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Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson claimed he was “physically mauled” by a demon in his sleep, leaving claw marks on his body, which he says are still visible. Carlson described waking with intense pain, bleeding claw marks, and an overwhelming urge to read the Bible. He recounted the experience as confusing yet transformative, adding that while he doesn’t expect others to believe him, the incident profoundly impacted him.

29 points

Cheating on his wife for sure

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100%

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366 points

At the time, Carlson says, he was asleep in bed with his wife – and four dogs.

I have an alternate theory about those claw marks…

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121 points

Even Fido has had enough of his shit

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6 points

Good dog.

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12 points

Hopefully Fucker gets rabies

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92 points

I watched that video, and had he just stuck to being suddenly awake and having claw marks I would have thought there was something odd. But he led with having four dogs in the bed, so when he said he had claw marks…dear lord, he’s either trying too hard to play to some niche audience, or he’s really that stupid. At least make the story sound plausible…we know you can lie, why didn’t you just leave off some details here to sell it better.

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87 points

Ever since he got kicked off Fox, he’s been making the pivot to the hard right audience, which includes the narrative that they’re in a spiritual war against the literal devil.

It’s the same conspiracy-laden bullshit that Alex Jones pushes.

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62 points

It’s Jon Stewart’s fault. Tucker never recovered from that jab about the bow tie.

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9 points

The dude used to wear a bow tie, unironically, and in public no less, so…

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3 points

It’s not the bowtie, it’s the smug, punchable face.

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22 points

Bowties are cool.

The bowtie wasn’t the problem.

It’s the person that makes it uncool.

I’d argue that the fact that he stopped wearing the bowties when he was mocked for it says more about him than the bowties do.

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8 points

I bet it’s deliberate. Like a power play knowing his story is clearly bullshit but the morons he’s appealing to are believing it making him feel even more superior.

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1 point

That’s also why Trump endlessly escalates his lies. It’s a flex.

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26 points

Occam’s Razor? Naw, it’s gotta be Occam’s Jewish Space Laser.

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17 points

Yeah, if I were married to Tucker Carlson I’d be pretty messed up too.

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1 point

Heyo

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16 points

We know his wife didn’t leave them in the throes of passion, that’s for sure

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6 points

But a mistress that he’s trying to cover up? That’s plausible.

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If by “mistress” you mean “4 dogs” then I agree.

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5 points

He brought the Bible into it so I’m betting it was a misteress.

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6 points

A dominatrix is also plausible

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2 points

No man! It was a succubus!

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10 points

Dude, even small dogs can hog some serious space. 4 dogs? I’m surprised there’s any room left for the fucker and his wife. He probably got scratches falling out of bed.

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6 points

Holy shit I did not think the alt right could get any fucking dumber.

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6 points

“I went to bed and woke up next to this unconscious woman… I was in my bed with the wife and dogs at the time, so she must’ve been a demon.”

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5 points

Yeah, i imagine his wife is pretty vicious.

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4 points

Is it Tucker Carlson has hell hounds for pets?

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4 points

I do too. Paranoid delusions

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3 points

His boyfriend choked him out too hard? I’m bad at inferences.

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23 points

If this is true, what did he do to deserve this. This doesn’t just happen to a good god fearing person. So I guess the real question is, what did he do to deserve this.

This doesn’t just happen to a good god fearing person. Why would this happen if he DIDN’T deserve this. Clearly he lost favor with the good lord and has opened himself up to the devil to be possessed by a demon.

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Anyone who follows Trump has sold their soul to Satan.

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As someone who was raised in a very evangelical household: the (non)-answer is that it happened to him in order to tempt him or test him or some shit. If it happens to a non-god-fearing individual, it’s deserved, otherwise it’s God’s plan all along. Because moving the goal posts is just way too easy.

The real answer is Tucker Carlson is either actually insane or hardcore grifting, but I’m probably preaching to the choir here going down that rabbit hole lol.

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He’s grifting. He’s no snake-juggling meth-mouthed shitkicker, they’re just part of his audience.

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2 points

I figured my comment would be countered with “justification” as to why. Not you but your explanation and yea preaching my friend.

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10 points

No you see he is like Job in the Bible!!! He’s so righteous God is testing him with demons!!!

-his fans probably

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I guess Carlson’s soul isn’t worth enough to send a succubus. All he’s worth is a backscratcher.

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Job has to be one of the more disgusting stories in the Bible… It was the one that I read/was taught about in church as a teen that first made me go “wait a second…”.

From the first time I heard that story, it never sat well with me, and not a single adult was ever able to give me a satisfactory explanation for why it was OK for god to straight up destroy this poor man’s life (a man who was already super dedicated to this god), including literally killing his innocent family, over some petty bet with the actual devil.

That really opened my eyes to what the OT god really was in that book, and I did not like what I saw.

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Job is a great work of literature, except that its authors chickened out at the end and close it out by saying “But God can kick nine kinds of shit outta ya, so you’d better just say your hosannas and quit bitching.” Up to that point, there’s a lot in it.

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True. I know there will always be a justification and it would be a hard fight to change the minds of those who are being grifted.

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This all obviously ridiculous but… I grew up with a family that 100% believed in spiritual warfare. My parents were more willing to believe my brother was possessed than to believe he needed psychiatric help. My Dad had the church elders pray over me when I had whooping cough, asking God to cast out the demon that had so obviously latched onto my 10 year old lungs. I regularly saw people at my church who would claim to have seen fantastical things.

Tucker is simply appealing to his base. The mass groups of people who truly believe they are warriors for Christ engaged in a life and death struggle for the soul of the whole world. There are thousands of them and they believe you and I as unbelievers are at best, unwittingly helping the enemy and at worst, willful vessels of the literal devil.

I wouldn’t be shocked if Tucker Carlson 100% believed what he’s saying. The groupthink in those circles is difficult to break out of.

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I wouldn’t be shocked if Tucker Carlson 100% believed what he’s saying.

I would be very shocked. He’s a cynical propagandist, not a true believer.

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101 points

How to explain away the signs of rough gay sex to your wife.

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How to explain away the signs of rough gay beastial sex to your wife.

FTFY

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4 points

This.

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