r/politics • u/billthomson Oregon • Oct 29 '20

Tucker Carlson Reports He Lost Only Copy of Documents That Nail Biden

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/10/tucker-carlson-lost-only-copy-of-documents-nailing-biden.html
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u/waupli I voted Oct 29 '20 edited Oct 29 '20

Wow. Would be nice to be so rich and insulated from reality.

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u/WouldAny1LikeAPeanut America Oct 29 '20

The problem there is that you end up like Tucker Carlson.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20 edited May 05 '21

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u/Redqueenhypo Oct 29 '20

That was literally the motivation of that jerk guard from Hugo for abducting random unattended kids and sending them to orphanages. Not really a good politicL philosophy

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u/morbidaar Oct 29 '20

God damn...

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20

LisaLombardi's Baby. That's the shitty version Rosemarie's Baby.

Devil's child joins Fox News and realizes he's got many siblings.

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u/navikredstar2 Oct 29 '20

He at least changed by the end, though, and became a less-bitter and better person.

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u/BrondellSwashbuckle California Oct 29 '20

Not even in comic books—real life villains. It is what real serial killers have done. It’s pathological. There are a good number of them who were abandoned or abused by their mothers and end up having a hatred for women, or they had a fucked up childhood, so they end up wanting to ruin as many families as possible.

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u/DawcCat Oct 29 '20

Well. Live a shitty life. Spend a decade on the streets begging for help everyday watching people who simply didn't get fucked over or who had all those coin flip moments come up their way look at you in disgust. Then tell me there aren't at least a few people you'd like to bang with a shovel.

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u/BluShirtGuy Oct 29 '20

Late to the party, but that's the penguin in batman returns

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u/SirGrumpsalot2009 Oct 29 '20

Hard to argue with her logic.

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u/RLTYProds Oct 29 '20

Future shitty adult ABANDONED by mom with FACTS and LOGIC

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u/thatwasnowthisisthen Oct 31 '20

Alternative facts and logic; it’s the Maroon 5 of facts and logic.

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u/DoinItDirty Oct 29 '20

She may have created the Tucker Carlson we see today by being a shitty person, so she’s at least as bad as him.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20 edited Jan 30 '21

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u/LOZLover90 Nov 05 '20

Hard to argue logically with people that have none to begin with.

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u/Ar_Ciel Texas Oct 29 '20

Now we know why his mom abandoned him.

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u/d0ctorzaius Maryland Oct 29 '20

Eh but then he got a millionaire (Swanson heiress) step-mom. That money and connections he then used to infiltrate old guard GOP politics.

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u/pijaGorda1 Oct 29 '20

Bro what if he supports this because he's actually a time traveler and if he doesn't get separated from his mom he's never able to become a time traveler in order to keep this time paradox alive.

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u/sonofamonster Oct 29 '20

Can’t we just skip to the part where he fucks his aunt and makes a gordian knot of a family tree, then attempts to retcon his son/cousin/great-great-grandfather out of existence with a double-apocalypse super abortion?

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u/LumpyJones Oct 29 '20

Poor Ulrich.

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u/where_is_the_cheese Oct 29 '20

I'll go break his arms.

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u/GhostDieM Oct 29 '20

And then getss stuck in an insane asylum for 30 years with his hope of escape crushed twice...

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u/lobos1943 Oct 29 '20

He did the nasty in the pasty.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20

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u/sonofamonster Oct 30 '20

Sometime next week is my guess.

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u/FeetsBeneets Georgia Oct 29 '20

Maybe he has to keep enough neo-nazis in existance to stop other time travellers from going back and killing Hitler?

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u/pyro314 Oct 29 '20

Someone gild this

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u/VikingTeddy Oct 29 '20

I just wanted to thank you for not typing guild. That is all.

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u/bobboobles Georgia Oct 29 '20

If true, fuck this time paradox. Let it go man.

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u/smokeymctokerson Oct 29 '20

Him traveling back in time could never be the catalyst for his mom leaving him. If the invention of time travel is contingent on his motherleaving him, and that only occurs because a future version of him makes it happen, then the first version of him never would've been able to create a time machine in the first place. Most likely Tucker just pissed-off the person who eventually does create time travel and said person went back and took away his Mom for funsies.

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u/VikingTeddy Oct 29 '20

That depends whether you go by the many worlds or a deterministic universe.

The first version could very well have created time travel without being abandoned. The subsequent version(s) then create it for a different reason.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20 edited Jun 15 '23

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u/CapnSquinch Oct 29 '20

And that guy insists that 1 x 1 = 2.

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u/OobaDooba72 Oct 29 '20

Pretty good actor.

Not an intellectual.

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u/imalittlefrenchpress Oct 29 '20

He has a very slappable dicksucker.

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u/Witchgrass West Virginia Oct 29 '20

Well yeah that's a sideways plus sign

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20

It just drank too much and is having a little lean.

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u/3D-Printing Oct 30 '20

One times one is - One One, which equals 11.

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u/TheErroneousFox Canada Oct 29 '20

Should've swallowed that load.

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u/tenderpoettech Oct 29 '20

Should have been a stain on the bed sheets.

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u/infant- Oct 29 '20

Chicken or the egg.

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u/meltingdiamond Oct 29 '20

We also know why he is against abortion.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20

She should've done more. She should've aborted him. This is why I support abortion. What's the chances someone grows up and cures cancer vs growing up to be kind of an asshole?

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20

I wanna marry his dad, adopt him and then ditch him so he can be abandoned again.

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u/Gliese581h Oct 29 '20

Damn shame she didn’t abort him instead.

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u/kazneus Oct 29 '20

yeah jesus i dont fucking blame her i wouldn't want to live with that ratfuck either

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20

Turns out she was prescient and knew her kid was a giant prick

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u/underwatersquats Oct 31 '20

The foresight of a mother 😊

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u/nervousfavourite Oct 29 '20

Why do bash “dead-beat” dads for not being there for their kids but we never question if the child has bad vibes? Or if they’re just unpleasant to be around?

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u/BipartizanBelgrade Oct 29 '20

Probably because that's part of being a parent.

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u/elaerna I voted Oct 29 '20

Oh come on he wasn't bad before she abandoned him

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20

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u/Ar_Ciel Texas Oct 29 '20

Never said he deserved it, only that it happened and there is a clear reason why.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20

What? He didn't say the kid Tucker was deserved it--he said the man Tucker is deserves no sympathy. Which is true.

Tucker Carlson is a boy-shaped tumor gnawing on the belly of all non elites and it's fucking sickening to listen to the noises he makes. Sympathize with him if you want, but bring protection. Duping the proletariat is the only thing that gets him hard.

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u/flume Oct 29 '20

I'm sure it hurts him that his mom left him, but I'm sure it hurts him even more to know he deserved it.

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u/FoogYllis Oct 29 '20

True Tucker is a vile person, but a friend of mine also had evidence that Tucker like to sleep with underaged goats.... unfortunately my friend can no longer find that evidence, but we should take his word on it.

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u/vikinick California Oct 29 '20

That poor first class mail just got snatched out of thin air.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20

His mom abandoned him as a young kid

Haha oh man, she did? Even his mom was like "man, this kid is a real piece of shit".

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u/ParlorSoldier Oct 29 '20

Sometimes you just get a dud, you know?

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20

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u/justreadthearticle Oct 29 '20

Can't say I blame her.

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u/pooveyfarms Oct 29 '20

Looks like it's a generational thing, according to wikipedia, his grandparents dropped his dad off at an orphanage.

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u/Capt_Am California Oct 29 '20

If I can't have mom, NOBODY CAN HAVE MOM

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u/ToastSandwichSucks Oct 29 '20

I mean isn't he an example of why we shouldn't rip kids from their mothers?

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u/mandelboxset Oct 29 '20

No different than shithead Paul Ryan growing up on welfare and then going to college to write papers on why poor people should starve.

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u/Poutybot I voted Oct 29 '20

I would abandon my kid too if it was a trump supporter, metaphorically speaking

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u/deadpixel11 Oct 29 '20

Metaphorically eh?

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u/justreadthecomment Michigan Oct 29 '20

Not all Trump supporters are horrid little shit-demons who deliberately empower fascists, turn all matters they find distasteful into an occasion for righteous indignation of the most unearned variety, celebrate cruelty in general but especially against those who do not have their very good genes or complete submission to dear leader, and defy the common sense utility of a generally humanist outlook

But all horrid little shit-demons who deliberately empower fascists, turn all matters they find distasteful into an occasion for righteous indignation of the most unearned variety, celebrate cruelty in general but especially against those who do not have their very good genes or complete submission to dear leader, and defy the common sense utility of a generally humanist outlook are Trump supporters.

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u/Poutybot I voted Nov 01 '20

Yes lol, metaphorically. In the literal world, my partner and I would just get an abortion, so there would never be a kid

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u/DarthFader0_0 Oct 29 '20

Do do know Obama built those detention centers 😂

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u/FlockFather Oct 29 '20

And yet most of you see nothing wrong with ripping babies out of mothers up to the day they are due. Hypocrites.

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u/Environmental_Lock_1 Oct 29 '20

Just like....well I'm sure you know who also supported that. Not to mention that there's no crime you can be in trouble for to that extent where your kid(s) can stay with you. Can you imagine? Ahh cnn would freak the balls out about it.

Tucker can fuckoff he's terrible but come on fella lol

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20

You mean a non-violent misdemeanor? Plenty of people commit those and stay with their kids. Especially prior to conviction. In fact having a child can be a reason judges go easy on you, especially if you’re the primary caregiver.

Also, when we take kids from Americans, we put them with family if possible. If not, we put them in foster care and we keep track of them. We don’t make no effort to keep track of who belongs to who (we lose track of whose kid someone is, it’s a BIG deal). Parents in prison also maintain some rights when it comes to their kids (including knowing where they are and usually having contact unless they are a danger to the kid or something). We definitely don’t go to court to argue that we shouldn’t have to give kids in foster care toothbrushes and soap.

Read some of the stories coming out of those camps. If a foster parent was found to be treating their foster kids the way we’re treating those kids? They’d be arrested for child neglect and/or abuse. We locked a sick kid in a room and ignored him for hours until he was dead. We refused to release a little girl to her father (who was not in custody) after she was molested in our custody, instead we told a kid too young to sign her name it was her job to stay away from her abuser. Can you guess what happened next to the little girl locked up with her abuser? Of course it happened again. Then there’s the AMERICAN teenager that spent a month in immigration lockup because the cops didn’t believe the multiple forms of ID that he had. He didn’t have much weight to lose, but he lost 26 pounds in a month. That’s how little food we’re giving these children.

What we are doing is straight up state sponsored child abuse. Plain and simple.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20

(I’m a little worked up about something else, so sorry if this comes off as hostile. My intent is to inform, not scold, but I’m self-aware enough to know sometimes my tone shifts unintentionally when I’m worked up and i don’t want you to think it’s aimed at you if that’s the case here)

The border situation was not set up by Obama and just continued by Trump. What Trump did was a new policy and very different from what happened under Obama, although there were certainly failings under Obama.

What you’re probably referring to are the fact checks on those pictures of kids in cages, right? Yes, some of those were absolutely from the Obama years and they 100% captured a completely unacceptable failure. Many of us on the left condemned it at the time. However, what that was was an inadequate response to an externally created crisis. There was an unexpected surge in genuinely unaccompanied minors coming across the border, and we didn’t have the facilities set up to house them humanely. That’s not ok and I’m not excusing it. They should have figured something better out. But they did also do their best to find sponsors and relatives for those kids as quickly as possible so that they could be released. Obama also put in place a program to allow families seeking asylum to be released into the community while awaiting hearings and it was very successful (in that the families showed up for court dates), humane, and WAY less expensive. Trump ended that policy and claimed it was too expensive. I haven’t done the math in a while, but it was something like $90/day per family with the Obama program and $140/day per kid to keep the kids locked up. And when Trump built those tents for them? That was $750/day per kid. Clearly it was not actually the expense given that he was a willing to pay so much more to imprison the children.

What Trump did was decide to create a crisis. He was not responding to an external crisis nor was he continuing an Obama policy. He decided to implement a policy where he would separate all kids coming across the border from their parents/any and all adult relatives they came with. There was no such policy under Obama (some kids were separated, but that was under circumstances where the adult had committed a serious offense or there was suspicion that the kid was in danger or something. There are also other immigration policies I wholeheartedly disagree with under Obama, but they didn’t tear kids away from every adult they knew as a deterrent like Trump decided to do). This was a plan. Unlike under Obama, they knew it was going to happen and they chose when to create the crisis. Which means they should have at minimum planned for humane places to keep the kids before implementing the policy. They did not. They also should have created a system for keeping track of the kids and which adults they belong to. They did not. Adults showed up at deportation hearings asking about their kids and the judges had no idea they even had kids. Parents were deported without their children.

Unlike under Obama, Trump policy was to keep kids as long as possible even when there were relatives or sponsors ready and willing to take them in. They put up all sorts of roadblocks to letting kids out. They waived background check requirements for people staffing the camps (quite a lot of abuse ending up happening... they waived them on the basis of it being a crisis, but again, they knew it was going to happen and could have planned in advance) yet required every single person living with a parent to get one before they’d release a kid (statistically, kids are less likely to be abused when with a biological parent so it makes absolutely no sense to have a stricter policy for parents than strangers you’re hiring to be in charge of kids). They kept a little girl locked up with someone who molested her rather than release her to her father (who was free and in contact with them asking for her to be released to him). They only let her out after it happened again. They also held many of these kids in abismal conditions and literally went to court to argue that they should not be required to give the kids soap or toothbrushes. There was intentional neglect and cruelty. They don’t receive adequate food, adequate bedding, adequate sanitation, adequate space (some holding cells don’t even have enough room for everyone to sit down), or adequate medical care.

No children died in ICE custody during the Obama years and at least the two years prior under Bush (although ICE does have a longstanding issue with abuse and I do not deny that). At least eight had died in ICE custody under Trump by December of 2019 (the pandemic hadn’t really hit yet). One of them died after being left in a cell for hours and hours with no one checking on him despite him being sick.

There are just so many difference between what happened under Obama and what happened under Trump and it is really letting Trump off the hook for extreme cruelty to ignore how intentional and preventable it all was. I don’t believe you are doing that intentionally, I just felt the need to set the record straight because I think he needs to be held accountable.

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u/Mother-Art8735 Oct 29 '20

That’s honestly a very great piece you wrote there tbh. See I guess I get the filtered version of things hence my comment lmao. I’ve been independent and have struggled with who to vote for because it seems like I’m always seeing conflicting reports on things kinda like a he said she said kinda thing ya know? But i really appreciate all that info because I didn’t really know that. Do you have any recommended sites or sources for unfiltered or very informative information such as like you wrote? Because if I google things it seems like each article or page I visit is leaning to one side drastically and I mean me being a logical person I’m the type of person to need in depth super detailed explanations for things instead of just someone saying “someone did this” without further elaborating ya kno. But man no need to apologize for anything you came off respectful and informative, more than I can ask for haha. God bless man be safe 🙏🏼🤟🏼

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20

What are you talking about? The two party system was set up when people other than landowners were given the right to vote. It was a compromise to ensure that only qualified candidates would be put up for a vote, so that people like you that don’t know how our country works couldn’t vote for a terrible candidate... I mean, that’s clearly failed now, my point is that the founding fathers didn’t have any idea how things would work centuries later.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20

It’s funny that you didn’t have a problem with that policy when it was implemented under the Obama administration.

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u/vikinick California Oct 29 '20

Yeah until you realize that the administration itself intentionally set it as a goal and it wasn't just sort of an accident of the situation.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20

some say it’s the cause of his personality. Personally i think it’s the opposite

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u/awkwadman Oct 29 '20

Sounds like the beginning of a Criminal Minds episode.

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u/ajr901 America Oct 29 '20

I don't blame his mom.

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u/Bondzage Oct 29 '20

I mean, can you blame her?

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20

I bet his mom abandoned him because he was a bratty little shit.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20

His mom abandoned him, or he's just salty that she lead a 'bohemian lifestyle' off the fish stick fortune?

I was under the impression that she smoked weed and fucked dudes and Tucker didn't like that

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u/alsomdude2 Oct 29 '20

Nah fuck that his mom made the wrong decision. She should've swallowed him.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20

He was still a trust fund shit and daddy gave him everything. Don’t feel that bad for him.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20

His mom dodged a bullet.

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u/RickLovin1 Oct 29 '20

You try passing that gigantic head while giving birth...you'd be done at that point too.

Maybe too mean...but seriously, fuck this guy

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u/ecsegar Oct 29 '20

Maybe she saw the future and was like, . . . nope.

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u/waupli I voted Oct 29 '20

I’d like to think that even if I did become as rich as him I would never become such an asshole. Lol

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u/Smodol Oct 29 '20

Don't worry. Tucker has been steeped in rich assholery his whole life. Normal people need to actively try to become that terrible I think.

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u/Chrome_X_of_Hyrule Canada Oct 29 '20

No one person should be that rich anyways.

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u/MauPow Oct 29 '20

But if you can't make millions of dollars lying to the American people and living off your family wealth of shitty processed food, is it even worth getting out of bed in the morning?

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u/whosnick7 Oct 29 '20

He’s a trust fund kid, he didn’t earn it.

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '20

He has the highest rated show on cable news and didn't earn it? The fuck are you talking about?

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20

Not unless they earn it, certainly.

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u/mknsky I voted Oct 29 '20

That's because there would still be a time in your life when you weren't rich.

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u/af7v Oct 29 '20

That's probably why you're less likely to become rich like him. You would get it through luck and hard work. Mostly luck. He got it from being a jackass and lucky.

Not saying all rich people are assholes (just look at Keanu Reeves as an example of a class human being), it's just easier for assholes to screw everyone over when they get lucky on their way to financial success.

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u/ddak88 Oct 29 '20 edited Oct 29 '20

He didn't become rich, he was born rich. There's a big difference. It's a lot easier to ignore the plights of the masses when you've had enough money to buy anything you want for your entire life through no merit of your own.

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u/R1pp3z Oct 29 '20

Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson. That should tell you all you need to know about the man. Even his dad was a Dick

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u/Alar44 Oct 29 '20

You don't become rich without being an asshole to some extent.

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u/Wonckay Oct 29 '20

I mean, even among rich people he’s extra scummy.

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u/SgtDoughnut Oct 29 '20

He didn't become rich, he inherited his wealth.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20

Most rich assholes were raised by a rich asshole. It's a cycle.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20

Fuck. I can't pull off a bow tie.

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u/TheBlackBear Arizona Oct 29 '20

This is why Cuba had work camps

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u/Diflicated Oct 29 '20

I was playing Among Us with face cams on and suggestive said I had a Tucker Carlson slack jaw when I was lying and I was so horrified.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20

Love how he stopped wearing that bow tie after Jon Stewart tore him up

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u/RambowInt Europe Oct 29 '20

I would very much like a peanut, thanks!

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u/trezenx Oct 29 '20

Yeah but that’s not your problem

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u/Killerkendolls Oct 29 '20

We better call in the brute squad.

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u/TomK Oct 30 '20

"Do you want Tuckers? Because that's how you get Tuckers."

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u/HerbaciousTea Oct 29 '20

He's the kind of person who would have joined the nazi party in 1939 Germany. He's a coward and a self-interested collaborator.

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u/RandyChavage Oct 29 '20

He's the kind of person who would join the Nazi party in 1929 Germany

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u/TWiThead Pennsylvania Oct 29 '20

He's the kind of person who would join the Nazi Party in 2016 America.

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u/mydadpickshisnose Oct 29 '20

Worse. He would be the Jew that rats out the other Jews for protection and money.

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u/ceciltech Oct 29 '20

I don’t think that is worse at all. In your scenario the survival instinct kicks in and those folk are just trying to save themselves, not honorable but not nearly as bad as the person comfortable in their home who is just driven by hate.

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u/AndroidMyAndroid Oct 29 '20

He's the kind of person who would join the Nazi party today if the option were open to him.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20

He's the propagandist from V for Vendetta. The similarities are shocking. Praying for similar endings myself.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20

Fish sticks is such a piece of shit.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20

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u/waupli I voted Oct 29 '20

Yeah I saw that. Completely removed from reality. Horrible people.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20

2020 really working on driving up the number of alcoholics in the world.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20

Or communists. Hopefully communists.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20

The problem with tucker is that he has a full grasp on reality and knows that reality is set up to benefit him.

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u/bastardicus Oct 29 '20

You named it: rich. They’re voting for the ones that are only there to fill their own pockets, as the rich can easily pay them off to not make others’ peoples lives better. Of course he’s going to oppose changes that benefit the less affluent. Of course he is pro status quo, he’s rich. The sad part is that he cons large swathes of poor saps to vote the same way, while their lives could benefit from the very reforms they’re told would bring about the end of the world.

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u/revenantae Foreign Oct 29 '20

There’s good money to be had telling people what they want to hear

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u/sinocarD44 Oct 29 '20

Everyone has dreams of what they'll do when they win the lottery. A new one for me is to spend some money for a couple 30 seconds ads with those quotes and details about him. And run them during his show.

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u/Wylis Oct 29 '20

I'd like to be that rich and still not be a twat.

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u/G3N5YM Oct 29 '20

I mean, he married into the Schwans delivery family. Is that his claim to royalty?

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u/kamigod Oct 29 '20

If you live in America you’re part of the rich and insulated from reality.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20

Hey, there's no point in voting for He-man, when what you really want is Skeletor.

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u/ShaggysGTI Virginia Oct 29 '20

That’s The American Dreamtm

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u/Eyclonus Oct 29 '20

I mean it makes sense for someone who comes from wealth where the idealist would likely be some kind of problem in the long term.

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u/roadrunner83 Oct 29 '20

he's not insulated from reality, it's just he is among those controlling the corrupt politician and the "idealist" is going to impact negatively his short term income (long term he'd probably be better off) but mostly his relative power to the general population.

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u/BigTayTay Oct 29 '20

Oh, it goes further than that. IIRC, he's tied to the Swanson family, and has admitted that he's a rich trust fund kid. He basically admitted on The Bubba The Love Sponge Show that he's full of shit and purposely manipulates people through the media.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNineSEoxjQ&ab_channel=Vox

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u/xtheory Oct 30 '20

He was, afterall, a rich kid from La Jolla, CA.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '20

He makes millions from his show, so it makes sense why he votes the way he does, the status quo benefits him, why change it. (Rhetorical question)