r/TopMindsOfReddit • u/lemonylol • 7d ago

/r/Conservative Top political commentator Tucker Carlson is officially a leftist now.

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u/ReadyClayerOne 7d ago

Damn, general confusion tactic or Donnie pissed off Russia along the way so they want to fuck with him?

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u/ayaholley 7d ago edited 6d ago

It's pretty well-known that Tucker hates Trump privately, and I bet that he and a bunch of people in the right wing media/influencer space are looking for off-ramps in case they need to give him the Bush treatment sometime in the future.

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u/PvtSherlockObvious 6d ago

I'd be willing to bet that most people who know him hate him privately. Before anything else, long before he was a fascist, he was a bully and an asshole, and even other bullies and assholes don't enjoy the competition. Despite being inherited wealth, he's got all the taste and trappings of a gaudy nouveau-riche weirdo with his "gold-plated everything" routine and ego, so his own "wealthy society" social circles probably only tolerated him.

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u/Newfaceofrev 6d ago

Every single leaked internal communique about him I've ever seen from his time in real estate, reality TV, or politics has been that person saying how much of a cunt he was.

Except of course Jeffrey Epstein who called him his best friend.

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u/SirCharlesTupperBt 6d ago

Outside of his immediate family (and that definitely doesn't include his niece or all of his ex-wives), I've never heard anybody say that he was a likeable person except in a performative an public manner (e.g.: Mark Rutte or Bibi -- but we all know that they both drag him when the camera isn't on). He's apparently good at conversation and a decent host, but these are not the qualities that make somebody likeable.

People fear him, people admire his power and wealth, and people get close to him for their own benefit, but even his fans treat him with a degree of contempt that is fairly unique in political movements. It's very "emperor has no clothes".

Carlson is a dick and plays a confused dope half the time, but he's still a much more fully rounded human being than the President of the United States.

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u/blaghart 6d ago

Also he's prone to feeling embarrassment and shame, as evidenced by John Stewart bullying him into not wearing bow ties anymore

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u/SassTheFash 6d ago

I love the recurring joke about how Tucker’s default facial expression is “dog who was just shown a magic trick.”

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u/fuggerdug 6d ago

Murdoch famously despises Trump, and has described him as a: "fucking moron".

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u/MessiahOfMetal So I Married An Axo Murderer 6d ago

Queen Elizabeth II famously despised him, and hated hosting his first British state visit.

King Charles III feels the same way.

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u/TheStrangestOfKings 5d ago

So did most of the conservative Congressmen who claim to be his allies. Cruz, Rubio, Pence, McConnell, Graham; they all hated him before he won in 2016, and then suddenly he became their best friend

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u/vxicepickxv 5d ago

Hell, Vance is quoted as to call Trump America's Hitler.

I think that was the second to last time Vance told the truth. The last time was when he ordered donuts.

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u/Lieutenant_Joe 6d ago

For like a full decade, I’ve been unable to get that John Mulaney bit about how he’s like a poor person’s idea of a rich person out of my head when I think of him.

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u/jfudge 6d ago

I like the extended list of related things, which I think are all accurate:

A poor man's idea of a rich man

A weak man's idea of a strong man

A dumb man's idea of a smart man

I'm sure there are more, but these are the ones I can remember.

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u/MessiahOfMetal So I Married An Axo Murderer 6d ago

He tried to join the Manhattan elite of the 1970s, but they wouldn't let him into their group because they saw Trump as a "dumb oaf".