It’s 2018 people. I don’t want to hear any more excuses. News flash: every dollar you’re not earning is going to somebody who’s grinding harder, making moves and hustling grindmore. You can sit around waiting for that Benz and those gold horse spankers, or you can aspire to true cashmongrel status. Oh, you rented a pair of zing jammers so you can stunt around Pretzelville? That’s nice, I just put a downpayment on a BRAND NEW sixteen-foot milk mountain and by the end of the year I plan to have SEVEN chocolate donkeys. So if you want to spend another year popping mollies at the club go ahead, because me and #teammotivation will be GROPPING DOLLIES (grabbing dollars) at the BLUG (stock market). Also, I want to get over my fear of birds.
and the weirdest twist is that of all the people in the world, Tucker fucking Carlson is supporting this as well
Okay I’m scratching my head at this twist tbh
Right wing populists will pick up random talking points from Bernie because they know he clicks well with working class whites. But then the next segment after tucker Carlson talking about amazon being bad is tucker Carlson talking about abortion being bad so like…… yeah don’t give him too much credit
Tucker Carlson is acting as a sort of Crypto-Strasserite, sublimating a leftist critique into a fascist framework. This is evident in the particularities of how he describes this. His opposition to Amazon is firmly conservative, in that it effectively targets a particularly egregious capitalist entity that is not particularly known for its conservatism by discussing its capitalist excesses in terms that specifically are reappropriated into right-wing ideology. Amazon is made to be the exception, ignoring just how many working-class families rely on government assistance, welfare, other government programs.
He cares not for the workers, but rather for the ephemeral, vanishing spectre of the “taxpayer” as such. By looking to a specifically individualized concept of “tech billionaires” operating firmly within the principles of the market, the capitalist class as a whole is spared. Thus, job creation is retained as a good, the codification of capitalist power is good, fascism must still go on, but it must be a fascism that cares for its white workers. And these are the grounds on which Carlson stakes his opposition to Bezos.
It is yet another fool’s socialism, and the way in which one will eventually see convergence in the reception of Carlson’s message and similar antisemitic ideology about global finance (an individualizing process of antisemitism that denies the actual structure at hand, instead presents the transhistorical violence of antisemitism) in attempting to appeal to the exact sort of working class figure that could indeed be radicalized.
“I’m down with white nationalism but I will clutch my pearls if I hear an F-bomb.”
White people in a nutshell.
Is he calling her “young man” or “young ma’am”? I can’t tell. Considering it’s infowars, may be relevant either way…..
He said “young man”, no doubt in an attempt to launch into anti-trans rhetoric with her as a prop.
This is a good way to handle that.
why is it that every reactionary white dude talks like this. “oh wow, oh my gosh!! oh golly!! oh jeepers!!”
it’s actually a little bit horrifying that he would try to expose a child to the lion den of internet white nationalism by making her a prop to make fun of. but yeah, the little girl is “scandalous” because she rightfully called this grown man a fucking idiot
