Fox News host Greg Gutfeld erupted with dark rhetoric during Thursday’s broadcast of “The Five,” appearing to advocate for a new American civil war because “elections don’t work” and the nation is in “peril and chaos," the Daily Beast reports. The host, whose takes have grown more extreme in recent years, made the remarks during a discussion on the recent looting in Philadelphia. Gutfeld bemoaned how some looters received lesser consequences than participants in the Jan. 6 insurrection, who he claimed received harsher sentences because of their race and political affiliations. He went on to allege they were being “driven out of cities by the oppressed” and compared the political tensions of the moment to the turmoil around slavery that gave birth to the Civil War. “Doesn’t that feel that way now?” Gutfeld rhetorically asked. “That this defiant refusal to reverse this decline argues against the survival of a country. What does that leave you with? It leaves you with ‘you need to make war to bring peace’ because you have a side that cannot change. Because then that means the admission that their beliefs have been corrupt all the time.”
Liberal co-host Harold Ford Jr. responded by suggesting an election, but Gutfeld disagreed. “No, elections don’t work,” he retorted. “We know that.” After Ford countered that they do work, Gutfeld went on a tirade insisting democracy is no longer a possibility. “Look what we have! We had a moderate president, and we have crime exploding everywhere,” he shouted. “We had a Democrat president promise that he was going to be moderate, promise that he was gonna unite the country and now we have a terrible education system. We have no border. We have crime everywhere. Every facet of society is in peril and in chaos because our elections don’t matter!”
These guys are gonna do terrorist attacks
Remember all those power station attacks a while back? Small probing type attacks to gauge response and measure effectivity, if you ask me. Not just “some rednecks shooting at transformers for fun”.
Don’t fall into the Trap of thinking that all the right wing is a bunch of toothless sister fuckers with zero brains. That’s just the majority. It doesn’t take more than 1 moderately intelligent asshat to make a LOT of bad days for others.
I’ll never tell people to go buy guns. But I will tell you to buy some extra food and water,and a generator. And maybe some fabric to use for washable toilet wipes, since covid showed us wiping our asses is the only thing actually separating us from the other apes.
I will. In addition to the above shopping list, get a gun and learn how to use it. The best time to do this was back when Trump was campaigning for president in 2016 and things were starting to look a little too brownshirts. The second best time is now.
Cool. Yeah. Let’s have a run on weapons after fox says civil war. Nice thinking Einstein
I’d rather be armed give them something to fearmonger about than have them use completely fabricated fearmongering to attack me when I’m unarmed.
Edit: If your hatred of guns overwhelms your fear of armed fascists, you might want to read some of the period responses to the activities surrounding the 1923 Munich Putsch. And if you think free (I won’t pretend they’re fair) elections can’t lead to authoritarianism, you may want to look at the 1932 German elections.
I just want to say that I appreciate you are the one response that wasn’t a knee jerk reaction to my comment. You took the time to make a point, and provided something you thought would be beneficial from what you think my point of view is. Thanks. I appreciate the effort, and laud you for it. We should all be so kind to people we disagree with.
Damn, man. You really gotta call out my disengaged ass, don’t you? I think you make an extremely important and overlooked point here. In any kind of social movement it’s imperative that you gain a following for that movement. On an individual level, you do that with good reasoning and specifically not using unnecessary antagonism. It reminds me of all the leftists who were recently bemoaning all the apathy in the 2016 election for what they perceived as “I like whichever candidate, but their supporters were mean to me”. I mean, they’d be correct that this is a childish reason to disengage completely, but these are the exact same people you need to join in your social movement. Too many times we get so obsessive with the academic structure of a movement that we become blind to the world that would benefit from it. We forget that we need to find a way that others would be receptive to our message in how we present it. Truth at all costs is admirable on the surface, but how admirable can it be when the cost is mass dismissal because we felt entitled to be antagonistic toward those who don’t agree yet? So maybe I should put childish ways behind me and begin engaging with others in charitable and good faith.
If you and I can both be better, its a start. Also, eloquently put.
Everyone paid close attention to th Moore county NC incident
On both sides. If I’m them, I wait for winter when people need heat to survive.