Sept. 12, 2023 - The Tucker Carlson Show
04:36
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| You can have a system that nobody actually supports except the people directly benefiting from it. | ||
| This is the main thing I've learned in the past five years. | ||
| I'm 54, I've lived in this country my whole life, and because I, unlike everyone else in Washington, actually kind of believed in the basic premise of democracy, which is the majority rules, that's the most basic fact of democracy. | ||
| The people run their own government. | ||
| If you get a majority of people to vote for something, that's now the law. | ||
| And that's totally untrue. | ||
| You can put it in a ballot referendum, some judge will overturn it. | ||
| Well, what about democracy? | ||
| You could spend billions of dollars on a foreign policy theory that nobody actually supports. | ||
| Doesn't matter. | ||
| In the end, most governments are run by a small group of people for their own benefit without reference to what the majority wants. | ||
| And I hate to believe that that's true in this country, but all the evidence suggests that it is. | ||
| In fact, it's provable. | ||
| You know how you prove it? | ||
| Public opinion polling. | ||
| Take a look at the latest Gallup poll. | ||
| Pick a poll. | ||
| What are the top ten issues for people in the United States? | ||
| And then compare those to the priorities of your leaders. | ||
| So people are leaving Michigan because it's very hard to make a living here and you're constantly hassled by a government that never stops growing and that is leeching off an economy that hasn't grown in decades, okay? | ||
| That's the truth. | ||
| Take a look at the priorities of the low IQ lunatic who's running your state, Gretchen Whitmer, who deserves zero respect, no respect. | ||
| Her priorities are what? | ||
| Putting you in jail? | ||
| Well, if you quote misgender somebody, what percentage of the population of the state of Michigan, even southeastern Michigan, is on board with that as a top concern? | ||
| It's like roughly around a tenth of one percent, okay, in that range. | ||
| The things that people care about, Gretchen Whitmer couldn't care less about. | ||
| Because democracy isn't functioning. | ||
| If democracy was functioning in America, in Michigan, in California, the District of Columbia where I live, the state of Maine, the state of Texas, how many Texans do you think are all on board with letting 7 million people cross into their state illegally? | ||
| What percentage? | ||
| Zero. | ||
| Zero. | ||
| I don't care what your race or national origin, nobody is for that. | ||
| That's insane. | ||
| Has the governor of Texas done anything meaningful to stop that? | ||
| No. | ||
| The Republican governor? | ||
| He's got a National Guard. | ||
| He's the commander-in-chief of the National Guard. | ||
| And it's Texas, so they're all large. | ||
| And they have double-stack magazines in their sidearms. | ||
| You think they couldn't stop that in a week? | ||
| Of course. | ||
| Just assemble along the border. | ||
| We're not doing this. | ||
| No, he refuses to do that. | ||
| He won't do it. | ||
| And it's not like no one suggests it. | ||
| I've suggested it to him three times, including in private at a cocktail party in Dallas last year. | ||
| What are you doing, man? | ||
| Don't you have a National Guard? | ||
| Why don't you seal the border? | ||
| Oh, it's very complicated. | ||
| No, it's not. | ||
| No, it's not. | ||
| If someone's trying to break into my house, it's not complicated to repel the person. | ||
| Do you have a firearm or don't you? | ||
| Are you willing to defend your house and your children or aren't you? | ||
| Well, it's more complicated than really. | ||
| Tell me how. | ||
| Speak slowly so I can understand. | ||
| It's not more complicated than that. | ||
| It's more dishonest than that. | ||
| You're lying to me. | ||
| You don't want to do it because your donors don't want you to do it. | ||
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It's that simple, Greg Abbott. | |
| Liar. | ||
| Liar. | ||
| And worse than liar, betrayer of your own people. | ||
| That's what that is. | ||
| I was polite at the cocktail party, so I didn't say any of that. | ||
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But I fumed internally like an Episcopalian. | |
| I thought those things. | ||
| But the point is, if you assume that just because everybody wants something, you're going to get it. | ||
| Think again, pal. | ||
| It's very likely that in fact you won't get anything that you want. | ||
| You will just pay for what a small group of other people want. | ||
| That's the way it works. | ||
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Boo! | |
| Boo is right. | ||
| Boo is right. | ||
| It's not just frustrating, it's a betrayal of the core promise of the country, which is the people rule. | ||
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That's a criminal act. | |
| That is a criminal act. | ||
| Let's just put this in context. | ||
| It's not just like you have boutique weird right-wing views and you're... | ||
| That's how they want you to feel. | ||
| Like, oh, you're an extremist. | ||
| Really? | ||
| I'm an extremist? |
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