Saturday, February 26, 2022

Tucker Carlson - Again; Supreme Court Nominee

Tucker Carlson took a brief break from cheerleading Putin's invasion of Ukraine Friday to comment on President Biden's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson - claiming Biden chose her solely on her appearance (dog whistle alert - she's black).  

Judge Jackson is one of the most qualified Supreme Court nominees in a generation.  She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, then graduated Harvard Law School cum laude (Note to Carlson's audience - those are GOOD things).  She clerked for the Supreme Court, served as a public defender, vice-chair of the US Sentencing Commisssion, and has been a Federal district court judge, and most recently as a judge on the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, which includes the nation's capital, and is considered the most important of the circuit courts. 

Let's take a look at Mr. Carlson's resume.  He was sent away to a boarding school in Switzerland when his father married an heiress to the Swanson frozen food empire ... but was kicked out.  After an undistinguished college career, he tried to join the CIA, but was rejected.  He has since had an undistinguished career at a Faux News network, spouting nonsense.  

When he says Biden chose Judge Jackson solely because of her appearance, he is projecting.  What he means is that he hates her for that ... as do many in his audience.  

https://www.newsweek.com/tucker-carlson-says-joe-biden-chose-scotus-pick-basis-appearance-1682937


Friday, February 25, 2022

Trump & Ukraine Invasion

It is not the abject, obsequious followership expressed by the former occupant of the White House that is most dangerous; it is that fully one-third of Americans witness this lick-spittle kissing Putin’s ass, yet somehow still imagine him to be a leader.  


If Churchill, Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy had possessed the strength of our Putin protégé, the Iron curtain would have ended up somewhere in the Atlantic.  


Trump’s hold on his cult is strong; if he endorses this invasion, the members of that cult will just drag their knuckles and nod affirmatively.  And Putin’s hold on Trump is strong; as long as Trump toes the line, Putin’s oligarchs won’t call in those hundreds of millions of dollars of bad loans - and may even help him assume office again.  

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/24/world/europe/trump-putin-russia-ukraine.html