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Jan. 25, 2024 - The Tucker Carlson Show
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Tucker Carlson - Liberating Canada: The Calgary Speech
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unidentified
How about a huge Alberta welcome for the one and only Tucker Carlson.
*applauds* It's not a free country.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼
It's a very scary place.
unidentified
And that's exactly what Canada has become under Justin Trigg.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼
And the second you decide to tell the truth about something, you are filled with this...
I don't want to get supernatural.
But you are filled with this power from somewhere else.
Try it.
Tell the truth about something.
You feel it every day.
The more you tell the truth, the stronger you become.
unidentified
No Rogaine in the propane.
The chosen ones have the living proof.
With the gift of gas from the city of truth.
I jabbed and stabbed and knocked critics back.
And I did not stutter when I said that.
I'm going platinum selling rhymes.
I went platinum seven times.
It's still the ill that want to see us ride.
I guess because the only God knows why.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼
Thank you.
Why?
Holy smokes.
Thank you.
I'm really honored.
unidentified
I think that's my friend Kid Rock in the background.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼
Thank you truly for having me.
Wow, that was the wildest intro I've had ever.
Someone just gave me this t-shirt, which I just love so much.
I'm actually going to wear it in the privacy of my own home.
Al freaking Berta, baby.
What a great province this is.
What a great country this is.
I've actually never said this to anyone, including my wife, but I know that in Canada it's official policy that coming out of the closet is good.
Unless you're the Prime Minister.
So I'm going to reveal something about myself that I've never revealed, which is that I am part Canadian.
And yes, I am.
I actually am part Canadian.
And I was thinking this morning, I was like, you know, I always say I'm the only American who's legitimately interested in Canada, and I am.
And I always have been.
And I wonder why am I so obsessed with Canada?
And I thought, because I'm part Canadian.
My great-grandfather, actually my father's family was in the colonies, and then they brought democracy, and they're like, we're out.
We're going to Nova Scotia.
And so they spent a couple hundred years there.
The refuses, they're still there, by the way.
I think they're all liberals.
And then my great-grandfather's like, I'm going to try that again.
So he comes to the United States, and I'm here as a result.
So I feel it.
In me is Canadian.
And I've been all over your country.
And I've been everywhere in your country.
And I just think it's a remarkable place.
And I think people don't quite understand what Canada is because so much of it is bumped right up against our border.
And I would argue, no offense, that the least impressive places in Canada are right up against our border.
But once you get past that, it's just unbelievable.
I've been to this city a lot because of your mountains, which I just find, beyond belief, really the prettiest places I've ever been.
This country is the prettiest country I've ever been in.
The second biggest country in the world, bigger than the United States, deeper oil reserves in the United States, more natural resources in the United States, and one-ninth the population.
And when I hear the lunatics who run your government are like, our population's growing, we're so excited.
I'm like, really, you want to live in a crowded country?
40 million people in the world's second biggest country?
That sounds like the kind of place I want to live.
Like, what are you even talking about, you morons?
But anyway.
So I've come to Canada a lot, and every time I come, You know, so many things strike me.
First and foremost, the natural beauty, the unbelievable natural beauty.
Prettier than Switzerland, in my opinion.
And the second thing I notice is the politeness of the people.
That's real.
And the third thing I notice is that all the comedians left decades ago.
And it brings it out in me.
And making fun of Canadians, and as I've already told you, and I hope it's obvious, is done with love.
But I just can't control myself.
Because no one will ever laugh at your joke.
And so every time I go to Toronto, which I try not to do, but I do wind up there, every time I check in a hotel, I'm like, you guys have hot water?
Like, where'd you get all the electricity?
This is unbelievable!
And they always have the same responses, we've had electricity for a long time, eh?
Like, no, it's a joke!
You don't really have sled dog parking in front, I know that!
No, we haven't had sled dogs in a long time, eh?
unidentified
And so, I just love it.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼
I've told so many sled dog and Molson jokes, and I'll never stop.
But one of the reasons I do it is because I do think it's important to laugh at your circumstances, not simply because it makes you feel better, though it does, but because it gives you perspective on them.
And humor requires some distance, some critical distance, both from yourself and from your surroundings.
And you can't really see things clearly until you have that.
So if you have a country where the funny people feel like they have to leave, That's a huge problem.
And that's the first problem.
The second problem is you can't really be effective as a political movement or a resistance movement, which effectively you are, if you don't laugh at your enemies.
Because not only are they evil, and they are, they're also ludicrous.
They're ludicrous.
And it's really important to say that because it saps their power immediately.
Laughing at someone, and if you're a married man, you know that, no, it's true.
Your wife could come and hit you in the face with a 2x4, and that would be less painful than having her laugh derisively at you, particularly when you get out of the shower.
That would just end it for you.
That would end it.
Your male power would evaporate like a puddle on a hot day, like you'd be done.
Because it has that effect.
And so to look at your enemies, like let's say you had some sort of weird prime minister like to dress up in fussy costumes.
It would be super important to point that out a lot.
Like, relentlessly.
Somebody told me last night that his base, I was asked, we had this wonderful dinner last night with two of the most famous people in Canada, probably the two most famous people, Lord Black and my friend Dr. Jordan Peterson, and I asked, I asked, like, is there anyone in the country who supports this guy?
I mean, I know him only, I've never met him, I only know him through television.
I know his cousin Gavin Newsom pretty well, but I don't know him.
Is there anyone who takes him seriously?
And everyone in the room said, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, young people, particularly young women, take him very seriously.
They love him.
And I thought, there's really only one way to combat that, and that's by pointing out what an absurd poser this guy is.
He's like a ridiculous figure.
Like, you should dislike and resist Justin Trudeau and his government to the maximum extent of your ability.
But before you do that, before you do that, You should just laugh at him until you can't breathe.
Seriously.
The guy's like, he's showing up for a costume party when no one else is.
There's no costume party, and there's Justin Trudeau.
Like, speaking as some sort of moral voice.
Weird little cross-dresser.
So anyway, that's my first piece of advice.
My second piece of advice, once you've done that, which is very effective, and I know it's not the Canadian way, because it's such a polite society that everyone feels morally bound to take everyone else's point of view very seriously and sort of nod gravely and...
Pretend to consider their perspective.
But there are some perspectives that aren't in fact perspectives.
They're attacks on you.
And that's the main thing that I want to say in the short time allotted today, is that you should recognize what is happening to you.
This is not a political debate to which you've been invited to participate.
This is a destruction of you and your culture and your beliefs and your children and your future as a country.
And that's not overstatement.
unidentified
It's provable statistically.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼
So just take three steps back.
If you have a government that is giving fentanyl to your children, as they are in BC, and notice your premier has a no fentanyl to kids policy, God bless her.
I know, and you're applauding.
I mean, and I'm applauding, and I'm grateful.
But how distorted is your world where you have to applaud the one politician that's like, you know, we're not going to give fentanyl to the kids today?
But then take two steps further back from that and ask yourself, if someone's giving fentanyl to your children, what's kind of the message of that?
Well, they're trying to kill your children, obviously.
Fentanyl?
It's the number one cause of death under 40 in the United States.
Number one in the whole country.
Followed by suicide.
If you want to know where we are, we're about two years behind you.
And it's only because we have a louder media space than you do that we aren't ahead of you.
But if someone's giving fentanyl to your children without telling you, they're trying to kill your children, which are your inheritance, so the only meaningful thing you will ever produce on earth, okay, are your children.
That's the first thing to know.
Second, if they are trying to kill you, and by the way, I know I'm offending everyone, even this group, because no one in Canada wants to talk about anything.
It's like an Episcopalian Christmas dinner.
And I grew up in that world, so I know everyone's had like three too many, and then someone will bird out, you wrecked my childhood!
And then everyone will sit there in silence.
It's so awesome.
But Anglo-Canada, like Anglo everywhere, doesn't like to say anything out loud.
But let me just do it anyway.
If you're killing 50,000 of your citizens, if the government is doing that through the MAID program, and a lot of them are not actually terminally ill, they're just sad, and the government is encouraging them to submit to being killed by the government, And then won't release the recent statistics.
Like, what is that?
What is that?
Yeah, it's genocide.
That's exactly what it is.
It's killing large groups of people.
And who are those people, by the way?
We don't know, because your government hasn't reached the stats.
What percentage of those are born in Canada?
I'd bet right around 100%.
So if you're a government, you have the duty to your citizens, people who are from here, people whose ancestors built the place, not exclusively to them, but primarily to them, to your citizens.
Like, why else do you exist except to serve your citizens?
And if you're targeting your citizens, how many people who arrived in Canada in the last 10 years have opted into the MAID program?
I don't know the answer.
I'd bet around zero.
That's all people who are from here.
Another government brags, oh, we're saving money because they died.
That's the darkest thing I can imagine.
I bet there's zero conversation about that in this country because I know this country.
I know what it's like.
It's too horrible.
No one wants to talk about it.
You should talk about it.
But more than anything, you should internalize the message of that, which is they hate me.
They hate me to the point they're willing to kill me, which they are.
And the third thing is, notice the erosion of your most basic civil liberties.
Not the ones granted to you by the crown, but the ones granted to you by God.
And those would include the freedom of speech, which is inalienable.
It cannot be taken from you, no matter who is in Ottawa, or as we say, Ottawa.
Which, by the way, is the correct pronunciation, according to my friends in the Ojibwe community.
I've pronounced it that way every time on television, and I get all these angry, you know, you're pronouncing it incorrectly, you don't even know the name.
It's like, yeah, I know a lot about Canada.
I'm doing it on purpose to make fun of you, so you will laugh, but you won't.
And then this Ojibbo leader writes in, and he goes, yeah, all the whites are wrong, it's actually Otawa.
Go Otawa!
Anyway, it doesn't matter who's in the Prime Minister's office, your rights remain the same because you were born with them because you are not a slave, you're a human being, and you have inherent dignity because God made you.
That's just a fact.
And if they're taking those rights away piecemeal in doing so in the name of public safety, even as they make the public sphere much more dangerous, which they have, in case you haven't noticed.
Canada has a lot more violent crime now than it did 20 years ago.
Have you noticed?
Of course you have.
You live here.
And if they're telling you you can't defend yourself against that crime, we're going to disarm you.
You can't protect your life or your family.
And you're like, oh yeah, it's for the public safety.
It's just not a big deal.
These are weapons of war.
No, they're weapons of self-defense, which you need and deserve as a free person, not a slave.
And then they're telling you you can't complain about it.
And then they're subsidizing the media to the point where all of your big media outlets, which are disgusting, are state media because they're taking state cash.
Do you watch CBC? I do, occasionally.
I can turn in any hour of the day and I will learn that I am racist for driving an SUV and not being trans.
That's the whole schedule of CBC programming.
But interpret that.
That's not woke.
Oh, it's woke.
I hate the woke crap.
It doesn't mean anything.
They hate you.
That's what they're saying.
They're saying that you are bad.
That's exactly what they're saying.
Don't lie to yourselves.
That's all I'm saying.
And we're very delusional in the United States because we're so...
Distracted by stuff and electronic devices and the promise of next-day delivery from Amazon, a brightly colored plastic crap made in China, that we tend to be slow to figure out what's going on.
But Canada has a different restraint, which is a cultural one.
It's a specific angle of cultural one, which is just like, I don't want to deal with that.
That's too uncomfortable.
But in your heart, anyway, even if you voice it to no one but yourself, know what the message is.
And the message is, you are bad.
I mean, I'm going to say the most controversial thing ever.
I watched when Montreal was cleansed of its Anglo legacy.
And I'm not anti-French, just for the record, at all.
But I am Anglo, and I had friends in Montreal.
And in the span of a generation, like, that's all gone.
They were forced out.
unidentified
And they were like, okay, I guess we'll go to Ontario.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼
What?
My grandfather built this city.
I'm not going anywhere.
How about that?
That never occurred to anyone.
Because no one could say out loud what was actually happening.
A series of acts of hostility aimed at you because of things that you didn't choose, like how you were born.
And once you keep allowing that, you have no future, okay?
So if they're limiting your freedom to say what you think, which is the freedom of conscience, the most basic of all freedom, your freedom to defend yourself and your family against bodily harm.
Which has got to be a twin to the first one.
If they're taking away your voting power by changing the population of your country, which they are doing, and no one wants to talk about that, Canada has the highest immigration rate in the world per capita.
And shut up, racist!
That's not racist.
I don't care if they're coming from New Zealand.
I don't care if you're taking the population of Stockholm and moving them to Canada.
If you change the population of the country, you change the country.
And you dilute the voting power of the people who are vested in that country, the people who are born there, who have lived there long term, who understand the history and the culture of the country, who are bought in.
And all of a sudden, their vote means much less.
It's math.
You guys do that.
Math.
That's horrifying that it's happening.
And there's no public debate over it whatsoever.
Why do you think that's happening?
Is it for economic reasons?
I'd be kind of okay with that.
If someone could stand up and say, we're totally changing the population of Canada because we think it's better for our economy.
Okay, tell me how.
We can have rational conversations.
We're adults.
I'm a citizen.
This is my government, too.
Tell me how that works.
But they can't because that's not true.
Look at your housing prices.
Look at the strain on your services.
Look at your health care system, which no Canadian I meet brags about anymore.
And one of the main reasons is it's overburdened.
There are too many people.
Oh, we need population growth.
unidentified
Really?
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼
Tell me why.
Tell me why all of these slogans make sense.
I've watched Canadian hockey from time to time.
They literally say diversity is our strength before they open the game.
Okay, what does that mean and why is it true?
unidentified
Shut up!
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼
No, I'm not going to shut up.
You're telling me to accept a slogan, so it's incumbent on you to explain what the slogan means and why it makes sense.
That seems like a common sense rule.
If you're forcing something down my throat, tell me how it tastes before I swallow it.
Shut up, racist!
No, no, not going to.
Not racist.
I'm not going to shut up.
Answer the freaking question, you weird cross-dressing Prime Minister.
And the last thing I'll say, and I will stop at this because I'm sure I've gone beyond the time allotted.
Keep going!
I'm out of control!
Unleashed in Canada!
The last thing I'll say, which also may be controversial because it sounds like a parochial concern or some sort of, you know, weird religious thing or something, and it's not, but take a look at what they're doing to your Christians.
And I say this for a couple of, I am a Christian, but that's not why I'm telling you this.
I'm telling you this because there's kind of no more inoffensive and peaceful group in the world than the Christians.
In fact, there isn't.
Their religion...
Tells them, commands them to turn the other cheek and to put the concerns of others above their own concerns.
So if you have a problem with those precepts, explain it to me.
Speak slowly so I can understand.
I think every person in this room, regardless of your faith, can agree, yeah, I'm for that.
I wish I was more like that.
That's good.
We need more of those people in society.
Serve others for the sake of service.
People who pray for their enemies.
Who does that?
Who would pray for an enemy?
No one, except the Christians, and they do.
They're commanded to.
So, if you're hassling that group, maybe you've got another agenda that we should be concerned about, even if we're not in that group.
If we burn 90 of their churches to the ground, and the prime minister and his little weird buddies are endorsing that, burning churches?
If you're on the side of burning churches, let me just say, I don't need any other facts of the case.
You're on the wrong side.
If you're throwing preachers in prison for preaching the Christian gospel, not for hurting anyone, not for making pipe bombs, not for trying to castrate other people's children, not for importing millions of people into your country who are not going to have work, just for the crime of preaching the Christian gospel, you go to jail at the same time when they're encouraging your kids to do drugs and not just fentanyl but weed.
Don't raise your hand if you have a 15-year-old son, but come up to me after and tell me what you think of legalized weed.
For real.
And if you have a 15-year-old son, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
They did that to you and to your son on purpose.
And so in a country like that, in a world like that, if you think that preaching the gospel is so dangerous that the people who do it need to be in prison in shackles, you're serving someone other than the people of Canada, if you know what I mean.
That's really scary.
And I don't care how much they dress it up in the passive-aggressive, self-help language of the modern left.
Well, it's really about public safety.
Every time I turn on your freaking television shows, everything's about public safety.
Which is a euphemism for hard-edged fascism, actually.
And frankly, I'm a little bit more comfortable with the old-fashioned variety.
Where guys in tight uniforms goose-step through your town.
Because at least you know who you're fighting.
And you know what it's going to take to liberate your town.
Get rid of these people and everything will be okay.
But when they show up and they're therapists with advanced degrees and they look at you in the face and say, no, actually, little Dylan just needs more fentanyl.
Little Dylan's actually a girl.
And we're going to, yes, he's a girl.
Sorry, she's a girl.
She's a girl.
And if you don't agree, well, maybe we may have to remove Dylan to more care-affirming custody.
Oh, you're going to take my kids away because I don't want to castrate them.
They'll never say that, of course.
Because clear language is their enemy.
Because clear language exposes who they really are.
They're not people who are trying to help you.
They are people who are trying to hurt you.
Anyone who goes after your children, anyone who encourages you to have fewer children, is trying to make you extinct.
It's literally that simple.
And it's only in the advanced West that we don't see that.
Try that crap in Bulgaria.
Try that in Serbia.
How do you think that would fly in Serbia?
We're just going to give little Voldock some fentanyl.
And we think, you know, he may be...
You wouldn't even get to the next sentence before you got shot.
Because you're trying to kill someone's kids.
And your average Serb, whatever you think of them, doesn't have generations of therapy talk.
That acts as a logical intermediary in his brain and prevents him from seeing what's actually going on here.
They're trying to kill my kids.
I'm the father.
I won't allow it.
I'll lay my life down to prevent it.
It's literally that simple.
So I'll stop with this.
The answer, before you take any sort of action or imagine that some election is going to fix things, comma, which it's not, spoiler alert.
Because this country, like every country, every country, very much and maybe especially including my country, has a lot of frauds in that business.
Sorry.
It does.
I would know.
It's the one thing I know a lot about.
Before any of that takes place, you need to change inside.
Your attitudes need to change.
And your timidity needs to be replaced by bravery.
The muddled thinking that you have about this stuff, the average...
Normal Canadian, just like the average normal American, sees this pop up on his phone or he's on X and he's like, I can't believe it.
The world's going to hell.
But it's scattershot.
There's one here, one there, one there.
No.
It's not scattershot.
It's of a piece.
It's of a piece.
They're all connected.
And it's aimed at you.
And if you don't agree, tell me how I'm wrong.
But I'm not wrong.
I'm right.
And so, the first thing...
That you need to do before changing anything in your country is to change everything about your heart.
You have to be ready for a contest where the stakes are existential, which they are.
And with that, I will stop.
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