Thread by @SlavaMalamud

I was so full of rage after listening to Carlson's revisionist garbage on the insurrection last night, I didn't even want to dignify it with a comment. But I am a rational adult, so I have slept on it, and I am ready now to give my measured response.
MOTHERFUCKER!
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https://twitter.com/HuffPost/status/1379710914530832389

First of all, before I even engage in any point-by-point refutation of Tucker's avalanche of blithe cynical skullduggery, let's just be clear on what exactly he was doing.
He was not merely revising.
He was not merely excusing.
The motherfucker was ENCOURAGING.
PROMOTING. FUCK!

He made damn sure that his choice of words made all insurrectionists and potential insurrectionists feel not only justified but fucking ENTITLED to do this again, should any future election result be not to their liking. After all, what they did was merely trespassing, right?

"Not to be condoned, of course", but still pretty fucking OK, right? Because that's just "airing of grievances", that's what it was. In the "People's House", dontcha know. By folks from "unfashionable zip codes" who feel "disenfranchised" and raise legitimate concerns, right?

Fuck, I can practically taste economic anxiety here! Quick, does NYT have a spare reporter to send to a diner in Sowfuck, MO to hold a white dude's hand?
MOTHERFUCKER!
Yes, white folks with a victimhood complex, you are totally justified to storm buildings and threaten lawmakers!

You know, fuck it. I understand that should another insurrection occur, Carlson probably will not face any legal consequences for encouraging it, because he has already successfully test driven the "no reasonable person will ever take me seriously" defence.
Fuck him entirely.
But

since this narrative is already taking hold on the right, let's be 100% clear what it's all about. Let's be 100% clear what they are trying to do.
First, the obvious one: painting treasonous, insurrectionist, criminal acts as legitimate exercise of citizenship.

And they are given a pass on this, because our mainstream media and our society at large is preprogrammed to see a crowd of violent people as either lawless rioters or concerned citizens based solely on the color of their skin.
This is why this argument is made in the first place

Secondly, they are still, FUCKING STILL, perpetuating the gratuitous lie about Trumpers' being "disenfranchised" and "economically anxious" people from flyover country who are just concerned about losing their America to... I don't know, all that communism that's floating about?

FUCK THIS BULLSHIT RIGHT UP THE ASS! None of this is true. Literally. Not one word. Not one phoneme. It's all Grade A monkey feces. It's worse than claiming that Godzilla vs. Kong is a documentary. It's utter, absolute, complete, demonstrably manufactured GOBSHITE...

But don't take my accented immigrant's word for it. Here, feast on this. Here's an American with a "proper" name and everything, doing research in real fucking time.
I will distill this for you.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…

The dude began his study with the premise that Trumper rioters were indeed flyover economic anxiety victims. He thought the insurrection was "the final chapter of the 2008 recession" 🙄 He looked over the bios of nearly 400 arrested "grievance petitioners" - and what did he find?

He found that the Trumper traitors were disproportionally older, white-collar and better off financially than participants in all other protest movements. And whiter, of course, but that is tautology right here.
But what was the single greatest commonality between them?

The commonality was that they tended to come from communities where the share of non-Hispanic whites has drastically decreased in the recent years.
This was the one thing that united them.
Not economic anxiety: they are doing fine.
Not disenfranchisement: they vote in droves.

What united them was racial fear. Resentment of demographic changes. The perceived loss of the dominant status in society afforded to their race and culture.
This was not the final chapter of the 2008 recession.
It was the next chapter of the 2008 election!

This was the sentiment voiced to me loudly, proudly and in no uncertain terms by a fellow hockey parent in Maryland, who was a white-collar suburbanite from affluent Howard County, in 2016: "I finally get to vote for a politician who will take care of me as a white guy!"

This is all you need to know. And this is all Tucker Carlson is screaming at them from their TV screens: "It's OK to storm the Capitol building, because you are white and you are entitled to a president who makes you feel empowered to be white!"
This is all they want to hear, too

In conclusion, fuck Tuker Carlson. Fuck him with Matt Gaetz's hair.
This is all.