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Historian who confronted Davos billionaires leaks Tucker Carlson rant
Bregman so riled Carson with his accusations of hypocrisy, critiques of Fox’s conservative agenda, and attacks on Donald Trump that the TV host called him a “moron” and angrily told him: “Go fuck yourself.”
According to Bregman, he recorded the interview with Carlson last week and it was scheduled to air later, but never did.
Now This has obtained Bregman’s own recording of the exchange, where only the audio of Carlson’s questions can be heard.
The interview begins cordially, and Carlson congratulates Bregman on pointing out the hypocrisy of Davos attendees “who fly business to talk about global warming”. Bregman says he is just saying what most people in the world, including Fox News viewers, are thinking.
Things become tense when Bregman tells Carlson that Fox News has tended to ignore tax because “what the Murdochs want you to do is scapegoat immigrants instead of talking about tax avoidance”. No, wealth isn’t created at the top. It is merely devoured there Rutger Bregman Read more
Bregman then accuses Carlson of being bought by the Murdoch family and the Cato Institute, a rightwing thinktank of which Carlson was a fellow until 2015. Bregman says Tucker took the “dirty money” of the institute, which is funded in large part by the Koch brothers and opposes higher taxes.
He says Carlson is “a millionaire funded by billionaires” and “not part of the solution” but “part of the problem, actually”.
Bregman finishes by acknowledging that the interview probably wouldn’t be aired, but saying that he “went to Davos to speak truth to power and I’m doing exactly the same right now”.
Carlson, near-speechless for much of the interview, replies by saying: “Why don’t you go fuck yourself, you tiny brain. You’re a moron. I tried to give you a hearing but you were too fucking annoying.”
The next day on Twitter, Bregman said he decided to leak the interview to Now This because “we should keep talking about the corrupting influence of money in politics. It also shows how angry elites can get if you do that.”
He also challenged Carlson to air the interview in full.
Bregman has long been making the case for higher taxes, plus a raft of other measures to rethink the way the world works, including a shorter working week and a universal basic income. He was invited to Davos after his book, Utopia for Realists, became a hit with many leaders and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.
But after spending a week there, he was amazed at many of the attendees’ lack of self-awareness. “It feels like I’m at a firefighters’ conference and no one’s allowed to speak about water”, he said.
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x3 It doesn't surprise me one iota that Tucker said such a rude thing to a guest. I'm more surprised it doesn't happen more often.
I still contend that watching Tucker followed by Hannity is the single worst thing you can do with two hours of valuable free time. All those programs do is fuel hatred against anyone that isn't a right winger. It's basically the equivalent of "Two Minutes Hate", except a lot longer.
Edited by speedyboris on Feb 21st 2019 at 9:11:10 AM
Disasturbator
> how viable would it be to legally declare refusal to vaccinate your children a form of child abuse?
Not very viable unless you have offer conclusive evidence to the authorities that it counts as abuse,it's negligent and irresponsible sure but it's not breaking the law,it's a just a really stupid thing to do that can hurt other people and like we've seen can cause outbreaks
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Captain of the Dead City
If you want mandatory vaccinations, it's probably easier and less legally iffy to just legislate mandatory vaccinations than it is to go the roundabout way of making anti-vaxxers child abusers.
"...in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."
Yup. Mandate the shots, and if parents interfere or resist, then you have cause to bring down the legal hammer.
Still want to nail the quacks and blogger who spread these lies in the first place though.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Even better, do the shots in the schools, paid for by the government. That's what was done in the past. This way you get every child and it doesn't mean additional hardship for the parents.
Captain of the Dead City
But teh BIG GOHVEMENT
"...in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."
That's how we did Hepatitis shots back in Junior High.
Captain of the Dead City
That's how we did it too, but y'know. NHS. Socialism.
"...in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."
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You need some immunizations before school age, though, and those are entirely in the hands of the parents.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
That's fairly uncomplicated to address, make it so students can't be enrolled if they don't have the proper immunizations.
Thus adding a clear incentive to vaccinate your child.
Edited by Fourthspartan56 on Feb 21st 2019 at 11:11:35 AM
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Lost in Space
Or for the poor widdle baby boo-boos to get homeschooled to keep them away from the evil mainstream culture.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Oh, bother.
Or send them to private schools that don't require those.
Disgusted, but not surprised
Yeah, I have to agree with Fighteer. Any solution where there's an option B is a bad plan.
I despise hypocrisy, unless of course it is my own.
Captain of the Dead City
Soon, Americans will argue that they need their guns to defend themselves from the government who will come over to vaccinate their children.
"...in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."
Oh, bother.
I wouldn't be surprised if some of them already do.
Disgusted, but not surprised
Captain of the Dead City
Oh, man. Now I'm imagining a post-apoc future where people in the wasteland talk about the vaccination wars.
"...in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."
Oh, bother.
They will talk about how the anti-vaxxer side ultimately lost because their younger recruits kept getting sick for some unfathomable reason.
Disgusted, but not surprised
Captain of the Dead City
It was because the vaccination side cut off their supply of essential oils.
"...in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."
Collector Of Fine Oddities
There's a few private schools out there that cater to antivax nonsense, ("Waldorf" ones being big ones), how would one circumvent those?
A procrastination in of itself
Licence private schools and revoke their licences. I’ve defneded private schooling here in the past, but it should be regulated like state run schools.
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So a couple news items courtesy of Google.
1) Body-cam footage shows an incident in California in which a Deputy returned fire on a man she'd pulled over after he shot at her through his open window. This is the value in those body-cams, folks - defending the cops that are doing their diligence while outing the ones that aren't. Feel free to share around for those that decried the use of body cams (not sure how many there are, though). Thankfully, she wasn't injured, though he died from the retaliation.
2) Roger Stone is back in court after posting an Instagram image of the judge presiding over his case... with crosshairs next to her image with a caption suggesting he wouldn't get a fair trial from her. It remains to be seen just how displeased she is with that development, as she could revoke his bail because of it.
Edited by ironballs16 on Feb 21st 2019 at 2:06:03 PM
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Trump didn't know
that his administration was pushing to decriminalize homosexuality around the world.
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