Sept. 22, 2023 - The Tucker Carlson Show
06:32
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| If you want to know, and I'm being completely sincere, what's true, the true things are the things that you can't say. | ||
| I cannot remember the last time someone in public life was prosecuted or even criticized for lying. | ||
| If lying was a crime, I mean, your governor would be in Supermax for life. | ||
| If being incompetent was a felony, she'd be on death row! | ||
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Banning paint sales during COVID? It's unbelievable! | |
| But there's no penalty for lying and there's no penalty for incompetence. | ||
| So what do we penalize? | ||
| Every society penalizes something. | ||
| There's a death penalty offense in every society from the beginning of time. | ||
| What's ours? | ||
| It's telling the truth. | ||
| If you tell the truth, the real truth, the no BS truth, like what's actually going on here? | ||
| Is this actually working? | ||
| And no, it's not. | ||
| Why isn't it working? | ||
| If you were to be honest about that, you're done. | ||
| So you have to ask yourself, like, what does it say about a society where the only penalty is for noting what's true? | ||
| It says something pretty bad about that society. | ||
| Do you want to live in a place where lying is mandatory? | ||
| It's a third world country, as someone just said. | ||
| Literally two days ago, I was in downtown Buenos Aires, and I said to somebody, the economy's completely collapsed, they have hyperinflation, and they said, what's the exchange rate on the peso, the Argentine peso, to the US dollar? | ||
| And they're like, well, the government claims it's 350 pesos to the dollar, but actually it's over 700. I was like, so the government lies about what the value of its own currency is? | ||
| Oh, absolutely. | ||
| I was like, that's crazy! | ||
| And by the way, to pay for lunch, it takes a stack of pesos the size of a cinder block. | ||
| You need a backpack just to buy a pack of cigarettes. | ||
| It's unbelievable. | ||
| But, I was like, I can't believe the government lies about the value of its own currency. | ||
| And I was like, oh wait, sorry. | ||
| I shouldn't be surprised. | ||
| Because mine does too. | ||
| And about everything else. | ||
| So if you want to make that better, and I'll stop at this, I think the only answer Is to tell the truth calmly and slowly and fearlessly. | ||
| Everybody knows what it is. | ||
| They'll come at you. | ||
| First, they'll tell you you're hurting someone's feelings. | ||
| You're mean. | ||
| That's always different. | ||
| They're trying to appeal to your basic decency and then subvert it. | ||
| No one wants to be mean. | ||
| They did this during COVID. Well, you should take the shot. | ||
| Well, what's in the shot? | ||
| Shut up and take it. | ||
| But I don't need the shot. | ||
| I already had COVID. You know, I'm 26. I just ran an Ironman. | ||
| Shut up and take the shot. | ||
| What if I don't want to? | ||
| You're killing your grandparents. | ||
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Okay. | |
| And that's the first thing they do. | ||
| They accuse you of being mean. | ||
| And the second thing they do is they call you insane. | ||
| You're a conspiracy theorist. | ||
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Really? | |
| If I were the sort of person who gloated, I would keep a list of all the times I personally have been called a conspiracy theorist or a wacko and then compare them to the outcome five years later. | ||
| They all turned out to be true. | ||
| I try to be a decent Protestant and not brag about myself, but like, the list is long! | ||
| Very long. | ||
| And then the third thing they do is just criminalize telling the truth. | ||
| And you're seeing that now. | ||
| There are people who are going to jail for non-trivial lengths. | ||
| By the way, anyone who's ever been to a jail knows, and there are a bunch of sheriffs here, and they know best of all, any time in jail is not trivial. | ||
| Any time behind bars. | ||
| A drunk driving offense for a night can change your life. | ||
| You don't want to go to jail. | ||
| Period. | ||
| It's not a joke. | ||
| And anyone who tells you, oh, he's going to Club Fed where they have volleyball. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Taking away a person's freedom and locking him in a cage where he can't see the stars at night is short of killing him. | ||
| Maybe more than killing him. | ||
| The gravest thing you can do to another human being. | ||
| So no one should ever minimize the penalty of prison time or jail time. | ||
| It's profound. | ||
| It'll destroy you and your family. | ||
| And they're sending people to prison. | ||
| For saying that the last election was rigged, which it was. | ||
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So... | |
| Oh, how can you say the last election was rigged? | ||
| Well, when the country's largest law enforcement organization, the FBI, actively works on behalf of one political party, and when its largest intelligence gathering agency, the CIA, does the same, It's a little bit like what's happening in Michigan. | ||
| When federal employees paid for by the tax dollars of everyone take an aggressive position on the side of one political party, you can't have a fair election. | ||
| Because you're using public money to put your thumb on the scale on behalf of a partisan cause. | ||
| It is totally immoral. | ||
| And it's not free and fair. | ||
| If our election took place in Bolivia, the 2020 presidential election took place in Bolivia, I can promise you the State Department would report back and say that was not a free and fair election. | ||
| And Wikipedia would report it was a clouded election because there was fraud and interference, which there was. | ||
| If some oligarch, some tech oligarch, spent nearly half a billion dollars to control the mechanics of the Bolivian election in 2020, we would say it's not a legitimate election. | ||
| But when Mark Zuckerberg does it in the United States, oh, he's just helping with COVID. Yeah, he's really afraid of COVID, I'm sure. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| So for saying that out loud, people are going to prison. | ||
| And, of course, the whole point is to convince you not to say it out loud. | ||
| So, don't let them. | ||
| That's the only point. | ||
| Don't let them. | ||
| And if you keep telling the truth, some of you probably get indicted by Dana Nessel. | ||
| Well, you're going to women's prison a little better. | ||
| But still. | ||
| Still prison. | ||
| But it's worth it. | ||
| Anyway, don't be intimidated. |
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