Tucker compares the United States we live in now with the one pre-pandemic, and has a look at the other crises you’re not supposed to question or even know about because coronavirus and Ukraine. Highlights include:
“Think back to the America you grew up in. There were 3 things you knew about that country: It was a free country. It was a middle-class country, it was defined by small business. And it was a Constitutional country. Our politicians were limited by the guard rails in our founding documents, they couldn’t go past that. So, it was a happy place.”
“Unfortunately, none of those 3 things is still true about the United States, and lockdowns are not entirely to blame for that, no single cause ever is. But there’s no question that the coronavirus lockdowns accelerated the transformation of the United States.”
“Masks were a training exercise. Mandatory masking was a shock collar designed to teach Americans unquestioning obedience, and of course it worked because shock collars do work. In a single day last month, we watched, for example, our entire professional class dutifully change their twitter avatars from ‘Mask Up!’ to the now mandatory Ukrainian flag. There was no debate about doing this, no reflection, there was not even a real conversation, they just did it. Millions of people simply assumed, reflexively, a partisan position in a highly complicated foreign crisis, the next crisis, and as they did they moved in perfect lockstep.”
“Once we allowed political leaders to force Americans to take drugs they didn’t want, the old arrangement where the citizen had as much or more power than the leaders was over. Our politicians now have effectively limitless power, and they know that. They know it perfectly well, that’s why they did it. And if you doubt that they know it, watch the way they communicate with the American population.”
“They’re giving you propaganda, they always have. What’s changed is that their propaganda is no longer sophisticated or persuasive because it doesn’t have to be. Instead, their propaganda is blunt and vulgar.”
“It turns out one of the biggest stories of the decade dropped this morning. The Wall Street Journal reported that Saudi Arabia is considering accepting Chinese currency rather than US dollars for its oil sales to China. Now, why is that a big deal, seems like some little financial story? Well, because it would spell the end of the petrodollar.”
“The petrodollar is one of the keys to the United States’ wealth.”
“Saudi Arabia has traded oil exclusively in US dollars for nearly half a century, and that is one of the key reasons the United States has the highest living standard of any big country in the world despite the fact that our manufacturing sector long ago collapsed. Petrodollars allow our government, in short, to spend money that we don’t have, and that money pays for an awful lot of what we have.”
“Is it really just the virus that’s causing this behavior? Yes, say the propagandists at the Washington Post. It definitely is, it’s definitely not a trade war brought on by the Biden administration’s incompetence in international affairs. We’re not suffering for the fact that they don’t know what they’re doing. No, it’s just a virus.”
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