News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:
WOODSTOCK, ME — In the latest in a string of high-profile but controversial episodes of his popular show on social media platform X, Tucker Carlson interviewed a guest who made the surprising suggestion that the Avengers were the real villains in the Infinity War.
The shocking claim was made during Carlson’s fascinating conversation with intergalactic despot Thanos, who alleged that he was only acting in the best interests of all life in the universe in general and Earth specifically when he sought to eliminate half of the planet’s human population.
“Much of what you’ve been taught is misinformation,” Thanos said as he sipped coffee in Carlson’s home. “I know much has been said about my supposed ‘attempts’ to ‘annihilate human civilization’ and all that, but I was really just wanting to help humans and your planet. It’s those awful Avengers who were the real problem. Keeping me from creating an exquisite utopia here for mankind. They’re the bad guys.”
Carlson appeared both intrigued and blown away by Thanos’s revelation. “This is mind-blowing,” he said after hearing Thanos’s story. “If what you’re saying is true — and I have no reason to think otherwise — then everything we’ve been told about the Infinity War is a lie. These Avengers — quite possibly agents of the Deep State, I might add — are not to be trusted. Thank you, Thanos, for bringing the truth to light.”
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I always wonder what causes people to go down this rabbit hole. Is Tucker’s life that devoid of meaning?
Tucker has become a born again Paleocon and going down the Pat Buchanan route, but worse. I hate his “I’m just asking questions” pose. He knows precisely what he is doing.
Darryl Cooper is a podcaster who has published no books and no scholarly articles. David Irving actually had a publication history and some time in archives under his belt. About the odious Mark Weber, you could at least discover where he’d studied. Cooper as far as I can tell is Joe Blow off the sidewalks of Stockton, California. Carlson professes to believe he’s a ‘great popular historian’.
and going down the Pat Buchanan route, but worse.
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I think both Buchanan and Ron Paul have tried to peddle the thesis that American entry into WWii was unnecessary. To my knowledge, neither attempted to argue the Hitler regime’s mass slaughter of civilians was one big oopsie.
It’s been remarked that Steve Sailer has a substack and is migrating over there in increments. Ron Unz is a more lurid example than Tucker Carlson of someone decaying intellectually as he ages. The speculation is that Sailer is just tired of seeing his columns nestled in among The Crazy.
Buchanan came pretty close Art:
https://reason.com/2009/09/02/buchanan-everything-you-know-a/
https://www.aei.org/articles/patrick-j-buchanan-and-the-jews/
So, where will the Epstein list lead us? If there is an Israel connection via Maxwell’s father will it be investigated?
Why has it been suppressed?
Why can’t questions be asked?
The one thing that Cooper is missing or not understanding is the human condition (original sin). He is a non-Christian. Some of his conclusions seem to allude to religion being cause of all conflicts.
It’s one thing to sift wartime propaganda thoroughly (whether from the Reich or the Allies) and another to deny or distort the obvious for whatever reason. One thing I admire about David Irving is that he (finally!) acknowledged the existence of extermination camps when presented with incontrovertible evidence.
The over-the-top Allied propaganda at the end of the war did more harm than those leaders could have foreseen: the “lampshades” and “soap” and so on.
But to say that millions were not slaughtered was always in bad faith, I think. As an old Hungarian priest once said, “Before the war, there were thousands of Jews in our town. After the war, there were none.” So even if the question of the total numbers should be up for learned investigation, the overall fact of the slaughter never should have been.
The more prudent paleocons do not want American power overextended and the resultant growth in the federal government that always results. But it’s one thing to say, “stopping this slaughter is beyond our power” and “the slaughter is none our business” or blandly denying it. The first requires argument, the second two are mere posturing.
If I’m not mistaken, Buchanan’s thesis about Demjanjuk proved to be true. Buchanan’s willingness to use a jumble of material he received over the transom without research and verification is deplorable, but I’d put it about 20% of the distance between prudent skepticism and the positions staked out by Irving / Weber / Cooper. The rest of the articles concerned debatable positions he’d taken about the first Gulf War and the activities of the Department of Justice.
Buchanan was correct about him not being the infamous guard Ivan the Terrible, but he was a concentration guard and he lied about it when he sought admission to the country.
Fr. J: I have seen pictures of the lampshades made from human skin by the Nazis. There is nothing bad enough that can be said about the pure evil carried out by the Nazis.