So Wednesday night, Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy addressed a joint session of Congress; and, as you might guess, the right has thoughts on the matter. Hateful, dumb, divisive words about it, in fact. You’d think they could stop being contrary for a few minutes, wouldn’t you? Well… you’d be very, very wrong.
So let’s do a long-form snarking of Tucker’s seven-minute-and-forty-six-seconds segment of it.
For the record: I began listening to Tucker’s segment and transcribing it myself, only to discover after I’d done about 2 minutes of it that Fox News’ site had posted the entire tirade as an opinion article. So… Yeah. At least that saved me a little effort. (I’d advise against clicking that link, as Fox has invisible ads that auto-play; and since they’re invisible, you can’t find them to turn them off.)
Here’s the video of the segment:
Question: Why does Tucker look constipated in every one of these thumbnails?
Sorry for that aside…
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): As far as we know, no one’s ever addressed the United States Congress in a sweatshirt before–
Me: It’s not a sweatshirt, Tucker. It’s battle fatigues, which he’s been wearing throughout the war his country is currently fighting. But you do you…
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): –but, they love him. Much more than they love you.
Me: Why does Tucker Carlson feel the need to pit Congress against his audience here? What could his motive be for that?
Telling his audience they’re victims of the system is the best way to get them feeling outraged, fearful, and hopeless, all at the same time. Such people are then easy to control and mislead.
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Welcome to Tucker Carlson Tonight. Remember when Sam Bankman-Fried showed up in Washington wearing a T-shirt and spouting nonsense, and all the self-described geniuses declared him a hero? The media, the White House, the Congress, they all loved this weird little guy called Sam Bankman-Fried.
Me: First let me ask, “Why is Tucker Carlson talking about SBF during a segment ostensibly about Zelenskyy’s speech before a joint session of Congress?”
Answer: Because —
1) he’s trying to tarnish Zelenskyy by linking him and SBF in this segment. One has nothing to do with the other, but it’s all about demonizing Zelenskyy here. And right now, SBF is an easy villain the right can point to.
2) he’s avoiding talking about the speech as much as possible and has to fill his segment with something, so… SBF!
Now, let’s discuss something else: RW media has been making out that SBF was a big donor to democrats (and, to be fair, he was). But they fail to mention that SBF gave a lot to the R team, too. And his partner gave more to Rs than Ds. And if we want to be frank: all politicians love donations, and often aren’t too picky from whom they take that money. That’s not always true, but it often is.
Here’s SBF talking to Tiffany Fong about his donations to both parties:
Tiff cued it up to the point in the interview about that topic, but continue to listen for about a minute longer, because SBF then addresses the conspiracy theory that he laundered funds through Ukraine for the Democratic Party…
So the right is in no position to go on about how evil democrats are for taking SBF’s dirty money, since they took it, too. The only difference was, the Rs took it under the table, in the dark…
But since Tucker wants to scold about weird, inappropriate visitors to the White House, let’s talk about Trump meeting with Kanye West (long-time antisemite), Mike Lindell (pillow magnate and notorious election denier), Sydney Powell (bat-crap crazy Kraken-hunter), and Mike Flynn (twice-fired, disgraced former general and Christian Nationalist hatemonger). And that’s just the list off the top of my head…
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Remember that? Somehow we’re reminded of it today, when the President of Ukraine arrived at the White House dressed like the manager of a strip club–
Me: Yes, because Zelenskyy wearing battle fatigues and SBF wearing a dirty T-shirt and baggie shorts is exactly the same thing… 🙄
Also, I’m not a person who frequents strip clubs, but, apparently, Tucker is. No judgment here, Tucker, but you might not want to admit that publicly. Just sayin’…
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): –and started to demand money.
Me: So Tucker would feel better about Zelenskyy “shaking down America for money” had he dressed nicely? Please…
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Amazingly, no one threw him out; instead, they did whatever he wanted.
Me: Really? Whatever he wanted? So if he wanted them to strip naked and give him a lap dance, they did it? (Sorry, blame Tucker for putting images of naked men giving each other lap dances in my head and thus on this page. He was the one who went there with the strip club stuff…)
TUCKER CARLSON (DIDN’T GET ENOUGH PPP FREE MONEY FROM TRUMP): American taxpayers declared Joe Biden will continue to give Zelenskyy whatever he demands for quote, “As long as it takes.”
Tellingly, Biden never specified what “it” is. As long as it takes to do what?
Me: The stupid, it burns, does it not?
Gee, Tucker, maybe “it” is stopping Russia from blasting Ukraine to smithereens? :shrug:
TUCKER CARLSON (HE ONLY PLAYS STUPID ON TV): Push the Russian army back to pre-invasion borders? Sounds reasonable.
Me: See? We knew you knew what “it” was…
TUCKER CARLSON (HE ONLY PLAYS STUPID ON TV): That’s what most Americans likely assume, those who are still paying attention. But that is NOT what Zelenskyy means, and it is NOT what he is asking for. Zelenskyy is demanding regime change in Russia.
Me: Huh. That’s so weird. Why would anyone want a despotic tyrant attacking his country to be removed from office?
Didn’t Putin send kidnap/assassination squads to hunt down Zelenskyy early on in this war? Why, yes… yes, he did. So why on earth would Zelenskyy want Putin gone?
It’s a mystery! Also, very, very bad and evil, according to Tucker…
TUCKER CARLSON (HE ONLY PLAYS STUPID ON TV): Just like in Iraq, in Libya and a long line of other failed states, except this time in the heart of the Eurasian landmass, next door to the entire civilized world.
Me: Well, not next door to the entire civilized world, since America is an ocean and another continent away, but still…
It’s not Ukraine’s fault that Russia is next door neighbors with Europe. That was kinda the point for the creation of NATO, in fact, to defend Europe from Russian expansionism or ill-advised attacks on our European allies.
But Tucker’s contempt of NATO is long-established. Because–and I’m not going to hedge here–Tucker is a Putin cheerleader.
As for the rest of Tucker’s point: well, apparently he’s pro-genocide. Not really a great thing to support, Tucker…
TUCKER CARLSON (HE ONLY PLAYS STUPID ON TV): That’s what Zelenskyy has called for repeatedly, and every dollar we send to him goes toward that end.
Me: Tucker says this like it’s a bad thing…
Also, Zelenskyy made the point several times in his speech that he hoped Russians would free themselves from Putin’s grip. So the regime change Zelenskyy spoke of would come at least as much from Putin’s own beleagured population as from Ukraine.
TUCKER CARLSON (HE ONLY PLAYS STUPID ON TV): At this point, he’s getting a lot closer to achieving it.
Me: Good!
TUCKER CARLSON (HE ONLY PLAYS STUPID ON TV): So what happens if he quote “wins”? What does the ensuing chaos look like?
Me: Um…
Can you imagine the media questioning FDR and Churchill about their desire to drive Hitler and Hirohito out of power? “Who will fill the void? What will happen to the heavy water facilities Germany built to create their nuclear bombs? What about all those kamikaze pilots? Will no one consider them?”
How about we get rid of Putin and then worry about dealing with the power vaccuum and chaos when it arises? Who knows? Maybe chaos doesn’t end up happening.
TUCKER CARLSON (HE ONLY PLAYS STUPID ON TV): Thought about that?
Me: You clearly have. Because what happens to you, Tucker, if Putin is deposed? Who will provide your talking points then?
TUCKER CARLSON (HE ONLY PLAYS STUPID ON TV): Who’s gonna secure the world’s largest nuclear arsenal, once we help Zelenskyy topple the Russian government?
Me: Hopefully, us. Along with the rest of NATO and the UN.
TUCKER CARLSON (HE ONLY PLAYS STUPID ON TV): Who replaces Putin?
Me: Any one of the still-living Putin critics?
These really aren’t hard questions to answer, Tucker…
TUCKER CARLSON (HE ONLY PLAYS STUPID ON TV): Strangely, those topics did not come up today.
Me: Is it really strange? Really? Wouldn’t that be putting the cart before the horse? Let’s defeat Russia, then deal with the fallout as it starts falling… Sheesh!
TUCKER CARLSON (HE ONLY PLAYS STUPID ON TV): ‘Cause that wasn’t the point. The point of today’s visit to Washington was not to make the world more stable or make wise decisions, much less to help America–that’s always at the bottom of the list. The point was to fawn over the Ukrainian strip club manager and hand him billions more dollars from our own crumbling economy.
Me: We’re 1:46 seconds into this 7:45 minute video, and I really want to reach into my laptop and punch Tucker’s smug face.
But nevermind my annoyance, let’s address his words. Did you notice how he went from describing Zelenskyy as looking like a strip club manager to actually calling him one here?
That was intentional and a trick he uses regularly.
Since I’ve already invoked WWII, let’s continue with that analogy: in the 1930s, the entire world was suffering a severe depression, which Hitler exploited to feed into the fear, anger, and national wounded pride of his fellow Germans. Did Churchill or FDR say, “Gee, we’d like to help out the rest of Europe in their struggles with Hitler, but, gosh darn it! We have our own crumbling economies to think about”?
No, they did not.
But the isolationists–some of whom were nothing more than German propagandists–used that same line back in the 1930s here in the US. It’s why the “America First” slogan currently adopted by the political right is so concerning. They KNOW what they’re doing. They KNOW they’re invoking the same fascism that was part of the original America First movement. They simply hope their audience is too oblivious to notice or too stupid to care.
I’m going to have to summon all my masochistic will to get through the rest of this video. Good thing I started this article Thursday morning… (Did you miss me in comments yesterday afternoon? I’d like to think you did… grin)
TUCKER CARLSON (HE ONLY PLAYS STUPID ON TV): It is hard, in fact, it may be impossible to imagine a more humiliating scenario for the greatest country on earth.
Me: The leader of a country coming to a more powerful country and asking for aid is humiliating? To whom, Tucker? Who is the victim of this humiliation? :eye roll:
TUCKER CARLSON (HE ONLY PLAYS STUPID ON TV): And we would love to blame Joe Biden for it–
Me: You don’t say! When do you refrain from blaming our current POTUS?
TUCKER CARLSON (HE ONLY PLAYS STUPID ON TV): –but we can’t, really. Not entirely, at least. This was bipartisan masochism.
Me: Um, as something of an expert on masochism, I’m gonna say, no, this was nothing like masochism–bipartisan or otherwise. But you do you, Tucker…
I mean, so far he’s talked somewhat knowledgably about strip club managers and (less knowledgably about) masochism. Is there something about Tucker’s sex life he feels compelled to share with us, even if he can’t bring himself to fully address it?
:shrug:
TUCKER CARLSON (HE ONLY PLAYS STUPID ON TV): The uniparty is alive and well despite the best efforts of voters, including last month.
Me: Is it just me, or does it seem like that’s a veiled reference to the whole Big Lie/stolen election story?
Long ago, I used to buy into the “uniparty” notion. But that was before one party lost its damned mind. We all know which one. So it’s a little hard to take when a guy who has egged on the crazies on the right talks about the “uniparty.” Of course, he means the democrats plus RINO republicans. But who gets to decide which Rs are “In Name Only” and which are full-fledged, in good standing types? Is it Tucker Carlson who gets to determine that?
You can’t even say the GOP is an actual political party anymore, since they don’t even have a platform. Of course, some of them are desperately trying to obtain a divorce with TFG, but that’s not likely to happen anytime soon. (Barring the DOJ charging him with crimes and hauling his ass off to federal prison, anyway.)
TUCKER CARLSON (PUTIN WANTS ME TO WEAR THE GIMP SUIT TONIGHT): And if you doubt that it’s alive and well, here’s a picture of Zelenskyy that he had taken with a group of elderly Republican senators in Kiev back in May. They stand grinning next to him in their orthopedic shoes. 70-year old Susan Collins, John Barrasso, John Cornyn, led by their 80-year old ringleader, Mitch McConnell. 44-year old Zelenskyy poses between them in a skintight polo shirt, flexing like a weightlifter and trying to look ferocious.
This is the photo Tucker’s referring to:
Me: If you want to see a guy wearing a skintight polo shirt, Tucker, you should check out Tom Fitton.
Something tells me you may have already done so…
TUCKER CARLSON (PUTIN WANTS ME TO WEAR THE GIMP SUIT TONIGHT): They seem awestruck.
Me: No, they don’t. A couple of them look like they might not even be sure where they are or why…
TUCKER CARLSON (PUTIN WANTS ME TO WEAR THE GIMP SUIT TONIGHT): Not since a young Fidel Castro showed up in New York wearing battle fatigues has this country’s aging leadership class tittered more loudly in delight. They love a man in uniform. What a hunk. So strong and decisive. Look at the expression in Mitch McConnell’s face, you could almost hear the giggles of pleasure.
Me: Mitch McConnell always looks like that. He looked like that when officers (and their families) were honored by Congress for protecting them during the insurrection. He looked like that when families snubbed him and walked past him as he had his glad-hand out to them.
IOW, Tucker is projecting here. Because he has to. He’s a sad, little man who resents anyone else getting the attention and accolades he believes he deserves.
Also, if we want to hear or see people debasing themselves in their homoerotic glee about a world leader, let’s talk about how RW media describes and presents Putin, shall we?
How much would you like to bet Tucker has a poster of shirtless Putin on the ceiling of his bedroom?
TUCKER CARLSON (PUTIN WANTS ME TO WEAR THE GIMP SUIT TONIGHT): No rational person assessing the issues ever would have predicted this moment. If you were a Republican officeholder and Zelenskyy came to Washington, maybe you would for a moment, ask him about his current and ongoing war against Christianity in Ukraine.
Me: Context, as always, matters here. Zelenskyy isn’t at war with Christianity, though it’s not surprising a shill for Russia would frame it the same way the Kremlin does. For the record, there’s more than one Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Ukraine, one of which is a puppet for the Kremlin, much like the Russian Orthodox Church is in Russia. But, yeah…
TUCKER CARLSON (PUTIN WANTS ME TO WEAR THE GIMP SUIT TONIGHT): Especially if you were, say, Mitch McConnell or John Cornyn and a lot of your own voters go to church on Sunday. They might care about that issue. But McConnell and Cornyn didn’t mention it. They didn’t say a word. You will not hear a word on television tonight about the fact that Zelenskyy has banned an entire ancient Christian denomination in Ukraine and then seized churches and then thrown priests into jail. According to Mitch McConnell, who apparently hasn’t left his office since the mid-eighties, anti-Christian despotism is what most Republicans want above all.
Me: Again, context matters and there’s much Tucker, disingenuously, omits. Like the concern that those priests were collaborating with Russia during the current unpleasantness between the two countries. As a matter of fact, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriachate (the “ancient Christian denomination” Tucker references here) has been considered questionable since 2014, when Russia entered the Donbas region. The UOC of MP took Russia’s side and are still on it today. So… um… yeah.
TUCKER CARLSON (PUTIN WANTS ME TO WEAR THE GIMP SUIT TONIGHT): They don’t get enough. They’re just begging for it. Watch McConnell explain.
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MITCH MCCONNELL: Providing assistance for the Ukrainians to defeat the Russians is the number one priority for the United States right now, according to most Republicans. That’s sort of how we see the challenges confronting the country at the moment.
TUCKER CARLSON (PUTIN WANTS ME TO WEAR THE GIMP SUIT TONIGHT): And two other senators stand behind him, nodding like it’s true. Defeating Putin is, quote, “the number one priority among Republicans,” says Mitch McConnell, who leads Republicans in the Senate. Number one? Before our own economy? Or our own children’s schools? Or, for that matter, before the more than 2000 young people killed last year by fentanyl in Mitch McConnell’s “home state” of Kentucky?
Me: Since Tucker opened the door about our schools, what, exactly do he and republicans plan to do to prevent children from being mass murdered at schools? Just curious…
Also, I don’t know why Tucker put “home state” in quotes like that, but he did, so…
TUCKER CARLSON (PUTIN WANTS ME TO WEAR THE GIMP SUIT TONIGHT): Punishing Vladimir Putin for putting Donald Trump in office is more important than all of that says Mitch McConnell.
Me: That’s a really asinine thing to say. Putin isn’t being “punished” for “putting Donald Trump in office.” He’s a danger on the world stage because he is committing atrocities against a neighboring country that he wants to take for his own.
TUCKER CARLSON (PUTIN WANTS ME TO WEAR THE GIMP SUIT TONIGHT): Ukraine’s borders matter. Ours don’t matter.
Me: This is the usual republican talking point they think scores points with the voters. And with brainless lemmings who would sooner vote for Putin than a democrat, they’re probably right about it being an effective talking point. But for anyone with at least a quarter of a functioning brain, well… the argument that the administration doesn’t care about or defend our southern border is… you come up with the word; I’m developing a migraine.
If we didn’t care, why would we be catching people coming over the border every day? Why would record seizures of fentanyl be happening regularly?
Yeah, they can’t answer that. But every time there’s such an announcement, they come out and talk about how the Biden admin isn’t guarding the border.
TUCKER CARLSON: You may have suspected they thought that. But at this point, they’re just coming out and saying this right in your face. And of course, the White House agrees completely. Watch Mitch McConnell (Fox’s posting of Tucker’s op-ed says “Joe Biden,” but in his reading of his own piece on-air, Tucker says “Mitch McConnell”) announce today that you’ll be paying for evermore advanced weapons systems to be sent to Ukraine, whether you like it or not.
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JOE BIDEN: We’re going to continue to strengthen Ukraine’s ability to defend itself, particularly air defense. And that’s why we’re going to be right in Ukraine with Patriot missile battery and training your forces to be able to accurately use it.
TUCKER CARLSON: He’s reading his little script.
Me: Trump never needed a crib sheet. Nope. Not ever. And don’t imagine I ever suggested he did!
Trump needed a visual cue to remind him to express empathy while meeting with Parkland victims and their families. Wait–did I say that out loud? No, I couldn’t have, because everyone knows Trump had the best brain! The bigliest, most luxurious brain that any stable genius ever had!
TUCKER CARLSON: Maybe it was written by the defense contractors that just hosted an event in Washington for the Ukrainian ambassador. Literally, they put their logos on the invitation just in case there was any question about what’s going on here. So this is a big change from what we had last month. But you wouldn’t know that from the media coverage of it. Your average reporter in Washington likes Zelenskyy a lot more than he likes you. So nobody asks about it. But this is a major policy change. It was just a few months ago that a senior U.S. defense official said, and we’re quoting, “There is no discussion about putting a Patriot battery in Ukraine. In order to do that, you would have to put U.S. troops with it to operate.”
Me: A case can be made about how defense contractors get mega-rich selling weapons to people engaged in conflict. But Tucker Carlson isn’t really upset about that; he’s not making that case in good faith. He’s just using it in his war of words against Zelenskyy.
Tucker and the right are mad at Ukraine and its president because he refused to knuckle under to Trump when the Orange Dumbsicle tried to withhold foreign aid until Zelenskyy provided some dirt Trump could use against Biden and his son. Zeleskyy refused to play ball and Trump’s shakedown of him was the reason for the first impeachment.
So, yeah.
As for the rest, he once again is mischaracterizing these statements and pretending there’s been a change in policy. There hasn’t been. Zelenskyy was quite clear he wanted the equipment and money, but NOT American troops. He said Ukrainians could use the equipment themselves.
So Tucker–wait for it!–lied to his audience. Like he does every damned day he broadcasts.
Finally, note that for the second time Tucker tells his audience that the MSM likes Zelenskyy “more than you.” This is more of the same-old attacks against the media Fox and the right regularly engage in, making the MSM out to be the “enemy of the people.”
Even though Tucker is part of the media himself. At least with Tucker and Fox, I can believe their an enemy of the people, including their own audience…
TUCKER CARLSON: In other words, you would have to fight a hot war against Russia, which has not only not been approved by the Congress, but most Americans have no idea that’s happening.
Me: They have no idea it’s happening, because it isn’t. We’re not fighting a hot war with Russia if our troops aren’t actively engaged with them in Ukraine or elsewhere. Tucker knows this; he just hopes his audience doesn’t.
TUCKER CARLSON: But now it is happening. Did you know that? Are you for that? Is it the most important thing? More important than your nephew dying of fentanyl? Yes, says Mitch McConnell.
Me: I’m not trying to dismiss fentanyl deaths, but are they more important than children being beaten, raped, tortured, and then murdered?
Why is Tucker wanting his audience to care about tragedy, suffering, and death only in America and not anywhere else?
TUCKER CARLSON:
But it’s just the beginning. Because as you just saw, Zelenskyy has arrived in Washington to make more demands. He’s the houseguest who would not leave.
Me: Zelenskyy was here for a day, not even long enough for the fish to start smelling. He can hardly be described as the houseguest who wouldn’t leave. But leave it to Tucker to try to ruin a favorite holiday movie during his diatribe.
TUCKER CARLSON: And every moment we tolerate him, the demands become bigger. In case you missed it. Here’s part of what he said just a moment ago.
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VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY: Financial assistance is also critically important. And I would like to thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you for both financial packages you have already provided us with and the ones you may be willing to decide on. Your money is not charity. It’s an investment in the global security and democracy that we handle in the most responsible way.
Me: How is that “demands (that) become bigger”? The war has dragged on for nine or ten months now. Ukraine still wants to put up a defense against Russian attacks. Obviously, they’ll need more money over time.
Also, “every moment we tolerate him”? WTAF? Is Tucker suggesting we shouldn’t “tolerate” Zelenskyy? How does he mean that? Does he mean it in the same sense Putin did, when he sent units out to assassinate the Ukrainian president?
TUCKER CARLSON: So the leader of a foreign government dressed in a sweatshirt(*) waltzes into the United States Congress and starts demanding money. And then has the gall to tell the people sitting there, who are giving him tens of billions of dollars more of your money, that it is not charity, it’s an investment. Really, what are the returns on that?
Me: Freedom from tyranny, Tucker. Those are the returns on that investment. Not simply freedom from tyranny in Ukraine, either, but also in Poland, in Estonia, in Latvia, in Norway and Finland–in every country Putin has threatened will be next in his desire to retake all lands once held by or under the thumb of the USSR.
But I can see how a shill for Putin would miss that.
Also, again, not a sweatshirt. Battle fatigues. Because he’s a wartime president who has been personally targetted by Putin for kidnapping or elimination. For Zelenskyy, the front lines are wherever he is.
Finally, Zelenskyy didn’t “waltz into the United States Congress.” He was invited to address them in a joint session. Because, yes, they vote for foreign aid; and he’s asking for their financial assisatance during a state of war in his country. This isn’t some local thug shaking down school kids for their lunch money.
TUCKER CARLSON: And by the way, what’s the point of it? What is the goal here? What’s the justification for it? Do we have a historic debt to Ukraine? Do we have a historic animosity with a non-Soviet Russia?
Me: On Twitter and Post in the last couple of weeks, we’ve seen images of various places in Ukraine from a year ago, before they knew war was coming. City squares decorated for Christmas, all twinkly lights and winter’s glittery cape spread across the town.
They’re fighting so that someday–hopefully in the not-too-distant-future–those cities will look like that again. The people who live in those cities can freely live their lives without being subjegated by Russia.
The historic debt we have is not simply to Ukraine, but to defend democracy everywhere, around the world, at all times.
I can see why a pampered dick like Tucker Carlson would pretend not to understand that, though…
TUCKER CARLSON: No, no. How do we win here? What’s in it for us? Isn’t this our country? And where do you get off talking to us like that? Do we hate ourselves so much? Do we have so little respect for the United States of America that we put up with that, that we’ll applaud it? Thank you, sir. May I have another? What’s wrong with us? What’s wrong with our leaders? And where is this going?
Me: Since when should our nation’s foreign policy be transactional, as in, “You do something for us, we’ll do something for you”? What happened to doing the right thing because it’s the right thing to do? Should we just stand by and allow atrocities to happen because the people being victimized don’t give anything to us?
Here, again, is President Zelenskyy’s words Tucker objects to so vehemently:
VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY: Financial assistance is also critically important. And I would like to thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you for both financial packages you have already provided us with and the ones you may be willing to decide on. Your money is not charity. It’s an investment in the global security and democracy that we handle in the most responsible way.
Where is the disrespect Tucker implies is there? Where are the demands? Why would he think something is wrong with people who applaud what Zelenskyy said?
Oh, right, sorry. My bad. We already know why Tucker feels so very threatened here. It’s the same reason Putin feels threatened by Zelenskyy: because he’s standing up against Russian aggression and has rallied the world to his country’s aid. Of course Tucker and his master hate that.
The Marjorie Taylor Greenes, the Lauren Boeberts, the Rand Pauls… everyone who invokes “America First” when objecting to assisting Ukraine don’t give a flying flip about helping Americans. If they did, they would’ve worked with democrats who were trying to fix some of our nation’s current problems, like tackling inflation and high gas prices, high drug costs, supply chain bottlenecks, lack of baby formula, adequate healthcare for our veterans, crumbling infrastructure, mass shootings, and a host of other problems. Where were the republicans while all that was happening? Oh, right: doing their best to win the Oscar for Best Performance by a Performative Asshole, which is a highly competitive category.
That’s it for Tucker. And as much as I wanted to cover other people, this post is already novella length, so I’ll close it out and you can post the worst bad takes on Zelenskyy’s speech in the comment section below.
I’ll see you tomorrow at noon for some Christmas Eve music, and then on Sunday for the noir film, “Christmas Holiday” with Gene Kelly.