GOP slouches into the crazy to be born as MAGA ~ GENERAL | Tucker says a demon attacked him

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superrific said:
This is so wild. I can't believe people actually swallow this. Even if you want to exclude Trump because magic asterisk, it's your contention that Biden was more corrupt than Nixon? For real? Really?

This is especially laughable because of the complete and utter lack of evidence of this supposed corruption. All that bullshit about money trails adds up to nothing, and people who talk about things like "OMG the SARs" are just showing off how little they understand.
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The more I practice, the more I think the Bank Secrecy Act (enacted in 1970) was a Trojan horse to make "conservatives" circa 2024 distrustful of the international banking system. Kudos to Mansfield and McCormick if that's the case, but holy shit, the lack of understanding of SARs and AML reporting in 2024 is greater than anyone could have anticipated.
 
nycfan said:
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As an aside, in the early ish ‘80s (‘83 or ‘84) I accompanied my brothers to a comic book shop that was a hole in the wall in a strip mall — I don’t even recall what city we were in, but they wanted to look extensively and my parents asked me to wait with them while they shopped next door or nearby. Anyway, I was 15 or so, not interested in comics and ended up talking to the comic book guy behind the desk while my brother perused the boxes of comics.

I made it teenage girl clear that I was too old for comics but was conversant enough in ‘70s X-Men and my weird interest in Dazzler to talk to the guy for a while. When we finally left, he said he was going to slip something in the bag for me and see if I was too old for that. I figured it would be dork porn but when I got a chance to look it was a black and white comic called Judge Dredd that was a reprint of a British comic book called 2000 A.D(???) or something like that. Violent Judge Dredd/proto-RoboCop stuff. My mom threw it away when she found it lying in my room and I was like yeah, whatever, it was a freebie at the comic book store, I figured too old for my brothers. But I wish I had it now — not sure if it was a bootleg or what (IIrC it was on pulp paper), but might be worth something.
 
nycfan said:
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I got to give the guy credit. "Penis homes" adds some much needed creativity into the "Christian misogyny" discourse.

Reminds me of Melvin Udall from As Good As It Gets. Great character, whose most memorable moments come when being an absolute asshole.
 


“… Eventually, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) simply released the interview documentation himself. This claim that Biden had maybe taken a bribe was one of a handful of things that then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California) invoked when launching an impeachment probe targeting the president.

And then Smirnov was indicted on charges that he invented the allegation out of whole cloth.
The indictment made public by the Justice Department offered a compelling timeline showing how the conversation in which Smirnov claimed to have learned about the bribe couldn’t have happened.

On Thursday, he agreed to plead guilty to the charges he faces and admitted to having made the whole thing up. …”
 
Zoo_View said:
Is he getting paid?

If so, he’s good.
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Maybe. Tucker sure appears to have a power and profile drive. YouTube/X celeb isn’t the medium for most of his audience. Since his fall from Fox his national profile sure seems diminished, and often comically absurd and unserious.
 
HeelingAg said:
Maybe. Tucker sure appears to have a power and profile drive. YouTube/X celeb isn’t the medium for most of his audience. Since his fall from Fox his national profile sure seems diminished, and often comically absurd and unserious.
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Same could be said for O'Reilly, Megyn Kelly, and Beck to some extent. When they were on Fox regularly and had their own shows they were national celebrities and influential within the GOP. After they left/were fired they all quickly dropped from sight and have never regained their listening audience, celebrity prominence, or influence within the GOP. They still have podcasts or satellite radio or whatever, but with far smaller audiences and profiles than they enjoyed on Fox. And in all four of their cases - Tucker, Beck, O'Reilly, and Kelly - their falls from grace were all richly deserved, imo.
 
StrangePackage said:
Tucker's mother was the heiress of the Swanson company. He was born with more money than he could spend in 10 lifetimes.

It has never been about the money for him.
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Oh.

I expect little Tucker has wanted to prove his worth for decades.

Also, Tucker’s Mom wasn’t a Swanson heiress…..his 2nd or 3rd or 4th stepmom was the Swanson heiress.
 
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