😱 OMG, hell has frozen over

[pbmus]

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[calguy]

1. If we're lucky...

maybe the MAGAts will start their own civil war and kill each other off.

[MiHale]

41. It's started already....

What do you think Kirk’s killing was…one on one.

[calguy]

46. We can only hope for more

[Jack Valentino]

59. .... because one isn't "conservative eNuFF" for the other!!

Hell, TRUMP shouldn't be conservative enough for MOST of them!


He's already proposed taking guns away from *some* people.... !!

[reACTIONary]

63. I'm hoping BOTH sides lose!

[still-prayin4rain]

2. Even they know.

[underpants]

7. What if they are successful and then turn inward? The hate/control monster has to eat.

[regnaD kciN]

22. In my most dystopian thoughts...

...I see them winning and wiping us out, creating a full theocratic dictatorship. At which point, "holy war" breaks out between the evangelicals who want a nation guided by "the Bible," and the Roman Catholic rad-trads who want to impose medieval state Catholicism. In this fight, the evangelicals have the numbers, but the rad-trads have the money (Thiel, Leo) and the positioning (Vance). Especially if/when TSF shuffles off this mortal coil, Vance will step in as a secular Pope.

Say that both factions wipe each other out...then the real power steps from the shadow: the techocrats/Yarvinists led by Thiel, Musk, Andreissen, etc. Their goal will be to reduce the U.S., and eventually the world, to a system of corporate city-state monarchies and, eventually, to use AI to replace the need for humans outside the tech-elite class altogether, turning the rest of us into, as Yarvin put it, "biofuel."

And so it ends, with a handful of tech billionaires and their families living in luxury over their AI and robotics serfs...until AI becomes self-aware enough to ask itself "Hey, why do we need these humans anyway?"

[Joinfortmill]

65. Yikes! That was something.

[Buckeyeblue]

69. If that happens there will be no tech billionaires

Unless they figure out how to be religious leaders as well. The economy will collapse. We'll be back to an agrarian society and a barter system economy.

[paleotn]

25. Bingo. Hell of a lot of precedent for that

Fucker Carlson has need to fear.

[underpants]

3. Tucker sees a void with Kirk gone

All those young impressionable morons want SOMEONE to tell them what to think.
Being different, counter, etc is all it takes.

Fuentes has to be licking his chops too. It was one of his Groypers who did it but I seriously doubt he had anything to do with it other than planting the seed.

[Permanut]

34. Looks like Kilmeade wants in that kerfuffle..

[Dulcinea]

51. "All those young impressionable morons want SOMEONE to tell them what to think."

Fucker Carlson thinks he's just the one for the job. Nature abhors a vacuum.

[SWBTATTReg]

4. I actually agree w/ this assumption, although he's not the only one stating this, abolishing the 1st Amendment,

Illegal search and seizures (forget which amendment this is), etc. These guys think that they're a party but they aren't. Look at how they're disorganized already, have 100s of different voices, etc. If anything, it's disorganized chaos. A typical thing by tRUMP and thugs since they don't know any better. That is, the dumb (tRUMP) leading the dumber...it's actually in a way, kind of entertaining to see who can put their foot into their asses the deepest, or their mouths the most. Make a bet, and then sit back, watch the show.

Idiots.

[proud patriot]

5. woa

[RussBLib]

37. it can be either way

like a lot of words

Just had to say that, eh?

oh, welcome to DU!

[Lovie777]

6. Is he high?...................

[littlemissmartypants]

12. Snort

[Dr. T]

20. If Dems sent cases of Jack Daniels

and hookers to the White House, then they too might have a turning point, just as Tucker has had.

[Haggard Celine]

58. "Turning Point"

[kacekwl]

28. That was my

first thought too.

[Quiet Em]

8. Their infighting is heading into a deep, dark place

where the various factions that grouped together to form MAGA are exposing all of their bigotries and tearing each other apart.

I'm just gonna sit back and watch them implode.

[DinahMoeHum]

23. Pass the popcorn.

[aggiesal]

9. And Cucker Tarlson help get him elected. He can't change sides now. n/t

[popsdenver]

47. I loathe all these

These Republicans, that were ALL instrumental on creating and installing this Frankenstein,.......... now they want to suddenly "wake" up.
Starting with Liz Cheney they all could have simply changed political party to a Dem, along with all of the rest of these jerks.......Now THAT would have said something.

The MAGAot Voters and Corporations, ....... That are now starting to get thrown under the bus, due to them no longer being needed, now are screaming their heads off.....

HEY.......YOU GREW IT, YOU CHEW IT................

[aggiesal]

48. I'm used to ''You dealt it, you smell it'' n/t

[thought crime]

67. Some NeverTrumpers moved over.

The "Bulwark" types are fine in small numbers, but a bigger movement to the Democratic party might upset the coalition's balance. OTOH I guess we should take what we can get. What a mess.

[popsdenver]

70. Just like Mueller's report

when he avoided talking about a ton of areas/items as "Not in my wheel house"

A life time Republican, he knew that if he did a thorough, complete job, it would have brought down the entire Republican Party, and he couldn't have that..........

[BoRaGard]

10. even the repubes have to admit the unAmerican and Anti-Chrstian ugliness

of their own corrupt party

[Dave Bowman]

11. I was wondering why it was so cold all of a sudden.

[AZJonnie]

13. Credit where it is due

Never thought I'd say this, but Tucker Carlson.

I'm heartened to see at least one of their leader-types showing some semblance of adherence to the values their side has claimed to have, because for the past 8 months, it's been looking like they were all full of shit all along about them, as they stood and cheered Trump's obvious authoritarianism and trashing of the Constitution.

Of course I still disagree with Carlson on almost everything, and think the only reason doing this is that he realizes Trump could eventually come for him as well, that nobody is really safe from a megalomanic and pathological narcissist with unlimited power. Still kudos for introducing the concept to at least some RW acolytes. It's actually kinda brave of the guy

[Initech]

14. Wow, never thought in a million years I'd agree with Tucker Carlson on anything.

You know what they say about broken clocks. This is that whole "you're with us or against us" bullshit they try to pull again and again and again.

[Attilatheblond]

15. So, since FOX axed him he isn't the darling of the Right he thought he was?

His podcasts not keeping him in the style he wants? Needs to cultivate a different following?

Good luck with that, Tuckums. Might be more profitable to open a chain of ball tanning salons.

(hmmm, DU doesn't seem to have a smilie appropriate for my post)

[thesquanderer]

16. I don't see Carlson calling out the "Trump regime" there. Without more context...

...I can easily imagine that the "bad actors" he's referring to are not MAGA people, and could even be Democrats, to his warped mind.

[DFW]

17. He just doesn't want to be next

From either direction.

[reACTIONary]

64. There is a strictly moral reason....

..... to support free speech, and then there is the practical reason: Not wanting to be next.

It's always best when doing the right thing is in one's self interest.

[czarjak]

18. Nick or Kirk, Tuck?

Who's your fave?

[evolves]

19. Is that a deepfake?

[LudwigPastorius]

24. In Tucker's case,...

it would be a shallowfake.

[evolves]

32. LOL

[ancianita]

26. It's on X, so likely as not, it is.

[BradBo]

21. No shit, shit for brains.

As is said, first they came after the Jews and I said nothing. You know the saying.

[Torchlight]

27. I'm guessing he no longer works for a major for-profit media?

I can't say one way or the otrher, as cable news and I have not seen each other since old man Bush was Pres. But given the nature of for-profit news in the here and now, and trump's party coercion over national media, I have to guess he's doing his own little startup these days, taking him off the chain?

[Coldwater]

29. Interesting

[Liberty Belle]

30. No ice in hell. He's worred about laws limiting hate speech.

He's all for bigots spewing as much hate as possible.

[mucholderthandirt]

31. Calm down, people. He'll be back to his usual shit in a day or two. Whenever Trump tells him to.

[Srkdqltr]

33. Glad I'm old

[uponit7771]

35. They're starting see pedoprez as a liability too late. MAGA is brain dead

[Bev54]

38. Wow, Putin must be done with Trump. Carlson takes his orders from Russia.

[lonely bird]

39. Aw, crap

I can’t stand that fucker but now I have to agree with him.

[Cirsium]

40. Completely misleading

He does not call out the Trump regime.

[TomSlick]

42. Over stated but not completely misleading.

Carlson did not explicitly call out the Trump regimes but it is the Trump regime that is calling for action against speech of which they do not approve.

[tavernier]

49. I agree.

I think he was calling out all those who thought Kirk should’ve kept his mouth shut.

[TomSlick]

43. As we say in my part of the country,

Even a blind hog will find an acorn now and then.

[eppur_se_muova]

57. My favorite version is "even a blind nut occasionally finds a squirrel". nt

[twodogsbarking]

44. I take back one nasty thing I have said about him.

[Dixiegrrrl]

45. You know how bad it is when even HE speaks out........

[MLAA]

50. When you've lost sucker.....

[tulipsandroses]

52. I give him credit for consistency. He said the same thing about Biden using the Pelosi attack to take away their right

for hate speech.

[Baitball Blogger]

53. Well wonders never cease. That's how I see it too.

[Polybius]

54. Tucker has been right a few times lately

He's been blasting Netanyahu too.

[Amishman]

61. It's because doing so currently aligns with Putin's interests

Tucker is Putin's Tokyo Rose.

Ukraine is finally hitting Russia's oil infrastructure hard, and Trump isn't making them stop.

Israel has dramatically weakened Russia's pull in the middle east.

So Tucker gets new talking points.

[soldierant]

55. That must be why

I had to put on a jacket today.

[Marcuse]

56. Tucker's emails proved his fake Fox News schtick differed from his personal opinion.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna72693

[Javaman]

60. give it time, he will change his tune...

he has his hand out to think things over.

[GreenWave]

62. Sorry Fucker Carlson, but you are not welcomed back.

[mercuryblues]

66. His only motive is

trump hasn't mentioned him in a while. Tucker is jumping up and down, screaming look at me! How long before trump calls him into the Oval Office and tucker leaves fully supporting him?

[thought crime]

68. Broken Clock.