Far-Left Podcaster Claims 'Many' Liberals Would Vote for Tucker Carlson Over AOC

[SocialDemocrat61]

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Far-Left Podcaster Claims ‘Many’ Liberals Would Vote for Tucker Carlson Over AOC
Sean James

Liberal commentator Briahna Joy Gray said she knows “many” fellow liberals who would rather vote for Tucker Carlson to be president than Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).

Gray shared that detail during the latest episode of her Bad Faith podcast on Thursday. She said that realization put her between a rock and a hard place because she would not recommend Democrats vote for either one of them.

“It’s crazy, I know many people on the left who would happily vote for Tucker Carlson before AOC,” Gray said. “I am frustrated by that dynamic because I don’t want Tucker Carlson to be president. I also can’t see myself damaging my own credibility by telling someone to vote for AOC. These options hurt us all.”

Gray expanded on her take, saying Carlson has said a lot of “bad stuff” in the past — and referred to his comments on which immigrants assimilate best in the U.S. — but said he could be “quite appealing” to voters following his recent “rebirth.”

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/far-left-podcaster-claims-many-204640645.html

For the record, I know of no real liberal who would ever vote for Carlson for anything. Also, I'm posting this for informational purposes only. I don't in anyway agree with or support Ms. Gray's position. But she is an influential voice and we should be aware of what is being said beyond this site. Thank you.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Who's paying her?

[SocialDemocrat61]

2. The real question is

who's paying for the drugs she's on? LOL

[Kid Berwyn]

3. Poisoning the AOC Well

She will have no problem attracting voters — liberal, conservative, Democratic, independent and Republican — and beat the little NAZI shitstick Tucker like the lying rug he and his plutocratic paymasters are.

[gab13by13]

4. This post is clearly a right wing talking point.

Comparing AOC with Tucker Carlson is flat out bullshit.

I hate when people say I know many, without any names.

I never alerted in my entire time at DU but this post is trying my patience.

[SocialDemocrat61]

11. So I should list all the liberals I know

who would never vote for Carlson? It's literally hundreds of people.

[Boo1]

5. Another snake in the grass

Brought to us by The Intercept and the Bernie Sanders campaign.

[awesomerwb1]

59. I was gonna say

Yet another Bernie Sanders person.

[Johonny]

6. Happily? Happily?

You're not a liberal if you would Happily vote for Tucker, who isn't the least bit liberal. He's a stupid racist prick.

[newdeal2]

7. The purity tests have already begun

The people who think like this don’t want to win. They just want to complain so they stay relevant.

[Cosmocat]

25. JFC

Like how did not voting for Gore, Kerry, Hill, Biden work out?

[SSJVegeta]

26. I mean... Biden won last time he ran fwiw

[Cosmocat]

42. I meant Kamala ...

was busy when I ripped that off.

[SSJVegeta]

45. Haha no worries

Welp I've got a sneaking suspicion that many are done drinking the anti DEI "both sides are the same" kool-aid for now.

🤞

[PatSeg]

40. Yes and it has gotten so tiresome

I hate purity tests and such tests have rarely, if ever, served us well. Voters need to grow up and realize they aren't voting for contestants on American Idol. Elections have very real consequences that can affect us for decades. They aren't (or shouldn't be) popularity contests.

[newdeal2]

44. Anyone who said that Kamala was no better than Trump

Should be called a LIAR to their faces. They lied and people are suffering all around the world as a consequence.

[JT45242]

56. Hear this all the time over the alliance with Israel from Gen Z people - because of support for Bibi

Until the democratic leadership steps up and demands that Bibi and other tops parts of the Israeli government and military are sent to the Hague for war crimes -- we will have problems getting out the vote with a substantial chunk of Gen Z.

They view both parties as guilty of this -- especially Dems in congressional leadership like Shumer and Jefferies.

I don't agree but have heard it from both sons 19/25 and a bunch of their friends who are generally liberal and support -- universal health care, student loan reform, etc.

But the war crimes of the Israeli givernment may be an albatross around the neck of the party.

Ideally, the war criminals on all fronts -- Israeli military, palestinian terrorists, Russians, Americans -- face justice. It really is a HUGE issue for Gen Z

[PatSeg]

62. I agree

The problem with Kamala was she was a woman of color and there are a whole lot of voters who just won't vote for a woman, no matter how qualified she is. Sadly, the U.S. has a "woman" problem. I really thought I would see a woman president in my lifetime. Guess not in this country or this lifetime.

Born a second class citizen and likely to die a second class citizen.

[Ocelot II]

8. Briahna Joy Gray voted for Jill Stein in 2016, refused to endorse Biden in 2020,

and got into a kerfuffle with AOC about supporting Pelosi.

[betsuni]

30. I missed her grudge against AOC: "Don't be like AOC and endorse genocide. Abandon Harris."

But I think she has a grudge against everyone.

[Intractable]

9. Does the opinion of this person matter?

[SocialDemocrat61]

13. Not to me or anyone here

But she does have a following so it is important to hear what BS she is putting out there.

[efhmc]

50. Not to me. I've never even heard of her.

[wnylib]

64. No. Not to me and not to "many" others.

[EarthFirst]

10. Lots of foreign media coverage on the discontent among Democrats...

…of which wild claims of which direction ‘many within the Democratic Party…” would rather traverse.

Sure, Jan…

[Oneironaut]

12. Oh my god people are so stupid.

This can’t be real. If people believe Tucker Carlson’s rebirth is actually authentic, then, they will believe anything. Literally anything.

This is the same type of thinking as people who believe Trump is “blue collar at heart and is fighting the deep state!” They have the IQ of a smooth rock.

[Biophilic]

47. Well we do know that some people will believe anything. Trump is president.

[kysrsoze]

14. A fine example of going so far to the left that you wind up on the right. What kind of "far-left" idiots...

would vote for Tucker Carlson?

[mcar]

51. Yep, the horseshoe curve

Where far left meets far right.

[leftstreet]

15. This person is not a "far left" podcaster n/t

[SocialDemocrat61]

16. She was Bernie Sanders' National Press Secretary

for the 2020 presidential campaign.

[leftstreet]

17. Sanders is not "far left" n/t

[SocialDemocrat61]

19. Never said he was

But she claims to be.

[SSJVegeta]

21. She stopped supporting sanders a long time ago

[SocialDemocrat61]

22. That's true

She also stopped supporting sanity. LOL

[SSJVegeta]

23. And vice versa

[MustLoveBeagles]

18. Hasn't she caused enough damage?

Retorical question.

[SSJVegeta]

20. Lol wut

[Quiet Em]

24. Her "many" is a handful of her like-minded group

I won't name them, but this handful also prefer

MTG to AOC

Trump to Hillary Clinton

Trump to Joe Biden

Trump to Kamala Harris

so their preferring Tucker Carlson to AOC is not surprising.

What is surprising is that anyone classifies this handful as left, liberal or progressive.

[SocialDemocrat61]

32. There are several on social media platforms

who claim to be far left but only attack democrats. Jill Stein, David Sirota, Peter Daou and Anthony Zenkus are some of them. They are chaos agents.

[Quiet Em]

36. Yup.

It's quite sad that people still fall for their shit.

[JI7]

27. Piece of shit bigoted attention whore is what she is. She should just speak for herself

but she still wants to try to pretend she is a liberal when she is pretty much a Tucker Carlson supporter. And hates Democrats.

[JBTaurus83]

28. I've been hearing a lot of this crap

If AOC isn’t far enough to the left for these people, they really don’t understand US politics at all.

[ck4829]

29. No, hard pass.

[orleans]

31. her "liberal commentator" license needs to be revoked

what a fucking idiot!

the "many people on the left" that she "knows" are obviously faux news freaks that loved carlson

btw none of the dems i know would vote for that asshole. ever.

[Melon]

33. I have never followed Tucker and know nothing of his last 5 years

Has he now become liberal? Is he actually support the left? I only remember him being a right stooge. I’m off to do research.

[UpInArms]

34. Never heard of her

So why would I care what she opines about?

[SocialDemocrat61]

35. Well she has almost half a million followers

and so what she says might have some influence.

[muriel_volestrangler]

43. On what platform?

I can find
92.6k Instagram
181k YouTube (the "Bad Faith" podcast)
5k substack

but she seems to have avoided a personal presence on TikTok, and if she's on Facebook, it doesn't seem to come up as much as when she appears on someone else's pages.

She doesn't get into mainstream news much - aside from this story, freebeacon.com (RW nutters) mentioned her in a story about "Mamdani's Communist Housing Czar" (said "Czar" appeared on "Bad Faith" in 2021), and that's it for this year in Google News.

DU doesn't seem to talk about her at all, these days. The site DuckDuckGo search turns up just this thread, and one from 2023 that was just kicked and now shows dozens of self-deletions by one DUer (god knows what they said - we can't see "Briahna" in it now anyway). Google finds this one mention of her (she's mentioned in passing) and that's it: https://www.democraticunderground.com/132172584

Who does she influence, these days?

[SocialDemocrat61]

46. X.com

Which tracks knowing the owner.

[muriel_volestrangler]

48. I don't BJG is influential on x.com

I don't think potential Democratic voters are spending much time on x.com now. She gets 50k views of her more popular own posts there (under 20k for the everyday ones); on this topic, she managed a bit over 100k, but then it does seem like it's a blatant attempt for visibility. I think the 500k may include people who followed her there years ago, but it's Musk's hellsite now, so they've left, and loads of bots (also because it's Musk's hellsite).

[SocialDemocrat61]

49. I hope people

now see her for what she is.

[WA-03 Democrat]

37. No thanks!

[SocialDemocrat61]

39. Well you're not welcome LOL

[dlk]

38. People will say anything for clicks and likes...

n/t

[RockRaven]

52. Oh look, a provocative statement by a career attention merchant is getting attention.

Wow.

[SocialDemocrat61]

54. I think you won the thread

Can't think of a more accurate description of her.

[Celerity]

74. In the UK we call them WUMs (wind-up merchants)

[purr-rat beauty]

53. A claim...an opinion...subjective

I highly doubt any informed liberal would sway towards that crackpot, maybe dimwitted independents?

[ananda]

55. Who is this person? Did she go so far right...

that it accidentally turned into whatever
was left?

[LoisB]

57. Who are these "many liberals"? Name one. Nobody asked me.

[SocialDemocrat61]

58. Exactly

I know no liberal who would ever vote for Carlson for anything other than the "biggest idiot in a bow tie" award.

[LoisB]

66. Yes!

[AZProgressive]

60. Maybe those that spend too much time online but not so much in real life

As far as Twitter I don't trust the motives of whatever narratives are going on there.

Not according to polls on real people. AOC recently led a primary poll from an accurate pollster so it shows whatever narratives are going on online it hasn't really made much of a dent in real life.

[DavidDvorkin]

61. What rebirth?

[MurrayDelph]

63. The only vote Tucker Carlson would win

is a Biggest Asshole Named "Tucker" contest.

[Torchlight]

65. Lotta different people claim a lotta different things

Unless or until they support their assertions with objective evidence, I'll continue to dismiss them as meritless, for-profit allegations designed only to increase division and further stuff bank accounts with imaginary decimal points.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

67. "She said that realization put her between a rock and a hard place..."

Luckily for her then, neither are running for president! Manufactured crisis, averted!

"...but said he could be 'quite appealing' to voters following his recent 'rebirth.'”

I don't think I need to be aware of anyone who thinks this way. Nope.

[betsuni]

70. Ah, the new "lesser of two evils."

[doc03]

68. Maybe not liberals but many moderates and

independants would.

[SocialDemocrat61]

69. Right leaning moderates

and conservatives I assume.

[pecosbob]

71. I gather she wrote for The Hill...that makes her out to be a manipulator and a liar to me.

[ecstatic]

72. umm ok. She is left adjacent but I don't think

that she and others in her realm are liberals/democrats/etc. They have a separate ideology that overlaps with us in a few areas. Anyone that would vote for tucker, trump, rfk OR vote in a way that enables trump, tucker, or another rightwing / confused clown, is NOT, and I repeat NOT a serious or reliable ally.

Thanks for keeping us posted but that is some really disturbing news, if true. After everything we've seen, this is their plan? To shoot the entire country in the foot again?

That said, I do not think AOC should be our nominee. How many times are we going to do the same thing and expect a different result? I'm not simply referring to how misogynist Americans are - I don't think AOC is ready or qualified yet. That's just my opinion. She's matured a lot during her time in office but there's more growing to do.

[AZProgressive]

73. I agree

The AOC hate from those that claim they're on the left mostly only exist on Twitter and started since Democrats won all 3 branches in 2020. Glenn Greenwald is another that exists in that space with Gray. As far as primary polls she is usually in the top 3 so it isn't widespread. She has done rallies and events all over the country the last 2 years and there hasn't been any hate at those events.

Here are a couple videos that better explain the hate on places like Twitter

I consider myself part of the left and I would vote for AOC if she if were in a primary like I voted for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 & 2020 primary.