Tucker Carlson: I am rooting for Russia

[UCmeNdc]

Tucker Carlson: "Why do I care what's going on in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia and why shouldn't I root for Russia, which I am."

Link to tweet

This is the Republican Politicians and The Republican Party!!!!!

[Cirque du So-What]

1. K&R - for exposure and for boycott

[JHB]

2. Kamchatka Carlson

Named for the place he'll end up in "retirement". At least he'll be able to wave to Sarah Palin.

[Botany]

10. Kamchatka Carlson

I wonder how deep the Russian ties go into Fox?

[FakeNoose]

22. I'll bet it's mighty cold there

Not really an ideal spot for retirement.

Just sayin'

[JHB]

26. Hey, he gets the quality he rates.

Especially after he stops being a useful idiot and is left being the regular kind.

[mr_lebowski]

30. By the time he retires, it might well be fairly ideal climate up there (nt)

[rurallib]

3. "This one goes out to Vlad in Moscow"

[MFGsunny]

4. The Enemy Within. Below contempt. n/t

[tblue37]

7. Fifth Column. nt

[Scarsdale]

5. Hey Fu - er - Tucker,

tell us something we don't already know. Then go spend some of Mommy's money dirtbag, pampered ass.

[Mr. Ected]

6. The question is, is Murdoch awash in Russian money like the NRA and most of the GOP?

Because the ones who took the dough are the ones with pinwheels in their eyes - Nunes, Graham, Jordan, et al - and Tucker, Hannity, Ingraham sure seem to fit that description.

[Grokenstein]

8. When we ship his worthless ass to Moscow

...remember to tell him, "that was a really funny joke, though."

[Vogon_Glory]

9. Time to take these Putin fans over the coals

Mocking so-called “Conservatives” about their blindness to God-Emperor Trump’s ties to Russia ought to be a campaign meme next year for any Democratic candidate next year, particularly in districts with a lot of military and ex-military voters.

[BigBearJohn]

11. He must have been dropped on his head as a baby....several times.

[PCIntern]

12. Commie bastard

Get your ❤️ in America or get your ass out, Tucker you worthless piece of shit.

[MasonDreams]

13. Tucker is on the side of the Confederates in the Civil War.

He is still "fighting" in the battle of Bull Run. His Bull has been spewing the Runs for 150 years.

[OliverQ]

14. Not a single advertiser should be supporting Carlson.

How do we get advertisers to abandon Fox? They are destroying this country.

[ancianita]

25. It's likely that corporate sponsors are not moral or pro-America enough to care.

[GoCubsGo]

15. I'm shocked!!! SHOCKED I tell you!!!

They don't even try to hide it anymore.

[Botany]

16. Fox lies on everything look @ the chyron @ the bottom of the screen.

"Rep Adam Schiff now doesn't seem so sure about impeachment."

What kind of fresh hell have we here? Schiff's closing statement last Thursday left no
doubt about where he stand on impeachment. And he followed up in his support of it
over the weekend too.

[dalton99a]

19. +1. That's what they feed the cult

[Botany]

20. Now that slimy little shit, Tucker, says he was just kidding

‘Of course I’m joking’: Tucker Carlson and John Kennedy walk back their pro-Russia comments

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/11/26/course-im-joking-tucker-carlson-john-kennedy-walk-back-their-pro-russia-comments/

[dalton99a]

21. Yep - of course

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/07/politics/donald-trump-joking-gloria-borger/index.html
Republicans try a new excuse to defend Trump: It's just a joke

[gordianot]

17. It will be interesting to see if Trump responds.

Donald Trump is the intellectual equal of Tucker Carlson which sets records for willful ignorance. The just joking defense is a tell you really meant what you say.

So several possibilities:

1. No response from Trump it; unnerved him enough he wants distance from someone stating the obvious.

2. Trump condemns what Tucker said; Trump is lying to save his ass from an immediate unknown threat.

3. Trump agrees with Carlson; a rare moment of honesty for Donald Trump.

I would be in favor of an all out boycott of all Fox News sponsors. Why would any one watch Fox when you can find the original on RT YouTube and the Republicans in Congress?

[Farmer-Rick]

18. Shorty Putin wants Russia to go back to its communist government

Putin wants to go back to the USSR and its governmental controlled communism.

Tucker's support clearly indicates he's a Commie.

Commie Tucker and the GOP.

[gordianot]

23. Communist Russia never went away they just rebranded

I read observations about Czarist Russia intelligence services from Mark Twain that sound suspiciously like later Communist efforts. Sometimes the more things seem to change the more they stay the same.

[Farmer-Rick]

31. Oh interesting.

[sop]

24. Tucker loves Russia because Putin's oligarchy mirrors modern GOP ideology.

Russia gave up communism years ago, today it's just an incredibly corrupt mix of plutocracy and autocracy. Republicans envy the Russian system.

Following the Putin model, Trump wants to destroy our constitutional republic and establish an American autocracy run by oligarchs, where all wealth flows to the top and the rights of minorities and others are trampled. Trump's ignorant rabble admire Russia because in their minds it's become the ideal country: brutally authoritarian, white nationalist, racist and christian fundamentalist, with laws that discriminate against minorities, gays and women.

[IronLionZion]

27. Ukraine is the underdog bullied by a bigger stronger enemy

What an idiot.

One of the many reasons Russia is in active war with Ukraine is to spoil their chances for joining NATO. No matter what NATO countries claim publicly, they don't actually want to engage in war with Russia whether it's conventional or cyber or whatever else. Because it would be expensive and destructive.

Putin knows he can bully the former Soviet countries without consequence since he has a friendly US president.

[keithbvadu2]

28. Today's republicans: "Russia is our friend".

Today's republicans: "Russia is our friend".

"... retired Marine Corps Gen. James N. Mattis said in May 2015 that among world threats “in the near term, I think the most dangerous might be Russia.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/6/donald-trump-james-mattis-differ-on-vladimir-putin/

[keithbvadu2]

29. Trump supporters celebrated their victory.

Trump supporters celebrated their victory.

"It turns out that United Russia won the elections in America," Viktor Nazarov, the governor of Omsk, Russia, declared in a radio interview.

http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/news/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com/news/world/make-russia-great-again-if-trump-lifts-sanctions-putin-could-finally-establish-his-country-as-an-equal-to-u-s&pubdate=2016-12-03

[dsharp88]

32. He now says he was joking

well after the backlash against his comment sprung up.

Nice, try, tucker, but we're not buying it.

[struggle4progress]

33. "Since that trial balloon floated like a lead brick, let's move to my next PSA for Vlad"