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The bottom line here is that they want fascism, facts and reality are a major threat to fascism, so the truth is and always will be their enemy.
Carlson doesn't really have arguments or evidence, but he does do a bang-up impression of someone sarcastically brushing aside nonsense. Except what he's brushing away is usually pretty serious stuff

Best description of Carlsons style. Carlson, like Trump, figured out that the sarcasm and rage will sell itself. It doesn't matter if there is evidence or substance or thought behind it. The furious tone is what sells. >


the sarcasm and rage will sell itself

Do you remember how completely fucking batshit crazy it was when Trump talked about injecting disinfectants to cure COVID?
That was nothing compared to him claiming that he was speaking "sarcastically" when he said it. But that doesn't seem to be the thing that anyone remembers about it.
What is it about sarcasm that makes it seem like a viable excuse? This was far from the first time that he or his apologists tried to wave something horrible away as sarcasm, or just a joke. 
Why isn't talking sarcastically about the cure for a deadly disease about to go on a rampage and kill hundreds of thousands of people that you're currently addressing in a press conference  seen as infinitely worse than just being an imbecile who doesn't understand how medicine or viruses or anything, really works? >

Exactly. Trump sort of did that with talking about slowing down testing because it was making us look bad. His aides kept saying he was joking and then he said he wasnt.
His whole strategy is I'll wait to see how you take it before I decide if I'm joking or not.
I mean, Jesus, when Trump said he didn't think Russia tried hacking the US in Helsinki while standing next to Putin he later said it was a verbal slip because he was trying to avoid a double negative. He probably had to have double negatives explained to him before he made that "clarification."
What Trump laid bare is that the Republican party will support anyone who isn't a "liberal" to the point of backing someone who is getting his own constitutions killed.
As long as there is power on the table for them they will call any ignorant statement genius >


getting his own constitutions killed.

Some typos are bad, some are genius. >

Maybe I should take a cue from Trump and say that was intentional, the way he said the successful hit on the ISIS leader that almost didn't happen because Trump decided to suddenly pull out of Syria after Erdogan told him to which led to a scramble by US operations was intentional >

Santos is testing showing their hand-  basically testing the rabble for how strong the koolaid is, because at the end of that path, it's nothing but koolaid. >

This is beginning to feel like a "let's see how far we can go with this" type of situation. >

Trump Lite >

More like premium, but you don't get any extra features. >

Extra hand mass, less hairdo chair time, universal shoes that dont require alterations, normal sized ties.   Streamlined, efficient.  We still get all the qualities we expect, pathological lying, grifting, public embarrassment and bizarre behavior.  Just a touch more refined. >

Like your standard grifting conman, but with 15% less stench. >

And 99.9% less orange. >

I'm hoping 100 years from now - if the US survives this Johnnie Cochran style attack of constantly sowing seeds of doubt against what is obviously the truth, along with outright lies and conspiracy - that the history books will call this time "The Golden Age of Ignorance".
And the school kids will say, "How did they believe that stuff?"
Edit: spelling >

So let me get this straight: you’re saying Chewbacca was a wookie? >

If the wookie does not fit, you must acquit! >

Plot twist:  it was Ralph Wiggum’s bent wookie >


On Thursday night, for instance, Santos was sanctified into the echelon of MAGA saints by the Pope of neo-fascism himself, Tucker Carlson. 

That's perfect Salon >

Hey now they gotta be dead for fifty… wait no five years now to be sanctified >

Didnt you hear? Santos died in 9/11, twice! >

Was that before or after he invented the cotton gin? >

It’s hilarious that all these fiscal conservatives are OK with paying a lifetime pension to this pathological liar out of taxpayer money. >

He has to serve 5 years. Doubtful he'll be reelected. >

Yea, he's now serving a 2 year term, his first and probably last. The fact he got elected in that district shows a rather large failing on the part of NY democrats, IMO. >

But not on the Republicans who nominated him? 🙄 >

It's on you if you expect republicans to not only employ every single dirty trick they can, but for their voting base to be totally fine with it. 
Every single thing originating from republicans needs to be treated as if it's cesium 137. Failure to do so results in what we have. >

This quote from Dan Olson's video on flat earth keeps popping into my head these days.
"It gives them power over others who are bound by something as weak and flimsy as reality. They claim to be against corruption while hanging their hopes on an openly corrupt man, and that naked hypocrisy is the point. They will effortlessly carve out an exception because it makes them exceptional. They engage in wild hypocrisy as an act of dominantion, adhering to something demonstrably untrue out of spite because they believe that power belongs to those with the greatest will to take it and what is a greater sign of will than the ability to override truth?
Their will is a hammer that they are using to beat reality itself into a shape of their choosing. A simple world where reality is exactly what it looks like through their eyes. Devoid of complexity, devoid of change. Where they are right and their enemies are silent. They are trying to build a flat earth." >

I remember this video! Amazing quote and reference. >

Pretty soon he's going to be headlining drag queen book fairs in Florida and Ron DeSantis is going to sit in his lap reading banned books. >

George Santos is an anagram for St. Orange's Ego. >

I think it's also an anagram for Anger's Stooge >

Strange goose, also
Ogres onstage >

*Archbishop of Canterbury Santos >

The worst part of all this is the toll it has taken on his wife Morgan Fairchild >

Whom he’s seen naked. >

They wage a war on truth to eradicate logic from forces resisting their unethical and corrupt aims. They've been saying "red tape" is what we need to do away with for decades, and now we are living in a world where order is being dismantled. Truth is another form of order, much like school systems, which "elites" are happy to do away with, as long as it means they retain the power they want. >

Bro republicans just look evil. >

This really is the last phase of conservative media's programming of their cult.  If they can convince their sheep to love and defend this guy, they can convince them of anything. >


If they can convince their sheep to love and defend this guy, they can convince them of anything.

Yep, very true - as borne out by history.
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” ― Voltaire >

Republicans don’t live in reality, and they love a strong liar >

1st Amendment: We have the Right to Lie! 2nd Amendment: We have the right to oppose the Government with arms. 13th Amendment: States have the right to use slavery as punishment.
Republicans are very clearly consistent about what they want, and end to Democratic Government and an end to the idea that All Men are Created Equal. >

Regarding the 2nd Dems do themselves no favors by being anti-gun and often refusing to own them.  The right has been screaming about Civil War and killing millions of people for years now, I wish more Democrats took them seriously because things haven’t gotten better post Trump.  Biden has done OK job as president but the GOP just getting crazier. >

If the Republicans are able to engineer a political environment where someone like Santos can survive, they will have good evidence that literally no rules apply to them. They will feel completely unencumbered in terms of embracing self serving fictions in support of the rule needed to establish a white identity theocracy. I suspect they have already achieved this, but Santos would be a convincing sign supporting this for others. >

George Santos is everything the right hates and condemns yet they embrace him because he represents them. Ted Cruz embraces freedom of religion yet opposes any religion that he doesn't subscribe to. The GOP is filled with hypocrisy. >

They are trying to break the line between what is real and what is not. Yet their supporters are like 'fuck communism!' >

What do ya know. A serial liar defending a serial liar !!!