trying to eliminate Nazi, terrorist Ukrainians, and we should applaud the heroic Russian efforts.
Lance, here’s an opinion article from 9 years ago. Give it a read (chance?). I too didn’t recognize the war machine our government perpetrates until later on in my life
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/13/ukraine-us-war-russia-john-pilger
Lance, Welcome Home from your military overseas tours! Which did you enjoy most? Your tour in Vietnam? Iraq? Afghanistan? Sudan? Ukraine? I bet they were all great and the Dems and RINO Neocons appreciate your service to perpetual war-mongering. You may find that few here do and especially the vets don’t. Russia is fighting Nazis in the Ukraine, taking back land that was recently theirs and securing their eastern border from NATO missiles and artillery. Ukraine is a pawn and it’s leader is hoarding billions of USD now that his gig as a dick playing pianist is over. He’s actually worse than Demented Joe.
2021 was a great year. Biden commands the mystifying withdrawal from Afghanistan while Zelensky joins in on the US hobby of
poking the Russian bear by wanting in on NATO and freezing the assets of opposition leader Viktor Medvedchuk, the Kremlin's most prominent ally in Ukraine. As military operations escalate, instead of pushing for peace, the DC bloodlust funds and encourages waging the proxy war in Ukraine against Russia. Protect the dirty politicians - Biden Pelosi Romney Kerry Clinton Foundation et al - money interests there, weapons, 48 bioweapon labs, money laundering, human trafficking, every dirty and evil thing they have their fingers into has been going on in NAZI Ukraine for decades now. With the government's formation of the reconstruction banking venture with BlackRock and JPMorgan Chase, all will profit from both the destruction and reconstruction of Ukraine.
Ukraine is so important that we’ll sacrifice every last Ukrainian to save it. While Zelensky’s inner circle is buying up expensive real estate in Switzerland, he stockpiles billions in accounts overseas, and the little Mrs. goes on a $40K shopping spree in Paris.
By the way, where did all the lib Ukraine support flags go?
I want our govt to tell us we can not vote. Don't care the reason. Cause even then minivan driving moms will not be able to hold back at that point.
I want our gov to draft and put biological females in combat units in the same proportion as men (ie 50%) because then I think moms, aunts, grandmas, will quickly vote out the Neocons in both parties and we’ll have a sustainable peace.
I'm actually laughing out loud at the comments on this page. How do you take this guy seriously?
Will you reconsider your opinion if this comment ages as well as “if you get the vaccine you wont get Covid!”????? Asking for a friend.
NCMom, LOL. Love it.
I don’t see the connection. Let your friend know that Tucker is a buffoon and I’ll take back my comment if Ukraine wins the war and fails to remain a democracy.
Fails to "remain" a democracy? Have you read the latest ? Seems there will be no elections until they "win the war" - what did he say - there should be no elections except in peacetime? That almost makes BIden look like Thomas Jefferson -well maybe not quite.
Your response to TCU Frog is pure gold !!
Notice how he notes "The only opponent to the war..(06:29)" - Trump - and doesn't name him.
Think Twitter isn't in on the 'game' against the greatest president in modern history that successfully used economic leverage against our enemies rather than sending our men downrange?
There is still not free speech on Twitter. Remember that.
The big question these days is, "Does Tucker Carlson or any other public intellectual, pundit, commenter or influencer report anything that isn't already known?" No they do not. At this point, the overarching thrusts of news and propaganda in the U.S.A. are nothing but a constant drumbeat of variations on the godawful themes of corruption\perversion\depravity. By now the whole world knows the entire FEDGOV bureaucracy and those who lead it are laughably, pitifully, ridiculously corrupt. The crews of Joe Biden & Obama are the terror-clowns leading the corruption. Such wicked folk will not\cannot redress or reform themselves. Being massaged with innumerable reports about how really, really bad the corruption is is an exercise in self-induced distraction. To my shame, I'm as guilty of this pointless exercise as anyone else. I am resolved to break this bad habit.
I disagree in that I think a lot of people don’t know about the corruption or realize how pervasive it is. That said, let us know if you find a new fun hobby.
Thanks. There ain't one thing that's fun about any of this. It's more like the Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting times." I hope you are correct about some folk needing the information. By now even elementary school children are aware (more aware than adults, I dare say) of how outta whack the adult world is. Is learning how to fight for your liberty and your way of life a hobby?
Tucker on point as usual; Fox doubling down and firing the last of the Tucka employees.
As soon as you reconcile the last seven years of complete lawfare against YOU via Trump, well, you might just understand Trump is the good guy.
Again: https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2016/08/19/the-day-i-went-head-to-head-with-donald-trump/?sh=4fc2bd8458be
This episode is much better than I expected.
It’s good to set your expectations low !!
Listening to these ghoulish politicians mouthing the same "war for democracy" line is sickening. These mass murdering psychopaths have the blood of millions on their hands. They're always ready to open up the purse strings for endless war, but, hey, Social Security might go bankrupt so maybe we'd better raise the retirement age and lower benefits. And get those freeloaders off of food stamps.
What more can be said abut these people? But unless the American people are more vigilant, they'll continue to get away with it. If we are further enslaved, it's because we fell asleep at the wheel.
We may have one last shot at preventing our country from slipping away, but it's going to be a battle for the ages to dislodge and hold to account the criminals that rule us.
They have control of all of the levers of power. We have only the truth.
May God help us all.
Always a great watch. I hope he keeps it up. Might have trouble with guests since Fox News will probably tell people they can't come on if they go on Tuckers show. But at the same time I'd rather go on Tucker than Fox if I'm a conservative or just generally.
Quite some time ago Tucker totally dissed scientist Bill Nye, a man I respect. I had tuned in because I wanted to hear what Bill had to say. Tucker’s mind was made up, his intent was to destroy argument with his his own point of view and my guy Bill could not get a word in edgewise.
After that I really didn’t give a damn what Tucker Carlson had to say. Some years later he emerges as the darling of conservatism, and I for certain am no liberal; so I started listening again. We were doing okay until this episode.
Ukraine was promised protection from attack before NATO even became an issue or a part of the picture. It was given by Ronald Reagan in exchange for the 1,900 nuclear warheads that Ukraine gave up after the Soviet Union was dissolved. This is a matter of history. It does not take into account any government or leader or national failings of anyone.
Clearly that fact bothers almost no one.
Except me.
Bill Nye is a hack and shill. He is wrong about everything (probably) and you would do well to be skeptical about him.
What you are missing on the agreement to protect is there were other agreements for NATO not to expand. But the biggest blindspot to this position is the US led coup of Ukraine in 2014. The US has broken the promises which were made to keep peace between Russia and the rest of the world.
How many thousand ethnic Russians had to be killed in the Donbas before Russia was justified in protecting them? The number was already more than 10k.
I’m betting you have at least two usernames, and I’ve recognized you as a complete idiot before this remark, so I’ll keep it short. You already know all about short.
If you know Bill, apologize. He at least has an education.
To my knowledge, most Russians like yourself don’t support Putin, not even his mother. Or his dog. NATO was formed as a defensive alliance to defend against Russian aggression. End of story.
Thanks, again, Sasha, for posting Tucker's commentaries...you know he must be over the target, for the trolls are out in force. But the weakness of their arguments only validates his points.
Countries suspend general elections during wartime. It is a state of emergency. Not the US, we never did. The U.K. suspended elections during WWII and voted in 1945 for the first time since 1935. I am sure Carlson knows it. Ukraine has declared a state of emergency. It is under attack.
Thanks again Sasha!
Tysvm for posting these, I'm exhausted after a day's work & love one stop shopping at your site!! : )
Thanka for sharing
Brilliant!!!
Tucker’s willful ignorance about what’s happening in Europe is stunning: “Let’s hand Ukraine to the Russians and the world will be safer - and give Taiwan to China for good measure”. I like Saha’s well argued and heartfelt takes on current issues, but why she keeps recommending this loser is beyond me. Hate me all you want, Tucker stooges.
I provide these videos because Fox News fired him when he was the highest rated cable news host and was a voice for many. I appreciate his POV even if I don't agree 100% but maybe I will find a way so that people can decide if they want to see the videos or not.
Thank you for alerting them to us, Sasha, and please continue to do so.
To dumb down this situation to “let’s hand Ukraine to the Russians…” is an attempt to rewrite history and hand a pass to the neocons and NATO who have been thirsting for this MIC money making endeavor for years.
Let the voices in the wilderness speak the truth…and eventually they’ll form a strong tribe.
I appreciate you.
I find significant value in the comments of most of your audience because they are thoughtful, insightful and often motivating. Well done on developing and fostering this community of otherwise strangers.
I appreciate your posting them, Sasha. I’m getting them elsewhere now, but wasn’t at first.
I agree that his voice is relevant.
I, for one, most appreciate your posting these videos!
Being able to express differing views and debate issues has nearly become a lost art, and an extremely necessary component to any functioning “democracy”.
I, for one, also am irritated by that phraseology now, as it does not mean what the most prolific purveyors of it actually mean. When they say it, it’s more “my way or the highway”, by no means freedom of expression and all that goes with that precious freedom.
He never said to hand Ukraine to Russia. He simply asks questions that everyone should be asking. Is it the best policy to fight a proxy war against Russia? Then he points out the obvious bullshit that our politicians spout of why we must support Ukraine, “to save democracy,” and then the guy they all worship, Zelensky, suspends democracy. Kind of messed up and proves his point all along, that their reasons for fighting this war are not what they are telling us and that real reason has to do with what the real reason always has to do with...MONEY! The many industrial complexes that fund our politicians campaigns and lifestyles are always the ones that benefit. Many American lives have paid the ultimate price for decisions like these, as has many lives of Ukrainians. Maybe, just maybe, we could have prevented this war in the first place. And, if not, we certainly could have helped bring it to an end many, many months ago. But then the raid on our treasury wouldn’t be open to defense contractors or to the investment banks that will get in on the action to rebuild Ukraine whenever this tragedy comes to an end.
Or you could just keep pretending that none of that is happening, and that he has no clue what he is talking about.
Impossible, and dangerous from a logistical POV to have an election when your country is at war and under attack. USA suspended elections during WWII as well, as do all countries - nothing to do with “cancelling democracy”.
Maybe so. Or, maybe Biden can show him how run an election off mail-in ballots. Regardless, the point is to highlight the BS that this had anything to do with “democracy” in the first place. This was, and is, about raiding the treasury and transferring more wealth from middle and lower classes to the elites. That’s what Iraq, the length of the Afghanistan conflict, this conflict, COVID, the Great Recession, and “the climate catastrophe” were/are all about too. At this rate, we will be serfs in the next decade or so.
Mail-in ballots! If the post office hasn't been blown up by the Russians. Or the voter's house...or city. The Russians are and have always been ruthless imperialists against their neighbors. Tucker said he's rooting for them. Tucker loves the Hungarian autocrat Orban. Tucker earns his money being a professional agitator feeding red meat to people like the commenters here. In a few years he will be apologizing for being wrong about this. If the Russians takeover Ukraine it will be a genocidal bloodbath.
Mail-in ballots was a poor attempt at humor. Yes, Tucker is an agitator, something we need when the entire media machine is in lockstep with our government. I can’t speak intelligently about Orban in Hungary other than to say he has been elected, but when you toe the line of the media establishment, which obviously hates him, it makes me think he is probably doing something right, and you are likely being mislead. I could be wrong here, but our media normally is so I like my chances.
Ukrainians committed genocide against Jews, Gypsies, Russians in WWII. The Germans enlisted 250,000 native Ukrainians for duty in five separate formations including the Nationalist Military Detachments (VVN), the Brotherhoods of Ukrainian Nationalists (DUN), the SS Division Galicia, the Ukrainian Liberation Army (UVV) and the Ukrainian National Army (Ukrainische Nationalarmee, UNA).[6][31] By the end of 1942, in Reichskommissariat Ukraine alone, the SS employed 238,000 Ukrainians and only 15,000 Germans, a ratio of 1 to 16.[32]
I’m not as cynical as you - it’s not always “all about the money”, but if you feel that way, that’s fine. Ascribing profit motive to all things is intellectually lazy to some extent, though sometimes it’s appropriate.
So FDR was not elected to his 4th term in 1944? Where did you get the idea that the US suspended elections during WWII?
Trying to insult someone else’s intelligence is the ultimate example intellectual laziness. But, based on your name calling in your original post, I should have known better than to think you might want to exchange ideas. Typical.
fake news lance. Iraq had elections during the war
We’ve been at constant war since WWII and had hundreds of elections in that time.
Don’t hate you, Lance. Can also suspect by your comments you never served a day in US military in your life. Recommend you attend a Memorial Day Service in coming year, and hear from some Gold Star families.
um lance did you ever stop to think that maybe just maybe your the stooge?
All the time.
Thank you, Sasha!
I’m sorry to see how they have over taken the comments section of AD and seem to have a passion for criticizing you beyond all reason and I’m particularly nasty ones. Must be hurtful to have done so much for that community and now be their target. I think the AD site is very informative and explains aspects of the film industry and history at a much deeper level than 95% of us understood. But it’s a great learning place and fascinating.
Actually its like The Castellammarese War. The question is who is Joe The Boss and who is Salvatore Maranzano?
2 corrupt gangs fighting it out.
Feel better? Sometimes it's better to get the verbal diarrhea out. Hope you feel better soon.
Time for more edibles before you burst a brain aneurysm.
Do you think immigrants may be the source of malaria not seen in 20 years, or are you convinced it’s because of red state/blue state status?
"And here I thought it was the Russia war against Ukraine."
Never mind the 2014 coup in Ukraine that overthrew the democratically elected government, engineered by the likes of neocon Victoria ("F*CK the E.U.!") Nuland. Never mind the thousands of ethnic Russians killed by Ukraine in the Donbass since 2014. Never mind that prior to this war Ukraine was universally recognized as the most corrupt country in the world. Never mind that they worship the Nazi Bandera. Never mind all the biolabs set up by the U.S. in Ukraine. Sure, we'd have no problem with Russia doing that in Mexico, right? Yeah, it's all about "democracy" in a country where there is no opposition media or political party.
Maybe you should go volunteer to fight for them since you love their "democracy" so much.
I agree JR!