Wow! The crazy people are, like, super-unhinged over this.
Meanwhile, I've spending the odd minute doping out where Carlson goes from here. ONAN (sic) and NewsMax are too small. He'd of course give them, just not a Fox-beating one. Then I thought he'd go back to what he was doing before Fox called: grifting.
Now I'm thinking: CEO of Twitter? Vacay til Chris Licht calls after the King/Barkley show bombs?
Hear, hear. The GOP has unquestionably become the party of bully-boy brownshirts. Not that conservatives didn’t always trend that way, but the advent of Trumpian politics really did release their raging Ids. To paraphrase Adam Serwer, conservatives believe freedom means they get to say and do what they want to say and do, and you get to say and do what they want you to say and do.
And any celebration of Carlson’s exit may be short-lived. Fox wouldn’t hesitate to replace him with Stephen Miller if Miller didn’t look like a dildo that had been left out in the rain. As it stands, maybe they’ll replace Carlson with 3 Proud Boys in a trenchcoat, topped by a parrot that simply squawks “Groomers! Woke! Socialism!” over and over. The rageaholic Fox audience just needs the fix, they’ve become too degenerate to care about the hygiene of the delivery system.
Apr 25, 2023·edited Apr 25, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso
Fox is cutting one guy who will be replaced by three near-clones. No one will even remember this story in three months. Fox will have some new blow-dried rage-monkey in Carlson's old time slot and the NYT and WSJ will be doing pieces on how he's the rational, new voice of the reformed conservative movement.
I'm a liberal, so on Mondays I'm pathetically weak, suffering pwnage at the hands of Elon Musk over some blue-checkmark nonsense, on Tuesdays I'm unimaginably powerful, dispatching cable news hosts at the snap of my fingers. Fear me! (or not, as the case may be.)
Here's a thought: How 'bout replacing Tucker with an hour showing that day's right-wing rage-tweets? Throw one up on the screen and a pair of low-paid hosts only job is to chuckle along and agree that many libs were owned with that one, that's for sure! You know, as a cost-cutting measure because I hear that have some large legal bills to cover. Just trying to be helpful.
I'd say that the bartenders do affect the drinks they serve. Carlson, for example, traffics in populism but appeals to old people who think their rich Ideal Son-in-Law would be a preppy Gauleiter. (Rush-Limbo was The Smartest Man at the Bar, Glenn Beck Your Cousin Who Exchanged Religion for Drink, Father Coughlin was,well,Your Caring Parish Priest, an archetype reïnforced, pseudo-ironically, by Hollywood.)
"No, liberals mainly threaten conservatives by their mere existence. Conservatives are mad that trans people exist. They’re mad that people live in cities and watch foreign movies and take their own children to Drag Queen Story Hour. "
This, exactly. And I would add: that these people might actually be happy.
I guess I'll have to retire my pithy observation that Tucker is to journalism what a Swanson frozen TV dinner is to cuisine. A shame, that - it was one of my better lines.
On the plus side, no more Tucker Carlson Tonight, at least for the moment, as he joins Bongo on the unemployment line. Wonder who's next?
The rage has nowhere to go except violence. Winning/losing in a political context doesn't seem to affect it, so there's no tangible way to "satisfy" it other than what's known as "owning the libs" which is nothing more than a dopamine fix that fades too quickly whether passing a law or a devastating tweet. And as godless drug-addled liberals, we know that you always need just one more fix and everything will be fine, and we know how that story ends. Top of the world, MA.
"Fixing" this is next to impossible. As Roy noted, the basic problem is that we exist. My theory, which is mine, is that they hate "modern life" which is what they see in media of every type. It offends, insults, disgusts, and worst of all ignores them. Normally they would just be cranks who hate everything, but the plutocrats who own the country use that hate to try and keep control of the only thing left that can seriously inconvenience them, government. We're going to be stuck in this loop until something blows up, blows up real good. Not just the scattered terrorism of getting shot for knocking on the wrong door or pulling into the wrong driveway, though that's not going away. My money is on a Great Depression, since we're already well into Guilded Age II, but another Black Death, something that wipes out 2/3 of the population, might work. In theory, the third of eligible voters who consider elections a boring reality show that has no effect on their lives could shut down the rage threat by voting enough lunatics out of office, but that's a long shot at best. But short of the Big Bang, that's the only option left. That, and sarcasm.
It says a lot that The Great Replacement, his main storyline for the EEEVIL Liberals and our plans for World Domination, is a claim that we're CONSPIRING to win more elections by getting more people to vote for us. Not sure why we don't just dial up as many votes as we need through the ghost of Hugo Chavez and an Italian spy satellite, but I don't write the scripts.
Apparently Orwell was wrong, or it is just the English who will be satisfied with only 2 minutes of hate a date. We are made of sterner stuff.
Wow! The crazy people are, like, super-unhinged over this.
Meanwhile, I've spending the odd minute doping out where Carlson goes from here. ONAN (sic) and NewsMax are too small. He'd of course give them, just not a Fox-beating one. Then I thought he'd go back to what he was doing before Fox called: grifting.
Now I'm thinking: CEO of Twitter? Vacay til Chris Licht calls after the King/Barkley show bombs?
Meanwhile, this:
https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1650445614486892547?s=20
I'd like to think y'all seen this but I, for one, cannot view it too much.
How can we afflict the comfortable when they are already way more self-afflicted than we could ever make them?!
Sad.
Hear, hear. The GOP has unquestionably become the party of bully-boy brownshirts. Not that conservatives didn’t always trend that way, but the advent of Trumpian politics really did release their raging Ids. To paraphrase Adam Serwer, conservatives believe freedom means they get to say and do what they want to say and do, and you get to say and do what they want you to say and do.
And any celebration of Carlson’s exit may be short-lived. Fox wouldn’t hesitate to replace him with Stephen Miller if Miller didn’t look like a dildo that had been left out in the rain. As it stands, maybe they’ll replace Carlson with 3 Proud Boys in a trenchcoat, topped by a parrot that simply squawks “Groomers! Woke! Socialism!” over and over. The rageaholic Fox audience just needs the fix, they’ve become too degenerate to care about the hygiene of the delivery system.
"tastemaker Catturd"
My brain is unable to process that.
Being on Team Good Guy sucks most of the time.
Good essay!
Fox is cutting one guy who will be replaced by three near-clones. No one will even remember this story in three months. Fox will have some new blow-dried rage-monkey in Carlson's old time slot and the NYT and WSJ will be doing pieces on how he's the rational, new voice of the reformed conservative movement.
Poor Jesse Watters, no one seems to think he's racist enough, but I believe in him!
It's the nice ones who tolerate it, look the other way, shrug and continue to vote for it who are the real problem.
They'll promptly forget Tucker. There are lots of Tuckers, and Rupert will find one.
I'm a liberal, so on Mondays I'm pathetically weak, suffering pwnage at the hands of Elon Musk over some blue-checkmark nonsense, on Tuesdays I'm unimaginably powerful, dispatching cable news hosts at the snap of my fingers. Fear me! (or not, as the case may be.)
Here's a thought: How 'bout replacing Tucker with an hour showing that day's right-wing rage-tweets? Throw one up on the screen and a pair of low-paid hosts only job is to chuckle along and agree that many libs were owned with that one, that's for sure! You know, as a cost-cutting measure because I hear that have some large legal bills to cover. Just trying to be helpful.
I'd say that the bartenders do affect the drinks they serve. Carlson, for example, traffics in populism but appeals to old people who think their rich Ideal Son-in-Law would be a preppy Gauleiter. (Rush-Limbo was The Smartest Man at the Bar, Glenn Beck Your Cousin Who Exchanged Religion for Drink, Father Coughlin was,well,Your Caring Parish Priest, an archetype reïnforced, pseudo-ironically, by Hollywood.)
"No, liberals mainly threaten conservatives by their mere existence. Conservatives are mad that trans people exist. They’re mad that people live in cities and watch foreign movies and take their own children to Drag Queen Story Hour. "
This, exactly. And I would add: that these people might actually be happy.
I guess I'll have to retire my pithy observation that Tucker is to journalism what a Swanson frozen TV dinner is to cuisine. A shame, that - it was one of my better lines.
On the plus side, no more Tucker Carlson Tonight, at least for the moment, as he joins Bongo on the unemployment line. Wonder who's next?
The rage has nowhere to go except violence. Winning/losing in a political context doesn't seem to affect it, so there's no tangible way to "satisfy" it other than what's known as "owning the libs" which is nothing more than a dopamine fix that fades too quickly whether passing a law or a devastating tweet. And as godless drug-addled liberals, we know that you always need just one more fix and everything will be fine, and we know how that story ends. Top of the world, MA.
"Fixing" this is next to impossible. As Roy noted, the basic problem is that we exist. My theory, which is mine, is that they hate "modern life" which is what they see in media of every type. It offends, insults, disgusts, and worst of all ignores them. Normally they would just be cranks who hate everything, but the plutocrats who own the country use that hate to try and keep control of the only thing left that can seriously inconvenience them, government. We're going to be stuck in this loop until something blows up, blows up real good. Not just the scattered terrorism of getting shot for knocking on the wrong door or pulling into the wrong driveway, though that's not going away. My money is on a Great Depression, since we're already well into Guilded Age II, but another Black Death, something that wipes out 2/3 of the population, might work. In theory, the third of eligible voters who consider elections a boring reality show that has no effect on their lives could shut down the rage threat by voting enough lunatics out of office, but that's a long shot at best. But short of the Big Bang, that's the only option left. That, and sarcasm.
It says a lot that The Great Replacement, his main storyline for the EEEVIL Liberals and our plans for World Domination, is a claim that we're CONSPIRING to win more elections by getting more people to vote for us. Not sure why we don't just dial up as many votes as we need through the ghost of Hugo Chavez and an Italian spy satellite, but I don't write the scripts.