has he even *seen* a gun fired before https://t.co/HV0HtkpHWE
— kilgore trout, ted’s travel agent (@KT_So_It_Goes) February 23, 2021
I don’t know whether to worry about the consequences of a bunch of untrained suburbanites taking their cue from Young Tucker, Most Dangerous (to His Crew) Gun in the West… or to laugh at the way the Wingnut Wurlitzer is reduced to pew-pew-pew! cosplay, now that their strenuous decades-long project to give ‘The Coloreds and Their Pansy Liberal Supporters Are Coming for You’ scaremongering some respectable legal heft is falling apart on all fronts…
Spraying brass from the right-side ejection port directly across my face so my southpaw fishstick ass can own the libs https://t.co/T98aToRmOn
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) February 23, 2021
yes very good tucker thats it touch your eyeball to it pic.twitter.com/52JnEBZoO4
— kilgore trout, ted’s travel agent (@KT_So_It_Goes) February 23, 2021
lmao no goggles either and camera quickly cuts to drone view cuz he definitely hit his crew with spent casings.
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) February 23, 2021
This is the promo clip. This is what they're using to hype the show. The GOOD footage.
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) February 23, 2021
I gotta admit, the gun promo with Tucker Carlson, complete with a sort of "action hero trailer" feel to it, seemed like a bit…much. https://t.co/gFZ0RZsEx7
— Scotty P ?? (@Scott_7791) February 20, 2021
the middle aged schlubs for whom an AR-15 or a weekend at a registered machine gun range are a huge status trophy will sadly eat it up.
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) February 23, 2021
West of the Rockies
I suspect Adam could produce 1,500 words on all the errors Tuckie commits here.
West of the Rockies
Frist! and second. Has that been done before?
NotMax
Have Gun, Will Babble.
HumboldtBlue
Have gun will grovel.
Yutsano
@West of the Rockies: Happens on occasion when the Right Coast crew go nappy time. Still hard to accomplish with NotMax repping my birth home.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Y’all you know what this means, he’s running in ’24.
Yutsano
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Totes. Gonna try for that weekend gun humper vote. Let’s see if it pans out for him.
Leto
@West of the Rockies: I’m seeing so many from the fact the gun is too low on his shoulder, he’s basically too high on the back sight so he’s looking DOWN instead of straight through, his stance, his arms… I’ll say that in the military we basically don’t have left handed ejection port M16A2s (AR-15s). Everyone gets a right hand ejection gun. But with his production budget, surely they could’ve gotten him a proper gun. He’ll still hold it like he’s cosplaying an idiot, but at least the brass won’t be giving him love taps to the face. And potentially down his shirt. Ooof! That shit buuuurns!
West of the Rockies
@Yutsano:
I know the whole First! thing is a joke (or at least I hope so). We’ve kind of been running with it for a week now. I promise not to do it again.
West of the Rockies
@Leto:
If Tucker had pecs, they’d be bruised. Sadly for Mrs. Tucker, he appears to have the physique of a well-fed sixth grader.
Amir Khalid
Bragging about one’s familiarity with guns, and then haplessly outing oneself as a total gun noob, seems to be a Republican tradition. I remember Sarah Palin doing it too. At least it wasn’t as gross as pre- Cancun Ted draping strips of bacon over his rifle barrel, firing the weapon, and then eating them.
Amir Khalid
@Leto:
I presume that everyone issued an M16-A2 in your armed forces must learn to fire it righthanded, even if a southpaw.
Ten Bears
Someone must’ve warned him to button up. Damnit.
lurker
@West of the Rockies:[first]
@West of the Rockies:[second]
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
So being first and second means you run for prez? This is sooo confusing…
Poe Larity
Hey but John Cole said clip instead of magazine once
HumboldtBlue
@Amir Khalid:
Not in my experience, they just gave them a shell deflector.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@lurker: Guess so, good luck to West of the Rockies against the Baud!20XX! juggernaut.
Amir Khalid
A tech question: if I switch to Adblock Ultimate, must I remove Adblock Plus first? If so, how do I go about removing a Firefox extension?
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
Dunno when it comes to your first question.
To answer your second question, Click on Tools — Add-ons.
Scroll to the add-on you wish to remove and click on its little box with 3 dots.
One of the options will be Remove.
Steeplejack (phone)
Holy shnikeys. It’s starting to come out.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Steeplejack (phone):
Note: this is taken not from his tax returns but from “financial disclosure” statements.
Sloane Ranger
If the gun range owner allows his paying customers to shoot like that without correcting their mistakes he deserves to lose his licence.
Actually he deserves to lose his licence anyway. Carson is a danger to himself and his camera crew.
Or do you not need a licence to operate a shooting range in the US?
NetheadJay
@Amir Khalid: NotMax has already detailed how to remove a Firefox extension, but yes, I would remove the the existing extension first and then restart the browser. A bit cumbersome I know, but I’ve seen reports of problems specifically with adblockers.
Frankensteinbeck
@Steeplejack (phone):
Complicating this, remember he’s under investigation for fraud because he routinely lies about his income and assets.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Sloane Ranger:
License for a gun range? What are you, some kind of commie?
mrmoshpotato
OMG! Would this even qualify as amateur gun humping?
Hey gun humpers, chicken broth boy is making you morons look even worse.
mrmoshpotato
@Leto:
Narrator: This was no cosplay. Little Fucker really was an idiot.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
Jeez, even the eighteen-year-old conscripts I had to go through basic training with in the Greek army were better at handling long guns. Well, after they were taught how. When the rifles were first issued, some kids were handling them like toys. Granted, they generally didn’t issue ammunition in boot camp except for people on sentry duty or firing-range days.
(And as an aside, since it’s an open thread, the ability to use a Heckler & Koch G3 rifle in games such as Metal Gear Solid 4 or Call of Duty did not help me in the slightest when I was issued a G3A3 in boot camp.)
Keith P.
This is the kind of guy who sinks in a boat parade.
bjacques
Tuckfard is the grift that keeps on griving.
Joey Maloney
@Steeplejack (phone): Shouldn’t that be gilded corruption? Only the best, most expensive, fancy corruption!
J R in WV
Wow!
No hearing protection, no glasses of any kind. Those are the two biggest mistakes I take away from this expedition into gun manliness. He is unlikely to be so unable to control the rifle as to accidentally kill people behind him, as has happened when parents (dads) actually put a fully automatic weapon in their 5 or 6 year old’s hands and let it rip without any preparation to help the little kid control the suddenly wild machine.
Tucker didn’t appear to be learning anything, older guy didn’t appear to try to teach anything, either.
But they will wind up with tinnitus and significant hearing loss if this went on all day. Or even an hour or two. Those puppies are LOUD…
I would have left quickly if I saw this happening over there at a range. I prefer controlled fire, one shot at a time, which is how you fire aimed shots. Untrained militia boobs spray and pray and don’t often hit what they needed to hit.
coin operated
Left-handed here. The weapon is quite safe for lefties if you’ve got the buttstock tucked properly in the shoulder pocket and the tip of your nose on the back sight. Tucker, being a complete poser, can and will hurt himself with his firing position eventually.
The only problem with the M16s is clearing a jam, where it becomes obvious the design was around right-handed shooters.
Evil_Paul
The C7A1 & A2 (the Canadian M-16) has a ‘casing deflector’ to make sure the brass flies forward, away from the shooter’s face whether they’re left or right handed. I…I got a whole new appreciation for that feature right now. Yikes.
trnc
@Steeplejack (phone):
Unless someone can point to some documents that prove DT actually donated his salary, I’m going to assume it’s just one more lie.
Duskfire
Isn’t this a form of…..virtue signaling?
Honestly – It is, isn’t it?
Ken
@trnc: Would “donated to a shell company running a phony charity that spent the money at Trump properties” count?
RobertB
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@RobertB: Ya, why is Tuker’s gun bouncing around, he jerking the trigger?
Bill K
Hah! I had to put up with that the whole time I was in the Army. I hate Tucker Carlson, but I almost feel sympathy with him about this. I was trained to put my nose right up against the back of the sites. Being left handed, that meant I got the spent casings flying across my right cheek. I could use a brass deflector. Then the hot spent casings would land on my right arm. I decided to live with a little burn mark on my cheek.
cope
@West of the Rockies: No need to feel any shame, you are simply following in a long standing internet tradition. Some folks might just be jealous that you were frist.
Noah Brand
Goddammit, I recognize the guy whose range he’s using. Goes by hickok45 on YouTube, and I’ve watched and enjoyed some of his videos. Lots of good shooting, with a lighthearted, knowledgeable take on guns, and never heard him bring up politics other than encouraging NRA membership. Guess that latter should have been a red flag.
Guess I’m done watching his stuff, then.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
For some middle age guy who only skill in life is babbling like an idiot on TV to suddenly try shooting, that sounds like Tucker is scared of something and bluffing to hide his fear. So Tucker having a midlife crises? AntiFa had enough of Tucker’s Gobbles impersonation? Even more crazier Conservatives put Tucker on the death list as a Fox News Libertard?
Omnes Omnibus
Not left-handed, but my experience in the army was that left-handed people got fucked by the hot brass one way or another. As Leto said, lots of things with what he’s doing but fundamentally that weapon was made for right-handed people.
LeeM
@Amir Khalid: I qualified (expert) with the M-16, left handed, back in the 80s. Learned very fast to keep that collar buttoned unless you want to do the hot brass dance. Too bad Ted Cruise didn’t get the full experience.
To be Frank
@Leto: The Army issued me a brass deflector so the casings from my right-handed m16A1 wouldn’t go down my left-handed bdu shirt (I was an LT who knew such a thing existed, so there is that.) And whatever it is he thinks it is he is shooting at is the safest thing downrange. He clearly lacks sufficient training and experience to be confident or competent.
Krowe
@Duskfire: Vice signaling, actually