"Here you have your life
And you have all your habits
You've grown up as if the feeling of alienation has born with you
Your skin doesn't fit you anymore..."
Rob Cooper, host of the Climate Unf*cked Podcast, writes on "3 lessons I learned from interviewing Mike Berners-Lee", about a philosophical problem: "To create the world we need, what’s the depth of the change we have to make? Is it changing where we get our energy from, or deeper? Mike argues that the fundamental problem is a lack of truth. In media, business, politics and the world." We need to "hold the businesses we’re in, media we consume and politicians that represent us to higher standards of truth. In the episode, I asked how we break that down into manageable pieces."
"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s rollout Tuesday of the U.S. military’s new AI platform just fell flat on its face.
“The future of American warfare is here, and it’s spelled A-I,” Hegseth said in a video on X, announcing GenAi.Mil, the new “American-made” AI platform that will allow military members to “conduct deep research, format documents, and even analyze video or imagery at unprecedented speed”—and all without using their brains.
* * *
The platform will house Google Cloud’s Gemini for Government, using a retrieval-augmented generation to connect the large language model chatbot to Google Search “to ensure outputs are reliable and dramatically [reduce] the risk of AI hallucinations.”
The Trump administration has been eager to embrace the AI industry, and in July, it awarded Google a massive $200 million contract to support AI solutions at the DOD."
— Edith Olmsted, Pete Hegseth’s New AI Defense Tool Rollout Immediately Derails. Hegseth tried to unveil a new defense tool, but things didn’t go as planned. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks. The New Republic, December 9, 2025
Sec. Hegseth rolled out the U.S. military’s new AI platform, GenAi.Mil, with a link to an empty website. trib.al/tbCJAkT
Predictably, the platform can’t actually be accessed from external networks, but the wonky rollout triggered eyerolls across the internet.
You know, I was working on a joke, but the more I thought about it?
Hegseth's fake-ass Skynet-wannabe is gonna be the tipping point into this stupid shit in Venezuela, isn't it? They're gonna use it as a test-bed and it's gonna go really fucking badly, isn't it?
Trump unveiled the “Warrior Dividend” — $1,776 for every service member, the amount chosen because, he explained, “our great nation was founded in that year.” The payment, he suggested, came from tariff revenues, a claim designed to make his trade wars look like Christmas bonuses rather than regressive taxes. In fact, as the administration quietly admitted the next day, the money came from a congressionally-approved housing supplement that troops were already entitled to receive. He had simply rebranded their own money and handed it to them with a bow.
— Trump's Gone Mad: It seems plain to me just how crazy this president is. His lack of any sympathy for the Reiners was a tell. His 'surprise' at the new name of the Kennedy Center was another. The President is ill. Joshua Powell, The Powell House Press, Dec 21, 2025
See the whole thread:
Hegseth is wholeheartedly endorsing the core premise of fascism: industry, as part of the private sphere, must be subordinated to the military objectives of the state.
Wrote about how Hegseth’s effort to resegregate the upper ranks of the US military ties into the larger MAGA project to restore hierarchies of race and gender: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
True, pronouns aren't aerodynamic. They have drag.
...despite which the 2026 U.S. counterterrorism strategy is to "prioritize the rapid identification and neutralization" of trans people "before they can maim or kill the innocent."
MAGA says: Trans very weak! Also very strong!
Nonstop foolery.
In the Guardian on November 8, George Monbiot tells us about Bill Gates' essay on climate, which doesn't mention Donald Trump or Trump's efforts to stop the green energy transition:
Perhaps this is a symptom of “billionaire brain”: a profound incapacity to see the world from other people’s point of view. While the ultra-rich are notoriously hard to study, extrapolating from research into how gaining wealth and status affects cognition could suggest that acquiring huge amounts of money is like taking a blow to the head. Wealth seems to scramble certain cognitive functions, particularly those related to empathy and perspective.
But perhaps there’s also calculation here: his essay reads like nothing so much as a peace offering to Donald Trump. Trump certainly took it that way: “I (WE!) just won the War on the Climate Change Hoax. Bill Gates has finally admitted that he was completely WRONG on the issue. It took courage to do so, and for that we are all grateful. MAGA!!!”
Gates, says Monbiot,
has consistently lagged behind the curve, reciting fossil fuel claims (green technologies could reduce global CO2 emissions only at a “beyond astronomical” cost) long after they’ve been discredited. He has spread confusion and misinformation, such as the groundless assertion in his new essay that the purpose of Sri Lanka’s disastrous ban on synthetic fertilisers was “to cut emissions”.
Gates calls his essay Three Tough Truths About Climate. So here’s another tough truth he studiously ignores. If, as now seems likely, crucial Earth systems cross tipping points and suddenly collapse, the effects on human life, let alone the survival of other life forms (a topic he fails, as usual, to mention), would destroy the smooth and steady progress he foresees. Because environmental change is likely to proceed not in gradual and linear ways, but through sudden changes of state, the possible impacts on human wellbeing are extremely hard to predict. His argument that we should align all funding to current “data-based analysis” of improvements in human welfare, while it might sound rational, introduces in the face of systemic change a profound irrationality, prompting us to ignore the greatest threats.
Related
My article for FT @sustainableviews.bsky.social on the risk of a complete unravelling of EU climate policy if the Commission doesn't protect the upcoming carbon border levy from US pressure: www.sustainableviews.com/the-us-wants...
"For too many years, we bent the knee to the climate. We let it be hot in some places and cold in other places. We went around meekly putting up umbrellas and donning thick parkas and sleeping next to blocks of ice, because we (fools that we were) thought that we could do nothing to change it. We were forced to get out of the ocean and walk on the dry land and build cities on the dry land. Now see what we have done! Soon there will be water where there was land, and we will have gotten vengeance on the ice for the horrors it inflicted on our most titanic boat (the Titanic). The climate bows before us. We are not under the weather any longer. Now we soar above it in our magnificent jet airplanes, trailing carbon behind! The atmosphere will have carbon in it until we say otherwise, and the atmosphere will thank us."
Alexandra Petri. Nothing is Wrong and Here is Why. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 2020. Introduction, p. xvi.
See: Can a billionaire fix California?
Tom Steyer argues he's not a regular billionaire. He's a cool billionaire.
Emily Atkin, HEATED,
Mar 12, 2026
And this follow-up
Tracy:
“I’ve made no secret over the years of my deep skepticism of the billionaire class. So it would be weird if I didn’t ask you something that a lot of my listeners are probably thinking, but nobody has said to your face yet. Do you think it’s ethical that you exist?” Emily:
So you call me immediately — you look at it and you call me — and you’re like, “You can’t start with that question.” Tracy:
First of all, you know that meme of the cat where it’s frantically typing? I read that and I was like: Emily.
And this is where we tell everyone: I am yin and you are yang. I am A and you are B.
But I was so impressed. I was really impressed, because you were right. You said if he can’t answer this, he shouldn’t be governor. And he did not flinch when you asked it. In fact, he sat there cool as a cucumber. And to your point, he’s clearly been very well prepped. I take it all back — you were right. Emily:
That was my thought. I was like: if he’s not prepared to answer the question, should you exist as a billionaire, when agreeing to be interviewed by me, then he’s not prepared to lead a garbage can. If you search my name and the word billionaire, you don’t get anything positive.
And I still do — even after that interview — have some skepticism. ...
Vanderbilt AAUP press release about the Vanderbilt Faculty Senate voting overwhelmingly to adopt a resolution opposing the President's proposed Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education as an unconstitutional & illegal infringement on rights & freedoms.
vanderbiltaaup.org/2025/10/09/v...
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Some can't wait to be given an opportunity to say yes (shrug)
The president of Oakwood University said the school wants to sign on to the Trump administration's Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education — if the DOE makes some changes.
religionnews.com/2025/11/24/a...
If you cave, as Brown did, you don't save yourself. The regime will just take away your funding anyway: "On Monday [Dec 22, 2025], the Department of Education announced that it would conduct a 'program review' of Brown to determine if it had violated safety and security requirements that schools must meet to receive federal aid."
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
"President Trump has backtracked on a major point in negotiations with Harvard, dropping his administration’s demand for a $200 million payment to the government in hopes of finally resolving the administration’s conflicts with the university, according to four people briefed on the matter."
Homeland Security @DHSgov posts to X today:
The stakes have never been higher, and the goal has never been more clear:
Remigration now.
8:38 AM Nov 28, 2025
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
In addition to being illegal and invalid, this does not make sense.
Trump claims “any document” signed by Joe Biden is “hereby terminated.”
He calls out executive orders later but obviously “any document” would be much broader and include legislation.
(He can’t legally do that but, as always, we get to watch how far he can push this without repercussions)
Most importantly, studies that don’t simply correlate educational attainment and voting decision but include and control for other factors clearly indicate that the “education polarization” narrative vastly overestimates the impact of education. Study after study suggests that education functions mostly as a proxy for other factors that have a much greater impact on political attitudes and decisions. The most important among those by far is racial resentment. As a concept, racial resentment is not necessarily the same as biological racism (meaning: the assumption that some races are biologically inferior/superior). Since the 1980s, for instance, the American National Election Studies (ANES) attempt to measure racial resentment by asking people whether they believe the significant wealth and income discrepancies between Black and white Americans are mostly a result of racist discrimination or rather a function of Black cultural deficiencies (a lacking working morale, perhaps, or pathologies of the Black family; or maybe Black people simply don’t try hard enough)? Based on their responses, people are placed on a scale from lower to higher levels of racial resentment. The correlation between where people fall on the racial resentment scale and their voting decisions is vastly stronger than that between voting and educational attainment. In the 2020 election, for instance, almost 90 percent of the people with low racial resentment scores voted for Joe Biden; over 90 percent of those at the higher end of the racial resentment scale supported Donald Trump. Talk about “polarization.”
His blog is paywalled. I'm a paid subscriber, and perhaps you can become one too.
Anyhow, what interests me about this passage is the recognition of how the idea of "biology" can be used to wield epistemic authority while saying things that are actually false.
This is linked to the idea of "biology" as it is used to attempt to correct and corral trans people, which I've been thinking about lately.
Three blog posts that arrived today — Nov 18, 2025:
Thom Hartmann
Thom Hartmann tells us this today (Is the Epstein Scandal an Outlier or America’s Oldest Crusade Laid Bare?: How a single predator exposed a centuries-old system built to shield wealthy white men from accountability and forced the country to confront a truth its institutions have long concealed..., The Hartmann Report):
From the first days of European settlement, powerful white men have moved through this country with a kind of immunity that would be unthinkable for anyone else. That isn’t just a cultural habit: it’s the residue of the original architecture of America.
We built a nation on the belief that white men were entitled to rule, entitled to take, entitled to decide whose lives mattered and whose didn’t.
That belief never died. It adapted. It modernized. And today it animates a political movement that has captured one of our two major parties.
The root of the problem goes all the way back to the Doctrine of Discovery. A European/papal decree announcing that white nations had a God-given right to seize any land they encountered became the legal and moral starting point for American expansion.
The Supreme Court wrote it into our jurisprudence in the nineteenth century, and we never really let it go. From that twisted foundation flowed the taking of Native land, the destruction of Native nations, and the belief that whiteness itself conferred ownership.
He continues:
The Founders feared the domestic use of military force not because they were naïve, but because they knew exactly how easily power could be turned inward. They knew that once a government starts treating its own people as threats, liberty becomes the first casualty because they’d seen it done by the British in their own time.
The chilling truth is that the movement dominating the modern GOP has embraced that very mentality.
It draws its energy from white grievance and Christian nationalism. It relies on the belief that democracy is legitimate only when it protects white cultural dominance (which is why the Trump Department of Labor is exclusively posting pictures of white workers as if they’re the only “real” Americans).
In 1957, William F. Buckley wrote "Why the South Must Prevail" in which he asserted that white people are "the advanced race" and therefore, regardless of whether they are a numerical majority, "will take whatever measures are necessary to make certain that it has its way." White people are "entitled" to do this, he said.
Nixon welcomed the old segregationist Democrats into the GOP. Reagan polished the rhetoric and wrapped it in patriotic language. The Republican Party spent years perfecting techniques to suppress votes, gerrymander districts, and reshape the judiciary.
By the time Trump arrived, the Party was ready for someone who would drop the coded language and say the quiet part out loud.
Most USAmericans, however, "don’t want Epstein-style impunity for morbidly rich white men."
Jared Yates Sexton
"We cannot let this desensitize us. We cannot, in any way, shape, or form, no matter how much it gets discussed or casually mentioned, allow this to simply become something that happened. In an era of ascendant fascism, we must keep our bearings and protect our ability to be shocked and horrified." (Jared Yates Sexton, It's Rotten All the Way Down: Epstein, Trump, and the Twilight of the Elites, Dispatches From a Collapsing State) The story here
"is how thoroughly and irredeemably America’s institutions have been corrupted.
Epstein’s 'friends' are everywhere. They are giants of finance, academic leaders, politicians. There is nary a corner of power within the United States that hasn’t been infected with his evil."
Further:
"These men knew Epstein and committed these crimes because they were in positions of power and their willingness to do so is inextricably linked to their willingness to carry out the projects power deems necessary. In other words, they were in their positions to engage in these crimes because they were the kind of people who would be willing to commit these crimes and that is what capitalism requires."
These are people whose jobs are "to engineer wars that kill millions of innocent people, to protect systems of intentional inequality and intentional scarcity, to ward off necessary reforms that would give people healthcare that could help them live longer lives, to deny them affordable housing, to conspire to create economic systems in which wages are kept below the poverty level, which leaves people endangered, terrified, dysregulated, to press your thumb on the balance in favor of your cohorts in the realm of wealth and power over living, breathing humans..."
Hurting children "is a thrill to those who have so thoroughly shut themselves off to basic empathy or compassion. They do not see you or me or anyone besides members of their circle as human or deserving of dignity." And apart from the thrill it might give them, being known within their circle to have done it is "the marker of reaching a certain level of power."
"What the QAnon conspiracy theory got correct was that elites were engaging in these crimes, but like all Right Wing conspiracy theories, it removed the financial incentives from the acts, creating merely a story of supernatural evil. But this didn’t happen because these criminals are doing it in the service of Evil. They’re doing it as part of their membership in a class status that has learned, correctly, they will not be prosecuted, they will not lose status or wealth, they will not fail, and their successes are directly linked to their willingness, and even eagerness, to hurt innocent people."
We know it's wrong:
"Epstein gives us an incredibly recognizable symbol of the corruption. Anyone with a conscience knows this is and was wrong. Watching Trump cultists contort themselves with every revelation, including trying to normalize grown men raping young girls, is something we can never forget or turn away from. It is madness. Unadulterated madness."
"Follow this entirely invented need for an immigration crackdown to its natural conclusion and you get secret police working directly for the president in the streets of cities that largely oppose his regime. Pull the bad-faith thread long enough – feed the unreality that necessitates a crackdown for long enough – and you get people like Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino cosplaying the gestapo, terrorizing American communities with a vile little grin, ignoring court orders from judges unwilling to enforce their rulings against his brutality and persistent law breaking, and leading the immigration "crackdown" that was so long ago mainstreamed by the newspapers run by rich guys who prioritize Republicans' feelings over all else. Feed this bad-faith machine enough and it'll shit out something shaped like Bovino, a man who takes glamour shots dressed as an SS officer and takes his orders from fascist influencers on the the democracy-incompatible X platform formerly known as Twitter.
* * *
The legitimization of immigration as a national emergency has given rise to men like Bovino, men who have waited patiently in the shadows for national leaders who will unleash pain and terror upon populations they hate and fear based on a version of reality that makes the unconscionable not just viable, but necessary. A vile man like Bovino would still be seething in the shadows, unknown to you and me, if Americans had not been conditioned to believe an immigration "crackdown" was in order.
* * *
We have been told over and over and over again that crackdowns are a legitimate part of a democracy's immigration policy. When we wriggle out of this fascist hell – and there's every reason to believe we will – we have to say clearly and forcefully that there is no place for a crackdown on immigration because there is nothing on which to crack down. Unless you buy into Greg Bovino's monstrously convenient worldview."
How POTUS behaves
Given all that context, it makes sense that POTUS calls a woman a "piggy."
"President Donald Trump on Thursday attacked a journalist for asking a basic question during a Thanksgiving media availability after he spoke to U.S. service members, part of a recent trend of insults he’s hurled at the women who cover him.
“Are you stupid? Are you a stupid person?” he asked the reporter during a tense exchange about the suspect in Wednesday’s attack on two National Guard members in Washington, D.C.
* * *
He called Katie Rogers of the New York Times “ugly” after she co-bylined a report on his lighter schedule as he ages. He chastised ABC’s Mary Bruce for asking what he called “a horrible, insubordinate, and just a terrible question” about having Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, in the Oval Office."
"Vibing to Peaches & Herb’s “Shake Your Groove Thing,” she [Clarissa Ward] runs through a transit hub, dances on a train, mugs for the camera and playfully takes a vape hit before being met with a hug from two CNN colleagues." Trump's "Rapid Response 47" social media team insulted her. (HuffPost, August 12, 2026)
Newly released Epstein Files contain photos that look like surveillance stills of a man resembling Prince Andrew with a young woman at Epstein's Manhattan residence.
Richard Dawkins. Steven Pinker. Lawrence Krauss. Jonathan Haidt. Robert Trivers. Prominent atheists and scientists who have pushed anti-trans propaganda for years. They all had ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Some received huge research grants and island trips, and all of them benefited from their ties.
On April 27, 2026, lawyer and former TV host Katie Phang sued Todd Blanche for incomplete release of the Epstein Files.
NEW: Todd Blanche, continuing his Herculean efforts to avoid having to turnover unredacted files to me, has filed a Notice of Appeal of Order compelling him to provide to the court unredacted handwritten FBI notes & to translate foreign-language documents.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Tucker Carlson has become the latest TV star in Russia. See how. Erin Burnett Out Front. CNN's Matthew Chance looks at the increasing appearances of Tucker Carlson on Russian state TV as the Kremlin sees propaganda value in the former Fox News anchor. CNN, May 23, 2024
"Prominent white nationalist livestreamer Nick Fuentes achieved a major milestone with his recent appearance on Tucker Carlson’s show on Oct. 27. Fuentes’ explicit admiration of Adolf Hitler, his antisemitism, accusations of a “cult-like atmosphere” among his fanbase, and his involvement in the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” rally that brought neo-Nazis, white nationalists and Klansmen to the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia, has left him ostracized in some, though not all, mainstream right-wing circles. Carlson’s podcast has also featured Republican lawmakers, including then-vice-presidential nominee JD Vance. While Carlson’s decision to host Fuentes on his show received significant criticism and pushback, the two-hour-long episode was one of several major appearances by Fuentes on right-wing streaming shows since Charlie Kirk’s assassination in September, amid calls among the hard right to blame the left and to advocate for more extreme views and actions."
"On Oct. 27, Carlson hosted Fuentes for a friendly, multi-hour interview. In it, Fuentes promoted classic antisemitic tropes about “organized Jewry” and “Zionist Jews.” Carlson, while offering gentle pushback, largely validated the interview’s premise, railing against “Christian Zionists” as being “seized by this brain virus.”
Carlson previously had attacked Fuentes and his army of “incels” and “Groypers.” But during the new interview, Carlson ripped off this zinger: “I’m sorry I called you gay, by the way.” Carlson also conceded that he at first thought Fuentes was “a fed.”
It seems Carlson has seen the light and accepted the Groyper Gospel.
X, now a haven for right-wing Groyper extremism, along with other portions of the internet, exploded. The backlash from “Con Inc.,” however, was immediate, with many conservatives demanding the movement’s leaders condemn Carlson for platforming a notorious online antisemite, sexist and racist."
Also:
"A new fault line is quickly dividing American conservatism: A political strategy called “No Enemies to the Right.”
This philosophy, sometimes abbreviated NETR, operates on a simple logic: All political “punching” must be directed toward the Left, which is seen as the primary — if not only — existential threat to the conservative (and even white Christian) way of life.
* * *
Instead of condemning Carlson or Fuentes, he [Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation] defended Carlson on the explicit principle of NETR: “The American people expect us to be focusing on our political adversaries on the left, not attacking our friends on the right.”"
* * *
This event is not an outlier; it is the logical conclusion of the NETR philosophy. As columnists in publications from The Free Press to Newsweek have argued, NETR is a form of moral relativism. By refusing to police its own borders, a movement is inevitably overrun by its worst elements.
The political crisis is a battle for the soul of conservatism."
"Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts made it crystal clear Thursday that his rightwing think tank is not distancing itself from Tucker Carlson over his hourslong interview with white supremacist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes." Heritage Foundation Defends Tucker Carlson Over His Interview With Holocaust Denier: The group's president denounced "attacking our friends on the right." Lydia O'Connor, HuffPost, Oct 30, 2025
After spending much of his second presidency trying to get multiple journalists and comedians pulled off-air, Trump now says no one can tell Tucker Carlson whom to interview. The Associated Press reports:
President Donald Trump on Sunday brushed aside concerns about conservative commentator Tucker Carlson’s recent interview with a far-right activist known for his antisemitic views, which has caused a schism within the Republican Party.
Trump defended Carlson, saying the former Fox News host has “said good things about me over the years.” He said if Carlson wants to interview Nick Fuentes, whose followers see themselves as working to preserve America’s white, Christian identity, then “people have to decide.” Trump did not criticize Carlson or Fuentes.
* * *
Trump told reporters as he prepared to fly back to Washington from a weekend in Florida that when it comes to Carlson, “You can’t tell him who to interview.”
“If he wants to interview Nick Fuentes, I don’t know much about him, but if he wants to do it, get the word out,” Trump said. “People have to decide.”
Suzanne Schneider, "L’Affaire Carlson" (NY Review of Books, December 21, 2025):
"On November 5 the president of the Heritage Foundation, Kevin Roberts, convened an uncomfortable meeting. “I made a mistake, and I let you down,” he told a hall full of the conservative think tank’s staff and fellows in a video leaked to The Washington Free Beacon. A week earlier Roberts had recorded a staunch defense of Tucker Carlson, whose recent interview with Nick Fuentes, the stridently racist, misogynistic, and antisemitic online personality, had split the conservative world in two."
The GOP’s Effort To Rein In Bigotry Is Too Little Too Late: The conservative uproar over Tucker Carlson hosting the racist antisemite Nick Fuentes comes long after Donald Trump took down any boundaries restraining the far-right. Paul Blumenthal, HuffPost, Nov 18, 2025
Imagine we'll see a lot of this stuff coming up in the next few years: Right-wing parties who created uneasy political coalitions by taking advantage of hyper-online shut ins realising they can't really control or contain them. Also a reason why they'll become very pro regulating social media
Marjorie Taylor Greene was raised Catholic but converted to evangelicalism in 2011 because, Virginia Heffernan explains, "she was disgusted by systemic rape of children by clergy and because she (like Steve Bannon and J.D. Vance) despises as demonic the increasingly progressive Papacy. She cheered the death of Pope Francis, whom she called Satanic." However, "it’s not impossible that Greene is freshly drawn to the religion of her childhood. Fuentes’s anti-Israel Trad Cath scene, which also loathed Francis and now rejects Pope Leo, could easily call to her. She has defended Fuentes and Tucker Carlson, who is also playing footsie with Trad Caths, for hosting him on his show. In July, she singled out the destruction of a Catholic Church in Gaza as her reason to vote to cut funding for Israel. What’s more, if pedophilia is now the province of Trump and Epstein, rather than of the Catholic priesthood, she might be able to sneak over to the Trad Cath movement with moral impunity." (emphasis mine)
The media fell in love with Trump — the most mendacious person in the world — because he gave them “interesting stories” and now they’re doing the same with her for the exact same reason
Charlie Kirk’s death is tearing MAGA apart: The killing of the Turning Point USA founder didn’t unify the base — it triggered infighting, Amanda Marcotte, Salon, Nov 24, 2025
On today's Tucker Carlson show, he makes clear that he believes that the US fought on the wrong side in World War II. In particular he says that the UK was mistaken to declare war on Germany just because it invaded Poland. And he has lots of sympathy for Herr Hitler throughout.
PIERS: “You’re not gay?”
FUENTES: “No. But women are very difficult to be around.”
P: “Should they vote?”
F: “No.”
PIERS: “They should stay home?”
FUENTES: “Yeah.”
PIERS: “So you’re just a misogynistic dinosaur. Have you ever had sex?”
FUENTES: “No.”
PIERS: “Wow. Says the guy who never got laid.”
"A simmering battle over the future of President Donald Trump’s political movement exploded on one of the right’s biggest stages Thursday, [Dec 18, 2025] as prominent conservative influencers used Turning Point USA’s annual youth conference to attack each other and their competing visions. ... First up was Ben Shapiro, who described Tucker Carlson and others as grifters and charlatans, guilty of misleading their audiences with falsehoods and conspiracy theories. Shapiro sharply criticized Carlson, a former Fox News host, for interviewing outspoken antisemite Nick Fuentes on his podcast, calling it “an act of moral imbecility.”" (Associated Press, CNN)
"This isn’t the Republican Party anymore. It’s the ‘America First’ Party. It’s the ‘Make America Great Again’ Party. And we are not going back!”
— Don Jr. Comes Right Out And Says 'This Isn't The Republican Party Anymore'
The president's son took aim at Democrats as well as RINOs ("Republicans in Name Only") in a fiery speech at the Turning Point USA's conference. Curtis M. Wong, HuffPost, Dec 22, 2025
"Fuentes himself has often emphasized that Jews have no place in America, that they needed to convert or should be summarily executed; he has professed his admiration for Adolf Hitler and likes to flirt with Holocaust denial. Since he appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show, MAGA has been embroiled in a heated debate over whether even such positions had a rightful place within the alliance – whether there were any boundaries at all left that kept neo-Nazism at bay, even just rhetorically? Christian nationalists, white supremacists, and an extremist online scene have long been influential on the Right. No longer content to be tacitly tolerated, they are attempting to pull the entire coalition further to the right and officially put an aggressive antisemitism at its center."
— Thomas Zimmer, What the “MAGA Civil War” is Really About, Democracy Americana, December 19, 2025
The Boy Who Lost His Leash: Tucker Carlson was always one stern phone call away from the abyss. Then Rupert stopped calling. And now two Americans are dead in Minneapolis. Joshua Powell, Powell House Press, Jan 27, 2026
Twenty-one months ago, Tucker Carlson told the 2024 Republican National Convention that Donald Trump’s survival of an assassination attempt amounted to “divine intervention” — that God had chosen to save Trump because he had a plan for him to lead the country.
“Something bigger is going on here,” Carlson said.
Today, Carlson is offering an almost polar-opposite argument about Trump. He seemed to intimate during his show Monday [April 6, 2026] that Trump might be the antichrist.
That rhetorical flourish capped Carlson’s harshest public criticism of Trump to date. While the former Fox News host has been highly critical of the Iran war before — and somewhat more gently critical of Trump the man, at least publicly — the gloves were off on Monday like never before.
you do not have to hand it to tucker carlson or marjorie taylor greene or alex jones or megyn kelly. they're all rats who see trump as a sinking ship and they're getting ready to jump in preparation for their next act. you do not have to fall for it.
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson made an unexpected confession about his past support for President Donald Trump and the part he played in getting him elected.
His brother, Buckley Carlson, joined “The Tucker Carlson Show” as its guest on Monday, and the two both seemed to lament that they had supported Trump over the past 10 years, having broken with the president on a number of issues in the past several months.
“You and I and everyone else who supported him — you wrote speeches for him, I campaigned for him — we’re implicated in this for sure,” Tucker Carlson said. “It’s not enough to say, ‘Well, I changed my mind’ or, like, ‘Oh, this is bad. I’m out.’ It’s, like, in very small ways, but in real ways, you and me and millions of people like us are the reason this is happening right now.”
Buckley Carlson agreed with his brother as he spoke. Tucker Carlson continued by apologizing for his support of Trump.
“I do think it’s, like, a moment to wrestle with our own consciences. We’ll be tormented by it for a long time — I will be. And I want to say I’m sorry for misleading people,” Tucker Carlson said.
I was interviewed for this 20 minute piece.
And, no, he is not for real. I make the case for why Tucker is a fraud and we should not be fooled.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VgE...
"'The last year has not made America great again,' the former Fox News host said Wednesday [May 20, 2026] on 'The Tucker Carlson Show.' The last year has diminished American power at a rate some of us thought was unimaginable. We couldn't have foreseen, less than a year and a half ago ... the damage that this administration, led by that president, for whom we campaigned and liked personally, could do to this country.'"
In June 2026, Carlson praised California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat.
"Longtime conservative commentator Tucker Carlson said on a podcast that “there’s no chance I would support the Republican Party” ahead of the November midterm elections, dismissing the political affiliation he’s defended as a pundit for decades, including as one of Fox News Channel’s most popular hosts.
“Not gonna support the Democratic Party,” Carlson was quick to add, speaking late last week on the show “Can’t Be Censored.” “I don’t know what I’m going to do.”"
