Tucker is back...

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  1. popscott

    popscott Well-Known Member Donor

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    Trust me.... I do not have any problem at all of not turning on "the view"...
     
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    He is on Twitter, not TV.
     
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    From June 5 https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-retrieved-non-human-craft/

    Not saying this is real. I doubt it is. But it is a news story.

    The US really is involved with funding an ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia. We are not allied with Ukraine but have sent them $100 billion so far.
    Our involvement has made us poorer and in danger of nuclear annihilation. You need to believe in conspiracies to be against forever wars of choice that make us poorer and less safe? I don't think so.

    Glad to see Tucker in the news again.
     
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    Duh... being the OP says it...

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    Nothing liberals hate more than an intelligent conservative commentator who is willing to take them to task and slaughter all of their sacred cows.

    They absolutely hate anything like that.
     
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    Out of interest, why exactly? What makes his view on things any more relevant than anyone else's?
     
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    The same reason you and I are on this forum....."it is good to see what anyone's view on things are"
     
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    I was not responding to the OP, I was responding to what you said
     
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    Which war wasn't?

    We funded the bolsheviks in WW1, the Nazis in WW2, Pearl Harbor was left on stand down to get us into the war (which was arguably necessary, but still pretty scummy), Vietnam was predicated on a false flag and perpetuated for war profiteering, and since then pretty much everything we've been involved in was escalated by western intelligence services to institute corporate resource consolidation, international banking cooperation and regime change.

    Why would Ukraine be any different?
     
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    Tucker has gone full-on Obi Wan Kenobi: If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.

    As far as I can tell, this was Rupert Murdoch's master plan: 'I'm gonna let Tucker use my platform to become the most watched contrarian media figure in the hemisphere. Then I'll shitcan him. My platform's ratings & revenue will take it in the shorts, leaving Tucker free to say anything he wants with no corporate overlord to bitch slap him.’

    Some relevant fallout:
    • Carlson's opening salvo on Twitter has been seen 90 million times and counting: more than 20x his nightly audience at Fox.
    • Average age of the Fox News viewer: 68.5 years.
    • Only 17% of Twitter viewers are over the age of 50.
    • He now has an immensely larger audience on a much larger and more relevant platform.
    • His audience now includes the next generation of consumers, vs. the geriatrics watching a dying platform at Rupert's crib.
    Carlson now has the absolute freedom to throw haymakers at anyone he chooses, with a level of impunity he could never have imagined at Fox. And he's doing it in front of an audience that would never have given him the time of day with the Fox logo over his shoulder; enabling him to reach far beyond the boundaries of the cable news/Republican/Democrat paradigm - with 20x the audience to watch this fully armed and operational battle station.

    It’ll be interesting to see how genuine Musk’s commitment to free speech really is, and how long he’ll permit Carlson the impunity he now enjoys. Pop some corn, it should be fun.
     
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    Some very funny stuff about A.W Tuck's spew in this review.

    'Without Fox News, Tucker Carlson Takes Man Cave Rants to Twitter Show — to Smaller Results'

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    Last night, he began the Twitter phase of his lucrative career. Carlson was broadcasting from an undisclosed man cave of a studio — complete with unfinished wood and fishing rods that clashed with his preppy tie and blue blazer attire. It made him look like the country club money man wandering into a meeting of the Secret Society of Maladjusted Lunkheads who all loom right off-camera.

    He then provided his rote 10-minute grocery list of Greenwald-meets-Greene grievances. It’s not clear if the speech was preplanned or tied to the news of the destruction of the Kakhovka dam on the Dnieper River, but Carlson used the catastrophe as his gleeful jumping off point. It was less than 24 hours since the incident and Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy denounced the act as Russian terrorism.'

    Anyone who has ever watched Tucker knew where this was going. Carlson argued that it was likely — surprise! — a Ukraine terrorist operation. He said the largely held worldview that Zelenskyy was a courageous defender of his homeland was completely incorrect. Instead he is a “sweaty and rat-like comedian turn oligarch, a persecutor of Christians.” Not nice! Notice the drive-by quality of the “persecutor of Christians,” which is a classic Carlson fact-free zone created by, uh, Tucker Carlson.'

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    https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/tucker-carlson-twitter-show-review-1235636149/
     
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    Yeah I don't get, nor am I interested in the UFO bit. I hardly think he should have wasted time on the first episode of a 10 minute show on that sort of junk topic. That being said, I loved the rest of it.
     
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    I saw a little green man once.

    Down in Mexico.

    A midget drank some tainted tequila.
     
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    Its even better than that. Tucker used to be a liberal. And his views havn't changed all that much. Its just that liberals from 20 years ago who didn't radicalize are 'conservative' now.
     
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    Well to be sure we did get something a while back but no one knows exactly what it was and there was a good bit of controversy about it and no one has managed to translate it yet. If it is something that can be translated and isn't just some sort random space noise, it would probably read ".Call back when you children grow up"
     
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    uhhh ohhhh...
    episode 1 is at 113 million and growing..

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    Nice to know that Twitter(r) stands high on the list of sites for those who like to get a dose of conspiracy theories.

    Regards, stay safe 'n well.
     
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