There is a certain type of lib woman who considers it a crime against humanity for a woman to be conventionally attractive and happy about it, to be hot and not have a psychological complex over appealing to normal straight men, because she actually likes them. I had a girlfriend like that (lib woman, not Sydney Sweeney unfortunately) and it was not fun to have things that should be normal parts of life & the relationship take on urgent ideological importance.
There’s a certain blindness that comes from being entitled and part of the elite, which Matt and Walt are (in both upbringing and income). They open by razzing on the vapid influencer culture and then spend the next hour talking about … you guess it, the vapid influencer culture. They try to convince us they are so meta and clever when commenting on this, but of course in so doing they become part and parcel of that same culture. That and ostrich culling were the most significant things that happened in America this week according to these two. Ain’t it grand being rich and entitled in 2026.
In the past, when commenters criticized Matt and Walter for not addressing what's happening in Gaza, I've always defended them on the theory that they're not experts, or even well informed about the subject, and so they shouldn't be compelled to address it. Today, however, they took it upon themselves to talk about Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes and Ben Shapiro. I doubt either of them has ever watched even one episode of Fuentes's show, or watched Tucker Carlson's entire interview with Fuentes, yet they apparently considered themselves qualified to offer their opinions. IMO they made fools of themselves.
It was odd Walt chose to compare Fuentes to Luigi. Luigi assassinated a health insurance CEO, whereas Fuentes was the target of an assassin (who had already shot to death three people that same day, and who was killed by police outside Fuente's house). That made me think Walt had not listened to the interview.
Fuentes deliberately says outrageous things. That's his shtick. He does it with a laugh, though, and that is perhaps what separates him from the multitudes who have shoved outrageous things down out throats the past couple of decades.
The Gentleman's Agreement about what could and could not be talked about was broken a long time before Fuentes picked up a mic.
Carlson is asked why he did not ask Fuentes about some of the offensive things he has said and he responds by saying he did not want to yell at Fuentes. Last I checked, one can ask questions without yelling. Really Tucker appears to have crossed over to the Dark Side.
I was completely ignorant of Fuentes and his audience -- at least in terms of being explicitly aware.
I watched part of the Fuentes interview and was, honestly, a bit bored. Another interview with a "media person" talking about the "media landscape".
I am admittedly now curious and will probably watch the rest of the interview.
As Walter correctly noted, the focus is on Fuentes and not on what gave rise to Fuentes.
Which is of course classic: focus on the effect and not on the cause.
As others have stated, Fuentes...not unlike "shock jocks" of the past like Howard Stern...feeds off of controversy and says deliberately provocative things. I am confident I (strongly) disagree with some-or-most of the broad-brush things Fuentes says, at least from what I can tell by the clips.
But then I see the all-too-predictable PBS/NPR/CNN/whoever clips of Fuentes saying something provocative or outrageous and I have to think about how PBS/NPR/CNN/whoever have become organized slander machines that take everything out of context.
I largely cannot watch sanctimonious...and almost always idiotic, oversimplified and misleading...delivery by the Erin Burnetts of the world.
The real issue is what is driving the market. The answer is in at least some part clear: the globalist agenda implemented at scale since the early nineties. Having watched it, having voiced my disagreement with it (not that I have any audience), I am unsurprised at the results.
So, in summary, I don't think Carlson has "crossed over to the Dark Side" -- though I disagree with a number of his positions -- but I'm glad he is bringing people that I almost certainly would not have been aware of but who are apparently speaking to nontrivially-sized audiences.
Knowing what I do of Carlson's personality, which is limited by only watching him "on TV", he might have easily slid into a shouting kind of debate. So maybe it wasn't bad to just let Fuentes talk. Fuentes brings up lots of uncomfortable points that maybe a lot of people do think about. This country has changed very rapidly in a very short amount of time. The US population has increased by close to 40% since the 1980s (something I've been watching since that time). Call it reactionary or whatever, there are legitimate reasons to question just what the heck is going on.
As noted, I probably would disagree with Fuentes on a number of points. But I still want to hear what he says, though I might recommend to him to "tweak" the perspective.
"one official of one of the Jewish organizations in New York asked me what can Jews themselves do in order to minimize the hostility they face I gave him a one- word answer, FAIL, because as long as you succeed you're going to be hated. I personally would rather succeed and be hated than fail and be loved and that probably is the story of the Jews."
Thomas Sowell quote from 'The Rubin Report' U Tube video
Thomas Sowell was on to something, as is usual for him.
According to Grok: "Approximately 0.19% of the world's population is Jewish" Further from Grok when asked about Jewish recipients of Noble prizes in proportion to their percentage of world population. "Yes, Jews have won Nobel Prizes vastly out of proportion to their share of the world's population. Jews comprise approximately 0.19–0.2% of the global population (about 15.8 million people), yet they account for around 22% of all individual Nobel laureates since the prizes began in 1901."
A small nation no bigger than NJ, but the wailing and gnashing of teeth is heard world wide when they defend themselves. Of course those who want to commit genocide always let the population they want to kill know when they will be attacking so the citizens can get out. It always works well for the enemy too. Who has done this in the history of warfare? Were Dresden civilians forewarned? Hiroshima? Nagasaki? What nation feeds the population of their enemy? And yeah I know the Hamas news service told you they were starving. The data of the tonnage of food that went into Gaza belies that. But go ahead Hamas would Never lie. Ask Gretta, lol
Fuentes et al represent losers and pick a successful population to direct hate at. It is envy, has been and always will be as long as the losers cannot accept that their laziness or poor decisions they have enshrined into culture are the reason for their major malfunction.
You mean when the self-proclaimed Jewish State indiscriminately kills children, rapes prisoners, and starves two million people for years, people get mad at Israel!?
Yes, the obvious decision to never address the Gaza genocide is becoming more and more untenable. In the discussion yesterday, Walter begins to list the biggest events of the past year. He starts with Ukraine and then stammers - I'm like, GAZA!!, but no he won't say it. It was so obvious. Matt, I'm tired of Walter running the show. Do you have any convictions of your own?????
There wasn't a genocide of Gazans. The IDF waged a difficult war due to the population density and the enemy's preference for hiding in and among civilians. Hamas has fed the mainstream news silos with propaganda leading the world to believe there was genocide and starvation.
Israel is very poor at committing genocide given the power of its military. The IDF created humanitarian zones so that the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), an independent American non-profit delivering emergency food aid to Gazans. Very poor genocidal practice.
And again Israel seems inept at killing Gazans when they give advance notice of military operations allowing a period of time for noncombatants to evacuate. But keep feeding on the Hamas feed that comes through Al Jazeera to the MSM. Have some IDF soldiers committed some war crimes? I'd say yes. This happens in all war. It is not the goal of Israel or the IDF and they get investigated.
Calling Walter a pos like the poster you replied to did it betrays him as someone who cannot make any argument other than personal attacks.
I enjoy this show, and I never expected to agree with everything that Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn say, but I do wish they would clarify whether or not they agree with AIPAC that any criticism of the State of Israiel's war against Palestinians is inherently anti-semitic. Because if it is, that would mean there are an awful lot of self-hating Jews involved in the protests around the world - not to mention people like Glenn Greenwald, Jeffrey Sachs, Norman Finkelstein, Noam Chomsky, and Shlomo Sand.
These absolute cowards will never address that, even as Matt pretends he has "friends" who hold anti-zionism separate from anti-semitism. Friends that he lets Walter Kirn trash continuously on the show like Aaron Mate, a guy who Matt pulled in for the Twitter files and now serves as a target of their derision.
Kirn says people “hate Israel because of the wars Israel fights, the competition it has with the countries around it… their influence on America.”
Notice how this piece of shit never mentioned the CRIMES Israel commits with MY tax payer money, funded and armed by the U.S.? Kirn can’t include that as an option because in his addled mind Israel does not commit any crimes, against humanity or any other kind. Such a disgusting whore for foreign nation.
I only wish if they decided to discuss the Tucker/Fuentes interview and go through the effort of showing what Fuentes said and how Ben Shapiro responded to Fuentes comment, they would also take the time to show Tucker's response to Fuentes comment.
Hint: Tucker did not agree with Fuentes about "Jewry" being a real thing. In fact, he called that view tribalist, wrong and anti-christian. He pointed out that some of the greatest critics of Israel have been Jewish people like Jeffrey Sachs.
Or, you could just go the guilt by association path that Ben Shapiro likes to use and simply ignore how Tucker responded to Fuentes. Ben Shapiro being someone who in the past posted about the illegal settlements in the occupied territory:
"Israelis like to build. Arabs like to bomb crap and live in open sewage. This is not a difficult issue. #settlementsrock"
Ben Shapiro appears to want to shut down anyone who does not buy into the fabulous FBI narrative that Tyler Robinson singlehandedly executed Charlie Kirk. When Shapiro appeared with Megyn Kelly a few days ago, Shapiro misrepresented what occurred during Tucker's interview with Fuentes, and he flat out lied about what Candace Owens has said during her far ranging investigation of Charlie's murder. It sure looks like Shapiro is trying to prevent the truth from being discovered. Matt and Walter gave no indication that this bothers them at all. Hey, Matt, you're supposed to be an investigative reporter--I'm not saying you need to investigate Kirk's murder yourself, but I am saying you should not be part of the cover up.
Jewish supremacists want that, and Walter certainly falls under the category of believing in Jewish supremacy. He’s a Mormon after all, they have deep respect for religious fanatic states.
There were I believe many poor white men during the Great Depression. Did they tend to think that women want to be raped and the Jews and non-whites were the cause of their problems?
If Tucker can have a vile creature like Fuentes on his show. But that guy has said, women want to be raped and every war was caused by the Jews. How about perhaps challenging his views instead of sprinkling sparkles on him by saying how “interesting “ he is?
I agree that Tuckers turned into a Male led Christian Nationalist. The comments he made at Kirk’s funeral were diabolical with the crazed laugh to go with it.
What did you think was wrong with the comments he made at Kirk's funeral?
He illustrated that the decision to kill Kirk for his views and activism echoed the decision to kill Jesus for the same. This is something that a lot of Christians, like me, had been thinking about -- not just Tucker.
I don’t see why. I assumed it was an ancient food too, and that Caiaphas and the other members of the Sanhedrin could have been having it while they met. If I was telling the story, and embellishing it for atmospheric, I very well might have used it.
After investigating the history of hummus, I suppose roasted chickpeas would have been more period accurate.
That strikes me as bad faith. You aren't a mind reader.
The entire concept of "dog whistles" is 99% bunk.
The average person doesn't know the history of hummus. It feels ancient. we all didn't go to culinary academy. Heck, I don't even know if it is taught there.
Your whole dog whistle case relies on Tucker intentionally picking a food that is eaten by modern Israeli Jews, and not by Jews 2000 years ago. That's an absurd stretch.
Early in the show, when Matt mentioned Christmas decorations going up in his neighborhood, he made a partially formed comment about not being sure Christmas would continue to be celebrated. What was that about?
On America This Week, probable topics of discussion:
• More Mandani bashing
• Belittling effects of government shutdown
• Silly culture war tripe dealing with trivialities like tattoos
Topics that will be verboten:
• Looming increased health care costs pushed by GOP raising health care premiums for over 20 million Americans by doubling, in some cases, tripling or quadrupling costs.
• Donald Trump request that Supreme Court freeze SNAP payments AGAIN
• Whistleblower bombshell that Ghislaine Maxwell receives customized meals, puppy time and after-hours gym access at her minimum security prison camp as she prepares to get her commutation from Trump.
• The softball interview of Trump on 60 Minutes in the new Bari Weiss-led CBS that Taibbi has been championing.
It’s ironic that these people don’t see that the critique of misery culture directly pertains to their own lives. And yet they pay for content they hate!
Yea, and whiners who oddly insist they be ceded editorial control over Taibbi's site. This is a peculiarly weird & humorless arrogance. I suspect it is an effort to build their own resistance brand by pilot fishing in a large subscription pond?
Leftists are now corporate for profit health insurance stock speculators. Stocks up over a thousand percent since Obamacare. Is Paul Pelosi involved in this stock speculation?
Last I checked calling BS ain’t the same as ‘demands for lockstep recitations’ but I can see why those who follow these two in lockstep might think that.
The premiums will rise because the ACA was the selling of the America health even more into the hands of Big Insurance and Big Pharma than we already were, forcing the elderly to pay for pregnancy and pediatric coverage, the young to pay for nursing home and hospice coverage. Barry O lied big-time (remember Time magazine had him as liar of the year), told us it would cut our premiums by $2,500 annually.
Instead, premiums increased exponentially. Turns out insuring for more actually raises prices - who knew? Screwed me and my husband big-time, contributed to his untimely death, as we couldn't afford the insurance and the co-pays and the huge out-of-pocket upfront.
So, there were subsidies for those making up to 400% of the poverty threshold.
Then they sicced COVID on us, and the Democrats decided to extend the subsidies to higher incomes. Temporarily - this was a Democrat subsidy on a Democrat timeline, but since nothing that costs taxpayer money is ever truly temporary in DC, now it is an abominable act of the horrible Republicans to want to stick to the original agreement.
The ostrich story was hilarious. Not because I'm for killing ostriches, but because of the way it was covered, which was brilliantly analyzed by Matt and Walt.
Since Thanksgiving is coming up, I'd like to say that the ostrich story reminds me of the WKRP Turkey Drop.
I’m not letting anyone off the hook for their actions, but calling someone a name won’t get you what you want. If people who believe they live in a democracy are ignored and even duped, eventually they will choose a more extreme option. It takes many forms, one of them will be antisemitism.
People who end declarative clauses and statements with question-asking pitch rises, are like people begging, “Please save me from drowning”, while standing in two feet of water.
Funny how Walter says that happiness thing… I know being on Twitter/X has taken my innocence and happiness away from me… and recently, I have realized that I occasionally randomly scroll through tweets looking for anything that would give me a jolt of happyness. Pathetic!
Recognizing the trap I was in was step one. Step 2: getting back to the goal of being on here. Step 3: not taking things too seriously and never be in a pod. Step 4: happiness :)
Jew hating is becoming the new abortion as the social issue to divide us with literally no impact on 90+% of the voters.
Why do I say that? I'll bet my mention of abortion above is the first time most of you have heard it in months. MSNBC is on at my mom's house 16 hours a day. She says they dont even mention abortion anymore
Walter: Sydney Sweeney you are now America’s dominatrix
Me: /snarfs wine out of my nose onto the dog/
🤣
The best part is knowing that they couldn't selectively edit it to make her look bad.
They thought leaving it in would do that, but it just completely backfired
There is a certain type of lib woman who considers it a crime against humanity for a woman to be conventionally attractive and happy about it, to be hot and not have a psychological complex over appealing to normal straight men, because she actually likes them. I had a girlfriend like that (lib woman, not Sydney Sweeney unfortunately) and it was not fun to have things that should be normal parts of life & the relationship take on urgent ideological importance.
There’s a certain blindness that comes from being entitled and part of the elite, which Matt and Walt are (in both upbringing and income). They open by razzing on the vapid influencer culture and then spend the next hour talking about … you guess it, the vapid influencer culture. They try to convince us they are so meta and clever when commenting on this, but of course in so doing they become part and parcel of that same culture. That and ostrich culling were the most significant things that happened in America this week according to these two. Ain’t it grand being rich and entitled in 2026.
It’s gotta be tough being so miserable and envious while feeling superior. Resentment is doing wonders for you. I bet you’re a blast at parties!
lol, is that directed at me or Matt?
Ladies and Gentlemen, it doesn’t get more obtuse than this!
Don’t take it so hard ed, not everyone venerates your idols.
What in your estimation should they be talking about?
Tattoos and ostriches — it is called America this week, what could be more important?
That's what i'm asking you. What was more important? What should they have covered?
Someone with access to comments please send "Stop ostrich-sizing the ostrich killers!!!"
In the past, when commenters criticized Matt and Walter for not addressing what's happening in Gaza, I've always defended them on the theory that they're not experts, or even well informed about the subject, and so they shouldn't be compelled to address it. Today, however, they took it upon themselves to talk about Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes and Ben Shapiro. I doubt either of them has ever watched even one episode of Fuentes's show, or watched Tucker Carlson's entire interview with Fuentes, yet they apparently considered themselves qualified to offer their opinions. IMO they made fools of themselves.
It was odd Walt chose to compare Fuentes to Luigi. Luigi assassinated a health insurance CEO, whereas Fuentes was the target of an assassin (who had already shot to death three people that same day, and who was killed by police outside Fuente's house). That made me think Walt had not listened to the interview.
Fuentes deliberately says outrageous things. That's his shtick. He does it with a laugh, though, and that is perhaps what separates him from the multitudes who have shoved outrageous things down out throats the past couple of decades.
The Gentleman's Agreement about what could and could not be talked about was broken a long time before Fuentes picked up a mic.
Carlson is asked why he did not ask Fuentes about some of the offensive things he has said and he responds by saying he did not want to yell at Fuentes. Last I checked, one can ask questions without yelling. Really Tucker appears to have crossed over to the Dark Side.
I was completely ignorant of Fuentes and his audience -- at least in terms of being explicitly aware.
I watched part of the Fuentes interview and was, honestly, a bit bored. Another interview with a "media person" talking about the "media landscape".
I am admittedly now curious and will probably watch the rest of the interview.
As Walter correctly noted, the focus is on Fuentes and not on what gave rise to Fuentes.
Which is of course classic: focus on the effect and not on the cause.
As others have stated, Fuentes...not unlike "shock jocks" of the past like Howard Stern...feeds off of controversy and says deliberately provocative things. I am confident I (strongly) disagree with some-or-most of the broad-brush things Fuentes says, at least from what I can tell by the clips.
But then I see the all-too-predictable PBS/NPR/CNN/whoever clips of Fuentes saying something provocative or outrageous and I have to think about how PBS/NPR/CNN/whoever have become organized slander machines that take everything out of context.
I largely cannot watch sanctimonious...and almost always idiotic, oversimplified and misleading...delivery by the Erin Burnetts of the world.
The real issue is what is driving the market. The answer is in at least some part clear: the globalist agenda implemented at scale since the early nineties. Having watched it, having voiced my disagreement with it (not that I have any audience), I am unsurprised at the results.
So, in summary, I don't think Carlson has "crossed over to the Dark Side" -- though I disagree with a number of his positions -- but I'm glad he is bringing people that I almost certainly would not have been aware of but who are apparently speaking to nontrivially-sized audiences.
Knowing what I do of Carlson's personality, which is limited by only watching him "on TV", he might have easily slid into a shouting kind of debate. So maybe it wasn't bad to just let Fuentes talk. Fuentes brings up lots of uncomfortable points that maybe a lot of people do think about. This country has changed very rapidly in a very short amount of time. The US population has increased by close to 40% since the 1980s (something I've been watching since that time). Call it reactionary or whatever, there are legitimate reasons to question just what the heck is going on.
As noted, I probably would disagree with Fuentes on a number of points. But I still want to hear what he says, though I might recommend to him to "tweak" the perspective.
"one official of one of the Jewish organizations in New York asked me what can Jews themselves do in order to minimize the hostility they face I gave him a one- word answer, FAIL, because as long as you succeed you're going to be hated. I personally would rather succeed and be hated than fail and be loved and that probably is the story of the Jews."
Thomas Sowell quote from 'The Rubin Report' U Tube video
Thomas Sowell was on to something, as is usual for him.
According to Grok: "Approximately 0.19% of the world's population is Jewish" Further from Grok when asked about Jewish recipients of Noble prizes in proportion to their percentage of world population. "Yes, Jews have won Nobel Prizes vastly out of proportion to their share of the world's population. Jews comprise approximately 0.19–0.2% of the global population (about 15.8 million people), yet they account for around 22% of all individual Nobel laureates since the prizes began in 1901."
A small nation no bigger than NJ, but the wailing and gnashing of teeth is heard world wide when they defend themselves. Of course those who want to commit genocide always let the population they want to kill know when they will be attacking so the citizens can get out. It always works well for the enemy too. Who has done this in the history of warfare? Were Dresden civilians forewarned? Hiroshima? Nagasaki? What nation feeds the population of their enemy? And yeah I know the Hamas news service told you they were starving. The data of the tonnage of food that went into Gaza belies that. But go ahead Hamas would Never lie. Ask Gretta, lol
Fuentes et al represent losers and pick a successful population to direct hate at. It is envy, has been and always will be as long as the losers cannot accept that their laziness or poor decisions they have enshrined into culture are the reason for their major malfunction.
You mean when the self-proclaimed Jewish State indiscriminately kills children, rapes prisoners, and starves two million people for years, people get mad at Israel!?
THOSE JEW HATING GOYS!
Yes, the obvious decision to never address the Gaza genocide is becoming more and more untenable. In the discussion yesterday, Walter begins to list the biggest events of the past year. He starts with Ukraine and then stammers - I'm like, GAZA!!, but no he won't say it. It was so obvious. Matt, I'm tired of Walter running the show. Do you have any convictions of your own?????
There wasn't a genocide of Gazans. The IDF waged a difficult war due to the population density and the enemy's preference for hiding in and among civilians. Hamas has fed the mainstream news silos with propaganda leading the world to believe there was genocide and starvation.
Israel is very poor at committing genocide given the power of its military. The IDF created humanitarian zones so that the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), an independent American non-profit delivering emergency food aid to Gazans. Very poor genocidal practice.
And again Israel seems inept at killing Gazans when they give advance notice of military operations allowing a period of time for noncombatants to evacuate. But keep feeding on the Hamas feed that comes through Al Jazeera to the MSM. Have some IDF soldiers committed some war crimes? I'd say yes. This happens in all war. It is not the goal of Israel or the IDF and they get investigated.
Calling Walter a pos like the poster you replied to did it betrays him as someone who cannot make any argument other than personal attacks.
Bull.
I enjoy this show, and I never expected to agree with everything that Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn say, but I do wish they would clarify whether or not they agree with AIPAC that any criticism of the State of Israiel's war against Palestinians is inherently anti-semitic. Because if it is, that would mean there are an awful lot of self-hating Jews involved in the protests around the world - not to mention people like Glenn Greenwald, Jeffrey Sachs, Norman Finkelstein, Noam Chomsky, and Shlomo Sand.
These absolute cowards will never address that, even as Matt pretends he has "friends" who hold anti-zionism separate from anti-semitism. Friends that he lets Walter Kirn trash continuously on the show like Aaron Mate, a guy who Matt pulled in for the Twitter files and now serves as a target of their derision.
Kirn says people “hate Israel because of the wars Israel fights, the competition it has with the countries around it… their influence on America.”
Notice how this piece of shit never mentioned the CRIMES Israel commits with MY tax payer money, funded and armed by the U.S.? Kirn can’t include that as an option because in his addled mind Israel does not commit any crimes, against humanity or any other kind. Such a disgusting whore for foreign nation.
Great show.
I only wish if they decided to discuss the Tucker/Fuentes interview and go through the effort of showing what Fuentes said and how Ben Shapiro responded to Fuentes comment, they would also take the time to show Tucker's response to Fuentes comment.
Hint: Tucker did not agree with Fuentes about "Jewry" being a real thing. In fact, he called that view tribalist, wrong and anti-christian. He pointed out that some of the greatest critics of Israel have been Jewish people like Jeffrey Sachs.
Or, you could just go the guilt by association path that Ben Shapiro likes to use and simply ignore how Tucker responded to Fuentes. Ben Shapiro being someone who in the past posted about the illegal settlements in the occupied territory:
"Israelis like to build. Arabs like to bomb crap and live in open sewage. This is not a difficult issue. #settlementsrock"
https://x.com/benshapiro/status/25712847277?lang=en
I'm not sure we want to put Ben Shapiro and his dozens of followers in charge of what conversations are appropriate.
Ben Shapiro appears to want to shut down anyone who does not buy into the fabulous FBI narrative that Tyler Robinson singlehandedly executed Charlie Kirk. When Shapiro appeared with Megyn Kelly a few days ago, Shapiro misrepresented what occurred during Tucker's interview with Fuentes, and he flat out lied about what Candace Owens has said during her far ranging investigation of Charlie's murder. It sure looks like Shapiro is trying to prevent the truth from being discovered. Matt and Walter gave no indication that this bothers them at all. Hey, Matt, you're supposed to be an investigative reporter--I'm not saying you need to investigate Kirk's murder yourself, but I am saying you should not be part of the cover up.
Jewish supremacists want that, and Walter certainly falls under the category of believing in Jewish supremacy. He’s a Mormon after all, they have deep respect for religious fanatic states.
There were I believe many poor white men during the Great Depression. Did they tend to think that women want to be raped and the Jews and non-whites were the cause of their problems?
If Tucker can have a vile creature like Fuentes on his show. But that guy has said, women want to be raped and every war was caused by the Jews. How about perhaps challenging his views instead of sprinkling sparkles on him by saying how “interesting “ he is?
I agree that Tuckers turned into a Male led Christian Nationalist. The comments he made at Kirk’s funeral were diabolical with the crazed laugh to go with it.
It’s the Handmaids Tale Caucus
What did you think was wrong with the comments he made at Kirk's funeral?
He illustrated that the decision to kill Kirk for his views and activism echoed the decision to kill Jesus for the same. This is something that a lot of Christians, like me, had been thinking about -- not just Tucker.
The bit about Hummus eaters perhaps?
I don’t see why. I assumed it was an ancient food too, and that Caiaphas and the other members of the Sanhedrin could have been having it while they met. If I was telling the story, and embellishing it for atmospheric, I very well might have used it.
After investigating the history of hummus, I suppose roasted chickpeas would have been more period accurate.
You’re being deliberately obtuse. It’s a dog whistle. For Fuck’s Sakes🤦♂️
That strikes me as bad faith. You aren't a mind reader.
The entire concept of "dog whistles" is 99% bunk.
The average person doesn't know the history of hummus. It feels ancient. we all didn't go to culinary academy. Heck, I don't even know if it is taught there.
Your whole dog whistle case relies on Tucker intentionally picking a food that is eaten by modern Israeli Jews, and not by Jews 2000 years ago. That's an absurd stretch.
Early in the show, when Matt mentioned Christmas decorations going up in his neighborhood, he made a partially formed comment about not being sure Christmas would continue to be celebrated. What was that about?
I am not sure -- haven't heard today's show yet to get a sense of the context.
On America This Week, probable topics of discussion:
• More Mandani bashing
• Belittling effects of government shutdown
• Silly culture war tripe dealing with trivialities like tattoos
Topics that will be verboten:
• Looming increased health care costs pushed by GOP raising health care premiums for over 20 million Americans by doubling, in some cases, tripling or quadrupling costs.
• Donald Trump request that Supreme Court freeze SNAP payments AGAIN
• Whistleblower bombshell that Ghislaine Maxwell receives customized meals, puppy time and after-hours gym access at her minimum security prison camp as she prepares to get her commutation from Trump.
• The softball interview of Trump on 60 Minutes in the new Bari Weiss-led CBS that Taibbi has been championing.
my favorite part of the show is how they ignore you whiners.
Yes! So little time, so many trolls.
It’s ironic that these people don’t see that the critique of misery culture directly pertains to their own lives. And yet they pay for content they hate!
🛎️🔨
That is why they are miserable & insist that you should be too... weird science
Sydney Sweeney effect
Yea, and whiners who oddly insist they be ceded editorial control over Taibbi's site. This is a peculiarly weird & humorless arrogance. I suspect it is an effort to build their own resistance brand by pilot fishing in a large subscription pond?
😂
Leftists are now corporate for profit health insurance stock speculators. Stocks up over a thousand percent since Obamacare. Is Paul Pelosi involved in this stock speculation?
Weird. Usually demands for lockstep recitation of Democratic talking points work so well on these guys.
Last I checked calling BS ain’t the same as ‘demands for lockstep recitations’ but I can see why those who follow these two in lockstep might think that.
Is that you Comprof2.0 ( AKA T-1000 ) from TFP comment section?
The premiums will rise because the ACA was the selling of the America health even more into the hands of Big Insurance and Big Pharma than we already were, forcing the elderly to pay for pregnancy and pediatric coverage, the young to pay for nursing home and hospice coverage. Barry O lied big-time (remember Time magazine had him as liar of the year), told us it would cut our premiums by $2,500 annually.
Instead, premiums increased exponentially. Turns out insuring for more actually raises prices - who knew? Screwed me and my husband big-time, contributed to his untimely death, as we couldn't afford the insurance and the co-pays and the huge out-of-pocket upfront.
So, there were subsidies for those making up to 400% of the poverty threshold.
Then they sicced COVID on us, and the Democrats decided to extend the subsidies to higher incomes. Temporarily - this was a Democrat subsidy on a Democrat timeline, but since nothing that costs taxpayer money is ever truly temporary in DC, now it is an abominable act of the horrible Republicans to want to stick to the original agreement.
Sheesh.
Taxed enough already!
The ostrich story was hilarious. Not because I'm for killing ostriches, but because of the way it was covered, which was brilliantly analyzed by Matt and Walt.
Since Thanksgiving is coming up, I'd like to say that the ostrich story reminds me of the WKRP Turkey Drop.
Politicians continuing to ignore young anti-zionist Americans legitimate grievances with policy will lead to actual antisemitism.
Antisemites are at fault for their antisemitism, not politicians who don't agree with them.
I’m not letting anyone off the hook for their actions, but calling someone a name won’t get you what you want. If people who believe they live in a democracy are ignored and even duped, eventually they will choose a more extreme option. It takes many forms, one of them will be antisemitism.
People who end declarative clauses and statements with question-asking pitch rises, are like people begging, “Please save me from drowning”, while standing in two feet of water.
Funny how Walter says that happiness thing… I know being on Twitter/X has taken my innocence and happiness away from me… and recently, I have realized that I occasionally randomly scroll through tweets looking for anything that would give me a jolt of happyness. Pathetic!
Step 1: Alt account
Step 2: View only puppy or kitten videos with Alt account
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Happiness
Note: this does not work on tik tok
Recognizing the trap I was in was step one. Step 2: getting back to the goal of being on here. Step 3: not taking things too seriously and never be in a pod. Step 4: happiness :)
Jew hating is becoming the new abortion as the social issue to divide us with literally no impact on 90+% of the voters.
Why do I say that? I'll bet my mention of abortion above is the first time most of you have heard it in months. MSNBC is on at my mom's house 16 hours a day. She says they dont even mention abortion anymore
But an existential one for less than 2%
I'm a Islamophobic pro-Palestine. Not many of us.
Love the complex opinions. Especially by people smart enough to express it that efficiently.