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Summary

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.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You're telling me this is a real story like in a real news source?

JFC

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago
[–] Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

It's probably your own demons Fucker. They've had enough of your bullshit.

[–] PortoPeople@lemm.ee 25 points 1 week ago

Jesus Buttfucking Christ these people are nuts.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I see he's taking a page from Alex Jones's bible.

Anyway, what are the chances that someone's going to come forward that Carlson assaulted them and they fought back? Just asking questions.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Alex Jones’s bible

I shudder to think what that thing is filled with.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

But, man, you're never going to get any truth from us. We'll tell you anything you want to hear; we lie like hell. We'll tell you that, uh, Kojak always gets the killer, or that nobody ever gets cancer at Archie Bunker's house, and no matter how much trouble the hero is in, don't worry, just look at your watch; at the end of the hour he's going to win. We'll tell you any shit you want to hear. We deal in illusions, man! None of it is true! But you people sit there, day after day, night after night, all ages, colors, creeds... We're all you know. You're beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here. You're beginning to think that the tube is reality, and that your own lives are unreal. You do whatever the tube tells you! You dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube, you even think like the tube! This is mass madness, you maniacs! In God's name, you people are the real thing! WE are the illusion! So turn off your television sets. Turn them off now. Turn them off right now. Turn them off and leave them off! Turn them off right in the middle of the sentence I'm speaking to you now! TURN THEM OFF... [collapses in a prophetic swoon as the audience erupts in thunderous applause]

Howard Beale, Network (1976)

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

That movie was so very prescient. This -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuBe93FMiJc

You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it!! Is that clear?! You think you've merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case. The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance!

You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels.

It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU WILL ATONE!

Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?

You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.

What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state -- Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do.

We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality -- one vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused.

And I have chosen you, Mr. Beale, to preach this evangel.

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[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Ah shit that's unfortunate. Better luck next time, demon.

[–] SarcasticMan@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

I bet he tried to fuck one of those dogs and this is his excuse. "Oh no honey I didn't try to fuck the dog again...it was...democr...no wait...demons...yeah it was a demon gang bang and I beat them off."

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 15 points 1 week ago

"I swear, babe! I didn't cheat! It was a demon!"

[–] srasmus@midwest.social 14 points 1 week ago

I can't believe this isn't an onion article.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

tl;dr: Comrade Carlson doesn't think he's getting enough attention lately.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The idea that a demon (or even better, Satan himself) would waste their time scratching random people or possessing them just to make them float over their bed or vomit pea soup has always been amusing to me. That's a super weak "ultimate evil" your religion has, Christians.

[–] whostosay@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

If they really wanted to be scary they would amass 99.9% of the worlds wealth amongst 1% of the population and horde it all while killing the planet and bribing politicians in a vein attempt at being happier.

[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago

Or maybe he forgot to take off his Freddy Kruger hallowe'en costume before jerking off to gay porn.

[–] goffy59@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I bet this was said to cover for crimes he may have committed as christisn judges will definitely see it as a legit defense. Or he is fucking stupid.

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[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

"You don't belong here Tucker, you have to come back home"

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

That's called a dream, guy.

[–] ATDA@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Oh is this it, are we inches from rock bottom? Losing it and or lying more desperately for attention?

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Carlson trying to scapegoat Lucifer after his underaged boyfriend got a little carried away.

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[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago
[–] ptz@dubvee.org 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Genuine demonic encounter or Ambien, plus or minus alcohol, and pissing off the cat? Just asking questions, Tucker!

[–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Well, he did say he was sleeping in bed with his four dogs so I can think of at least four different places he could have got the claw marks.

[–] Intergalactic@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Bro is taking too much Ketamine

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

sleep paralysis episode and then kicked by a dog in its sleep? Or just lying to appeal to his audience?

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