Tucker Carlson released a small statement on Twitter seventeen hours ago, and so far 17.7 million people have watched it.
With 77,000 comments under one two minute video it is the World’s Public Town Square.
And it’s a great speech:
“One thing you realize when you step outside the noise for a few days is how genuinely nice most people are…”
“The other thing you notice is how unbelievably stupid most of the debates you see on television are… they are completely irrelevant… and yet at the same time the undeniably big topics, the ones that will define our future… get virtually no discussion at all: war, civil liberties, emerging science, demographic change, natural resources… when was the last time we heard a legitimate debate about any those topics?
Debates like that are not permitted. Both political parties and their donors have reached consensus on what benefits them, and they actively collude to shut down conversation.
Suddenly the United States looks very much like a one party state.”
“That’s a depressing realization… but it won’t last. This moment is too inherently ridiculous to last, so it won’t. The people in charge know this — that’s is why they are hysterical.”
“When honest people say what’s true, calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful”.
Good evening pic.twitter.com/SPrsYKWKCE
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) April 27, 2023
(Which views? Twitter lists views of the video inside the video, and views of the Tweet underneath. There have been 55 million views of the Tweet and 16 million views of the video.)
Did I mention Tucker’s firing would be great for Twitter? Naturally Elon Musk promptly welcomed Tucker Carlson. But the bigger question in this era of Establishment lawfare is who will pay the legal bills if Tucker launches a new show and the Witch-hunters come hunting, as they surely will?
The legal threat from the British Watchdog Ofcom took Mark Steyn off the air when the management at GB News announced he personally would have to be liable for any Ofcom fines, as if any commentator could afford that. When defamation cases cost $787 million, and the punishments apply only to those who question the narrative, there is no free speech unless you are a Central Banker.
Surely Tucker will now get a bigger audience than he ever did on cable?
However, Twitter is all very well but presumably he needs an Internet platform so he can continue to carry out visual interviews and reach a worldwide audience. Good luck to him. Presumably those that deposed him will be anxiously waiting and watching to see what he does next.
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The Streisand Effect, on steroids.
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What’s Twitter if its not an Internet platform with a worldwide audience?
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It has serious limitations and you need to be signed up to access much of it. A web site with all the add ons is likely to better replicate cable.
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16 million on Twitter.
3 million on Fox.
I reckon even a statistician would concede that’s a significant difference.
Cheers
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“when honest people .. say what’s true, they become powerful.”
Or, maybe, dead. That’s the price of freedom.
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I have heard it suggested that Tucker may make a new show to be delivered via Twitter as Elon wants to expand the scope of his free speech platform to include more lengthy video material. At the moment the maximum video length is 2min20sec.
And if the Left try and disconnect the Twitter servers from the Internet, he also owns Starlink so will be able to deliver free speech directly from orbit to your device.
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At least until the next update of your device.
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True Dave. I think Apple already threatened not to allow Twitter when Elon allowed free speech.
In that case a work-around will be to use only devices with Open Source operating systems like Linux or de-Googlefied devices such as offered by Rob Braxman.
(See https://youtube.com/@robbraxmantech )
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Nice, David.
Thx!
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New job offer for tucker?
https://slaynews.com/news/tucker-carlson-gets-job-offer-with-salary-higher-than-he-was-making-at-fox-news/
But he may prefer to develop his own website
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I wonder if a condition of Tucker’s “separation” is that he’s not allowed to work elsewhere for a period of time, at least until after the next US Presidential election? Note that Fox is paying out the remainder of Tucker’s contract so perhaps he will still be deemed to be under contract until the end of the contract period.
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So in other words tucker has been deliberately silenced? If he speaks up he will be in breach of contract as he is still being paid by Murdoch
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There appears to be a LOT of that about.
“Lawfare” is one term for it.
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“So in other words tucker has been deliberately silenced?
`As a recent article in The Australian noted, one reason why Carlson was sacked was because of the language he used when referring to senior managed. So, yes, he has been deliberately silenced
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Sure Ian. Whatever you need to believe. Fox axed their top rating man because billionaires have thin skins. All the journalists who silenced people or said the vaccines are safe and effective and Hunters laptop is Russian Disinfo — they don’t even need to correct those fails.
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Tucker was great in many ways and his show unmissable..with more courage than anyone else on the networks..but do you honestly think FOX could allow him to continue relentlessly to try to force an end to the Ukraine war in Russia’s favor…the abandonment of a hard-won democracy to the new axis of evil?
I think FoxNews’ licence to broadcast would have been threatened…and that would be disastrous for the whole world.
As far as I saw he provided no proof that America induced Putin to invade and no proof of the extreme corruption he attributed to Zelensky and his wife and the country of Ukraine …although it certainly has had very corrupt leaders in the past.
If anyone knows of him supporting those opinions with compelling facts I would like to hear them.
I certainly think this US Biden regime is capable of anything & everything nefarious…and the Democrat party would literally stop at nothing to get and keep power in a way we’ve never seen before…but we needed Tucker to back those particular allegations with facts.
IMO the CO2-induced CAGW hoax and the Left’s success in dumbing down the populations of the democracies to be sucked in by it and ask no questions…and the almost complete takeover of MSM to ensure the lies are embedded… is behind all of the mayhem and dysfunction in the world right now and will be the instrument used by the Marxist Left to precipitate WW3.
There should be a non-stop barrage of questions to all leaders….every journalist,pundit and scientist…every net zero politician everywhere every day re proof and plausibility and malevolent disconnect and the perilous unsustainability of flogging fiction as fact to whole generations of Western populations.
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I suspect you are correct David. Tucker will sit on a yacht collecting 20 mil a year with a sign hanging from the yardarm stating .
J6 footage buried here.
Dig at the risk of a lifetime of litigation.
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G’day D M,
Seems to me he wasn’t given enough notice to have signed any separation agreement ??
Cheers
Dave B
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Tucker was SACKED, it was not a negotiated parting, so I doubt he would have any accepted terms. Any non-compete clause in his contract would only have barred joining the competition. Is twitter “competition”?
IMHO
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He is not necessarily sacked. He has no show and is not allowed on air!
The conditions of his current contract likely apply.
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Industry insiders all use the word “sacked” and all accept non-compete clauses as standard. Maybe you have a different definition.
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I don’t know how it works in America but in the UK, and here in Oz I think, such clauses are forbidden because they inhibit a person’s ability to make a living. They were a thing many years ago but, if I remember correctly, they were banned in the UK as far back as the 80s.
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No argument with your core points, but you’d imagine TC’s millions in the bank plus his $60m payout might allow him a few months of easy living.
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Absolutely, but how much money a person has in absolute terms isn’t a great measure of ‘well being’.
I recall a holiday to the South of France, back in the 80s. We of course went to several well-known towns along the Côte d’Azur, starting at the rather chic Bandol, near our holiday rental. The marina had a range of boats parked, including 60-80ft fancies.
During our stay we went East, visiting St. Tropez (ick), Cannes and on to Monaco. As we went, the smallest boats allowed in the marina grew larger, and so did the largest. Eventually, those that occupied pole position in Bandol became tenders in Monte Carlo. The folks who felt on top of the world in Bandol were now the plebs. The smell of money and wealth in Monte Carlo is overpowering, and a hierarchy is VERY obvious.
What I’m trying to demonstrate is that wealth is both attractive, and a trap. Whilst I can only dream of having millions in the bank (and imagine how comfortable I would feel), the reality is that the folks with $10M in the bank go to the same parties as those with $100M. They might own a 100ft yacht, but they don’t want to park it alongside that bloke with the 200ft blingy boat, because then THEY are the plebs.
And this game of Top Trumps happens all the way up to billionaires. Each of them individually might have ridiculous wealth compared to you and me, but the fact is that they DON’T compare themselves to you and me. They measure their social status against those they mix with at the casino, gala or social event – and there is almost always somebody there who is wealthier than them. Consequently, in at least one way, they’re no happier than the rest of us. Some of us might grumble because we ‘only’ have an Audi when our neighbour has a Lexus, but the filthy rich have the same problem. This is why Bugatti, Ferrari, Koenigsegg, and Rimac exist – to p*ss on the fireworks of mere Ferrari and Porsche owners. Plebs!
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And looking the other way there is always some poor individual worse off than you are. As is often said I’d like to meet that person because I could do with a good laugh.
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Like him or not, without Twitter and Elon Musk, the worldwide takeover by the Left would be complete by now.
There would be no major free speech platform, Jo’s blog and a few others excluded plus video platforms Rumble, Bitchute and NewTube, although none of these have the mass reach of the Left-controlled anti-free-speech platforms.
However, most people, present company excepted, have no clue of the diverse range of opinions they are not allowed to hear on the Legacy or Social(ist) Media platforms. They mostly exist in a state of ignorant bliss, just like the Proles in Nineteen Eighty Four.
In Nineteen Eighty Four, the Proles are unaware of the Party’s oppression or the world’s problems and spend most of their non-working time being “entertained” by soap operas, sports and a single channel of “news” on the Telescreen. Sound familiar?
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The only thing the moguls fear is the loss of fortune and that can happen as people spend their hard earned more judicially. Liddell milk and Coon cheese lost shelf space as people objected to Saputo caving to the one complainant who said Coon cheese was racist. Kellogs and Gillette both lost sales after going woke. Since money is the be all and end all for the rich and temporarily famous when it is taken away they lose. The silent majority still has power.
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I am looking at a well organized shift to centralized control and supply with an ability to restrict these basic necessities. Look what appears to be happening to the Chinese population. They are most likely just the serfs exploited to build useless consumer goods such as Musk’s Teslas. Goods that flood our markets destroying what remains of manufacturing with a greater accuracy & certainty than efforts of a Bomber Command.
Naomi Wolfe’s opinion is Australia, Canada and New Zealand’s populations have lost all hope at defending themselves from what may be a similar outcome to what appears to be happening to the Chinese people. We can keep clicking on Tweets about Carlson and ignore the fact our children have an education level a slave would sneer at. They have the skills to be a servant and as servants they will receive the income of a servant.
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The climate change scam is going to require centralized control anyway…coercion…control and rationing of everything …not just electricity…internet…travel…everything….yet so many people don’t want to even think about it…just want to put up their solar panels and feel good about it ..for now.
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I read an article yesterday that said the impact on Coon/Cheers sales was zero. Market share has been maintained. They saw spending heaps rebranding for no increase in sales as a big success.
While disappointing the Coon change was not really in the same insulting league as Gillette and Bud Light and Nike and Maybelline and Coke.
I should thank Gillette though for reintroducing me to the world of old school dual edge razors. Never gone back to their products after that bit of genius.
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I read there was a drop.??!
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Aussie population don’t have the collective cahoonas to make a boycott like this stick – too comfortable, too lucky and too lazy to think about tomorrow…
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Serious question – is the market share of coon/cheers significant at all? I can’t remember seeing either of them for a long time.
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The standard soft cheese was $8/k before the war and has increased at least $2 since. Cheers is still at least $2 more expensive.
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That wont help sales.
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Thing I find really funny about this brand name change…
… is that “Cheer” sounds like something the Chinese might name a cheap China-produced cheese for export. 🙂
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“Roy Morgan Research poll manager Julian McCrann said around 12 per cent of Australians were buying Coon cheese in 2018-19, or about one in eight.
“With the name change to Cheer cheese which was rolled out in mid-2021 we saw an initial spike for Cheer cheese just after it launched (and there was a heavy advertising campaign), however over the last 18 months or so this has dropped to around 7 per cent of Australians who now say they buy Cheer cheese in an average four weeks,” he said.”
That looks like a bit of a drop to me.
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It’s too bad the Left were too stupid to understand that the cheese was named after the inventor Edward William Coon and his patented cheese maturation process.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US1579196A/en?inventor=Coon+Edward+William
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Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
– Buddha
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So which platforms are safe from lawfare for free speech?
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This one.
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For now.
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Except of course that the autothingy regularly does its thing if things get a bit thingy.
And our esteemed host occasionally feels obliged by law to get a bit thingy if things get a bit thingy.
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Our host is very tolerant of us and our opinions.
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Nowhere is safe from lawfare should they choose to launch it, including here. The protection here is via the moderators stopping us from shooting ourselves (and them) in the foot.
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I noticed that in his list of ‘big topics that get no discussion at all’ Tucker did not include Climate Change. Only the most important issue facing the world today. Just too difficult or am I missing something . .
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The important issue there is not climate change, it is the climate change scare campaign.
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Climate changes slowly, but Tucker is undeniably on our side.
‘Carlson would preach regularly to his nightly audience of more than 3 million viewers about how concerns over climate change were like a religion, and that “the entire theory [of human-caused climate] is absurd”.
‘In 2020 with fierce wildfires burning in the country’s west, Carlson rejected links between the fires and global heating, saying that to Democrats “climate change is like systemic racism in the sky. You can’t see it, but rest assured it’s everywhere and it’s deadly.” (Guardian)
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He did mention evolving science (or something similar) A catch all bucket that could encompass climate change. I think he gave it the attention it deserves and in keeping with real public surveys.
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I for one will continue to watch Tucker whatever platform he ends up using.
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“Suddenly the United States looks very much like a one party state.”
This is Australia and ALL its States.
And 97% of Australians do not realise this.
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We can only hope that Tucker can have his say freely on Twitter or wherever, but if it does happen he must speak out about the so called CC BS and FRAUD.
Of course he must also rip into the TOXIC EV lunacy and the TOXIC W & S idiocy as well.
If this doesn’t come to pass I think we’ll all know why. Anyway I’ll believe it when I see it.
Of course there are many genuine scientists who are willing to speak out about the OECD mitigation madness and other crazy ideas.
So far China has been able to emit co2 for decades with no penalties at all and OECD countries should now be treated the same. IOW no more left wing favouritism anymore.
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The main theatre of interest for me is what is going on in the Ukraine. The Climate Change issues will play out in front of us.
The whole Ukraine business smells like a sewer of rotting corruption going back years. Why does the US have biological xperiimmental labs there? Why is it doing nuclear energy research there? Why has it been a hub of corruption for years and years and attracting the political scumbags it has? I’d say there’s been problems there since the breakup of the Soviet Union at least.
I think the battle is between two crime empires – Putins oligarchs and the US military/industrial complex – with the long suffering Ukrainian and Russian populations being the pitiful collateral deaths and sufferers.
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Listen to anything with Col Douglas Macgregor talking about Ukraine. eg “Judging Freedom” with Judge Neopolitano.
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As of about one hour ago that figure is 42 million views, so still more than keeping up with the rate mentioned in Jo’s headline.
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Some commentors above suggested that Tucker was silent about “climate change”.
Well, the Loony Left certainly thought of him as a “climate change denier” (sic). Surely a mark of pride for the thinking person?
SEE LINK FOR REST
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Seems like I was wrong about Tucker,that’s good because I liked him . .
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It’s a pretty safe bet that the truth is the the exact opposite of what The Guardian opines.
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Not a one party America, it’s just absorption into the One World Global state.
The Western nation states had to be brought under control to organize the Axis.
They are not just being dumb with Get Woke Go Broke.
Just a diversionary tactic.
They don’t care what we think.
Don’t need a sales pitch once you control what people buy.
Ex. POTUS Brandon makes zero attempt to appeal to the middle of the political spectrum.
Corpos across the board choose weird politics over business.
Not sure what it is, but sumpin’s up.
Possible it is simply the mass formation of the climate cult.
Sort of a slow rolling Western culture Jonestown.
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Just think about the following proposition:
It must be more profitable for Fox to sack/fire their greatest and most popular star than to keep him.
What are they doing instead that could possibly be more profitable for them than Tucker?
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Not profitable at this time David. Tucker’s time slot was 3+ million viewers last week, now it’s 1+ million this week. A drop of almost 2/3rds
Ouch!
<a href="https://dcenquirer.com/fox-news-sees-ratings-nightmare-tucker-carlsons-former-slot-sees-over-two-million-viewers-tune-out/?utm_source=89381"
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Morphing into CNN
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Fox appears to be trying out Brian Kilmeade currently. He’s probably the closest quality to Tucker they’ve
been assessing. If so, Brian is pretty direct, no global warmer proselytiser. His main problem would be he is
a workaholic and burning out might claim him. Tucker is hard to replace because his presentation is so good. He’s
always cool on air. Brian tends to be in a hurry and not quite as organised and articulate.
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Selling Fox News back to Disney perhaps?
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Kissinger said Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac, and this is a power game. Media is far more useful as a tool in the power game than a profit centre.
Murdoch is using his power to stop Trump.
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Free Speech, but nothing changes?
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About the only thing Australia has done correctly regarding pharmaceutical products is to restrict their advertising on MSM. Whereas, it would appear from way down here in Australia, its seems to be a free -for-all in terms of pharma advertising and sponsorship of media in the US. That’s what also happened to Carlson because he dare question the validity of COVID vaccines. So big executive in Pharma talked to big executive in FOX ( or Blackrock ) and said it’s either Carlson or the big $ from our advertising – you cant have it both ways. So, again use the rule ” follow the money”, applies. There are people too big to censor, thankfully. The list includes Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, Jordan Peterson, Mark Steyn and a few others. They have too big a following and financial independence to be completely rubbed out. If you’re on social media you should follow all these people. If not on social media, maybe fire up an account and follow them. These few that I mentioned, plus JoNova ( of course ) have been the only real truth tellers in the past 3 years.
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There is still the elephant in the room.
What did the deep state blackmail the Murdochs with to get them to sack Tucker?
Maybe they threatened endless tax audits and other harrassments that would see Rupert spend all his last years in court. If they can (and have) done this lawfare to Trump then my bet is the deep states threats to the Murdochs just got too heavy.
The Murdochs only have one loyalty and love -money. So to get them to sack their cash cow the threats must have been serious and from the very top of the machine.
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The issue is that FOX is dependent on ad revenue, and 75% of funding for news and political comment shows comes from Big Harma. Tucker dared to criticise the experimental gene jabs. His show was the highest rated cable news and current affairs show, but the value to FOX (in their myopic eyes) was less than the blood money they are getting from airing ads for prescription only harmacuticals.
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Sadly, it’s so much worse than that. Tucker was cutting away at the very towers of power. He was giving a voice to those that threaten the highest levels, people like Trump, Elon Musk, Kennedy Jnr, and asking whether J6 was a set up (eg Ray Epps), or whether The FBI and crime families run the country (except for the parts that the CCP appears to control). These agencies read your private messages, and arrange letters from 50 former CIA guys calling the Hunter Biden Laptop story “Russian Disinfo” three weeks before an election. BlackRock own a sizable part of Fox, and Dominion, and Pfizer. The nest of corruption here is so much bigger than Big Pharma.
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No argument, but to add a specific point:TC will have made enemies also of the military/defence industries via his criticism of the Ukraine war and US military policies more broadly.
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Only a little off topic but Miranda Devine in the NYP says:
If true how could Joe win another election honestly? How can they get truckloads of ballots into the system?
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Same way as last time! Scrutineers kicked out in the evening and trolley loads of ‘fresh votes’ brought
in as shown realtime on camera. It’s amazing how the matter of the leaker has been dropped ie re the person
that eaves dropped the meeting of the Supreme Court Justices being harangued by the Head justice about the lunacy
it would be to hear the cases on election fraud due to the social disruption it would be guaranteed to bring down
on the nation. Nothing to see here! Of course not.
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I made the comment earlier today, on another site, and have said the same thing here a few times – the problem is MONEY. Every single one of the issues we are beset by is driven by money, a.k.a. greed. Money exerts way more influence on politicians individually, and governments more broadly, than pesky ‘elections’ and our votes.
This has always been the case of course. Human nature dictates this. If today the wealthy buy themselves influence at the highest levels, they’re just doing what wealthy barons and merchants have done for hundreds of years. Kings and queens of old were careful to keep the money men on side. As time passed, individual wealth was matched or exceeded by the early ‘corporations’ such as the East India Company, which in its heyday, dictated to monarchs. Money lenders too had real clout during medieval times, especially when kings fancied organising a new war.
What HAS changed though is the size of the problem. The wealth controlled by a few people and corporations these days is absolutely enormous, which of course means they have absolutely staggering influence and power. To make matters worse, in this brave new world, that money no longer has ties to a single nation or government. Globalism has untethered that wealth from nation states and political parties.
This combination of stupendous wealth (which equates to power) and supranational reach is just so powerful that even the American government must kow-tow to its demands.
So, while money is the issue and has been for hundreds of years, more recently the scale of the wealth involved, and its lack of national/social allegiance, has turned it into something altogether more problematic from a democratic point of view.
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Careful there. Money is just a measure, no more, no less.
You can’t eat money.
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O’Reilly was probably bigger than Tucker, and they sacked him. Maybe Murdock was sick of being the loyal opposition, and not being invited to the best parties?
Most people have the remote welded on. They’ll push the button. What else they gonna do?
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Don’t discount the influence of the younger Murdochs, including their wives. Rupert is on his last legs.
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O’Reilly was certainly physically bigger and he had a huge market share, but IMHO, no way did he command the heights of opinion leadership that TC has achieved.
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I think that’s the way O’Reilly trapped himself. An older bloke so convinced of his invincibility that he really condemned himself. Tucker doesn’t give the same impression of himself. He still has a good personal balance. That is why his interviews are so good. It’s not all about him. Time is on Tucker’s side. What is scarier is the fact the USA is 350m+ people, and the majority seem to have gone nuts. They seem to have no idea of what the future holds for themselves with wokism in control.
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If you want a good laugh. Watch the video or read the transcript then try to find CNN’s Alison Camarotta and two guest muppet’s reaction to it. It sure seems to be an alternative universe at CNN.
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None of the main stream media could bear to mention Tucker Carlson’s name until, apparently, he had been cancelled. Suddenly it is okay for these cowards to mention his apparent demise and so they suddenly appear from under their rocks to show their virtuous ways by trying to kick the guy when he is down only to find you can never keep a good guy down.
He will be back and I hope he gives the hypocrites hell with bells on.
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Sorry, I deleted this thought 🙂
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