[AceOfSpades] We know the increasingly liberal Rupert Murdoch was "concerned" by Tucker Carlson's J6 reporting, and we strongly, strongly suspect that Murdoch ordered him to stop reporting on the J6 video.
But what would provoke Murdoch to either fire Carlson or impose such unbearable censorship on Carlson as to force him to quit?
Was it the leftwing investment group which now owns almost one sixth of Fox?
When an investor increases his holdings to more than 15% of a company, he has to disclose that, as he is now an investor with enough ownership stake in a company that he can start making demands and decisions.
On February 1, ultrapartisan Democrat-leaning woke investment group Blackrock, led by hyperpartisan leftwinger Larry Fink, announced it had increased its holdings to 15.1%.
Of course, we've seen the hyper-rich interfere in the 2020 election. Mark Zuckerberg spent more than $350 million in Zuckerbucks to "fortify the election" in Democrat districts, turning out voters and also paying to ballot harvest and "cure" defective votes.
But just in Democrat districts, you understand. He wasn't interested in increasing voting overall.
And no one can possibly not understand that a thusfar-secret leftwing billionaire made Drudge a huge cash offer to purchase his site, but pretend that he was still involved in it.
The ultra-rich of the left decided to take Drudge out for the 2020 election.
Does the firing of Tucker Carlson not suggest that they're taking out the right's biggest, brightest communicator out for the 2024 election? And, in fact, deliberately destroying the biggest news network that even leans, if slightly, right?
Because this will destroy Fox. I'm not sure the play was even made to take out Tucker Carlson, who will be actually become even more powerful now that Darth Vader has struck him down. No, I think the play was to force Fox into a Final Sellout which would effectively finish off the network, which is already half-despised by the right.
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Fox NewsCorp stock seems to be selling near pre-Tucker departure levels, almost as if people who are planning to buy it all saw a buying opportunity to even gain more control on the Board. 2024 elections theft just became much more invisible as Fox makes Bret's "Fair, Balanced, and Unafraid" slogan ever more risible.
[AG] Sometimes when you are in the midst of a revolution, you do not even know it.
I doubt all the Germans who voted in National Socialism quite foresaw what quickly was to come. Those who overthrew the Bourbons or the Romanoffs had no real idea that they had sown the wind and were soon to reap the Jacobin and Bolshevik whirlwind.
SOCIALISM WITH A WHIMPER
So it is with our "woke"—a euphemism for the socialist revolution we are in and do not fully appreciate or even understand.
Socialism is variously defined. The Merriam-Webster dictionary emphasizes the role of the state in near-communist terms: "Any of various egalitarian economic and political theories or movements advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods."
The Cambridge Dictionary more accurately notes that socialism is "the set of beliefs that states that all people are equal and should share equally in a country’s money, or the political systems based on these beliefs."
The latter definition perhaps best sums up much of the operative ideology of the new Democratic Party, the Biden Administration, and its subordinates, both elected and administrative.
But perhaps socialism in America 2023 is even better described as something like "the doctrine of enforced ’equity’ by government redistribution of money and power from one ’oppressive’ group to another ’oppressed,’ with the caveat that the elite redistributors have the right to supersede the law based on their own self-professed superior morality, and the assurance that they will never be subject to the baleful consequences of their own unnatural ideology."
We have been drifting into such a socialist system for decades, but it was accelerated by the eight years of the Obama Administration and has arrived at near fruition with the Biden Administration. Note first that the more socialist we become, the greater the resistance grows, and the more desperate and cruel the socialists become to force down the throats of the public something they otherwise would vomit up.
This is a context you won’t find elsewhere {smiles}. The phone has been blowing up…. Context and some details matter.
First, Carlson was being paid about $20 million a year by Murdoch. He had about 3 years left on his contract and will be paid the full contract amount. Carlson found out about 10 minutes before Fox Corp made the announcement. They did not “part ways,” Tucker Carlson was fired.
(Via WSJ) – Mr. Carlson, whose contract was renewed in 2021, will be paid out for the rest of his contract, people familiar with the matter said. Mr. Carlson is paid about $20 million a year, one of the people said. Mr. Carlson found out he was being let go about 10 minutes before the network announced his departure, the people said.
For financial context, remember Rupert Murdoch paid Megyn Kelly $15 million (Via Harper Collins) for the 2015/2016 operation against Donald Trump. Paying $60 to $100 million to get rid of Carlson’s antagonistic voice is small money to Murdoch Inc. in the grand scheme of things. [Murdoch has also paid for Ron DeSantis to oppose Trump]
Carlson will not be asked to sign an NDA, is not bound by a “non-compete” clause following the contract nullification by Fox Corp, and will be free to do anything he wants in any venture. Additionally, he will be free to say whatever he wants about the issues at Fox and speak freely, or not, without any legal or contractual constraints. Keep all of that in mind.
Prior to 2021, Tucker Carlson was what you might call a Fox News loyalist. He was very loyal to the organization. During the COVID-19 era, Tucker Carlson moved his physical location away from Washington DC to his home in Maine. Fox built him a studio, and Carlson manifest his own destiny free from most production constraints.
Over the past 18+/- months, viewers have watched Tucker Carlson essentially red pill himself each evening. As he enjoyed the proximity freedom far away from the Eye of Sauron (DC’s control mechanism), Carlson’s eyes opened further to the reality of the situation that blankets our national consciousness. Read the rest at the link
Fox agreed last week to pay Dominion Voting Systems more than $787 million and acknowledged that some of its reporting following the 2020 election — which allowed former president Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election... ’s aides to amplify false charges of election fraud — was incorrect.
But that reporting mostly concerned other shows, not Carlson’s. His name did come up during the case, primarily because of email and text messages that were revealed as part of the lawsuit.
Carlson and other Fox hosts were caught in private messages doubting their own network’s allegations about Dominion’s role in the supposed election fraud, while also being concerned that Fox was losing audience among Trump fans at the time. In some of them, Carlson privately criticized Trump, saying he hated him passionately.
A few weeks ago, Carlson devoted his entire show to an interview with Trump.
Clearly, as The Conservative Treehouse points out, Mr. Carlson’s views have evolved.
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The right has a fraught relationship to the media. Now the left has maneuvered the right into defending "free speech" even while it is being used to trash them.
Winning!
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It will be interesting to see whether personalities leave Fox News faster than the Obama crew bails out of the Biden regime.
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Oh, snap!
[Bee] In a stunning move, media giant CNN has fired anchor Don Lemon. Executives at the network made the decision immediately after coming to the stark realization that Lemon was past his prime.
"He's just not what he used to be," said CNN Chairman and CEO Chris Licht. "When he started out here, he was all flash and charisma and good looks — everything, all rolled into one. But once talent reaches a certain age, you have to start thinking about the future. At this point, he's just a used-up, frumpy old buzzard who really shouldn't be on television."
Lemon's fall from grace had progressed quickly. After working his way up to host a prime-time nightly program that was not watched by many, he was later reassigned to co-host a morning show that was watched by no one before being fired altogether. CNN's viewer was shocked to hear the news. "I know I'm the only person still watching CNN, but this is still a surprise," said Wolf Blitzer's wife, Lynn Greenfield. "I always thought Don was a lovely young man. One of CNN's best gays, by far, there are a lot of candidates to choose from!"
Lemon was embroiled in controversy earlier this year after expressing an opinion that women in their 50s were no longer in their "prime." Analysts now believe this was an early indication of Lemon's diminishing skills. "He clearly lost it," said one CNN producer. "He's not that pretty face we met years ago."
At publishing time, Lemon was reportedly seen standing on a street corner holding a sign that read "Will stare soulfully into the camera and shed a single tear for food."
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
The British changed the race of the Dumas hero.
The Three Musketeers speech by Bill Thomas (The Three Musketeers, 2023).
These same blacks who play white characters, they themselves are what they think, I wonder when they agree to these roles? They don’t study primary sources, chtoli, in general, or what’s with their brains? The question is rhetorical, of course, there were brains - they would have thought then.
By the way, the second black man in this film (Stanley J. Browne) has the role of a traitor. He was, like, a Musketeer, but he went over to Richelieu's side. His name was Bernage. Another director's "find". Although, according to the novel, Bernageu was originally the cardinal's guard. And not simple, but one of the most talented masters of the sword.
But now the film is interesting to watch: what if the British Aramis turns out to be gay and twenty years later will marry Richelieu or Mazarin?
Or suddenly the British will find other lines in the novel by Dumas, ala: "The Musketeer and His Horse", "Service in the Regiment and Love for the King", "Milady Transgender", and so on? Yes, and the Musketeers themselves will not be in hats, but in baseball caps.
Now I'm waiting for a new adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin. And always with white Tom and black planters.
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There is a tendency to buy some of this crap banking on its potential historical value down the road. Joe Biden campaign merch I will probably be more salable and interesting than woke Musketeers, in my opinion unless it is a graphic novel. Woke audiobooks will probably be banned at some point as they are likely to induce road rage in rational drivers. Trans beer can value will be impacted based on the caliber of the bullet holes.
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[JEFFGOLDSTEIN] On the day I finally became verified on Twitter — which also happens to be my youngest’s eleventh birthday (Happy Birthday, Tanner!) — Fox News has announced it is parting ways with Tucker Carlson, host of what was the single most popular cable TV news show, and the only show on a major network that I can think of that matters in any important way to the national political dialogue. Per the LA Times, Rupert Murdoch made the final decision — purportedly over a discrimination suit — but most likely because Murdoch despises his own audience and always has. Murdoch was also none too pleased with Carlson’s willingness to state unequivocally that Big Pharma was granted the power to harm so many of us, and that federal agents were clandestinely placed undercover on January 6, which "60 Minutes" assures us is just plain silly, Mr Conspiracy Pants!
Love him or not — agree with him or not — Tucker Carlson’s voice is strong, unique, and bracing. Unlike, say, Sean Hannity, whose narrative brush strokes are driven by instructions on the paint-by-numbers canvas provided by his GOP and corporate handlers, Tucker was one of the few on-air talents on the network you could see at times wrestling against the network’s hidden restraints, which we’ve all long known were there, and which we’ve all along known were being used to keep certain stories out of the news cycle, and to foster certain narratives that the Uniparty favors or even promotes.
To me, it was obvious at the time of his release of January 6 footage — and the sudden and inexplicable stoppage of that release during subsequent shows — that bosses at Fox had applied to clamps to the January 6 story, and that Tucker had unfortunately buckled. Since then, though, his edge has only sharpened. He has, it seems, come to understand just exactly how important his voice has become to the New Right — which shouldn’t be confused with the "alt right." The New Right have adopted more populist positions than the establishment GOP, certainly; and yes, they fight more effectively than Conservative Inc., because they’re willing to get dirt underneath their fingernails without fretting about their recent manicures. But more than that, Carlson’s connection to the New Right is in his nascent understanding of the ideology that is driving both the left and, by proxy, those in the Uniparty who are happy to go along with it. Read the rest at the link
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The left had a nice silo where normies could imagine there was such a thing as "conservative media." But their never-ending obsession with cult of personality made the destruction of Carlson necessary.
Now, some of the frogs (a lot, I hope) will jump out of the pot before it boils.
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Looks like the Fox/Dominion 'court case' was cover for major collusion people were right.
Suppose Fox News will now be a dedicated Straw Clown. A collection of policy detractor stereotypes to be mocked.
#alissaheinersheid not to pile on but I have to point this out. Look at this pic of Alissa’s Bud Light team. She talks about diversity & inclusion but I don’t see it here. I mostly see a feminine group of white people who must be out of touch w/ reality & blue collar America. pic.twitter.com/991Vn0j5Fn
— (C-Suite Hunter) Liam_NeedsHisMoney (@needshismoney) April 22, 2023
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They identify as feminine! And inclusive! And smart! And diverse! And better than middle class frat boys!
The camera's iris probably squeezed down to a pinhole to keep from being blinded by all the white.
one of my best friends is a lifelong Bud and Bud-Lite drinker. He has been derided by me and all his friends FOREVER about this. We routinely wrap a case of Bud or Bud-Lite as a birthday or Christmas present for him...and he THANKS us.
He showed up at a gathering the other night with a six-pack of Miller. And loudly proclaimed: "F$#% Budweiser!!!"
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Okay, bring the woman of color to the front. And guys, please, step to the back and make room, except you Alphonzo, your gay so you can be in the front row, but not the front, get over to the side, crap, now we are totally unbalanced to the right. Oh, that's symbolic of not being straight, good one. Smile for the camera and say Defeat the patriarchy!
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She talks about diversity & inclusion but I don’t see it here. I mostly see a feminine group of white people
He is probably using a dictionary or something to define "diversity and inclusion." Update your definitions! Nowadays "diversity and inclusion" means "all women." Really. Get with the times.
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It does look like they are all Bud Lite drinkers.
At least for the photo.
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I fucked up royally this afternoon and accidentally bought a 30 pack of Bud Light after switching off to Coors Light a few weeks ago. I had quit smoking for two whole days and after a few events during the day today with clients and others, I got to the point where I said 'I need a smoke and some beers' and made the beer run, not realizing I bought the Bud Light until I got to my car, then I said to myself - 'gotta eat this one, dipshit' and didn't go back in to exchange it. The only explanation I have for that crap - pure reflex on buying the Pud Light, honed over decades.
[AG] For the first time in history, the ruling class of a powerful nation has abandoned its fellow citizens. What is happening in America today is more than a return to feudalism, although the new economic model into which we’re being herded is correctly compared to feudalism. The reality is actually much worse: America’s elites view ordinary citizens as no longer necessary. Because of globalism, they are replaceable. Because of automation, they are superfluous. Because of environmentalism, they are unsustainable.
These factors explain what is otherwise inexplicable: Constitutional conservatives and Christians, and the values they profess, are now stigmatized by establishment institutions as often, if not more often, than they are praised. Nationalism and religious faith empower individuals and communities to resist a ruling class that has abandoned them. That makes them a threat. They recognize that the ideology of America’s ruling elites is itself leading to disaster. They recognize that America’s elites have decided the nation’s middle class is disposable, and this is the real reason they are pushing an agenda of woke degeneracy and extreme environmentalism, designed to lower birthrates and reduce standards of living.
It’s hard to imagine how America’s elites could get things more wrong. Their transhuman and transnational vision is provoking a clash of civilizations at the same time as they are destroying the human foundation of their own civilization. Nations where nationalism or religion remains the prevailing ideology are not about to emasculate their populations and eviscerate their energy sectors.
If America’s elites attempt to impose this agenda worldwide, the world will fight back. Do they intend to win this clash with robots? Because if they reduce America to a geriatric, poverty-stricken nation, ruled by a handful of billionaires, robots are all they’re going to have left at the rate we’re going.
[BEE] CHICAGO, IL — After Walmart announced plans to close 4 store locations in dangerous Chicago neighborhoods, Chicago Mayor-Elect Brandon Johnson issued a dire warning that this will leave many Chicagoans with fewer places to shoplift.
"Citizens of this great city have the fundamental right to steal merchandise in their own communities without resorting to traveling to other neighborhoods," said Johnson at a local protest against the store closings. "If our youths don't have a safe place to work, shop, shoplift, loot, fight, do drugs, terrorize citizens, and smash windows, they may participate in riskier shoplifting, looting, and drug-consuming in affluent communities where cops will actually bother to arrest them until my Soros-funded DA lets them back out on the street. We can't let this happen!"
Walmart executives insist the move is nothing personal. "We're just tired of our cashiers and store greeters getting beaten up and every store losing millions of dollars," said district manager Darnell Monahan. "We'd prefer our workers not get beaten up and robbed and all that stuff. Sorry!"
At publishing time, civil rights leaders had warned that if Walmart goes through with the move, they will encourage Americans to boycott shoplifting there entirely.
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The coming problem is, now that the criminal class can't steal from someplace that's convenient, They'll just migrate to some other place.
Kinda like locusts that way.
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Say what you will about Floyd, at least he pretended to pay.
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In the Bay Area, the thieves can use public transportation to commute out to places like Walnut Creek.
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The tribal-suburban interface eco-system will introduce a wholly different kinetic dynamic as the black,feral, hoodie culture encounters actual Americans at Wally World and Arco.
Before you shoot, know where you will be tried and by whom. Post-shooting civil and criminal cases in deeply urban environments increasingly will determine "justice" based more on the jury pool demographics and DA political orientation, than the facts of the case.
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Most big box stores have a policy of telling their employees to not engage shoplifters. If it's not part of their job description, it's certainly not part of mine since I'm not their employee.
Probably better to capture photos or video and shame the court system into doing its job.
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Hard to fathom and a sign of how very removed we are from those people and they us.
I have seen ritual human sacrifice anthropologically described as a means of attaining and securing social and psychic cohesion within a community.
That theory further necessitates not only regularity of these rituals but the quality of victims. They needed to be the beautiful or handsome, strong and non-afflicted.
The effect being that when they are brought forward the crowd in turn gasps at the horror. Because without retaining multiple dimensions of horror profound enough to overwhelm the individual personality in the moment, the sacrifice will be not serve it's political and social purposes.
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#2 Skidmark, thanks for that post. I know I will never see it anywhere else, especially not on the nightly news.
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The psychology outlined explains why the left is so rabid about "choice" abortion.
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I have to admit, that is new and interesting.
Seems that the various ways of human sacrifice is a worldwide human condition, and there are plenty of works in humanities dealing with positions of power, feeling precarious, using the various forms of human sacrifice as a way to solidify their position and at the same time try and confuse/demoralize opposition.
[FANG] Many of the supposedly independent consumer, medical and civil rights groups that created the appearance of broad support for the mandate received funding from one of the vaccines’ manufacturers.
In the midst of a contentious debate about Chicago’s plan to force employers to require their workers to take the COVID-19 vaccine, Karen Freeman-Wilson, president of the Chicago Urban League, appeared on television to dismiss complaints that such rules would disproportionately harm the Black community.
"The health and safety factor here far outweighs the concern about shutting people out or creating a barrier," Freeman-Wilson said on WTTW in August 2021.
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The amazing health benefits are still being touted throughout the Canadian and UK parliaments. We are the only one who are still vaccinating children, I believe.
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[Gateway] Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett, a Republican on the House Oversight Committee, warned that new information brought by an IRS whistleblower who is seeking protection to testify before Congress, could force a Biden impeachment.
The investigation into the Biden family crimes has now revealed that at least 9 members of the family were involved in the family’s money laundering schemes. At least 9 Biden family members sold access for profit around the world. They are the definition of a crime family.
Rep. Tim Burchett, told Maria Bartiromo on "Mornings with Maria" on Friday, "This is just the very tip of the iceberg. This very brave IRS agent coming forward, I think will just start it. They’re talking about impeaching Biden. How could we not impeach Biden if this does, in fact, reach him?"
Rep Burchett added this, "Maam, we know of at least eight Biden family members who have profited from dealings overseas. I think if you delve into it deep enough, I mean there’s prostitution rings involved in this, human trafficking is rumored to be a part of some of this. These so-called companies that have allowed the Biden family to profit. It is gross and it is disgusting about what has been allowed to go on. If I was one of those 51 people I would be lawyering up right now."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat 
[BEE] CHICAGO, IL — After Walmart announced plans to close 4 store locations in dangerous Chicago neighborhoods, Chicago Mayor-Elect Brandon Johnson issued a dire warning that this will leave many Chicagoans with fewer places to shoplift.
Is all of this debauchery somehow connected ? 
