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[Michael Stuart Kelly]

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This looks like it is going to be a thing, so for as long as I can embed the shows, I will here in this thread.

 

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

 

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

OMG.

Finally someone from the mainstream is saying this in the form it needs to be said.

I love it.

 

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

This one was so good, I am going to make a transcript of it later this morning.

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Here you go:

Quote

TUCKER CARLSON: Hey, it's Tucker Carlson. 

The Biden administration arrested Donald Trump this afternoon. They had him arraigned and fingerprinted in the Miami Courthouse, like the accused felon he now technically is. These are the first steps in a process that is designed to put Donald Trump behind bars for the rest of his life. 

Cable news carried every moment of it live. "It's unprecedented!" they told us with what looked like shock. But they weren't shocked. They knew this was coming. Everyone who has paid attention knew it was. What just happened was always going to happen. 

It's been inevitable since February 16th, 2016\. That's the day Donald Trump made a blood enemy of the largest and most powerful organization in human history, which would be the federal government. 

Despite what you may remember, it wasn't anything that Trump had said about immigration or trade with China, or rapists from Mexico. Those are the stories that dominated the headlines that year. "Trump's a racist!" they screamed. "Stop him!" But inside Washington, that was just noise. None of it really rated. Identity politics doesn't mean much to permanent Washington. 

What matters--then and now--is foreign policy: the invasions and occupations and proxy wars, the decisions that determine which global populations will thrive and which will die. The policies that come with trillion-dollar price tags, the ones that over time have made the counties around D.C. the richest suburbs in the world. In Washington, that's what actually matters. And it's obvious when you look carefully. 

When there's a debate about anything else, for example, the debt ceiling, both sides take their assigned positions and they start yelling. But when Congress decides to start a war--no matter how foolish or counterproductive or obviously disconnected from America's core interests that war may be--when that happens, the leadership of both parties automatically jump behind it like circus clowns. And then they stay there, sometimes for decades. 

They defend that war relentlessly, against all evidence, until somebody finally rings the all-clear bell and they can begin to admit that, "Actually, maybe it wasn't such a great idea. We meant went well, but it just didn't work out. The good news is, we've learned a lot of important lessons." 

In the end, they usually do say something like that, but only after emotions have cooled and the damning details have begun to fade from collective memory. It's an apology that's not actually an apology, much less repentance, and it's years too late to matter in any case. But until then, that's all you're getting. Until then, no dissent is allowed. That's the first rule of Washington. 

But somehow Trump didn't bother to follow it. He is from out of town, so maybe he didn't know it was a rule. Maybe he just didn't care. Either way, seven and a half years later, we can point to the precise moment that permanent Washington decided to send Donald Trump to prison. Here it is. It's from the Republican candidates' debate in Greenville, South Carolina. 

DONALD TRUMP: "We should have never been in Iraq. We have destabilized the Middle East." They lied. They said there were weapons of mass destruction. They were none. And they knew there were none. There were no weapons of mass destruction. 

CROWD AND MODERATOR NOISE

TUCKER CARLSON: "We should never have been in Iraq," Trump said. "We destabilized the Middle East." 

Now, by the time Trump said that, a lot of Republican primary voters were starting to reach the same conclusion. How could they not? But it was the next line that doomed Trump to today's arrest. "They lied," he said. "There were no weapons of mass destruction, and they knew there were none." 

Now when he said that, a few in the crowd booed. Most just sat there in silence, stunned. Can he say that? Well, he said it anyway? And by saying that, he sealed his fate. That was the one thing you were not allowed to say because it implicated too many people on both sides, which, on this topic, is really just one side. Hillary Clinton was guilty of it, but so was Paul Ryan. All of them were guilty. They all knew. They all lied. And to a person, they hated Donald Trump for exposing them. 

After that, it was pretty clear that even if he did get elected, President Trump was going to have a very hard time controlling the federal government he was supposed to be in charge of. Most of permanent Washington decided that thwarting Trump with the single most important mission in their lives. Everything depended on it. Many of them even said so publicly. 

But others didn't say so publicly. In fact, the stealthier ones took another path. 

They ran toward Trump, not away from him. They sucked up to him. They ingratiated themselves to the man they intuitively understood was susceptible to flattery, which Trump is. And they did this in order to subvert his new administration from the inside. 

There were a number of these, and you can spot them immediately. They were flatterers. Invariably, the ones who flattered Trump the most hated him the most and disagreed the most strongly with his views. We saw them in the hallways of the White House, and at press conferences. They were there slobbering over their boss with elaborate self-abasement as if they were addressing a monarch or a God. It was a scene from the Ottoman Court. It was filthy and decadent, and it was false. 

Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, Mike Pompeo, Lindsey Graham in the Congress--they all called Trump a visionary genius up until the moment he lost power. And then they unsheathed their real agenda, as always the neocon war agenda, and they piled on with maximum force. 

Here's Mike Pompeo, for example, on Fox News this morning. 

MIKE POMPEO: President Trump had classified documents where he shouldn't have had them. And then when given the opportunity to return to them, he chose not to do that for whatever reason... When somebody identifies that, you've got to turn them in. 

So that's just... that's inconsistent with protecting America's soldiers. sailors, airmen and marines. And if the allegations are true, some of these were pretty serious, important documents. So that's wrong. 

TUCKER CARLSON: May future historians hoping to unlock the mysteries of late Empire Washington study that clip because it will reveal everything. That very same Mike Pompeo, the one who's sneering at Donald Trump on TV this morning, that guy served Donald Trump as both CIA Director and as Secretary of State. Those are the two most powerful jobs in the federal government. 

And as he worked in those jobs, Pompeo promised, in fact he swore, to support the president's agenda. Why? Because that's the way a democracy works. You vote for a candidate in the belief that his appointees will carry out the policies that you voted for. It's not about the president. It's about you, the voter. 

But Pompeo didn't do that. He didn't even try to do that. In fact, he undermined Trump's often stated commitment to peace and non-intervention abroad at every turn. His every waking hour was devoted to fomenting war in some faraway foreign country or other. Iran, Syria, Russia, North Korea. The list goes on. But rather than telling Trump that he disagreed with his ideas, as a man would, Pompeo toadied up to Trump, a man he despised, in the oiliest, most over-the-top way imaginable. 

Ask anyone who worked in that White House at the time. Who is the appointee most likely to tell Donald Trump on a daily basis that he was handsome, virile, sleek and powerful? Mike Pompeo. That will be the consensus answer. Those of us who saw firsthand Pompeo's relentless kowtowing will never forget it. It was indelibly repulsive. No one with self-respect could do something like that, but Mike Pompeo did it effortlessly with relish and verve. 

Now, this same person is telling Fox News viewers that he fears for the safety of our military, our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines, in the improved phrase, because Donald Trump took some classified documents home and didn't immediately return them to the National Archives. What a lie that is. Mike Pompeo knows that's a lie. He spent his entire life in Washington. 

Washington is a city where control memos about the Labor Day are classified because everything is classified. Your government has classified more than a billion federal documents, most of them boring and pointless and a danger to no one, and locked them away in secret where you can't see them because, you may be an American citizen, but not really. And therefore, you don't have the necessary clearances to know what's going on. 

And, by the way, none of this is done in order to make America safer, any more than COVID restrictions were designed to keep you healthy. No. It's a caste system. That's the point, and you're the untouchable in this hierarchy. 

Mike Pompeo knows that. Everybody who works in Washington knows that. How many secret documents do you think Dick Cheney took home with him when he was running the Iraq War? How many did his wife read? She never had a clearance. We'll never know the answer because there was no chance Dick Cheney would ever be investigated, or staffers will be told to wear wires in his presence. 

He'll never be indicted for this. Of course not. Dick Cheney is a neocon. Donald Trump is not. Dick Cheney supports war with Russia. Trump does not. That's the difference. The rest is just a distraction. 

The prosecution of Donald Trump is transparently political. He's literally Joe Biden's main political opponent. He's polling over 60% among Republican voters right now. So Joe Biden is doing what no president has ever dared to do. He's using law enforcement to lock up his chief rival. That's happening right now. Anyone who denies it's happening is lying to you. 

But actually, it's worse than that. Trump's prosecution isn't just political. It's ideological. Nobody with Trump's views is allowed to have power in this country. Criticize our wars and you're disqualified. If you keep it up, we'll send you to prison. That's the message Washington is sending. Not just the Democratic Party is sending, but both parties are sending. 

Like so many Republicans, for example, the supposedly conservative governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, spent yesterday totally ignoring the destruction of the American justice system. Instead, he signed a highly important bill called the Crown Act, which, according to the celebratory tweet Abbott sent commemorating it, will quote, "prohibit discrimination based on textures and hairstyles historically associated with race." In other words, in Texas, cornrows are now protected by law. Having unapproved views about Ukraine is not. 

That's fine with most elected Republicans. They find Trump tiresome and embarrassing. Their donors hate him. They will not be sad if he dies in jail. 

But what about voters? What are they learning from this spectacle? Well, mostly they're learning that they have no power at all because nobody cares about them. But they already knew that. Unlike so many of our elected leaders, they have been to America recently. They know what it looks like. 

Have you seen it? If you've got a few days this summer, find out. Take a road trip and see for yourself. Drive 500 miles in any direction, then come home. How are things looking? 

Well, they should look great. The federal government spent six and a half trillion dollars last year. That's more than any government has ever spent, ever. So, at the very least, you'd expect pristine public roads. Oh, no. That's not what you see when you drive around this country. 

There are potholes and Jersey barriers everywhere. It looks like Tegucigalpa before the Chinese decided to rebuild the infrastructure of Honduras. We don't have China buying our roads, so they're falling apart. 

You'd think the people you would pass on your road trip would look happy and prosperous. Again, this is a very rich country. But a lot of them don't. Quite a few appear to be strung out on drugs. You see them shuffling by shuttered storefronts in small towns. 

And you wonder, as you see all of this, where did all the money go? It's certainly not here. Well, it's in Washington. It's in Fairfax and Loudoun counties, and in leafy, perfectly manicured northwest DC. 

And of course, a huge chunk of it went to Ukraine, to Zelenski and his friends. Not because you voted for that. You didn't vote to give it to them. You never would. But because Joe Biden and his many allies, from Chuck Schumer to Mitch McConnell to Paul Ryan, and every single news anchor on all of television, all of them believe that Ukraine, its borders, its future, its infrastructure, are all more important than the town that you live in. They sincerely think that, and it's obvious. Everyone in power thinks that. 

Except for Donald Trump. Whatever else you say about him, Trump is the one guy with an actual shot at becoming president who descends from Washington's long-standing pointless war agenda. And for that, that one fact, they're trying to take Trump out before you can vote for him. And that should upset you more than anything that's happened in American politics in your lifetime. 

Even if you don't plan to vote for Donald Trump, even if you would die before voting for Donald Trump, which is you're right, a lot of good people feel that way. Even still, the destruction of our democracy--which is the right of voters to support any candidate they want, even candidates who don't want war with Russia--the destruction of that should keep you up at night. Yes, Donald Trump is a flawed man, but his sins are minor compared to those of his persecutors. In this life, we don't get to choose our martyrs. We can only choose our principles. And America's are at stake.

 

This should be read by everyone who hates the wars the US has been doing. Or, if you prefer to watch, well watch the video of Episode 3 above.

Tucker names names, too. Names on the Republican side, including Mike Pence, Nikki Haley and Lindsey Graham.

He even comes down on Mike Pompeo for being such a weasel toady and backstabber.

 

 

I feel blessed to be alive when such videos with widespread reach can be made in context of the current situation.

In earlier times, murdering truth-telling critics would be the only answer from the murderous assholes in power.

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Episode 4.

This is a fantastic take-down of Biden as a wanna-be dictator in the best of Tucker's scathing style.

Michael

 

EDIT: This one is also going into the hundreds and hundreds of millions of views. In the first half-hour alone, there were 1.2 million views:

 

 

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

On 6/14/2023 at 10:36 AM, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

Here you go:

Quote

TUCKER CARLSON: Hey, it's Tucker Carlson. 

The Biden administration arrested Donald Trump this afternoon. They had him arraigned and fingerprinted in the Miami Courthouse, like the accused felon he now technically is. These are the first steps in a process that is designed to put Donald Trump behind bars for the rest of his life. 

Cable news carried every moment of it live. "It's unprecedented!" they told us with what looked like shock. But they weren't shocked. They knew this was coming. Everyone who has paid attention knew it was. What just happened was always going to happen. 

It's been inevitable since February 16th, 2016\. That's the day Donald Trump made a blood enemy of the largest and most powerful organization in human history, which would be the federal government. 

Despite what you may remember, it wasn't anything that Trump had said about immigration or trade with China, or rapists from Mexico. Those are the stories that dominated the headlines that year. "Trump's a racist!" they screamed. "Stop him!" But inside Washington, that was just noise. None of it really rated. Identity politics doesn't mean much to permanent Washington. 

What matters--then and now--is foreign policy: the invasions and occupations and proxy wars, the decisions that determine which global populations will thrive and which will die. The policies that come with trillion-dollar price tags, the ones that over time have made the counties around D.C. the richest suburbs in the world. In Washington, that's what actually matters. And it's obvious when you look carefully. 

When there's a debate about anything else, for example, the debt ceiling, both sides take their assigned positions and they start yelling. But when Congress decides to start a war--no matter how foolish or counterproductive or obviously disconnected from America's core interests that war may be--when that happens, the leadership of both parties automatically jump behind it like circus clowns. And then they stay there, sometimes for decades. 

They defend that war relentlessly, against all evidence, until somebody finally rings the all-clear bell and they can begin to admit that, "Actually, maybe it wasn't such a great idea. We meant went well, but it just didn't work out. The good news is, we've learned a lot of important lessons." 

In the end, they usually do say something like that, but only after emotions have cooled and the damning details have begun to fade from collective memory. It's an apology that's not actually an apology, much less repentance, and it's years too late to matter in any case. But until then, that's all you're getting. Until then, no dissent is allowed. That's the first rule of Washington. 

But somehow Trump didn't bother to follow it. He is from out of town, so maybe he didn't know it was a rule. Maybe he just didn't care. Either way, seven and a half years later, we can point to the precise moment that permanent Washington decided to send Donald Trump to prison. Here it is. It's from the Republican candidates' debate in Greenville, South Carolina. 

DONALD TRUMP: "We should have never been in Iraq. We have destabilized the Middle East." They lied. They said there were weapons of mass destruction. They were none. And they knew there were none. There were no weapons of mass destruction. 

CROWD AND MODERATOR NOISE

TUCKER CARLSON: "We should never have been in Iraq," Trump said. "We destabilized the Middle East." 

Now, by the time Trump said that, a lot of Republican primary voters were starting to reach the same conclusion. How could they not? But it was the next line that doomed Trump to today's arrest. "They lied," he said. "There were no weapons of mass destruction, and they knew there were none." 

Now when he said that, a few in the crowd booed. Most just sat there in silence, stunned. Can he say that? Well, he said it anyway? And by saying that, he sealed his fate. That was the one thing you were not allowed to say because it implicated too many people on both sides, which, on this topic, is really just one side. Hillary Clinton was guilty of it, but so was Paul Ryan. All of them were guilty. They all knew. They all lied. And to a person, they hated Donald Trump for exposing them. 

After that, it was pretty clear that even if he did get elected, President Trump was going to have a very hard time controlling the federal government he was supposed to be in charge of. Most of permanent Washington decided that thwarting Trump with the single most important mission in their lives. Everything depended on it. Many of them even said so publicly. 

But others didn't say so publicly. In fact, the stealthier ones took another path. 

They ran toward Trump, not away from him. They sucked up to him. They ingratiated themselves to the man they intuitively understood was susceptible to flattery, which Trump is. And they did this in order to subvert his new administration from the inside. 

There were a number of these, and you can spot them immediately. They were flatterers. Invariably, the ones who flattered Trump the most hated him the most and disagreed the most strongly with his views. We saw them in the hallways of the White House, and at press conferences. They were there slobbering over their boss with elaborate self-abasement as if they were addressing a monarch or a God. It was a scene from the Ottoman Court. It was filthy and decadent, and it was false. 

Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, Mike Pompeo, Lindsey Graham in the Congress--they all called Trump a visionary genius up until the moment he lost power. And then they unsheathed their real agenda, as always the neocon war agenda, and they piled on with maximum force. 

Here's Mike Pompeo, for example, on Fox News this morning. 

MIKE POMPEO: President Trump had classified documents where he shouldn't have had them. And then when given the opportunity to return to them, he chose not to do that for whatever reason... When somebody identifies that, you've got to turn them in. 

So that's just... that's inconsistent with protecting America's soldiers. sailors, airmen and marines. And if the allegations are true, some of these were pretty serious, important documents. So that's wrong. 

TUCKER CARLSON: May future historians hoping to unlock the mysteries of late Empire Washington study that clip because it will reveal everything. That very same Mike Pompeo, the one who's sneering at Donald Trump on TV this morning, that guy served Donald Trump as both CIA Director and as Secretary of State. Those are the two most powerful jobs in the federal government. 

And as he worked in those jobs, Pompeo promised, in fact he swore, to support the president's agenda. Why? Because that's the way a democracy works. You vote for a candidate in the belief that his appointees will carry out the policies that you voted for. It's not about the president. It's about you, the voter. 

But Pompeo didn't do that. He didn't even try to do that. In fact, he undermined Trump's often stated commitment to peace and non-intervention abroad at every turn. His every waking hour was devoted to fomenting war in some faraway foreign country or other. Iran, Syria, Russia, North Korea. The list goes on. But rather than telling Trump that he disagreed with his ideas, as a man would, Pompeo toadied up to Trump, a man he despised, in the oiliest, most over-the-top way imaginable. 

Ask anyone who worked in that White House at the time. Who is the appointee most likely to tell Donald Trump on a daily basis that he was handsome, virile, sleek and powerful? Mike Pompeo. That will be the consensus answer. Those of us who saw firsthand Pompeo's relentless kowtowing will never forget it. It was indelibly repulsive. No one with self-respect could do something like that, but Mike Pompeo did it effortlessly with relish and verve. 

Now, this same person is telling Fox News viewers that he fears for the safety of our military, our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines, in the improved phrase, because Donald Trump took some classified documents home and didn't immediately return them to the National Archives. What a lie that is. Mike Pompeo knows that's a lie. He spent his entire life in Washington. 

Washington is a city where control memos about the Labor Day are classified because everything is classified. Your government has classified more than a billion federal documents, most of them boring and pointless and a danger to no one, and locked them away in secret where you can't see them because, you may be an American citizen, but not really. And therefore, you don't have the necessary clearances to know what's going on. 

And, by the way, none of this is done in order to make America safer, any more than COVID restrictions were designed to keep you healthy. No. It's a caste system. That's the point, and you're the untouchable in this hierarchy. 

Mike Pompeo knows that. Everybody who works in Washington knows that. How many secret documents do you think Dick Cheney took home with him when he was running the Iraq War? How many did his wife read? She never had a clearance. We'll never know the answer because there was no chance Dick Cheney would ever be investigated, or staffers will be told to wear wires in his presence. 

He'll never be indicted for this. Of course not. Dick Cheney is a neocon. Donald Trump is not. Dick Cheney supports war with Russia. Trump does not. That's the difference. The rest is just a distraction. 

The prosecution of Donald Trump is transparently political. He's literally Joe Biden's main political opponent. He's polling over 60% among Republican voters right now. So Joe Biden is doing what no president has ever dared to do. He's using law enforcement to lock up his chief rival. That's happening right now. Anyone who denies it's happening is lying to you. 

But actually, it's worse than that. Trump's prosecution isn't just political. It's ideological. Nobody with Trump's views is allowed to have power in this country. Criticize our wars and you're disqualified. If you keep it up, we'll send you to prison. That's the message Washington is sending. Not just the Democratic Party is sending, but both parties are sending. 

Like so many Republicans, for example, the supposedly conservative governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, spent yesterday totally ignoring the destruction of the American justice system. Instead, he signed a highly important bill called the Crown Act, which, according to the celebratory tweet Abbott sent commemorating it, will quote, "prohibit discrimination based on textures and hairstyles historically associated with race." In other words, in Texas, cornrows are now protected by law. Having unapproved views about Ukraine is not. 

That's fine with most elected Republicans. They find Trump tiresome and embarrassing. Their donors hate him. They will not be sad if he dies in jail. 

But what about voters? What are they learning from this spectacle? Well, mostly they're learning that they have no power at all because nobody cares about them. But they already knew that. Unlike so many of our elected leaders, they have been to America recently. They know what it looks like. 

Have you seen it? If you've got a few days this summer, find out. Take a road trip and see for yourself. Drive 500 miles in any direction, then come home. How are things looking? 

Well, they should look great. The federal government spent six and a half trillion dollars last year. That's more than any government has ever spent, ever. So, at the very least, you'd expect pristine public roads. Oh, no. That's not what you see when you drive around this country. 

There are potholes and Jersey barriers everywhere. It looks like Tegucigalpa before the Chinese decided to rebuild the infrastructure of Honduras. We don't have China buying our roads, so they're falling apart. 

You'd think the people you would pass on your road trip would look happy and prosperous. Again, this is a very rich country. But a lot of them don't. Quite a few appear to be strung out on drugs. You see them shuffling by shuttered storefronts in small towns. 

And you wonder, as you see all of this, where did all the money go? It's certainly not here. Well, it's in Washington. It's in Fairfax and Loudoun counties, and in leafy, perfectly manicured northwest DC. 

And of course, a huge chunk of it went to Ukraine, to Zelenski and his friends. Not because you voted for that. You didn't vote to give it to them. You never would. But because Joe Biden and his many allies, from Chuck Schumer to Mitch McConnell to Paul Ryan, and every single news anchor on all of television, all of them believe that Ukraine, its borders, its future, its infrastructure, are all more important than the town that you live in. They sincerely think that, and it's obvious. Everyone in power thinks that. 

Except for Donald Trump. Whatever else you say about him, Trump is the one guy with an actual shot at becoming president who descends from Washington's long-standing pointless war agenda. And for that, that one fact, they're trying to take Trump out before you can vote for him. And that should upset you more than anything that's happened in American politics in your lifetime. 

Even if you don't plan to vote for Donald Trump, even if you would die before voting for Donald Trump, which is you're right, a lot of good people feel that way. Even still, the destruction of our democracy--which is the right of voters to support any candidate they want, even candidates who don't want war with Russia--the destruction of that should keep you up at night. Yes, Donald Trump is a flawed man, but his sins are minor compared to those of his persecutors. In this life, we don't get to choose our martyrs. We can only choose our principles. And America's are at stake.

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This should be read by everyone who hates the wars the US has been doing. Or, if you prefer to watch, well watch the video of Episode 3 above.

 

President Trump responds to this.

 

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Episode 5.

 

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Episode 6.

 

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Watching now.

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Episode 8.

This one is Culture War 101.

 

Mark Milley and Richard Levine, both who were members of a private school football team, have now transformed into middle-aged overweight women.

OMG...

LOLOLOL...

The pain, the pain...

     

Michael

[Peter]

Weird. We need a crossword clue. A land was named for him; six letters.

Answer: Disney.

[Marc]

On 7/1/2023 at 12:46 AM, Peter said:

Weird. We need a crossword clue. A land was named for him; six letters.

Answer: Disney.

I got one!

Six letters across starting with S.

Eight letters down starting with E.

Stolen Election

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Another one.

This sucker is two and a half hours long.

I'm watching it right now.

 

Michael

 

EDIT: This went up three hours ago and there are well over two million views so far.  

Hopefully this will change the Overton Window about masculinity and men can be men again without getting a lot of shit for it from the control-freak gang of wusses...

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

I just now finished watching the interview.

I am now 100% a fan of Andrew Tate.

Ayn Rand had her theory of man-worship and she had a specific idea of man in mind when she said it.

Andrew Tate, despite being Muslim, hits that resonance with everything he says in that video interview with Tucker.

 

I stayed away from Andrew for a long time because of the hype around him.

Frankly, I thought he was one of those pick-up artist dudes.

In reality, I am sure he would consider those dudes as weak men.

Once again, the media says one thing and the reality is the contrary.

I am already a 100% fan of Tucker. He is trying to rescue journalism as an honorable profession.

I believe Tucker is going to provide America and the world with a list of new cultural heroes, not by making them, but by giving them intelligent exposure and letting you, the audience, make of them what you will.

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Here is something to watch out for on the anti-authoritarian side.

Some people who have attained prominence at promoting normal American values (for lack of a better term) as opposed to woke, globalism and so on, get disgruntled when their public space gets taken. They have become experts in their own minds and they deserve all the publicity. So often, they do not tolerate a different way of solving problems than the ones they promote. That especially concerns ways that do not 100% solve a problem, but solve a lot of it. And they get nasty with newcomers who do not sing their party line.

 

I love Sundance at The Last Refuge (The Conservative Treehouse), but look at this shit:

A Devastating Video for the Career of Tucker Carlson

A Devastating Video for the Career of Tucker Carlson - The Last Refuge

THECONSERVATIVETREEHOUSE.COM

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If you did not watch the two-hour+ video of Tucker Carlson and Andrew Tate [Rumble Link Here], you might not have the correct perspective for just how devastating this video is for the career of Tucker Carlson...

 

Is this video devastating to the career of Tucker? Really?

Who made Sundance the rule giver on Tucker's success? 

When you read the article, Sundance does the very thing he constantly blasts others for. He does not give reasons, only opinions couched as reasons.

His whole argument is that Andrew Tate is bad and Tucker made a horrible choice in interviewing him, especially in letting him come off in such a positive light.

Why is Andrew Tate bad? In the article, the only reason given is because Sundance said so.

Why did Tucker make such an earth-shattering mistake? Because Sundance said so.

Why is Tucker's career now going to tank? Because Sundance said so.

And on and on and on.

Sundance also says Elon Musk is going to fail, nay, is already failing with Twitter. The fact that Twitter keeps going and growing doesn't seem to count in Sundance logic. He knows finance and Musk does not. Besides, he has his axiomatic normative abstraction that rules it all: "because Sundance said so." No other reason needs to be given, nor is it.

Also, Sundance needed to bash Twitter and Musk to be able to make the following statement:

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Carlson’s lack of judgement in the Andrew Tate interview, extends toward and explains his relationship with Twitter and Musk; it’s just bad judgement.

Why?

You got it.

Because Sundance said so.

Nothing more.

 

The fact that people are scrambling to find forms of attaining massive audiences in order to break a stranglehold on the mainstream, to strike down censorship and promote free speech in the mainstream, and the fact that Twitter and Tucker are doing precisely that, do not enter into Sundance logic. If it isn't perfect and if it does not follow all the details of his way of thinking, then it is 100% bad.

Innovation does not work like that. Independent thinking does not work like that.

Part of innovating is trying out shit and seeing what happens. There are no guaranteed results. And if you need to sacrifice a few sacred cows along the way to try out new shit, well, say hello to ALL of human history in terms of progress. Jeez, vanity is a bitch. Sundance is smarter than what he did in that article.

 

There is a person I love, Amazing Polly, and she is doing the same goddam thing regarding the film, The Sound of Freedom. She can't see that it is breaking the stranglehold on mainstream theatrical film performances and getting a super-important message about sex trafficking kids into the mainstream and blasting it up in the Overton window. In her view, that movie is a Trojan Horse for bad things. Why? Because Polly said so. She even makes a point of saying she did not watch the movie.

 

So be on the watch out for people who do this stuff. I fear many good people are going to fall into this trap because their vanity is governing them for a phase. That does not eliminate their good side. These are good people and I stand with them most of the time. But you have to use your own mind to judge things, not what they tell you.

 

Just like Tucker Carlsen does. He uses his own independent mind, not that of Sundance. And that is causing Sundance heartburn. Look at this quote from the article:

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... Tucker Carlson is above average intelligence, above average communication skills, above average vocabulary, but Carlson also has ordinary and average judgement.

When your brand is established only on your judgement, and insightful opinion based on that judgement – and make no mistake the entire Carlson brand is completely organized around those two characteristics, you cannot afford to be this wrong.

Are you kidding? You cannot innovate without getting shit wrong at times.

Granted, Tucker's IQ and judgment may not attain the Olympian heights of a person like Sundance, and if you don't believe that, Sundance will tell you, but Tucker's audience is like Trump's. He doesn't need a sanction or approval from his self-proclaimed superiors to do any damn thing he wants to do or judge in his manner any damn thing he want to judge. And his audience loves him for it. They know Tucker is not playing them or off on a vanity trip.

The fact is, Tucker is now changing history. It doesn't matter who doesn't like it.

And if he later is proven wrong, he will be the first to admit it. That's what independent thinkers do. They do facts, not just opinions. And they often see a lot of reality that others (even good people) blank out.

btw - I don't think Tucker is wrong about Andrew Tate. That's my opinion, so there.

Besides, I can tell the difference between not liking the web cam industry and law.

 

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

I finally figured out what all the kerfuffle is about from the good guys regarding Andrew Tate. 

Well, I didn't figure it out per se. I read it in different places.

Andrew Tate is a Muslim.

 

Unfortunately, many of the good guys hate and fear Islam and everything coming from that world when it starts influencing our culture.

They fear it so much, they don't see that the masculinity promoted by Andrew has nothing to do with the Islamic culture per se. It is plain vanilla common sense based on evolution. Granted, it is normal to see male dominance in the Islamic world, but not in the way and for the reasons Andrew teaches it to young males who love him.

In that sense, I think Andrew dilutes Islam. He helps pull the dogma teeth from it. And I find his view of looking at humans in a biological and evolutionary manner--not in terms of what they should and could be, but in terms of what they are--healthy and in tune with reality.

You can build rational thought on it because you can observe it outside and inside all over the world and all throughout human history.

 

This is a tricky culture war problem. I'm OK with Andrew Tate and like what I have seen so far. And I admire the way Tucker has approached this.

I am sure I will disagree with Andrew as I get more familiar with him. So what? I disagree with many people I admire on specific topics

I feel sad that bias and fear keep people I admire from seeing reality, but reality is what it is.

Reality where I look to identify things correctly--so I can later judge them correctly. 

Where have you heard that one before?

 

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Last one.

Tucker with Ice Cube.

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

On 7/13/2023 at 7:36 AM, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

I am now 100% a fan of Andrew Tate.

I know this is a Tucker thread, but, in my mind, the following interview between Candace Owens and Andrew Tate is part of the discussion Tucker kicked off.

I have only listened to 30 minutes of it so far, but let me reiterate.

I am a 100% a fan of Andrew Tate.

 

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Episode 12 with Devon Archer.

 

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Here is Part 2 with Devon (the full interview). Episode 13.

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

I finally saw the entire interview with Devon Archer.

I found it interesting. We get to see a real life corrupt crony up close.

 

What's the first thing that stands out to you? To me, it was how nice a guy he was. Tucker certainly had a good time interviewing him.

Another thing was how healthy and happy he looked.

 

Doesn't that go against everything you learned in Rand's fiction about corrupt cronies?

I refuse to discard Rand's vision, so I tell myself her fictional portrayal of bad guys is a kind of Dorian Grey picture, except instead of the portrait is not in the attic, it is in the novels on display for everyone to see.

But on the surface in reality? Hell, many insider cronies look and act just like Devon Archer. They look like there is no threat or ickiness at all, just good clean living the American Dream.

 

Never forget that the primary tool of a con man is his niceness.

Nobody gets fooled by a creep, but it's easy to get fooled by a dude you would not mind hanging out with.

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Episode 14 - Tristan Tate.

 

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Episode 15.

Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund.

So Fox has been unable to censor this after all.

Fox restricted their footage, so Tucker simply made more.

Freedom is like that...

 

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Episode 16.

RFK Jr.

 

I have not watched this yet, but according to the comments I have seen, RFK Jr. is on fire here. He is airing things with Tucker that Tucker would have never been allowed to talk about on Fox.

 

Michael