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Avenatti was encouraged by the DNC and was the media darling of the liberal media. At the time hardly a day went by when his mug wasn't plastered all over CNN and MSNBC.
Avenatti was a man on the make, in many ways similar to Trump in that regard. He was feathering his own nest, actually again similar to Trump. These types roam the halls of power looking for an opportunity. He wasn't the darling of anyone but he made for some good controversial Tv. They are the bane of all political parties.
I don't ever recall him speaking on any issues (national security, taxes, climate, economic inequality etc.) other than calling out Trump for his hypocrisy and lies. I don't believe Avenatti had elaborated any policy positions, he was just a vigorous self promoter, again astonishingly like Trump. If you know of any policy positions of Michael Avennatti please post and link.
Something that I've learned about Presidencies and their legacies. After 8 years, Americans normally want to move on from not only that president, but that Presidential legacy. Whether Tucker Carlson believes that a strategy of continuing a legacy American voters, more than likely, are going to be tired of, remains to be seen.....!
You have clearly never watched his show and no he will never be Rush, Tucker is much more eloquent and well spoken and has a HUGE following that is the future of the GOP unless the GOP wants to just roll over and die because millions of us won't vote for the likes of Bush,Romney and McCain ever again.
I love Tucker while I despised Rush, Bush, Romney and McCain. So this is a plus in my book.
Something that I've learned about Presidencies and their legacies. After 8 years, Americans normally want to move on from not only that president, but that Presidential legacy. Whether Tucker Carlson believes that a strategy of continuing a legacy American voters, more than likely, are going to be tired of, remains to be seen.....!
Thing is, since Reagan, this country has continued on with it's policies regardless who is president or what party is in leadership on Capitol Hill.
Both parties have made it hell for hard working families while they help their donors get rich out of wars, either be it war on drugs, war on communism, war on terror, etc. And both of these parties idea of helping the less fortunate is to bring everyone down to their level. Guess it's easier to tear stuff down than it is to build it up.
I can’t stand the thought of Tucker and his family being dragged through the Democrat party and their corrupt media’s perverse character assassinations, fake news hoaxes, and violence that will entail.....
Oh, please...he will reap what he sows. And everyone knows what Tuck sows.
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Can republicans elect someone not rich and spoiled for a change?
Tucker Carlson tells it the way it really is. The truth is uncomfortable for those who view themselves as victims and want everything with no effort. Dems are anti-american excrement. And Tucker makes that crystal clear just by telling the truth.
Tucker is a trust fund baby. If Republicans actually want a candidate to address their issues and the issues of middle America then pick someone that would actually understand those issues.
At this point, BOTH parties seem happy with picking candidates that have 0 idea what it is like to live in the middle class within the last 20 years. How many more Ivy league grads with silver spoons do you guy want to pick before selecting a candidate that might understand voters in WA, KY, Tx, FL, as well as a blue states with working-class areas in the North East.
Stop picking celebrities and people that make your nipples hard when they "DESTROY" libs. Pick someone that actually has lived and knows the issues you face in your daily life.
As far as modern Presidents go Jimmy Carter fit that bill as a “common man”. He was reviled by the elites of both political parties and lampooned by the media — just as Trump is today. Based on how Carter was treated, I’d argue that the standing government doesn’t care what the electorate wants.
I'm an independent white woman, and I watch Tucker.
I am noticing that I pay a lot of taxes and have nothing to show for it. So, where is all this money going? The kids are getting stupider, not smarter. The medical industry is raping the hell out of hard working Americans with mere treatments and not actual cures. Home ownership is getting harder and harder for the average American because of the high taxes, regulations, fees and insurance needed to build one, and the wages are not keeping up because employers rather hire cheap foreign workers than to give Americans a real living wage.
The decline of labor unions has a lot to do with your situation. The condition of wage workers is settling into the normal state it would have been if unions had never existed. Yes, it is a dismal prospect and yes, companies have always recruited foreign workers to drive down wages, it is in fact how most of our ancestors wound up here.
Income and wealth inequality is a bigger and bigger problem in this country, people are angry, rightfully so, but often don't know why their own situation has been deteriorating so much.
Most jobs lost over the last few decades, to be clear, were lost to automation, and this automation was driven by a desire for more profit, not any wish to make a working person's life easier or more fulfilling. It was entirely driven by the profit motive. Oftentimes an older factory building would be deemed unsuitable for refurbishing into a modernized plant, so companies would shut them down and build elsewhere.
But many jobs didn't need to be automated if there could just be found cheaper labor. Often times it would go from a city like Chicago or Cincinnati or St Louis to a little town like Mt Vernon IL or Glasgow KY. Wages were greatly reduced in the small towns but those people were sure glad to have those jobs. Little did they know that those jobs were tenuous at best, the companies had already demonstrated a willingness to abandon their own long term employees at least once and they would do it again.
Those tended to be the jobs that went offshore. Companies fired their own long term employees and closed plants only to exploit working people in other countries. Very often there were no benefits to pay, the hourly wage would be at pennies compared to American dollars and they would have to contend with fewer safety and health regulations.
Home owners accept all of the risk when financing a home, lenders rarely if ever lose money in a housing bust, often they reap huge rewards when they foreclose. The working stiff takes it on the chin once again.
Our medical industry is the most expensive in the world. Sure it is very good, in some ways the best in the world ... but only if we can afford it. Most Americans actually can't afford it and I believe it is the leading cause of bankruptcy in our country. No other advanced country has to deal with that.
Today the wealthiest Americans do not pay their fair share in taxes, and we are running huge deficits which means vital services and the social safety net are on the chopping block. The government is not protecting our health, or our safety, or our environment. Their big dark money controls our politicians, who spend more time one-on-one with big out of state donors than they do in town halls meeting the voters they supposedly represent. It's like the fox has the keys to the henhouse.
Until we break this power of big dark money over our politics we will never solve these urgent problems.
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Tucker Carlson tells it the way it really is. The truth is uncomfortable for those who view themselves as victims and want everything with no effort. Dems are anti-american excrement. And Tucker makes that crystal clear just by telling the truth.
Tucker Carlson is exactly what the Republican Party represents. A phony front man for the economic royalty, with no qualifications, morals or ethics and who plays to the worst elements of the human psyche to make money. What could be more Republican than that?
Carter, Clinton, Obama, and Biden didn’t come from wealthy families.
The worst democratic politicians, rose up from nothing with pure political ambition and self interest.
The good democrats like Roosevelt, Kennedy, Jefferson (well, technically democrat), or other populist politicians came from a wealthy background with a sense of noblesse-oblige and a servant to the masses.
The poor were upstarts with contempt for people under them who couldn't claw there way to the top and deeply insecure, trying to gain the favors of other elites and certify their new status.
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