Tucker Carlson announced in May that he would relaunch his program on Twitter, and Tuesday released his first episode.
In the episode, Carlson opened with a segment about the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam in the Ukrainian city of Kherson.
“As of today, we have come to Twitter, which we hope will be the shortwave radio under the blankets,” said Carlson at the end of the 10-minute episode. “We’re told there are no gatekeepers here. If that turns out to be false, we’ll leave, but in the meantime, we are grateful to be here.”
Carlson, who until his firing was the top-rated cable TV news host with more than 3 million nightly viewers, did not address his departure from Fox in the video.
But he signaled at the time that he would be back in some new format or platform in the near future.
Carlson released a video on April 27, at 8 pm, encouraging people to understand that the truth ultimately prevails over the lies being fomented by the corporate media and the leaders of America’s “one-party state.”
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Carlson opened the 2-minute video by saying he noticed after stepping “outside the noise for a few days” how many “genuinely nice,” “kind and decent” and “hilarious” people there are in America.
“The other thing you notice when you take a little time off,” he added, “is how unbelievably stupid most of the debates you see on television are.”
“They’re completely irrelevant. They mean nothing,” he said. “In five years, we won’t even remember that we had them.”
“Yet at the same time … the undeniably big topics — the ones that will define our future — get virtually no discussion at all,” said Carlson.
Among those are war, new scientific developments, demographic change, civil liberties, corporate power and natural resources.
“When was the last time you heard a genuine debate about any of those issues?” Carlson asked. “It’s been a long time. Debates like that are not permitted in American media.”
Carlson said both Democrats and Republicans and their high-powered donors have reached a “consensus” on what benefits them and then “actively collude to shut down any conversation about it.”
“Suddenly the United States looks like a one-party state,” he added. “That’s a depressing realization. But it’s not permanent.”
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That’s because these ideals are “brain dead” and no one’s life is actually improved by them, he noted.
“This moment is too inherently ridiculous to continue, and so it won’t,” he predicted.
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