Member-only story

The World Gets a Glimpse at the Message that Got Tucker Fired

The problem is that most of his followers don’t agree with him

B Kean
5 min readMay 4, 2023
Photo by Loren Biser on Unsplash

Tucker Carlson’s future.

It is a page yet to be written but will surely be done so shortly. In some ways, we already know the next lines but in case there is doubt, Tucker Carlson’s text message of January 7th, 2021 helps us.

Maybe, if we want to be lazy, we can just use his words in their entirety to cover the parchment that will likely become a call to action for many Americans.

A couple of weeks ago, I was watching video of people fighting on the street in Washington. A group of Trump guys surrounded an Antifa kid and started pounding the living shit out of him. It was three against one, at least. Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously. It’s not how white men fight. Yet suddenly I found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they’d hit him harder, kill him. I really wanted them to hurt the kid. I could taste it. Then somewhere deep in my brain, an alarm went off: this isn’t good for me. I’m becoming something I don’t want to be. The Antifa creep is a human being. Much as I despise what he says and does, much as I’m sure I’d hate him personally if I knew him, I shouldn’t gloat over his suffering. I should be bothered by it. I should…

--

--

B Kean
B Kean

Written by B Kean

The past holds the answers to today’s problems. “Be curious, not judgmental,” at least until you have all the facts. Think and stop watching cable news.

Responses (8)