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Apr 25, 2023·edited Apr 25, 2023Author

Larry Correia, elsewhere:

I am seeing a lot of people not really understanding today’s events in cable news. Ha ha. Tucker Carlson is such a loser. Big dummy got fired!

That shows a very boomer era understanding of media consumption and overestimation of the power of a traditional news channel.

He didn’t need Fox. The last I saw his contract there was something like cheap, which is chump change to a guy with a reliable audience in the millions every night.

Tucker Carlson is now going to go sign a Joe Rogan size contract on a streaming service. He will make the most money of any news broadcaster in history and probdbly do so by an insane margin.

Meanwhile Don Lemon is a relative non entity. He won’t bring much of an audience with him wherever he goes.

One of these two will get a pay cut. The other is going to make orders of magnitude more money, and has the investment potential to boost any media corporation he signs with into a very competitive sphere.

And I don’t even watch Fox News at all, nor do I care about Tucker Carlson. But if you are too blinded by goofy partisan point scoring to grasp the business implications of this, it’s a bad look, but it ain’t my problem.

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Exactly. Most of our current problems stem from a Boomer era understanding of most things. It's 1980s software in 2020s hardware.

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As the last year on the boomers - I have to agree

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I use 'Boomer' in a political sense. Not all Boomers are chronological Boomers. I think the problem is that... generations usually pass the baton. Our current crop refuses to do so. Biden versus Trump? One's 80 and the other isn't far off 80. Neither has a grasp of the problems we face.

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Oh, I like the way you think, Chris. We all have our personal preferences but you can focus way beyond yours, and then weigh up the significance. The elite are not good at this. And I am understating their weakness here.

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Apr 28, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

Exactly my immediate reaction: His agent calls Joe Rogan's guy at the podcast company and immediately secures a contract for twice Rogan's amount. Massive payday.

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I'd bet he goes on shows with large black audiences like Charlamagne and absolutely nukes the neoliberal establishment.

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Thank you. I've been depressed all day. I know it's stupid, but Tucker Carlson was the first news show I ever watched because, while I did disagree with him from time to time, he was the first conservative I came across that did not lick the boots of the Republican Party, corporations, and the war machine, and he identified the same fundamental problems I did. Granted, I had been living in a Democrat bubble for a while, but, god, he was so refreshing. He seemed sincere.

And Ryan Gardner on here has it right. He calls it the "suits"; I call it the Machine. But he was giving voice to a truth many of us peons have understood for a while now. R or D, there ain't any difference. They all see us as obstacles or resources, but feel no compunction to treat us as individuals worthy of their time and attention.

But the fence on that particular gate doesn't even go a few feet into the woods. It's a wide open field thanks to platforms like Substack and Rumble and the like, and all you have to do is step two feet to the side and you'll be by it. And the only ones who don't understand that quite yet are those who actually think getting Tucker off cable will save them.

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See what I mean, Chris? Our friend and glorious ally here, Lillia, has been spurred into deeper thought, just as have we all done, and this augers not well at all for the fools who sacked Ticker or their elite handlers. Likewise, Diane below, who stopped just short of saying Rupert Murdoch just shot himself in the foot. The noise of repression is waking us all up. All all realising this creates unity.

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You speak exactly for me. Thanks for sharing.

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He was hitting a little too close to home with the suits.

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Apr 25, 2023·edited Apr 25, 2023

In Tucker's speech at the Heritage Foundation this past weekend, he called out and named the evil going on in America today. And suggested people actually pray every day.

Ol' Scratch does not like be outed. Let's all pray against that evil, every single day.

Vaya con Dios, Tucker Carlson. Literally.

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Solid.

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Jimmy Dore yesterday covers Tucker’s ascendency to his “downfall” beautifully. Really worth a look.

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What a perfect metaphor. And I LOVE the guy at the gate who "absolutely didn't" tell you how to circumvent it. Those are the quiet rebels who bring it all crashing down. Here's to all of them/us/you.

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Apr 25, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

Well, we don’t know if he was fired or whether he quit, but Tucker has a lot to say and anyone who thinks he’s done saying it isn’t paying attention. Listen to his Heritage Foundation talk earlier this week and you’ll know there’s more Tucker to come. The only question is where he will land.

I never watched FNC, but always watched Tucker. I subscribed to Fox Nation but only to see Tucker’s pieces. That subscription got canceled today within minutes of hearing the news. I suspect there might have been a few others who felt that way.

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I canceled mine.

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Me too. Cancelled.

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I canceled mine right when the story broke.

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Same. Canceled 2 hours after news broke

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Fox is dead. Unless your a RINO and can stomach watching Pawn Vanity. Tucker was only reason most watched, and when I found his show re-airs on rumble I stopped watching Fox all together.

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Rumble and platforms like it are the future

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Canceled mine

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Apr 25, 2023·edited Apr 25, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

Yeah, they canceled Tucker. Meaning, now when he goes to an independent platform or creates his own and takes his sizeable audience with him, he won't have to toe the corporate line anymore. Meaning no leash, no muzzle, no carrot, and no stick. So they set him free to broadcast the truth even more loudly and explicitly than before. The ruling class would be dangerous if they could be as cunning and competent as they are evil. Fortunately for us, they are buffoons.

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If I can add to those sharp observations, Daniel, Tucker is now even more motivated and angry as hell. Ooooh, now ain't that a quote that will come back to bite Hollywood.

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It’s not just that, he will be able to have a long form format, not tied to quick segments and then a commercial. I don’t feel like the suits at Fox had much editorial license over him, he seemed pretty much unfiltered. My suspicion is they wanted more editorial license, fearing the tyrannical dems in power and he told them to kick rocks. I’ve been watching his show as a re-air on rumble for awhile now, it’s 40 mins with no ads. Oddly, his shows only show like 2-3k views when I watch, I don’t think people realize he’s on there. Crowder gets over a million on his rumble, bonigno 700k-a million usually. Carson has at least 100+ million contract waiting for him at the blaze or daily wire if he wants it...if he goes on his own it could be alot more..

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“Long form”, excellent.

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Apr 25, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

You are a bright light Chris Bray. Thank you for this post.

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I love that picture of the gate. Yeah, Tucker can be the next Joe Rogan, only in a repp tie. Rogan has 100,000,000 followers. Not a typo. Tucker, the star of the top cable news show ever, had around 4.3 million on Fox. Tucker will do fine. And they are going to honor the rest of his contract. I don’t really know what Tucker’s actual politics are, but he has been a loud megaphone for freedom and traditional values.

Why the firing- Ray Epps? dominion? Some other insult to the corporate media losers? All the above? Doesn’t matter. Fox is the loser here. They are saying to marketing gurus at Bud Lite - “ You think you know how to destroy a brand? Hold my commemorative transsexual beer can.” Corporate suicide - they fired Bongino last week and other people prinevto telling the truth before that. Who do they keep?

Corporate mediocrities like Brett “My face is frozen with Botox”. Baer. They’re desperate to put the free speech genie back in the bottle. You can smell it. I know the Left is celebrating. But this will make Tucker stronger. Smells Iike we are winning.

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I really think his monologue on Big Pharma and the MSM was the final straw.

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Apr 25, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

It is serendipitous that I cancelled my cable subscription a few months ago, which I was keeping only for Tucker. Fox will fade into the rest.

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Apr 25, 2023·edited Apr 25, 2023

My greatest regret about Tucker Carlson's departure from Fox is that Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Wolf, Michael Shellenberger, Harmeet Dhillon, Tulsi Gabbard, among many others, have lost an outlet where they can reach a big audience while speaking truth to power.

Assuming Tucker doesn't decide to pack it in (and I wouldn't blame him if he did), he'll definitely have a huge following, but that following is likely to be less diverse. The libertarians and left-leaning patriots who appeared on Tucker's show were an amplifier of sanity to the centrist part of Fox's audience.

Unfortunately, I fear that amplifier is now greatly diminished. Fox is being absorbed into the blob that is the uniparty.

"All necessities provided. All anxieties tranqualized. All boredom amused."

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Apr 25, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

Very good point. However, the departure might be a jolt to the complacent. A large fraction of Tucker’s audience might seek him out, and thus discover alternative news sources of which they were ignorant. Possibly (not probably), this leads to the evaporation of MSM, if Tucker’s departure compromises critical mass. You might think this only applies to Fox, but there could be a Tsunami effect.

Wan hope, I know.

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The MSM seems to be evaporating already, but we'll see.

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Apr 25, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

In other subs, I have been reminded that cable “carriage fees” can sustain a network independent of interested viewers.

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Rich, you make a fine, insightful point with “The libertarians and left-leaning patriots who appeared on Tucker's show were an amplifier of sanity to the centrist part of Fox's audience”. Beautifully said. That is a great loss

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I have to believe that Fox was actually throttling Tucker back and now that governor has been removed those who wanted him gone have no idea what is about to hit them.

Seriously, I haven't watched Fox for many years after having used it as my sole new source for a long time, but I would regularly tune in to watch Tucker as apparently many others did as well. So yes, they managed to get the dog kicked out of the yard but now he is on the outside of the fence where he can do serious damage to those who were taunting him. Nice job idiots, better invest in some mercurochrome because the dog can now bite and the last thing he heard on the way out of the yard was "Chopper sic balls".

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This represents the death of MSM, not tucker. He was their pacemaker, and they just took out the batteries.

That'll shut him up.

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Apr 25, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

I couldn't figure out why Fox settled the lawsuit with Dominion -- until today.

I believe the settlement was a ruse by the Fox suits to fire the outspoken thinkers on staff, including Bongino, Carlson and the next ones to be axed.

"Now Dan, Tucker, you guys pay attention! We can't mention any alleged "election anomalies" on air ever again, or Dominion could destroy our network! Oh, you can't do that? Ok then, buh-bye!" 👿🤡

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Oh and worse, Chris.

People who have never actually listened to Tucker Carlson have heard his name, quoted by some trusted commentator or writer they observe regularly. They just never got around to lisitening to Tucker, mostly because they don't even live in the US of A.

But now they note he is quoted on some recorded video footage and so, alerted by his sacking... "Which means he must have said something good, right? they tune in. Holy fuck, this guys is really something. Why are they sacking the good guys. Like that presenter on Veritas. or the bloke on... forgotten, but he was good too.

Something very undemocratic is going on here. Actually, this is repression of free speech. What do they want to hide?"

And this is basically how we all were radicalised, five or fifty years ago.

The repression of information is ramping up, but in the process the noise is waking people up. This will be a global revolution, because it is a global repression, and the elite have not quite thought this through because the forces needed to shut you all down, are suddenly going to be needed in Ukraine, Germany, France, Australia, Central America, stateside, and to protect the 780 military bases around the world that are suddenly bulleyes for pissed off locals.

These three sackings are actually the begining of the end for the elite because they never did realise that some of the sheep can out-think them. Elites have always made the same basic error of believing they are the best and smartest. As every fighter in history has always learned to his cost, there is always somebody better.

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Add to your excellent comments the idea that they hate fossil fuels and are working against all logic to shut them down. No control matrix can be effective without near 24/7 power.

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I didn't mention that. OSE, because that is a complicated series of issues. For example, as coal mines were being shut down BP was buying them up. And the funding for the war against oil comes from the people who own most oil, the same investment bankers who run the WEF for the 300 families.

These closures are mostly temporary. Coal mines will be reopened, sufficient at least for the much-reduced world population. And oil is not a fossil fuel. It is abiotic, produced in the earth's mantle and will never be depleted. The terms 'fossil' and 'Peak Oil' were proselytised by the oil corporations as marketing tools, justifying a steady rise in prices through 'supply and demand', which itself is another illusion and has been for a century. In general, oil prices are set by the IPE in London and NYMEX in New York, which are owned by the 300 familes.

Nothing is as it seems.

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Oh how interesting re: coal mines being bought up. I have encountered the abiotic description, I think it was supported by some Russian geologists quite a while ago, and poo-poo'd here. So Hubbert was mistaken, or part of the myth?

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"Hubbert"... not a name I know, OSE. I delve just deep enough to comprehend the geopolitical implications because that is the basis for fightback. Because my only mandate is my own country, Australia, I am also biased in that direction.

If I might explain... Australia has its own light sweet crude, handed to BP as a gift by Prime Minister Robert Menzies in 1954. We now pay international prices for Singapore's ungraded trash fuel and our ten refineries are being closed down. If not for this, our bowser price would be 12 cents per litre, which would make our industries more competitive than any other nation and our citizen's cost of living the lowest in the OECD.

Australia is the only nation that has all resources, which means it cannot be controlled by trade sanctions, which then means it can thumb its nose at globalisation. That is the reason it has been slammed so hard by the globalists, because it could very easily demolish the NWO hopes.

It is also the reason the US delivered a coup d'eTat in 1975, sacking the democratically elected Whitlam Government and running Australia as a vassal state ever since. Even our defence system is now run by the Pentagon and we were all disarmed.

Where I live, there are 12 US military installations, one of them a missile launching platform threatening China. This is our biggest threat, th eUS making us a nuclear target. We need patriotic Americans to help us end this occupaton.

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Amen.

I really only watched Fox for Tucker and Greg Gutfeld. I still love Greg, but have mixed emotions about turning on Fox at all. I liked Fox Nation too. Tucker Carlson today...where I was first introduced to your particular brilliance is bittersweet now. I want to watch his Eating Bugs show, but don't have the heart since they canned him. I want to cancel my subscription. I don't want to hurt the other decent people at Fox, but WHY don't they defend him?

We all know he goes for the truth. He hinted sometimes during his show that there were things he was not permitted to say on air. His snide veiled comments did not go unnoticed.

He should ring up Joe Rogan and do his podcast, then launch his own.

I think Rumble would be a good place to be....but Spotify might jump at it as well. He can now write his own ticket......and he did it on his own. FOX was just a vehicle, he was ALWAYS the driver. So many like me sensed his sincerity and that is a large part of why we watched. We know he WANTED to find the truth. He didn't shill for anyone on either side.

I think they fired him because of RFK Jr. I think FOX wanted to pretend they still had conservatives' views.....but they were becoming increasingly annoying and leftward leaning. RFK Jr was sincere and I could vote for him. He is an outsider now and we need more of him.

God Bless you and Tucker for always pointing towards truth...and doing it in a most entertaining way...his laugh just made me laugh. FOX can't really fire him.....they can just kick him off their network...only the public can fire him and we are not nearly done with him.

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Look on youtube for Tucker's previous shows; that's how we've been watching Tucker and avoiding the rest of Fox since Nov. 3, 2020.

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He’s also on rumble

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Apr 25, 2023·edited Apr 25, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

I am fixated on the guard that "didn't tell you the gate ends 50' into the woods." That is sooooo Boomer.

In the 2020s, the story goes: He tells you the work around and lets you "sneak in". You're walking around is captured on video you probably would TikTok your visit and take two or three selfies and plaster them all over Facebook. Meanwhile, the video survellience system captures you and is shared with the media and shown on an endless loop and Tweets of you are everywhere. Quickly you are identified by "law enforcement" by cell phone data, your bank records and the GPS on you phone. Accompanied by CNN, the FBI brings 20 SUVs and 35 heavily armed agents (with assault rifles no less) to your door at 5 AM and arrests you for trespassing, public urination (it is implied that during a 12 mile hike you had to wizz on a tree at least once) and starting an insurrection. Then you sit in jail for over a year and you plead guilty because you just want to get the hell out of jail. Then tapes are released that shows the conversation where the guard absolutely "didn't tell you the fence ends in the woods" and every news source in America ignores it but one. The sole man of the soulless network who dares to share that information is fired three weeks later.

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You left out: A week later, they cut down a bunch of trees and build a proper fence.

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