The Tucker Carlson Show - Tucker Carlson - Ep. 8  Rick from Boston is telling us he wants to be known as female Admiral Rachel Levine. Accept his lie or pay the consequences, bigot.
Aired: 2023-06-30
Duration: 04:54


=== Belmont Hill's Military Pride (04:54) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey, it's Tucker Carlson.
[00:00:02]  Belmont Hill is a small private school outside of Boston.
[00:00:05]  It's not famous for its athletics.
[00:00:07]  The school's mascot isn't even an animal.
[00:00:10]  It's an 18th century navigational tool.
[00:00:12]  The Belmont Hill sextants doesn't even make sense.
[00:00:16]  So when it comes to sports, Belmont Hill is not trying very hard.
[00:00:19]  But the school's athletic program can claim at least one important footnote to history.
[00:00:24]  In 1975, its football roster contained two names that you will recognize even now.
[00:00:30]  Mark Milley and Richard Levine.
[00:00:32]  Milley is now the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
[00:00:35]  Levine, of course, is our country's most famous admiral.
[00:00:38]  Both transitioned late in life into overweight, middle-aged women.
[00:00:42]  Both wound up working as high-level officials in the Joe Biden administration.
[00:00:46]  Their teammates at the All Boys School in Boston probably wouldn't have predicted any of that.
[00:00:51]  Here's what Rick Levine looks like now from a video he just posted on Instagram.
[00:00:58]  Hello, my name is Admiral Rachel Levine, and I have the honor of being the Assistant Secretary for Health at the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
[00:01:07]  Happy Pride!
[00:01:08]  Happy Pride Month, and actually, let's declare it a summer of pride.
[00:01:13]  Happy summer of pride.
[00:01:15]  Happy summer of pride!
[00:01:17]  Rick Levine is so darn proud, he'd like to tell you about it all summer, and possibly into the fall.
[00:01:23]  He's got a lot to be proud of.
[00:01:25]  What specifically, you ask?
[00:01:27]  Well, strangely, he doesn't say.
[00:01:29]  Nor does he mention his former wife or children.
[00:01:32]  He doesn't tell us whether they're proud, too.
[00:01:34]  Since none of them have been invited onto the Today Show to talk about their feelings, we're going to have to guess.
[00:01:39]  For now, we're going to assume that his former family is proud.
[00:01:42]  And why wouldn't they be?
[00:01:44]  Few Americans in our history has come as far as Rick Levine.
[00:01:48]  Here's a fat guy in a Halloween costume who somehow became a federal health minister.
[00:01:53]  Not a small thing.
[00:01:54]  You try that.
[00:01:55]  Not too long ago, this same man was a married pediatrician with kids lecturing about eating disorders at Penn State.
[00:02:01]  Now he's emerged as a path-breaking lady admiral with medals on his chest.
[00:02:05]  And he did all of that without winning a single naval battle, or even being female.
[00:02:10]  It's pretty inspiring.
[00:02:12]  What we have here is living proof that in this country, you really can be whatever you want to be.
[00:02:18]  If Rick Levine can become Admiral Rachel, why can't you be Napoleon?
[00:02:22]  Or Lord Mountbatten, the last viceroy of India?
[00:02:26]  Ever see that guy's uniform?
[00:02:27]  Or why not Shaka, the legendary Zulu war chief?
[00:02:31]  You could bring your Asagai and Leopard Hide shield to work at Deloitte and no one would be allowed to say a word about it.
[00:02:37]  The HR department would have your back.
[00:02:40]  Unfortunately, you can't actually do any of that.
[00:02:43]  The point of Rick Levine's amazing transformation is not to free you from the inflexible husk that you were born in.
[00:02:50]  So you can be more fully yourself, whatever you decide that is.
[00:02:53]  No, that's not the point.
[00:02:54]  Rick Levine's personal journey has nothing to do with you.
[00:02:57]  It's about him.
[00:02:58]  It's his journey.
[00:03:00]  Your fantasies about becoming something totally new and different have not been approved yet.
[00:03:04]  In fact, they're weird.
[00:03:06]  Shaka, the Zulu war king?
[00:03:08]  Come on.
[00:03:08]  That's racist.
[00:03:10]  Shut up and be proud of Admiral Rachel.
[00:03:12]  I, Rachel L. Levine.
[00:03:14]  She's the one who has smashed glass ceilings.
[00:03:16]  You just got some kind of weird fetish.
[00:03:19]  So actually, now that we're saying this out loud, it's pretty clear that Rick Levine has no interest in liberating you from anything.
[00:03:24]  This is not about liberation.
[00:03:26]  It's just the opposite.
[00:03:28]  It's just another religious war, same as all the others.
[00:03:30]  The people who think they're God versus everybody else.
[00:03:35]  In primitive civilizations, which would include every civilization since the beginning of time until ours, people assumed there were rules.
[00:03:42]  Rules that no human being made, but that people could ignore only at their peril, at great risk.
[00:03:49]  Some called these rules nature or natural law or even, as societies advanced, theology.
[00:03:54]  But most of the time, people didn't call them anything.
[00:03:57]  They didn't have to.
[00:03:58]  There wasn't a debate about whether the rules were real.
[00:04:01]  People assumed there were consequences to pretending that you were God.
[00:04:04]  They thought Sodom and Gomorrah were real places.
[00:04:07]  They were destroyed for disobedience.
[00:04:09]  They imagined the same thing could happen to them.
[00:04:12]  Not anymore.
[00:04:14]  Rick Levine doesn't worry about being punished by forces he can't see.
[00:04:17]  He knows he's in charge.
[00:04:19]  He makes the rules.
[00:04:20]  He sets the limits.
[00:04:22]  Reality is what he says it is.
[00:04:24]  That's his view, and he shares it with virtually everybody else in a position of authority in the United States.
[00:04:30]  That's a pretty bold bet, really.
[00:04:33]  For seven million years, human beings have believed one thing, presumably based on some evidence.
[00:04:38]  Around 2015, they became convinced of something completely different.
[00:04:43]  Are they right?
[00:04:44]  It feels like we're going to find out soon.
[00:04:49]  The entrepreneur people say the news is full of wine.
[00:04:52]  And Kennedy's motorcade.
[00:04:53]  239 people.