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On March 10, 2023, I published Carlson’s J6 Disclosure Strategy is Brilliant, amidst widespread criticism of Tucker Carlson’s reporting that week on the fake insurrection. In the piece, I stated what I still believe to be true: That the truth community is not Tucker Carlson’s audience and that, due to his reporting on the fake insurrection, millions more people learned, many for the first time, that there is a viable alternative to the government’s January 6 narrative. 

As a result of Carlson’s disclosure, at least in part, 65% of likely US voters, roughly two-thirds, believe the feds provoked the January 6 Capitol riot according to Rasmussen. And that was before his recent episodes and disclosures.

At the time I wrote that piece, Carlson was still with Fox News. A little over a month later, he was fired from the network, which has since seen its ratings tank. The network often lands in second place in primetime news coverage, running up behind MSNBC – an outcome that was unthinkable while Carlson led Fox’s evening lineup. Following his departure from Fox, Carlson launched an online program called Tucker on Twitter. 

Carlson’s best rated shows on Fox received a tail (live plus same day views) of around four million views. On average, it was two to three million. For comparison, on Twitter, which Carlson gloriously refuses to call X, he regularly receives tens of millions of views. 

For example, Carlson’s first episode on the platform gained 121 million views. His first few episodes were short – around 10-20 minutes – and his second and third episodes gained 61 million and 105 million views, respectively. Around his ninth episode, Carlson began delivering long-form interview content. The Andrew Tate interview, released in two parts, received a staggering 154 million combined views. His interview with Devon Archer, again in two parts, received a combined 55.7 million views. The Ice Cube interview, one of his best in my opinion, gained 18 million combined views – low in comparison to Tate or Archer, but still more than four times his views on Fox. 

Now consider what I said in the original piece: “... millions more people will have eyes to see and ears to hear and the impact of additional disclosures will be exponentially greater …”

And, at that time, I was talking about his Fox audience.

New Info About Old Drama

Carlson’s firing was announced on April 24 and last week, when he interviewed former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund, we got additional information as to why. In his opening before the interview, Carlson shared that he had previously interviewed Chief Sund, and that the interview was supposed to air on Fox, but it never did. He claimed it was supposed to air on April 24. 

With this new information, we can imagine Carlson battling over the weekend to deliver his show content and ultimately failing. Prior to the Steven Sund interview, we didn’t know what that show content was – no information was ever officially released on the matter.

Leftist media painted his departure as due to ‘racist text messages’ while the more middle of the road narrators claimed it was due to sealed conditions of Fox’s settlement with Dominion over defamation. All of these things can be true, but watching the Sund interview, it’s pretty easy to determine why the network – who have repeatedly revealed themselves as globalist-controlled propaganda – refused to air the piece. It wholly debunks the mainstream narrative about the ‘very violent’ fake insurrection.

As of press time, the interview has nearly 12 million views, three times more than it would have had on Fox. It’s low for Tucker on Twitter, but it aired during an insane news week.

Carlson is Still Disclosing on January 6

Steven Sund was the head of law enforcement at the Capitol on January 6. From his telling of the events leading up to, on, and after that fateful day, it becomes clear that Sund was set up by certain members of the uniparty establishment to take the fall for the ‘intelligence failure’ that led to the Capitol being overrun. 

According to his telling, multiple agencies withheld intelligence in the days prior to January 6, and he describes the briefing and sharing processes as entirely different than prior MAGA rallies in November and December of 2020, as well as different than every other major First Amendment protest he worked in his 30 years in DC law enforcement. The GAO and Senate reports in the wake of the fake insurrection describe high threat levels, but Sund never received that intelligence. 

On that day, the chain of command denied him support for 71 minutes while the US Capitol and his officers were being overwhelmed. Notably, Nancy Pelosi’s description of the day’s events tells a different story, summarized in a supercut by The Guardian with time stamps that don’t align with Sund’s telling. Sund has provided all his phone records and other documentation, while Nancy Pelosi – the ‘Top Boss’ on January 6 – has provided nothing but an edited documentary produced by her daughter. 

You read that correctly – Pelosi’s daughter, the filmmaker, was present and rolling the entire time, but the raw footage, along with her phone records and any other documentation, has never been released. In fact, according to Sund, Representative Benny Thompson, a Democrat who chaired the sham J6 Committee during the last Congress, told the committee that Pelosi and all of her records were “off limits.” Again, she was the ‘Top Boss’ – the top of the chain of command on that day. 

Tell me it’s a cover up without telling me it’s a cover up.  

Sund has been trying to tell his story to anyone who would listen, but like most off-narrative J6 stories, his tale has been suppressed. The stunning, one-hour interview on Twitter makes it clear why Fox refused to air the interview, why 60 Minutes used less than 10 minutes of his story, and why his official interviews with various federal bureaucracies – including the Department of Defense and the Senate – have not reached the eyes and ears of the People. 

On Sunday’s Culture of Change, I was joined by independent investigative journalist Mel Hawley, who exclusively covers January 6 truth to break down the interview and she raised an excellent question that needs to be investigated by House Republicans:

Are the inconsistencies in the official narrative and the official record the reason the January 6 Committee destroyed all their records?

The people deserve to know. 

Regardless, it is now clear that January 6th was not an insurrection by Trump supporters. It was, in fact, the final step of traitors in government to solidify their November 3 coup. 

Other Uncomfortable Truths 

The Devon Archer interview was a stroke of brilliance both in substance and timing.

Just days before the interview aired, Archer testified in a closed House Committee hearing after rescheduling four times prior. We were all anxiously awaiting the testimony, and we were disappointed to find that we had to rely on politicians to tell us what was said. Unsurprisingly, the readouts provided by Republicans and Democrats differed, and all of us were left frustrated.

Democrats took a victory lap, claiming the testimony vindicated the Bidens. Those Democrats likely didn’t realize that Hunter’s former business partner was interviewing with the former Fox host, and they ended up humiliated. Archer revealed that Burisma was pressuring the Bidens to fire Viktor Shokin, the prosecutor investigating Burisma prior to Joe Biden’s infamous, ‘son of a bitch’ comments at a 2018 Council of Foreign Relations event.

Up to this point, the Biden camp – which includes all mainstream media – claimed that this was a strategic US foreign policy decision that had nothing to do with his son’s overseas business dealings involving the Ukrainian gas company that was paying Hunter $83,000 per month.

“I said, ‘You’re not getting the billion.’ I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.’

Well, son of a bitch, he got fired.”

Archer’s testimony further revealed that the purpose of Hunter Biden’s board position was ‘the brand’ — and the value of that brand appears to be favorable US foreign policy decisions and paid favors to foreign oligarchs.

Carlson’s interview with Andrew Tate was much more controversial and, candidly, as a woman, I found it disappointing. The embattled former fighter and current influencer said all the right things about the role of masculinity in society while Carlson, during the more than two-hour interview, pandered at times and accepted watered down answers about Tate’s controversial business ventures. 

I’ve watched a younger Tate on old videos describing his manipulation of young women and his ‘recruitment’ processes for turning those women into online prostitutes. I’ve watched him brag about using those women to mislead men into parting with hundreds of thousands – in some cases millions – of dollars, believing they were going to meet those women. The ‘lover boy’ method that he describes in the Carlson interview is well documented in his own words on old videos, and Carlson didn’t go there. Maybe he hadn’t done his research or maybe there were conditions to the interview, but it was disappointing (at best). 

Carlson’s interview with Ice Cube, as I said previously, was arguably his best. The first of two parts had the host driving around with the rapper, actor, and activist, rolling through Cube’s old neighborhood while discussing free thinking and resistance in the middle of our current dystopia. Tucker didn’t shy away from asking third rail questions about race, politics, corporate America, and Ice Cube didn’t hesitate to answer them. 

“If it’s true, why can’t I say it?” Ice Cube pondered, to which Carlson responded, laughing, “Well, you can’t say it because it’s true.” The 90s icon responded, “And that’s the problem with the world today.”

Indeed. 

About Those Kennedy Democrats

Carlson’s latest interview, released Monday, was with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and it gained over one million views in just one hour on the platform. And it is explosive.

The interview starts with a masterclass in US foreign policy, going back to the 1960s, as JFK’s nephew explains how we got to the point of Russia invading Ukraine. He credibly claims that, as a result of US policy towards this war, Putin is more popular than he ever has been, polling at 93% inside of Russia. 

“We made Putin more powerful.”

During the nearly hour-and-a-half interview, Kennedy demolishes the neocons — who effectively comprise the uniparty establishment at this point — painstakingly detailing the government lies that led to nearly every modern war, from Iraq and weapons of mass destruction to Ukraine biolabs and Putin’s latest advances. And, according to Kennedy’s telling, these issues are not mutually exclusive. He’s particularly hard on Victoria Nuland and Anthony Fauci, and he shares his insights on a wide range of current issues from his unique perspective inside the Kennedy political dynasty. 

I don’t know if Kennedy democrats still exist, but, if they do, this episode is a massive red-pill for the blue dogs. As I said in my original piece, our truth community is not Carlson’s audience. We know nearly everything Kennedy shared, save the family-specific anecdotes, but democrats will be more receptive to this truth from one of their own. 

While Kennedy remains wrong, in my view, on guns, climate, and liberty generally, he is the perfect primary opponent to combat the central narrative, the Biden narrative, and he is polling high among both democrats and independents. That said, Harvard CAPS / Harris still has him losing to Biden in a straight primary and, laughably, losing to Kamala Harris in a Biden-less primary. 

If Bernie red-pilled many non-commie liberals in 2016, Kennedy is going to seal the deal with the rest of them in 2024. 

We are the News Now

Even without a network, Tucker Carlson remains the undisputed leader in normie news, and that is good for those of us in the truth community for two specific reasons:

First, he is speaking truth and opening minds. Carlson was handcuffed at Fox, and his news was watered down. For example, he downplayed the stolen election in the wake of 2020, which caused many, me included, to stop watching. But on Twitter, Carlson has expanded his audience while also expanding the topics he is willing to cover and the level of detail he is willing to share. He now openly states that the election was stolen, often laughing his trademark hyena laugh as though the illegitimacy of the election is, as we would state, beyond any doubt. 

Second, he is using new media to spread this truth. Carlson is now an online creator, and his normie audience are getting comfortable with getting their news online — on Twitter, even!

CNN now regularly pulls less than a million views (live plus same day) for their entire prime time lineup, while Carlson pulls more than 10 million, on the low side, per show. No one is watching mainstream media but, as Carlson proves, that doesn’t mean they aren’t consuming news. They’re consuming news elsewhere. They’re consuming news online.

As these new viewers come online for Carlson, they are more likely to be exposed to other creators, such as Badlands Media, where they will be further exposed to the truth. If the goal is waking people up and welcoming them to the truth community, Tucker Carlson is in the running for MVP. 

Carlson’s journey from Fox News to Twitter has been fascinating to watch, and I stand by my original assessment that his disclosure strategy is brilliant. While I didn’t foresee his departure, the content he has been releasing since being unchained from establishment media is a net positive in the Great Awakening. We are, as I said in March, welcoming millions more brothers and sisters into the light of truth. 

It’s almost as if it had to be this way. 

Disclosure or bust. 

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