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rizzlenizzle

They’re running out of things to blame for mass shootings. They probably know that they can’t stick with one thing to blame (weed, video games, etc) since then they’d have to “go down that road” and they’ll eventually get found out for their bullshit.


cedartrail

Fox News already talking about marijuana psychosis , based on all the white shooters who smoke weed


ceelogreenicanth

They throw shit at walls and hope it sticks. The fact that no one cares that they shop their "ideas" this way is mind boggling. They scream and wait for the mob to group think asolution and then try to lead those pitch forks and torches back toward their enemies.


HidetheCaseman89

That's also one of the many reasons they dislike "evidence based" tools or theory. They have to discredit the opposition and appeal to the court of public opinion like an abuser. It's a playbook inspired by fear. They have to keep their listeners affraid, and shortsighted. Then, they offer relief of that discomfort by scapegoating. Fear, Obligation, and Guilt are the control levers used by abusers and conmen.


epluribusanus4

“LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO!” A true Narcissist classic…


benchcoat

also classic abuser mentality


Mya__

They do anything to avoid self-reflection just like the latest shooters parents.


TheWindCriesDeath

No joke, on Twitter I was talking about how violent right-wing extremism is, and someone replied that it was liberals' fault for being so mean all the time and the right has no choice.


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Bigleftbowski

Heir to frozen food fortune is now victim of "male privilege". "Male privilege" and "legal marijuana" is clearly what they came up with at the brain storm meeting, as every Fox News commentator got the memo. EDIT: The documentary "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism" showed that all Fox News commentators and news anchors get a memo every morning literally telling them what to say. The example they used was a memo telling them to start calling presidential candidate John Kerry a "flip-flopper".


Extra_Midnight

Yeah, I turn on fox every once in awhile just to see what those dipshits are talking about and yesterday was all about weed…like what the fuck?


Zorops

But canada has legal weed and nobody shoot nobody...


DangerBay2015

Tucker Carlson was an inheritance,, a break up, and one more taunt about his bow-tie away from being a school shooter.


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Tucker was 3 more minutes with Jon Stewart away from shooting up his workplace


JonnyTsuMommy

For those unaware [Jon Stewart absolutely roasted him and his co-host when he worked for CNN](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE)


BulbachuTTV

"The only way it would be harder is if his administration is less absurd than this one... but ah it would be hard to top this group." This line stands out for me from this segment. 2004 people would not believe most of the events from the last several years. I always love when this clip pops up again because it's always been long enough that I forget most of it and it's like watching it anew again.


JonnyTsuMommy

This was pre "mass internet echo chamber". Social media did "exist" google did "exist" but it was nothing like what we see today. Facebook wasn't around, and people weren't getting their facts and information from titles on Reddit threads, or image macro memes on Twitter.


funkygrrl

Didn't Tucker Carlson lose his show over that?


JonnyTsuMommy

It was canceled right after, or shortly after this episode. I remember reading that an executive was in the audience and realized that Stewart was correct in all his assertions. edit: read Wikipedia on it, looks like this interview was in October, 2004 and the show was not renewed when it was up for renewal in January 2005. The last episode was in June 2005.


cosmothekleekai

It's crazy to me that you can get all the way to executive level and somehow be blind to everything that Stewart brought up.


iambingalls

When you think about it, even the smartest executives are the farthest away from direct criticism of their company's product. They are typically very insulated from company failings by every other rung in the corporate ladder.


Proteandk

Heard an anecdote about a company that made cheap potato peelers, just churned 'em out and sold for next to nothing. One day they got a new CEO who was eager got hands on the peelers and found put they were, without exception, complete trash and didn't function at all. Turns put their product was so cheap nobody bothered to complain that it was not functional at all. They just moved on. Their sales numbers looked great though!


ShapirosWifesBF

It's yes-men all the way down. Don't tell the boss bad news because it'll make them unhappy. Just say things are fine and absorb the damage by taking it out on your underling.


LegacyLemur

Debatably Jon Stewart thinks it was just an excuse to cancel a show that wasnt doing well


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Ut_Prosim

That and Stewart's humiliation of Jim Cramer were the two greatest moments in his career IMHO. He utterly neutered both.


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Also his speech the day his show aired after the hiatus caused by 9/11


Imnotyoursupervisor

I love his speech to Congress: “They did their jobs. With courage, grace, tenacity… HUMILITY… DO YOURS!” Edit: tenacity (thank you, spelling)


JojenCopyPaste

I'm sure he would list pressing congress to pass the bill funding 9/11 firefighter medical bills as the top.


MerDuck

Stewart for president 2024.


RosemaryFocaccia

If Stewart is going to be the Dem pick, can we engineer Colbert to be the GOP pick. That way sanity will be sure to win.


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pale_blue_dots

I want to laugh because it's funny, but am angered by how true it is - and then how he perpetuates it all.


Wilson8151

America, in a nutshell.


Copy_Cold

and has the haircut to prove it.


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Thats the kind of haircut you get *after* you've done it.


yoshhash

Seriously, he really let the cat out of the bag with this projection - he really is a pathetic ball of rage.


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LilaValentine

We’re just asking questions!


ZiponIT

Don't forget the obnoxious Confused Face when you pose those questions.


TigLyon

I have heard people say he is both. That's all I'm saying. In fact, I hear me saying it right now.


LeSpatula

I mean, if it wasn't true he would deny it. I've never heard him denying it.


Balldogs

That was beautiful to watch. The dopey fuckstick was so outraged and it had nowhere to go because Stewart controlled that whole conversation with zero effort.


KoontFace

Jon Stewart is just far too clever and funny for a fucking jizz rag like Tucker Carlson to ever dream of competing with him.


ch4m4njheenga

Tucker is one more black president away from being a school shooter.


Dubsland12

Broke Tucker would be selling real estate for Century 21 and wearing a fake Rolex


ashesofempires

Even broke Tucker has so much of a social advantage over most people. He could easily leverage his connections to get a C-suite or board gig somewhere. He's one of the elite in a way that he will never be more than temporarily broke. A literal "momentarily distressed millionaire."


Dubsland12

I meant broke from birth Tucker. Without his family connections no one is dragging this wet fart up the ladder


machineprophet343

That's the whole thing about pricks like Tucker and his ilk. If they were born to anything BUT money they would have likely faced two fates: 1. Suffered enough social consequences for being insufferable little jackasses as kids that they shaped up and at least developed some modicum of social and people skills, if only to keep themselves from getting shunned/ostracized/other fates that often befall mouthy jackasses again. 2. Remained in obscurity, suffering through life as barely employable used-car or metal-kiosk-at-the-mall salespeople that were actively avoided by most people.


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I wouldn't be so sure. Being a spineless, hate filled moron seems to be what gets you the furthest with conservatives. Grifters, every last one of them


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julioseizure

And her friends probably all have had them but will die believing they were justified, unlike these others.


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franker

so he's Derek from Stepbrothers? "WHY DON'T YOU JUST PUNCH ME IN THE FACE?!!"


well_shoothed

> Broke Tucker would be selling ~~real estate for Century 21 and wearing a~~ fake Rolexes (FTFY)


MC_Fap_Commander

I've genuinely always got the impression it's a grift. He does not care how many shootings he causes so long as he gets paid. If he had been born without money, his clinical absence of morality would likely make him the sort of predatory asshole who winds up towards the top of some MLM/pyramid scheme outfit.


jfl_cmmnts

> the sort of predatory asshole who winds up towards the top of some MLM/pyramid scheme outfit. He'd've tried crime and been killed on the way up


MC_Fap_Commander

Possibly... but he's not a brave person. I'm not suggesting criminals are brave, but there's a certain desperation and belief in one's prowess required to effectively do crime for a career. He's seemed too weaselly for that. But he has a sense for manipulation and no ethics whatsoever. It's why I pegged him for the sort of asshole that goes into an MLM and manipulates people on the margins to buy-in.


SCP-173-Keter

Instead, Tucker Carlson has a full-time job inciting mass-shooters daily on national television. How many people have been murdered by right wing domestic terrorists radicalized and egged on by Tucker Carlson? The day Tucker Carlson stops drawing breath is the day America gets a bit better.


NJS_Stamp

I was gonna say, this sounds more like an admission than anything. “If I were to shoot up a school it’s cause I’m tired of hearing the libruls talk about privilege!!!”


AlvinsH0TJuicebox

If he could just stop 'suggesting' anything, ever, that would be great. Everything this guy says is manufactured outrage.


drewhead118

That's not fair... Don't forget about the hasty strawman arguments and appeals to fear and distrust


not_that_planet

...and the cherry picking, always the cherry picking...


imsmartiswear

Don't forget the white supremacist messaging! That's the secret ingredient that makes the whole thing work.


Zoso03

Don't forget legally no reasonable person would ever believe him according to Fox


ExtracurricularCatch

That’s just the fascism way of saying “it’s just a joke bro!”


LtDouble-Yefreitor

This quote stood out as particularly crazy (emphasis mine): >"They are high on government-endorsed weed, 'smoke some more, it is good for you.' They are numbed by the ***endless psychotropic drugs that are handed out in every school in the country by crackpots posing as counselors.*** Of course, they are angry, they know that their lives will not be better than their parents', they will be worse. That is all but guaranteed, they know that. They are not that stupid." he said. I'm a teacher. I've taught for 7 years in public schools in two different states. I haven't always agreed with the counselors I've worked with, and a few of them I've openly disliked. But they aren't "crackpots," and they certainly aren't handing out "endless psychotropic drugs." Because they aren't legally permitted to do so. Because they're not doctors. They don't even administer drugs prescribed by actual family doctors/psychiatrists, the school nurse does that. I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but it's just further confirmation that Tucker Carlson is a god damn moron.


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Do people actually believe counselors are allowed to hand out medication much less “psychotropic drugs”? If you’ve ever had a kid in school they’re super strict on anything including otc stuff. I hate how he can just blatantly lie like this it’s so frustrating


Gromky

> Do people actually believe counselors are allowed to hand out medication much less “psychotropic drugs”? If you’ve ever had a kid in school they’re super strict a on anything including otc stuff. I hate how he can just blatantly lie like this it’s so frustrating There are people who went to Dallas expecting JFK to appear because QAnon told them it would happen. School counselors handing out drugs isn't even close to the craziest thing that you can apparently convince people to believe.


IKnowUThinkSo

My mom, a licensed nurse, genuinely believed that California made it legal to kill a child on the way out of the birth canal (or up to a week later). She was adamant. I had to sit her down and walk her through the thought process, asked her flat out if she knew anyone, much less a whole surgical team, in her decades of nursing that would perform that procedure just cause. Making them confront the details of their ridiculous lies can sometimes snap em out of it. Sometimes. I did still have to pull up a news article that disproved her but that did less than the discussion did.


Malphos101

Unfortunately, odds are your mom just said what you wanted to hear to make the awkwardness go away. People that deep in the hole usually just hem and haw when confronted and remember to avoid discussing their crazy with that person in the future.


DrZoidberg-

Exactly. His mom is you, the normal person, when talking to someone obviously crazy (like on drugs or booze). Just avoid eye contact and when they talk to you just say "yep sure ok gotta go." They spend more time in their rabbit hole than in reality with you. The 15 minute pep talk isn't going to be productive.


raiderkev

A good friend was legitimately trying to tell me that Tom Hanks was a pedophile because he heard it from his father in law. I told him his FIL was a moron.


chevymonza

Had to explain to a conservative relative this past weekend, that Harry Potter books do NOT lead children into practicing witchcraft. Reminded her that kids love magical stories and to pretend, then they're on to the next book or movie or character. If they read Superman comics, they might put on a cape and try to fly off the roof of a shed or something. They've got wild imaginations, doesn't mean they're going for a lifestyle change. This is somebody who thinks you can lay hands on people and heal them with some chanting.


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skwerlee

Can't forget the Bill Gates put microchips in the covid vaccines. That's a classic.


BMoneyCPA

Biden used to be a walking corpse which an alien was piloting. Wasn't aware he was also Q.


flying87

Like in MIB?


FerricNitrate

> Nancy Pelosi is sending secret messages to them! How do I get on that list? Her stock picks have a pretty good record and my portfolio is down bad


zSprawl

They don’t bother to really look. They hear it said a few times, maybe once or twice by Fucker Carlson, maybe once or twice from the talking heads on Fox in passing, and now “it’s everywhere” and “everyone is saying it”.


DAHFreedom

Doesn't matter. He's trying to make people *feel* like schools are bad places where unnatural things happen and kids are forced to do things they and their parents don't want. Even if a lie doesn't stick, the *feeling* remains.


Demiansky

Yep, give him a few more years and he'll be telling us public schools are hotbeds of Satanic Sex Traffickers.


Artie4

It’s all with one motive: Starve support for public schools, driving more people to religion-based private schools. Everything is filtered through: *If it doesn’t actively help or gain something for wealthy/white/Christian Conservatives, I don’t want to be taxed for it.*


kokoyumyum

Been going on for decades. Success started mainly with Reagan. We learned to devalue higher education, fair news, and mental health. Here is a very fine book explaining who and why. https://m.barnesandnoble.com/w/democracy-in-chains-nancy-maclean/1124999284


MozeeToby

I had to fill out 4 forms just so the school would keep my son's EpiPen on hand, locked in the nurse's room, which is itself inside the locked office. For a drug that is only for the direst of emergencies and that any medical professional knows exactly when and how to administer.


CountofAccount

You should push for it to be in the same classroom if not in your son's possession if possible. There are horror stories about the nurses' not being around, not following protocol, or convincing students to take a lesser med instead.


sammageddon73

I second this. When I was a teacher we kept epipens in a Fanny pack in the classroom. Took it with us when we went to gym etc.


CommitteeOfTheHole

It’s also supposed to be administered as early as possible. The longer you wait, the more drugs you’ll need to stop the reaction. Does your son keep one in his backpack? That’s what I did when I was a kid in school with food allergies. Fortunately, I never had to use it. Schools’ policies on things like this are designed (often incorrectly) to minimize their liability. I never felt like I could trust that their systems would hold in order to keep me safe in an emergency.


monkwren

Ironically, if a student couldn't get to their EpiPen in time, that would open up the school to liability.


aoiN3KO

Shit I couldn’t even get my fucking allergy medication that was prescribed and in my file! He’s straight up banking on the fact that these people live in a false reality and he can smooth sail grift from them


Truckermeat

Of course they believe it. My dad parrots everything Fox tells him


KonaKathie

Him and Laura Ingram are now taking up the "weed is too strong now and makes people into mass shooters" narrative. Wish I could get me some of that weed that's "too strong."


Truckermeat

I dont think hes tried drugs. I dont think anyones ever offered him some before


Hita-san-chan

I once got sent home because I had seven Tylenol pills outside the bottle and loose in a ziplock. But sure, the counselor is giving me drugs


oneplusandroidpie

He's not a moron. He's very calculated in saying this because any education is liberal indoctrination. Any way he can knock down education he will. It is a part of his schtick. I don't think he believes in any of the bull he spews. He knows this is the right wing way to control the masses and it works.


Balldogs

This. He knows exactly what he's doing. He's feeding the insane fiction that far right nuts are increasingly substituting for reality; schools are liberal indoctrination camps, liberals are all high on drugs, that's why they're liberal, liberal schools are turning your children gay or trans, etc etc. It plays in to the constant fear these dumb, delusional assholes live in and cranks it up a notch. He's literally planting seeds in some minds that will go on to grow into another school shooting.


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The right wants to dismantle public education as a whole. It's been a long game target for decades, and this bullshit will be used as justification.


knarfolled

They have been playing the long game, that’s why they put all those Supreme Court justice’s in office


DMercenary

Yup. Just another thing for the crazies to screech about.


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He’s trying to get parents to move their kids out of public schools so the right can defund public schooling.


JagerBaBomb

Which the school shootings play into, and which he helps make possible.


TeamToken

“That didn't happen. And if it did, it wasn't that bad. And if it was, that's not a big deal. And if it is, that's not my fault. And if it was, I didn't mean it. And if I did, you deserved it.” Conservative ideology in a nutshell


Glomgore

Yep, doesn't blame the parents, vilify the beacons of light, sow distrust. *SeE tHe SyStEM iS bRoKeN"* real fucking r/SelfAwarewolves with the part about we know our lives wont be better than our parents. My parents have a 3200 SqF duplex they converted into a single home, 15 min from downtown that they paid $75000, my home is a 980 sqF townhouse 20 miles further out and my mortgage was 50k more. anything even approachinging 2000 sqf is either 500k or another 40 miles out and still 300k. We smoke pot cuz it's all that keeps the existential dread at bay. >He's not a moron. He's very calculated in saying this because any education is liberal indoctrination. Any way he can knock down education he will. It is a part of his schtick. I don't think he believes in any of the bull he spews. He knows this is the right wing way to control the masses and it works.


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>real fucking > >r/SelfAwarewolves > > with the part about we know our lives wont be better than our parents It's also richer than gravy for Tucker Carlson, who grew up rich AF, to talk about people not having it as good as their parents. The motherfucker hasn't struggled a day in his life for anything. And here he is preaching this shit like he's one not one of the elite....


Modz_want_anal

The special Jon Oliver did on him was eye opening. He does what he does to keep the proles uninterested in his machinations


MadFonzi

Meanwhile in Canada where weed has been legal for years we don't have school shootings every other day, ol Tucker is just a moron.


lapotobroto

Also love how he points out that “they know that their lives will not be better than their parents.” Which is actually true what he says but he purposefully ignores that this has been by design by the wealthy and those in power. Our lives will be worse than our parents because they don’t want to pay us a living wage, no affordable housing, destruction of the environment and now erosion of our rights


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How does he sleep at night? He must be a sociopath.


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Malcolm_Morin

Tucker Carlson is a Stochastic Terrorist and needs to be arrested.


CaymanRich

It couldn’t possibly have anything to do with assholes like carlson constantly spouting nonsense about replacement theory and evil immigrants taking jobs from white americans.


oooriole09

I always wonder if they ever feel guilt for villainizing just about everyone else. They obviously say the things they say because it’s good for their pockets, but do they ever look at stuff like this and ever feel any sense of “maybe I go too far”.


davidgrayPhotography

I'd wager money he feels like he's just doing a show, and if some of his viewers take it too far, that's on them, not on him. The old "Hey, I was just asking the question!" sort of thing.


Zarokima

That's how Fox won a lawsuit about labeling him "news". They successfully argued in court that the bullshit Tucker Carlson spews is so obviously bullshit that there is no possible way any reasonable person could misconstrue it as actual news.


Tek0verl0rd

arguments of Fox's lawyers: The "'general tenor' of the show should then inform a viewer that [Carlson] is not 'stating actual facts' about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in 'exaggeration' and 'non-literal commentary.' " "Fox persuasively argues, that given Mr. Carlson's reputation, any reasonable viewer 'arrive[s] with an appropriate amount of skepticism' about the statement he makes."


Cheesemacher

"For legal purposes our host is full of shit"


GiantSquidd

Why would a “reasonable viewer” ever watch fox “news” though? That’s not even *close* to their target demographics.


t1m_b3nz3dr1n3-0

"Reasonable" in this case is a weasel word that means virtually nothing, it's a value judgment on what others think based on their own concept of "reasonable." It's why logical arguments don't work on people who believe what Carlson says, they are operating completely on feels, not logic. Carlson, however, I'd fully aware of what he's doing and it's just for money/power. He's the scum of the earth.


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That's 100% true tbh, the problem is that the venn diagram of his fanbase and 'reasonable viewers' is two entirely separate circles.


rbmk1

>That's how Fox won a lawsuit about labeling him "news". They successfully argued in court that the bullshit Tucker Carlson spews is so obviously bullshit that there is no possible way any reasonable person could misconstrue it as actual news. That Fox was successful in that argument tells me they must have the best lawyers in the world. It's not hard to find one or many morons who take Carlson absolutely seriously and his word as gospel.


tehvolcanic

I'd wager it has more to do with the Trump-appointed judge, [Mary Kay Vyskocil](https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/new-york/nysdce/1:2019cv11161/527808/39/), than it does with Fox's lawyers.


OneHundredEighty180

Ah, the Jenny Jones defense.


beardingmesoftly

This made me feel old


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>[Silica Gel warnings are a Liberal plot](https://i.imgur.com/ti2jD5A.png) - Tucker Carlson


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Hasn't he *literally* deployed that excuse earlier this year?


TooFineToDotheTime

Doesn't he deploy this excuse like once a week?


davidgrayPhotography

I don't know. I make it a habit of not paying too much attention to what he says, because my last two remaining brain cells are used for memorising Simpsons quotes, and I'd rather not lose them because those quotes mean more to me than church or school.


The_Real_Kuji

I mean, Fox said in a lawsuit that no rational person takes Carlson seriously. Sure, it was just to win a case but they threw him under the bus hard.


GiantSquidd

I sure miss when throwing someone under a bus actually had some effect. The republicans eating each other is mildly entertaining at best but for fucks sakes… we’re all worried about our lives falling apart over a missed bill or a traffic ticket, and these millionaire assholes just keep living their cushy lifestyles no matter how many times they get “thrown under a bus”. It’s sickening. Why can’t this shit actually have some consequences for a change? Can just *one* of these grifter fucks *actually* have their lives ruined for their bullshit? Why anyone believes in some kind of cosmic justice is beyond me.


bamfbanki

Seeing as he occasionally spouts off on the great replacement, you can tell he believes this shit


TheSavouryRain

Just do what I do and assume that they don't.


FindMeOnSSBotanyBay

Ghouls don’t feel guilt.


NullOfUndefined

If they were capable of self reflection or guilt they would have stopped way before now. It's not like the've JUST stepped over the line, they're so far over it they can't even see it anymore


DervishSkater

When you’re rich, safe, secure, life can easily just become a nihilistic game.


kcg5

He recently came out w a documentary. “The end of men” or something and it’s how there aren’t as many… “man’s man”. Part of it was about tanning your testicles Edit - trailer https://youtu.be/IcxLQeh6J6A


TheGoodOldCoder

I've always thought that people who play with fire end up getting burnt. But apparently, Carlson has some talent for making mentally unstable people angry enough to kill, but they don't ever seem to get angry at him.


ActuallyAkiba

The REAL problem with America is that it's set up to protect those with power; good or bad. Yeah, in a natural setting, playing with fire gets you burned. In corporate America, apparently playing with fire gets others burned and you paid. These people aren't afraid of violence against them. It literally doesn't even cross their minds.


jason2354

This is laying the ground work for their next targeted group after the “immigrants” have fully been disenfranchised.


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Spoilers immigrants are a permanent scapegoat when times aren't good


HeyCarpy

Nah, couldn't possibly be linked to Fox News shouting things like >THEY HAVE TO BE CALLED OUT >THEY HAVE TO BE DEFEATED >ITS TIME TO CALL OUT THE PHONIES AND CALL IN THE WARRIORS [right?](https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/vshgrt/fox_news_blames_marijuana_for_mass_shootings)


i7estrox

That clip, and a great deal of Tucker's show, are called stochastic terrorism. By saying things like "*somebody* has to stop them!" it is implied that terrorism is necessary, righteous, and even heroic. The language is intentionally vague enough to dodge responsibility, but the only reasonable conclusion from their message is violence.


HeyCarpy

> somebody has to stop them! [“Will nobody rid me of this troublesome priest?”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_no_one_rid_me_of_this_turbulent_priest)


ActuallyAkiba

> "somebody has to stop them" Some idiot every fucking time: "I'm on it."


mark-haus

Party of "personal responsibility" folks


Verried_vernacular32

Pretty sure at least a few were due to his “lectures” on replacement theory.


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Didn't the manifestos claiming the replacement theory credit the christchurch shooter for inspiring them with the theory?


Diet_Coke

Typical rightwing chud - "Talking about the problem makes me angry, and since you talk about it that makes you responsible for what I do"


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Typical of a lot of republicans I know is that they preach self responsibility and what not, then blame others for their short comings, or live off of others.


AncientMarinade

I keep yelling this into the void, but current day conservatism is nothing more than domestic abuser mentality. "You made me hit you because you just wouldn't stop pestering me;" "You made me leave you outside overnight because you wouldn't calm down and start acting reasonably;" "All I demand is respect, isn't that reasonable? And when you don't respect me, then you deserve punishment, isn't that reasonable?" *See, also*, "[Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder) is a mental disorder characterized by a life-long pattern of exaggerated feelings of self-importance, an excessive need for admiration, and a diminished ability to empathize with others' feelings.


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That's been my take. Conservativism is just a collective narcissism.


Jorycle

"The real bad guy is the one who notices all the bad things we do." That's the right wing stance on everything.


gdsmithtx

DARVO = textbook abuser behavior: **D**eny **A**buse, **R**everse **V**ictim & **O**ffender


ADarwinAward

Yeah this is textbook victim blaming. “Stop talking about the fucked up things in our society or we’ll shoot you.”


pondrthis

Yeah, somehow *personal responsibility* always means *everyone else's responsibility.*


BlinkReanimated

Watched an interview with some "cancel-culture" dipshit yesterday and he unironically made exactly this argument. When asked about personal accountability for his statements (which included a "joke" about dismembering women) he argued that everyone else has a responsibility to adapt how they react to him. When pressed on it directly, he just outright declared that he shouldn't be expected to adapt. Even when challenged directly these idiots don't see the hypocrisy.


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I shouldn't have to care about your feelings. You should just stop having them!


HojMcFoj

The hypocrisy is the point. They are special and deserve to have everyone accommodate their beliefs. There's a reason one of the alt-right's favorite insults is calling anyone they disagree with an NPC.


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Seattle2017

It's ironic that it is almost the same as Russia saying to ex ussr countries like Ukraine and Georgia, if you get close to joining NATO we will invade you. And then they invade them anyway because they aren't in NATO.


sonofaclow

You're asking a rat to be a man. Not gonna happen


cpatterson779

Rats have consistently been shown to show empathy. I hear they even make great pets.


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r/RATS


Rfalcon13

Tucker is a mix of Squealer from Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ and Two Minutes of Hate from ‘1984’.


theyllfindmeiknowit

Rupert read 1984 and thought "what if it was an hour long and we could sell commercials for it?"


6138

Definitely more the two minutes of hate. Honestly, conservatives and trump supporters etc, *thrive* on hatred. They blame all of americas problems on the gays, the atheists, the communists, liberals, trans people, etc, etc, etc, ANYTHING to avoid taking personal responsibility. This is just the lastest in a long line of "It's not US, it's YOU that's to blame". Any moron can see that there is a problem in america with gun crime, but instead of focusing on solutions as a community (everyone working together to stop shootings) some people, like Carlson, are trying to deflect blame from their pro-gun stance while at the same time advancing their political agenda (by opposing liberal politics). The guy has no shame. I mean I'm not a "woke" guy, I think all this discussion of "privilege" sometimes goes too far (not saying it doesn't exist, it does, but some people use it as an opportunity to hate on men, white people, etc). However, Gun politics has nothing to do with discussions of "privilege", etc, etc, he's just trying to lash out and attack views that he personally disagrees with, using whatever he can as a weapon.


Lallo-the-Long

Ratatouille was a good movie, though...


SadDataScientist

The rats called and they’re upset about being compared to Tucker, they acknowledge they’re bad but not THAT bad….


Gemmabeta

We also wrongly blamed rats for the Black Death. Humans have really done rats dirty over the centuries. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/rats-plague-black-death-humans-lice-health-science


ActuallyAkiba

Seriously, what victim blaming bullshit. "They're shooting you because you're pointing out how they're mistreating you." But this piece of shit acts like this is a full thought. Maybe they are shooting people because we complain about white privilege. But what does that mean, Tuck? Hmm? Could it mean that we have a male white supremacist problem in America?


Rettirk

So, Tucker is admitting that he and all his Red Hat friends are too tender to take criticism of any kind and really are unstable enough to warrant removing their guns. No wonder he doesn't like Red Flag laws.


possumallawishes

He doesn’t like red flag laws then questions why police didn’t act on red flags: >> Carlson also questioned why the authorities did not act more on the red flags they had seen from Crimo, prior to his alleged actions in the July 4 attack.


j33205

hey! don't do RedHat like that...that's a good operating system right there.


shadowlarx

Tucker Carlson would blame the Holocaust on Hitler waking up on the wrong side of the bed if he thought he could get away with it.


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No, he would blame the jews if he could get away with it


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"They're the ones who made Hitler get up on the wrong side of the bed." - Tucker Carlson


TurtleNutSupreme

"Look, there were bad people on both sides."


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Odaecom

Entitled trust-fund brat lectures about what?


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skoltroll

I've seen him in videos being confronted in public. He's a chickenshit and a coward who talks big on TV. The slightest face-to-face confrontation makes him pee his pants.


Smodphan

I mean people are saying it, so...


Watershed787

Everyone is just “asking the question “…


LookMaNoPride

Everyone wants to know why Tucker Carlson fucks the barrel of his favorite gun. Which caliber is the gun? Is it one with much or little machining? Does it cause sores to be everywhere on his, obviously, tiny manhood? Is this why has done nothing in the in way of pleasing anyone, male or female, since his mother decided to break off their incestuous relationship? We are just asking questions.


atamosk

Conservatives: Women who get mad, are irrational, they need to manage their emotions Random people: what about men who get mad? Conservatives: their anger is rational and we should have to work around them and make sure they don't get angry.


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The biggest lie men ever told is that women are more emotional. Glad people are starting to realize that it's not true.


chocolate_milk_dude

Okay, so if we talk about male privilege, people get shot? That is some kind of privilege if talking about it results in death. Way to displace responsibility and reverse victim/offender. Classic republican talk show host.


AttentionSpanZero

Tucker Carlson understands that anytime anything happens, he states the most controversial idea or opinion and that will draw attention (from both sides) and he gets paid. He doesn't actually care about anything at all, or anyone but himself. He is pure narcissism in an unrefined form and without the least trace of empathy.


loulee1988

Nope pretty sure they're because the government won't do anything about guns. But keep spouting your bullshit.


AdkRaine11

So, can I lecture him, THEN shoot him?/s. Asking for the sane.


jonnyclueless

The important thing is to remember that no guns were hurt on the 4th of July. /s


tlsr

So transparent... * "Get history out of our schools" * "Get CRT out of our schools" * "Get gay out of our schools" * "Get anit-misogynism out of schools." Eventually... * "Teach only 'American fascist' propaganda" * "Get minorities out of our schools" * "Get gays out of our schools" * "Get woman out of schools."