So let's talk about Tucker Carlson. Or, this time, let's have Tucker Carlson talk about himself, while we raise an eyebrow in silent condemnation.
Yep, WaPo is looking into Carlson's past and he's not happy about it.Jeff Bezos had one of his minions, a mentally unbalanced middle-aged man called Erik Wemple, pull our dusty college yearbook and call around and see if we'd done anything naughty at the age of 19
First of all, let's just casually gloss over all the times Carlson called for an investigation (into anything) himself. Examples are eveywhere.
Who here remembers the 2016 debates? In the second one, Trump brought up, you guessed it, somehing Clinton did at 27. Oh, he lied about it of course. But Carlson said the following on the topic:
Nothing.
Yeah, I looked around. Carlson said nothing on the topic -- including saying "you shouldn't do this". For a random person to say nothing isn't special. For Carlson, whose business is Trump and politics, this can't have been something he missed. As a 110% confirmed rabid fanbase member, his silence is assumed consent.
Oh, and let's not forget the time he brought up stuff Biden did in 1975. I know you'll remember that time, because it was 2 days before a clip from his "Bubba the Love Sponge" radio show, yes that was the name of the show, came up in which he, well, defended child rape.
So Carlson making a big deal about people looking into someone's young life is hypocrisy. Because of course it is.
But that's not the key issue, is it? Let's talk about "a mentally unbalanced middle-aged man".
I mean...Miles Morales there just made my point. Thanks for that, by the way. I could stop there.
But a day without a Breccia Shield Wall of Text is like Baskin Robbins having 30 flavors. Yeah, you're probably fine but...there's just something missing.
-- Carlson, April 27, about half a million dead Americans agoThe virus just isn’t nearly as deadly as we thought it was, all of us, including on this show. Everybody thought it was, but it turned out not to be.
-- Carlson, Oct 13Almost everyone — 85% — who got the coronavirus in July was wearing a mask, and they were infected anyway. So clearly this doesn't work the way they tell us it works.
-- Carlson, last weekIf the vaccine is effective, there is no reason for people who've received a vaccine to wear masks or avoid physical contact. So maybe it doesn't work, and they're simply not telling you that. Well, you'd hate to think that, especially if you've gotten two shots. But what's the other potential explanation? We can't think of one.
-- Carlson, Dec 2019, about the Potomac riverIt has gotten dirtier and dirtier and dirtier and dirtier. I go down there, and that litter is left almost exclusively by immigrants.
-- Carlson, Aug 2014. Yeah, this has been going on for a while.Far more children died last year drowning in their bathtubs than were killed accidentally by guns. I’d like to see a package on ‘Do you have a bathtub at home because I want to know before I let my child go over to your house.’ A little perspective might be helpful.
-- Carlson, after 1865 so date irrelevantThe United States ended slavery around the world, and maybe we should get some credit for that, too
-- Carlson, three days after this happened and literally the day before he was fired what a coincidenceIf you’re wondering why so many progressives are mourning Bolton’s firing tonight, it’s because Bolton himself fundamentally was a man of the left
-- Carlson, while people were still freezing to death in electrically-isolted TexasUnbeknownst to most people, the Green New Deal came to Texas, the power grid in the state became totally reliant on windmills. Then it got cold and the windmills broke, because that’s what happens in the Green New Deal
-- Bubba the Love Sponge appearanceI'm not defending the war in any way, but I just have zero sympathy for [Iraqis] or their culture. A culture where people just don't use toilet paper or forks.
-- also Bubba the Love Sponge appearanceIf you’re, like, for the government butting out of the bedroom and for gay marriage, and for the right of strip clubs to operate unimpeded by governments -- how exactly can you be against polygamy?
-- seriously what the fuckHow did we wind up with a country in which feminists do science?
[quote]Almost every nation on Earth has fallen under the yoke of tyranny...of the metric system[/url]
-- seconds later, uses the term "KYE-low-grams". No, really, you have to see this shit
-- Carlson, Aug 2019, just after the El Paso shootingThis is a hoax, just like the Russian hoax. It’s a conspiracy theory used to divide the country and keep a hold on power.”
And, finally...well, for this post...in this clip he's having a little hissy fit when told he's mispronouncing kilograms, I mean "Kamala" as in "this was Aug 2020 you've heard her name a thousand times by now". Not that impressive by itself, until he says
And, yep, suddenly upset when people are looking into his past for things he's done.On this show, no-one is immue to criticism
Not surprising, we told every single Republican on this forum that the wall would easily defeated with several different ways to defeat it, and they didn't believe us. You have rope, these $5 ladders, tunnels, climbing because we have seen people younger than teenagers climb these walls in less than 30 seconds, and this little known invention of an airplane that flies over it, where most of our illegal immigration comes from.
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Words to live by.
It's one of the GOP's only two actionable goals in office: "Instate weak, do-nothing policy that dogwhistles to their followers and then blame the democrats for it not working."
The other being, of course "obstruct, obfuscate and defang any and all democrat policy attempts and then blame the democrats for the policy not working as a sign that they can't govern."
“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
Remember Trump calling out the violent leftist protests and states passing laws in order to help solve the problem of all the violent, leftist protests?
Well, apparently, it was all bullshit as like 90%+ of cases in arrests have been dropped in many major cities.
https://truthout.org/articles/cities...vide-evidence/
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Words to live by.
Honestly, that should trigger investigations of every department and every officer involved in those arrests. Shit happens sometimes, maybe the cops made a mistake (still fucked up, but whatever) and drop the charges every once in a while. But 93-100% of arrests leading to charges being dropped? That's evidence of widespread problems within every one of those departments, and is a pretty explicit example of authoritarian police behavior.
When Republican districts sends their people, they're not sending their best. They're sending people that have a lot of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing people who willfully ignore sexual abuse. They're bringing sex traffickers and gun nuts. They're QAnon morons. And some, I assume, are good people.
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WTF hahah. Was that segment for real? Granted I don't watch Fox news, but that segment seemed almost like a parody of what I'd consider Fox News to be.Almost every nation on Earth has fallen under the yoke of tyranny...of the metric system
-- seconds later, uses the term "KYE-low-grams". No, really, you have to see this shit
It's not an immediately related thing, but I'm hoping that the federal probe into the Minneapolis police department sets a precedent for investigations into other departments, including the ones involved in mass-arresting people related to the BLM protests. Especially the goon squad blackbagging that was going on for a while there.
...And just a casual reminder for anyone around here still harping on the "But is Biden/the democrats that different from Trump/The republicans?!" train, but it's worth noting that this probe is something that would never have happened under a Trump presidency. Trump would probably have tweeted about the "injustice" done to the police officer, rile up his followers into attempting to kidnap some elected official or somesuch, and then ordering or generally hampering or affecting a cease and desist into any federal probe follow-up.
“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
MY GOD!!!!!!! A system of measurement that is measured by the power of 10! What Commie bastard invented that system of measurement. Us real God fearing, red blooded Americans use a God damn patriotic Bald Eagle flying overhead form of measurement that makes no God damn sense except to Patriots. What self respecting Socialism hating Patriot doesn't understand that 12 in go into a foot and 3 feet go into a yard and that 5,280 ft go into a mile. It ain't rocket science people, unless you are God damn Socialism loving Commie!
To be completely frank (and while i prefer the decimal system, as i've grown up with it) i don't think "one size fits all" in this case. For science and calculations, yeah, sure, no contest, but there are other things:
Take currency. I'd actually prefer the (old) english system that is divisble by 3, because it happens much more often that i have to split currency in 3 parts than in 10. This is just a minor issue, but i prefer not to show that much disdain for the imperial system, as it has its advantages, and just thumping on your chest because "metric > all" is not much different from "bruh, learn to uise correct measurements here in america!!! we use imperial!!"
Sometimes I have the feeling that some years ago I fell into a black hole that sent me into a alternate universe where reality is all a comedy sketch.
But then I realize ...no ,this is the actually the world we live in.
Umm....currencies are not part of the metric system......you got meters and kilograms and joules and watts and candels and volts.....currencies are nowhere to be found or defined in the metric system anywhere.]Take currency. I'd actually prefer the (old) english system that is divisble by 3, because it happens much more often that i have to split currency in 3 parts than in 10. This is just a minor issue, but i prefer not to show that much disdain for the imperial system, as it has its advantages, and just thumping on your chest because "metric > all" is not much different from "bruh, learn to uise correct measurements here in america!!! we use imperial!!"
But even if you made the misttake of talking about currencies when you are really talking about expressing a numeration on potencies of 10 ( wich given that we use a base 10 numeration is the logical thing because we homo sapiens have 10 fingers in the hands and that make 10 the intuitive reference) it makes it divisible by 2 and 5 too that are way more common than 3.
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ehm... every SI unit is metric, but not every metric unit is SI. The british currency was changed to metric a few decades ago. That's what i was talking about. Maybe it's a language problem? In my language metric (metrisch) describes any system based on the potency of 10, not exclusive SI units. Also, the currency i'm talking about stems from weigh measurements (pounds...) and is therefore part of the SI system (or at least its sucessor) so it makes sense to compare it with SI.
And sorry to say, you're wrong. The old english system was 1 pound = 240 pence. 240 is divsible by 2,3,4,5,6,8 and 10 - compared to 1 pound = 100 pence, which only works for 2,4,5 and 10. And in day to day transactions where i try to use my brain instead of a calculator, i think that's more practical. I don't say that makes the metric system (or systems based on 10) bad, but it's not perfect in every case.
That's what i meant.
Last edited by Pannonian; 2021-04-22 at 08:57 AM.