Tucker Carlson

Asking obvious questions is forbidden

It’s possible that asking questions is a patriotic duty of Americans.

Published

12 months ago

October 6, 2022

Alan Rugger

Tucker questions the Biden administration’s claims to have not been involved in the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline after they both said they were going to do it and celebrated it. Highlights include:

“There are few things more infuriating than being lied to by your own government, the government you pay for, the one your ancestors risked their lives to protect. Has that happened to you? Of course it has, it enrages you.”

“But if it happens again and again, if it happens often enough, if your government makes a habit of lying to you, then over time it becomes something else. Over time, you realize you’re not really living in a democracy. You can’t be, because in a democracy, the government has a moral and legal obligation to tell you the truth always. Period.”

“And that makes sense, because in a democracy, you are not a subject or a mere consumer. You’re a citizen. You are a shareholder in the system, you are an owner of it. The people who run your government are your employees.”

“If the White House says so, obviously we have no choice but to believe it, but you still have to wonder, not everyone does believe that. Why? Where might some Americans have gotten the notion that the Biden administration might have been involved directly though a proxy in the destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline? Why would they think that?”

“They certainly didn’t watch it on Russia today; RT has been pulled off the air. They didn’t hear it from Putin or any of his ministers, you can barely find anything from the Russian government on google. And, of course, any book sympathetic to Putin has been banned on Amazon. In fact, every piece of information that reflects the modern Russian point of view has been censored in the United States, because this is a free country, fighting for democracy. You just can’t read what you want or think what you want.”

“So, actually, if you think about it, if Americans are deluded about what happened in the Nord Stream pipeline, the delusion didn’t come from Moscow, because there’s no way for Moscow to get its disinformation to the United States.”

Biden: “We will bring an end to [the Nord Stream 2].”

“That’s about as clear as it gets. Biden doesn’t say we will shut it down, he will say [sic] there will be no Nord Stream pipeline, we will put an end to it. And the reporter says, wait a second, it’s not your pipeline, how will you be able to do that? So he has a chance to re-frame the question, to revise his answer, to be more precise, but he doesn’t. He says flat out, ‘I promise you, we’ll be able to take out Nord Stream.’ Joe Biden, president of the United States, so there’s that clue.”

“As if that wasn’t enough, last week, last Friday the Secretary of State in the Biden administration, Mr. Tony Blinken, bragged about how great the sabotage of Nord Stream was. ‘It’s a tremendous opportunity … to once and for all remove the dependence on Russian energy and thus take away from Vladimir Putin the weaponization of energy as a means of advancing his imperial designs.'”

“Ohh, but no, says the White House, despite the fact that we promised we would do it and then we crowed about how great it was after it happened, we had nothing at all to do with it.”

“Who did it? Well, Russia did it! They blew up their own pipeline, making their own country poorer and weaker in the middle of a major war, because that’s how crazy but also diabolically effective the Russians are.”

“As a factual matter, neither of those guys, nor any member of Congress no matter what committee they sit on has any idea who did this, but if you suggest the obvious — Russia probably didn’t do it because why would they do it? It’s against their own interests, no matter what dumb story you’re trying to sell us — if you suggest that, if you apply common sense, you’re evil.”

“Probably…a lot of Americans who don’t feel any allegiance whatsoever to Russia, don’t like Putin…but care a lot about their own country and the behavior of their own government. So, if their own government, again, the one they paid for, the one they supposedly control, is doing things contrary to their interests and then lying about it, maybe they think they have a right to know and ask obvious questions.”

“It’s possible that asking questions is a patriotic duty of Americans.”

“You’re not allowed to quote the president of the United States promising to eliminate the Nord Stream pipeline, you’re not allowed to quote his Secretary of State celebrating that sabotage. You’re required to believe that Putin took out his own infrastructure, you must.”

“The only explanation allowed, of course, is the one the government wants you to believe. Vladimir is so evil, he’s destroying his own pipelines.”

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Tucker: Where’s the Christian concern?

I’m only suggesting that one factor that Christians use to assess the behavior of their government and other governments ought to be the treatment of Christians. It ought to be, why is it not?

Published

1 day ago

September 27, 2023

Alan Rugger

Tucker questions why American churches seem to have little concern for or knowledge of what’s happening to their fellow Christians around the world. Highlights include:

“Christians can absolutely get it wrong, and do. They can follow the wrong path, they can be mistaken, they can be silly and profane, they can commit the worst sins imaginable, but the one thing they cannot do is be afraid, period. And so, boldness… is not just this added extra, it’s a baseline requirement for following the gospel, and if you’re not doing that, you’re not doing it right. So, that’s the first thing, don’t be afraid. The second thing I notice in reading Paul’s letters is his deep concern for his fellow Christians.”

“I’m only suggesting that one factor that Christians use to assess the behavior of their government and other governments ought to be the treatment of Christians. It ought to be, why is it not?”

“We’re funding the Islamists who are killing the Christians – did anyone know that? No, of course not, churches never talk about it, that’s true. Are we for that? I’m not for that… Why doesn’t somebody stand up and say, ‘Wait a second, we’re funding the killing of Christians? No, I’m a Christian, I’m against that.”

“The conflict between Russia and Ukraine? Super complicated. I don’t think there’s an easy answer, I don’t think there’s a ‘good guy’ and a ‘bad guy’… and the more I learn about it, the more I’m confused. I’m certainly not endorsing Russia… But, one of the guides that we as Christians should use to assess that situation is, how do Christians fare in those countries? It’s totally legitimate to ask that question. Is it easier to be a Christian in Russia or Ukraine?”

“One of those countries just arrested a bunch of priests and shut down churches with political police and the army. It wasn’t Russia. I raised that question at a Christian gathering, people scowled at me. Really? They’re arresting priests? I don’t need to know more.”

You can find the link to the video below and give us your thoughts in the comments.

Which county is more welcoming to Christians, Ukraine or Russia? That’s a fair question. Why is no one allowed to ask it? pic.twitter.com/3yhFsuzvBT

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) September 26, 2023

Tucker Carlson

Tucker: Viktor Orbán on Ukraine, Russia and Hungary

If any western country would send any boots on the ground, that would mean a direct war between the west and Russia.

Published

4 weeks ago

August 31, 2023

Alan Rugger

Tucker and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán talk about the war in Ukraine, how Americans are being lied to about it, and about Hungary’s success as a nation. Highlights include:

“As the war in Ukraine completely reshuffles the world order and threatens to destroy human civilization, it’s striking just how little information Americans are receiving about what happens there. The nation of Hungary shares a border with Ukraine. Its leader, Viktor Orbán, the nation’s longest serving Prime Minister, has been dealing with the Russians all of his life. He grew up under Russian occupation. As a young man, he was arrested and thrown in to jail by Russian-backed police for his efforts to liberate the country. In his Prime Ministry, he’s dealt regularly with Vladimir Putin, whose nation supplies Hungary with most of its energy. Viktor Orbán understands Russian and Ukraine. So, two years after we last spoke to him, we returned to Hungry to sit down with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and ask him, what exactly is happening in Ukraine right now?

“When you speak on politics in Russian … the number one issue, how to keep together the country… Freedom is just another issue, second, third, whatever. First, keep the country together, and that’s generated a different kind of culture and understanding of politics. That’s creating a kind of military approach, like they have.”

“They will not kill their leader, they will never give it up, they will keep together the country [sic] and they will defend it. We finance more, they will invest more. If we send more technical equipment, they will produce more. So, don’t misunderstand the Russians.

“Now, Putin is in power for long, long years [sic]. We forgot about how dangerous when there is no strong leadership or interregnum in Russian. The interregnum is the worst case possible… If this is the goal, it’s a mistake. It’s more than dangerous.

“If any western country would send any boots on the ground, that would mean a direct war between the west and Russia, and we are in a third world war immediately, so it’s a very dangerous moment now.

“Ideology is a very difficult thing, because it has an exclusivity. So, when the liberal says that this is the interpretation of society, it means that this is the only way to interpret a society. If you do differently, you cannot be a good man. So, we have another interpretation, we have a Christian and national, more traditional interpretation of human being and society, but they can’t accept it because it’s different.

“If you ask anybody on the street that any Hungarian leader who is elected freely can be a puppet of Putin or the Russians, they say it’s a joke, it’s impossible, because we are a sovereign country, and even to the Russians we deliver many times that we are sovereign.”

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Ep. 20 Hungary shares a border with Ukraine. We traveled to Budapest to speak with the country’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán. pic.twitter.com/LOzpMrQNIz

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) August 29, 2023