The Tucker Tapes

Tucker's "remarkably pathetic spectacle."

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Jonah and Steve join Sarah after a very rewarding Dispatch Meet and Greet in Denver for a reality check on all things political madness, including:

-Tucker Carlson and Kevin McCarthy’s rage-bait for right-ring folks

-A DC crime bill that had elected Democrats out of step with more left ideology

-Biden’s ESG Retirement Fund fiasco

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  1. Mrjsfisher

    Ugh so many bad faith straw man arguments Sarah. You know full well the feds don’t have jurisdiction over 99% of BLM protest violence. Why even raise the false equivalence to 1/6?

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  2. Pschneider_9332

    Rage-bait for right-wing folks? Or outrageous and goonish behavior by Biden regime's DO(in-)J?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSrBlxL1U4A

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  3. Pschneider_9332

    Some FACTS regarding Johah's remarkably pathetic analysis of Tucker's gift to the rule of law:

    "The January 6th committee was nothing but a propaganda promotion machine, aided and abetted by the media whose sole desire was to smear all Republicans with the taint of the actions of the rioters. In doing so they grossly exaggerated the events of the 6th, falsely claiming that rioters murdered police officers, tried to kill lawmakers, and had the intention to take over the US government.

    Worse, the prosecutors have been lying to the courts about the events that happened, and hiding evidence that would, if not exonerate, at least mitigate the guilt of defendants. They have kept defendants in solitary confinement for months and coerced them into guilty pleas.

    Some way to defend the rule of law.

    None of that was true, and the recent release of videos from the riot has clearly demonstrated.

    ...[The rioters] should be punished in line with their actions, and be spoken about truthfully by government officials supposedly defending the rule of law. Political prosecutions are as damaging to the rule of law as breaking into the capitol to protest. Worse, because it is government officials basically proving that the rioters, if not exactly right, have a point.

    They were instead, have been vilified, turned into scapegoats and put into solitary confinement in a vain attempt to “get” Donald Trump. It is as shameful as it is a distortion of the very rule of law that is supposedly being defended.

    Anybody watching the various videos of Chansley’s behavior in the capitol cannot conclude anything but that they have been lied to and that Chansley was shafted for purely political reasons.

    Because Chansley is a supporter of Donald Trump, he is being destroyed.

    ...I am on board with taking measures to defend the rule of law, but the rule of law has to apply to everybody, not just to Trump supporters. Otherwise, it isn’t the rule of law, but arbitrary punishment for having the “wrong” political views.

    Chansley trespassed at the Capitol and deserves to be punished, as do his fellow rioters.

    But so do all rioters, and all of them should be treated by the same rules.

    What the January 6th events show is that our political overlords are utterly unconcerned with preserving and promoting the very rule of law they pretend to be defending. Most of us knew that already.

    Let’s hope there are more people who get the message that is so clearly being sent by the facts."

    https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/03/14/january-6th-was-bad-and-the-response-was-worse-n536890Expand full comment

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  4. Pschneider_9332

    If you find yourself accusing someone you disagree with of "acting fundamentally in bad faith," there is a very good chance that YOU are the one acting fundamentally in bad faith.

    Something about a schtick.

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  5. Pschneider_9332

    No honest person can deny that the January 6 committee was "not the ideal format," and that it was "just selling a narrative."

    And as Tucker's presentation of the tapes shows, the Committee was more interested in hiding what happened, than in getting to the bottom of it. The refusal to consider all of the evidence, and then to hide that same evidence, is not supportive of a narrative that was fundamentally right. It's deception. It's goonish, at best, and probably criminal.

    And speaking of "woefully uninformed": who knew, prior to Tucker's "remarkably pathetic spectacle", that Ray Epps lied to Congress about when and where he was on January 6? Who knew that Officer Sicknick was alive and well, very alive and very well, throughout that 6th day of January? Who knew that the Q'Anon Shaman (God's peace be upon him!) was praying in the Congressional chamber...while staging a "coup". Who knew The January 6 Committee’s report accusing Rep. Barry Loudermilk, a Republican from Georgia, of giving January 6 demonstrators a tour of the Capitol on January 5 so they could case the joint, was a lie? Loudermilk didn’t even take the group OF HIS CONSTITUENTS into the Capitol building—rather, they toured an adjacent Capitol office building. And who knew that Nancy Pelosi refused all attempts by her own police force to prepare for the eventuality of raucous behavior on January 6?

    Something about a "distortion".

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    Porouke

    I wonder if the Main Street/centrist/non-insane folks who aren’t facing a dire primary threat in their districts regret supporting Kevin McCarthy so emphatically. When the Freedom Circus was opposing McCarthy, they said it was McCarthy or nobody as if he were significantly better than Jordan et al. A few months later, it looks like the FC types are getting everything and run the caucus. Are there quiet promises about the debt ceiling to come that will make this look like more of a compromise or did the Main Street typed get rolled?

    In hindsight, should they have pushed a Liz Cheney speakership a lot harder and taken the insurgent position instead of believing they controlled the caucus?

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  7. Joe1776

    You guys seem to forget Hillary claimed the election was illegitimate due to Russia.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hillary-clinton-trump-is-an-illegitimate-president/2019/09/26/29195d5a-e099-11e9-b199-f638bf2c340f_story.html

    A Poll after the 2016 election showed Hillary and the leftist media had convinced a majority of democrats that Russia had actually tampered with the vote tally.

    The thing is all of these protests became violent. And the arguments you guys suddenly find amusing were already being used by conservatives to describe the mostly peaceful BLM riots.

    One difference is there was no January 7th. The leftists would come back day after day even after they would turn violent. Republicans decided they wanted no part of after they saw it wasn’t peaceful.

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    Rlritt

    Antifa are anarchists. They are not Democrats. Also, BLM were bad but they didn't break into the Capitol building to injure or kill congress people and Mike Pence.
    So both are bad but not the same.

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    Ben Connelly

    There is another intriguing possibility for DC: no taxation AND no representation. Imagine it as a kind of anarcho-libertarian paradise within the United States: we eliminate the DC government except for the police and the courts and the only things Congress decides for DC are laws against murder/rape/arson/theft/burglary/robbery/assault. The courts enforce contracts and oversee disputes over property. Otherwise the citizens of DC can engage in whatever trades, barters, exchanges, or gift-giving they please.

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  10. Bigdonmck

    I have absolutely NO problem with the Jan6 arrests and prosecutions. Those rioters broke the law and were justly treated.
    My problem is that the same standards of law were not applied to the Floyd rioters at the White House. There was vandalism and criminal damage done as well as over 60 injuries from rocks and bottles. Only 16 arrests and no hearings even tho the president was moved to a more secure location.
    Liberals seem to emphasize the attempted coup ( although I hardly see that threat from a "shaman" with painted face, moosehead, dressed in sweatpants ) rather than breaking the law.
    That viewpoint is evident in Democratic led cities where crime runs rampant.
    But you are allowed to have a differing opinion. I respect that. I just wish liberals did the same. Have a good day.

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      Kizedek

      “But you are allowed to have a differing opinion. I respect that. I just wish liberals did the same. Have a good day.”

      People are allowed to have a different opinion. I respect that. I don’t understand the opinions sometimes, but I respect them. For example, how liberals, including BLM protesters, called out the rioters and condemned the violence, but the right largely views the violent insurrectionists as “Patriots”. I also don’t understand how that proves that a different “standard of law” was applied, or how the DOJ is supposed to have been “weaponized”. But have a good day.

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      1. Bigdonmck

        I am having a nice day , thanks.
        I don't agree that conservatives LARGELY consider violent insurrectionists as Patriots. I certainly don't. They broke the law, have been investigated, prosecuted, and are getting their just due for their crimes.
        And while the Floyd rioters were called out and condemned by most liberals, as you correctly pointed out, liberals, law, and media went "crickets" shortly thereafter . Antifah and BLM should be similarly treated.
        People vote with feet. Oregon, New York, California, and Illinois have experienced a net negative migration because of their lenient law enforcement policies. But that's only an opinion.
        I appreciated your thoughtful response. Have a good day, also.

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