"Leadership requires killing people"

[brooklynite]

CARLSON: Because those are covered and because I have spent my life talking to people who run countries in various countries and have concluded the following. That every leader kills people, including my leader. Every leader kills people, some kill more than others. Leadership requires killing people, sorry, that’s why I wouldn’t want to be a leader. That press restriction is universal in the United States, I know because I’ve lived it. Ask my former – I’ve had a lot of jobs. And I’ve done this for 34 years and I know how it works and there’s more censorship in Russia than there is in the United States but there is a great deal in the United States. And so at a certain point, it’s like people can decide whether they think, what countries they think are better, what systems they think are better. I just want to know what he thinks, that was the whole point.

https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-gushes-over-vladimir-putin-and-defends-not-asking-him-about-civil

[Chi67]

1. OMG!

Traitor!

[cilla4progress]

2. It wii be very telling when the sick fuck

Spews his vomit about this.

[DBoon]

3. "You can't make an omlette without breaking eggs"

Said the 1930s Stalinists.

[limbicnuminousity]

8. "You can't break eggs without murdering 1930s Stalinists."

Said Stalin.

[cachukis]

4. How does one even respond to that?

[riversedge]

9. I just had a deep sad wash over me.

[ffr]

18. By hauling him away to the funny farm.

If even half of his RW audience believes what he says, that's some terrifying reality for the rest of us.

[limbicnuminousity]

5. ......

Somebody introduce this asshole to Buddhism and send his ass to interview the Dalai Lama.

[Walleye]

6. So Tucker, I know a plane you can leave on, bye-bye

[underpants]

11. Put your coffee down 😆

Link to tweet

?s=46&t=3VBm1LJ8j8qLp6JTs_8J2A

[Charging Triceratops]

7. Put this on every front page

This bastard is a traitorous Stalinist. This Trump stooge has no place in America AT ALL.

[TSExile]

10. Is the Lincoln Project on this?

I know they mostly base their ads on T****, but sometimes they have done ads on others of his ilk.

[Deep State Witch]

12. No. Leadership Does Not Require Killing People

Maybe it did in the Middle Ages, or the Roman Empire that he thinks of so fondly. But, leadership in this day and age means MAKING SURE EVERYONE IS SAFE.

[barbaraann]

13. Did someone tell the J6 insurrectionists that? n/t

[Prairie Gates]

14. Prime Minister of Luxembourg particularly bloodthirsty, I hear

[young_at_heart]

15. "I know how it works"

Are we supposed to just believe everything this man says because "he knows"?

[Midnight Writer]

16. He's using his freedom as a US citizen to attack his own country. Try that in Russia, please.

Navalny can give you some tips on how things work over there. Ooops! Too late.

A real journalist would have insisted on interviewing Navalny before confronting Putin with facts.

[ffr]

17. Fuck, I'd be wary of entering Tucker Carlson's home for any reason. The guy is twisted!

Every leader kills people? And somehow that's just a given, in his mind?

That's some of the scariest honesty I've ever heard from a RW talking head! He needs someone to mentally evaluate him, because the appearance is he's had too much RW Kool-Aid to drink. I think his alternate reality is finally eaten all the way through his brain.

[BlueTsunami2018]

19. Well, it does. But there's killing and then there's killing.

There’s ordering actions that result in deaths in a war setting and then there’s murdering your political enemies which is far different.

[peggysue2]

20. As I said on another thread . . .

This is simply an attempt to normalize and justify political violence. It's okay to murder your political opponents because all leaders do it. In fact, leadership requires it.

This is amoral bullshit, the sort of thing Trumpism is hoping to bring into reality here.

Tucker Carlson is a blatant traitor. He should do himself a favor and stay in Russia.