I dunno, seems plausible
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Before he came to Fox, Tucker was just a smug replacement-level Republican bingo caller with numerous failed shows behind him, so there was no need to keep him around if he was going to be more trouble than it’s worse. And, indeed, Fox has already proven that you can easily plug in any random smug dumb-dumb into his slot and be fine:
???????? pic.twitter.com/6eXcjHi9v1— Kat Abu (@abughazalehkat) July 17, 2023
Give Jim Inhofe this, when he would hold up a snowball to prove that climate change was imaginary, at least that day’s weather was contrary to the general trend.
In related news, Tucker seems very secure about his new plan to start up some kind of Twitter-affiliated network, and is having a very normal one:
A minute compilation of Tucker laughing during his speech today pic.twitter.com/scCfhOgb8B— Acyn (@Acyn) July 15, 2023
UPDATE: to tie today’s themes together…
jesse watters signals openness to rfk jrs conspiracy theory that covid was "ethnically targeted" to spare jewish people pic.twitter.com/jBXP1J8rSF— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) July 18, 2023
Tucker is gone, but his legacy of racist conspiracy theories lives on!