The Tucker Carlson Show - Tucker Carlson - Question their lies and they’ll call you a liar. Ignore it and keep going.
Aired: 2023-09-22
Duration: 06:32


=== What We Penalize Matters (04:25) ===

[00:00:00]  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.
[00:00:11]  I cannot remember the last time someone in public life was prosecuted or even criticized for lying.
[00:00:21]  If lying was a crime, I mean, your governor would be in Supermax for life.
[00:00:31]  If being incompetent was a felony, she'd be on death row!
[00:00:37]  Banning paint sales during COVID? It's unbelievable!
[00:00:44]  But there's no penalty for lying and there's no penalty for incompetence.
[00:00:48]  So what do we penalize?
[00:00:49]  Every society penalizes something.
[00:00:52]  There's a death penalty offense in every society from the beginning of time.
[00:00:56]  What's ours?
[00:00:56]  It's telling the truth.
[00:00:58]  If you tell the truth, the real truth, the no BS truth, like what's actually going on here?
[00:01:04]  Is this actually working?
[00:01:05]  And no, it's not.
[00:01:06]  Why isn't it working?
[00:01:07]  If you were to be honest about that, you're done.
[00:01:11]  So you have to ask yourself, like, what does it say about a society where the only penalty is for noting what's true?
[00:01:21]  It says something pretty bad about that society.
[00:01:23]  Do you want to live in a place where lying is mandatory?
[00:01:29]  It's a third world country, as someone just said.
[00:01:32]  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?
[00:01:44]  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?
[00:01:55]  Oh, absolutely.
[00:01:56]  I was like, that's crazy!
[00:01:57]  And by the way, to pay for lunch, it takes a stack of pesos the size of a cinder block.
[00:02:02]  You need a backpack just to buy a pack of cigarettes.
[00:02:04]  It's unbelievable.
[00:02:05]  But, I was like, I can't believe the government lies about the value of its own currency.
[00:02:10]  And I was like, oh wait, sorry.
[00:02:12]  I shouldn't be surprised.
[00:02:14]  Because mine does too.
[00:02:16]  And about everything else.
[00:02:18]  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.
[00:02:31]  Everybody knows what it is.
[00:02:34]  They'll come at you.
[00:02:35]  First, they'll tell you you're hurting someone's feelings.
[00:02:37]  You're mean.
[00:02:39]  That's always different.
[00:02:40]  They're trying to appeal to your basic decency and then subvert it.
[00:02:43]  No one wants to be mean.
[00:02:44]  They did this during COVID. Well, you should take the shot.
[00:02:47]  Well, what's in the shot?
[00:02:48]  Shut up and take it.
[00:02:49]  But I don't need the shot.
[00:02:50]  I already had COVID. You know, I'm 26. I just ran an Ironman.
[00:02:55]  Shut up and take the shot.
[00:02:57]  What if I don't want to?
[00:02:57]  You're killing your grandparents.
[00:02:59]  Okay.
[00:03:01]  And that's the first thing they do.
[00:03:03]  They accuse you of being mean.
[00:03:05]  And the second thing they do is they call you insane.
[00:03:07]  You're a conspiracy theorist.
[00:03:09]  Really?
[00:03:11]  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.
[00:03:23]  They all turned out to be true.
[00:03:28]  I try to be a decent Protestant and not brag about myself, but like, the list is long!
[00:03:35]  Very long.
[00:03:37]  And then the third thing they do is just criminalize telling the truth.
[00:03:39]  And you're seeing that now.
[00:03:42]  There are people who are going to jail for non-trivial lengths.
[00:03:45]  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.
[00:03:52]  Any time behind bars.
[00:03:53]  A drunk driving offense for a night can change your life.
[00:03:55]  You don't want to go to jail.
[00:03:57]  Period.
[00:03:57]  It's not a joke.
[00:03:58]  And anyone who tells you, oh, he's going to Club Fed where they have volleyball.
[00:04:01]  Right.
[00:04:03]  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.
[00:04:10]  Maybe more than killing him.
[00:04:11]  The gravest thing you can do to another human being.
[00:04:13]  So no one should ever minimize the penalty of prison time or jail time.
[00:04:19]  It's profound.
[00:04:20]  It'll destroy you and your family.
[00:04:23]  And they're sending people to prison.

=== The Cost of Rigging Elections (02:07) ===

[00:04:25]  For saying that the last election was rigged, which it was.
[00:04:31]  So...
[00:04:32]  Oh, how can you say the last election was rigged?
[00:04:36]  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.
[00:04:54]  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.
[00:05:04]  Because you're using public money to put your thumb on the scale on behalf of a partisan cause.
[00:05:11]  It is totally immoral.
[00:05:14]  And it's not free and fair.
[00:05:16]  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.
[00:05:29]  And Wikipedia would report it was a clouded election because there was fraud and interference, which there was.
[00:05:37]  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.
[00:05:48]  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.
[00:05:58]  Yeah.
[00:05:59]  So for saying that out loud, people are going to prison.
[00:06:04]  And, of course, the whole point is to convince you not to say it out loud.
[00:06:11]  So, don't let them.
[00:06:13]  That's the only point.
[00:06:14]  Don't let them.
[00:06:16]  And if you keep telling the truth, some of you probably get indicted by Dana Nessel.
[00:06:22]  Well, you're going to women's prison a little better.
[00:06:25]  But still.
[00:06:26]  Still prison.
[00:06:28]  But it's worth it.
[00:06:30]  Anyway, don't be intimidated.