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Tucker Carlson and Antisemetism were in the closet making nazis and I saw one of the nazis and the nazi looked at me.
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In the emails from iirc the Dominion lawsuit he says himself he just cares about fame/attention.
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Lol. Lmao, even. Repubs don't need Tucker's help to infight. They've been spectacularly succeeding all on their own.
But if we go back, we can fix it. Become unburdened by what was and, uh, burdened by what will be.
The 80s handed those seeds to the 90s, btw.
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He’s fallen out with Drex so it really wouldn’t be a good show. Still convinced that fallout is because of all the people Rackets would let his wife screw it was not Drex.
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Still claiming to have worked at McDonalds. Shame. Trump is going to be furious at this dumb bitch and her stolen valor.
Edit to not double post.
The word of the day is "holistically".
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On the one hand it would be really, incomprehensibly funny if the exact same thing happened again. Just imagine!
On the other hand, they better put some security on that damn roof.
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Opinion: Trump gets compared with history’s great villain because his rhetoric is that bad
The Washington Post (archive.ph)
By Catherine Rampell
2024-09-24 20:54:36GMT
The Washington Post (archive.ph)
By Catherine Rampell
2024-09-24 20:54:36GMT
There’s a semisatirical theorem, known as Godwin’s Law, which posits that if any online discourse goes on long enough, it inevitably leads to a Hitler or Nazi comparison. No professional pundit wants to be guilty of tripping this law.
After all, equating a political figure with fascists sounds absurd. It’s just so over the top. It also might not win over any additional allies; people roll their eyes and tune out when they hear commentators or historians warn, yet again, about another big bad Great Dictator.
Problem is, Donald Trump seems intent on making the Hitler comparison happen.
In recent weeks, the Republican presidential nominee and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (Ohio) have ramped up their baseless claims about violent invasions from impure foreigners, echoing “blood and soil”-style rhetoric deployed nearly a century ago.
At a rally this past weekend in North Carolina, Trump declared that “a vote for Kamala Harris means 40 or 50 million more illegal aliens will invade across our borders, stealing your money, stealing your jobs, stealing your life.” Chillingly, he added that migrants were already “attacking villages and cities all throughout the Midwest.”
This followed earlier remarks in Arizona, in which he alleged that “young American girls” are “being raped and sodomized and murdered by savage criminal aliens.”
Vance has likewise baselessly accused Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, of not only butchering and eating people’s pets, but also of killing people. “Murders are up by 81 percent because of what Kamala Harris has allowed to happen in this small community,” Vance said on CNN.
The Clark County, Ohio, district attorney, a Republican, unequivocally refuted Vance’s claim, noting that local murder rates were higher under Trump. What’s more, across his 21 years in the prosecutor’s office, Daniel Driscoll said, “we have not had any murders involving the Haitian community — as either the victims or as the perpetrators of those murders.”
Haitian residents might feel relieved that the not-as-victims part of that statement remains true, given the persistent bomb threats they have endured as a result of MAGA conspiracy theories.
It is hard to recall a senator in recent memory who’s done more to endanger the lives of his own constituents than Vance has. I’m not saying he and Trump actually want to start a modern-day pogrom, but if they did, I’m not sure what they’d be doing differently.
According to Vance, even tame think pieces about “threats to democracy” (and, er, worries about “fascism”) are sufficient to incite bloodshed; he has blamed such rhetoric for “directly” causing two apparent assassination attempts on Trump. Given that logic, what does Vance expect to happen to people who are being falsely accused of rape and murder — and who aren’t protected by the Secret Service?
Vance is correct that words have power. If not wielded responsibly, they can lead to political violence — which, to be clear, I wholeheartedly condemn. But one can denounce political violence and still be clear-eyed about the historical patterns that Trump evokes and, therefore, the need to defeat him soundly at the ballot box.
Even Godwin Law’s namesake, Mike Godwin, wrote in a Post op-ed last year that he agrees the Hitler analogy is not just apt but necessary. He cited Trump’s authoritarian instincts for consolidating state power in a single leader; dehumanizing political enemies as “vermin”; and claiming that immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country,” an infamous Hitler talking point.
“Those of us who hope to preserve our democratic institutions need to underscore the resemblance before we enter the twilight of American democracy,” Godwin wrote in December.
And in fact, neither Godwin nor I is anywhere close to being the first to compare Trump with 20th-century fascists. Both of us were beaten out by Vance himself, who in 2016 referred to Trump as “America’s Hitler.”
Lest Trump’s fascist echoes be too faint for Vance to hear these days, the former president occasionally cranks up the volume with antisemitic tropes. For instance, he accused American Jews of voting for “the enemy” and agreed with a radio host that Vice President Kamala Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, is a “crappy Jew.” (Debates over “good” and “bad” Jews rarely end well for Jews.)
Last week, shortly after a Republican gubernatorial candidate was revealed to have expressed pro-Hitler views, Trump took things to their logical conclusion: He preemptively blamed Jews if he performs poorly this November.
“If I don’t win this election,” Trump said at a summit devoted to (I kid you not) combating American antisemitism, then “the Jewish people would have a lot to do with a loss.”
Not the most eloquent closing argument. But then, as Molly Ivins once quipped, it probably sounded better in the original German.
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Catherine Rampell
New York, N.Y.
Columnist covering economics, public policy, immigration and politics
Education: Princeton University
Catherine Rampell is an opinion columnist at The Washington Post. She frequently covers economics, public policy, immigration and politics, with a special emphasis on data-driven journalism. She is also an economic and political commentator for CNN, a special correspondent for the PBS NewsHour and a contributor to Marketplace. She serves on the advisory board for the Journal of Economic Perspectives. Before joining The Post, she wrote about economics and theater for the New York Times. Rampell received the 2021 Online Journalism Award for Commentary and the 2010 Weidenbaum Center Award for Evidence-Based Journalism, and she is a six-time Gerald Loeb Award finalist. She grew up in Florida and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University.
Honors and Awards: Weidenbaum Center Award for Evidence-Based Journalism, 2010; Gerald Loeb Award, Finalist, 2011; Gerald Loeb Award, Finalist, 2012; Gerald Loeb Award, Finalist, 2018; Gerald Loeb Award, Finalist, 2019; Gerald Loeb Award, Finalist, 2020; Gerald Loeb Award, Finalist, 2021; Online Journalism Award, 2021
After all, equating a political figure with fascists sounds absurd. It’s just so over the top. It also might not win over any additional allies; people roll their eyes and tune out when they hear commentators or historians warn, yet again, about another big bad Great Dictator.
Problem is, Donald Trump seems intent on making the Hitler comparison happen.
In recent weeks, the Republican presidential nominee and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (Ohio) have ramped up their baseless claims about violent invasions from impure foreigners, echoing “blood and soil”-style rhetoric deployed nearly a century ago.
At a rally this past weekend in North Carolina, Trump declared that “a vote for Kamala Harris means 40 or 50 million more illegal aliens will invade across our borders, stealing your money, stealing your jobs, stealing your life.” Chillingly, he added that migrants were already “attacking villages and cities all throughout the Midwest.”
This followed earlier remarks in Arizona, in which he alleged that “young American girls” are “being raped and sodomized and murdered by savage criminal aliens.”
Vance has likewise baselessly accused Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, of not only butchering and eating people’s pets, but also of killing people. “Murders are up by 81 percent because of what Kamala Harris has allowed to happen in this small community,” Vance said on CNN.
The Clark County, Ohio, district attorney, a Republican, unequivocally refuted Vance’s claim, noting that local murder rates were higher under Trump. What’s more, across his 21 years in the prosecutor’s office, Daniel Driscoll said, “we have not had any murders involving the Haitian community — as either the victims or as the perpetrators of those murders.”
Haitian residents might feel relieved that the not-as-victims part of that statement remains true, given the persistent bomb threats they have endured as a result of MAGA conspiracy theories.
It is hard to recall a senator in recent memory who’s done more to endanger the lives of his own constituents than Vance has. I’m not saying he and Trump actually want to start a modern-day pogrom, but if they did, I’m not sure what they’d be doing differently.
According to Vance, even tame think pieces about “threats to democracy” (and, er, worries about “fascism”) are sufficient to incite bloodshed; he has blamed such rhetoric for “directly” causing two apparent assassination attempts on Trump. Given that logic, what does Vance expect to happen to people who are being falsely accused of rape and murder — and who aren’t protected by the Secret Service?
Vance is correct that words have power. If not wielded responsibly, they can lead to political violence — which, to be clear, I wholeheartedly condemn. But one can denounce political violence and still be clear-eyed about the historical patterns that Trump evokes and, therefore, the need to defeat him soundly at the ballot box.
Even Godwin Law’s namesake, Mike Godwin, wrote in a Post op-ed last year that he agrees the Hitler analogy is not just apt but necessary. He cited Trump’s authoritarian instincts for consolidating state power in a single leader; dehumanizing political enemies as “vermin”; and claiming that immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country,” an infamous Hitler talking point.
“Those of us who hope to preserve our democratic institutions need to underscore the resemblance before we enter the twilight of American democracy,” Godwin wrote in December.
And in fact, neither Godwin nor I is anywhere close to being the first to compare Trump with 20th-century fascists. Both of us were beaten out by Vance himself, who in 2016 referred to Trump as “America’s Hitler.”
Lest Trump’s fascist echoes be too faint for Vance to hear these days, the former president occasionally cranks up the volume with antisemitic tropes. For instance, he accused American Jews of voting for “the enemy” and agreed with a radio host that Vice President Kamala Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, is a “crappy Jew.” (Debates over “good” and “bad” Jews rarely end well for Jews.)
Last week, shortly after a Republican gubernatorial candidate was revealed to have expressed pro-Hitler views, Trump took things to their logical conclusion: He preemptively blamed Jews if he performs poorly this November.
“If I don’t win this election,” Trump said at a summit devoted to (I kid you not) combating American antisemitism, then “the Jewish people would have a lot to do with a loss.”
Not the most eloquent closing argument. But then, as Molly Ivins once quipped, it probably sounded better in the original German.
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Catherine Rampell
New York, N.Y.
Columnist covering economics, public policy, immigration and politics
Education: Princeton University
Catherine Rampell is an opinion columnist at The Washington Post. She frequently covers economics, public policy, immigration and politics, with a special emphasis on data-driven journalism. She is also an economic and political commentator for CNN, a special correspondent for the PBS NewsHour and a contributor to Marketplace. She serves on the advisory board for the Journal of Economic Perspectives. Before joining The Post, she wrote about economics and theater for the New York Times. Rampell received the 2021 Online Journalism Award for Commentary and the 2010 Weidenbaum Center Award for Evidence-Based Journalism, and she is a six-time Gerald Loeb Award finalist. She grew up in Florida and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University.
Honors and Awards: Weidenbaum Center Award for Evidence-Based Journalism, 2010; Gerald Loeb Award, Finalist, 2011; Gerald Loeb Award, Finalist, 2012; Gerald Loeb Award, Finalist, 2018; Gerald Loeb Award, Finalist, 2019; Gerald Loeb Award, Finalist, 2020; Gerald Loeb Award, Finalist, 2021; Online Journalism Award, 2021
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Nah, bro, SS told me securing roofs is like impossible
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I feel like it's almost an experiment at this stage to see whether they have captured enough people's minds and enough institutions that they can still win with a nothing candidate doing far less than would previously be considered the bare minimum. Mass Formation Psychosis to vote for her based on nothing and to demonise Trump.
I just look around at what is going on in the world, brink of a wide Middle East Conflict. The US sending thousands of troops. Risk of escalating to nuclear war and there's crickets in the minds of so many people about it. They aren't told to care and they don't. Where I know tomorrow if the right media levers were pulled, if someone else was in Office. They'd all be outraged.
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>pointing out problems they'd rather we not acknowledge
He's right on tranny stuff, the part that's a problem electorally is when he tries to paint Nazis as good bois who dindu nuffin and that Americans were manipulated into wasting countless lives on WW2 after he's openly associated with Trump? All he does there is damage Trump's campaign and makes it seem like Trump is ok with this sort of language. As I already mentioned and was pointed out in the article, Trump already had to cover for damage to the campaign done by Tucker.
i want trump to win and tucker meeting suspicious iranians who bankroll him then suddenly laundering DNC talking points into his "right wing" show isn't helping trump win
I'm Israeli American, I worked hard to get the American citizenship. Pointing out that your sacred cow is acting strangely after being financially propped up by an Iranian Democrat isn't concern trolling.
Let's put it like this. Cenk from the Young Turks loses his job for whatever reason and needs funding fast. He runs into a Republican Israeli Jew who just happened to become a Democrat that year. There's talks that we don't know about and Cenk suddenly has his own channel doing interviews on X. Things seem normal for a while but viewers notice that there's a shift in change in his views. One day, he releases a hyped interview where he visits Azerbaijan and does an interview with the president, with it being an obvious softball and is promoting how Azerbaijan is right to be at war with Armenia.
From there, things accelerate and he has on strongly Zionist, right wing people. He's also starting to preach right wing values but couching them in leftist wording. For example, he starts being anti abortion but phrases it as a feminist thing where women take power over their own bodies. He's heavily associated with Kamala Harris's campaign at the time.
Finally, on a podcast he openly defends the Nakba and says that it was a mistake. Kamala harris's campaign quickly has to draft press releases covering for him.
At what point would you be suspicious of Cenk and say something's up?
Tucker has been on this path for a long time starting almost exactly to when he met that Iranian guy. It's only now that it's starting to affect the Trump campaign in the most crucial time.
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I appreciate the fact that Tucker has some influence on American politics, and whether he is a plant is a topic worth discussing, but this is rapidly becoming a Tucker General (or Jew General given the amount of sperging about the Jews).
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Maybe people wouldn't view media cunts like Catherine Rampell as "enemies of the people" if the description wasn't so damn apt.
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Eric Adams just got indicted
Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted by a grand jury on charges connected to a federal probe that has shaken his administration, sources told The Post.
The historic indictment of the first sitting mayor of New York City is expected to be unsealed Thursday by US Attorney Damian Williams, according to the sources. The news was first reported by The New York Times.
Adams will surrender to authorities early next week, sources said.
“I always knew that if I stood my ground for New Yorkers that I would be a target — and a target I became,” Adams said in a statement to The Post.
“If I am charged, I am innocent, and I will fight this with every ounce of my strength and spirit.”
A rep for the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, which is prosecuting the case, declined to comment.
Details about the exact accusations remained unclear, but are believed to be connected to allegations of the Turkish government illegally funneling money into his mayoral campaign, according to sources.
the eternal roach strikes again
Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted by a grand jury on charges connected to a federal probe that has shaken his administration, sources told The Post.
The historic indictment of the first sitting mayor of New York City is expected to be unsealed Thursday by US Attorney Damian Williams, according to the sources. The news was first reported by The New York Times.
Adams will surrender to authorities early next week, sources said.
“I always knew that if I stood my ground for New Yorkers that I would be a target — and a target I became,” Adams said in a statement to The Post.
“If I am charged, I am innocent, and I will fight this with every ounce of my strength and spirit.”
A rep for the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, which is prosecuting the case, declined to comment.
Details about the exact accusations remained unclear, but are believed to be connected to allegations of the Turkish government illegally funneling money into his mayoral campaign, according to sources.
the eternal roach strikes again
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To be fair there was like a 5 degree incline. OSHA would shit themselves if they found out. That sniper better not get caught by the safety team, that's all I'm saying. The last thing the SS / DoHS needs is a workman's comp claim for someone who isn't technically on the books.
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PHARAOH'S CURSE!
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