re: Dan Bongino and Tucker Carlson engage in intellectual debate about the events of the day

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Dan trying to get back into the good graces of the deep state by attacking Candace.

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I’m not wading into the Candace-Erika Kirk situation.

There’s too much happening with Epstein and other serious issues to waste time on what could absolutely be the victimization of a grieving widow.

But the post FBI Bongino persona is really tough to stomach given what happened in DC.

He decided to turn the ego up to 11 and is acting like he’s some retired UFC fighter with brain damage bowing up on other conservatives after he snuck off from DC.

After watching that hostage video of an Epstein press conference and with seemingly no action on the DC swamp front the whole thing is just repulsive and that’s coming from someone who was a weekly listener going back to the beginning of his show.

He’s acting like an aging divorced dad overcompensating at every turn by popping steroids and trying to start fights in the parking lot at the gym. It’s gross. I’ve never seen someone without a personal scandal torch a reputation like he has in 12 months and it’s really disappointing.

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Carlson replied, “You didn’t do your job when you had one, you total pussy. That’s the point. You went AWOL, and then instead of slinking off in to oblivion, quietly, you return and screech at all those who are rightly shocked and outraged by your dereliction of duty. To compound the offense, you constantly whine about just how hard you worked. Vomitous BS, beneath any self-respecting MAN. Obviously.”

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Why should we care about this exchange? It seems really staged.

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Why should we care about this exchange? It seems really staged.

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Same reason we care about most of this stuff, entertainment slop.

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Because we do the same thing. We have the same, if not more rifts and tribes.

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Let’s be clear: the GOP is a coalition party.

So long as the GOPe and MAGA have to live under one roof there is going to be friction. To a degree I think that’s a healthy thing because it means the people within the coalition have to fight to show their ideas are right rather than just being told by the uniparty what it means to be a “Republican”.

This is also transparently a ratings/ego issue. Tucker and Bongino (pre-DC) were the two biggest names in conservative media. Now theyre both in the podcast space fighting for daily clicks so some of this is inevitable particularly as Bongino tries to recapture and audience that from what I’ve seen kind of fell off after his return.

I really wanted to give Bongino a chance post FBI to show he was worthy of redemption after having maybe attempted to fix the issues even if it didn’t work but man every single thing hes done since he’s come back to the media space has just been gross.

The other factor is that Milo showed that conservative bloggers were being paid by TPUSA to go after Candace using specific language over the last two weeks.

What were they supposed to call Candace? Evil.

What did Bongino just call Candace? Evil.

I doubt Bongino needs some payout from TPUSA but the timing is… interesting.

Trump decided to appoint Lutnik knowing MAGA wanted the Epstein files and Lutnik would be known for not being truthful when he last talked to Epstein.

Why?

Team Bongino here.

Anyone aligned with that demon Candace Owens is assisting evil and thus evil themselves.

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Team Bongino here. Anyone aligned with that demon Candace Owens is assisting evil and thus evil themselves.

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How about a "No" on both of them?

People upset with or letdown by Bongino isn't anything to do with Crazy Candy. He did that to himself. This is not an either/or situation.

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It is if you are trashing the man because he's arguing with Buckley Carson over Candace Owen being human vomit.

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Bongino was a letdown to many people that truly had hope in him cleaning stuff up, me included. That's aside from any of his influencer brawls.

However, the influencer brawls he's engaging in smack of desperation to become relevant in 'the space' once again. It's, for lack of a better word, cringe.

I say this from a distance as I don't listen to any of these cats anymore, just basing my thoughts off what pops up here.

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Megyn Kelly and Tucker did a montage of Bibi saying Iran will get a nuke for 30 years... and go on a tangent way beyond neocon reform.

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How is lying about Iranian nuclear development to our leaders to lead us into war with their regional rival not justification for major pushback?

He’s been using trumped up intel for longer than some people on this board have been alive to get us to spend money and risk our children to fight their wars for them. That’s a major F’ing problem.

And no one, not the right or the left has had the balls to say a word about it until now so I can understand how any pushback probably seems jarring, but Israel is not acting in a benevolent way nor has that alliance had any real positive benefits for the US while costing us billions and leading us to actual kinetic war over and over just during my lifetime.

Whatever it is needs to be done as far as having influence over our foreign and domestic policy and we have zero reason to believe they’re acting as trustworthy and objective allies as it relates to Iran.

And friends and allies don’t refer to each other openly as goyim. The temerity of a country which funds an anti defamation league to police US speech while running around calling us all the equivalent of a N-bomb or k*k* would almost be impressive if it weren’t so disgusting.