The Ben Shapiro Show - August 06, 2026


Tucker's Big Announcement Landed With a Thud


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00:00:00.000 All righty, so a couple days ago, Tucker Carlson sat down with a bunch of dimwits at his table in his fake cabin in Maine. 0.91
00:00:07.000 I say fake, it's a real cabin, I suppose, but he certainly wasn't sitting there like splitting logs or in his mansion in Maine. 0.78
00:00:12.000 And he made it look like Gaston's pub or something.
00:00:14.000 And he's sitting there with Thomas Massey and Thomas Massey's new spouse.
00:00:17.000 And he is sitting there with Joe Kent and Joe Kent's new spouse.
00:00:21.000 And he's got Marjorie Hillary Green there with her spouse as well.
00:00:24.000 And they're all sitting there together.
00:00:25.000 And there's an implication that Tucker was about to launch a new third party.
00:00:28.000 And so yesterday, he put out a tweet suggesting there would be a major announcement.
00:00:32.000 At 6 p.m. Eastern.
00:00:33.000 Would he launch a new third party?
00:00:35.000 The answer, of course, was no.
00:00:36.000 I never thought he was going to launch a new third party. 0.99
00:00:38.000 It turns out, as per his usual arrangement, the idea was to get people behind his paywall so he could sell them a bunch of overpriced crap, maybe some Indian made nicotine, and a bunch of bullshit. 0.99
00:00:49.000 That was it. 0.98
00:00:49.000 Because he's not, in fact, launching a third party. 0.98
00:00:52.000 He was just doing a monologue, and he wanted you to watch by taking a picture with a bunch of idiots inside his main mansion with the Gaston chandelier with the antlers. 0.99
00:01:04.000 So, he laid out what his program would be if he were running for president, which he absolutely is not. 0.99
00:01:10.000 And he started off before that.
00:01:13.000 The really important part of this is how much blackpilling he is doing, right?
00:01:16.000 So, again, I've been saying for a long time Tucker Carlson is a demoralization agent.
00:01:19.000 His job in the American public discourse is to make you believe that the entire system is rigged and horrible, that a conspiratorial elite control everything about your life.
00:01:27.000 And there is no solution for any of this other than to listen to him and buy help.
00:01:30.000 That is the only solution.
00:01:31.000 He basically said as much yesterday.
00:01:37.000 On the issues that really matter, the most obvious and historically significant expressions of the exertion of power, which would be foreign policy and the budget, tax code, the parties are aligned.
00:01:50.000 They have the same agenda, exactly the same agenda.
00:01:53.000 And they go through this whole thing.
00:01:54.000 No, they do not.
00:01:54.000 Song and dance to convince us, no, we're really blood enemies, but are they really?
00:01:57.000 No, they're not.
00:01:59.000 And once again, just to restate the obvious, because you can't state the obvious enough, if Trump's.
00:02:07.000 Opponents really opposed what he was doing.
00:02:10.000 Well, then we would have people in the streets, famously.
00:02:13.000 And the party whose whole self understanding is people taking to the streets and marching for this, that, or the other thing, especially peace, would be marching for peace and against this war.
00:02:25.000 But they're not.
00:02:26.000 And why aren't they?
00:02:27.000 Because they're not against it.
00:02:28.000 That's why. 0.99
00:02:30.000 So in Tucker Carlson's idiotic brain, he thinks that the Democrats are in favor of President Trump's foreign policy. 1.00
00:02:38.000 And you're all just being bamboozled. 1.00
00:02:40.000 So you might say to yourself, well, Tucker, why don't you?
00:02:42.000 I mean, you basically implied that you were going to launch a third party.
00:02:45.000 Why don't you just do that, right?
00:02:46.000 I mean, like, you've said both parties are saying the same thing.
00:02:48.000 Why don't you just launch a third party? 0.88
00:02:50.000 His answer is because that's useless. 0.95
00:02:51.000 You see, everything is useless. 0.99
00:02:52.000 You see, it's all rigged, it's all conspiratorial and rigged by ALP.
00:02:59.000 So probably going to get a third party or multiple parties.
00:03:02.000 Is that the best system?
00:03:03.000 I don't know.
00:03:04.000 It's better than the one we have.
00:03:07.000 Will that be enough?
00:03:08.000 Is the question.
00:03:09.000 And the answer, the hard answer, is no.
00:03:12.000 Because when you hear people say, well, there's no political solution to this, well, of course, you're rooting for a political solution because the alternative is something kinetic, as they say.
00:03:20.000 And you don't want that.
00:03:21.000 You don't want violence of any kind.
00:03:23.000 But you also know that there are no political solutions to anything, really, in any system.
00:03:32.000 You see, there are no solutions. 0.96
00:03:33.000 Like the black belt, the only alternative is violence. 1.00
00:03:35.000 But you also know there are no solutions. 0.99
00:03:37.000 We don't want violence.
00:03:38.000 We won't want violence.
00:03:39.000 I mean, violence would be terrible.
00:03:40.000 I mean, there are no solutions other than violence.
00:03:42.000 We want to launch a third party.
00:03:44.000 Third parties aren't going to do any good.
00:03:46.000 Perhaps the only true thing that we can really say is what is government?
00:03:51.000 What is life?
00:03:53.000 What is nicotine?
00:03:56.000 And then Tucker proceeded to spell out in another one of his endless monologues, his 10 goals for America, which he apparently cribbed from his third grade paper on why he likes pie.
00:04:07.000 And also the best kind of pie is peach.
00:04:08.000 And also otters are awesome and cool. 0.99
00:04:11.000 In other words, his 10 point program was a deliberately simplistic, unsophisticated, semantically overloaded bunch of bullshit. 0.99
00:04:19.000 It turns out, wait for it. 0.99
00:04:21.000 He wants America.
00:04:22.000 You're not going to believe this.
00:04:23.000 He wants America to be more fairer and also more prettier.
00:04:27.000 And less fatter, but also more smarter and gooder.
00:04:30.000 Just generally, you know, gooder.
00:04:31.000 So many things.
00:04:32.000 Bad things should stop being bad, but also good things should be even gooder than they are. 0.91
00:04:36.000 Every building in Mississippi should look like Versailles, but also all the products should be cheap. 0.95
00:04:41.000 You should be a farmer, but he shouldn't be. 0.77
00:04:42.000 He should live in a cabin in Maine and he should talk into a microphone.
00:04:45.000 And we should burn down the banks because of usury, but also here's a mortgage ad.
00:04:49.000 Also, everything should be more affordable while raising the price of all inputs. 0.75
00:04:52.000 Also, you should be wise, but the best way to be wise is to listen to this Nazi LARPer that he had on his podcast yesterday. 0.95
00:04:58.000 Also, by the way, in case you missed it, he's selling t-shirts on his website that say the neocons are gay. 0.88
00:05:03.000 And also, by the way, please buy again that Indian manufactured nicotine to save American manufacturing jobs. 0.78
00:05:10.000 Okay. 0.99
00:05:11.000 Enough of the prelude to Tucker's magnificent program, which could aptly be titled National Socialism. 1.00
00:05:17.000 Don't be stupid. 1.00
00:05:18.000 Be a smutty. 1.00
00:05:19.000 Come and join his new third party.
00:05:20.000 Let's get to some of the details here.
00:05:23.000 So, um, Tucker says that America should be fair, equal treatment of everyone, human dignity and stuff.
00:05:30.000 And, um, and he says that Epstein pass, pisses people off because he got a pass.
00:05:33.000 Yes, that's true.
00:05:34.000 That's a sure, cool, equal justice before law, an Anglo-American tradition for literally centuries.
00:05:41.000 And then he says that America should be sovereign. 0.76
00:05:43.000 Of course, the implication here is that America is not sovereign, that we are being enslaved by the Yudin over in Israel, that Israel is enslaving the government. 0.69
00:05:50.000 He literally said Israel is enslaving the government.
00:05:52.000 Also, it turns out, he says that debt is slavery and usury is equivalent to totalitarian control, just as much as communism is, which is weird because typically when you take out a loan, That is, you volunteering into the loan.
00:06:05.000 Communism is usually someone putting a gun to your head and taking your property from you.
00:06:09.000 I don't think those are quite the same thing.
00:06:12.000 And it turns out that, as ugly as things like payday lenders are, when you get rid of them, people just go to the black market because ain't no credible lender going to give you money if you have no credit score and aren't going to pay back the money because that's how life is.
00:06:25.000 But here is Tucker Carlson talking about usury literally right before reading a mortgage ad.
00:06:30.000 I kid you not.
00:06:31.000 Here we go.
00:06:34.000 So, debt is, of course, and this has been noted in previous societies, really since the beginning of time, a form of slavery.
00:06:40.000 You do not have control over your life when you owe money to people.
00:06:44.000 Well, of course, it's unavoidable in America, unless you're very rich or extremely disciplined beyond what the average person can be expected to maintain.
00:06:51.000 You're going to be in debt.
00:06:52.000 It's hard to do anything without debt.
00:06:54.000 But is that good?
00:06:56.000 Why are we participating in this?
00:06:58.000 Why are we accepting this as the natural order?
00:07:00.000 It's the most unnatural thing ever devised.
00:07:03.000 And it's bad.
00:07:04.000 And that's why every major religion acknowledges that it's not just unhelpful, it's sinful.
00:07:10.000 Well, actually, most major religions, including Judaism and Islam, by the way, alongside Christianity, treat interest as a problem because the idea is that if a member of your family comes to you, you lend to them at no interest.
00:07:24.000 That's kind of the idea.
00:07:25.000 Also, every single major religion has come up with a workaround because it turns out that there is no way to avoid charging interest in order to incentivize people to make loans because no one just makes loans to a stranger who they don't know will repay.
00:07:40.000 Without some form of collateral, and also the time value of money is a real thing.
00:07:43.000 Okay, fine.
00:07:45.000 But again, he doesn't understand economics.
00:07:46.000 As we'll see, he disdains people who do understand economics because, again, his brain, something has gone wrong.
00:07:53.000 He says that America should be productive, you know, as opposed to right now when we are the most productive country in the history of the world.
00:07:59.000 But what does he mean by productive?
00:08:00.000 He means that we should have blind dwarves who make handcrafted chairs and they should be members of a German guild that learned to make chairs from their ancestors from oak and perhaps from maple several hundred years ago. 0.96
00:08:16.000 And if we have cheaper furniture that you want to buy, we should not have that. 0.98
00:08:19.000 We need manufacturing facilities where everything is made in America, including t shirts, at 10 times the price. 1.00
00:08:26.000 The only way to judge a civilization is if you have dwarves who make chairs. 1.00
00:08:30.000 That is the only way.
00:08:33.000 Here is Tucker Carlson explaining a bunch of economic nonsense.
00:08:40.000 There's been, of course, this long debate about the manufacturing sector.
00:08:44.000 Of course, it wasn't a debate.
00:08:45.000 There were a couple wackos like Ross Perot and Pat Buchanan, like, wait, we need to make things.
00:08:50.000 You don't understand capitalism, said Ben Shapiro's parents or whoever was arguing at the time. 0.99
00:08:50.000 Oh, shut up. 0.99
00:08:55.000 My parents? 1.00
00:08:55.000 No, you don't understand capitalism. 1.00
00:08:57.000 It's really about efficiency.
00:08:58.000 My dad was playing piano at a restaurant.
00:08:59.000 My mom was making it over there.
00:09:01.000 And we reaped the benefits.
00:09:03.000 Buchanan and people like him would say, But don't we kind of lose something?
00:09:06.000 We don't make anything. 1.00
00:09:07.000 Oh, shut up. 1.00
00:09:07.000 You don't understand economics. 1.00
00:09:10.000 But you don't have to understand economics to know that they were absolutely right.
00:09:16.000 That you are judged by the things you make, but you also judge yourself by the things you make, which is to say, your dignity and self respect come from doing something useful or beautiful, something worth having.
00:09:30.000 Well, what is the thing that is useful andor beautiful other than the Indian made nicotine pouches that Tucker is hawking on his website?
00:09:38.000 Again, we should manufacture certain things in America, things that are crucial to national security.
00:09:43.000 We should manufacture in America.
00:09:44.000 There are many things that we make in America better than are made elsewhere.
00:09:48.000 But here's a reality.
00:09:50.000 I know he's sustainable of economics because we're supposed to pretend economics doesn't exist because we live in utopia land where the otters are plentiful.
00:09:56.000 But economics is the study of trade offs.
00:09:59.000 You cannot say that things should be both affordable.
00:10:02.000 And also made more expensively here in America.
00:10:04.000 That's not how it works.
00:10:06.000 That is not how it works.
00:10:08.000 If you want to make all the t shirts here instead of Vietnam, they will be significantly more expensive.
00:10:11.000 If you want to make an iPhone here with all of the parts, all of the parts, you're talking about a multiple of the price of the iPhone.
00:10:17.000 You cannot complain about affordability while simultaneously suggesting that we need to manufacture everything here at home.
00:10:23.000 That is not how trade works.
00:10:24.000 That is not how division of labor works.
00:10:26.000 That is not how economics works at all.
00:10:28.000 And I know that, again, his kind of throwaway well, who cares about economics?
00:10:31.000 No!
00:10:33.000 Economics is just a reflection of underlying reality.
00:10:35.000 It's about the distribution of scarce resources.
00:10:37.000 If you don't have a plan other than just yelling, I don't know what your plan is, my dude.
00:10:42.000 And again, I don't see Tucker volunteering to go work a 10 hour day at the local Ford factory, riveting in the style of 1955 Americans.
00:10:52.000 Okay, other things he says.
00:10:53.000 He says that America should be beautiful.
00:10:56.000 He says everything in America has gotten uglier since 1960.
00:10:58.000 Well, I mean, to be fair, there are a lot of government buildings that really got ugly since 1960 because there's a brutalist movement in architecture that's pretty horrifying.
00:11:08.000 So, I don't disagree with that.
00:11:10.000 And of course, you should care about your streets being clean and beautiful.
00:11:13.000 Duh.
00:11:14.000 I mean, again, his entire program here is a melange of the perfectly obvious and the utterly insipid.
00:11:20.000 That is the entire thing.
00:11:22.000 And then he says that if you're not Albert Speer, meaning the Nazi architect, if you care about your street being clean and beautiful, who's calling him Albert Speer for that? 0.66
00:11:30.000 And you're more like Albert Speer if you host Nazi LARPers on your program two days ago. 0.68
00:11:33.000 That's more like Albert Speer, actually. 0.76
00:11:35.000 But I'm also in favor of building pretty things.
00:11:40.000 I am.
00:11:41.000 Also, it seems to me that utility matters an awful lot to Americans and always has.
00:11:45.000 If you go all the way back to de Tocqueville, he was talking about the fact that Americans were not building European style buildings when they were moving out west.
00:11:53.000 They're building cabins, very often abandoning those cabins and then moving further west because America is a very, very utility driven country, right?
00:12:00.000 We actually like things to be affordable and usable.
00:12:03.000 Okay.
00:12:04.000 Anyway, he says America should be healthy.
00:12:08.000 And, uh, and he talks to about being sober and as close to our natural state as possible.
00:12:12.000 Since he's a dry drunk, I suppose that, um, there's something to, again, you're speaking to somebody who literally has never Tried drugs and doesn't drink.
00:12:19.000 So I'm very much in favor of sobriety, actually.
00:12:22.000 Of course, I'm also not selling addictive nicotine pouches, but you know, there we are.
00:12:30.000 Sobriety is no longer the goal, and it should be.
00:12:31.000 It's not esoteric, it's not weird, it's not like some eccentric desire to be sober.
00:12:38.000 Everyone should be sober all the time.
00:12:39.000 There's nothing wrong with that.
00:12:41.000 What's wrong is what we have now, where everyone's half addled, and you talk to your boss at work, this has happened to me, and you see that kind of vacant shark like stare that suggests like no real human emotion.
00:12:51.000 It was called Xanax.
00:12:51.000 What's that?
00:12:53.000 It's also physically addictive and you can die going off it.
00:12:56.000 But doctors are prescribing that for years, really?
00:12:59.000 Same with Adderall.
00:13:00.000 Makes you crazy. 0.93
00:13:02.000 Gives you mental illness if you use it long enough, but people do. 0.82
00:13:05.000 Why is that okay?
00:13:07.000 And why the social sanction for saying so out loud? 1.00
00:13:11.000 It doesn't make you weird, some chia seed eating health nut, to not take drugs, including drugs that are prescribed for serious illness. 1.00
00:13:20.000 Like maybe all of those aren't necessary. 1.00
00:13:22.000 I don't know.
00:13:22.000 Let's have the conversation.
00:13:25.000 I don't know.
00:13:26.000 Okay.
00:13:26.000 Well, you know, I'm, I, okay.
00:13:28.000 I also believe that there's an overprescription crisis in the United States.
00:13:31.000 You know who I'm going to talk to about that?
00:13:32.000 People who actually know.
00:13:34.000 I can listen to Tucker Carlson talk about his prescription medication recommendations with regard to mental health.
00:13:43.000 Like, come on.
00:13:45.000 Like, there are actual people who are credible, who are credible in this space.
00:13:48.000 Is he going to have those people?
00:13:49.000 I hope he would.
00:13:51.000 Why not?
00:13:51.000 He should.
00:13:52.000 But I don't even know what he's ranting about here.
00:13:54.000 We all agree.
00:13:55.000 America's overprescribed.
00:13:56.000 There are too many people who are on SSRIs. 0.81
00:13:58.000 Like, all of that is true.
00:13:59.000 All of it's true.
00:14:00.000 So, what is he even ranting about, you know, before selling the Alp?
00:14:04.000 He also says that America should be honest, which is an astonishing contention from one of the most dishonest people in American politics.
00:14:09.000 A man who literally lies bald faced to the New York Times, literally says he didn't say a thing that he clearly was on tape saying. 0.99
00:14:15.000 And he does that kind of crap all the time. 0.99
00:14:16.000 When caught in his lie, just goes, I don't even know what that means. 1.00
00:14:19.000 The Antichrist?
00:14:19.000 I mean, I called Trump the Antichrist, but what is the Antichrist?
00:14:22.000 I don't, I have to think about it.
00:14:24.000 I don't even know.
00:14:25.000 I mean, I can tell you, I wouldn't say it.
00:14:27.000 I wouldn't know.
00:14:29.000 I might say, oh, ho, ho, ho.
00:14:32.000 So here he was talking about how America needs to be more honest.
00:14:35.000 And the way that you can be more honest is by spreading conspiracy theories about how probably the Jews did 9 11 or something. 0.89
00:14:43.000 So something will happen, history changing event like 9 11. 0.72
00:14:46.000 And parts of it will seem self evidently obvious, like what happened, planes flew into buildings.
00:14:50.000 But some of it, like Building 7, which collapsed for still no explicable reason, are totally confusing.
00:14:58.000 25 years later, like what was that?
00:15:01.000 And so people ask those questions because why wouldn't they?
00:15:03.000 Anyone who's awake.
00:15:04.000 Looks at that and says, hmm, that's weird. 0.97
00:15:07.000 And then that person is screamed at as a conspiracy theorist, a wacko, you're an anti Semite, you must be a Nazi if you have questions about Building Seven. 0.97
00:15:16.000 Okay.
00:15:16.000 Well, there's a very fast way to settle that debate, and it's by declassifying the documents that might shed light, factual light, on what actually happened.
00:15:27.000 What documents does he think exist that shed, quote unquote, the actual light?
00:15:31.000 Like, what is he speculating?
00:15:32.000 Anyway, he then says America should be optimistic, which is hilarious from the biggest doom pillar in American politics.
00:15:38.000 From the guy who says that there is no solve.
00:15:39.000 He led this off with there's no solve for anything politically in the United States.
00:15:42.000 Third parties won't help.
00:15:43.000 And if this were a real country, people would be violent in the streets.
00:15:46.000 Also, optimism.
00:15:48.000 Optimism.
00:15:50.000 It's hard to think of someone more pessimistic about the state of America than Tucker Carlson right now.
00:15:55.000 And then he said that America should be wise.
00:15:58.000 Now, again, when I think about lasting wisdom, I don't think I'm going to go to the dude who is talking with Russian propagandists this week and who somehow thinks that Russia is a model of governance.
00:16:13.000 But here we go.
00:16:16.000 One of the first things you'd want to do is teach your children something of use in order to participate meaningfully in the future, in order to help them.
00:16:26.000 And what would you want to do to your kids?
00:16:28.000 Educate them?
00:16:30.000 Obviously not.
00:16:31.000 You'd want to make them wise.
00:16:33.000 So, wisdom is the goal.
00:16:36.000 Being wise.
00:16:37.000 Living in a wise country is the goal.
00:16:40.000 Instead of trying to figure out how to code, it might be worth teaching your children about the things that don't change, like human nature.
00:16:50.000 Human nature is unchanging.
00:16:52.000 The behavior of people in, say, the book of Chronicles, written 3,000 years ago, is totally recognizable to us.
00:17:02.000 Hammurabi's Code, the first written law, addresses the way people behave on the basis of the way people still behave now, thousands of years later.
00:17:17.000 It's all just platitudes.
00:17:18.000 It's platitudes.
00:17:20.000 combined with, it's just a bleep sandwich, obviously.
00:17:22.000 And then he says America should be decent.
00:17:24.000 By decent, he means that we need to actually just apologize for anything that we do abroad and probably we should never have a military again.
00:17:29.000 So there's that.
00:17:31.000 He also says that rewarding investment bankers more than wage workers is indecent.
00:17:34.000 Who's doing the rewarding, my dude?
00:17:36.000 Okay.
00:17:38.000 When you invest, you are taking a risk.
00:17:40.000 Risk has upside and also downside.
00:17:43.000 Wage workers receive a wage.
00:17:44.000 From whom do they receive that wage?
00:17:46.000 Not from Tucker Carlson, generally speaking.
00:17:50.000 And, but there, there's me with my knowing economics again.
00:17:52.000 I know it's, it's annoying.
00:17:53.000 It's annoying to know things.
00:17:54.000 It's annoying.
00:17:55.000 And then he says America needs to be united.
00:17:56.000 Tucker Carlson says America needs to be united.
00:17:59.000 Perhaps the most divisive political figure in America says we need to make America more united.
00:18:04.000 Now, again, I agree with some of his prescriptions about, say, mass migration.
00:18:07.000 He's against it. 0.67
00:18:08.000 So am I.
00:18:10.000 And he says that English should be the official language of the United States.
00:18:12.000 Agree.
00:18:14.000 Agree.
00:18:15.000 But this idea that Tucker Carlson is some sort of great unifier is bizarro world.
00:18:19.000 So, okay, here's the thing.
00:18:20.000 All of this is superfluous because we have had for many, many decades, in fact, centuries, A vision for what America ought to be, particularly a vision for government, which is the business that we are all in, right?
00:18:30.000 It's talking about public policy.
00:18:32.000 It comes from our founding fathers.
00:18:34.000 It is embedded in these two documents that we all used to know.
00:18:36.000 One was called the Declaration of Independence, and the other was the Constitution.
00:18:40.000 I know we don't talk about those things anymore because we're post liberals now.
00:18:43.000 We've decided these are bad, but it turns out they're actually pretty great.
00:18:47.000 I'll talk about this tonight at Mount Vernon, the estate of George Washington.
00:18:51.000 But here is a basic framework You are made in the image of God.
00:18:54.000 We know this from the Bible and also because it's just true.
00:18:57.000 You are a creative choosing being with duties in the world.
00:19:01.000 You as a human being are capable of great good and also great sin.
00:19:04.000 This means that a successful nation must be built on three foundations.
00:19:09.000 One, social virtue.
00:19:11.000 Because parchment barriers mean nothing to an immoral people.
00:19:13.000 This is something that Washington said.
00:19:14.000 It's something that Adams said.
00:19:16.000 We need to teach virtue, right?
00:19:18.000 Goodness.
00:19:19.000 Meaning in life is not derived from your government.
00:19:23.000 It is derived from family, church, community, God, exercise of your creativity in the form of duty, patriotism.
00:19:32.000 That means we have to inculcate truth in our children, not conspiratorial, black pilling crap, not lies about how terrible our kids have it, worse than any other kids, and how nothing can solve their problems and they have no responsibility.
00:19:44.000 Actual truth, which is most of your problems are solvable in your own hands.
00:19:48.000 Second, freedom, because a government large enough to impose its will on every aspect of your life is a government large enough to destroy all of your freedoms and liberties and yester virtues.
00:19:57.000 We have, because we are made in the image of God, private property rights.
00:20:00.000 We have speech rights and we have religious freedom rights and we have gun rights.
00:20:04.000 The federal government does not have the capability or the right to overrule you here.
00:20:10.000 Your choices matter.
00:20:12.000 And if properly exercised, they make the world better because you know better for your family than those people do.
00:20:18.000 And finally, strength because we face enemies that hate our vision of the world.
00:20:22.000 Not weakness because America is somehow uniquely sinful.
00:20:26.000 We aren't.
00:20:27.000 I know this has become You know, kind of passe to say, we, America, we are the good guys in the world.
00:20:34.000 That is not jingoism.
00:20:35.000 That is realism. 1.00
00:20:36.000 The Russians are not the good guys. 0.96
00:20:38.000 The Russian regime is horrific. 1.00
00:20:40.000 The Chinese are not the good guys. 0.99
00:20:42.000 The Chinese regime is evil. 1.00
00:20:43.000 The Iranians are not the good guys. 1.00
00:20:45.000 The Iranian regime is absolutely terrible. 1.00
00:20:49.000 We are the good guys.
00:20:50.000 We are better than anyone else.
00:20:51.000 We got our own problems, got our own issues, but America is the shining city on the hill compared to the rest of humanity.
00:20:58.000 And if you think otherwise, honestly, you should get out of the country.
00:21:01.000 Truly, you should just leave.
00:21:03.000 You should.
00:21:05.000 Now, what does this all mean in practice?
00:21:07.000 What is Tucker actually doing here?
00:21:09.000 Okay, here's what he's actually doing.
00:21:10.000 He's just forming a DSA from the right, right?
00:21:11.000 That's what he's doing. 0.97
00:21:13.000 And Megyn Kelly is, I think, ignorant enough to believe that Tucker is going to run for president. 0.91
00:21:18.000 He has no such intention of running for president. 0.99
00:21:20.000 Listen, Megyn wants to be in with Tucker.
00:21:22.000 Obviously, that's fine. 0.88
00:21:22.000 It's her prerogative. 0.88
00:21:24.000 She wants to be friends and go out to dinner and go fishing and all that kind of stuff. 0.99
00:21:27.000 That's who Megyn is. 0.99
00:21:28.000 Here she was talking up the Tucker Carlson third party that doesn't exist. 0.99
00:21:33.000 Tucker's as likely to run for president as I am to move to India and start my cricket career.
00:21:38.000 I just don't think it's going to happen.
00:21:40.000 I just disagree.
00:21:41.000 I just don't think he's well, he might do it as a lark, but as a credible campaign, I don't believe it.
00:21:47.000 I don't believe the support's there for it.
00:21:48.000 I got to tell you, I disagree.
00:21:50.000 I haven't talked to him directly about it.
00:21:52.000 I believe Tucker's so disgusted and the neocons and what's happened within the Republican Party that for the first time he actually would consider it.
00:22:02.000 I just don't see a practical base of support.
00:22:07.000 The neocons.
00:22:07.000 Again, listening to Megan Kelly wax poetic about the neocons.
00:22:12.000 She's been conservative for five minutes and then wasn't again and then was again and then wasn't.
00:22:15.000 Anyway, here is the actual strategy.
00:22:17.000 Again, it's a DSA from the right.
00:22:18.000 That's what Tucker wants. 1.00
00:22:19.000 He wants to put out his melange of stupidity and lies and total platitudes. 1.00
00:22:23.000 And then he wants to blackmail the Republican Party that he might walk away if they don't accept it, which is smart. 1.00
00:22:29.000 I mean, honestly, it is.
00:22:30.000 I'll give him that.
00:22:30.000 It's tactically bright.
00:22:32.000 He's trying to run against the status quo, which is Trump, which is always a sort of rich vein to mine.
00:22:36.000 And then he's suggesting that he's the one who's going to clock VP Vance into the new right.
00:22:40.000 And the convenient thing for him is that, of course, he and Vance agree with a lot of this sort of stuff.
00:22:44.000 Tucker and Vance are close friends, and Vance has never said a cross word about Tucker Carlson.
00:22:48.000 And again, he repeats many of the same sort of talking points that Tucker spews.
00:22:51.000 I mean, here was JD Vance just the other night with Laura Ingram talking in kind of the same terms as Tucker does about economic policy.
00:23:01.000 The past 40 years of economic policy, bipartisan economic policy, have failed.
00:23:05.000 I think a lot of people look at El Sayad or a lot of these other radical candidates and they say, socialism is evil.
00:23:11.000 They're right.
00:23:12.000 Socialism is evil.
00:23:13.000 But we have to ask ourselves the question why is socialism so appealing to a lot of people who, to your point, have lower assets, who don't have the same ownership, who went to universities and were sold a bill of goods?
00:23:25.000 They got a lot of debt, but they didn't necessarily get the good jobs that came along with that high debt load.
00:23:31.000 40 years of bipartisan economic policy have failed, and what we need is a nationalist economic policy.
00:23:36.000 Okay.
00:23:37.000 So, in other words, in the end, all this is just kayfabe.
00:23:40.000 It's all just wrestling fakery, it's kabuki theater.
00:23:45.000 Well, listen, the important thing is that Tucker got some clicks and he probably sold some nicotine, you know, for your health.
00:23:51.000 That's the really important thing.
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