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Business Insider has a big scoop! Tucker Carlson is running for president!

Oh wait, no, Tucker Carlson was just jerking their chains.

When I asked Tucker Carlson in a text on Tuesday evening if he was planning a run for president, the newly self-employed far-right firebrand had a shocking answer: "Yes. Announcing Friday in New Hampshire."

But my earthshaking scoop was short-lived. After I credulously asked him to confirm that he was serious before I blasted out the news, which would reshape the 2024 presidential race, the former Fox News broadcaster confirmed what millions of Americans have already concluded: He's just an asshole.

"Totally kidding," Carlson wrote. "Sorry. I can never control myself. I'm fundamentally a dick. My apologies."

Carlson's rash messages come as the incendiary monologist attempts to rebrand himself as a full-time Twitter personality after 14 years on Fox News, which fired him earlier this month. Carlson's show became a kind of ideological North Star for the embittered and racialized nationalism that propelled Donald Trump into the White House and then incubated the Trump movement's conspiracy theories and insatiable sense of outrage in the wake of his 2020 election loss.

Awww, the fee-fees of the leftwing coozefarm Business Insider were hurt. Awwww.

Megyn Kelly talks about Fox employees being asked by the company to turn over their personal phones in the Dominion case. Some on-air talent refused and hired their own lawyers to keep their private texts private. Tucker Carlson did as the company asked and turned his phone over to them. And now, Kelly says, Fox is leaking texts from that phone -- which he gave to them to hold in confidence -- to destroy him.

Speaking of collapsing brands with no hope of recovery, the marketing guru who put Bud Light at the top of the sales charts with his "Wazzzup?" campaign is not a fan of Tranheuser-Busch's Dylan Mulvaney initiative.

The marketing genius behind some of Budweiser's most iconic ads has slammed his former employer for destroying the image he helped create.

Robert Lachky, who created the memorable 'Whassup?' promo of 1999 and the 'Talking Frogs' commercial that debuted at the Super Bowl five years earlier, said it took him two decades to establish Budweiser as one of America's most prominent beers.

But, he said, that all came crashing down last month when TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney, 26, announced she was partnering with Bud Light and showed off cans featuring her face.

Now, sales of the light beer are down in every region of the United States.

'It took us 20 years to take Bud Light beer to the Number 1 beer in the country, and it took them one week to dismantle it,' Lachky said of InBev, Budweiser's Belgian parent company.

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One of the ones he created, in which three frogs croaked 'bud,' 'weiss' and 'err,' was dubbed 'one of the most iconic alcohol campaigns in advertising history' by Adweek.

And another, featuring a group of friends calling each other while sitting at their respective homes watching television and drinking a Budweiser, in which they ask each other 'Whassup' helped define the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Lachky also served as Bud Light's brand manager, creating advertisements like the I Love You Man commercial in 1995 and the Real Men of Genius campaigns.

Under his tenure, Bud Light surpassed Miller Light as the top-selling light beer country.

He has special reason for annoyance: Tranheuser-Busch's current VP of marketing (currently on leave, not fired) said that Bud Light's image had been "fratty" and involved "low humor."

Apparently a dig at these commercials, as well as Bud Light's actual customer base.

Oooh, it's like a regional competition now:

A Florida Man (obvs) entered a Ladies-Only Poker tournament and won.

Why yes, this is unfair.

Are leftists just noticing now, because this man, it turns out, was never a woman at all?

I've got news for you: None of the men pretending to be women have ever been women at all.

This askhually isn't a case of him pretending to be transgender (note: all transgenders pretend to be transgender; they're the same gender they were born as).

Instead, it's that Florida law forbids sex-discrimination in casinos, and men usually don't enter tournaments designated as women only out of social pressure, and because women are given a 90% discount on their entrance fee, which men are not.

(Wait, that sounds a lot like sex-discrimination in a casino to me.)

So, what has kept men out of the ladies-only tournament is the social expectation that men should be gallant and cede women's spaces to women.

But society as a whole is getting rid of that social expectation.

So let the games begin.

A Florida man drew ire over the weekend when he entered and won a women's poker tournament at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in the Sunshine State.

Dave Hughes, 70, entered the $250 no-limit Texas Hold'em event with a prize pool of up to $17,450. Of the 83 competitors to enter the tournament, 82 of them were women, and the last one was Hughes. Hughes ended up defeating Dayanna Ciabaton at the end and take home $5,555, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Hughes was allowed to enter the women's tournament as Florida casinos are prohibited from banning men from entering women's tournament, according to anti-discrimination laws. The newspaper noted that Nevada casinos have a similar rule. The World Series of Poker's Ladies event has a $10,000 buy-in tournament, and women receive a 90% discount in hopes of keeping men from entering.

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Charlie Carrel, a British poker player, also weighed in on the issue in a tweet, saying initially that it was "hilarious that he won."

"It pokes fun at the idea that anybody can identify as a woman and be allowed to enter women's spaces," Carrel continued.

"It's a real issue that people are taking advantage of in many different areas, including sports, prisons and changing areas. This has lead to some horrific repercussions (female inmates being raped in prison, or women getting destroyed in MMA fights by somebody who spent 95% of their life as a man).

"It does suck that it comes at the expense of the women's only space. I wouldn't do it, even though I probably share the same criticisms. Female only spaces in poker are really needed. Mixed poker can often be absolutely horrendous environments for women to be a part of.

"The trans issue is a lot easier to handle in poker, as the stakes are relatively low. The difference between male and female players is negligible enough that the incentive for men to join women's spaces isn't really there."

But the difference is still there, and so there is an incentive for men to "join women's spaces."

Lunatic demented attention-seeker E. Jean Carroll not only had a dog named "Vagina," not only thought that people consider genuine forcible r@pe "sexy," but also tweeted out sex tips she learned from her dog.

E. Jean Carroll @ejeancarroll

Sex Tip I Learned From My Dog: When in heat, chase the male until he collapses with exhaustion . . . then jump him!

This is a normal person who doesn't hallucinate sexual assaults for money and attention.

CNN is so high on this antisemitic conspiracy-theory-peddling racist that they are considering giving her Don LeMon's slot (I mean his old show time, not his @sshole), thus humiliating Don LeMon more than he usually pays for.

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