Activist Pulled Off Plane As Republicans More Confused Than Ever
The David Pakman Show - May 24, 2021
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Tucker Carlson Proposes "Real Insurrection"
Fox News propagandist Tucker Carlson suggested a “real insurrection” on his program late last week. He did so on his relatively new Fox Nation show “Tucker Carlson Today” while having a conversation with Uvalde, Texas Mayor Don McLaughlin. The two were discussing migrant border crossings and they used it as an opportunity to go after the Biden administration. McLaughlin said “I haven’t been able to confirm this yet, but I have been told that they’re giving these immigrant families that are in these hotels $1,400 Visa cards.” Now, of course, the mayor was wrong about this claim. The latest COVID-19 relief package excludes most immigrants who aren't in the US legally. But that didn’t stop Tucker from following up with something stupid. He said, “why don’t we have a real insurrection at some point? Why would we put up with this?”
Now of course, Tucker is playing coy about the January 6th Capitol insurrection by implying that it wasn’t a “real insurrection,” whereas this one would be. Given that “insurrection” is defined as a violent uprising or takeover against the government, certainly January 6th fits that definition. But this is quite seriously a dangerous suggestion coming from Tucker. The last thing these Fox hosts should be doing now is stoking tensions and encouraging violence. Instead, Carlson sounds open to violence as a means to achieve a political ends. And with an audience as big as the one Tucker has, there becomes a reasonable likelihood that someone in his audience could be inspired to stage out an attack if he calls for one, even subtly. What Carlson is doing is ethically wrong on a number of levels, but that’s never stopped him or Fox News before. So this will likely just keep happening.
Trump Completely Disconnected from Reality in Outrageous Interview
Radical right-wing media outlet OANN is attempting to resurface from the bottom of the trash heap and they are doing so with a so-called “exclusive interview” with Donald Trump. The interview was, as always on OANN, pure propaganda — the likes of which one normally finds in North Korea. Interviewer Chanel Rion opened up the exchange by asking about “what many Americans consider an illigimtate Biden White House.” This set up Trump perfectly to ramble on about “massive fraud” in a “third-world election” that he claims was rigged in Joe Biden’s favor. He insisted that Republican lawmakers have to do something to change the election systems and make their voters feel like their votes count again. Of course, the distrust some Republican voters have in the process now is due to Trump and his lies, not about the election itself.
Later on in the interview, Trump talked about his new blog and how it’s just step one of a “blockbuster” new social media website in the works. The problem now, as Trump explains it, is that none of the existing companies are ready to take on the massive influx of followers that he would bring to their sites. Perhaps Trump will launch his new social media site in conjunction with that health care plan he promised last year but never put out. Finally, Rion asked the former president about foreign policy. When presented a question about China, Trump shifted to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He blamed the recent flare up on Joe Biden and insisted that nothing of the sort would have happened under his watch. Every step of the way, Chanel Rion was there to coach Trump during the interview and back up whatever he was saying. It’s remarkable to see the depths that Trump and One America News Network have fallen to in these early months of the Biden administration.
From over the weekend:
Trump Abandons Rudy Giuliani as Investigation Closes In
Rudy Giuliani remains under investigation for his work in Ukraine and now Donald Trump seems to have bailed on him completely. According to the Daily Beast, ever since Giuliani’s New York City home and office were raided by federal authorities, “Trump, as well as several of his legal advisers and longtime confidants, have been hesitant about swooping in to help the embattled Giuliani.” Rudy did everything he could for the former president, especially over the past couple of years. Giuliani was the point person for attacks on the Bidens during the campaign, going hysterical over Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell.” After Trump lost, Rudy flew around the country delivering speeches and testimony on voter fraud and rigged voting machines. In so doing, he made a fool of himself by farting publicly and sweating black hair dye down his cheeks. Now under investigation, it is Rudy who is in his time of need and Trump is not going to reciprocate. If Giuliani really thought the ex-president was going to stick up for him, then clearly he did not know the real Donald Trump.
--More on the show:
--Belarus intercepts RyanAir flight 4978 from Athens to Vilnius, forces it to land in Minsk, and arrests activist Raman Pratasevich
--54% of Republicans, according to a new poll, believe that the January 6th Trump riots were actually carried out by violent left-wingers trying to make Donald Trump look bad
--Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene compares mask wearing on the House floor to the Holocaust
--Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi drops an antisemitic slur during his first moments being interviewed by CNN's Bianna Golodryga
--Joe Biden's White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki has had enough of Fox News reporter Peter Doocy's dumb questions
--MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell now claims to have obtained Dominion and Smartmatic voting machines, and also claims to have hidden them across the country
--Voicemail caller who had COVID-19 twice is finally vaccinated, and thrilled about it
--On the Bonus Show: Fines mount for Republicans violating House mask rule, viral video will become NFT, CNN cuts ties with Rick Santorum over disparaging comments, much more...
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