Soul Corruption: Tucker, Candace & SteveRger Simon
https://americanrefugees.substack.com/p/soul-corruption-tucker-candace-andSo roll back with me roughly three years ago this coming winter. My wife and I were sitting in a small bistro on a posh island on the Gulf side of Florida with Tucker Carlson. I had texted Tucker, who spent the cold months on the island, that we were going to be there and hoped to have lunch.
We had a nearly three-hour meal together, gabbing and having a fine time, in agreement about everything under the sun. Tucker was great fun and I thought we were becoming better friends. ...
And then the roof fell in.
First it was Tucker’s interview with the “greatest internet historian,” or something like that, who deemed Churchill the real villain of World War II, not Hitler. (“Final solution”—what’s that? Holocaust—over-rated or over-counted). Tucker nodded his approval as this “historian” blithely inverted good and evil in the 20th Century.
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I texted him, trying to be tactful for a better result. I wrote, semi-offhandedly, that if an “internet historian” wanted to be noticed the last thing he would say would be that Hitler was evil and Churchill heroic. Libraries were filled with books that already did that to a fare-thee-well. Maybe the guy was twisting things to get attention.
Tucker texted back that I wasn’t alone. He’d been getting more flack than he expected for the interview and decided to ignore WWII for now.
He lied. He brought the “historian” back eventually for another round. But there was more.
The whole thing is at once creepy and ineffably sad. The best we can say for the new Tucker is that he is not as whacked-out as Candace Owens. Candace has become the poster woman for something we might call ICI or “Internet-Caused Insanity,” the lust for more and more online notoriety until your brains explode. Every day it’s something new. Brigitte Macron is a man. Stalin is Jewish. Now it’s the Jews who killed or coerced Charlie (hard to tell with Candace who appears to be dodging another defamation suit in her phrasing—one’s enough). Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman is in some kind of lead position in manipulating Kirk, she claims to have been told. Charlie’s own producer, Andrew Kolvet, has debunked the whole thing, but it’s nonsense on its face.
One person who is not really dangerous but is also infected by some of this Jew Derangement Syndrome is Stephen K. Bannon. I wish he weren’t because on many matters he makes a lot of sense. But for some time Steve has been yammering on on his War Room that Israel is not an ally, but a “protectorate.”
Really? It may be that Steve does not believe in “peace through strength,” the essence of President Trump’s foreign policy because there is no genuine ally that gives the U. S. more strength than Israel for two reasons.
One, vastly more than any other country it works with the U. S. to develop the weapons systems of the future. Just today Israel announced it is the first country in the world to achieve what has been sought by all the major military powers—China, Russia, the U. S.—an operational laser weapon (“Iron Beam”) capable of shooting missiles, not just drones, from thousands of miles away for minimal cost. If it really works, it’s revolutionary. No doubt, as with the “Iron Dome,” the U. S., not its adversaries, will profit first from this Israeli technology. ...
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Secondly, the Israeli armed forces, the IAF and the IDF, have been by far the best operational testing grounds for American weaponry probably ever. The IAF has flown more serious sorties with the F-35 than any force and have made many modifications of benefit to our allies and our military. Moreover, the vast percentage of money given to Israel by Congress is recycled to the USA through the purchase of weaponry from our companies. In other words, it’s all in the service of “peace through strength.”
Over the past 20 or 30 years, Progs could have dealt with the antisemitic, gender-ideology, racial, anti-male, etc. bigots in their midst
early and possibly avert what Dems and Progs have become. Maybe should conservatives and Rs should, carefully, do with "our own" what the Dems declined to do. It would mean dealing with people with whom we have some areas of agreement.
