Honest Tribesmen : The Fracturing of Conservatives over Israel
Posted: 05 Nov 2025 08:40
I'm following this Nick Fuentes, Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson feud. It creates big ripples. Matt Walsh and Mygan Kelly don't want conservatives to eat each other and rather fight and focus on their common enemy: leftwing progressives who celebrated the murder of Charlie Kirk.
This whole thing to me again proves we all are tribal apes to the core first, and when an ideology, religious or otherwise, is added to the mix, we become even more tribal.
Tucker Carlson to me has become the archetypical honest idiot. He claims to only care about "the USA" but there his idiocy already starts. He doesn't. He cares about a certain type of USA and only a fraction of all Americans. Fair enough he also wants to know what happens with all tax payer money especially when comes to foreign policy, but then he is unable to make much sense of the bigger world and prouds himself talking to any or all goofs like Putin or Nick Fuentes, with this innocent kinda "I don't know, I just like to understand things better and want to hear your side of it" ignoramus look on his face.
But Tucky is honest: he doesn't care enough about Israel to agree with all the money and military support Israel gets from the USA. Helping Israel does not serve any American interest in his view. Not his interest he means.
Tucker does not realize he is not the USA, that there are many Americans that do care about Israel for their own reasons, from what he calls Christian Zionists to of course many American Jews with a more emotional and tribal connection with it and the Holocaust still fresh in memory. They are also Mericans.
Tucker is just an honest ignoramus tribesman and as selfish as the rest of us - Israeli and Jewish conservative tribesmen like Ben Shapiro included.
Every USA tribe, also the Progressive Leftonians, wants the entire USA be more like them, i.e. dominate the territory and love to speak in the name of "the USA" and what "its best interests are".
More than a fracturing of the democrat left and conservative right, it is the tribal ape that again makes itself known, proudly manifesting in Tucker snd Shapiro alike, its truth in the shadows of culture wars, fights over ideology and religion that have too long try make ape look bad, deem inferior, primitive. Proud ape no longer accept it.
Ape feels forced to look like holy man in sort of reversed halloween show or circus act. Ape facts and feelings ignored by pretentious Shapiro who claims to be man ape of fact not feelings. Tucker ape rightly angry. Fact is: Tucker no feeling for Israeli apes. Fact is: Israeli ape no feeling for Gaza ape. Fact is: Gaza ape no feeling for Jewish ape. Fuentes ape kid clearly, Tucker almost there. Shapiro long way to go, stuck in frontal lobe principles.
USA too big for ape tribes in one.
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A sanitized Ape GPT version for fun (and better english)
Rewritten Version
I’ve been following this feud between Nick Fuentes, Ben Shapiro, and Tucker Carlson. It’s creating real shockwaves. Meanwhile, people like Matt Walsh and Megyn Kelly are trying to prevent conservatives from devouring each other, urging them instead to focus on the shared enemy: the progressive left, especially those who openly celebrated the attempted murder of Charlie Kirk.
To me, this whole episode once again shows how deeply tribal we are. We are social primates first, and when ideology—religious or secular—is layered on top, the tribalism intensifies.
Tucker Carlson, in this context, has become the archetype of what I’d call the honest naïf. He insists he only cares about “America,” but this is where the confusion begins. He doesn’t care about America as a whole—he cares about a particular cultural and demographic version of it. That’s fine, but he presents it as if his vision is the universal American interest.
He is right, to an extent, to question how taxpayer money is used, especially regarding foreign policy. But then he positions himself as a neutral seeker of truth, proudly interviewing figures like Putin or Nick Fuentes with a kind of wide-eyed, “I’m just trying to understand all sides” innocence. It’s a strange combination of sincerity and obliviousness.
But Tucker is at least honest about one thing: he simply does not care about Israel. He rejects American support for Israel because he sees no benefit for the America he identifies with. In other words, his America. He doesn’t seem to recognize that millions of other Americans do feel a cultural, religious, historical, or emotional connection to Israel—from Christian Zionists to American Jews for whom the memory of the Holocaust is still living history. They are Americans too.
Tucker is, in this sense, a sincere but narrow tribal loyalist—just like Ben Shapiro, and just like Fuentes, though they represent different tribes. Each believes their tribe’s values reflect the “real America” and wants the country shaped in that image.
This isn’t just a left–right split. It’s the resurfacing of something more fundamental: the tribal primate mind. It appears in Carlson and Shapiro alike, and in the ideological battles they wage. Culture wars, religious identity, nationalism—these are just different masks the tribal instinct wears.
We’ve spent centuries pretending humans are rational, principled beings shaped by reason and universal values. Yet the ape underneath never went anywhere. Now it refuses to stay hidden.
The ape does not want to perform as a “holy man” in a cultural costume anymore. The ape wants its interests, its territory, its emotional loyalties acknowledged.
Tucker’s ape does not feel kinship with the Israeli ape.
The Israeli ape does not feel kinship with the Gazan ape.
The Gazan ape does not feel kinship with the Jewish ape.
Fuentes is a young ape trying to form his tribe.
Shapiro is an ape trying to defend his ancient one with rational language layered on top.
The United States may simply be too large and culturally diverse for all these tribes to live under one shared narrative of “us.”
The mask is cracking, and the ape is speaking again.
This whole thing to me again proves we all are tribal apes to the core first, and when an ideology, religious or otherwise, is added to the mix, we become even more tribal.
Tucker Carlson to me has become the archetypical honest idiot. He claims to only care about "the USA" but there his idiocy already starts. He doesn't. He cares about a certain type of USA and only a fraction of all Americans. Fair enough he also wants to know what happens with all tax payer money especially when comes to foreign policy, but then he is unable to make much sense of the bigger world and prouds himself talking to any or all goofs like Putin or Nick Fuentes, with this innocent kinda "I don't know, I just like to understand things better and want to hear your side of it" ignoramus look on his face.
But Tucky is honest: he doesn't care enough about Israel to agree with all the money and military support Israel gets from the USA. Helping Israel does not serve any American interest in his view. Not his interest he means.
Tucker does not realize he is not the USA, that there are many Americans that do care about Israel for their own reasons, from what he calls Christian Zionists to of course many American Jews with a more emotional and tribal connection with it and the Holocaust still fresh in memory. They are also Mericans.
Tucker is just an honest ignoramus tribesman and as selfish as the rest of us - Israeli and Jewish conservative tribesmen like Ben Shapiro included.
Every USA tribe, also the Progressive Leftonians, wants the entire USA be more like them, i.e. dominate the territory and love to speak in the name of "the USA" and what "its best interests are".
More than a fracturing of the democrat left and conservative right, it is the tribal ape that again makes itself known, proudly manifesting in Tucker snd Shapiro alike, its truth in the shadows of culture wars, fights over ideology and religion that have too long try make ape look bad, deem inferior, primitive. Proud ape no longer accept it.
Ape feels forced to look like holy man in sort of reversed halloween show or circus act. Ape facts and feelings ignored by pretentious Shapiro who claims to be man ape of fact not feelings. Tucker ape rightly angry. Fact is: Tucker no feeling for Israeli apes. Fact is: Israeli ape no feeling for Gaza ape. Fact is: Gaza ape no feeling for Jewish ape. Fuentes ape kid clearly, Tucker almost there. Shapiro long way to go, stuck in frontal lobe principles.
USA too big for ape tribes in one.
__________
A sanitized Ape GPT version for fun (and better english)
Rewritten Version
I’ve been following this feud between Nick Fuentes, Ben Shapiro, and Tucker Carlson. It’s creating real shockwaves. Meanwhile, people like Matt Walsh and Megyn Kelly are trying to prevent conservatives from devouring each other, urging them instead to focus on the shared enemy: the progressive left, especially those who openly celebrated the attempted murder of Charlie Kirk.
To me, this whole episode once again shows how deeply tribal we are. We are social primates first, and when ideology—religious or secular—is layered on top, the tribalism intensifies.
Tucker Carlson, in this context, has become the archetype of what I’d call the honest naïf. He insists he only cares about “America,” but this is where the confusion begins. He doesn’t care about America as a whole—he cares about a particular cultural and demographic version of it. That’s fine, but he presents it as if his vision is the universal American interest.
He is right, to an extent, to question how taxpayer money is used, especially regarding foreign policy. But then he positions himself as a neutral seeker of truth, proudly interviewing figures like Putin or Nick Fuentes with a kind of wide-eyed, “I’m just trying to understand all sides” innocence. It’s a strange combination of sincerity and obliviousness.
But Tucker is at least honest about one thing: he simply does not care about Israel. He rejects American support for Israel because he sees no benefit for the America he identifies with. In other words, his America. He doesn’t seem to recognize that millions of other Americans do feel a cultural, religious, historical, or emotional connection to Israel—from Christian Zionists to American Jews for whom the memory of the Holocaust is still living history. They are Americans too.
Tucker is, in this sense, a sincere but narrow tribal loyalist—just like Ben Shapiro, and just like Fuentes, though they represent different tribes. Each believes their tribe’s values reflect the “real America” and wants the country shaped in that image.
This isn’t just a left–right split. It’s the resurfacing of something more fundamental: the tribal primate mind. It appears in Carlson and Shapiro alike, and in the ideological battles they wage. Culture wars, religious identity, nationalism—these are just different masks the tribal instinct wears.
We’ve spent centuries pretending humans are rational, principled beings shaped by reason and universal values. Yet the ape underneath never went anywhere. Now it refuses to stay hidden.
The ape does not want to perform as a “holy man” in a cultural costume anymore. The ape wants its interests, its territory, its emotional loyalties acknowledged.
Tucker’s ape does not feel kinship with the Israeli ape.
The Israeli ape does not feel kinship with the Gazan ape.
The Gazan ape does not feel kinship with the Jewish ape.
Fuentes is a young ape trying to form his tribe.
Shapiro is an ape trying to defend his ancient one with rational language layered on top.
The United States may simply be too large and culturally diverse for all these tribes to live under one shared narrative of “us.”
The mask is cracking, and the ape is speaking again.