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Nevilledog

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Fri Mar 26, 2021, 01:25 PM Mar 2021

How Are We Forcing Tucker Carlson To Be A Fascist This Week?



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How Are We Forcing Tucker Carlson To Be A Fascist This Week?— by @RobynElyse

How Are We Forcing Tucker Carlson To Be A Fascist This Week?
Conservatives will have to elect (another) fascist, and it will be all our fault.
wonkette.com
10:23 AM · Mar 26, 2021


https://www.wonkette.com/tucker-carlson-jesse-kelly-let-republicans-do-crimes-or-we-will-elect-a-fascist

On Thursday night, Tucker Carlson invited perennial Arizona congressional candidate and rightwing commentator Jesse Kelly on to discuss the whole Hunter Biden gun thing. The real issue with this story, the two claim, is that when Hunter Biden bought the gun in the first place, he answered "no" to the question "Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?" Lying on a background check is a felony, and as Hunter Biden has notably battled drug addiction throughout his adult life, it could be considered a lie even if he were sober at that particular time. He has not been arrested for this. (Politico got a copy of the background check, in case you, like us, were wondering if PERHAPS Hunter Biden might have availed himself of a private sale or gun show loophole.)

Both Carlson and Kelly are sure that if they were to lie on a background check for a gun, they would end up going to prison — their claim being that the law is harsher on white conservatives than on practically anyone else in the nation, and that this will eventually lead to conservatives being forced to elect a ('nother?) fascist. Because they will be just so tired of being held accountable while Hunter Biden, Antifa and Black Lives Matter get away with all of the crimes. Yes, surely Carlson and Kelly would be one of the dozen people a year who face federal prosecution (with several hundred more in the states, typically for charges like "felon in possession of a firearm&quot for lying on a background check, out of the 180,000 people a year who do so.

No, really.

Most people would hear that a rich white guy got away with a crime and go, "Well, that is just about normal for a country that is both very racist and very classist," but Tucker Carlson and Jesse Kelly have determined that the real reason Hunter Biden got away with this crime is because he is a rich Democrat.

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How Are We Forcing Tucker Carlson To Be A Fascist This Week? (Original Post) Nevilledog Mar 2021 OP
TC is getting dumber and stupider it seems by the month. TC is doing it all by himself, SWBTATTReg Mar 2021 #1
Oh let me count the ways. underpants Mar 2021 #2
It would be a mistake to dismiss Carlson Ferryboat Mar 2021 #3

SWBTATTReg

(21,859 posts)
1. TC is getting dumber and stupider it seems by the month. TC is doing it all by himself,
Fri Mar 26, 2021, 01:28 PM
Mar 2021

being a bigot, a racist, and an idiot all by himself. Or, is he admitting that he's too incompetent to do anything all by himself?

Ferryboat

(916 posts)
3. It would be a mistake to dismiss Carlson
Fri Mar 26, 2021, 01:43 PM
Mar 2021

as JUST a racist idiot.

He is much more dangerous to society than many people realize. On a daily basis he pushes slightly sanitized white supremacists talking points.

This guy may very well run for office.

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