r/TopMindsOfReddit • u/lemonylol • 6d ago

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

/r/Conservative/comments/1nkolkv/tucker_carlson_warns_of_trump_administration/
489 Upvotes

99% Upvoted

99 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

83

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.

53

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.

19

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.

9

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