Peloni: Following Carlson’s interview with Candace Owens, this should not be surprising, even as it is it remains quite disturbing: “They don’t care about their country at all”
Carlson’s comments came during an interview with Saagar Enjeti, the conservative host of the popular web series “Breaking Points.”
Tucker Carlson, the populist pundit who led Fox News’s evening lineup until his ouster in April 2023, said in an interview this week that Ben Shapiro of the Daily Wire “[doesn’t] care about the country at all,” accusing him and other pro-Israel voices of being “focused on a conflict in a foreign country as their own country becomes dangerously unstable.”
Carlson rattled off a series of challenges facing the United States– financial instability, insecure borders– and asserted that “they’ve said nothing about that, and they’re focused with laser intensity on foreign conflicts.”
Carlson contrasted this supposed apathy to his own concern for the US: “I have no choice,” he said, “I’m from here, my family’s been here hundreds of years, I plan to stay here— I’m shocked by how little they care about the country, including [Shapiro].”
Carlson’s comments came during an interview with Saagar Enjeti, the conservative host of the popular web series “Breaking Points.”
Enjeti, who hosts the panel show alongside Krystal Ball, a progressive, asked Carlson “what explains this…literal allegiance to narrative on Ukraine, [and] on Israel,” asserting that “so many of these people don’t seem to have this same level of care about actual American citizens.”
In a post to X on Saturday, former American ambassador to Israel David Friedman condemned Carlson’s comments, writing that Shapiro “is an American patriot who cares deeply about our country.” Friedman noted that “among other issues, Ben has been a forceful advocate for closing our Southern border and ending the massive inflow of Fentanyl that is killing our youth,” an apparent allusion to Carlson’s suggestion that Shapiro was neglecting those topics.
“@TuckerCarlson says that since Ben supports Israel he doesn’t care about America,” Friedman wrote. “I hope he doesn’t really mean that. It’s a shameful thing to say and he should apologize.”
Carlson: wealthy people heard a ‘dog-whistle that commanded them to worship Zelensky’
Speaking about Ukraine, Carlson told Enjeti that “every single person in the top one percent for income and influence…heard this weird frequency, this dog-whistle, that commanded them to worship Zelensky, and I’m not exactly sure what that was.”
It was not the first time that Carlson, the 53 year old heir to the Swanson TV dinner fortune, had challenged American support for Ukraine’s wartime leader. On the first episode of his online program following his firing from Fox News, Carlson described Zelensky, who is Jewish, as “sweaty and rat-like, a comedian turned oligarch, a persecutor of Christians, a friend of Blackrock.”
He also referred to him as “shifty,” “dead-eyed,” and as “a person who would enjoy flooding villages or starting a famine.”
“It’s painful to even quote that,” said Ian Bremmer of the Eurasia group, in a response to Carlson’s statements. “These are all antisemitic dog-whistles, with a sprinkling of blood libel, plain and simple.”
The Anti-Defamation League also denounced Carlson’s comments about Zelensky as antisemitic: “This is exactly the type of dangerous, hateful content that has no place in mainstream public squares,” the group said.
Social Security was not supposed to run out of money, the politicians stole money from it for other purposes and declared it to be an entitlement rather than the earned tax contributions.
Suspending the tax was a temporary measure because it was illegal to abolish it outright, however, the trick to make it permanent was to keep suspending it indefinitely which Trump promised to do if reelected – I guess he was advised to be more careful with his pronouncements in his current campaign.
He is part of the system – if he wasn’t, the system would have gotten rid of him a long time ago, most likely he is simply a controlled opposition puppet whether he is aware of it or not.
As far as what Trump said and what he did – here it is with all the details :
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Trump+suspends+social+security+payroll+tax&t=ftsa&ia=web
@Bear
@Sebastien
Yes, I have made this clear to Reader many times over the past three year as well.
@ Seb, Suspending the payroll tax was a temporary measure.
I also made this point in answeing Reader. Twice. He referred to Trump’s previously suspending the payroll tax for Social Security but if memory serves, that was just a temporary measure.
@Bear
“”You don’t have to touch Social Security,”
Thank you for making this point. I have raised it several times but it is important that people understand that there are better solutions to be pursued than turning the topic of Social Security into a turf war between the elderly and the young.
It is a fair question, and Trump previously noted that the manner by which he would do so would in part be similar to what he did with the VA, but that he would also pursue the benefits to be gained from the 4 Executive Orders he issued in August 2020, which drove Pharma off the cliffs of insanity. With better management, fewer counter-productive regulations, and lower drug costs, he was going to reform healthcare, and this would involve the reform of medicare and medicaid.
Actually Trump has said many times he will not touch Social Security. He understood that this would not make him popular.
“”You don’t have to touch Social Security,” Trump said. “We have money laying in the ground far greater than anything we can do by hurting senior citizens with their Social Security.”
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-reveals-plans-social-security-1849868
How he will keep it solvent beyond 2033 when it supposed to run out of money is the real question.
@Reader
You do seem somewhat fixed upon the suggestion that people are accusing you of lying in recent days. That was not my meaning here, and I thought that was clear, but since you took it as such, I will tell you clearly that I did not mean to suggest you ‘made it up’ only that you and the politicized citations you shared are wrong.
And we have conversed on this topic several times.
@peloni
It is NOT my claim or my fantasy.
I posted it on this website many times for a very long time with references/links, so don’t accuse me of making things up.
I don’t remember that we ever “danced about this topic” – you have absolutely nothing to confirm that it is not true other than saying that I am wrong.
If you are willing to ignore something outrageous like this (“don’t tell me ’cause it hurts”) to be able to keep your faith in Trump, he IS your idol.
About 49% of the voters now identify as Independent.
25% as Dems and 25% as GOP.
So we will see how third party candidates do in the election and upset some swing states. Supposedly third party candidates will pull more votes from Dems helping Trump is the earliest analysis.
Biden strategy appears to be that Trump re-election would be the end of democracy in the USA and Trump is an insurrectionist.
What is sad and ironic the Dems are trying to use law-fare to keep Trump off the ballot in what is clearly anti-democratic. To be an insurrectionist in a real legal sense one must be convicted under 18 U.S. Code § 2383 – Rebellion or insurrection. Trump has never been charged let alone convicted under this statue. If he was then he would be legally ineligible to hold office.
@Sebastien Zorn
I don’t vote.
I voted last time “against Bernie Sanders”, it was an exception.
Most people treat politics the same as sports.
@Reader Once again, So, do you support Biden? Or, do you say, “a plague on all their houses” and abstain?
@Peloni until Trump is no longer in Presidential politics there are no candidates the Maga loyalist for the most part would accept is the point.
We will find out post Trump is there is an actual MAGA movement in large numbers.
Right now Trump is in the driver’s seat for the GOP nomination. He is ahead in enough of the swing states so that he has a decent chance to become POTUS again.
Nevada and Arizona will have abortion issues on the ballot and this is a possibility in Florida. This issue drives more women to the polls who are independents and GOP moderates who are pro-choice. This is their number one issue. This could potentially hurt Trump in Swing States and even possibly Florida. If he were to lose to Florida, Biden would win re-election.
@Bear
Show me a MAGA candidate who would not gain a fair hearing from the MAGA loyalists. The problem with this claim is that there was no opposition candidate who challenged Trump from within MAGA. In a way this is good as the base has but one choice and we can move on to the general election, but it defeats the very purpose of a primary, and I for one which this had been handled differently.
Perhaps you will share an example of what ‘scorched earth politics’ Trump is enacting? Trump is running against the establishment. If you are referencing his attack upon the systemic corruption metastasized within the US institutions as scorched earth politics, I would argue that this is precisely the thing from which Trump should not be shied away from pursuing, neither on the campaign trail nor after he hopefully wins in November.
I did notice that neither you nor Laura have responded to my concerns related to the very liberal positions which are very much a part of Desantis’ record. Perhaps you or she will address why you are not concerned by Desantis’ liberal positions on these issues.
@Reader
I have no idols, and leave such unintelligent and uninformed and unattractive support of idols for others to practice.
I did in fact hope to see a debate brought forth in this election which would have required Trump to address his ill informed opinion on the tragedy surrounding the toxic shots which came to be mandated by the current administration. Sadly this conversation was avoided due to a repeat of 2016 when all of Trump’s opponents came to reveal themselves to be establishment supporting hacks rendering this subject irrelevant in the current election.
Regarding your silly claim about Trump dismantling/defunding Social Security, it has no merit. We have in fact danced about this topic many times, and though I am unable to disabuse you of your views on this topic, I still assert that you are wrong.
@Peloni, you missed my point. My point is it does not matter who would oppose Trump the MAGA loyalists in general just like Trump would bash them.
Trump is highly likely to win the nomination so MAGA loyalists may not care about the damage that is being done by just blasting any rival of Trump in the GOP.
Scorched earth politics does not do the USA any good. Whether from the Democrats or Trump.
@Sebastien Zorn
Why do you ASSUME I am wrong?
People might have been not unhappy about the economy because of the government payments (that have now been cancelled).
The truth is it was NOT the best economy.