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Tucker Carlson and The New Right
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I want to start off by saying if you’re new here, welcome and thank you. Odds are, you’ve probably been watching my videos for a while, and now with this newsletter, I can connect with you in a way where I won’t be censored. The format for this thing goes as follows:
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I do this because if you scroll to the bottom of any of my first twelve editions , those blogs still hold up. Meaning anyone joining this community later than all of you can play catch-up quickly. While today’s stock market will be different than tomorrow’s, the stories I write about our pedophilic politicians will remain relevant. Today will be a little different because we’ll be talking about Tucker Carlson, his new media company, and the new right. Now, take the gun out of your mouth and start reading.
Tucker Carlson’s New Media Company
Almost fifteen years after starting The Daily Caller, Tucker Carlson and his college roommate, Neil Patel, have founded a new media company called Last Country Inc. Over the years, I’ve become a huge fan of Tucker; in many ways, I think he’s gone from a pro-Iraq-invasion pundit in a bowtie to a guy who looks for answers where others don’t and who isn’t afraid to make some influential people mad in the process. As much as I’ve loved Tucker on Twitter, I understand why people are still skeptical of the guy. Beyond his laugh sounding like that of Jakob Fugger watching one of his servants stumble over a bucket of water, Carlson’s Dad ran a propaganda arm for US intelligence, a young Tucker tried to join the CIA, and he once asked Hunter Biden to help get his son into Georgetown. It’s understandable to have some questions.
It had been rumored that Tucker was going to start his own media company after his departure from Fox, but for months, the only public action Tucker was taking to keep his audience engaged was hosting a show on Twitter (that averages more viewers than any cable news show in America). This past Summer, Last Country filed a trademark for the right to sell electronic goods and services like podcasts and video content under their name. The co-founders are listed as Carlson and Patel, but they recently raised fifteen million dollars in seed funding from one source, Omeed Malik.
For those of you who don’t know what seed funding is, it’s when a guy gives you money in exchange for equity (think Shark Tank) or convertible note stakes in a company.
Omeed Malik isn’t a shocking name to see backing Tucker. Malik founded Farvahar Partners and 1789 Capital, two private equity firms focusing on investing in and building anti-woke companies. Malik is a former Bank of America managing director, and he’s also the reason Last Country’s first sponsor, Public Square, was able to go public. Public Square is an app where conservatives can see businesses that align with their values in their area. It gives users the chance to choose the Mom and Pop shop an extra two miles away rather than Target or the pro-life bakery as opposed to the one that’s not.
Because that’s where America is nowadays, one ice cream store will give your child puberty blockers along with a soft serve and a sex toy; the other will give it a gun and some Dippin Dots.
That’s beside the point. Omeed Malik sits on the board of Public Square and likely has a lot of money invested in the company. It was recently announced that Public Square’s first contract with Carlson was to the tune of over a million dollars, presumably negotiated through Malik. One of those reasons this is a big deal is that Tucker’s show, which does numbers any Netflix show would love to have, finally has a sponsor. The advertising game has been fucked up for a long time. Supply and demand haven’t made any sense to people paying attention. Sure, having Tucker Carlson sponsor your product comes with baggage, but when you can spend pennies on the dollar to reach twenty times the amount of people as CNN Primetime, it’s worth the price you’ll pay. Nobody watching Tucker’s show on Twitter is half paying attention as it airs in a Planet Fitness; they are seeking the content because they trust him and want to watch it.
So what gives? The lack of companies willing to do business with Tucker is a testament to how much politics has changed. Rich people in populated areas used to vote Republican; now they vote Democrat. In the 1950s, academics noticed a trend where more affluent Americans were increasingly voting Republican, and less affluent Americans were increasingly voting Democrat. In the early postwar decades, social democratic and affiliated parties represented the low-education and the low-income electorates, whereas conservative and affiliated parties represented high-education and high-income voters. Beginning with Bill Clinton and his hostility towards organized labor, this began to shift, and with the emergence of big tech, the expansion of government jobs, and Donald J. Trump, this shift has become radical.
Loudoun County, Virginia, has been the center of our country’s debate about Critical Race Theory—the median household income there is $156,821 (click this link for more). Loudoun County, which historically voted Republican until Obama, illustrates a trend happening nationwide. Sixty-four percent of congressional districts with median incomes below the national average are represented by Republicans. A majority of the top ten percent (by income) voted for the Democratic presidential candidate in the 2010s. While the upper middle class is still slightly voting Republican, they’re turning left at a drastic rate, and advertisers are following them- especially women. Women make up half of the US population and control or influence eighty-five percent of consumer spending; they also statistically haven’t liked Trump (especially the rich ones).
Tucker Carlson calls out every single government agency; he identifies corporate greed when he sees it, and he’s not afraid to speak his mind about neoconservative warmongerers in the Republican party. On top of that, it’s assumed most coastal white women won’t be tuning into his show...... it’s no surprise that advertisers aren’t jumping at the chance to sponsor him. Companies see advertising on Tucker as a risk that outweighs any kind of reward, and here’s why they are wrong.
With wealth disparity in America approaching what it was in the age of robber barons, I’m expecting companies with a little bit of hair on their chest to follow Public Square in sponsoring Tucker. While many Americans might not like everything he says and stands for, Tucker Carlson is the only figurehead at his popularity level asking questions that are important to every taxpaying American. Questions about foreign policy, government budgets, power structures, unelected officials making decisions on the working man’s behalf, and the state of our media. Questions like: why is America’s youth so unhappy? Why is the food we eat so unhealthy? Why do the people who work the hardest get paid the least? And why has America killed millions of innocent brown children? Who made money off their deaths? Judging by his viewership numbers since he left Fox, everyone in this country wants answers to questions like these.
Tucker getting ad revenue is notable, but so are the people potentially influencing his content. Omeed Malik’s companies have some major power players in Washington and New York, and in terms of Republicans, he’s one of the most well-connected guys in the country right now. Over the summer, Malik organized a Las Vegas dinner for RFK Jr. Guests included Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Trump economic advisor Gary Cohn, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, ex-UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, and Democratic megadonor Marc Lasry. If Malik can get those power players in a Vegas dining room for RFK on a dime, he knows what he’s doing.
Now, Malik is funding one of the most powerful media apparatuses in world history: Tucker Carlson’s mouth. His investment in Carlson’s media company was the first investment made by 1789 Capital, which reportedly aims to help get Last Country off the ground so it can continue to raise the hundreds of millions it is aiming for. Carlson’s media company is reportedly expected to be video-focused and will offer subscription-based content, similar to the Daily Wire. Both of Malik’s private equity firms are small (like less than ten employees small), and the same two guys are his partners in both- Joe Voboril and Jordan Cohen.
The best way to describe Jordan Cohen would probably be with the word molly. He keeps a low profile, he worked at a small-hedge fund out in California for over a decade, he owned a Yoga studio in LA until he got tired of it, and he now lives in Miami. He’s on the board of a few charities, and I assume he’s got a good-looking girlfriend- he’s Malik’s COO on both ventures. We can assume Malik and Cohen met at Emory Law School, where they graduated within a year of each other.
Joe Voboril’s connection to Malik seems a little bit more personal. Voboril was close to Malik at Bank of America when he was an executive. And then something interesting happened. In January 2018, Omeed Malik was fired from his post at Bank of America for a sexual harassment claim. The claim came as a result of a supposed incident after a work party. When the incident occurred, Malik, Voboril, and some female employees went out for drinks. Coincidentally, Malik was fired for this claim right after he was vocal to other Bank of America executives that his superior, Martina Slowley, lacked the correct licenses to do business in the United States (she’s British). Four witnesses were asked about the incident when BoA was doing its internal investigation. Voboril and another young female employee said that Malik did nothing wrong.
Voboril and the young women were then encouraged to change their statement; they didn’t, and they were fired for it. The two other witnesses (unnamed) were then helped out by Bank of America to land high-profile jobs at hedge funds. Malik and Voboril then received tens of millions of dollars from Bank of America for wrongful termination.
But Voboril and Cohen aren’t the only people helping Malik in his new endeavors. Blake Masters, the protege to Peter Thiel and loser of last year’s Arizona Senate race, is also an advisor to 1789 Capital. Chris Buskirk, the co-founder of 1789 Capital, is also the founder of the Rockbridge Network, a not-so-secret society of Republican donors and Silicon Valley conservatives aiming to take over the GOP.
Carlson’s funding isn’t a big deal because he’s going after the left, it’s a big deal because he’s going after the right. There have been two different kinds of right-wingers for a while, but since Trump came down the escalator the night he announced his first run for President, the right has been at an all-out war. The people funding Tucker’s new endeavor highlight the new right. The people who staunchly oppose mass immigration, unelected government officials in three-letter agencies, and Wall Street influence (they also supposedly hate unnecessary wars abroad, but that gets a little confusing because Peter Thiel-backed-candidates have been vocal about ending the war in Ukraine, but he’s also making a shit ton off it). One thing is for sure - in comparison to old Republican networks like that of the Kochs and Bill Marriott, they want a different America. Much like leftists hate war and milquetoast liberals want to bomb the shit out of every country where gay people can’t marry, they might share red, but they are vastly different. I like to think of it as follows: leftists care about people and put them first, new right wingers care about the country and put America first, and the Nikki Haley’s and Gavin Newsome’s of the world just care about their bottom line. The new right wanted a face behind their message, and it looks like they finally have it.
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