Tucker’s Authoritarian Rant
Apparently, some of us have been a "bad little girl" who needs a "vigorous spanking" (and I quote).
Carlson provides here a blatantly authoritarian metaphor wherein the American people are described as disorderly children who need a powerful father to come home and beat them into submission.
He talks about punishment being “justice” and the “purest and best thing there is” as a specific appeal to order. This is justice-as-violence to force desired behaviors. This is a fascistic worldview. It is certainly authoritarian rhetoric.
The main appeal, historically, for authoritarianism is that it promises order. It certainly is a great way to appeal to otherwise comfortable people: scare them into thinking they are under threat and then promise to provide order. Of course, never mind that things are actually pretty orderly, on balance.
It is specifically what Trump does with immigration and crime.
For example:
Note the lies about the situation to create fear and then the promise of confrontation.
Additional thoughts on the Carlson clip.
- Some of the January 6th insurrectionists did smear feces on the walls of the US Capitol.
- The “bad little girl” stuff is just creepy and weird.
- The notion that, in his little fantasy “it is going to hurt you more than it hurts me” is rather disturbing.
And a passing reminder of a recent post: Tucker Carlson Promotes Hitler Apologist.
Question: What color panties are the American people wearing during this?
Clearly, Tucker likes to be dominated.
I wouldn’t touch Ftucker, but I’d gladly paddle him with an Aztec maze
Oh, this is the event at which Trump stated that he somehow stopped a war with the French.
I am so done with these @ssh0les.
I only had one dad and he’s dead. I don’t need fascist traitors like Fucker Carlson telling me I need another one, especially not one like fascist traitor Donald Trump.
What really gets me is how he expresses so much joy in the prospect of hurting someone he perceives as having “misbehaved.” And it’s a girl, because of course it has to be with this sick piece of shit.
It got even creepier, the crowd responded by greeting Trump with chants of “Daddy’s home!” Suppress that reflexive urk folks, still weeks to go.
Remember when Dems were reviled as the ‘mommy party’? Good times.
@dazedandconfused:
Is this true?
Either way, I’d rather hear the crowd say itrather than Trump himself.
@Kurtz:
As reported by CNN.
I’m ready for silly season to end. Not that it ever really does, or anything…
But the MAGA folks are offended at Trump, Vance, and the rest of them being considered weird. Let’s try pathetic instead. Unmanly. The list could go on.
I remember reading a history book: it was The Arms of Krupp or The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich where in the decades prior to WWI, German (Prussian) society went into a hyper masculine phase that sounds so similar to what we are hearing today. Downright demented.
“Don’t call us weird!”
Somewhere, someone who would have really enjoyed hearing someone say “Daddy’s home. You’ve been a bad, bad girl and you need to be spanked” has just had that little fantasy destroyed. They will never be able to associate it with anyone other than Tucker Carlson.
That guy ruins everything.
Tucker was great. Trump 2024
@Michael Reynolds:
https://x.com/TheRicanMemes/status/1849528077153415674/photo/1
A couple of tidbits from Stephen Colbert, after playing the “You’ve been a bad, bad girl and you need to be spanked” clip tonight:
@jake: https://x.com/PettyLupone/status/1849656335459119560?t=FFq4AvCpp-Wo25tubCWpZA&s=19
A rally for Kamala Harris pulled 23,000 excited American patriots to a Georgia stadium on Wednesday. Like a majority of Americans, these voters are fired up to defeat corrupt Putin-puppet Trump and his treasonous Bond-villain running mate Leon Musk.
Meanwhile, with news of his Hitler fandom breaking thorough, the elderly, exhausted 78-year-old rapist Trump barely filled a capacity 5,000 room in Arizona. Yikes!
BTW Arizona, birthplace of Reagan conservatism, now has a Democratic governor, Sec. of State, and senator thanks to the unlikeable, unpopular, unstable Trump’s failure as a president and a man.
Womp womp.
@Eusebio:
Lolol
@DK:
They left after Springsteen was done
2 weeks before Kamala was installed ,Washington post was trying to figure out how to get Kamala out . They didn’t want her as a President nominee. 2 weeks later she walks on water. A joke
@Michael Reynolds:
https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1849844965079204250