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Post by cato on Jul 1, 2020 19:55:58 GMT
One of the few sources of light and calling a spade a spade at present in the USA is the Fox News presenter Tucker Carlson.
Major advertisers have withdrawn funding his programme because of his critiques of BLM extremists and craven Democrats and Republicans who have surrendered to them in the statue smashing / taking the knee orgy of 2020 American middle class self hate and moral cowardice.
Watch him. Pray for him.
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Post by assisi on Jul 3, 2020 13:34:01 GMT
One of the few sources of light and calling a spade a spade at present in the USA is the Fox News presenter Tucker Carlson. Major advertisers have withdrawn funding his programme because of his critiques of BLM extremists and craven Democrats and Republicans who have surrendered to them in the statue smashing / taking the knee orgy of 2020 American middle class self hate and moral cowardice. Watch him. Pray for him. I saw a suggestion that some fans and Republicans in the U.S. would like him as 2024 presidential election candidate. Although I'm pretty sure he wouldn't do it, he is a more realistic option than those 'celebrities' I have seen mentioned such as Obama's wife Michelle or Trump's wife Melania. He has been banging the drum for a while now about the fact that the multinationals and big corporations are as culpable for the current leftist nonsense as the cultural marxists and indeed, both are working in tandem as we now witness. The Libertarian idea of free market ideology is not one that is going to bring the West back to anything resembling sanity or sense. The crony capitalism that Google, Twitter, Amazon and the Hollywood companies represent, means that they are de facto running our cultures, banning those whose opinions they don't like, banning songs, books, movies and pouring forth their own propaganda unchallenged. Put in a more generalistic way and a more dramatic way, we as conservatives, are fighting against a Communist/Capitalist combination who now co-operate in the pursuit of 'a one size fits all' globalist dictatorship. |
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Post by cato on Jul 4, 2020 13:30:15 GMT
One of the few sources of light and calling a spade a spade at present in the USA is the Fox News presenter Tucker Carlson. Major advertisers have withdrawn funding his programme because of his critiques of BLM extremists and craven Democrats and Republicans who have surrendered to them in the statue smashing / taking the knee orgy of 2020 American middle class self hate and moral cowardice. Watch him. Pray for him. I saw a suggestion that some fans and Republicans in the U.S. would like him as 2024 presidential election candidate. Although I'm pretty sure he wouldn't do it, he is a more realistic option than those 'celebrities' I have seen mentioned such as Obama's wife Michelle or Trump's wife Melania. He has been banging the drum for a while now about the fact that the multinationals and big corporations are as culpable for the current leftist nonsense as the cultural marxists and indeed, both are working in tandem as we now witness. The Libertarian idea of free market ideology is not one that is going to bring the West back to anything resembling sanity or sense. The crony capitalism that Google, Twitter, Amazon and the Hollywood companies represent, means that they are de facto running our cultures, banning those whose opinions they don't like, banning songs, books, movies and pouring forth their own propaganda unchallenged. Put in a more generalistic way and a more dramatic way, we as conservatives, are fighting against a Communist/Capitalist combination who now co-operate in the pursuit of 'a one size fits all' globalist dictatorship. 100% spot on. |
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Post by cato on Feb 24, 2024 11:40:57 GMT
One of the few sources of light and calling a spade a spade at present in the USA is the Fox News presenter Tucker Carlson. Major advertisers have withdrawn funding his programme because of his critiques of BLM extremists and craven Democrats and Republicans who have surrendered to them in the statue smashing / taking the knee orgy of 2020 American middle class self hate and moral cowardice. Watch him. Pray for him. I have largely changed my view on Carlson after his toe curling "interview" in Moscow with Putin. Conservatives were once familiar with the concept of useful idiots , intelligent people who were taken in by Marxist lies and propaganda. The great Irish journalist and Nobel literature prize winner George Bernard Shaw gushed admiringly over Marshal Stalin in the 1930s. There is a tendency among some on the right to believe the former KGB Mastermind who openly laments the fall of the USSR is a defender of traditional Christian Civilisation .Carlson now seems to have fallen into this category. |
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Feb 27, 2024 20:31:47 GMT
One of the few sources of light and calling a spade a spade at present in the USA is the Fox News presenter Tucker Carlson. Major advertisers have withdrawn funding his programme because of his critiques of BLM extremists and craven Democrats and Republicans who have surrendered to them in the statue smashing / taking the knee orgy of 2020 American middle class self hate and moral cowardice. Watch him. Pray for him. I have largely changed my view on Carlson after his toe curling "interview" in Moscow with Putin. Conservatives were once familiar with the concept of useful idiots , intelligent people who were taken in by Marxist lies and propaganda. The great Irish journalist and Nobel literature prize winner George Bernard Shaw gushed admiringly over Marshal Stalin in the 1930s. There is a tendency among some on the right to believe the former KGB Mastermind who openly laments the fall of the USSR is a defender of traditional Christian Civilisation .Carlson now seems to have fallen into this category. He was only asking questions. I doubt he would have got very far with a confrontational approach. I think we all know to take whatever Putin says with a grain of salt and he made some good points about NATO expansion. |
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Post by cato on Feb 27, 2024 21:25:00 GMT
[/quote]He was only asking questions. I doubt he would have got very far with a confrontational approach. I think we all know to take whatever Putin says with a grain of salt and he made some good points about NATO expansion.
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It was a mortifyingly embarrassing interview from the first moment when Putin let him know who was boss. The history lecture was surreal blaming Poland for provoking Hitler in 1939 , ignoring Stalins genocide in Ukraine( which had a direct link to Ukrainian Nationalist sympathy with the 1941 Nazi invasion. Mistakenly they saw the Germans as liberators ) He also ignored Stalin's infamous 1939 1941 alliance with the USSR when they carved up Finland , Estonia, Latvia Lithuania Poland and part of Rumania up between them. Russia supplied raw materials to the Nazis used to attack Western democracies including 5 Neutral states.
The issue of NATO expansion ignores historical context and the agency of former Soviet colonies. All the current East Europe EU/NATO members freely sought membership to preserve their independence against Russia. They clearly do not want to be a buffer Zone. They reject the shabby western sellout of Yalta.
Nato has preserved European security since 1945. It has kept US forces in Europe and Russia out. Trump now claims he may withdraw from Europe. This may be him mouthing off or pressurising allies not paying their way but if he follows through it will be seen as a huge US defeat. Russia will have seen America off European shores. Putin will have won the 2nd cold war. What he does with his hypothetical victory is anyone's guess.
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Post by kj on Feb 28, 2024 10:28:48 GMT
I had intended watching the interview in 40 minute chunks, but only got through the first part.
I agree with Maolsheachlann that Carson was pretty much condemned to be the good boy by circumstance. To be fair, he did interrupt the history lecture to ask Putin, "Are you saying all states should revert back to their 1640 borders?" I thought this was brave and on the money. Putin fudged of course.
The one other line that stuck with me was when Putin tried telling western leaders that post-Communism "we are now as bourgeois as you." I think this would be fatal to the mindset of a certain type of largely online person who sees in Putin's Russia some sort of reversion to the good ol' days of Byzantine traditional Tsardom and its glorious Orthodoxy, and as some sort of "cure" or alternative to western decadence.
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Post by cato on Feb 28, 2024 12:46:12 GMT
I had intended watching the interview in 40 minute chunks, but only got through the first part. I agree with Maolsheachlann that Carson was pretty much condemned to be the good boy by circumstance. To be fair, he did interrupt the history lecture to ask Putin, "Are you saying all states should revert back to their 1640 borders?" I thought this was brave and on the money. Putin fudged of course. The one other line that stuck with me was when Putin tried telling western leaders that post-Communism "we are now as bourgeois as you." I think this would be fatal to the mindset of a certain type of largely online person who sees in Putin's Russia some sort of reversion to the good ol' days of Byzantine traditional Tsardom and its glorious Orthodoxy, and as some sort of "cure" or alternative to western decadence. Few if any who contribute here would defend the current state of western decadence but there is growing (on line ) disturbing fantasy of seeing some merit in Putinism as a solution to our decline. I dislike comparing every crisis to Nazism but many on the mainstream right did romanticise Fascist regimes in contrast to decadence and decline at home during the 1920s and 30s. France to her shame even collaborated with the new European order in the name of undoing the French Revolution. We face a profound crisis within our borders, within the church and on the Eastern flank of Europe. Putin is not our friend. |
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Post by Tomas on Feb 28, 2024 13:09:33 GMT
Putin obviously not to be trusted, it was and is coercive power abuse all the way into war and pressure, repression, political murders, Gulag and everything. The stupidity among online commentators (younger? Leftists? Catholic converts not understanding history? The latter wishthinking misinterpreting Our Lady of Fatima too?) but basically most Westerners are still on the side of independence for Ukraine in NATO defensive operations (not offensive schemes dreaming of taking over Russia or similar extremist plays also online mostly). To make his interview did not compromise his value as reporter to most observers would be my guess.
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Post by eala on Oct 21, 2024 19:09:31 GMT
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Post by cato on Oct 22, 2024 22:00:28 GMT
That's entitled War with Iran? A typo? His recent interview with an American "historian " blaming Churchill for the decline of Western Power was mortifyingly appalling. |
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