Honestly, Tucker would've been a far better choice.

and i'm not talking about moral comeuppance for his actions (CIA safari adventure in Central America and all) but rather due to the fact that Mr Tucker is what we in the business might call a smart Fascist. ever since he got fired this man has just been out there moving and showing that he has the political smarts to maneuver and come out maybe not ''winning'' but definitely well enough from, well, practically any event he chooses to insert himself in; see the ukraine war interview, the zodiac killer's ''what's the population of Iran'', and this kirk thing that, frankly, anyone who's not a government outlet can see as an insane overreaction from the elites.

And he's clearly doing all this effort to appear as a rational actor in an otherwise irrational environment because he's trying to build up a serious portfolio, he wants to be next. he doesn't want to be the ''what's going on???'' guy he wants to be a serious political candidate. he's setting himself up as the most rational option for Republicans after Trump.

anyhow, side story; i was off my rockers when the Utahnasia happened and i got both these assholes confused so for a good 20 minutes i was really happy that a far more serious threat had solved itself, but nooo, turns out it was just the fuckass debate-me asshole

Tucker Carlson is lying and supporting the first amendment isn't "left wing".

During this same episode Tucker says that the First Amendment was inspired by Christianity and therefore since Charlie Kirk was a good Christian, he was the biggest supporter of the first amendment. Then Tucker plays a clip of Charlie Kirk telling a college student that she should be forced to carry a 2 week embryo to term, as evidence that Charlie was in support of the first amendment.

Does this line of reasoning make any sense to you? First Amendment = Christianity = Anti-abortion? If you're not a right winger, it probably doesn't. This is because words mean entirely different things to right wingers. To understand what they are saying, you have to interpret their words through their own framework.

Tucker Carlson engages in the same level of word salad as Kamala Harris or Mayor Pete. As a propagandist, the things that Tucker Carlson says are not meant to make sense, it is meant to engage the emotions of the audience, typically a right winger.

In the clip of the tweet, Tucker is only saying that he supports Free Speech to express that his own speech is being silenced. He is creating an expression of fear to add legitimacy to the second half of the episode. During the second half of the episode, Tucker says that pro-Israel people were trying to keep Tucker away from Charlie by taking away his funding. This devolves into a larger conspiracy theory.

During the last 2 minutes of the episode, he blames the left. He says that Charlie Kirk was anti-war, supported raising wages, supported affordable housing. Then he says that the left is pro-war, pro-death, pro-inequality. Tucker says "the left, the trans community are the shock troops of power". Tucker ends the episode by saying that he loved Charlie Kirk because he opposed the left and transgender people.

Tucker Carlson believes that Free Speech means supporting Kirk and being against transgender people. He believes that criticizing Kirk or supporting transgender people is against Free Speech.

he and marjorie tayler greene are outflanking the democrats.

If you went back in time 20 years and described the current state of politics in this country to someone, they would think you were having them on. Donald Trump is president, people are being snatched off the streets by masked thugs (and sent to fucking El Salvador and Uganda), and a former Fox News host and a congresswoman known for talking about "Jewish space lasers" are two of the only people standing up for free speech?

How the fuck is this where we are right now? Fucking dystopian nightmare.

tucker carlson is the only competent imperialist left in america since kissinger died

This guy thinks Americans can get think lmao. We stopped doing that decades ago if we even ever did it at all.

I think he's a pretty good example of why left-right in america are pretty limited ways of refering to shit at this point, you basically have to accept the kaybafe that it doesn't really make sense

him next pls

Tucker to the left, Taiibi to the right, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills

I am an enlightened center bottom top right centrist haven't you heard? You are far right now

Carlson vs Newsom in 2028 will be a massacre