Talking of Tucker…

…I forgot to add this to that post I made about him the other day:

That’s a screenshot I took from Youtube of the most recent shorts posted to Fucker Carlson’s YT channel… one of Milo Hanrahan apparently explaining that the real reason you’re gay is that you actually aren’t (?), and four rather… Biblical clips that I gather come from another interview with someone called John Rich. Look at the titles:

The Antichrist’s Biggest Lie Exposed
Is the Mark of the Beast Real?
Diddy’s Demonic Ties Exposed
The Worst Sin According to the Bible?

John Rich is a country musician, by the way; he is not a theologian, he’s just hopped up on God in the way Kyle Kulinski speculates Carlson is hopped up on nicotine in that video. Also he’s got an understandable hate-on for pedophilia and child trafficking (hence the presence of that Puffy fellow) which… I don’t know, it’s the sort of thing I know I shouldn’t be cynical about because it is obviously awful, but… why do I not entirely trust him somehow? Is it just the number of times we’ve seen right-wingers being really vocal about things they hate, like, I don’t know, gay sex, trans people, etc, but then they turn out to actually be kind of into those things? Quite often they’re loudly professing Christians too. Not that I actually think John Rich is secretly into kiddie fiddling cos I’ve no evidence that he is, but I’ve just seen too many vocal hypocrites of the kind I described…

What indeed…

Godfuckingdamn. Everyone’s been going off at Fucker lately for interviewing the Nazi Fuentes, but I think he deserves more of a beating for reminding us all of THIS cunt (and didn’t he “stop” being gay at some point?) and making him “relevant” again…

…I presume, too, this is why he had gayness on the brain in this peculiar conversation. I’ve said before that Piers Morgan is a thoroughly odd figure, in that he usually gets things wrong but occasionally he gets outfuckwitted by someone else to the point where he gets it right instead… and oh my, this is one of those instances and then some; he is clearly out of his depth against Carlson’s obsession. I don’t know if I agree with Kyle Kulinski’s theory that the latter is hopped up on nicotine of all things, but then again I’ve never ingested as much of that stuff as Carlson apparently has so I don’t really know if it can do this sort of thing to you. He’s hopped up on something at any rate…

The Middle East’s only democracy at work

Entering election year, Netanyahu’s government targets Israel’s free press

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not granted an interview to Israel’s three main broadcasters in over four years. He’s accused them of “brainwashing,” claimed they assist Israel’s enemies and personally gone after journalists who criticize him.
Now, that longstanding tension is evolving into something more aggressive.: On Monday, Netanyahu’s coalition will establish a special parliamentary committee to advance legislation that would replace Israel’s independent media regulators with political appointees. The change will give the government sweeping authority to fine and sanction news outlets – a move critics warn could permanently reshape the country’s media environment.
The bill, sponsored by Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi, a Netanyahu loyalist, passed its first reading last month after it was introduced in May. The government says its goal is to open the market, promote competition, remove outdated regulatory barriers and modernize Israel’s media laws for the digital era.
Israeli networks, however, have warned the proposed reform will expand political influence and erode editorial independence. In an unprecedented move, the rival networks created a joint emergency forum in August 2023 to oppose the government’s plans, which they dub a “hostile takeover” of the media market.
An official in the forum told CNN, “What we’re seeing is an attempted power grab on the eve on an election. The clear objective is to subdue the free press and silence criticism before Israelis go to the polls.” […]
As Netanyahu’s government pushes to constrain and boycott critical reporting, it has simultaneously promoted pro-Netanyahu Channel 14 – often called Israel’s Fox News – with regulatory benefits, including reduced distribution fees, and various reliefs allowing it to operate with fewer restrictions than other commercial channels.

And now just watch Mushroom Cock try to do the same thing. And then, if he gets away with this, watch Bibi give himself the pardon he was asking for the other day…

How odd

Benjamin Netanyahu asks Israel’s president for pardon in corruption case

Benjamin Netanyahu has asked Israel’s president for a pardon for bribery and fraud charges and an end to a five-year corruption trial, arguing that it would be in the “national interest”.
Isaac Herzog’s office acknowledged receipt of the 111-page submission from the prime minister’s lawyer, and said it had been passed on to the pardons department in the ministry of justice. The president’s legal adviser would also formulate an opinion before Herzog made a decision, it added.
“The office of the president is aware that this is an extraordinary request which carries with it significant implications,” a statement from his office said. “After receiving all of the relevant opinions, the president will responsibly and sincerely consider the request.”
Presidential pardons in Israel have almost never been granted before conviction, with the one notable exception of a 1986 case involving the Shin Bet security service. A pre-emptive pardon of a politician in a corruption case without an admission of guilt would be precedent-setting and highly controversial. […]
The single significant precedent is a case from nearly 40 years ago, in which senior Shin Bet officials were accused of covering up the execution of two Palestinian militants involved in a bus hijack. The high court of justice allowed the president at the time, Chaim Herzog – the father of the current president – to issue pre-indictment pardons in the circumstances.
However, legal scholars say it is far from clear that the 1986 case, Barzilai v government of Israel, would provide a precedent for Netanyahu’s corruption trial, especially in the absence of an admission of guilt from the prime minister.
In the Barzilai case, the officials admitted guilt and the head of the Shin Bet resigned. The absence of admission or resignation on Netanyahu’s part would make it very hard for Herzog to issue a pardon, argued Suzie Navot, a constitutional law professor at the Israeli Democracy Institute.
“This would be stopping an ongoing criminal proceeding for bribery. It has nothing to do with the [1986 Barzilai case],” Navot said. “What Netanyahu wants now is actually to be above the law.”

Has he ever wanted to be anything else? For that matter, has he been anything else for the last two years especially? And frankly, why would Bibi be asking for a pardon if he were innocent? He wouldn’t need one unless he thought he would be found guilty, and he probably wouldn’t be if he weren’t in fact guilty, and pre-emptively asking for a pardon like this makes him look like he might just be. Indeed, I wonder if he’s not doing this to try and have a mistrial declared… I have no idea how Israeli law works, but if there’s a jury in this case (good luck to whom if there is, given it’s been running for five years) then isn’t there a risk Bibi’s statement could influence them? I don’t know, maybe I’m overreading it, but none of this seems like an innocent man at work…