Last night, Donald Trump overshadowed the first GOP presidential debate by racking up at least 30 times more views during his interview with Tucker Carlson that aired at the same time.
The Republican debate went from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. EST and drew an estimated 3 million or so viewers, while from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m., Trump's interview racked up 100 million views.
Why do I mention this?
Let me circle back like Jen Psaki on that.
I understand why many criticized Trump for not joining the debate in Milwaukee. He shouldn't see himself as above the primary process because he is the leading candidate.
So when he gives an argument like the following, it has some holes:
There's something important Trump said here though beyond his self-congratulatory conclusions about the polls. Did you catch it?
Do I sit there for two hours and get harassed by people that shouldn't be running for president at a network that isn't particularly friendly?
Again, you probably focused in on his jab at the other candidates and took offense at his presumption that they shouldn't be running for president.
Let me narrow it down again:
Do I sit there for two hours and get harassed ... at a network that isn't particularly friendly?
Trump's jab at Fox News is the key here. Don't overlook it.
If you are over a certain age, you likely still tune into legacy media. As for me, I haven't watched cable for years outside the occasional snippet. It's all so fake and gay.
For my entire life, I've watch the "grown ups in charge" stand on their debate platforms, repeating scripted one-liners about freedom and apple pie with a twinkle in their eye while partisan "moderators" lob loaded questions at candidates who might disrupt the establishment's status quo.
Fox is just as bad as the rest, now a proto-woke ideological business that is pushing an agenda:
Seriously? Who wants to watch that garbage??
I spent years watching Republicans in particular apologize to the American people during debates for believing Republican things.
But now I'm watching the nation suffer and collapse all around me. My family is struggling to pay for things. Cities are filled with addiction and despair. Our border is nonexistent and the politicians are busy sending the FBI to arrest Catholic dads and protect the depraved son of a corrupt president.
I feel like this:
The decorum that these candidates try to embody up there on the stage now disgusts me. It's so scripted, so fake, so jaded. Here we are at the intersection of 1984 and The Hunger Games and we're expected to treat their little cage match with honor and dignity?
I'm over it.
If I were Trump, I wouldn't want to be on that stage. Why do cable news hosts with a gallon of makeup on their faces get to decide how America sees the candidates? Let the candidates sit down with a guy like Tucker for an hour and have a real conversation where I can measure them up like men instead of robots in pressed suits with the obligatory American flag pinned to their lapels.
That circles us back like Jen to the ratings.
The legacy media, the propaganda arm of the establishment, only has power if you pay attention to them. When you take away the eyeballs, they die.
Which is why I'm glad people like Tucker and Elon Musk are paving a new way forward for those of us that started tuning out of legacy news a decade ago in favor of long-form interviews, podcasts, and salty little news outfits like Not The Bee.
I want the legacy media and its gatekeepers to go the way of the dinosaur.
The candidates up there on the stage that are still living in 1995 can join them. Mike Pence was invoking Ronald Reagan's Bible, for goodness' sake.
Have any of these candidates even lived in the 21st century?
Don't get me wrong: I'm not even saying you should vote for Trump or that I approve of all his opinions, although I can understand why he would consider it proper for him to be the candidate.
But what Trump and Tucker Carlson did last night was cut the head off the beast. They showed the emperor has no clothes. That's important.
These candidates only participate in the cable debates because they think it will get them voters. If no one tunes in, they'll go elsewhere.
At some future date, when the legacy media is long gone, we'll have a new way of doing debates and interviews. I am 100% sure that the establishment will try to control these outlets because they are already trying (as reports like the Twitter Files show).
But for now, this is the counterrevolution. This is the way to get authentic information directly to people without the filter. This is how you speak to a hurting people who are facing the death of liberty and the brainwashing of their children by a regime that hates them and wants to destroy all they hold dear. Participating in the establishment's little games only undermines that.
Trump being up on that stage wouldn't have made me more likely to vote for him, but him sitting down with Tucker did.
Anyone who doesn't understand that should take a step back and pay attention or be as unaware as Chris Christie.
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