March 4, 2024 - The Tucker Carlson Show
07:14
| 
| Speaker | Time | Text |
|---|---|---|
| How did Rome fall? | ||
| Historians have been debating that question, well, moving on 2,000 years now. | ||
| But everyone agrees one of the reasons is pretty obvious. | ||
| The Roman military, its legions, became dominated by non-citizens who in the end, because they weren't loyal to Rome, turned against Rome's citizens. | ||
| So knowing that as we do, consider this series of facts. | ||
| This country has been flooded with tens of millions of illegal aliens. | ||
| At least 7.2 million. | ||
| That's the official number I've entered since Joe Biden became president. | ||
| That number is greater than the population of 32 states. | ||
| So what do we do with these people? | ||
| Do we deport them? | ||
| No! | ||
| Not according to the U.S. Congress. | ||
| Here's the idea. | ||
|
unidentified
|
There is no higher honor than serving your country in uniform. | |
| And that honor could be extended to migrants under a new bill introduced by Hudson Valley Congressman Pat Ryan. | ||
| Called the Courage to Serve Act, this bill would offer qualified and vetted migrants an expedited path to citizenship if they serve in the military. | ||
| According to Ryan, last year the military services collectively missed recruiting goals by roughly 41,000 recruits, leaving some crucial positions If there are folks with the courage to raise their right hand, take an oath to protect and defend our Constitution, and put their lives on the line for this country, then they sure as hell deserve the opportunity to be citizens in the United States of America. | ||
| Ooh, Pat Ryan lecturing us at what it means to be an American, as if he would know. | ||
| But consider this for a second. | ||
| The military can't meet its recruiting goals. | ||
| Now, who forms the basis of our fighting forces? | ||
| Well, sorry to say it, but white men always have. | ||
| So the U.S. military has been attacking white men by name. | ||
| We're against you, white men. | ||
| And so it turns out lots of white men don't want to join the military anymore. | ||
| Who could have predicted that? | ||
| So there is a problem getting American citizens who were born here to defend their country. | ||
| Now, in a normal nation, you would pause and ask, what are we doing wrong? | ||
| That young Americans don't want to defend their own country. | ||
| Maybe we should change and improve. | ||
| But not in this country, not with this Congress. | ||
| The idea is, let's allow an invasion of the country, not use the military to stop it, and then populate the military with the people who are invading the country and hope for the best. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| If this ever does become a police state, if you're ever ordered to obey at the point of a gun, this is the way it's going to happen. | ||
| Maybe not. | ||
| Colonel Douglas McGregor seemed like a man to ask about this. | ||
| He's a former senior advisor to the Secretary of Defense, the commander of the last tank battle in American history, and the CEO of Our Country, Our Choice. | ||
| He joins us now. | ||
| Doug, thanks so much for coming on. | ||
| Now, I don't want to jump to a lot of conclusions about this, but since you are, in addition to all the other things I mentioned, a military historian, assess, if you would, the wisdom of allowing people to invade your country and then handing them automatic weapons. | ||
| You know, when I listen to the comments coming out of the Senate or the House, let alone the White House, I'm sometimes reminded of that famous statement in Vietnam, in order to save the village, we had to destroy it. | ||
| I get the impression that's the plan in Washington. | ||
| We have to destroy the country in order to save it. | ||
| Clearly. | ||
| At least, I guess, from the standpoint of everybody in Washington, whatever happened before they arrived was wrong. | ||
| And the brave new world must be built in the future on the ruins of the past. | ||
| And they're doing a pretty good job of trying to make that work. | ||
| The military is a good example of it. | ||
| And military institutions take decades to build. | ||
| They're resilient in most cases because of the human capital that replenishes them on a routine basis. | ||
| We're having problems recruiting for a very simple reason. | ||
| People that have been through this over the last 20, 30 years have said, what are we doing? | ||
| What's the point of being in the military? | ||
| We go to these places. | ||
| They look around in Iraq or they look around in Afghanistan and they say, there's nothing here. | ||
| What am I doing here? | ||
| Oh, well, you're building democracy. | ||
| And people burst out laughing. | ||
| It's nonsense. | ||
| Of course it's nonsense. | ||
| How is this defending America? | ||
| And I think that's a huge part of the problem. | ||
| If you were to ask 100,000 men, white, black, or otherwise, who call themselves Americans, I wonder, | ||
| though, what the effect on our domestic politics, our domestic life will be. | ||
| I mean, when you're at West Point, I imagine You saw your job as a newly minted army officer defending the United States from its enemies abroad. | ||
| But the DOD is playing, I think, an unprecedented role in the domestic life of our country. | ||
| You saw it on January 6th. | ||
| You see it in the censorship efforts being led by DOD. So should we be a little nervous about the idea of arming foreigners, lawbreakers, people who've broken federal law and handing them weapons? | ||
| Like, why would you be crazy to worry that that might be used against us? | ||
| Well, if you were playing for the Eagles and suddenly you were fired and the manager of the Eagles decided to hire the third-string team that works in Dallas, Texas for the Dallas Cowboys, then you went into the game and discovered that the third-stringers from the Dallas Cowboys are helping the Dallas Cowboys win, you'd be pretty upset. | ||
| Well, that's effectively what these people are deciding to do. | ||
| None of these people are Americans. | ||
| We know from having interviewed them, they have no aspiration to be Americans. | ||
| What they aspire to is to get into the consumption machine, get the ticket of entry, the free check, the free phone, the free transportation tickets, the free food, the free medical care, and the free this, the free that. | ||
| That's why they're coming. | ||
| And people say, well, they deserve this. | ||
| No, they don't. | ||
| They haven't worked for any of it. | ||
| In the meantime, what do Americans get? | ||
| You know, we have a force right now that can't defend anything anywhere overseas very successfully. | ||
| Look at the failed military operations we've had for over 20 years and look at the border. | ||
| No one brings it up. | ||
| No one's even trying. | ||
| No one seems to care. | ||
| You know, I think the largest problem is that Washington is this ideological bubble. | ||
| And everyone decides that anyone who doesn't agree with them, that the world has to be refashioned in some new image. | ||
| That exists only in their minds and that anybody who disagrees with them is by definition a criminal and has to be treated as such. | ||
| What better solution than finding people who have no connection to the American people, arming them and then sending them out to oppress us? | ||
| Sounds like a great solution. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Free speech is bigger than any one person or any one organization. | |
| Societies are defined by what they will not permit. |
Export Selection