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Showing Original Post only (View all)Fox News' Greg Gutfeld suggests "civil war" because "elections don't work" [View all]
https://www.salon.com/2023/10/06/fox-news-greg-gutfeld-suggests-civil-war-because-elections-dont-work/?in_brief=trueFox News host Greg Gutfeld erupted with dark rhetoric during Thursday's broadcast of "The Five," appearing to advocate for a new American civil war because elections dont work and the nation is in peril and chaos," the Daily Beast reports. The host, whose takes have grown more extreme in recent years, made the remarks during a discussion on the recent looting in Philadelphia. Gutfeld bemoaned how some looters received lesser consequences than participants in the Jan. 6 insurrection, who he claimed received harsher sentences because of their race and political affiliations. He went on to allege they were being "driven out of cities by the oppressed" and compared the political tensions of the moment to the turmoil around slavery that gave birth to the Civil War. Doesnt that feel that way now? Gutfeld rhetorically asked. That this defiant refusal to reverse this decline argues against the survival of a country. What does that leave you with? It leaves you with you need to make war to bring peace because you have a side that cannot change. Because then that means the admission that their beliefs have been corrupt all the time.
Liberal co-host Harold Ford Jr. responded by suggesting an election, but Gutfeld disagreed. No, elections dont work, he retorted. We know that. After Ford countered that they do work, Gutfeld went on a tirade insisting democracy is no longer a possibility. Look what we have! We had a moderate president, and we have crime exploding everywhere, he shouted. We had a Democrat president promise that he was going to be moderate, promise that he was gonna unite the country and now we have a terrible education system. We have no border. We have crime everywhere. Every facet of society is in peril and in chaos because our elections dont matter!
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Fox News' Greg Gutfeld suggests "civil war" because "elections don't work" [View all]
marmar
Oct 2023
OP
And looney britches will fight the civil war under his desk at Fox News, safe from violence
bucolic_frolic
Oct 2023
#3
Or the "terrible education system," or the "open borders" that don't exist.
emulatorloo
Oct 2023
#11
this from the party who lost the popular vote in 2 of their last 3 presidential elections.......
Takket
Oct 2023
#8
I stood in line from 5:30 to 11:00pm because 2 of the 3 voting machines malfunctioned.
Boomerproud
Oct 2023
#34
If there was ever a civil conflict, the closest that doughy little fuckwad would get ...
11 Bravo
Oct 2023
#10
That was over 2 years ago, Greg but luckily, Americans stayed true to the constitution and
Wonder Why
Oct 2023
#18
I wish these asspickles would stop just nibbling on the barrel and pull the effing trigger already
maxrandb
Oct 2023
#26