Tulsi Gabbard Filled in for Tucker on Friday

I hate when Tucker Carlson goes on vacation.

He was on vacation all last week, and it was unwatchable, mostly. It was the worst possible week he could go on vacation, when the first thing in months happened with the Donald Trump raid.

You would assume the writers don’t all go on vacation at the same time, but it feels like they do. Either that, or Tucker is much more involved in the writers’ room than I usually assume.

Different people hosted all week. I’m not sure if it was five different people, but Tulsi Gabbard did Friday’s show.

This was sort of novel. I don’t like female hosts, and in fact I hate women. Also, Tulsi is actually still a Democrat and I’m pretty sure she still like, supports abortion and gays.

It’s a confusing situation, because obviously she is not Japanese or anything, she is native Hawaiian, which is basically Samoan, which are super conservative people. She was involved in her dad’s Christian anti-gay group well into her twenties, then disavowed when she became a Democrat Congressman. To my knowledge, she has not re-disavowed her disavow of her anti-gay and anti-abortion positions.

I think she’s a good show guest to come on and talk about crisis actor hoaxes in Syria and so on. But putting her at the front of the Republican Party, having her speak at CPAC and host Tucker – this seems kind of extreme.

I will say just aesthetically, while she’s a very good guest for a 5-minute segment on wars or civil rights violations, she did not seem a natural host. But I don’t think she’s ever hosted a show, and they put her on the most popular show in America, so I’m sure she was nervous.

As far as the woman thing – you kind of just have to accept that useful women are useful. I don’t think that women should ever be encouraged to join politics, but when it comes to Tulsi, and especially Marjorie Taylor Greene, it is just a practical matter that you accept they are women who are useful for our purposes.

However, if Tulsi is going to play this role in the conservative movement, she should be required to re-flip-flop on gays/abortion. I don’t know why no one has pressed that point.

I usually put the replay of Tucker Carlson on in the morning. Now that Nick Fuentes has a working podcast, I usually listen to that at the gym.

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I enjoy Tucker’s show. There are still some things he says that are dumb, but I agree with 95%. A lot of the stuff he says are things I completely agree with, but he wraps it around some stupid thing about colorblind meritocracy (which is illegal under the 1965 Civil Rights Act anyway, and is probably unconstitutional). But in general, I think it’s important for me to listen to Tucker so I have an idea of where normal MAGA conservatives are at.