Tucker Carlson's Kampf; Nationalist and Socialism Curious

[Milchshake]

Weird trend of of conservatives being curious about socialism now. Are they genuine or just finding a new way to troll the left?
Hot take: conservatives out of ideas, just plagiarize the Far Left's trolling of the Center Left.
Genuine take; I see this from some of my conservative students. Despite growing up in upper middle class suburbs. They realize they can't replicate what their parents achieved. The costs of healthcare, housing, debt servicing are becoming to real to ignore as they prepare to enter the workforce. They want answers, but cant quite overcome a lifetime of learning to hate Dems.

Seeing this trend, Tucker Carlson has decided to cash in! Shilling a new book about conservatives being socialism curious while still finding a way to blame Dems for everything. Also dedicating two hours of his show to promoting his book.

Unfortunately his play doesn't hold up well to historical scrutiny.
Dutch historian exposes Tucker Carlson’s fraud
Carlson to historian Rutger Bregman: “Go fuck yourself.”

Tucker Carlson, the Fox News host, has lately been trying to rebrand himself as a different kind of conservative — one who’s open to government intervention to help American workers, who cares more about stable families than free markets and low taxes, and who opposes both immigration and laissez-faire economics as forces hurting the American working class.

That, I suppose, explains why he offered to have Rutger Bregman on his show. Bregman is a Dutch leftist writer and historian who shot to stardom after he told attendees at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland — to their faces — that their taxes needed to go up, saying, “It feels like I’m at a firefighters conference and no one’s allowed to speak about water, right? Just stop talking about philanthropy and start talking about taxes.”


The interview starts off calmly enough, but ends with Carlson telling Bregman to “go fuck yourself”:

BREGMAN: You’re a millionaire funded by billionaires. That’s what you are. I’m glad you finally now jumped the bandwagon of people like Bernie Sanders and AOC, but you’re not part of the solution, Mr. Carlson. You’re part of the problem, actually.

CARLSON: But AOC — but could I just say, and …

BREGMAN: It’s true, right? That all the anchors on Fox …

CARLSON: You would have to be a moron …

BREGMAN: … they’re all millionaires! How is this possible? Well, it’s very easy, you’re just not talking about certain things.

CARLSON: Fox doesn’t even play where you are!

BREGMAN: “It doesn’t play where you are”? Well, have you heard of the internet? I can watch things, whatever I want, you know.

CARLSON: You haven’t even seen Fox before!

BREGMAN: I have, actually. I can’t say I’m a great fan of your show, but I do my homework when you invite me on your show. So you’re probably not going to air this.

CARLSON: I doubt it.

BREGMAN: But I went to Davos to speak truth to power, and I’m doing exactly the same thing right now. You may not like it but you’re a millionaire funded by billionaires, and that’s the reason why you’re not talking about these issues.

CARLSON: But I am talking about these issues.

BREGMAN: But only now, come on, you jumped the bandwagon. You’re like, “Oh, I’m against the globalist elite, blah blah blah.” It’s not very convincing, to be honest.

CARLSON: I want to say to you — why don’t you go fuck yourself, you tiny brain — and I hope this gets picked up because you’re a moron, I tried to give you a hearing but you were too fucking annoying …

BREGMAN: You can’t handle the criticism, can you?


The 20th century already generated a pithy phrase for Tucker Carlson's brand of politics: "the socialism of fools." Let's try not to be that foolish again.

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[Wyrt]

Carlson has been super weird lately. Like he's nailing some good points in relation to workers and such, but then comes to some completely random out of nowhere conclusion about it.

It's like he's trying critical thinking for once in his life, but then immediately falls back on party approved talking points.

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Video is here:
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[Wyrt]

Video is here:
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Oh damn, that's good. Nice to see him get called out on his own show again just like Jon Stewart did to him before.

A shame he's too much of a coward to air it. So much for being against censorship.

[Milchshake]

Oh damn, that's good. Nice to see him get called out on his own show again just like Jon Stewart did to him before.

A shame he's too much of a coward to air it. So much for being against censorship.

Watching his career arc of failing upwards... really murders the idea of America as a meritocracy.

[Paranoid Android]

Yeah here is Woke Carlson getting raked by Rutger Bergman. Bergman called out Carlson and other Fox personalities being owned by the billionaire class, aka Rupert Murdoch.

This for some reason did not make air on Fox News.

[Endus]

If you think private ownership leads to exploitation (such as globalist shenanigans), believe in a strong social support network, and in equality of opportunity, you aren't actually a fucking conservative. You're just afraid to switch jerseys because you've built a whole identity around what color jersey you wear, rather than the principles that jersey is supposed to represent.

[Doctor Amadeus]

Except when whining about his safety and making things up I’ve got no problem with TUCKER lol.

He’s an idiot but at least he’s upfront about his racist, sexist and homophobic views. Some of his most dedicated fans think he speaks in some kind of code directly to them.

[Bullettime]

Carlson's shtick has just gotten outright weird. He's trying to ride the current wave of populism that more Americans are supporting, even Americans on the right, with the whole "support working class people," even if it's lip services, while still sitting on the other side and afraid to piss off the billionaires bankrolling him.

He's basically standing on the ground on one side of the fence but leaning over it and yelling on the other side while expecting everyone to pat him on the back for his selflessness and "calling it how it is."

[arandomuser]

If you think private ownership leads to exploitation (such as globalist shenanigans), believe in a strong social support network, and in equality of opportunity, you aren't actually a fucking conservative. You're just afraid to switch jerseys because you've built a whole identity around what color jersey you wear, rather than the principles that jersey is supposed to represent.

no
they just always used "limited spending"" and " small government" as a racist dog whistle, it just didnt get any results until trump came along and they realized being full on nationalist socialist and pro eugenics won them more elections.

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they just always used "limited spending"" and " small government" as a racist dog whistle, it just didnt get any results until trump came along and they realized being full on nationalist socialist and pro eugenics won them more elections.

hmm hes in favor of socialist policies, but hes a hard nationalist, hmm if only ive seen that before, maybe in the first nation to do universal healthcare and built the autobahn, sure it involved mass murder, but atleast the working common folk did ok! as long as he wasnt disabled/brown/gay/nonechristian/jewish/russian/socialist/liberal

[mojojojo202]

Carlson's shtick has just gotten outright weird. He's trying to ride the current wave of populism that more Americans are supporting, even Americans on the right, with the whole "support working class people," even if it's lip services, while still sitting on the other side and afraid to piss off the billionaires bankrolling him.

He's basically standing on the ground on one side of the fence but leaning over it and yelling on the other side while expecting everyone to pat him on the back for his selflessness and "calling it how it is."

I prefer to imagine him bent over the fence yelling obscenities at his own feet.

[TEHPALLYTANK]

I wonder, will Tucker continue calling people snowflakes despite just throwing a tantrum when someone called him a hypocrite? I'm guessing it is too much to expect that Tucker will lose his show like he did after his meltdown on Crossfire.