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Now That Tucker Carlson Ate Some Insects, Could Disinfluencers Please Shut Up About 'Ze Bugs'? [1]

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Date: 2023-04-19

Last year we flagged the ongoing right-wing campaign of "Big Strong Fierce Manly Men Who Aren't Scared Of Anything" being whiny little babies when it comes to the suggestion that insect protein could be incorporated into diets for health, savings, and climate benefits.

For some reason, our mockery failed to make them stop complaining, however, and now even mainstream outlets are running pieces explaining the conspiracy theory that the nefarious global elites wielding supreme power at the World Economic Forum are going to force you to eat bug burgers. As Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel Rosenberg explain in a New Republic op-ed , the right-wing bugout about eating bugs "perfectly encapsulates the insipid but dangerous battlefield that meat now represents in America’s perpetual culture war. From right-wing trolls’ disparaging references to effeminate left-wing 'soy-boys,' to the stomach-churning embrace of hypermasculine [and scurvy-inducing — Ed.] 'carnivore' diets, it’s clear conservatives’ darker fantasies aren’t just about threats to a dietary staple but about threats to the liberty, bodily integrity, and masculinity of American men."

And as if on cue, enter Tucker Carlson, host of the most racist show on TV and endorser of " testicle tanning " in his " End of Men " segment on "the 'collapse' of American males' testosterone levels" that was so ridiculous the mockery literally made international news .

To kick off the third season of Carlson's not-prime-time, Fox Nation subscriber-only show , Carlson reprised his role in this conspiracy and collaborated with an activist from the Netherlands , Eva Vlaardingerbroek, to scare Americans about eating bugs . But Tucker also did something pretty surprising: he ate some bugs himself!

In a clip just under a minute long posted to Fox's YouTube , Carlson tastes chocolate-covered crickets. "That's delicious!" he said, right after asking which part of the cricket he was about to eat and confirming for some weird reason that the cricket's "loins" were included.

As "reported" by the The Daily Caller , the "news" outlet Carlson founded, Carlson not only ate bugs but also talked to one of the chefs featured in the WEF conspiracy theory, as part of what is clearly the promotional campaign for his show’s new season!

Carlson said he could "eat chocolate covered crickets all day" and that a cricket-based burger was "not bad at all."

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