Fill Your Hands!

Agree with him or not, our guest today is a man of true grit. Former Navy SEAL and representative of Texas’ 2nd congressional district, Dan Crenshaw joins the podcast to discuss the Intel Community; the rising temperature of the conflict in Ukraine; and our very own border, which, you may have heard, has its own problemos.

Florida man Charlie Cooke is with us again, and he’s got thought on football and his governor. James defies Twitter, comes out as pro-“the” and anti-peasantry; Peter still likes what we used to call chivalry.

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  1. Wolfsheim Member
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    Taras (View Comment):

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    I support our efforts on behalf of Ukraine (national sovereignty being as important to practical liberty as freedom of speech), but I don’t find criticism, even sharp criticism, of our involvement out of line, as Congressman Crenshaw seems to. Better to say he disagreed with the 20’s tactics in the Speaker fight than to reveal that he’s taken on the DC tic of describing his GOP sparring partners as lightweights. … My biggest fear is that, despite the recent show of tanks, the U.S. and NATO will force Zelensky down the river of a negotiated peace and that that will be crushing to the Ukrainians: their cities destroyed, hundreds of thousands of dead soldiers on all sides, much of the world’s breadbasket despoiled, only to be back where they were on Feb. 23, 2022. The spreadsheet’s not looking good.

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    Congressman Dan Crenshaw mentions Tucker Carlson, to whom I regularly listen and with whom I generally agree, though not on Ukraine, despite the valid points he makes. The reality, grim though it may seem, is that total victory is not possible. Putin knows that he cannot survive the humiliation of defeat; he also knows that Biden and his friends can well afford to sell Zelensky down the river. Sending in the tanks may be of military significance, but such will not alter the political reality.

     

    I used to record the Tucker Carlson show, and watch it faithfully, but stopped because of his credulous and irresponsible coverage of the UFO issue. (In dozens of shows, he seemed to be entirely unaware of what UFO skeptics have to say, or even that UFO skeptics exist.)

    Based on my necessarily more limited acquaintance with his Ukraine coverage since then, it seems he has continued credulous and irresponsible on this vastly more important issue. But then he had always been prone to a simple-minded isolationism (if there is any other kind).

    For one thing, Carlson always falls for what I call the “corruption scam”. This is the same thing that helped Soviet agents and sympathizers in the State Department trick Harry Truman into dishonorably abandoning our allies, the Chinese Nationalists, even as American munitions were being shipped by Stalin to the Chinese Communists, who had mostly sat out the war with Japan.

    I think Ukrainian President Zelensky has read The Art of the Deal. He knows that, to eventually end up with X, you have to start out with 2X as your “intransigent, non-negotiable” demand. Of course, as Dan Crenshaw points out, this is part of what can be discussed between the US and Ukraine only in private….

    Belated agreement on this…I still watch Tucker Carlson, but I too am troubled by the attention to UFOs. Scientifically and logically, it makes no sense.

     

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  2. Taras Coolidge
    Taras
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    Wolfsheim (View Comment):

    Taras (View Comment):

    Wolfsheim (View Comment):

    Leslie Watkins (View Comment):

    I support our efforts on behalf of Ukraine (national sovereignty being as important to practical liberty as freedom of speech), but I don’t find criticism, even sharp criticism, of our involvement out of line, as Congressman Crenshaw seems to. Better to say he disagreed with the 20’s tactics in the Speaker fight than to reveal that he’s taken on the DC tic of describing his GOP sparring partners as lightweights. … My biggest fear is that, despite the recent show of tanks, the U.S. and NATO will force Zelensky down the river of a negotiated peace and that that will be crushing to the Ukrainians: their cities destroyed, hundreds of thousands of dead soldiers on all sides, much of the world’s breadbasket despoiled, only to be back where they were on Feb. 23, 2022. The spreadsheet’s not looking good.

    [Deleted duplicate comment]

    Congressman Dan Crenshaw mentions Tucker Carlson, to whom I regularly listen and with whom I generally agree, though not on Ukraine, despite the valid points he makes. The reality, grim though it may seem, is that total victory is not possible. Putin knows that he cannot survive the humiliation of defeat; he also knows that Biden and his friends can well afford to sell Zelensky down the river. Sending in the tanks may be of military significance, but such will not alter the political reality.

     

    I used to record the Tucker Carlson show, and watch it faithfully, but stopped because of his credulous and irresponsible coverage of the UFO issue. (In dozens of shows, he seemed to be entirely unaware of what UFO skeptics have to say, or even that UFO skeptics exist.)

    Based on my necessarily more limited acquaintance with his Ukraine coverage since then, it seems he has continued credulous and irresponsible on this vastly more important issue. But then he had always been prone to a simple-minded isolationism (if there is any other kind).

    For one thing, Carlson always falls for what I call the “corruption scam”. This is the same thing that helped Soviet agents and sympathizers in the State Department trick Harry Truman into dishonorably abandoning our allies, the Chinese Nationalists, even as American munitions were being shipped by Stalin to the Chinese Communists, who had mostly sat out the war with Japan.

    I think Ukrainian President Zelensky has read The Art of the Deal. He knows that, to eventually end up with X, you have to start out with 2X as your “intransigent, non-negotiable” demand. Of course, as Dan Crenshaw points out, this is part of what can be discussed between the US and Ukraine only in private….

    Belated agreement on this…I still watch Tucker Carlson, but I too am troubled by the attention to UFOs. Scientifically and logically, it makes no sense.

     

    His coverage of cattle mutilation (ridiculed by Greg Gutfeld) is, if anything, even worse.

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  3. Randy Weivoda Moderator
    Randy Weivoda
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    I could hardly care less about football, but it was a lot of fun hearing Charles razz James about the Minnesota Vikings.

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