Derek discusses Tucker Carlson advocating for corporal punishment as a way to discipline children in his appearance at the Turning Points USA MAGA rally. Show Notes Stephen Colbert: Tucker Carlson’s Weird Daddy Issues Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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| If you allow people to get away with things that are completely over the top and outrageous, if you allow your two-year-old to smear the contents of his diapers on the wall of your living room, and you do nothing about it, if you allow your 14-year-old to light a joint at the breakfast table, If you allow your hormone addled 15 year old daughter to like slam the door of her bedroom and give you the finger, you're gonna get more of it. | |
| And those kids are gonna wind up in rehab. | |
| It's not good for you and it's not good for them. | |
| No! | |
| There has to be a point at which dad comes home. | |
| Yeah, that's right. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Dad comes home. | |
| And he's pissed. | |
| Dad is pissed. | |
| He's not vengeful. | |
| He loves his children. | |
| Disobedient as they may be, he loves them. | |
| Because they're his children. | |
| They live in his house. | |
| But he's very disappointed in their behavior. | |
| And he's gonna have to let them know. | |
| He's gonna have to get to your room right now. | |
| And think about what you did. | |
| And when dad gets home, you know what he says? | |
| You've been a bad girl. | |
| You've been a bad little girl and you're getting a vigorous spanking right now. | |
| And no, it's not gonna hurt me more than it hurts you. | |
| No, it's not. | |
| I'm not gonna lie. | |
| This is gonna hurt you a lot more than it hurts me. | |
| And you earned this. | |
| You're getting a vigorous spanking because you've been a bad girl. | |
| And it has to be this way. | |
| It has to be this way because it's true. | |
| And you're only going to get better when you take responsibility for what you did. | |
| No, Tucker, it doesn't have to be this way. | |
| And that's what I want to talk about. | |
| First, this was at the Turning Points USA presidential rally that Tucker Carlson spoke at. | |
| He claims it was the first political rally that he's ever spoken at in his career. | |
| It prefaced Donald Trump, who would later come to the stage and say things like he stopped a war with France. | |
| But it's really disturbing. | |
| Just thinking about where we are politically, where now, the day you'll listen to this, or at least the day it'll be published, eight days before the election, and the closing argument includes someone who cosplayed a journalist for a very long time and still tries to do that, talking about the necessity of hitting children. | |
| And of course, all of the fear-mongering and the lies and the misinformation and the disinformation coming from Trump's mouth himself. | |
| All of the enemy is within rhetoric that his cronies try to spin as if he's not saying what he's saying. | |
| This is the closing argument. | |
| And wherever you land politically, just to take a screenshot of the two different closing arguments... | |
| One, trying to lift up American people with hope and something to grasp in the future, and the other side not, relying on a completely different tactic. | |
| On the topic of corporal punishment, and that's what I want to briefly talk about today with an anecdote. | |
| Matthew has covered this topic pretty extensively in the past few years, rightfully so, because he's thought about it a lot. | |
| He's done research into it. | |
| He's talked to experts about it. | |
| Julian has also touched it as well, as both of them are parents and have a much deeper vested interest in what that means for raising children in today's society. | |
| So you can listen to them for much more research, probably a lot more thoughtful commentary on the totality of what that entails. | |
| But I want to flag now that this isn't that. | |
| This isn't me doing my normal thing where I hold up influencers' claims and then I talk about clinical studies that refute those claims and don't show the efficacy. | |
| This is purely my story about why I think corporal punishment is a terrible idea. | |
| And the fact that somebody who could be president in a week, that this is part of their closing argument to the American people, is so troublesome. | |
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