Fox News host Tucker Carlson went on a racist rant about Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Tuesday night about Omar’s immigrant status.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1234383
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1234383
“No country can import large numbers of people who hate it and expect to survive,” he warned. “The Romans were the last to try that with predictable results.”
We all must admit the influence of the Visigoths on toga production quotas was devastating.
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Alternative headline Tucker is shitting his pants over a girl…
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The real problem was that Romans kept electing morons as emperors in an effort to Make Rome Great Again…
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The Romans were essentially a virus: they invaded other countries, bled them dry of resources and then moved on. They were bound to die of decay when corruption and decadence played their inevitable roles in such vicious societies.
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You definitely respect the humanity of a person or a population when you talk about “importing” them as though they were pallets of sawdust.
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That little rant of his is just a long-winded way of saying the 14 words. If you had any doubts that Carlson and Fox News are openly white supremacist at this point, doubt no more.
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Last night I said I missed the days when you could tell utmost bad faith from massive incompetence. But I also miss the days when you could usually tell cynical demagoguery from the ravings of someone who has actually gone insane.
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I don’t think that’s fair. To the Romans, I mean.
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Pretty much; their downfall came from 1) Spreading themselves too thin due to overly-rapid expansion and 2) then proceeding to withdraw into themselves, thus leading to internal collapse. Usually you can tell a society in on the verge of collapse when they try to become less cosmopolitan and urban
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Pretty much; their downfall came from 1) Spreading themselves too thin due to overly-rapid expansion and 2) then proceeding to withdraw into themselves, thus leading to internal collapse. Usually you can tell a society in on the verge of collapse when they try to become less cosmopolitan and urban
And governors, magistrates and governor officials became extremely corrupt… nothing to do with the current US regime of course…
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Tucker needs to learn that it’s possible to hate racists like him and his ilk, and not hate America. He doesn’t seem to be able to separate the two.
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Well, not so fast. Here’s another (scary) parallel:
Agribusiness and the Fall of Rome
The similarities between Rome right before its fall into dictatorship and modern America are striking and disturbing—debt, political gridlock, breakdown of the family, inability to deal with external and internal problems—to mention just a few. For us, the particular issue at hand is how the rise of ancient agribusiness, known as latifundia , from latus , “spacious,” and fundus , “farm or estate,” and the loss of the yeoman (that is, small) farmer contributed to the nation’s decline into internal disarray and eventual dictatorship.
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World. Class. Chump, this Tucker guy. Straight out of central casting.
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Ilhan is my rep, I live in MN-5. The more unhinged these fools are, the more they empower her. And I’m not even getting into the underlying racism. So, keep right on venting your spleen there Tucker.
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It has long been alleged and believed that Tucker Carlson is racist. Tucker Carlson himself is going to great length to prove those allegations and beliefs as being true.
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Guys, I really, really hate getting into a debate on Roman history here, much less one triggered by this moron, but (like many here, I suspect), Classical history is one of my my favorite pasttimes so moth to candle.
Most historians will always fall back on “no one thing,” “it’s complicated” and wag their fingers at simplistic explanations for an event that entailed a confluence of powerful geographic, economic, demographic and, yes, epidemiological forces. The shifting of the economic center of gravity to the eastern half of the empire, plagues, climate change, lead poisoning, inconsistent ad hoc immigration policy, slavery, failure to invent a rudimentary theory of economics or the stirrup. It’s all really complicated.
But if one was inclined to look for the One Big Thing that Caused It because that’s what sells popular history as opposed to stodgy real history, I think it would have to be the inability to find a way to reliably ensure peaceful succession rather than having huge, bloody, debilitating civil wars every few emperors.
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Sounds familiar…
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Mr. 2 Last Names here must have felt the sting from his audience member’s Fox critiques over the weekend and felt the need to push the racism to 11.
Remember we supposed to be angry that President Obama met with Jon Stewart? Now we have this pipsqueak officially advising the government on primetime. Interesting times indeed.
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Tucker Carlson is what happens when a pant load becomes a real boy.
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