Kevin McCarthy Suddenly Takes Bold Stand For Ukraine, Wonder What He's Not Scared Of Anymore
It is a mystery wrapped in a conundrum that probably rhymes with Fucker.
The oddest little thing seems to have happened to Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, at least for the moment. He seems to know what side he's supposed to be on in regards to Ukraine and Russia.
WHAT?
But listen, for real, though. He was in Jerusalem, and that empty cavity dead-air tumbleweed-brained pretty boy actually stood up to a Russian reporter.
"We know that you don't support the unlimited and uncontrolled supplies of weaponry and aid to Ukraine," the reporter, who introduced himself as part of Russian state-sponsored media outlet RIA Novosti, asked McCarthy. "So, can you comment: Is it possible in the near future [that] the U.S. policy regarding sending weaponry to Ukraine will change?"
You see, the Russian reporter was able to set up the question that way because Kevin has been a cowardly skidmark about this in the past.
But Kevin was like oh no no no no no.
"I vote for aid to Ukraine, I support aid to Ukraine," McCarthy replied.
And he said:
"I do not support what your country has done to Ukraine. I do not support your killing of the children, either.
"And I think for one standpoint you should pull out, and I don't think it's right. And we will continue to support because the rest of the world sees it just as it is."
Oh! Look at that!
And everybody clapped for him, which Kevin likes, because clapping means he did a good thing and is a good boy and people like him and think he's handsome.
\u201cMcCarthy in Israel admonishes a Russian reporter, tells him "I do not support what your country has done to Ukraine. I do not support your killing of the children either."\u201d— Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar) 1682952180
Credit where credit is due. McCarthy did not hesitate. He actually got his back up and immediately stopped that sniveling Russian reporter in his tracks.
Of course, who knows what will happen when Kevin gets home and has to face Marjorie Taylor Greene, since she is a foreign policy moron and a Putin cheerleader, and he has said in the past that he will "never leave that woman." Literally just this morning, she posted one of her million-word screeds on Twitter that reads like a mass shooter manifesto, and it included re-vomited Russian propaganda about "their precious war against nuclear Russia in Ukraine" and other idiot words.
Again, the Russian reporter was only able to ask this because Kevin McCarthy has repeated "blank check" rhetoric, which is basically what the reporter asked him about. Credit to McCarthy for shutting it down, but if we want to avoid these stinky situations in the future, KEVIN, you know what we should not do? Barf out GOP/Kremlin propaganda about Ukraine on the regs.
But he did it. Some people are wondering if maybe he feels little bit freer now that a certain Kremlin court fluffer has lost his giant Fox News microphone. At the Washington Post, Aaron Blake notes that McCarthy specifically didn't take the "blank check" bait. And he adds:
McCarthy also said that “we will continue to support” Ukraine, which would seem to send a message to members like Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and McCarthy’s newfound ally Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who have joined with Carlson to try to push the party in an isolationist direction. [...]
But we shouldn’t dismiss the Carlson effect. It was just three months ago that conservative former British prime minister Boris Johnson suggested that Republicans were too scared of Carlson to stick up for Ukraine. “I’ve been amazed and horrified by how many people are frightened of a guy called Tucker Carlson,” Johnson said.
And Tucker's gone now. Therefore Kevin doesn't have to keep him happy anymore. He knows that if he finds any more J6 tapes lying around that he needs turned into lying propaganda that whitewashes the insurrection, he's gonna have to give them to Newsmax or something.
Oh noooooo Tucker, come back!
Serious talk, though. We don't think any of us has really begun to grapple with all the ways our politics may change in the next couple years simply because that motherfucker doesn't have his nightly 8 p.m. perch on Fox News. It'll be interesting to watch.
Anyway.
Marjorie Taylor Greene really is going to be so mad, though, seriously. First she finds out there's an entire Pornhub website that's all about Hunter Biden's wing-a-wang, and then Kevin McCarthy, her very best friend forever, goes off to Israel and openly says nice things about America's allies and is unkind to our enemies. That is not the kind of behavior she likes to see. If that rumor about her only having three great big weird prehistoric dinosaur toes on each foot was true we bet she would kick Kevin McCarthy with them when he got back to America.
But it's not true, so if she kicks him, it'll be with regular feet, the end.
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GFY! In 2022, Tucker Blazed New Trails For Putin's Propaganda And Incited New Levels Of Anti-LGBTQ+ Hatred
And racism and COVID vaccine lies and defending the January 6 terrorists and and and!
REMEMBER WHEN! We will be spending much of the day throwing at your face some of our favorite old Tucker Carlson posts, or at least the ones Evan linked to yesterday, because that is a nice cheat sheet to start with. This post has one million posts INSIDE IT, because it was our New Year's Eve in Tucker for 2022.
Tucker Carlson has always been actual dogshit, one of the worst Americans ever to live. But this year he outdid himself.
Tucker's real dad Vladimir Putin commenced a genocidal war against innocent people early in 2022, a war that's still going on, and that's given Tuck nightly opportunities to demonstrate just how much he's not on our side. And by "our," we mean real Americans, people who actually love this country for what it is and what it could be, as opposed to loving it specifically for the moments when it's been at its worst.
Just last week, Tucker took the opportunity of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a hero to all good and decent people, being on American soil to blood libel the guy.
But Tucker's been shilling against Ukraine and for Putin since the beginning of the war and before. We knew from the beginning that Tucker was on Putin's side, that he supported the genocidal invaders, because he told us so. And he's gotten so angry when people have pointed that out, by quoting him verbatim and showing videos of him saying it.
He has spread every disgusting piece of Kremlin propaganda he could, and for that he's been rewarded with heavy fawning on Russian state-run media.
Let's see how that's going this week:
\u201cMeanwhile on Russian state TV: Tucker, Tucker and more Tucker.\u201d— Julia Davis (@Julia Davis) 1672151510
Here is a box full of some of our favorite headlines this year about Tucker being against America and Ukraine and freedom and goodness and human decency and on the side of white fascism and Russia:
TUCKER SHOULD PROBABLY JUST GIVE HIS MONOLOGUES IN RUSSIAN FROM NOW ON
TUCKER JUST WANTS TO PROTECT RUSSIA AND WORLD FROM BRUTAL DICTATOR OF ... UKRAINE?
TUCKER LITERALLY SAYING PUTIN NOT THE ENEMY, YOU ARE
HOW MUCH DOES TUCKER LOVE PUTIN? HERE ARE SOME RECEIPTS.
TUCKER SO MAD KAMALA HARRIS FORCED PUTIN TO INVADE UKRAINE
TUCKER'S LIE ABOUT BIDEN MAKING RUSSIA INVADE UKRAINE REALLY GETTING ITS WINGS NOW
TUCKER SO MAD EVERYBODY CALLING HIM PUTIN'S SIDEPIECE, JUST BECAUSE HE IS
IS TUCKER WRITING PUTIN'S SPEECHES NOW, OR ...
KYIV MAYOR'S BROTHER JUST SAYING TUCKER CARLSON AND CANDACE OWENS HAVE BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS
RUSSIAN TV LOVES IT WHEN TUCKER WASHES BLOOD OFF PUTIN'S HANDS
TUCKER AND TRUMP, TRANSLATED: NICE COUNTRY YOU GOT THERE. SHAME IF ANYTHING WERE TO HAPPEN TO IT.
WHY PUTIN IS PRAYING HIS MAGA BOYS TAKE CONGRESS THIS NOVEMBER.
TUCKER GIVING RUSSIA IDEAS HOW TO FIGHT BACK AGAINST WHOEVER REALLY (AMERICA) BLEW UP PIPELINE
RUSSIAN MEDIA JUST LOVING TUCKER CARLSON'S COVERAGE OF GREAT SATAN AMERICA'S ATTACKS ON PIPELINES!
TUCKER SO MAD JOE BIDEN FORCED RUSSIA INTO NUCLEAR WAR WE'RE HAVING RIGHT NOW
TUCKER BEGGING ELON TO LEAK TWITTER DMS PROVING RUSSIA INNOCENT!
YOU KNEW TUCKER CARLSON WOULD BLOOD LIBEL JEWISH UKRAINE PRESIDENT ZELENSKYY EVENTUALLY!
Dang, y'all.
DANG.
Running in tandem with the war, Tucker has really let the freak flag of his masculinity issues fly, as he, a guy whose college yearbook mentioned membership in a fake organization called the "Dan White Society" — Dan White is the guy who murdered Harvey Milk — has repeatedlyincited hatred and violence against LGBTQ+ people.
Just last week, Tucker gave the truly demented Chaya Raichik, the vile ingrown asshair who runs Libs of TikTok, which defames and incites hatred against LGBTQ+ people 24/7, a new and fancier platform to spread her poison.
Obviously sometimes it's more comical, as when Tucker is teaching us all about testicle tanning, or blubbering about how the green M&M doesn't even get his dick wet anymore. He has also spent a lot of time this year breathlessly opining on falling testosterone levels.
Here is a handy box with some really fucked up Tucker headlines about masculinity issues and LGBTQ+ people:
TUCKER SAYS LOW TESTOSTERONE MATTERS AND SIZE MATTERS AND BIG THINGS ARE VERY SCARY
ALEX JONES SO EXCITED TUCKER SHOT PART OF HIS LITTLE WEENUS-TANNING DOCUMENTARY ON HIS PROPERTY
OH NOTHING, JUST TUCKER GIGGLING WITH THE TRUMP MEN ABOUT HOW WEIRD THIS OTHER GUY IS AT SEX
TUCKER FINDS NEW REASON TO WORRY ABOUT BALLS SHRINKING, IT IS NICOTINE BANS
TUCKER 'N' PALS JUST OPENLY INCITING VIOLENCE AGAINST LGBTQ PEOPLE NOW, WE GUESS
SURPRISE, TUCKER USING COLORADO SPRINGS GAY CLUB MASSACRE AS EXCUSE TO INCITE MORE ANTI-LGBT HATRED
LIBS OF TIKTOK BIGOT HAS SOLUTION FOR 'EVIL' LGBTQ FOLKS, DO YOU KNOW WHAT KIND OF SOLUTION IT IS?
Dang, y'all.
DANG.
Wonkette isn't the only one to highlight the work Tucker's done in 2022. Media Matters has dubbed him its "Misinformer of the Year," for his promotion of the Great Replacement Theory (the theory that inspires the mass shootings), his incitement against the LGBTQ+ community, his efficient dispersal of Russian propaganda, and more.
We're focusing in this post on Tucker's anti-Ukraine propaganda and his attacks on LGBTQ+ people. There's so much more in the Media Matters, though. Lies about the Paul Pelosi attack? Check. Promoting big Nazi Kanye West? You fuckin' BET.
Hell, we don't even have time to talk about his continued defenses of the January 6 terrorists. Or COVID vaccine lies. Or racism toward Ketanji Brown Jackson!
What? Tucker racist? THE FUCK YOU SAY!
It's true, though. He's a vile racist.
LET'S TALK ABOUT MEMPHIS, AND WHY TUCKER CARLSON IS INVITED TO KEEP ITS NAME OUT OF HIS MOUTH
Meanwhile at the Washington Post, Greg Sargent has a rundown of how, while Tucker misinforms, he's also just flat-out bad at political prognostication. As in, if you listen to Tucker and respect him, you by default sound like a fucking idiot to all normal people.
Tucker thought it would play well to make fun of and call Zelenskyy names. Tucker thinks Ukrainians are just "pawns" of the West, and that they wouldn't have the will to fight Russia on their own. Tucker thinks Americans don't care about Ukraine.
Tucker thought Democrats were going to lose big in the midterms. Tucker thought his message of green M&Ms failing to give him erections resonated outside of white supremacist incel message boards. Tucker thought his own candidates would win.
He's wrong about literally all of it.
Tucker's not good at his job, is what we're saying.
It's kinda scary to imagine where his rhetoric goes from here — how hateful, how anti-American, who knows what else — but we're confident he's gonna show us. And we reckon we'll continue to write about it.
God help us, everyone.
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Tucker Just Saying Trans People Going To GET ALL THE GUNS AND MURDER YOU
Also had a fun idea for giving trans folks F-35s and tanks. We say why not?
REMEMBER WHEN! We will be spending much of the day throwing at your face some of our favorite old Tucker Carlson posts, or at least the ones Evan linked to yesterday, because that is a nice cheat sheet to start with. This post was originally published March 24, 2023.
Tucker Carlson wanted to talk about guns last night. Tucker has well-known masculinity issues and feels very threatened by LGBTQ+ people.
Mix those together in a bucket, why dontcha! And Tucker did. Good LORD.
His monologue was about how "The Democratic Party believes owning a gun is too much autonomy for you." (LOL.)
He sprinkled in other shit too, of course. He said people who support Ukraine are just conformists who think they specialize in "Eastern European border disputes." (By the way, that was the eighth sentence of his monologue. That's how long it took him to lick Vladimir Putin's taint and spread Russian propaganda in a monologue that wasn't even about Russia and Ukraine. He got back to Ukraine at the end. Handy bookends! Wonder if that's by design.)
And of course he claimed early and often that Democrats want to take your guns, just because they'd like to maybe ban the AR-15s that every white mass shooter seems to be able to get out of a vending machine. Gotta keep the white supremacist viewers scared!
But then it took a turn. A real weird turn.
It turns out that because of the disturbing rise in anti-LGBTQ+ hatred and violence — helpfully nudged on by people like Tucker and the sort of vile trash he invites on his show — LGBTQ+ people are arming themselves more, for protection. He heard about it on NPR. And he thinks there's a double standard here, because on one side, the libs are COMIN' TO GRAB YER PERNIS GUNS! But also LGBTQ+ people are arming themselves against morons who both hate LGBTQ+ people and also think the libs are COMIN' TO GRAB YER PERNIS GUNS!
"Guns are bad except in the hands of trans people. Wow!" said Tucker. He continued:
"The world is dangerous. You have to be dangerous back." Is that a quote from an FBI indictment of the Proud Boys? No, it's from an NPR segment. At this point, it's hard to tell the difference, and the lip-smacking NPR reporters just say it without any sense of self-awareness at all.
Oh yes, it's NPR that doesn't have self-awareness. Go on.
What is going on here? Well, you know what's going on here is that NPR has decided that guns are bad, except when the enforcers of its ideology have guns. You can't have guns, but faithful servants of the Democratic Party can. That makes sense because like all totalitarians, they want a monopoly on force, right? So, debate ends at that point when one side has all the firearms. You don't have to argue. You say, well, you can't change your sex. "Shut up, bigot. Bang, bang!"
Cool, he's telling his excitable pantshitting white supremacist viewers that trans people are going to murder them once they have all the guns. Does claiming trans people are going to kill his viewers count as inciting violence? We are just curious.
And look: We know Tucker willingly and knowingly lies to his viewers, because we've read it in texts and emails released from that Dominion lawsuit. But his viewers are dumbasses who don't know that. That's why he gets away with lying to them.
Tucker talked about a trans person WHO SHOT A COP before they took their own life, and he quoted some "research" from grifter troll Andy Ngo to suggest there really isn't any problem with violence against trans people. (You can google that. But that's yet another thing his viewers are too stupid to do.)
Then he got back to the trans people who are arming themselves, specifically a group in New England that's trying to protect itself from a neo-Nazi group that targets trans people.
TUCKER: What you're watching here is not the exercise of the Second Amendment. What you're watching here is political hysteria, fear ginned up on purpose with maximum dishonesty in order to get people in a state of agitation, armed people in a state of agitation — doesn't matter if they're trans or not, whatever that is.
How is that different from the exercise of the Second Amendment practiced by the NRA and the Republicans who spend their lives in backrooms giving it head? Oh wait, is it somehow just fine when it's white supremacist conservative dudes who at least present in public as heterosexuals getting ginned up and agitated? Is Tucker fine with that?
TUCKER: It's the same template always: Scare the crap out of your voters, tell them that their lives are at risk, encourage them to get guns. How do you think that ends?
Dunno, let's google "Great Replacement Theory" and "mass shootings" and find out. Whoa! Why do some of these Google results have Tucker Carlson's name in them?
And what was Tucker saying about NPR's lack of self-awareness?
TUCKER: But by the way, if we're following the logic here, and why not, that's in short supply in this country, you have to kind of wonder, like, what's the limit to this?
Russian propaganda bookend incoming.
TUCKER: So, if trans people are in fear for their lives in every region of the country, including New England, which apparently is crawling with Nazis now, why wouldn't we be arming them as we are, say, Ukraine's trans army?
Ukraine's trans army.
TUCKER: There are famously trans people in Ukraine's army. They're very, very proud of that. So, why stop with AR-15s? I mean, why not F-35s or tanks?
Yeah! Could be cool!
So anyway, that is how Tucker incited his pantshitting bigot viewers last night.
He ended his monologue by dead-naming trans Assistant Health Secretary Rachel Levine, because of course he did, and by saying there's "some weird affirmative action program going on" and oh fuck it, go read the rest if you want to.
It's so goddamned demented.
[Fox News]
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Love To Watch RFK Jr. Tell Tucker Russian Propaganda Tucker Told RFK Jr. Literally Last Week
It's like when Dick Cheney cited the New York Times as proof of the thing he leaked to the New York Times.
What can we say about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. running for president? Nobody cares about that demented weirdo, starting with the Kennedy family, which is still obviously ridin' with Biden.
But we guess he did his official "campaign announcement" yesterday (LOL), and like all Democrats do at the beginning of their campaigns, he went to see Tucker Carlson last night. Tucker: He's the real new Iowa caucus.
What? You didn't go see David Duke's hottest pinup boy when you announced your Democratic presidential campaign? Well guess who we're not calling PRESIDENT YOU right now.
NOPE! Seems Like The Kennedys Would Support Zombie Little Edie For President Over RFK Jr.
PINUP! David Duke Thanks Tucker Carlson For Spreading 'Great Replacement' Lie, Asks For More Antisemitism
Tucker licked all over Kennedy like Kennedy was hiding a Snausage in his hand, but we shouldn't take that as anything besides trolling. Tucker licked all over Donald Trump the other night, and according to Tucker's own mouth, he hates that guy "passionately."
“Bobby Kennedy is one of the most remarkable people we have met," jizzed Tucker, as if the younger deserves to be called by the moniker his father was known by, as if anybody in America sees that guy and is like "God bless us, everyone, Camelot has returned!"
MORE! It's Traitor Time TV Hour, With Trump And Tucker!
HATES HIM! Tucker Hates Trump 'Passionately.' Trump May Not Have Heard That News Yet.
Tucker gushed and gushed, and he bitched and moaned that Kennedy is being treated unfairly and "censored." He angrily played clips of people in the media calling Kennedy a bugfuck anti-vaxxer, just because of how he is a bugfuck anti-vaxxer. He called Kennedy "Joe Biden's leading primary opponent," as if those words currently have any meaning.
We know one thing Tucker was excited about, and it was that when Kennedy announced his campaign, he babbled out Russian propaganda like he was spitting after gargling it directly from Putin's medicine cabinet. It was the first clip Tucker played of Kennedy's speech. He said he thinks Joe Biden's interest in Ukraine is in "prolonging the war." He called it "The Ukraine" over and over and over again. (Nobody with any credibility calls it "The Ukraine." You know why?) He suggested Biden's real goal is "regime change" in Russia. Hey, know who else gargles from the same bottle of mouthwash?
When interview time came, it was Russia time again.
Kennedy falsely claimed Joe Biden said "we" were in "The Ukraine" to "deplatform, to depose Vladimir Putin." (Those are two different things, "Bobby." Are we banning him from YouTube or are we conquering his regime?) He lied and said "we're killing a lot of Ukrainians as pawns in a proxy war between two great powers."
All of this is Russian propaganda, and it's incredibly insulting to the Ukrainian people whose country was invaded by an evil genocidal lunatic and who are fighting like hell for its survival. Indeed, it denies their agency and plays right into Russian lies about how Ukraine is not even a real country.
A LOT OF WONK LINKS!
Tucker's Favorite Russian Propaganda Dispenser Fluffing Putin For Charlie Kirk Now
Tucker So Mad Joe Biden Forced Russia Into Nuclear War We're Having Right Now
Is There Any Russian Propaganda Useful Imbecile Elon Musk Won't Fall For?
The funniest thing we heard Kennedy say was toward the end of that clip above, when he bemoaned that there are seven Ukrainians dying for every one Russian. The way he phrased it was "seven-to-one to eight-to-one ratio." (Here's a link to an isolated clip of that part, if you want to hop directly to it.)
Wait, where have we heard that before?
Oh that's right, we remember! That was Russian propaganda that came from doctored versions of documents that came out of the Discord leaks, which were spread around by Russian propagandist bad actors on their weirdo loser parts of the internet, which Tucker IMMEDIATELY started regurgitating on his showlast Thursday.
SOME VOMIT! Tucker Spreading Fake Doctored Russian Propaganda About Ukraine Losing? Would Fox News Even ALLOW That?
The original documents did not say seven Ukrainians were dying for every one Russian. (They said basically the opposite. Here is Bellingcat's tick-tock of the journey of the documents from Discord onto Telegram and 4Chan.)
"Nobody talks about this," said Kennedy to Tucker, which was funny because he was talking about Russian propaganda Tucker literally barfed into him through his television last week.
"What we're being told about this war is just not true," Kennedy concluded.
"No, it's not true," Tucker agreed, sounding more disappointed than surprised.
Can't wait for RFK Jr.'s next appearance when he announces his running mate Tulsi Gabbard and his press secretary Glenn Greenwald. (We are just spitballing here.)
That'll totally give Joe Biden a run for his money, for sure.
Not sure whether Russia has the cash on hand to finance any more presidential campaigns in 2024, though.
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