Tucker Carlson

Tucker: you can no longer fight back

If the criminal who assaults you is a member of a favored group, you don’t have the right to fight back, you may not defend yourself. You must take whatever he gives you, because thugs have more rights than you do

Published

1 year ago

July 8, 2022

Alan Rugger

Tucker looks at several incidents of people who were punished for defending themselves. Highlights include:

“Jose Alba came to the United States 30 years ago to work, and working is exactly what he was doing at the bodega in Harlem at almost midnight on Friday, selling chips to people who don’t bother to work, holding up the retail economy for minimum wage.”

“A healthy society celebrates, venerates men like Jose Alba, men with jobs and families, men with independence and dignity. And above all a healthy society affirms the right of men like this to self defense. Self defense is the cornerstone of all liberty; if you can’t defend your own life and property, you have no rights at all.”

“That was obvious in America, for centuries this was a country whose leaders encouraged decent behavior, who held up the common man as a hero. But that has changed. Jose Alba wasn’t lauded for his bravery or his resourcefulness, he wasn’t congratulated for defending himself in the face of a violent felon much younger than him.”

“Alba was arrested at the scene, and he was sent to jail.”

“If the criminal who assaults you is a member of a favored group, you don’t have the right to fight back. You may not defend yourself. You must take whatever he gives you, because thugs have more rights than you do, you being the person dumb enough to be working at almost midnight in a bodega in Harlem on a Friday.”

“That’s the message. The tech companies, as always, joined with government as a unified force to send this message.”

“GoFundMe deleted Jose Alba’s fundraising page from the internet. Contrast this with how the left’s militia are treated. Now, GoFundMe explained, ‘we don’t allow fundraising for anyone who’s been charged with a violent crime,’ really? Well, that’s just a lie, and provably so. BLM rioters were encouraged to raise money or bail and their legal defense. They can have lawyers, but not bodega clerks. They are powerless, and they must remain so.”

“Virtually every power center in the United States agrees that self defense is no longer allowed. You can no longer fight back. And if you don’t believe it, remember how the media covered the Rittenhouse trial. Here was a man exercising his lawful, his fundamental right of self defense, but he was charged with murder, and corporate media backed the prosecutors.”

“’You lose the right to self defense when you’re the one who brought the gun.’ Now, legally, that is nonsense, that’s insane. There’s no reference whatsoever in American law for that statement, but the law is not the point. They don’t need the law. They now have the unilateral authority to destroy your business, ruin your reputation, throw you in prison, prevent your family from hiring a lawyer to defend you or get you out of jail.”

“The people who are favored by the regime can do whatever they want, you can do nothing to protect your life, your family, your property. Burglars broke into the Arlington Smoke Shop in March of 2020, middle of the night. A store employee who was sleeping in the store because there were so many break-ins, shot at the robbers, as is his right, in fact his duty, and he should be applauded for that. But no, he was prosecuted.”

“At this very moment, the Biden administration is letting in millions, literally millions of illegal aliens, foreign nationals whose identities we can’t actually know because, ‘they work hard, the American dream, the statue of liberty, give us your tired huddled masses, etc etc, okay.'”

“But then when those immigrants come here and work in a bodega in Harlem or a smoke shop in Arlington and they’re faced with violent crime, this same party, the democratic party, punishes them for defending themselves. Whose side are they on exactly?”

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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

4 days 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