Once a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump, conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson has fully turned against him over the war in Iran, going as far as to liken Trump to the Antichrist on his eponymous podcast.

“Could there be a spiritual component to this?” Carlson said on The Tucker Carlson Show on Monday. “Is it just a conventional escalation ladder in a badly thought out war … [or] could it be something bigger? Is it possible what you’re watching is a very stealthy yet incredibly effective attack on what, from a Christian perspective, is the true faith: belief in Jesus?”

Carlson went on: “Is it possible that the president sees this in bigger terms? Sees this as the fulfillment of something? An elevation of some higher office beyond president of the United States?”

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    So Tucker Carlson admits he helped get the Antichrist elected? Not something I would put on my resume.

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    Yes thank you Tucker! This is the narrative that needs to be loud. Donald Trump is the anti-christ his followers bare his mark on their forehead. The devil and his demons are killing God(Earth) we need to stop them!

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      but also, he needs to go down with the rest for helping to create the environment that got the shitstain elected in the first place.

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        Religion without magic. God is earth gaia, we are demons or angels who create hell or heaven or what ever. Take back the terminology so that it is probably more in line with what ‘religion’ was meant to be back when it was hunter-gatherers listening to wise people spreading the knowledge that enabled civilizations to develop or something.

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          Religion was a tool to control people and get them to wash their hands so they don’t spread plagues.

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      Look, people are multifaceted. You can still be a pile of shit AND dislike Trump. Hitler thought dogs were great. It doesn’t mean you agree with anything else going on.

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      I listened to his entire 45 minute rant, and I find it extremely disturbing that I couldn’t disagree with a single thing he said.

      This guy is fucking nuts. But man, he was right on the money with this one.

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        He’s not nuts and he’s never been nuts. He’s a grifter who’s always been very capable of saying what his audience wants to hear. This is what Tucker thinks the Republican base wants to hear, not anything to do with truth, lies, sanity or insanity.

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          They’re too busy lying about Hasan Piker to notice they’re making friends with Tucker Carlson

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        Also he is a raging lunatic who actually speculates whether trump is the literal Antichrist in a biblical sense.

        That’s a positive development on his end, but still pretty batshit.

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      I’m getting the feeling that he’s looking to be a presidential candidate in 2028 and considering how well he can tap into the zeitgeist of the American people, this being an excellent example, he might easily end up being the next POTUS. Because who is going to oppose him? Shit my pants Trump (assuming he even lives that long)? JD Vance with his absolute zero charisma? Spineless Newsom? Tucker can only be beaten by someone like Zohran Mamdani and the establishment dems fucking hate people like him.

      It’s not just a sad day, it’s going to be a sad future.

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      “We are not a theocracy, and God willing, we never will be” is a fascinating statement.

      It’s a call for a secular state from a religious perspective, and I think I actually like it a lot.

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      Typical rats fleeing a sinking ship. I blame at least 60% of conservative brain rot on this hateful piece of shit. His words and actions enabled the raw stupidity, hate, and evil you see today.

      I don’t hope many people drown in marmalade, but I sure hope this fucker does it over and over.

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        If that’s how the clock is broken, sure. If it’s gaining five minutes a day, then it’s never right and it’s still broken

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          Every 288 days the clock gaining 5 minutes a day will be right again for a moment.

          The idiom refers to a clock who’s hands don’t move at all, I hadn’t thought about how it would apply to a running but inaccurate clock.

          A clock that either gains or looses time will actually have its moment of correctness more often the more time it gains or loses.

          This train of thought didn’t help my insomnia, but it was interesting, thanks, lol.

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      Heard this from an organizer, we didn’t change our views to become theirs. Their views became ours

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    Oh lordy is his whole schtick still just “asking questions”? Does he still make the dumbface too?

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    God I cannot stand Carlson. He always has this “Im asking tough questions” vibe, pausing every 3 words. But his statements are always simultaneously the most ridiculous uninsightful shit ever.

    “Theres a rumor that Trump didnt put his hand on the bible. Is it because that… (pause for 5 secs)… perhaps… (pause for 5 seconds)… sees himself as God?” (Pauses for 10 secs now as if he said something even remotely profound)

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      You know how there’s always a bunch of spelling and grammar errors in scam emails?

      It’s because they want to weed out the intelligent ones because they will catch on fast and thus they aren’t worth the scammers time as a mark.

      Those pauses? Same thing. He gives you a few seconds to think about what he said. If you can’t figure out that he’s batshit insane in those few seconds, you’re the mark target audience.

      Alex Jones did/does the same thing while trying to channel his inner Howard Beale for the climax of each monologue.

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      Dad’s getting way too into cable tv news right now (I think to cope) and he watches Lawrence O’Donnell religiously on MSNBC every night. I use that term intentionally, because I feel like he speaks just like a preacher giving a sermon would. Maybe like Tucker, these pregnant pauses, showing how rationally and maturely he can speak. I can’t stand it lol.

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    The devil is the pinnacle of vanity per his origin story. He gets one shot at inhabiting a physical form. Ya really think he’s going poses a spray-tanned, twat-necked, obese, incontinent dude on the cusp of 80? Lucifer has standards.

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      If he’s not fuckable he’s not the antichrist. Them’s the rules. I don’t make them up, I just follow them.

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      it could also be that it inhabits a vessel that views itself as the epitomy of “beauty”, like a cruel mockery. hes a psychopathic narcissist which is part of the reason he raped and ate children with epstein, it wasnt the act itself, but its the corruption that fuels him, the corruption of everything and everyone around him, to make them ugly and corrupt or “beautiful” as he thinks he is. the antichrist stands in firm opposition to christ, that could mean a mirrored version, or a corruption of beauty itself, being seen as “beautiful” to the antichrist, and those who follow him.

      there are maga cultists who think he is the epitomy of desire, which to them, is power, wealth, and perceived strength, even if the vessel is a physically weak old man, his station is what they view as valuable, desirable.

      so, does the antichrist need to inhabit a beautiful vessel? or a vessel that inhabits a position of power, and wields it in a way thought to be beautiful and desirable by those who would follow him, and be corrupted by him?

      im not religious. just a thought.

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      antichrist is a different entity to lucifer, but they are connected. lucifer is an archangel/fallen angel antichrist is a hybrid

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    Isn’t it a thing where those white nationalist “christians” think that the end times are kicked off by the anti-christ, while also praising this war as the thing that starts the end times…?

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      Don’t most evangelicals believe the antichrist appears after the rapture, not before, and that they all get sucked up to heaven before the anitchrist’s reign even begins?

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        Yeah. To them it means Jesus is coming back and they get raptured.

        Only thing they’re forgetting is the thousand years of darkness that comes before Satan is defeated.

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          This is for the pre-millennial dispensationalists. For the pre-millennials, the rapture will occur at the start of the 1000 year tribulation (as depicted in Left Behind). So it’s exciting if there’s a sign it might happen soon.

          (Let’s just ignore the gospel passage about “ye shall know not the hour…” Etc etc.)

          For the post-millenials, the rapture will occur after the 1000 years of tribulation, not before. So it’s less exciting, because you’ll probably die before then, so you won’t be eligible for rapture.

          And of course the amillennials don’t necessarily think the 1000 years is a literal 1000 years, and they have various opinions about how figurative John of Patmos was, or just how many balls he was tripping.

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            Ah, now here is someone who knows their eschatology! I grew up in a pre-millennial dispensationalist church but am now an Episcopalian (and probably amillennial, if we have to give it a label–I basically hold to the idea that Jesus’ return will be what it will be). What was crazy to learn was that the whole Rapture concept was more or less invented at the end of the 1800s and only became super popular among American Evangelicals because of the Scofield Reference Bible. Saint John the Divine and Saint Paul would look at all of this with bewilderment, I think.

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    Interestingly enough, I started studying Gnosticism recently as I find it compelling how it lines up with NDE and the Tibetan Book of the Dead. I’m fairly convinced this is “hell” (as they call it) and if you haven’t figured out what’s going on at the time of your death, you’re coming back here. Trump has made me more religious.

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    It’s a fitting gotcha comparison commenters everywhere wrote since he took office again, but GOD FUCKING DAMMIT this senile piece of shit is only relevant as a POTUS and everyone’s henchman, making him look like a biblical character for good or for bad is giving him too much credit, uphelding the cult of personality the least educated and religiously minded individuals seek to believe in. This sensational exceptionism is not doing anything useful. Fucker Carlson continues to mow down every wrinkle on the brains of his target audience, but today he drives right to left instead of the usual opposite.

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      Trump is a brand. His entire business model is putting his face on other people’s products. I don’t know whose calling the shots, but it sure as shit isn’t Trump. He’s a mouth piece succumbing to old age and dementia.

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        I was going to say whoever promises him ONE MILLION DOLLARS, but I guess there is a sporadically formed organism of loyal gatekeepers, privileged abusers and so on, that limits it to a tiny circle and makes it go somehow predictably to further interests of higher bidders.

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    My evangelical and Fox News-addicted aunt absolutely loved Trump … and thought he was the Antichrist at the same time. They do think he’s bringing chaos and destruction and they want it because they think it will usher in the Second Coming.

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      Doesn’t the anti christ prophecy sort of say that those who side with him will be denied heaven? Do they not think being his biggest fans counts or did they not think that far ahead?

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    Why are people actively manufacturing Peter Thiel’s world view.

    No, it’s not progressive to discuss or write about it. This is just making these cultists feel legitimate.