• Fedizen@lemmy.world
    47·
    4 hours ago

    I mean after tucker spent an entire episode selectively editing out Kanye’s antisemitic rants and then trying to portray it as a smear campaign by mainstream media… why does anyone watch this moron still with the complete knowledge his stories are fully fabricated propaganda.

    Tucker is a liar and a fraud. Of course he’s also taking Russia money, probably saudi and musk money too.

    • Snapz@lemmy.world
      36·
      3 hours ago

      Yes this, sure, but also he LITERALLY went to Russia, as they were invading Ukraine, and filmed some slop where he went into their supermarkets and walked around and said, “Hey… Now this is pretty fucking nice! They got broccoli and shit!”

      It’s so fucking naked.

  • kautau@lemmy.world
    29·
    5 hours ago

    Also Jordan Peterson, I feel like it’s weird he’s being left out of this discussion considering how many people lap up his bile

  • frezik@midwest.social
    22·
    6 hours ago

    The only reason this is surprising is because Carlson would be perfectly happy to do it without a paycheck.

    • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      Mmmmmm. He’s a month hungry cunt so I don’t think so.

      I feel like if Harris paid him enough he’d turn on a dime.

  • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    8 hours ago

    Wild to think that somebody born incredibly wealthy needs to do a lot of bullshit like this in order to make more money. He’s a true piece of shit.

    • Snapz@lemmy.world
      9·
      4 hours ago

      He doesn’t need money, he’s a little prep school heir from step mommy with a father that also spent his life grifting for the republicans. What he needs is validation. He needs to feel like people aren’t laughing at him. But they always are, and they always will. Same with trump - That’s why they are now hoping to kill enough of the other side so that the only people left in the room are the ones who are not paying attention except to clap when they hear “freedom” or “woke”.

      Seriously though, the truth is that trump is 80 and he will statistically die relatively soon. The same fear applies, “they aren’t going to laugh at me”. Give him a chance and trump will literally throw the match in the gasoline soaked world behind him on the way out, just for the comfort that he won’t be made fun of in death or properly exposed in full context by history.

      • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        He doesn’t need money

        No but as I said in another comment he’s a money hungry cunt. We all are to an extent but there comes a point of wealth for a small subset of humans beyond which adding zeros to your bank balance is what’s fuelling you. They can’t stop themselves.

        He is one of that small subset IMO.

        Seriously though, the truth is that trump is 80 and he will statistically die relatively soon

        I can’t recommend Mike Duncan’s “The History of Rome” podcast enough. The cult of personality is what led to the fall of the republic and the similarities to our current predicament are more than a bit disconcerting.

        MAGA and the idea of challenging elections by force will never go away.

  • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
    534·
    7 hours ago

    This isn’t news to anyone paying a modicum of attention, but glad those in power are finally stating the obvious…

    • Snapz@lemmy.world
      15·
      4 hours ago

      Statements like “This isn’t news” are never helpful. Something like that is really just meant for you to performatively proclaim, “I actually knew this already!”

      Plenty of people who aren’t as enlightened as you are just now learning or just coming of age to be politically aware. Maybe they were in one of the various operating religious/political cults in the world today sheltering them from objective reality. Leave some room for them to learn something new and feel ownership in that new awareness.

      Just literally zero value in “duh! Tell me something I don’t know!”. If anything, it risks derailing the enthusiasm building in someone who wanted to help who now feels “stupid” and “not in the club” so they get quiet. Something useful enough in the second half of your statement though.

      • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 minutes ago

        Plenty of people who aren’t as enlightened as you are just now learning or just coming of age to be politically aware. Maybe they were in one of the various operating religious/political cults in the world today sheltering them from objective reality. Leave some room for them to learn something new and feel ownership in that new awareness.

        This isn’t news to anyone paying a modicum of attention

        Yeah, that’s kinda what the second part of that statement was for. But hey, good on you for typing that all out to say the same thing.

  • nkat2112@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    12·
    6 hours ago

    Thank you for posting this. It’s important that government leaders point out influencers who are working directly for Putin.

  • TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee
    9·
    6 hours ago

    Tucker Carlson is the wonder spy Russians dream of eventually sneaking into the US presidency. Donald Trump is just the first step and likely too incompetent to serve their interests well. Frankly, I am surprised he was not Donald Trump’s pick for vicepresident.

    • vxx@lemmy.world
      11·
      6 hours ago

      It’s the same.

      Russia Today is state owned, funded and controlled by the russian government.

        • Snapz@lemmy.world
          2·
          4 hours ago

          Statements like “but we already knew” are never helpful. Something like that is really just meant for you to performatively proclaim, “I actually knew this already!”

          Plenty of people who aren’t as enlightened as you are just now learning or just coming of age to be politically aware. Maybe they were in one of the various operating religious/political cults in the world today sheltering them from objective reality. Leave some room for them to learn something new and feel ownership in that new awareness.

          Just literally zero value in “duh! Tell me something I don’t know!”. If anything, it risks derailing the enthusiasm building in someone who wanted to help who now feels “stupid” and “not in the club” so they get quiet.

  • humblebun@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2136·
    8 hours ago

    Isn’t Justin Trudeau a Canada’s Trump? Who the fuck cares what he says?

    Also fuck Carlson

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      34·
      6 hours ago

      Isn’t Justin Trudeau a Canada’s Trump?

      I just cannot let myself believe that people are this out of touch. You’re kidding, right?

      • Nasan@sopuli.xyz
        3·
        3 hours ago

        It’s hilarious that in 2024 people still are failing to check themselves before wrecking themselves

    • TOModera@lemmy.world
      791·
      6 hours ago

      In what way? I am Canadian, so this question is very odd.

      Yes, he’s a nepotism baby, his father was PM in the 70s.

      But he’s the leader of a center left party. He has been in power a long time, but in a minority government. He dropped his promise to change election laws and lead the government to legalize weed. He should have been a lot better on the environment but also wasn’t (blatantly) hostile to environmental causes.

      He was caught doing black face in the past and his government was too nice in bed with SNC Lavalin and should not have helped them by interfering with the justice system . But again, he didn’t deny it.

      Heck, we had truckers convoy across the country with swastikas and occupy our capital to try and oust him. So our version of Jan 6th was anti Trudeau, versus being lead (or spurned on) by Trump.

      So its not a 1 to 1 to Trump. He’s closer to Clinton in that he’s a slimy politician who does some good things but clings too hard to the status quo and has some skeletons in the closet.

      • Windex007@lemmy.world
        91·
        7 hours ago

        He was “too nice” to SNC? That… That is not even a remotely accurate euphemism.

        Like, Trudeau isn’t Trump. Not even close. Not even directionally similar. But that’s not at all a reasonable way to describe the scandal.

      • humblebun@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2210·
        7 hours ago

        Ahhh, thanks mate. Didn’t have neither time nor passion to look into Canada’s politics, and now I know a little bit more. Thanks

      • Cruxifux@feddit.nl
        6·
        6 hours ago

        I wouldn’t describe the liberals as centre left. The NDP just broke off their coalition with them because they were doing way too much for corporate interests. That is a centre right thing at best.

        • whoisearth@lemmy.ca
          2·
          2 hours ago

          If Bernier were to disappear tomorrow I can tell you where 100% of his votes will be going and it sure as shit won’t be JT or JS so for all intents and purposes PP is a polished turd version of Trump.

    • celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      131·
      6 hours ago

      Not at all. The closest thing we have to Trump is Maxime Bernier (the leader of the People’s Party of Canada, a fringe alt-right party that has minimal support), or we have Pierre Polievre who leads the Conservative Party of Canada, but is nowhere near as far right as Trump. Justin Trudeau is the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and tends to take extremely centrist positions on everything. People dislike Trudeau for numerous reasons. He lied about electoral reform which was one of his key promises during his initial campaigning a decade ago, Conservatives hate him because he was young enough when he was first elected to be called “fuckable” by Buzzfeed and he spent time speaking to young people and taking photos with them instead of doing what Conservatives believe to be “respectable behavior”, he’s been implicated directly in some very boring corruption scandals, and his government has openly engaged in an immigration scam to artificially inflate Canadian housing property values because most people in our government have investment properties.

      • humblebun@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Last one I actually heard about. Ok, got it: he’s a left-flirting centrist, who’s criticized by executing too liberal reforms and can’t keep his word.

        So… does this make him a Canadian Macron?

      • Melllvar@startrek.websiteEnglish
        51·
        4 hours ago

        I yearn for the simpler days when the worst thing a Republican president might do is tamper with Medicare.

        • Fedizen@lemmy.world
          5·
          4 hours ago

          Or crush the air traffic controller’s union after secretly undermining a hostage crisis and selling weapons to a country illegally to fund war crimes in south america? We all long for those simpler days.

      • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
        82·
        7 hours ago

        Eh… Trudeau might charitably be called Canada’s Bill Clinton. Obama was pretty centrist but still to the left of Trudeau.

        … Also… Obama was popular.

        • kandoh@reddthat.com
          14·
          5 hours ago

          Trudeau legalized weed, medically assisted suicide, and during the pandemic gave people cheques for 2,000 dollars if they needed it, no questions asked.

          I have issue with him no not following through on election reform and not giving the first nations the attention they deserve, but he’s done more to personally improve my life than any other prime minister has.