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There’s more grading today, and this gave me a chance to listen to more Tucker. It’s fascinating that every show, every topic is led towards the idea that there should be a civil war. “This country can’t stay whole. The states are too different. The political factions are too distant from each other ideologically. How can we stay one country? We are clearly no longer one country. We are too different. These conflicts can’t be reconciled. We are too different. We aren’t one country.”

Everything else—the chemtrails, the mustachioed nun, the conspiracies—are background for this one idea advanced with the relentlessness of a metronome. Civil war, civil war, civil war.

I’m very glad I listened to several shows in a row because it’s easy to miss what’s really happening otherwise.

12 responses to “Warmongering”

  1. oldcowboy3 Avatar
    oldcowboy3

    Kid, I have a question for you. Yes, Carlson believes that civil war is inevitable because of increasingly differing belief systems. What does N say about that?

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      I don’t know what Carlson believes. I’m saying he’s trying to make it happen. He’s Radio Mille Collines. He’s trying to sic Americans on each other.

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      1. oldcowboy3 Avatar
        oldcowboy3

        The reason that I asked was Carlson’s worry is hardly unusual, many(most?) men have noticed that disturbing differing in fundamental beliefs. Tucker is not driving that concern, guys are designed like that — an instinct to protect, to guard ;-D

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        1. Clarissa Avatar
          Clarissa

          This is a very standard propaganda technique. Aimed at undermining this country.

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      2. cliff arroyo Avatar
        cliff arroyo

        “He’s trying to sic Americans on each other”

        Really, it’s hard to comprehend.

        Until recently, I assumed he was a big tent guy.

        So much weirdness with him lately.

        Such a hard puzzle to understand.

        I’m not sure if I can.

        Anyway, I do wonder whose interests that would serve…..

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        1. oldcowboy3 Avatar
          oldcowboy3

          Maybe just his show depends upon his questioning interesting(weird) interviewers, Rogan is much similar.

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        2. Clarissa Avatar
          Clarissa

          Definitely somebody is paying for this. Whether in money or something else, who knows.

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          1. oldcowboy3 Avatar
            oldcowboy3

            Perhaps, but I suspect the central reason for the growing differences are largely gender based politics, which is why I asked what your husband thinks, and appended that meme. That snarky journalist was actually trying to shame Sweeney for using her sexually attractiveness, and if looks could have killed, that journalist would have died on the spot ;-D

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            1. Clarissa Avatar
              Clarissa

              I can’t imagine my husband ever knowing or caring, to be honest. 😀

              We are from a different world. All these North American gender troubles are very alien to us.

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                oldcowboy3

                Hmmm, I suspect that I am simply explaining poorly. I was talking about basic instinct, male concern about beliefs that society cannot be accomodated, those likely to produce violence. For example, we did not see functional males in either North America or Europe holding signs welcoming Muslim refugees. Why? Because Sharia law is alien to all western countries.

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    Stringer Bell

    On a separate note I was going to comment on your post about shapiro being a neoliberal, but it’s no longer on the front page. Anyway, I don’t quite agree with that characterization. This is someone whose lifelong project is for his own tribe to live where their ancestors lived 2000 years ago. He clearly gets it. He feels it in his veins. It’s just that he doesn’t want this for westerners.

    If he was all for open borders and “brownification” of israel (he’s famous said he doesn’t care if america becomes brown), then yeah one could call him a neoliberal. But he’s a neoliberal for america and europe. For his people, he’s a blood and soil nationalist.

    So yeah, not a neoliberal. What do you think?

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      I only saw 1,5 shows by Ben Shapiro and I didn’t catch anything he has to say about Israel. And I can’t promise I’ll watch anything any time soon because he didn’t strike me as an intelligent or interesting person. What I heard was very superficial and lightweight.

      Contrast him with Tucker (whom I don’t even like), and it’s obvious that Tucker is at least 2 standard deviations above Ben Shapiro in IQ. And in terms of charisma and talent, Tucker is light-years ahead.

      So I don’t know whether Shapiro has noticed the contradiction in his thinking that you are talking about. I would absolutely respect an honest, consistent neoliberal a lot more than this “here I’m neoliberal while there I’m nationalistic” performance.

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