Tucker Carlson argues truth-tellers like those questioning 2020 election fraud or COVID policies face legal threats—jail for claiming the U.S. election was rigged—while systemic lies (e.g., Argentina’s hyperinflation cover-ups) go unpunished, fueled by partisan FBI/CIA actions and tech oligarchs like Zuckerberg exploiting COVID aid to sway elections; he dismisses smear labels ("conspiracy theorist") as preemptive intimidation, urging resistance despite indictments like Michigan AG Dana Nessel’s. [Automatically generated summary]
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.
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.
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.