re: Roger Wicker says Hegseth made a bad speech, says Tucker Carlson is a fool

If anybody wants to know about Senator Roger Wicker and how corrupt he is, go watch Kings of Tupelo on Netflix, the single most entertaining and eyebrow-raising documentary in the past 5 years.

The ole god vs evil bullshite has to stop. The sooner people realize we don’t hold a monopoly on virtue the better

We need to put him on Musk and Shanahan's primary list.

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and is notoriously petty

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So he's a snowflake?

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This is just a brain dead meaningless statement, and I doubt you want to get in the weeds defending it.

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I don't think getting in any weeds is necessary. Putin's argument for why he has not violated Article 2 (4) of the UN charter is that he has the right to invade Ukraine under Article 51 of the UK Charter. But Ukraine has not attacked or threatened Russia (or any other nation). So the argument is clearly specious.

Heck, using that justification, Trump could invade Mexico.

Putin is clearly violating the UN charter and his argument is clearly B.S.

Being "the bad guy" means you're the one breaking the law, right?

If so, Putin's the "bad guy."

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I doubt this is something you’d be willing to get in the weeds to defend. A

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Again, I doubt weeds would be necessary to defend it. Do I need to get into the weeds to defend the viewpoint that capitalism isn't bad because it produces Dollar Stores? Or that Russia isn't a better place to live than the United States? Or that Carlson has single-handedly taught rightist populists to default to a false dilemma fallacy every time any military action is considered? Or that it was probably one of Carlson's four dogs who scratched him in the middle of the night in his bed rather than a demon?

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I’d be willing to guess that you don’t even listen to him yourself

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Of course I don't. Why would I listen to someone who claims the above?

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but the people who you do listen to are in the anti Carlson camp and give you plenty of curated opinions.

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I don't "listen" to anybody. I don't watch the news, I don't listen to podcasts or radio or anything. I occasionally catch someone on YouTube discussing politics, but no one who gives much attention to Huckster.

I did listen to Carlson many years ago, before he realized that populism was taking over the right and someone could make a ton of money by giving them what they wanted to hear in grandiose tabloid fashion, but since then what I know of him is about 90% based on what y'all repost here.

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But he was an invaluable tool for drumming up healthy and needed dissent the last few years

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You say it's healthy because you agree with the isolationism (you'd have to, or you wouldn't defend Huckster). I say it's massively corrosive. Trump's not an isolationist (thank God), but if this trend continues among the right, eventually the US will find itself acting just like we did before WWI and WWII, and the same consequences will occur.

There is a responsibility when you are the most powerful nation on Earth to keep some semblance of order.

Sorry, that's just the way it is. And the dumbest thing that Huckster has taught people to think is that it doesn't affect us when chaos ensues elsewhere and that we shouldn't intervene in it. But the vast majority of the time, it does affect us, just not directly.

What Huckster has taught people on the right to do is think like a typical low information voter who votes based on no knowledge or understanding of how electing certain individuals will end up causing their taxes to go up over here, or affect the price of gas over here, or affect their freedom over here. They just ignore it because the cause and effect chain isn't direct, so they vote for AOC or Newsome or whoever and then when the policies end up creating those conditions they deny that they had anything to do with it.

That's what Huckster has taught people on the right to think like when it comes to foriegn policy.

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We need to put him on Musk and Shanahan's primary list.

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You could but it will be 5 years away after Trump has left the White House.

Wicker is a forever war neocon stooge.

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What did he say that was wrong?

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Anyone who wants Ukraine in NATO wants, needs, and LOVES war. I can't even imagine the MIL money leading to this guy.

Wicker needs a colonoscopy from DOGE. He’s never had a non-government job of any consequence and has been in DC for decades. Miraculously, he’s a multimillionaire.

I’m actually around him every so often. I’ve not seen him without an Ukraine pin on his chest since the war started.

He’s the new chair of armed services in the Senate…meaning he’s bought and paid for by the MIC.

While DOGE is at it, they should go across the road and audit Bennie Thompson. He’s also a multimillionaire off of a government check.

Mississippi has consistently put corrupt politicians in DC for a long, long time.

Back to Wicker, I think the suggestion to debate Tucker is great. Wicker is not a smart guy. He’s smart enough not to have that debate though.

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This guy's got to go. When's he up for reelection?

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Unfortunately he was reelected last year