It's Official: Tucker to Russia

Tucker Carlson platforming Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. 

After Tucker Carlson was unceremoniously dismissed from Fox News following an embarrassing lawsuit and $787 million dollar settlement with Dominion Voting systems, the former host has floundered with no legitimate mainstream media platform. One of the main culprits behind Fox News' factitious attacks on Dominion, Carlson spread Trump-inspired lies that cost his former employer nearly $800 million in monetary damages. Fox News ultimately decided that Tucker was more trouble than he was worth and cut ties with the conspiracy theorist, leaving him to the white supremacist dominated slum world of X (Twitter). 

Instead of repenting of the lies he spewed on Fox News, Carlson has embraced the seedy world of Russian conspiracy theory unlike ever before. Since his dismissal, Carlson has peddled myths about everything from the 2020 Presidential Election to Covid-19 vaccines, all while interviewing the likes of anti-vax NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. 

In his now infamous interview with Vladimir Putin, Carlson giggled as the former KGB agent and current war criminal went on a 40-minute rant espousing his erroneous version of Russian history. Carlson blushed as Putin, in a rare moment of honesty, admonished him for being an entertainer, rather than a legitimate fact-seeking journalist. None of Putin's views were challenged by the former Fox News journalist, who became red-faced and appeared as smitten as a schoolgirl while leaving the floor to the child trafficker in charge of Russia. 

At the behest of his Kremlin masters, Carlson went on a tour of the nicest parts of Moscow and Saint Petersburg, where he lauded the Russian government for how well they kept their train stations. The former Fox News host went into a Russian grocery store and marveled at the concept of shopping carts that took quarters, something long done in American grocery chains like ALDI. Carlson spoke glowingly of Russia and its dictator, never challenging its illegal invasion and occupation of Ukraine, or Putin's penchant for assassinating political opponents, or Russia targeting civilians, kidnapping children, or the like. All of those subjects were conspicuously absent from Carlson's pro-Russian programming. 

For those who doubted whether Carlson was a Russian asset before, it is now all but officially confirmed. Russian state "news" paper the Rossikya Gazyeta has confirmed that Carlson will be getting his very own show on Russian state television, proving the transition from Fox News to KGB TV isn't all that difficult to make at all. According to Russian reporter Konstantin Glyba, one of Carlson's first episodes will be a deep-dive into so-called, "U.S. biological weapons."  

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell recently cast blame on Carlson for the six-month plus delay in Ukraine funding. The delay aided Russia in making advances into Ukrainian territory and contributed to killing thousands of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians alike. According to McConnell, the GOP is responsible for many of the setbacks Ukraine has faced, and the allegiance to the likes of Carlson over country has played into Putin's hand. 

Carlson now joins the government he has publicly stated his hopes are in. His strings now pulled by Putin, an evil dictator, whom Carlson declared as more impressive than his own president. Carlson has already taken the first step in normalizing Putin and allowing for Russian propaganda to air directly to his rabid fan-base of fact-devoid bigots. Now he brings them with to the Russian Federation, cast at the feet of the dictator as useful idiots and spoils in an information war. 

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