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Thank you for the video clip of Taibbi and Kirn. I keep trying to finish that episode because it has so many great moments in it.

I am hopeful for Tucker Carlson, for a number of reasons, one of them being that his time slot lost around 1.5 million viewers, meaning 1.5 million people were tuning into that hour *just for Tucker Carlson*. If even a million of those follow him, it is a good acorn to plant.

The gift of this moment is that the smallest pebble in a pond can create ripples that lead to a sea change, and Tucker was more like a boulder in a pond. The sea change we have here is that while the younger generations might already be used to the idea of not being tied to the TV guide and cable packages, the older generations may not have found that freedom yet. But imagine if you could free early Gen X and the remaining Baby Boomers from that mentality and teach them to explore the "political wilderness," as Taibbi and Kirm call it elsewhere. We would stand a chance against the Machine, and the Machine knows it. Hence, all the hysteria about "no one to police Tucker."

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Thanks for this, Lillia.

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