What I mean by disappear is that his influence on politics and the cultural conversation will dramatically drop. It happened to O'Reilly, Beck and it definitely happened to Kelly. All of them had a significant amount of influence and people watching. They have (comparatively) very little now. And I have to laugh a little at the thought of OAN and Newsmax having restrictions.
I don't know, I've never watched OAN or Newsmax. I'd likely watch them if Tucker Carlson did his Tucker Carlson TODAY interviews on there.
I'll bet on Fox. You'll be able to count on one hand how many politicians and politically connected people Tucker will be talking with over the next six months. All those things you just said were said after O'Reilly left. He probably had more influence than anyone in media and Fox kept humming along. Tucker will still have his loyal fans, but it won't be anywhere near what he had and he certainly won't have politicians picking up the phone for him.
I disagree with what most of what you've said here, but that's fine - we can agree to disagree and we'll seehow it plays out. At least you can debate it intelligently and respectfully so I respect that FWIW. The deep loyalty for Tucker (vs. loyalty to say - Fox or O'Reilly, etc) - including from politicians, business, media leaders in US, worldwide - is understated unless you closely track who he interviews, who he gives a voice to, especially on his TC Today show.
I would never make an actual wager on this stuff anymore: not after the donald beat the world's smartest woman and not after Joe was the selection in the D primary process four years ago.
Well, he is brilliant from a marketing standpoint. But, that he is still supported in light of all the history is amazing. Soon, it might become easier to name the jurisdictions that he doesn't have some claim or suit against him. I get that the majority are likely baseless, but he just keeps building the war chest off of it.
We should simply follow both Joe Biden and Donald Trump -- who's no spring chicken, either -- on the campaign trail (provided they each win their party's nomination). The run up to the election is obviously a grueling day-to-day workout for candidates. If they can survive over 400 days crisscrossing the country, then they are likely in good enough shape to hold office for four years.
Agreed. They are more like your grandfather's incumbent.
That would be good, plus passing a mental fitness exam to rule out cognitive impairment. This should be mandatory for any candidate for President.
US pres can't be some all-powerful independently-functioning executive. The job is too big.
how grueling will it be to crisscross the basement like Joe did the last time? Watching him (or not seeing him) the last time gave little clue just how dangerously incompetent he would be.
I'm sure Comrade Carlson will feel right at home at Россия Сегодня. America first!!
Biden will retreat to the Whitehouse basement.
she's an embarrassment to our country but then so is her boss. And she could very possibly be Joe Biden's bulletproof vest again.
I have had these same thoughts. A single top executive is fairly ludicrous in these complex times. I have wondered about fairly independent executive branches, independent in operation from direct presidential direction but not from his/her influence. But any remedy is filled with potential traps.
When did they start spelling White House as one word? I'll bet you're one of those brainiacs that writes Tar Heels as one word. Didn't you once tell me you're an educator? God help the children!
lol, why don't you just stop being such a pretentious prick who makes as many gaffes as anyone here and more than most?
worst VP ever. Words can't describe how dumb she is, how cringey a speaker she is. She sucks, or blows, or whatever...
Good points. But its clearly not a single top executive running the show now. I don't think Joe says or does anything that isn't decided or written by a group of other people. I wonder if Joe even has the mental capacity to decide what flavor of ice cream or pudding he will eat on a given day. Sure isn't making decisions on how to run the country.
Let me guess, you're one of transplant’s disgruntled and unlearned students. Yeah, I would be pissed off, too.
I don't disagree with a word of this, but what is being done at this point with Joe is not what I had in mind. I'm not talking about a bunch of behind-the-scenes string-pullers for the puppet of a president we have. I'm talking about fairly autonomous sections of the exective branch that have highly visible authority, largely independent of the kind of idiocy Joe is capable of inflicting.
1) it's an embarassment to admit you picked a loser as second in command, an admission that could translate to fewer votes.
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@tarheel0910 looks like you’re right so far. Tucker put a short 2 minute video up on his Twitter site tonight - and it only had 12 million impressions and 4 million views (from his 6+ million followers)… but granted that was in a WHOLE HOUR after he posted it.
LOL. That's how you're going to judge if he stays relevant? Of course people are going to pay attention to his first statement. Let me know how many listeners/viewers he has at his next stop compared to what he had.
I don't really care if you or whoever think he will stay relevant, but the statistics bear out that he will. I think Twitter is here to stay, at least as long as Elon is in charge of it.
There are no statistics that say he will stay relevant. His first statement a couple days after he gets fired doesn't prove anything. Are you his brother or son? You've defended him with a passion the last few weeks.
I guess I just don't understand defending someone like Carlson so much. Carlson is just a guy who will lie to you for ratings and put out shit that he doesn't believe. He believes all his viewers are mindless drones. He's a gasbag. Same goes for Don Lemon. The world improved when they were fired.
