The Tucker Carlson Show - October 30, 2026


Tucker Answers the Most Controversial Questions of 2026

Jeffrey Sachs on Netanyahu’s Struggle to Keep Control of the World’s Most Bloodthirsty Ethnostate

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00:00:30.640 one of the problems with running a podcast is it's all transmit and no receive you yap yap yap yap
00:00:36.480 yap into the microphone but you never hear what the people listening think about what you're saying
00:00:40.960 so we have a segment called ask tucker in which our members people who have joined tcn which is
00:00:45.520 our movement slash network get to ask questions and we answer them and some of the questions are
00:00:53.200 really smart and make you think maybe we should listen more and talk less in any case
00:00:57.120 asktucker is at tuckercarlson.com it's for members join us jeremy g from lake aerial
00:01:03.680 pennsylvania tucker like you i'm fed up with the republicans i'm reluctant to support them but i
00:01:08.720 also don't want to give the dsa a win i may regret it but i'm going to give the republicans one last
00:01:14.560 chance what do you think i get it i don't i mean there's so many things about the dsa that offend
00:01:19.840 me the anti-white stuff especially um but the whole revolutionary posture i like this country
00:01:25.360 i grew up here i've lived here my entire life and i don't want to tear it down i want to save it
00:01:31.520 so and i also don't like the kind of aesthetics of dsa like unhappy weird gender transitioning
00:01:37.920 rich kids like no thanks on the other hand you have to keep two things in mind one there are 0.53
00:01:43.520 certain things you can't support and getting pushed by israel into a war with iran that
00:01:47.120 destroys the american empire is high on that list so no i'm not rewarding that second is the dsa
00:01:53.520 actually an alternative to what we have to the uniparty where are they on the iran war they're
00:01:57.600 not saying much where are they on the tax code they're not saying much where are they on improving
00:02:01.120 the life of the average person not people who are here illegally but the average american whose
00:02:05.440 ancestors fought in the civil war i don't think they have anything to say about that so you have
00:02:10.240 to sort of wonder like is the dsa real actually or is it just another fake alternative that we're
00:02:16.080 being fed in order to disguise the truth of the system which is it you know it's a tiny percentage
00:02:22.240 of the population getting its way to our detriment so i guess what i'm saying is yes the dsa is
00:02:30.160 different from the republican party for sure but are they how different are they on the core issues
00:02:34.560 i don't know you tell me gene r from houston texas tucker any thoughts on that freak james
00:02:42.440 tallarico running for senate in my home state of texas the guy gives me the creeps gene go with
00:02:47.880 your gut i tell my kids this all the time if someone smells creepy he is if you get like a 0.58
00:02:52.460 weird sex vibe off someone it's real if you think someone is lying to you you're right 0.93
00:02:57.560 that guy gives some of the creepiest vibes of any person in the public sphere i don't care what you 0.95
00:03:05.420 think of ken paxton i don't care what you think the republican party james tallarico who's using
00:03:09.880 christianity that is what offends me about james tallarico is the blasphemy running around telling
00:03:15.880 everyone he's a christian when he's not when he's full contempt for biblical christianity and hates
00:03:21.280 people who adhere to it and whose program is totally anti-christian running around lecturing
00:03:26.260 the rest of us when i'm a christian there's something infuriating about that i will take
00:03:31.500 a lecture from an atheist we just disagree i think you're tragically wrong but there is a kind of
00:03:36.700 honor in the honesty about it there is no honor at all about taking someone else's religion and
00:03:42.660 using it as a cloak for subverting that same religion. So there's really no one more repulsive
00:03:49.380 to me in the public sphere than James Tallarico. And like Eugene, a lot of that revulsion begins
00:03:55.360 on a visceral level. I look at that guy and I'm like, uh, no, you're not having dinner at my house,
00:03:59.960 weirdo. Jeff from Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri. What are the chances of forming a third party
00:04:05.600 called the America party that truly represents the majority of our country? The current political
00:04:11.160 machine would fight it every step of the way but i think we live in a unique time where a third
00:04:15.640 party would be taken seriously i'm jeff i meditate on this every single day this is like the substance
00:04:21.480 of my time in the sauna every day thinking about this exact question clearly the way you framed it
00:04:26.600 is the truth our current system doesn't represent the majority most people are opposed to the
00:04:31.640 priorities of the republican and democratic parties it's that simple and the promise of
00:04:35.480 democracy is minority rights will be protected of course according to the constitution but the
00:04:40.280 majority will get its way because it owns the country and that hasn't happened in decades and
00:04:47.320 so we need an alternative that does exactly that what's the majority view on things i don't know
00:04:51.000 it's not hard to find out we have the gallup poll every single day i'm not saying we should govern
00:04:55.320 by polling i'm merely saying if what the government does over decades bears no resemblance to what the
00:05:00.440 majority wants it's not a democracy and i would like democracy because i i i grew up believing
00:05:06.040 that we had one and that was my birthright so yeah there will be a third party will it be the
00:05:10.440 next cycle i don't know you know politics is not is not my area believe it or not even though i've
00:05:16.460 talked about it for my entire life i don't have a gut level understanding of it partly because i
00:05:21.620 find it disgusting it's utterly transactional it's not rooted in any belief at all it's just
00:05:25.960 a way of grabbing power peacefully they used to say politics was a way to settle disputes peacefully
00:05:32.220 something peaceful about our politics people die because of our politics a lot actually so
00:05:38.460 i'm not sure any of this is what i thought it was but i do know that over time
00:05:43.100 you can't have peace in your country unless its leaders pay attention to the desires of the
00:05:47.980 majority you're just not going to have peace so you're at that point you can like suppress them
00:05:52.700 and surveil them with flock cameras or you can prepare to be overthrown like that's where we're
00:05:57.740 moving right so yes i am praying for a third party and i think we'll get one timothy f from charleston
00:06:03.740 south carolina asks if the democrats win next month does it have any effect on the wars in
00:06:09.260 ukraine in iran that is a great question and i'm not sure is the answer so the democratic leadership
00:06:15.900 is fully on board with the war against russia we are waging a war against russia the trump
00:06:20.620 administration like the biden administration is at war with russia the largest nuclear
00:06:24.780 own power in the world so that's crazy and we've been sort of lulled into not noticing that but it
00:06:31.820 is happening and it's happening because the democrats push it they started the war by telling
00:06:37.340 russia we're gonna bring ukraine into nato that happened in february of 2022 so um make no mistake
00:06:44.380 this is their priority and republicans have signed on to it the iran war same thing both parties have
00:06:49.980 been talking for 40 years about how we need to overthrow the iranian government for some reason
00:06:53.580 well because they're paid to say that by israel so um that will not change unless the democratic
00:07:01.280 leadership is is under extreme pressure from its own voters and i hope that happens i pray that
00:07:06.320 that happens that sincere democratic voters and a lot of people who've never voted democrat who
00:07:11.680 are about to vote democrat in this midterm because of the betrayal of the current administration
00:07:15.200 there are a lot of those they say wait a second we're not going to be betrayed again stop the
00:07:20.140 wars i mean people forget they look back on the 80s and 90s as sort of a halcyon period in american
00:07:26.400 history like that was so nice it must have been so great to grow up in the 80s and 90s well i did
00:07:29.620 and i can confirm it was but why was it so great because we weren't at war that's why war kills
00:07:36.820 your economy it makes your society chaotic and it causes people to become callous and desensitized
00:07:44.540 and brutal toward each other. You can't kill innocents in a foreign country without changing 0.99
00:07:50.880 as a country. So I pray, number one on my list is that we will stop these wars. They're wars of
00:07:59.560 choice with no reason to wage them other than a small group of people who somehow think they own
00:08:04.040 Russia because their ancestors lived there or something. Get out of my country. That's totally
00:08:09.000 irrelevant. I'm sorry, my ancestors were from somewhere too, and I'm sure they were mistreated
00:08:11.800 too but i'm not hijacking america's foreign policy to settle a hundred year old score or 300 year
00:08:18.640 old score or whatever stop you just have to that's not hate that's love it's love for america for
00:08:25.760 your nation we're no we're not going to use the united states military the 1.5 trillion dollar a
00:08:31.880 year united states military to settle your ancient blood feud because this is a new country this is
00:08:38.500 promised land this is a country that left all that behind that is not hostage to ancient rivalries
00:08:46.260 so anyone who can restore our foreign policy to an america-centric pro-america posture will have
00:08:56.180 my support but i you know i don't see any candidates right now who are promising that
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00:10:07.340 listen to this show. Well, Mary Kate C from New Paltz, New York asks, off the top of your head,
00:10:13.680 who are the three best politicians in America right now? Who are the three worst? I would say
00:10:18.140 the three best are Marjorie Taylor Greene, Joe Kent, and Thomas Massey. You'll notice none of
00:10:23.520 them holds office right now. Joe Kent was defeated twice in his effort to get elected to Congress
00:10:29.400 from washington state he was defeated in um one of the most extraordinary disinformation campaigns
00:10:36.920 run by nick fuentes on behalf of the neocons nick fuentes is a fed and is working for the
00:10:42.920 side he claims to oppose obviously and this came or it's not obvious i guess to a lot of people
00:10:47.800 because he like denies the holocaust so he must be whatever i don't know nick fuentes is working
00:10:52.600 for the neocons and always has and so he was part of a bipartisan effort to keep joe kent out of
00:10:57.000 the congress because joe kent's wife was killed in syria in a neocon war he had credibility he's
00:11:02.120 reasonable he's not a hater he's a christian and they had to keep him out marjorie taylor green
00:11:06.440 was driven out of a movement she helped create because she's like hey why don't we release the
00:11:10.120 epstein files done and thomas massey just noticed that like apac controls 90 of members of congress
00:11:16.840 and what is this and that was enough to have his primary in the commonwealth of kentucky flooded
00:11:22.680 with tens of millions of dollars from people who don't even live in the district or the country
00:11:28.940 so all three of them have been exiled from the american political system for telling the truth
00:11:35.240 and to me the willingness to tell the truth the bravery to tell the truth in the face of opposition
00:11:40.360 is the hallmark of integrity that's what i want who's the worst everyone else
00:11:47.260 i mean it's just it's it's like how do you even scale them i mean james tallarico is the creepiest
00:11:52.940 he's the one if he ever entered the sauna when you were there you would jump through the window
00:11:56.660 but it doesn't mean he's the worst because they're all kind of the same they're all fake
00:12:01.720 they're all totally unwilling to sacrifice themselves for the people they lead and that is
00:12:07.680 the definition of leadership the willingness to die for the people you lead that's a father's
00:12:12.060 duty that's an officer's duty that's a president's duty it's member of congress's duty and none of 0.86
00:12:16.160 them are willing to accept that so they're all disgusting as far as i'm concerned i can't believe
00:12:21.880 ted cruz didn't get an honorable mention i mean ted cruz is like but ted cruz is also like the
00:12:26.920 saddest member of congress his life personal life is a true disaster no respect at all at home and
00:12:36.040 which is like there's nothing worse than that i'd rather get beaten in a hundred elections than have 0.89
00:12:40.420 my wife and kids not respect me there's nothing worse than that i'd rather be dead than that i
00:12:45.200 mean it too and and ted's just like this sad greasy guy who's been told his entire life that
00:12:51.120 he's a genius because he has a high verbal iq well i have a high verb i have a higher verbal iq
00:12:56.140 than ted cruz and i can promise you i'm not a genius and this is the problem with having a
00:13:01.860 high verbal iq it's like a party trick i have it so i can say this it's like everyone's like oh
00:13:06.740 you're so smart you're so smart but you're not actually you just you're like a trained dog like
00:13:14.540 you can you know identify the cup the ball is under but it doesn't mean that you're building
00:13:19.280 a power grid you know what i mean i'm making wise decisions in my personal life it's like there's a
00:13:24.480 huge difference between facility with words and wisdom and i've never seen a clear example in
00:13:31.420 these poor guys and i know a ton of them because like of course people who were super fluent
00:13:38.080 in a language have some skill they know everyone else who has the skill so i know a ton of these
00:13:43.060 people and a lot of them are so angry because they've been told their whole lives i got an 800
00:13:50.460 of the verbal sat i'm a genius and their lives haven't turned out at all like what they had
00:13:57.940 hoped they've fallen so far short of their own expectations and they're just filled with like
00:14:03.100 self-hatred and disappointment no one appreciates how smart i am you know the smartest people the
00:14:09.420 wisest people know how absurd they are and ted cruz doesn't know how absurd he is everyone else
00:14:15.240 knows however so i just feel sorry for him tom f from floral park new york tucker whenever i hear
00:14:23.440 you talk about the donors pulling the strings behind the scenes i wonder how sleazy the whole
00:14:27.520 process is can you pull back the curtain and tell us about the donor class and how they control
00:14:32.260 these candidates well i mean at the root of it is the belief that every politician has that money
00:14:39.280 equals power, that you cannot—and they all feel this way, even the good ones. And I know some—I
00:14:43.580 have known some decent people in politics, because I've known everyone in politics, and
00:14:47.000 a tiny percentage, the outliers, are decent people. But even they are captive to the lie
00:14:53.440 that the amount of money you raise determines whether or not you succeed. So they all believe
00:15:01.120 that. So once you believe that, you leave yourself open to manipulation, because I believe, as Paul
00:15:06.880 the apostle told us the worship of money is the root of all evil and that is true in every context
00:15:12.460 and so because they believe that they're totally vulnerable to people you know rolling in the
00:15:19.540 donors miriam adelson is not even from this country who's living off money she inherited
00:15:23.640 from her deceased husband that he got from like exploiting human weakness in the gambling industry 1.00
00:15:29.000 and the whole thing is so repulsive but you know she's got an agenda her agenda is the state of
00:15:34.060 Israel and the Likud party in Israel okay I'm not mad about that I mean we all have our agendas
00:15:39.740 it's not her fault that our system and the players in the system our politicians are
00:15:46.520 willing to sell out their own country because she gives them money starting with Trump but 0.98
00:15:51.780 not just Trump all of them by the way Miriam Adelson is a James Tallarico donor so why would
00:15:58.980 Miriam Adelson, who's Trump's biggest donor, second biggest donor, why is she giving money
00:16:03.680 to Trump's opponent, James Teller? Because she's agnostic. She doesn't care. Because she doesn't 1.00
00:16:07.140 care about the United States at all. She's not even American. Maybe in name, but she's not 0.89
00:16:12.300 American. She's not from here. And I don't think, I don't even know she lives here. She's using the 1.00
00:16:16.700 United States to help another country. But that's true of all donors. Even the ones who don't care
00:16:23.160 about Israel, they're using the United States, our country, our government, our tax dollars,
00:16:27.960 are military to affect some private end. They basically privatize the U.S. government. 0.64
00:16:33.120 So it's having to use the U.S. government to help my company, help my family, help another nation
00:16:38.840 I'm more loyal to. And you have to ask, like, whose fault is that? I mean, we spend a lot of
00:16:44.020 time, and I do spend a lot of time, like, attacking Miriam Adelson. I actually don't even dislike
00:16:48.800 Miriam. I know Miriam Adelson. I don't dislike her. I'm not mad at Miriam Adelson. But there 1.00
00:16:52.260 are other donors I'm mad at, right? Paul Singer or whatever. But that's kind of misplaced anger,
00:16:58.700 really. What people would allow this? Like, where's our self-respect? Where's our love of
00:17:06.120 our own children? I don't understand why we put up with it. I just don't understand. Like,
00:17:10.940 how about no? I'm a father of four. So my role is how about no? I'm the no guy. That's my job.
00:17:16.020 I don't say it with glee. I say it because I have no choice and someone has to say it.
00:17:19.620 and we're the no guys in our country like how about no you can't do that and just say it
00:17:26.100 unequivocally not with hate and not by implying violence but firmly rooted in principle and again
00:17:33.560 love of country and love of your own family how are your kids going to do in the system i don't
00:17:37.920 think very well so i just wish there were more of that i really blame us i blame myself for going
00:17:44.180 along with this for all these years that i was in washington and i always felt he was kind of wrong
00:17:48.820 and again it's not just the israel lobby which is the most powerful of course and the most ruthless
00:17:53.800 by far but it's hardly alone it's the pharma lobby it's crazy this the week after i got fired
00:18:02.260 from fox fox got all its pharma ads back that's a fact i mean my staff were still there told me
00:18:07.940 that and they were told that at a meeting we get the company's getting the network's getting its
00:18:11.140 pharma ads back i was not even a particularly obsessed opponent of pharma i'm not an expert
00:18:18.500 on pharma i was just like i don't think the covid vax works and it seems like it's giving people i
00:18:22.680 know heart attacks like maybe we should slow down i was very moderate on pharma um maybe we shouldn't
00:18:28.220 be giving everybody ssris and adderall and benzodiazepines like maybe that's not helping
00:18:32.980 my criticisms were very mild but even those were just too much so you have a system in which
00:18:40.020 the donor class really sincerely feels like they have a monopoly on speech and on action
00:18:47.200 like they won't tolerate any opposition at all they're entitled why are they entitled because
00:18:51.940 they've been allowed to control the system for so long that of course they feel that way that's how
00:18:57.200 you spoil a child and by the time the kid's 14 it's like well i can't you know they're completely
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00:19:07.100 is that every desire will be met instantaneously with what they want you created this child i blame 0.98
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00:20:33.520 Austin from Youngstown, Ohio asks,
00:20:36.580 it seems self-reflection won't be on the ballot
00:20:39.020 if the republicans lose in november do you think because of republican hubris socialism will gain
00:20:45.600 traction before 2028 as a middle finger to the right like it or not it could become a movement
00:20:51.080 just like trump had in 2016 there is no first of all that is such a deep and wonderful question
00:20:57.580 thank you for that question will self-reflection be on the no self-reflection is by the way it's
00:21:03.900 not in us like you know you know people have been divorced six times it never they're like just yeah
00:21:08.820 had four six bad wives it's like maybe you played a role in that you know it's like none of us ever 0.95
00:21:15.020 wants to take responsibility for our own crappiness and the root of wisdom is i suck okay let's just 0.97
00:21:20.680 start there not obsessive self-hatred that's obviously pointless um and a kind of narcissism
00:21:25.220 actually but just like an honest comparison of yourself to who you want to be to god you know
00:21:33.600 we suck so that is the one truth that no one ever tells people rarely tell themselves that
00:21:41.200 and parties are just a collection of people so yeah they they will not learn no one ever learns 0.98
00:21:45.780 okay it's like seinfeld no learning no growing um but they'll be taught you know you always hope
00:21:52.340 for a world where people just like take subtle cues like we just got wiped out in a midterm
00:21:58.000 election maybe we should pivot and change but unfortunately the history of people suggests
00:22:04.700 that it takes more than that you really you don't pull your hand back from the stove until your
00:22:10.240 fingers start to melt and you sort of hope that people would wouldn't take that much you wouldn't
00:22:15.940 have to like hurt someone or that person wouldn't have to hurt himself in order to learn an obvious
00:22:19.960 lesson but there's little evidence of that so um are we moving towards socialism obviously
00:22:25.980 obviously will it be good probably not i mean if socialism if the socialism you're telling me
00:22:33.020 we're getting is 1985 stockholm you know denmark in the 70s it's fine it's fine it's not what i
00:22:42.700 would create but but if you're saying it's you know poland in the 70s then you know that's the
00:22:50.500 worst possible thing we could have because so look people are responding voters are responding to
00:22:55.360 something real, which is it's no longer a middle-class country, and it hasn't been since
00:22:58.600 Obama's second term, 2015. The majority is no longer middle-class. That's a huge, massive change
00:23:05.520 that, like, no one even noticed when it happened. I wrote a book about it, which no one seemed to
00:23:10.500 read. But anyway, poor me. Sorry, pardon the self-pity. But I felt that was the biggest thing
00:23:17.840 that happened, you know, that decade at least. And people didn't know that it happened, because
00:23:23.320 the New York Times didn't put it on the front page, but they felt it. This is not, this is like
00:23:27.100 a very lopsided country all of a sudden. And people who fly first class are flying like in a
00:23:31.300 really comfortable way. And the rest of us are traveling like animals. It didn't used to be that
00:23:34.980 way. There wasn't as big a difference between the way the rich lived and everybody else lived. It's
00:23:40.120 become like Mexico. We used to make fun of Mexico for that. Mexicans are nice. It wasn't an attack 0.95
00:23:44.700 on the Mexican people. It was an attack on their system, which was pyramid shaped and unstable as 0.99
00:23:50.780 a result that's how they get drug cartels that's how venezuela collapsed and hugo chavez got elected
00:23:55.840 he was elected that's how hitler was elected he was also elected so like a wildly unequal economic
00:24:02.380 system has political consequences every single time and unfortunately those consequences tend
00:24:10.160 to make things worse which is to say i may be voting for a dsa member a socialist in the hope
00:24:18.100 this country will become more equal and less volatile but what i'm almost certain to get is
00:24:21.780 a system in which the connected and the already rich have much more power or we just get rid of
00:24:28.340 the rich we eat the rich okay you know i'm not too upset about the destruction of the billionaire
00:24:32.980 class actually i secretly favor it but i don't lie to myself and think that they're going to be
00:24:38.580 that their money will you know somehow everybody will just be happier and calmer and better off
00:24:43.620 you're just getting a new billionaire class and they're going to be the technocrats who administer
00:24:46.900 of the new system and they're gonna have guns unlike the billionaires so no I'm not hopeful at
00:24:53.520 all I'm not hopeful at all but can I say one last thing because that's so grim I do think that
00:25:00.680 people's relationships have gotten better and more real in the past 10 years I notice it in my own
00:25:06.060 life and I see it all around me people are much clearer about what matters there's much less
00:25:10.660 frivolous talk I know the masses are supposedly mesmerized by professional sports and drugs and
00:25:15.780 all that stuff that maybe some truth in that but in the world i live in people are deep and honest
00:25:21.480 and loyal to each other and families are closer like that is real every conversation i have it's
00:25:27.240 like yeah i want my kids are moving in next to me that was not the america i grew up in at all
00:25:32.380 it's a much better version of it so i think as all these terrible things are happening on a macro
00:25:37.760 level there are beautiful things happening on a personal level and it so i just i just want to
00:25:45.380 grateful for that and i want to say it out loud elizabeth k from seattle asks tucker do you think
00:25:51.060 the murder of charlie kirk will help or hurt the gop in the midterms in the 2028 general election
00:25:56.980 and why it's been a disaster well for charlie his children and his widow number one for those of us
00:26:04.980 who knew him well and loved him number two but for the country number three um and for the republican
00:26:10.500 party i mean charlie was the single most important organizer in the republican party by far they used
00:26:16.980 to have this thing called the rnc was the republican national committee and it had power
00:26:20.340 and you knew who ran it and haley barber runs the rnc it's a big deal people send money rnc
00:26:24.500 that's all gone no one's no normal person would ever send money to a party organization the
00:26:29.220 parties are totally corrupt like sending money to scientology who would do that you know no
00:26:35.140 Charlie filled that void. It was Turning Point. You want to get voters out? You want Ken Paxton
00:26:41.700 to beat that Tallarico kid, whoever that guy is, creepy guy. You send money to Turning Point
00:26:49.780 and that's all done. They destroyed Turning Point. It was completely on purpose. They destroyed MAGA,
00:26:54.500 they destroyed the Republican Party and the same people, the neocons did it and they did it on
00:26:57.940 purpose. So Trump was elected for the second time in 2024 with the broadest coalition of the Republican
00:27:04.100 party's ever had and you had you know hippie natural food moms from napa you had a lot of 0.83
00:27:10.560 black guys a lot of hispanic guys and they were guys because it was the promise was a masculine 0.81
00:27:14.820 leadership which is what we need by the way um turn it to be very feminized leadership 0.97
00:27:19.880 very passive aggressive bitchy leadership um the last thing we need but whatever anyway you 0.72
00:27:25.720 have this huge coalition of people and in the coalition a tiny percentage the smallest part 1.00
00:27:30.140 of the coalition were the neocons were like no we need to use the u.s military to fight wars for
00:27:34.000 israel like no one agrees with that and they took over the party completely because of trump whatever
00:27:40.180 however they threatened trump clearly threatened him obviously and he allowed it and now they
00:27:46.740 completely run the party and it's like anyone who's not for that is not a real republican
00:27:49.880 really i'm 57 i'm the son of a republican official i've been a republican my whole life
00:27:56.000 If I interned in the Senate 40 years ago for a Republican, you are lecturing me about what
00:28:00.600 it is to be a Republican?
00:28:01.400 I don't think so.
00:28:02.220 By the way, I've been carrying the Republican line and it's water on television for 35 years.
00:28:08.200 So all of a sudden, I'm a thought criminal.
00:28:09.920 I mean, I don't really care.
00:28:10.840 I have zero interest in like any of it really at this point.
00:28:14.480 But it's amazing how quickly it happened.
00:28:16.880 And it's also amazing how quickly people can speak reality into existence.
00:28:21.240 If you start saying something again and again, no matter how ludicrous, men can become women. 0.90
00:28:25.140 No, really, they can.
00:28:26.880 After a while people accept it as true and you're seeing trump do this with nuclear war right now
00:28:31.200 No, it's okay to use nukes. Well, we're gonna have a nuclear exchange then because that's the nature of life
00:28:36.640 Words have holy power and also dark power
00:28:40.240 I would say there's a reason we call them incantations or spells like that's totally real
00:28:45.200 And they're talking into existence this new republican party, which has no popular support whatsoever and shouldn't because it's deranged
00:28:52.480 so yeah they wrecked it and one of the key things that happened whoever did it was the murder of
00:29:00.420 charlie kirk i mean you look at the turning point event this week and it's all these speakers who
00:29:08.300 charlie kirk didn't like i'm not guessing i knew charlie kirk really well he sat at this table with
00:29:12.160 me more than once and and we talked about it and so i'm not beating up on ben shapiro who i feel
00:29:19.700 sorry for I don't think Ben Shapiro is a bright future at all but Charlie Kirk like despised Ben
00:29:26.140 Shapiro and how do I know that because he told me and now Ben Shapiro was speaking twice this you
00:29:31.300 know it's like in all the people he asked to speak or not speaking I'm not attacking anyone in
00:29:35.240 particular the people who are on Turning Point are nice people I know Andrew Colvette really nice guy
00:29:40.060 trying his best he is I know people will hate me for saying that I know the guy I like him we don't
00:29:45.520 even disagree on that much but he's not i don't think any one person is making decisions as usual
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00:32:10.000 Well, Tucker, I regret to inform you that Lynette Kaye from Land O'Lakes, Florida, is not happy with you.
00:32:16.940 What?
00:32:18.040 Tucker, will you have any guilt if there's a blue wave of Islamists and Marxists in Congress due to your abandonment of Trump for hurting your feelings?
00:32:29.640 Well, I'll have a lot of sadness if that happens, for sure.
00:32:32.920 Trump never hurt my feelings.
00:32:35.460 I was in television my whole life.
00:32:37.240 It's very hard to hurt my feelings.
00:32:38.920 When you've been as humiliated as I have been serially over decades,
00:32:42.760 there are not a lot of feelings left to hurt,
00:32:44.480 so you're not going to hurt my feelings.
00:32:46.160 Trump abandoned me and his voters.
00:32:48.480 Trump ran on a pretty specific slate of issues and beliefs
00:32:52.680 and betrayed them all.
00:32:54.800 And so I believe in loyalty.
00:32:57.820 I married my high school girlfriend.
00:32:59.320 I'm surrounded by people I've known my whole life,
00:33:00.940 so I really do believe in loyalty.
00:33:02.920 and I think I display it, but I think it's got to be requited. It's not a one-way thing. Trump
00:33:08.620 isn't God. I don't worship men. And if Trump makes a mistake, you know, I'm not anxious to
00:33:13.800 point it out. Trump's made a lot of mistakes that I haven't mentioned, but I know a lot about
00:33:16.660 because I feel sad. I always have loved Trump personally, you know, and I still feel that.
00:33:21.900 I'm not mad at Trump actually. He's not in charge. He's not running the country. I feel sorry for
00:33:25.600 him. He's a puppet and a slave of larger forces. And that's very distressing to me as an American 0.99
00:33:30.800 who believes in the democratic system you can elect a guy to affect the change that you voted for
00:33:34.680 that's not how it works clearly so i feel sad about it i feel sad for him he's 80 i mean does
00:33:40.740 it end well for him i mean the whole thing is a tragedy but my commitment is to what i think is
00:33:48.400 true and i always say that with the caveat that i sometimes don't know what's true and i certainly
00:33:52.480 have been wrong a lot before but there doesn't shake my belief that there is truth and that we
00:33:58.660 should pursue it even if i see it through a glass darkly it's still there and um if somebody lies to
00:34:07.540 you and you pretend it didn't happen you're implicated in the lie and i don't want to be
00:34:13.280 implicated in also you have no self-respect get some self-respect is this what you voted for i
00:34:17.540 don't think it is it's not what he promised so why are you making excuses for that like what's
00:34:24.000 wrong with you i mean it's human i get it we're so implicated in stuff that we don't want to admit 0.61
00:34:29.140 that we've been burned you know the gypsy takes 100 euros from you and three card money in your 1.00
00:34:34.180 leg oh that didn't happen because you're an idiot for playing three card money with gypsies 1.00
00:34:38.840 you're gonna lose so i get it i i get it i feel it i introduced trump at the republican national 1.00
00:34:45.840 convention on stage i'm you know if anyone's implicated in this it's me but i think our 0.81
00:34:52.500 commitment to the truth and our self-respect require us to admit the gypsy just took a hundred
00:34:57.480 euros from us playing three card money right jk from norton shores michigan asks looking back do 0.72
00:35:05.680 you feel there was more you could have done to persuade trump from getting us into this mess
00:35:10.240 of a war with iran what would these midterms look like without the war um you know no i spoke to
00:35:19.760 Trump. I mean, I don't, I, it's all on my calendar. Um, but I, I talked to him dozens of times last
00:35:26.980 winter, meaning in December, January, and February about Iran and about Venezuela at great length.
00:35:35.720 And I knew people in Venezuela and I knew a lot of people in the Middle East and I was in and out
00:35:39.380 of the Middle East. I was, I was in every country involved in this war in the weeks before the war.
00:35:44.960 israel saudi uae qatar jordan i was in all those countries like two weeks before the war
00:35:51.640 and i was there i know people in all those countries but and i love those countries but i
00:35:55.780 was there talking about the war so like i did everything that i felt i could do what i didn't
00:36:02.820 do was admit to myself that the war was actually coming like i i couldn't believe it i couldn't
00:36:08.360 accept it i never thought he would do this he didn't want to do it i know that because i talked
00:36:13.100 to him about it at length. He had no enthusiasm for this at all. And I continued to believe against
00:36:18.960 all evidence up until I woke up the morning the war started, February 28th, I continued to believe
00:36:24.740 he wouldn't do it. And I'm an idiot for that. And I think if I had really sincerely believed he was 0.99
00:36:30.460 going to do this, by the way, there were other people around him who had the same view. They're
00:36:34.840 like, he's not really going to do this. It's brinksmanship. He's not really going to launch
00:36:39.480 a regime change war against iran we just had a war in june you know the 12 day war we took
00:36:45.520 other nuclear you know this whole thing is so nuts it can't happen i felt that way about the
00:36:49.140 iraq war by the way in march of 2003 i knew bush i talked to bush about it at the time i was like
00:36:54.560 he's not really gonna do this because saddam had nothing to do with 9-11 so like why are we doing
00:36:58.480 this because israel wanted it that's why but i didn't get any of that anyway my sin at least
00:37:05.120 my conception of my sin is not being honest with myself about what was actually happening and i
00:37:11.100 think if i had known for certain he was going to do this i would have just sounded the alarm
00:37:15.180 publicly more than i did i mean i tried i flew to tel aviv which i didn't want to do to talk to
00:37:20.700 huckabee about it and all these other people i'm sorry if i sound like i'm self-justifying but
00:37:25.020 that's just true yeah they're going to get crushed this is the most unpopular war in american history
00:37:31.860 and was from the first day.
00:37:33.160 So why would voters reward that?
00:37:34.580 They're not going to.
00:37:35.260 But it's not just this war.
00:37:36.140 The Epstein stuff hurt a lot.
00:37:38.300 Yelling at his own voters
00:37:39.620 because they wanted to see the Epstein files,
00:37:41.620 which he does not own.
00:37:43.160 The US government doesn't own those files.
00:37:44.460 We own them.
00:37:45.080 We're the citizenry of this country.
00:37:47.660 You're just passing through, dude.
00:37:49.340 You're some federal employee
00:37:50.340 or you're some politician.
00:37:52.200 But those files belong to us.
00:37:54.120 All of them, every single one of them.
00:37:55.920 They have no right to keep those from us.
00:37:58.540 And when he whipped around in that cabinet meeting
00:38:00.940 and said, anyone who wants to see the files isn't MAGA.
00:38:05.900 That was the moment where I was like, whoa, this is getting dark.
00:38:08.460 What are you even talking?
00:38:08.980 And I talked to him about it.
00:38:09.960 I was like, what are you doing?
00:38:11.440 You know, oh, it's a Democrat plot.
00:38:13.400 But it was, of course, it wasn't a Democrat plot.
00:38:15.320 There are other reasons that he's hidden those files.
00:38:17.820 Millions of them remain unreleased, millions.
00:38:20.020 And we have a right to see every single one of them.
00:38:21.900 And the Department of Justice is a moral obligation
00:38:23.460 to track down anyone who might have molested kids.
00:38:26.020 What are you doing?
00:38:27.100 Pizza and grape soda?
00:38:28.060 billionaires don't drink grape soda no white billionaire has ever had a sip of grape soda
00:38:34.960 ever in history so don't tell me pizza and by the way jeffrey epstein ate a lot of pizza i don't
00:38:40.360 think so i eat a lot of pizza that's why i get fat every year jeffrey epstein didn't have a single
00:38:45.220 slice of pizza in his entire freaking life do you see the guy he's like mr narcissist fitness dude
00:38:49.660 so when you've got dozens of emails talking about pizza and grape soda it's fair for the doj to call 0.94
00:38:55.480 people in who are in those emails and be like pizza and grape soda tell me more and they haven't
00:38:59.880 why haven't they because they're protecting the criminals in the epstein files well okay if you
00:39:05.480 do that i guess it's a trade okay like you're getting something out of that i have no idea
00:39:09.080 what they're getting out of it but what they're not going to get is voter support because nobody's
00:39:13.160 for that right michelle from sacramento asks tucker i've heard you say you're not interested
00:39:20.200 in running for president it's disappointing but i understand can you at least persuade your brother
00:39:25.320 uncle buck to run so the uncle buck presidency would be the greatest presidency probably since
00:39:31.880 george washington because uncle buck has a gut level understanding and feel for american culture
00:39:40.040 that i've never seen anybody else like real american culture and a love of people so i think
00:39:47.080 leadership begins with love i've always thought that i think that's the core requirement of being
00:39:51.560 a good dad not that you have any clue what you're doing i kids at 25 no i was drunk half the time i
00:39:56.780 had no idea what i was doing but i always liked my kids and so it turned out okay and that's just
00:40:01.560 true in at every level of leadership if you love the people you're leading of course you're going
00:40:06.200 to make mistakes and say ludicrous things and mislead them unintentionally but you're not going
00:40:09.980 to hurt them irreparably because you love them and our leaders don't love us they have total
00:40:16.140 contempt for us we're just cattle to them as a tax farm clearly and um having a leader and i think
00:40:24.480 uncle buck you know it'd be it'd be hilarious but i think he'd be a great president actually
00:40:29.560 because he loves people all people uncle buck i don't think has met anybody he hasn't sniffed
00:40:35.820 he'll sniff anybody of any race or income level or gender he just he loves people not in a creepy
00:40:41.840 way but it's like he just likes people and the more time he spends with people the happier he is
00:40:47.280 he just loves it he just like rolls around in it you know other people when was that time we had a
00:40:52.320 leader like that i can't remember you know they're all kind of weirdly antiseptic germaphobic like
00:40:58.660 they pretend they'll put on the hard hat or eat at the fast food restaurant but like ultimately
00:41:02.620 you think they care about you not at all he really does so uh yeah i'd vote for uncle buck in a
00:41:09.800 second nick o from georgetown ohio asks why does president trump continue to push hyperscale data
00:41:17.780 centers in rural areas which make up the strongest areas of his maga base and he wonders why he's
00:41:24.060 losing support trump hates himself and therefore hates anyone who loves him okay so let's just
00:41:28.680 start there let me restate trump hates himself therefore he despises anyone who loves him and
00:41:35.720 I think his personal life and marriage history attests to that, but his public behavior attests
00:41:40.560 to it too. So the more loyalty you show to Trump, the more contempt he has for you. Loyalty is not
00:41:45.800 rewarded, it's penalized. So Trump the other day does a podcast with Michael Cohen, his former
00:41:50.180 lawyer, who went to jail, who's denounced Trump as a profession. That's what he does for a living,
00:41:54.180 is denounces Trump in the most personal bitter ways, and Trump rewards that. So just know that
00:42:02.060 the people trump dislikes most are the ones who voted for him and remain loyal to him they have
00:42:07.240 no self-respect he is contempt for that he hates weakness and he hates people who love him fact
00:42:13.760 this is he's not the only one who feels this way people who hate themselves are uniformly like this
00:42:19.800 you ever wonder why and you've known people like this they're like much nicer to like the valet
00:42:25.520 parker and the waitress and they are their own kids and wife it's a very familiar thing well
00:42:30.520 that's what that is. They're rewarding loyalty and love with hate. Anyway, yeah, the thing I love
00:42:39.360 about data centers is how undisguised the whole project is. No one is even pretending data centers
00:42:42.940 are going to improve your life. They're like, oh, we're building a new prison and we're going to
00:42:46.120 put you in it. And by the way, you're going to pay for it because humiliating you is part of our 0.97
00:42:49.940 worldview or religion or whatever. I have to humiliate you. You have to dig your own grave. 0.98
00:42:55.240 I'm not just going to execute you and throw you in a grave. You're going to dig it. 1.00
00:42:57.880 and that's what data center is but they're not pretending otherwise they're not like okay
00:43:01.840 we're going to build a data center in your county in utah and your life is going to go from crappy
00:43:06.920 to awesome they're like no we're building a data center and you're gonna pay for it and that money
00:43:12.840 is going to go to people who are already richer than anyone's ever been in history to the
00:43:17.640 billionaire class and then your life is going to get way suckier you won't have a job or any human
00:43:22.680 autonomy you get to make zero decisions and the best you can hope for is like a check from the
00:43:26.820 government so you become another welfare case and how does that work or inherited money case
00:43:30.640 how do inherited money people do like if i cut you a check for a billion dollars at 23 would
00:43:35.720 your life be happy if i strung you along generationally on welfare would your life
00:43:40.060 be happy we don't have to guess we know we see the results so paying people money for not doing
00:43:45.240 anything is the fastest way to destroy them whether they're at the rich end or the poor
00:43:48.560 it doesn't matter it's the same principle and that's the promise of data centers that's the
00:43:53.340 best case scenario for data centers and they're just saying that out loud how about i overthrow
00:43:58.640 the government now like are you kidding that's what you're promising me i know you're gonna fall
00:44:03.800 short of the promise that's the best you can ask you can offer me so yeah i think the whole thing
00:44:11.880 is like amazing in that they're not bothering to disguise it and maybe the technology gives
00:44:17.880 them the confidence they don't have to disguise it maybe it's like if we have enough flock cameras
00:44:22.160 when ai you know becomes as powerful as we think it's becoming your consent won't be necessary 0.99
00:44:28.000 shut up and eat your gruel bitch that's kind of where i feel like we are i don't if we're not 0.99
00:44:35.060 like tell me how i'm wrong i've never seen a product roll out this perverse when apple rolls 1.00
00:44:43.420 out a new phone or where they all lie to you about how great you're gonna feel when you buy their
00:44:46.840 product of course like you don't ever feel it's not a transcendent experience to buy something
00:44:53.040 okay the whole thing is fake okay but at least they make the effort like our sneakers will make
00:44:58.320 you we're just talking off camera about newport cigarettes advertising campaign in the 80s and
00:45:04.340 90s and it with the line was get some and of course the pitch was buy a deck of newports and
00:45:10.220 you're gonna get the ladies they're gonna be you won't be able to keep them off you i think that's
00:45:13.800 not true or maybe it is true i never smoked in newport but at least they were like appealing
00:45:18.680 to some desire you had even if it was a base desire the data center ai thing is like we're
00:45:26.220 going to take all of your money and make your life way worse i don't even i've never seen anything
00:45:32.500 like it of course comes for it i mean of course that's where the money is
00:45:43.800 You