What the hell type of person is so craven for cash that they will “sell” themselves, literally, to pander to people that they hate? I have written professionally for five years now and can feed my daughter. I guarantee I could make five times the money if I was just willing to write what the MAGAs want to hear. Breitbart could offer me $120K, and I’d have to turn it down.
And no MAGA better be angry with me for saying it. Because the people that the average MAGA listens to and reveres, like Tucker Carlson and his producers, hate them more than I do! I actually had a chance to meet a couple of MAGAs and talk politics over coffee (Not social media). We disagreed on nearly everything, but in a social setting, as opposed to social media, we found things we did like about each other or at least common concerns. I hate their values, especially their racism, but they were human beings and were not completely devoid of all value. (Some of you will argue that if one is voting for Trump or DeSantis, the racism alone makes them despicable, and that’s entirely fair. I choose to try to find some good.) But I can’t come close to hating them as much as Tucker Carlson’s producer hates them.
In the Dominion lawsuit, in deciding whether to tell the truth about the election or go with the “stolen” plot, Tucker Carlson’s producer called their own audience “Dumb, cousin-fcking terrorists.”
As Fox debated how to handle Trump’s election lies, Tucker’s then-producer described their audience as “dumb” “cousin-fucking” “terrorists.”https://t.co/E353mlhDqA pic.twitter.com/f9T8BceOYL
— Eric Columbus (@EricColumbus) March 12, 2023
But that also goes to show you just how craven these people are! They KNOW that there is an element of the MAGA movement that are terrorists, and so what do they do? They feed them the exact information that drives their terrorism!! ” After all, yes, the federal building in LA might get blown up, killing 800, but that producer will have earned his seven figures, and he “figures” he won’t be in the building among the 800.
Not all MAGAs are dumb. Some MAGA are more sophisticated than others. And some are damned dangerous. So he gets it right – though phrased in a way that few would “aspire to.”
Hall of fame description, but also a glimpse of how deeply cynical and money hungry some people are. Here is a really tough argument: Which is the worse person? The audience who believes the worst of the worst stuff, the terrorist? Or the guy that knows better, isn’t stupid enough to fall for everything but “pretends” and feeds their fury while knowingly lying to them all because he makes a lot of money to do so?
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You don’t consider getting the most toys a fun game. Decency and truth matter more to you. They don’t matter at all to Trump or his most devout followers.
Well, Rudy G. was (is he still?) a MAGA hero and he’s a cousin fucker…
Well said indeed. And true.