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Trump Lite
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.