Politics Fox host Tucker Carlson defends North Korean regime: ‘Leading a country means killing people’

JEDIYoda

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So perhaps what we have here Carlson being an idiot!!
Perhaps he is even laying ground work for if Trump is NOT re-elexcted and decides to stay on a President!
We all know were that to happen IMO ther would a lot of killing and perhaps it would tear apart what we have left of a country!!
Somebody really needs to do something humane to Mr. Carlson!! I can`t believe that he is expousing such bull shit!!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fox-host-tucker-carlson-defends-183125294.html

Tucker Carlson has appeared to downplay North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s human rights abuses, by saying that leading a country “means killing people”.
The controversial commentator was asked about Donald Trump’s close relationship with the dictator. He was also pressed on Kim Jong-un’s human rights abuses during the segment.
“There’s no defending the North Korean regime, it’s the last really Stalinist regime in the world,” Mr Carlson said during the phone interview on Fox News.
“It’s a disgusting place obviously, so there’s no defending it. On the other hand, you know you’ve got to be honest about what it means to lead a country; it means killing people.
“Not on the scale the North Koreans do,” Mr Carlson added “but a lot of countries commit atrocities, including a number that we’re closely allied with.”
“I’m not a relativist or anything but it’s important to be honest about that.”
The right-wing presenter accompanied Mr Trump to the demilitarised zone between the two Koreas on Sunday, for a meeting with Kim Jong-un.
He defended Donald Trump’s closeness with the dictator, despite the president’s behaviour drawing criticism from US politicians and commentators.
“It’s not necessarily a choice between the evil people and the brave people,” Mr Carlson said.
“It’s a choice, most of the time, between the bad people and the worse people.”
The presenter praised Mr Trump, who he said was “far less sentimental about this stuff and maybe I think..more realistic about it.
Mr Carlson described the international attitude towards Kim Jon Un as “a kind of dorm room [stance]: ‘oh they’re so mean!’”
The commentator dismissed such attitudes as “kind of silly and stupid and not helpful”.
“In the end what maters is what’s good for the United States and you deal with bad people a lot of the time in order to help your own country,” he said.
A South Korean rights group identified hundreds of sites earlier this month, which were allegedly used by North Korea for public executions and extra judicial killings.
Kim Jong-un is believed to use death by firing squad to instil fear into North Korean citizens.
Donald Trump became the first sitting US president to enter North Korea on Saturday, stepping over the demilitarised zone to shake hands with Kim Jong-un.
Calling it a “great day for the world”, the 73-year-old said he would invite his counterpart to the White House, and also claimed Washington and Pyongyang would resume stalled nuclear talks within weeks.
 

Sunburn74

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Lol.
Leading a country does not mean killing people. Like how does he even reach that conclusion?
"you know you’ve got to be honest about what it means to be married; it means beating your spouse". No it doesn't!

He literally has no moral compass it's clear.
 

Indus

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Wow, he's not being an idiot. This is more and more brain washing the viewers into accepting the others must be killed off to MAGA!!

Like look at what NK does.. their equivalent of how progressives say look at Swedens medicare for all.
 

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Trump and his lapdog Tucker Carlson need to get with the program like previous presidents and administrations, the only time you overlook a countries human rights abuses is when the said country has you by the economic balls like Saudi Arabia and China.
 

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I'm constantly amazed that anyone with at least two brain cells would care what the likes of Carlson, Hannity etc. have to say about anything.
 

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Pathetic.

Leading a country should never mean you need to kill anyone. The fact of the matter though is many people leading a country due so, and they due so legally with no repercussions.

This line of thinking needs to be discouraged on any side of the fence. This reminds me (and not the point of this thread) Antifa beating people with crowbars in the last protest over the weekend. Violence and killing should be discouraged no matter which side of the fence you happen to be on, and nobody should be "off the hook"... I don't care if its a president, or the people. It is "we the people" after all. If people are killed, there should be an inquiry. Police kill someone, Inquiry. President kills someone, Inquiry. Facists or Antifascists, Inquiry. So on and so forth.

No excuses.
 
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Seems like another fine entry for the Are we there yet... thread.

"But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.
- They Thought They Were Free by Milton Mayer

Just one more step in that direction. What's next? Putting coast liberals in forced reeducation camps settlements?
 

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If the mouthings of rabid idiots endanger democracy, we've already lost.

They'll always threaten Democracy. They always have. That's why our opposition must be ongoing. If Trump being President isn't enough for us all to stand up & denounce them, *then* we're lost.
 
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The people they influence are a list cause.

The issue is it isn't just those idiots. Its a cascading affect. That's why some people have been trying to get everyone to notice how shit like dogwhistling and "joking" about shit like that normalizes such behavior. They just have to chip away bit by bit, as more and more people find ways to rationalize supporting such actions. Look at how they've been framing their horrible bigotry as a free speech issue. That gets people who don't realize how fucking despicable the idiots are being, because the idiots are smart enough to point to small instances (look at them raging about the NBA governors thing) or make shit up that makes it seem like people are being "too PC" and other bullshit.
 

Indus

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They'll always threaten Democracy. They always have. That's why our opposition must be ongoing. If Trump being President isn't enough for us all to stand up & denounce them, *then* we're lost.

But the economy is the greatest it's ever been.. GO TRUMP!!!!

That's all they say all the time.