Tucker Carlson speaks at the National Conservatism Conference in 2019. Watch the full speech here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXGoWtK1NnY Follow Tucker on X: https://x.com/TuckerCarlson Text “TUCKER” to 44055 for exclusive updates! #TuckerCarlson #speech #QandA #debate #freespeech #JoeBiden #JustinTrudeau #politics #news #freethinker #authoritarianism #history
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Question number one. | |
| What is the most important thought we still haven't given ourselves permission to think? | ||
| Okay, maybe let's make it easier. | ||
| What is the most important thought we haven't given ourselves permission to say out loud? | ||
| You know, I probably have said it out loud. | ||
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I know that's a trick question. | |
| Whatever. | ||
| I know that's a trick question. | ||
| You know, the thing that I go back to, and I'm not even sure that, I mean, this is not like spine-tinglingly controversial, but it's almost never said. | ||
| You know, countries don't hang together just because. | ||
| The natural state of man is not progress. | ||
| I mean, that's like a complete lie. | ||
| Anyone know what the Bronze Age collapse was? | ||
| Yeah, okay, so one person. | ||
| So the Bronze Age collapse was, there was a Dark Age before the Dark Ages, right? | ||
| So it was about 1500 years, 1500 BC. | ||
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Well, really around 1200 BC. | |
| 1200 BC, okay. | ||
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I knew it. | |
| Look, I bow to superior knowledge. | ||
| When basically the sum total of human knowledge disappeared. | ||
| And we're not quite sure. | ||
| We're still trying to kind of figure out, we may never know. | ||
| But it mirrored very much the Dark Ages. | ||
| By the way, do you know how medieval Europe, and by the way, all the way into Levant, the medieval world, got lead, lead, the substance lead, for pipes and cooking and later for ammunition? | ||
| They took it from Roman ruins. | ||
| That was the sole source of it, from Roman ruins. | ||
| Because the technology, which is not complex technology, required to mine lead and separate it from silver or zinc or whatever, because it's an ally, you should, was lost. | ||
| No one had any idea how to do it. | ||
| Only for like a thousand years, not a big deal. | ||
| So I guess, what's the point? | ||
| The point is that there's no reason that this should continue apace on the trajectory it's currently on. | ||
| There's no reason that shouldn't happen again. | ||
| It's happened at least twice, probably happened more than that. | ||
| But by its nature, we don't know, right? | ||
| So what's the point? | ||
| The point is, what does it take to hold a country together, particularly a country in which there's no majority, right? | ||
| Where there's no obvious thing that holds people together, not even history, because the demographics change so much. | ||
| I'm not against that, by the way. | ||
| I'm not against, there's nothing inherently bad about rapid demographic change, or immoral. | ||
| I'm not saying that. | ||
| What I am saying is that it makes it even more important for the people in charge to think through like what does hold the country together? | ||
| What do we have in common as Americans? | ||
| If a war were to break out, why would we all fight? | ||
| And what are we fighting for? | ||
| What is this country? | ||
| What does it mean? | ||
| Is it just the sum total of commerce? | ||
| Is it the GDP? | ||
| Is it something more than that? | ||
| I mean, these are not only interesting academic questions, they're vital practical questions. | ||
| Because if you don't answer them, the country will actually fall apart, for real. | ||
| That's not a right-wing point, it's an obvious point. | ||
| And it's a measure of how unbelievably stupid, and I mean that, like literally stupid, like low IQ stupid, bovine stupid, the people in charge are, that they're not waking up in the middle of the night and thinking, holy smokes, clearly the society is becoming a lot more volatile. | ||
| How do we calm things down? | ||
| How do we keep it strong? | ||
| And nobody is. | ||
| Like literally nobody is. | ||
| So I would say pressing that question, boy, we've pressed a lot. | ||
| You know, it's not an, again, I just made a case for diversity. | ||
| But the idea that diversity is our strength, okay, tell me how. | ||
| Is that true in your marriage? | ||
| I'm serious. | ||
| Is it? | ||
| And I'm sure, I know there are a bunch of reporters here, and screw you, just ahead of time. | ||
| But I know they're going to be like, oh, Carlson comes out against diversity. | ||
| I'm not coming out against diversity at all. | ||
| I like diversity, actually. | ||
| Just don't lie to me about it. | ||
| Just don't lie. | ||
| Just stop lying. | ||
| How's that? | ||
| And why don't you explain how it works? | ||
| If you're going to make it our national motto, don't you owe me? | ||
| And speak slowly so I can understand. | ||
| How does it make us stronger? | ||
| If I married someone who couldn't, I've been married, you know, almost 29 years. | ||
| If I married someone who couldn't speak English and hated all my views, would that make my marriage stronger? | ||
| Maybe it would. | ||
| Tell me how. | ||
| If you had a military unit comprised of people with literally nothing in common, couldn't communicate, would that be a more effective fighting force? | ||
| Would it be more cohesive? | ||
| Like, it's insane, actually. | ||
| It's the truth. | ||
| And again, it goes back to what I was implying previously, which is like everything they say is the opposite of what's true. | ||
| It's like totally bewildering. | ||
| It's not, and what's so bewildering is, and maybe that's why it's so effective, it's so different from the way normal people lie. | ||
| So I have a ton of children, like Mormon-level children. | ||
| And I'm not like a great parent or anything, but I, you know, you just sort of learn by osmosis if you have enough of them. | ||
| And one of the things that I learned a lot about is lying because all kids lie, and they lie because they love you. | ||
| They don't lie because they're bad. | ||
| No, I'm serious. | ||
| You don't lie to people you don't care about. | ||
| What was the last time you lied to an Uber driver? | ||
| Please. | ||
| You spill your guts. | ||
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If you're having an affair, you'll tell them, why do you care? | |
| His judgment doesn't strike fear into your heart. | ||
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It's like it's irrelevant. | |
| Anyway, so kids lie because they love you. | ||
| So you see a lot of lying as a parent, and it's always the same kind of lying. | ||
| Like, you know, we're radical. | ||
| You ate those cookies. | ||
| You know, there were 10 cookies and they're gone and you ate them. | ||
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And your kid will be like, oh, I only had three. | |
| What happened to the other seven? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| You know, it's a shade off of the truth. | ||
| Yes, I ate the cookies, but I didn't eat all 10. | ||
| Like, that's ridiculous. | ||
| That's outrageous. | ||
| I would never do that. | ||
| Yeah, you did it. | ||
| Of course you did it. | ||
| The people who run our country don't lie like that at all. | ||
| They're like, what? | ||
| No, you ate the cookies. | ||
| And you're like, what? | ||
| No, no, I didn't eat the. | ||
| Yeah, you ate the cookies. | ||
| You freaking cookie eater. | ||
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That's why you're fat. | |
| And after a while, you're like, man, maybe I ate the cookies. | ||
| They're so aggressive. | ||
| The dishonesty is so aggressive that it really makes you doubt yourself. | ||
| It's deep, actually, and terrifying and totalitarian, really, because it doesn't have any basis in reality at all. | ||
| And that's why it's so effective. | ||
| Anyway, and that's why they can say diversity was our strength. | ||
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Anyway. |