Liam McCollum
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Tucker is so good at this. Here, he completely deconstructs this British politician’s entire theory of just war in under ten minutes. It quickly becomes transparent that the scaffolding upholding his entire moral justification for the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is just thought-terminating clichés, not a deep understanding of the tradition that begat ideas like “jus ad bellum” or “jus in bello” or something like that. And this is why Tucker’s so popular. Compare these interviews with the ones he regularly gets from corporate press journalists. The difference in intellect is clear, but it also becomes obvious that, although traditional media pretends to care about speaking “truth to power,” on matters of war and peace, they are puppets for the regime. He's quite literally the only one with the same access who is doing it right.
Liam McCollum192,360 Aufrufe • vor 22 Tagen
That’s how it’s done. Absolute masterclass from Tucker here.
Liam McCollum678,383 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten
Joe Rogan asked RFK Jr. how it feels to be treated like a conspiracy theorist by his own family, and his response was to give a short lesson on Albert Camus’s The Plague, the Myth of Sisyphus, and the Stoics. I think the reason people are drawn to RFK Jr. is because he's a breath of fresh air. Compared to the routine bureaucrats you expect to run for president, he's actually an impressive person, with an impressive mind, that seems earnestly interested in ideas and the truth. He doesn't have to be your preferred candidate to see that. We have such unimpressive fiat elites, and it wears on people, so people like RFK Jr., whether they're good on policy and should be president, just sound better. We need a higher standard for these people. There are significant issues I disagree with RFK about, but this was a cool moment nonetheless. A major litmus test for any presidential candidate should be whether they are willing to talk with Joe Rogan for hours.
Liam McCollum8,929,621 Aufrufe • vor 3 Jahren
“We spent $16 trillion on the lockdowns. We got nothing for it. $8 trillion on the Ukraine war. That’s $24 trillion that they had to print to pay for nothing. That money, the way they’re paying it back, it’s a hidden tax called inflation, and it hits the poor and the middle class” “We need to stop being an empire” When’s the last time you heard a Democrat coherently explain the harms of printing money and empire-building?
Liam McCollum8,825,689 Aufrufe • vor 3 Jahren
TUCKER CARLSON TO TED CRUZ: “You asked me why I am obsessed with Israel three minutes after telling me that when you first ran for Congress you elucidated one of your main goals which was to defend Israel, and I am the one who is obsessed with Israel—I don't see a lawmaker’s job as defending the interest of a foreign government. Period . . . . that does not make me an antisemite, and shame on you for suggesting otherwise.”
Liam McCollum2,673,569 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
If Thomas Massie runs for President in 2028, he could win Dave Smith joined us to discuss:
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Dave Smith tells Dinesh D’Souza that Conservative Inc. conserved nothing: “By the time I came around—this is how much had been conserved—the debate was over whether my 4-year-old boy oughta be turned into a girl. That’s what I inherited. That’s how good you guys did—but what I did also inherit was $39 trillion in debt and an ocean filled of the blood of innocents.”
Liam McCollum991,179 Aufrufe • vor 9 Monaten
Before my generation even cared about Donald Trump politically, we were watching Thomas Massie and Ron Paul clips on YouTube, like this one from 2015, where Thomas Massie voted to force a debate on Obama sending troops to Iraq and Syria The reality is that they hate Massie because he has a longer track record of being more consistent and more America First than they are This also explains the generational divide on Massie, because younger generations have been able to track these votes with new media while everyone else was waiting to hear what Sean Hannity had to say about him
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If you want to understand one reason America’s Old Right was so staunchly non-interventionist in the interwar period, watch this Ukrainian woman’s visceral reaction to her boyfriend being conscripted. The America Firsters rightly saw total war in the democratic age as the progressive destruction of the family unit: it strips households of fathers and the country of its strongest men. Despite what the neocons claim, modern mass conscription and total war are not conservative or right-wing.
Liam McCollum159,914 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
In a Republican primary debate in May of 2007, Ron Paul said what couldn’t be said about 9/11: He told the American people that 9/11 was “blowback” for the wars in the Middle East. People could entertain conspiracy theories, but you simply could not say this, and especially not if you wanted to win a Republican primary. So Giuliani tried to use the moment as a “gotcha” by asking if Ron Paul blamed America for the 9/11 attacks. Ron Paul doubled down: He explained that the CIA talks about “blowback” or the second- and third-order consequences of our policies. The word first appeared in the CIA’s 1954 internal history of Operation Ajax, the 1953 coup in Iran that overthrew Mossadegh and installed the Shah. Paul pointed to that intervention and the hostage crisis that followed. The crowd applauded Giuliani. But Ron Paul went on to out-fundraise every other Republican in the fourth quarter of 2007. For most Americans watching, this was the first time someone gave a serious answer other than “they attacked us for our freedoms.” He said they attack us because we are over there. That exchange, now dubbed “the Giuliani moment,” sparked the “Ron Paul Revolution.” More importantly, though, he sparked a revolution of thought on the American right, calling for a return to its Old Right, America First, and non-interventionist roots. He laid the groundwork for someone like Donald Trump to tell Jeb Bush, on the debate stage, that his brother lied us into Iraq. When Trump was similarly booed, he turned it back on them and told the American people how the system really works: that everyone in attendance were donors of the other candidates. But here we are again, in another entanglement in the Middle East. Involved with the same country the CIA helped overthrow a government in ’53. The same operation that put “blowback” into the CIA’s own vocabulary. The America First movement is now greater than Donald Trump, and Ron Paul’s message resonates more and more, especially with young Americans. But we’re getting the same policies. The Reagan line from the Giuliani moment is extremely relevant today. At the beginning of this war, Lindsey Graham said Donald Trump was a better president than Ronald Reagan, because Trump was actually committed to this war. Repeatedly, we hear claims about Iranians killing our men in the barracks bombing under Reagan, and how we have been at war with them for 47 years. What they don’t tell you is that Reagan was dragged into that conflict under similar circumstances, and he later wrote in his memoirs about the irrationality of Middle Eastern politics. In his memoirs, he said that he called the Prime Minister of Israel, threatened the entire U.S.–Israel relationship if Israel continued the war in Lebanon, and used the word “holocaust” deliberately. Ronald Reagan got out. We should get out now and listen to Ron Paul: we just marched in, we can just march out. This clip of Ron Paul should be played in every history class. It’s important for so many reasons. And on this 9/11, I hope we reflect on the second- and third-order consequences of our disastrous policies in the Middle East.
Liam McCollum88,831 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
Dave Smith says Ben Shapiro has to debate Nick Fuentes now, but won't because he knows he will lose: “He won't do it, same way he won't debate me, and the reason is because he doesn't think he can win it . . . the reason he can't win the debate, even though Nick is taking the most unpalatable positions you could imagine, it's because Ben Shapiro is taking an even more fucked up position supporting Israel doing what they're doing now”
Liam McCollum568,371 Aufrufe • vor 11 Monaten
Wow. Tucker Carlson’s first question in the first presidential forum for the Republican primary was about Ukraine, exposing Tim Scott as a hawk. After, Tucker continued to drill on the issue of cluster bombs and whether the US should push for peace. You would not see this in the old debate format, where candidates could hide behind prepackaged platitudes with no serious follow-up questions. God Bless this man for leading with the most important political issue of our time.
Liam McCollum1,800,647 Aufrufe • vor 3 Jahren
The most important part of the CNN town hall tonight: “Do you want Ukraine to win this war?” “I don't think in terms of winning and losing. I think of getting it settled so we stop killing all these people.” Control of the Donbas is not our business, and it is not worth risking WWIII or nuclear war. This is the the obviously correct stance.
Liam McCollum1,858,956 Aufrufe • vor 3 Jahren
“I see Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio as being the same person” — Rand Paul, the best Senator
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A year ago, Donald Trump had all the cultural energy. Today, he told House Republicans they must win the midterms to avoid his impeachment and asked “what the hell’s going wrong with the mind of the public” Dave Smith and Theo Von discuss how he split the base
Liam McCollum391,809 Aufrufe • vor 9 Monaten
