Yeah, agree with Mcm here. Carlson is a POS....You're [Tucker] a not-so-insignificant reason why this condition exists. You've spent the last 10 years propping up a guy who everybody knew was a narcissistic liar with a fragile ego.
I also agree 100% that Carlson is a POS. Alway was. My point was that the MAGA faithful did a 180 degree turn on him, from holding him up as the chosen MAGA media megaphone to now regarding him as the fake-ass POS that he ALWAYS was.
No, he was always fringe. He hopped on the bandwagon when it was cool in 24. And started b#tching as soon Trump got into office. He's an entertainer, nothing else. Also, one of the great things about Trump is he repels all the right people. You, Aloha, Tucker, Cheney, and Greene. Also, to show I am not bias. @bulk-vh I still would with Ms. Greene.
"biased"
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More Trump corruption.
In a nutshell, Canada fully financed and built a bridge connecting Ontario with Detroit. Construction was completed several weeks ago and the bridge is ready for traffic. Trump has held up the opening of the bridge, saying the bridge deal needs to be renegotiated and he wants a cut of the tolls. Also, a billionaire Trump donor owns a rival toll bridge a short distance away and reportedly lobbied Lutnick/Trump to block the opening of the new bridge.
Pay-to-play. Rampant corruption in the Trump administration. MAGA looks the other way. Rinse and repeat.
US, Canada delay opening of new bridge after Trump raised objections | Reuters
MAGAs loved him. Dbm even mentioned him as Presidential material. I’m sure many of the anti-Israel isolationist MAGAs still like him. I highly recommend he starts up a MAGA party. MTG would probably help him with that.Yeah, agree with Mcm here. Carlson is a POS.
You don't like the way the Republican party looks right now? Guess what? You're a not-so-insignificant reason why this condition exists. You've spent the last 10 years propping up a guy who everybody knew was a narcissistic liar with a fragile ego. You are a good chunk of the reason Trump is in power and why a portion of the public still gobbles down his propaganda at every turn, even the lies that are so blatantly false that only an idiot would believe them. You repeat a lie enough times, people start to believe it. You were part of that cycle.
You've had your come to Jesus moment? Fine. Glad you finally got there. But just as our Republican friends like to say "Words don't mater, it's your actions that count". Tell you what, you spend the next ten years championing, good, smart candidates that don't have ulterior motives and truly have the interests of the American people at heart, then maybe, just maybe, we'll grant you forgiveness.
Till then, pardon us if your tears and gnashing fall upon deaf ears.
Post from Adam Kinzinger about Tucker:
"Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene announced yesterday that they are leaving the Republican Party. The coverage will almost certainly treat this as a story about a party coming apart, about cracks in the MAGA coalition, about dissent and fracture and the inevitable entropy of political movements. That framing is understandable and almost entirely wrong.
Tucker and MTG are not leaving the Republican Party because it failed them. They are leaving because they won the debate. The party became, over the course of a decade, almost exactly what they wanted it to be. It absorbed their grievances, adopted their language, and made their worldview the official ideology of one of the two major parties in the United States. They won. And winning, it turns out, is a problem for people whose identity is built on fighting.
I want to be clear about what I mean, because it matters for understanding something deeper about the political moment we are in. There are two kinds of people in any insurgent political movement. There are the people who want to change the system because they believe the changes will produce better outcomes. And then there are the people for whom the insurgency is the point. The fighting is the identity. The enemy is the product.
MTG is a simpler version of the same story. She came to Congress not to legislate but to perform. She understood before most of her colleagues that the institution was a stage and that the audience was not in the chamber but watching on their phones. She filed impeachment articles on her first day. She harassed colleagues in hallways. She said things designed to be repeated and condemned, because condemnation from the right people is the currency her political brand runs on. Governing (you know, the actual work of passing bills, building coalitions, managing the machinery of the state) has never been her goal and never will be. The Republican Party is now the governing party. That makes it, by definition, the enemy.
The person who understood this most clearly, long before either of them did, is Donald Trump. Trump has controlled the executive branch, bent the legislative branch to his will, reshaped the judiciary, and occupied the most powerful office in the history of the world. And he still talks about draining the swamp. He is the swamp. He built the swamp. Every cabinet secretary, every political appointee, every federal prosecutor doing his bidding is his swamp. And yet the language of the insurgent outsider, the lone fighter against a corrupt system, never goes away. Because without that language, the movement has to answer for what it has actually done with power. The machine keeps running because the enemy never disappears. You just find new ones.
This is not a sustainable politics, but it is a remarkably durable one. The grievance model does not require results. It does not require policy victories or improved conditions or evidence that the movement’s prescriptions are working. It requires only the continuous identification of enemies. And new enemies are easy, because in a complex society there is always someone to blame. The “genius” of it, and I use that word without admiration, is that winning actually strengthens it. Every victory can be reframed as incomplete, as stolen, as proof that the real enemy is still out there. The MAGA movement controls the White House, the Supreme Court, and both houses of Congress, and its most prominent media figures are still describing themselves as resistance fighters.
And I know something of suddenly being out step with your party. I walked away from my place in the Republican Party. I want to be honest about how different that departure was from this one. I let the party careen away from me and the principles I believed in because staying in the party’s good graces required a form of silence I was not willing to perform. I was not looking for a new enemy. I was trying, imperfectly and at real cost, to say what I actually believed.
The question worth asking is what it means for the country that figures like this have become its most influential political communicators. A politics organized around permanent opposition cannot build anything. It can only tear things down and declare the tearing a victory. We have seen what that produces. And the people most responsible for producing it have now decided that even the ruins are not radical enough for their purposes.
They did not leave because they lost. They left because people who need an enemy can never afford to win."
I don't know if I agree with that, but it wouldn't surprise me either.
A lot of truth in that.
Post from Adam Kinzinger about Tucker:
"Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene announced yesterday that they are leaving the Republican Party. The coverage will almost certainly treat this as a story about a party coming apart, about cracks in the MAGA coalition, about dissent and fracture and the inevitable entropy of political movements. That framing is understandable and almost entirely wrong.
Tucker and MTG are not leaving the Republican Party because it failed them. They are leaving because they won the debate. The party became, over the course of a decade, almost exactly what they wanted it to be. It absorbed their grievances, adopted their language, and made their worldview the official ideology of one of the two major parties in the United States. They won. And winning, it turns out, is a problem for people whose identity is built on fighting.
I want to be clear about what I mean, because it matters for understanding something deeper about the political moment we are in. There are two kinds of people in any insurgent political movement. There are the people who want to change the system because they believe the changes will produce better outcomes. And then there are the people for whom the insurgency is the point. The fighting is the identity. The enemy is the product.
MTG is a simpler version of the same story. She came to Congress not to legislate but to perform. She understood before most of her colleagues that the institution was a stage and that the audience was not in the chamber but watching on their phones. She filed impeachment articles on her first day. She harassed colleagues in hallways. She said things designed to be repeated and condemned, because condemnation from the right people is the currency her political brand runs on. Governing (you know, the actual work of passing bills, building coalitions, managing the machinery of the state) has never been her goal and never will be. The Republican Party is now the governing party. That makes it, by definition, the enemy.
The person who understood this most clearly, long before either of them did, is Donald Trump. Trump has controlled the executive branch, bent the legislative branch to his will, reshaped the judiciary, and occupied the most powerful office in the history of the world. And he still talks about draining the swamp. He is the swamp. He built the swamp. Every cabinet secretary, every political appointee, every federal prosecutor doing his bidding is his swamp. And yet the language of the insurgent outsider, the lone fighter against a corrupt system, never goes away. Because without that language, the movement has to answer for what it has actually done with power. The machine keeps running because the enemy never disappears. You just find new ones.
This is not a sustainable politics, but it is a remarkably durable one. The grievance model does not require results. It does not require policy victories or improved conditions or evidence that the movement’s prescriptions are working. It requires only the continuous identification of enemies. And new enemies are easy, because in a complex society there is always someone to blame. The “genius” of it, and I use that word without admiration, is that winning actually strengthens it. Every victory can be reframed as incomplete, as stolen, as proof that the real enemy is still out there. The MAGA movement controls the White House, the Supreme Court, and both houses of Congress, and its most prominent media figures are still describing themselves as resistance fighters.
And I know something of suddenly being out step with your party. I walked away from my place in the Republican Party. I want to be honest about how different that departure was from this one. I let the party careen away from me and the principles I believed in because staying in the party’s good graces required a form of silence I was not willing to perform. I was not looking for a new enemy. I was trying, imperfectly and at real cost, to say what I actually believed.
The question worth asking is what it means for the country that figures like this have become its most influential political communicators. A politics organized around permanent opposition cannot build anything. It can only tear things down and declare the tearing a victory. We have seen what that produces. And the people most responsible for producing it have now decided that even the ruins are not radical enough for their purposes.
They did not leave because they lost. They left because people who need an enemy can never afford to win."
I don't know if I agree with that, but it wouldn't surprise me either.
A lot of truth in that.
The English-speaking soccer fans and their chants have been entertaining. The Aussies led off with
"Aussie boys are on a bender, Donald Trump is a sex offender".
The Brits took it up a few notches with "Trump is fat and we are told, he likes to rape girls 12 years old"
"You can't make someone listen to reason if they aren't willing to think"-- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
The English-speaking soccer fans and their chants have been entertaining. The Aussies led off with
"Aussie boys are on a bender, Donald Trump is a sex offender".
The Brits took it up a few notches with "Trump is fat and we are told, he likes to rape girls 12 years old"
One trick pony…you’ve got it bad
One trick pony…you’ve got it bad
Just stating facts. Trump is weighing going to a world cup match, reportedly, but the anti-Trump cheers by fans may limit him to attending USMNT matches vs. non English-speaking countries, to avoid embarrassment.
"You can't make someone listen to reason if they aren't willing to think"-- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
@shooter spartan was also just stating facts. the world sees what a great country we have. there's zero chance we wouldn't hvae insanity of virtue signaling garbage if the socialist terrorist sympathizing party was in office
the world sees what a great country we have.
We do have a great country and I wouldn’t live elsewhere. But we have an orange buffoon in charge making it a place that foreigners don’t want to visit as much as they used to. We are no longer respected.
Even while hosting the world cup, travel to the USA is down 14% in 2026. Without the world cup it would be down >40%. This builds on a big drop in 2025 as well.
Why are they not coming? Ask them and they tell you.
-whacked out tariff shit
-bashing of Europe, NATO, essentially all non-dictatorships
-fear of American gun violence
-fear of American anti-foreigner attitudes, spelled out clearly by the orange buffoon.
-strong US dollar
-higher plane fares due to a stupid war increasing fuel costs
-we are now considered and unreliable partner and ally, politically
-they are rapidly losing respect for the USA
one link of many you can find about the tourism cliff. It's been widely publicized in south FL, affecting buisnesses negatively
https://travel.yahoo.com/news/articles/tourists-boycott-u-record-rates-154737034.html
"You can't make someone listen to reason if they aren't willing to think"-- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
One trick pony…you’ve got it bad
Just stating facts. Trump is weighing going to a world cup match, reportedly, but the anti-Trump cheers by fans may limit him to attending USMNT matches vs. non English-speaking countries, to avoid embarrassment.
Why do you think they wouldn't chant Fuck Trump at those matches? It's like a universal language.
@shooter much of what i'm seeing is the portrait media plays doesn't comport with the reality of what america is like and the foreigners are ABSOLUTELY LOVING IT and can't understand why the picture of things being yucky is portrayed. they want more usa!!!!!!!!! and honestly we are the greatest. from ingenuity to opportunity to the fun we're having with the world cup. we have trump to thank for so much of that. we don't want to be europe. we don't care what europe or anywhere else thinks. we like things our way.
it scares me that you want to bring in people who think otherwise. socialists. terrorists. you know full well if your party was in charge the world cup wouldn't be a celebration. it would just be virtue signaling.
god bless america and thank god the world cup occurred when the DSP wasn't in office
@unclemark not really. mostly amongst progressive countries and countries with guilt complexes looking for historical atonement. western. walz types. this world cup has been an incredible celebration of america. trump is to thank in significant part for that. he's undoubtedly a terrible president but again if the DSP was in charge my god each fan would be given a BLM scarf before entering the stadium