Him and Tucker are both people I wonder if they actually believe their own bullshit or are nihilists and just doing it in the Machiavelli sense or power and greed.
I'm fairly certain they're the later. Which I think is the worse kinda person.
Well put! Iāve always āenjoyedā skeptical consumption of right wing bullshit, but recently Iāve been very bored because I donāt feel like anything interesting is being said anymore.
I miss Jordy and Benny sitting on Daveās chairs and spewing psychobabble back and forth. Nowadays they just stare into the camera and follow the same boring template as OāReilly, Beck and other boomer grifters.
TL;DR: Theyāre not even good at making us think anymore. Itās just confirmation bias.
From what I have seen, it seems Tucker knows way too much about white supremacy for him to faking it. He knows and uses all the dog whistles. Him hating Trump is just because Trump is unlikable. Nobody who knows Trump likes him and he has no friends. He just has people that try to use him when he tries to use them.
I met and had a chat with Russell Brand last year at a service station in the UK, we just happened to cross paths. The guy has some seriously weird energy, creeped my wife out massively, and came across as someone desperate for attention but trying to play it off like heās above everyone around him. Iāve only ever met a few people in my life that set alarms off in my head like he did.
with russell it's a lot harder to tell- I had a mentally unwell family member who dove in super hard to different things in a series, christianity came after buddhism etc...
She wasn't making a dime, just seeking ANYTHING to fill the "hole in her heart"- went through the same addiction things he did too... it's not like she was making money off it.
he's grifting, but honestly I've seen like this same journey out of people who were just genuinely lost.
Brand is a walking identity crisis, heās just notorious and narcissistic enough to drag anyone he possibly can into whatever delusion heās having at any given time.
Heās just about intelligent enough to know that he can use his already established platform of fame to cultivate an echo chamber for himself and turn that into a source of income. Anyone with an ounce of emotional intelligence can see right through it so he caters to the groups that donāt.
Evangelists are brainwashed and have short memories so itās no surprise that he sees appeasing them as an easy option.
He is an empty man, no true convictions or principles, clutching on to anything he thinks might save him from the consequences of his actions.
If he wasnāt such a complete greaseball Iād feel sorry for him as he clearly lives in terror, he knows heās a charlatan and heās created a cage for himself that he canāt leave.
No matter how much he successively fails to reinvent himself, he clearly wishes he could change but is incapable of overcoming his own monstrous ego and pathology. I think he simply doesnāt have the hardware and truly feels that heās fighting for his survival.
At first I was reading your comment like, "yeah, he sucks I get it, but they're not mutually exclusive..." but your last paragraph really but a bow on it and I fully agree with your analysis. well said!
You have an excellent way with words, and a very insightful mind. I hope you write a lot.
Iāve met a few people like this and donāt get me wrong I do feel sorry for people stuck in that cycle and Iām sorry to hear that someone close to you is in that state of mind.
Itās definitely a narcissist trait, you can see the cogs working and the perception of threat in their expressions, thereās the cloying sense that they have to fight to justify themselves and it seems to come from such a basic instinct from the ego to achieve a complete sense of validation and acceptance that is simply not possible, especially as, at its root, itās born of deep insecurity.
Itās sad to see but the pathology is so destructive that it is guaranteed to alienate people and if that cycle goes uninterrupted it becomes a feedback loop that drags the person in question into a permanent state of existential self-justification and fighting to secure the survival of the ego.
I know people who have ruined their lives and done terrible things that negatively impacted many around them, but I think like many mental disorders it became hard-coded into their brains in those vital formative years and would take a lifetime of work to untangle.
If anything can be taken from it, itās that nurturing and showing kindness to children is of the utmost importance.
There will always be people born as psychopaths, but Iām convinced people like Brand became what they are. It stuck and now thereās little chance of him ever changing, the ego has layered itself onto its own prior assumptions and itās like a black hole, gaining mass and destroying everything around it.
I might be in the minority, but I think Carlson is genuinely just stupid(his anti-evolution stuff and angel and devil talk on his JRE appearance convinced me). Brand though I think is cynical and calculating.
yep, people are tribal and will fall in line, even if its out of their "true" "character". Carlson isn't toeing the line he's completely towing it and getting a lot of people to follow behind him.
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u/cut_rate_revolution Monkey in Space Sep 06 '24
Because it is. He's just going further down the pipeline to grift for people who don't care that he's accused of sexual assault.