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Tucker Carlson on the midterms: "There's no chance I would support the Republican Party ... if I'm out, then I think a lot of other people are out"

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-- Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 9:32 AM · Jun 23, 2026

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"And if I'm out, then I think a lot of other people are out."

"I would not support the Republican Party. There's no chance I would support the Republican Party," Carlson said, adding that the GOP has "betrayed" voters by prioritizing Israel's national security over America's.

"How could I or any American voter support a political party that's not loyal to the United States. That puts the interests of a foreign country above those of its own citizens. It's not possible to vote for people like that, and I'm not going to."

Go deeper: MTG pushes Tucker 2028

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#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-06-22 05:31 PM | Reply

If this is genuine we are witnessing several right-wing neugenics in progress.

Randy Rainbow, please "Cleanse the negative until it is transluscent, polish it until it positively glows!"

I subscribed to his YouTube channel just this morning after watching him interview Huckabee. How ironic.

He has my attention.

Let's take that Presidency, Tucker.

#2 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2026-06-22 05:43 PM | Reply

#2

Randy may do a Parody of this to some tune from, "My Fair Lady".

I'm an Ordinary Conservative Man

Brain Drain in Spain

I Could Have Switched Parties All Night

Get Me to the Oval Office on Time

I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face (for MTG)

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2026-06-22 05:54 PM | Reply

Hi Corky:

Randy's the best.

Sidenote: Sting, from The Police, grew up listening to the music of Broadway musicals, played to him by his parents. Gordon Sumner probably listened to classical musical as well like the rest of us aspiring musicians, but Sting made a note of the Broadway classics.

I think he may have produced a play in NYC as well about hard-working Scottish miners.

And to h*** with Margaret Thatcher.

www.youtube.com


#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-06-22 06:07 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Ha!

Randy's most recent, a Gilbert and Sullivan song parody:

www.youtube.com

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2026-06-22 06:13 PM | Reply

Thanks for the link, Corky.

Randy's a real New Yorker (or could be).

And may the comely young lasses you encounter not furiously tug at their skirts in your gentlemanly presence.

#6 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-06-22 06:37 PM | Reply

Next: The closet.

#7 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-06-22 07:19 PM | Reply

Conservative pundit Tucker Carlson says he's "out" of the Republican Party moving forward, arguing the GOP no longer reflects his views.

^
Not enough Americans being sent to camps.
Not enough nuclear bombs being dropped on Iran.

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-22 08:11 PM | Reply

... Tucker Carlson: "I'm Out" of the Republican Party ...

What took him so long?

I left the GOP in the early 2000's when the Tea Party started showing their white-supremacist and misogynist tendencies.

So, I ask again, what took him so long?


#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-06-22 08:15 PM | Reply

Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald - Summertime (1958)
www.youtube.com

A classic version of the song, imo...

#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-06-22 08:18 PM | Reply

Oh Tuckems... just like all ex Faux Nooz desk tumors you will go back with them once the GOP is not extremely toxic.

Your core values are non-existent. You go whichever way the wind blows.

#11 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-06-23 07:35 AM | Reply

Tucker quits Republicans for not aligning with Russian ideals. lol.

"Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau testified under oath at a public inquiry that the Russian state-owned media outlet RT (Russia Today) funded Carlson to amplify messages and spread anti-vaccine claims."

"Investigative reports, including leaked memos published by Mother Jones, revealed that the Kremlin instructed state-controlled media outlets to heavily feature Carlson's broadcasts because his rhetoric aligned with Russian talking points."

"The extensive use of Carlson's clips on Russian state TV makes his commentary a major asset to Moscow's propaganda strategy, whether explicitly funded or ideologically driven."

#12 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-06-23 11:19 AM | Reply

Get back to me when he repudiates his buddies Orban and Putin.
Until then, Tuckyo Rose is just fishing for his next pool of suckers.

#13 | Posted by morris at 2026-06-23 02:09 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Carlson is sub-human filth. No person who is not sub-human filth fives a flying rat's ass what he says or does.

#14 | Posted by Angrydad at 2026-06-23 03:22 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Carlson is sub-human filth. No person who is not sub-human filth fives a flying rat's ass what he says or does.

#14 | Posted by Angrydad at 2026-06-23 03:22 PM | Reply | Flag:

Well, aren't you just a bottle of sunshine today...

#15 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-06-23 04:28 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Get back to me when he repudiates his buddies Orban and Putin.
Until then, Tuckyo Rose is just fishing for his next pool of suckers.
#13 | Posted by morris at 2026-06-23 02:09 PM

Agreed - I'm certain he knows this. We shall see..

Carlson is sub-human filth. No person who is not sub-human filth fives a flying rat's ass what he says or does.
#14 | Posted by Angrydad at 2026-06-23 03:22 PM

I respect your view, as I shared it until he interviewed Mother Agapia Stephanopoulos.

This veering away from Republicans is to be expected - if he took her words to heart and is repulsed by the Israeli.

So far, so good, imo.

#16 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2026-06-23 04:42 PM | Reply

Tucker Carlson, his whole life a beneficiary of white privilege and political and media connections, is now a frustrated outcast, a ronin.

Our hearts bleed for this creature who for years propagated the Republican Party line and the hated status quo.

As a broken clock, Tucker Carlson is correct about Israel and their monstrous genocidal campaign against Palestinians and Tel Aviv's undue power over the US Congress and the DOD through the nefarious AIPAC, but that is probably the limit of his worth.

Enjoy the tar pit, Tucker.

#17 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-06-23 05:45 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Tucker Carlson, his whole life a beneficiary of white privilege and political and media connections, is now a frustrated outcast, a ronin.
Our hearts bleed for this creature who for years propagated the Republican Party line and the hated status quo.
As a broken clock, Tucker Carlson is correct about Israel and their monstrous genocidal campaign against Palestinians and Tel Aviv's undue power over the US Congress and the DOD through the nefarious AIPAC, but that is probably the limit of his worth.
Enjoy the tar pit, Tucker.
#17 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-06-23 05:45 PM

Both of his parents are CIA, so it's assumed he is Republican by design from early on.

He is effectively peeling supporters away from the genocide.

I'll take it.

#18 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2026-06-23 06:26 PM | Reply

Tucker works for putin.

Looks like tucker will run as an anti-israel independent in order to siphon votes from dems so that putin's preferred party can keep the white house.

It would work too since dems are too dumb to run someone who stands up to israel, and their young voters are too dumb to vote for the lesser evil when it comes to gaza.

#19 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-06-23 06:58 PM | Reply

Tucker works for putin.
Looks like tucker will run as an anti-israel independent in order to siphon votes from dems so that putin's preferred party can keep the white house.
It would work too since dems are too dumb to run someone who stands up to israel, and their young voters are too dumb to vote for the lesser evil when it comes to gaza.
#19 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-06-23 06:58 PM

Two cheeks on the same ass, yes.

As for your fear - good. "Dumb" is supporting a genocide.

#20 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2026-06-23 07:02 PM | Reply

Both of his parents are CIA, so it's assumed he is Republican by design from early on.

#18 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2026-06-23 06:26 PM | Reply | Flag:

I knew about his dad, but I didn't know his mother was also CIA. Tucker claimed he petitioned to join the apparatus and was turned down. Not sure I believe him.

#21 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-06-23 10:55 PM | Reply

#21 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

pinklightrobot is lying ....

Tucker Carlson's mother, Lisa McNear Lombardi, was a free-spirited artist who mostly disappeared from his life when he was six years old
www.businessinsider.com

And no his father wasn't in the CIA either...

So is he a Democrat by Design ... FFS lyingliteBot you're worse than DonorBot.

#22 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-06-23 11:27 PM | Reply

#19 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY

Sure thing ModelS

#23 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-06-23 11:27 PM | Reply

Both of his parents are CIA, so it's assumed he is Republican by design from early on.
#18 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2026-06-23 06:26 PM | Reply | Flag:
I knew about his dad, but I didn't know his mother was also CIA. Tucker claimed he petitioned to join the apparatus and was turned down. Not sure I believe him.
#21 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-06-23 10:55 PM

His mother is apparently not CIA, she was absent from his life since 6. Her beau was part of the "Bradford Mafia" (a British art collective), but not CIA, my bad.

After her death from cancer in 2011, it appeared that Lombardi had disinherited her two sons, though after the case went to appellate court (opens in new tab), the brothers were eventually allowed to keep their shares.

"She didn't raise us; she was horrible," Carlson said on the podcast The Adam Carolla Show (opens in new tab). "Then she dies and causes us all these problems because it's just perfect"she's a bitch from the grave."

#24 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2026-06-23 11:49 PM | Reply

#21 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS
pinklightrobot is lying ....
Tucker Carlson's mother, Lisa McNear Lombardi, was a free-spirited artist who mostly disappeared from his life when he was six years old
www.businessinsider.com
And no his father wasn't in the CIA either...
So is he a Democrat by Design ... FFS lyingliteBot you're worse than DonorBot.
#22 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-06-23 11:27 PM

Those a fine. "fleshlightrobot" might be better.

With your accent my handle could sound like "redrightrobot", that's verging on hilarious. /s

Here's what AI and Tucker claim:

CIA Allegations

No Public Evidence: There is no public evidence that Richard Carlson was ever a member of the CIA.

Tucker Carlson's Claims: Tucker Carlson has claimed that his father "worked in conjunction" with the CIA, but these statements lack verification.

Acknowledged Encounters: Richard Carlson acknowledged having interactions with the intelligence world during his career, particularly while leading the Voice of America, which sometimes operated in environments where intelligence activities were present.

#25 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2026-06-23 11:55 PM | Reply

"Tucker Carlson has claimed that his father "worked in conjunction" with the CIA"

Yeah.

Just like I "worked in conjunction" with the DIA when I brought a bootable hard drive into their headquarters at Bolling AFB to get the viruses off a computer there, once.

#26 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-24 12:21 AM | Reply

"Then she dies and causes us all these problems because it's just perfect"she's a bitch from the grave."

One of the easiest judges of character is how a man speaks about his dead mother.

#27 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-24 12:23 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

I always thought Tucker inherited TV dinner money?

#28 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-06-24 12:51 AM | Reply

Swanson.

#29 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-06-24 01:06 AM | Reply

Hi Snoofy:

I worked out of several DIA facilities decades ago, including Bolling AB.

I hope you got one of our calendars from next to the escalators if you came by in December.

I used to send them to my friends in large yellow envelopes as my holiday greetings.

#30 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-06-24 01:11 AM | Reply

Is cornholio Tucker Carlson!?!?!

#31 | Posted by jpw at 2026-06-24 04:25 AM | Reply

Donald Trump has murdered the GOP. It's almost as if Trump is a Democrat plant. In which case, mission accomplished. Hell, Trump has hit the GOP so badly that he makes Carlson and MTG seem reasonable.

Republicans, remember: You asked for this.

Given the choice between a dozen solid conservatives and one Clinton-supporting con-artist and game-show host, you chose the con-artist.

You chose him freely. Nobody made you do it.

#32 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2026-06-24 09:03 AM | Reply

"Dumb" is supporting a genocide.

#20 | Posted by redlightrobot

Dumb is refusing to vote against the guy who attempted a coup because of a war on the other side of the globe.

#33 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-06-24 12:32 PM | Reply

Flag:

#19 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY

Sure thing ModelS

#23 | Posted by oneironaut

You joined a fascist cult led by a pedophile and the best thing you can attack me with is that i bought a tesla back before elon came out as a nazi.

#34 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-06-24 12:34 PM | Reply

"Dumb" is supporting a genocide.
#20 | Posted by redlightrobot
Dumb is refusing to vote against the guy who attempted a coup because of a war on the other side of the globe.
#33 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-06-24 12:32 PM

In case you haven't been paying attention Progressives are going to replace your centrist corporate legislators.

BY POPULAR DEMAND.

#35 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2026-06-24 12:56 PM | Reply

In case you haven't been paying attention Progressives are going to replace your centrist corporate legislators.

BY POPULAR DEMAND.

#35 | Posted by redlightrobot

You haven't been paying attention because i hate centrist corporate dems. But anyone who didn't vote for kamala because of gaza is a brainwashed moron.

#36 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-06-24 01:36 PM | Reply

In case you haven't been paying attention Progressives are going to replace your centrist corporate legislators.
BY POPULAR DEMAND.
#35 | Posted by redlightrobot
You haven't been paying attention because i hate centrist corporate dems. But anyone who didn't vote for kamala because of gaza is a brainwashed moron.
#36 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-06-24 01:36 PM

If you don't consider THE GENOCIDE it's easy to hold faith in either party to also ignore it.

From what I understand this was a low voter turnout for Dems. Why? Dumb is contagious?

Or, maybe... possibly.. When Kamala met with Nethanyahu after accepting her nomination and then vocalizing support for Israel caused a lack of "enthusiasm"?

By design, imo.

Now Israel have their golum.

#37 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2026-06-24 02:08 PM | Reply

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