Posted on 06/02/2025 7:12:42 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Tucker Carlson said he's not sure he can support the Republican party after a Florida congressman called for Gaza to be nuked.
Congressman Randy Fine, who was recently elected to replace Mike Waltz in Florida as the preferred candidate of President Trump, made the jaw dropping comments in a Fox News interview last month.
He said: 'In World War 2 we did not negotiate a surrender with the Nazis, we did not negotiate a surrender with the Japanese.
'We nuked the Japanese twice in order to get unconditional surrender. That needs to be the same here in Gaza.
'There is something deeply wrong with its culture and it needs to be defeated.'
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Carlson, speaking on his podcast alongside Glenn Greenwald, said he was so taken aback by the comments that he initially thought they couldn't have been made by a real politician.
'I text a friend of mine in Congress,' Carlson said. 'This is a person who I confirmed is a real person. I didn't believe it at first... I didn't believe he was really a member of Congress.'
'It's evil. How can you say something like that and not get expelled from Congress? How can that person still be in the Republican party?'
Carlson went on to say that Fine's comments had made him question whether he could remain loyal to the Republican party.
'I don't know if I can support a party with someone like Randy Fine... that's so disgusting.
'So we're gonna nuke Gaza because of its culture? We're going to kill everyone because we don't like their culture?' he repeated incredulously.
'There are Christians in Gaza. Muslims in Gaza. To say there is some Gazan culture that's cohesive.'
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But Fine is a Jewish Trump-backed pick who won 83 percent of the Republican primary vote
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Tucker Carlson is not all there. He believes in conspiracies where none exist. I wonder if he does this for clicks, views and likes.
The name has been around for two thousand years. It was never a country. It is Israel. Always was, always will be.
The headline sucks. He doesn’t hate the republican party he hates representative Fine. Tucker’s right. We don’t nuke places we don’t agree with.
Even if he did, he would still have to reach the conclusion that the Israel described in the Bible is the same country as the one put up in 1948.
Just using hyperbole to make a point.
Seems like an intentional obtuse conflation of nuking and unconditional surrender by Carlson. Randy Fine was likely emphasizing that Hamas needs to be defeated to the point of unconditional surrender not that Gaza needs to be nuked.
Tucker Carlson said he’s not sure he can support the Republican party:
Actually, Blue Octopus - Antisemitic Symbol from the (German) Nazi days. First heard of it with Greta showing it off during her “From the River to the Sea” conversion.
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Thanks for sharing. My first acquaintance with that info.
Congressman made sense to me and I don’t think he meant nuke Gaza literally. He said we didn’t negotiate a Nazi surrender or a Japanese surrender... we nuked them twice.
And the same needs to happen to Gaza. Meaning you obliterate them, no negotiations, total annihilation unless they surrender unconditionally.
This is where I am now as well. But I hate populism now. There isn’t a single political group I can get behind now. I hate them all.
I can find the part where the Congressman points out that England and France supported the unconditional surrender of Japan and Germany - by any means, including nukes - in World War II.
Today - of course - England and France support the permanent presence of a Hamas Terror Army on the border of Israel.
I don’t care if Gaza gets nuked.
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Tucker is going off the deep end - the guy didn’t say to nuke Gaza - he said they needed to be defeated...Tucker invented the false context....
Gaza already looks like it’s been nuked.
“NO and NO, so why is Tucker behaving that way because of the words of a SINGLE REPUBLICAN?”
You do have a point.
Those kind of political statements are made when someone wants to inoculate against something; Tucker, being a Repulican, doesn’t want to be considered a party to such thinking.
So, Tucker wants to nuke the whole party because of one moron? Ironic...
I read his remarks as asking for unconditional surrender, as we did with the Japanese before we nuked them, rather than saying, “lets nuke them”.
I’m more concerned with Iran.
Indeed the squatters tried to rename it for years.
They are angered when told to move along nothing here is yours.
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