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So Fucker did have a singular talent for polishing white nationalist turds on the teevee after all. I guess he learned something during his stints in the legacy media. I won't be sorry to see Fox lose viewers as a result of the old man's hissy fit - we'll see if they follow Lord Fish Sticks to whatever shiny new toilet he washes up in.

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so, what you're saying is that Tucker is all they had and the rest is more or less set dressing?

good luck finding any kind of replacement.

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Yeah, Jones had to appeal to real mouthbreathers. But, somehow, no matter how on-point Jones is with MAGA, I don't think "perpetually angry black man" is gonna be to their liking.

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Lawrence is working extremely hard to become the black GQP leader on Faux and if he succeeds in that task, he may be allowed to use the corporate bathroom and kitchen at Faux, but probably not.

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That lil vest ain't gonna stop no bullets.

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"These are the stupidest, most worthless, most deeply unserious people this country has ever produced." Sentences like that deserve to be highlighted.

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They do like "perpetually angry" though, so he's partway there.

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Fux went out and bought themselves a token black. My question goes to the black community...WTF?

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I wonder what percentage of conservative (or even straight-up regressive) voters were at least minimally informed, of at least the bare facts, of genuine issues of importance in America before the imposition of fox news, versus now. Would Walter Cronkite be considered "woke" now? With so many people entirely ignorant of the stark truth of anything, it's scary as hell.

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I still think they'll give to Jesse Watters, and he'll do fine.

By which I mean, he's every bit as big an asshole as Carlson -- bigger, in some ways, because he thinks he's funny -- and that's pretty much the No. 1 qualification for the job.

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Actually, this is smart of FOX "news." They had long stopped having opposing view points on their shows (They got rid of combs, O'Reilly just yelled at them and then cut their mikes, by the time of Little Lord Fishsticks, they just stop having opposing view points because it was too much to expect a propagandist called Tucker Carlson to actually handle an opposing view).

But now they can get back to "Fair and Balanced." Have liberals on, but just edit out their replies and replace with with misleading video.

In the end, you have to wonder why they didn't do this years ago.

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I highly recommend watching the embedded TikTok, if only to watch the one Fox lady sputter about inviting Mayor Adams to "these . . . glittery . . . openings."

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"Do we go to Africa? Do we go to Latin America?"

...does he know?

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Wait is that poll for realz? They are all too stupid to even pretend they care about, what’s it called, anything meaningful?

If somebody called me up and asked me what I wanted most in a candidate for president, and those were the choices, I’d say “other.” In fact, a pollster did call me up in 2020 during the primaries. The questions were about stuff like climate change and Covid, probably not abortion because we still thought it was “settled law” back then, lol.

Then they asked how excited I was to vote for Bernie or Joe, and since I wasn’t so enthusiastic about either, what were the chances I would end up voting at all, and would I possibly vote for Donald Trump?

I said I would walk barefoot over broken glass to vote for whichever old white dude the Dems nominated, and I would vote for my dog before I voted for Donald Trump, and she had been dead for 2 years.

So, on second thought, if they ask me the most important quality in a candidate, I will say “someone who isn’t Donald Trump,” but that’s actually a patriotic, ideological position as opposed to “making the MAGATs mad,” which is merely a side benefit.

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Just for the record - Jones is not wearing a bulletproof vest in that photo. That's a frontpack with endless loops to hang gear - I believe it's the Molly system. I guess it's a step up from a fanny pack, particularly one worn in the front. The best I can say it's a better look than a backward baseball cap on a male over than five or six. It's not a bulletproof vest.

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