Tucker Carlson Responds to Julian Assange’s Release During Australia Speech
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In this episode of the Tucker Carlson Show, Tucker talks about the release of Julian Assange from prison, his trip to Australia, and his thoughts on the case of Julian Assange and the Australian government's handling of the scandal surrounding his release from prison. Tucker also reflects on some of the most famous journalist in the world, Glenn Blumberg, who has been released from prison after 12 years in prison for his role in bringing attention to the Julian Assange scandal, and why he should still be held in prison. Tucker also takes a look at the story of the disappearance of Australian journalist Anna Blum, who was abducted by the Australian intelligence agency in the late 1980s and tortured for 12 years, and who was never charged with a crime, despite being the subject of one of the world's most infamous spy scandals. Thanks to Tucker for his honesty, and for his courage and courage. We promise to bring you the most honest content, the honest interviews we can without fear or favor, without fear and without fear. Without fear or favour. Here's the latest ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage, the one and only from the United States, here just for us, the One and Only from the U.S., the home of the greatest in the whole world. Welcome to The Tucker Carlson Show, the show where the truth is finally out there, the truth. -Tucker Carlsonsons Show, we promise you the honest content the most Honest content the honest interview we can, we can bring you without fear, and without prejudice, without any fear or fear without any favor, we're not doing that. Enjoyed the latest episode of The Tucker Carlson Show? Thank you, your host, Mr. . . . -Jared P. Carlsson (Tucker Carlson - , - "Tucker, " and "The Truth" - "The most honest, honest interviews without fear & without favor" - - the Tucker Carlson Show, - we promise, "The Honest Content" - we do not do that, we do that - We're not going that, We promise you, we won't do that! - not doing That, we'll not do That, We're Not That" - We'll not Do That, I'm Not That, not That, Not That! We'll Not That?
Transcript
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welcome to tucker carlson show it's become pretty clear that the mainstream media are dying
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they can't die quickly enough and there's a reason they're dying because they lie they lied so much
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it killed them we're not doing that tucker carlson.com we promise to bring you the most
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honest content the most honest interviews we can without fear or favor here's the latest
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ladies and gentlemen please welcome to the stage the one and only from the united states here just
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for us tucker carlson i appreciate it thank you
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i try not to listen to intros but we got the most famous journalist in the world i thought
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is that really a compliment that's like being the hottest supreme court justice
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you know the best restaurant in wagadougou not sure it's a prize that means that much i'm a little
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ashamed to be a journalist but i'm grateful to be here thank you very much for having me i've loved
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your country from afar my entire life i've idolized australia actually i haven't been here until a
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week ago but i had this view of australia in my mind of handsome brave men fighting off dangerous
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animals of beautiful women standing windblown in the surf and it's all true uh so i really have
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loved it we've been i think to five cities and i've just been completely and utterly impressed
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and really sort of the only downside is i've given speeches in a lot of them and i felt guilty during
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every one because rule one of being in someone else's country is don't talk to them about their
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politics there's something awful about that overbearing i lived in washington our capital city
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um it doesn't it's actually not so different from canberra weirdly i guess all capital cities are the
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same uh but we would get this sort of continuous retinue of foreigners showing up to lecturers bono
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showing up and i'd always think go back to dublin like what do you know you're not even an american
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um so with that caveat uh my apologies uh for having anything to say about your politics which i
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which i don't really understand except in the in the sort of grossest terms um but the assange news
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today just had me thinking so much about australia congratulations by the way
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that happened when i was on the plane and i just my jaw was open for the rest of the flight this
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morning from perth um it's something that i think anyone who knows anything about the case and that
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would include most australians um is thrilled to see um anybody who knows anything about that case
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and believes that assange should still be in prison is your enemy by the way in the enemy of human
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freedom and flourishing um it was monstrous that he spent 12 years locked away for exposing other
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people's crimes typically the way it works i don't know if law enforcement's the same here but
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the guy who discovers the crime doesn't go to jail it's the guy who commits the crime goes to jail
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and that's been inverted in his case um so i think it's wonderful news as you all know he's in guam
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dealing with one of our colonial magistrates i didn't know even had those but we do apparently
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in the united states uh and then he'll be flying here where he was born and my impression is i was
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texting with his wife this morning my impression is he plans to stay here for a while and so i think
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you know that's a huge net benefit to your country because he's a good man i know him i visited him a few
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months ago in belmarsh prison and saw how they were effectively torturing him to death
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and what i didn't realize until i got there even though i've been steeped in the case i know his
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relatives i know his wife stella um is that he was never charged with a crime in great britain
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never he was charged with no crime so in the free world we don't hold people who haven't been charged
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with a crime and we don't hold them in my country beyond a year unless they've been convicted of a
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crime or they're on trial for a crime um that's just the most obvious abuse of human rights and it
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went on for 12 years and he's an australian and i'm sorry i don't mean this as a criticism just
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i think this is a perspective providing observation but like why did anyone allow that
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he was held in the uk on behalf of the united states which by the way until recently hadn't
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charged him with a crime either and when it did charge him with a fake crime under an ancient
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statute that no one has ever charged under the espionage act which he pleaded guilty apparently
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finally yesterday he didn't violate it but he just wanted to get out of prison before he died
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um but he wasn't charged in the us he wasn't charged in the uk he was an australian and those
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three countries are aligned more closely than countries typically are they're three of the five
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eyes as you know and nobody did anything about it and i kept thinking like when is australia going to
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send a warship up the thames to get their guy back i mean it i mean what is that i don't know if
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you've i mean it the outrage of it i've been to london a lot recently and now i've been in australia
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for a week and there's just absolutely no comparison and i do think it's very important
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to update our files which is to say our perceptions of things are very often way out of date in some
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cases centuries out of date and i think the perception perhaps here i can't speak for you
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but around the world is there's this you know the mothership great britain that gave birth to all
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these other successful countries including the one that i live in and that it somehow has like
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moral authority as a result of that well if you haven't been to london recently book a ticket
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and then fly back here in fact why don't you just fly from london to perth assuming there are direct
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flights and ask yourself what do i notice one city is crumbling it's filthy it's been so misruled by the
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people in charge that unless you're rich you can't live there and you come back to and that's not an
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exaggeration go to london seriously and you come back to perth and it's what and i know everyone makes
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fun of perth and western australia but as an outsider i mean it's it's like san francisco
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without the junkies it's one of the prettiest places i've ever seen in my life and i thought
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i don't even know who rules this i don't understand the details of the politics i'm a foreigner
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but whoever is managing this place day to day is doing a remarkable job there are very few cities in
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the world as pretty as your cities and i know that you're so isolated and just far away in the
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southern hemisphere and you might not have perspective on that but some of the capitals that
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you read about and in some cases genuflect toward consider superior take orders from have no right
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to give you orders because they're they're in no sense superior to you in fact they're inferior to
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you by a lot and london is at the top of that list so i guess my bottom line advice and i mean this in
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this you know you know spirit of generosity and humility but is you know understand how impressive
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australia is in comparison to the rest of the world particularly the english-speaking world
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australia has advantages that the rest of us the other four the five eyes um can only dream about
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you're sparsely populated 26 million well-educated decent people law-abiding people you have virtually
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no real poverty no concentrations of poverty in this country it's like the most middle-class english-speaking
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country left in the world which is a huge compliment that's what you want it's basically egalitarian
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country egalitarian countries are stable countries you know bolivia is not stable because it's you know
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pyramid shaped this is pretty flat it's the last flat country economically in the english-speaking world
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and its natural resources you know dwarf everyone else's i mean i do think one of the great lies that
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we in the modern world have been told is that prosperity is generated by banks and real estate
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and that's it then money lending is the engine of prosperity and in the short term that of course
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can be true because it juices that you know that mysterious thing we call gdp which is to measure of
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economic activity but over time it doesn't actually create wealth that's a lie what creates wealth is
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productivity and what's required for productivity are resources and you have more resources than virtually
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anybody bauxite coal ore gas nickel copper lead uranium more than almost anybody else
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in a country with almost no problems except the ones that you allow your leaders to intentionally import
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and pretty much nobody lives here i just flew over you know most of your country this morning there was nobody there
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sheep dingoes desert and i know you know a lot of it's inhospitable but i mean just people from crowded
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countries which is most countries in the world look at this and they in envy this should be one of the
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most powerful countries in the world in fact by its nature it is because it has more than almost anybody
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else and so to take orders from some disgusting filthy fog soaked rock in the north sea holding one
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of your citizens hostage because they sent your ancestors here as a penalty i mean a certain point
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i think you need to say to them i i'm sorry it's 2024 we're in charge you're taking orders from us
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i and if it you know i mean it actually and i shouldn't say this because i know that there are
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members of parliament present but maybe you should take your refugee budget and buy a nuclear weapon or
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two so people take you seriously i'm not joking if you don't screw this country up on purpose through
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mass immigration which is what the other four countries have done that's the reason they're in
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decline no one wants to say it's true if you don't do that australia will lead the world because
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you have every advantage and people are happy here and so my strong advice to you is don't go the way
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of your cousins in our countries i mean canada of all countries in the world i would say canada is the
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closest um in its sort of essential facts to australia it's huge it's actually bigger than australia
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second biggest land mass in the world amazing natural resources an incredibly nice polite
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population well educated with a history of valiant war service you know sort of everything you would
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want a little boring that's good exciting countries are wildly overrated las vegas is exciting you
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wouldn't live there right there's something to be said about a country who's you know main forms of
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excitement are molson and sled dogs that's not bad and that country basically killed itself
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through bad leadership they completely changed the population of the country in 10 years completely
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and made it poor and now people can't buy houses there the economy's in free fall people who are
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born in canada cannot buy a house period because there are just too many people and i'm sure some
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of them are great people and by the way just to be completely clear i'm utterly sympathetic to people
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who want to move to my country for example we let in 30 million people illegally in the last four
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years that's a crime but i'm not mad at them i'm actually flattered by it they want to move to
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my country of course because it's the best country that's how i feel it's like someone saying your
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wife is hot yeah i think so too you can't have her but i'm glad you appreciate it i mean honestly
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that's how i feel i don't begrudge any immigrant from any country wanting to move to the united states
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because i love the united states above all i am american so it's not a question of being mad at
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immigrants i'm completely sympathetic in fact i'm empathetic i can't wait to get back to my country
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but that doesn't mean that the movement of millions of people mostly with low skills
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and no you know native command of the language and no shared culture the people who already live
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there doesn't mean it's good for the country itself it's not good actually it's bad it's
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the most destructive thing you can do to a country that's not racism that's not hate
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i'm not racist and i don't feel hate i feel true compassion and empathy but the purpose of running
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a government is take care of the people who are citizens of that country there's no other purpose
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it's not to save the world or change the global climate or whatever and it's certainly not to spend
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a huge percentage of your budget on refugee resettlement it's take care of the people who
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are born there that's your job in the same way a father's job is to take care of his children
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not the neighbor's kids and there's something almost beyond dereliction of duty in not doing that
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in other words i have four children for example and if a couple of them were in real trouble
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as people in all of our countries are the native born population in actual trouble
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you know one of my kids has leukemia for example another one has a drug problem and i say you know
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that's that's tough i'm really sorry but the neighbor's kids literally have never been to disney
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world ever and that's just wrong and so i'm going to take my retirement account and cash it out and
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take the neighbor's kids to disney world because everyone should have a chance to go to disney world
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see ya and i leave what's the message i'm sending to my own children i hate you i'm ignoring your
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problems because i'm focused on the problems of people who aren't in our family it's kind of that
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simple a leader's sacred responsibilities take care of his own people period period there is no other
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response but that's why he's elected that's why he's in charge that's why your dad doesn't mean
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you don't like the neighbor's kids or think they should go to disney world everyone should go to
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disney world but the priority has to be if your dad your kids because you're their father so if
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you're the prime minister of a country and you find yourself spending all of your time worrying about
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the populations of other countries you are not a legitimate leader period by definition we have
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someone in our country who sort of said that out loud i thought it was whatever leaving aside any other
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quality being orange or whatever whatever qualities you think trump has or doesn't have that was his
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core pitch in 2016 and there was sort of no arguing against it like how was that wrong how was a leader's
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job not to prioritize his own people of course it is no one can make a rational argument against that so
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they don't they attack anybody who raises questions about it and in the rest of those other countries
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including mine they're starting to criminalize complaining about it in other words this is a
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great thing and if you say otherwise we'll put you in jail and they're planning to do that here in case you
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don't know they've absolutely done that in canada in the uk they put a lot of people in prison for
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complaining about it hey i don't think you're taking care of the people who are born here shut up racist you're going to
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jail actually every week people go to jail for that imagine that imagine that and imagine the mindset
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that allows that if you are telling people human beings adult citizens that they don't have a right
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to express what they believe what are you saying well what you're saying is i don't think you're human
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because the right to say what you think pre-exist government it's something that you're born with as a
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human being it's what distinguishes you from animals and slaves that's the core of your human
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autonomy the right to say what you really believe to express your conscience and if you no longer
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possess that you are not human anymore you belong to someone else you are an object and so any leader
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who tells you you don't have a right to say that you don't have a right to criticize me or my policies
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that person considers you sub-human and that's a crime as far as i'm concerned we shouldn't even have
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that by the way my country we have an explicit law against that it's the first amendment to our
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constitution because ours is a revolutionary country and so the framers of our founding documents were
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forced under gunfire actually to think this through we're building a country from nothing what do we want
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but the founders of the other four countries big countries in the anglosphere you new zealand
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great britain and canada i honestly think they never imagined a world where leaders would strip
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from people their most fundamental right the right to express their conscience i don't think they imagined
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that possible they were christians and a sort of key tenant of christianity is god created people
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we didn't therefore we're not capable of owning them that's the abolitionist movement was based on that idea
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christians in the west ended slavery around the world they haven't gotten a ton of credit for it in recent years but they did
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of course it still exists in parts of the world but it does not exist in the west
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thanks to leaders who had a i mean i've been devout christians and it wasn't a sectarian question
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it was a more fundamental understanding of the world
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you didn't create people you didn't endow them with their rights god did that therefore you can't take them away
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and if you try then you are not treating them as human beings but as something less than that
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and i honestly think that people who wrote your founding documents just assumed that and didn't
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think it would ever be challenged well now it is being challenged
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and my strong advice to you and i said i wasn't going to weigh in on australian politics but my strong
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advice to you or any human being who wants to preserve the most sacred of his human rights
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would be to resist that up to and including being willing to go to jail for saying what you believe
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because if they can strip from you you're right to say what you think there's literally nothing they
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can't do to you there's nothing they can't do to you so um in any case i will stop there and take
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your hostile questions but i i just i just want to say i as an outsider and as someone who's seeing
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all of this fresh after spending literally 50 years dreaming about australia i don't know why
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every american's obsessed with australia do you know that any of you who are single looking for
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dating opportunities come to my country is that you you can't imagine you would just tear a swath
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it's the it's the accent no i'm serious americans are absolutely obsessed with australia and it's not
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just crocodile dundee and that horrible chain restaurant um i haven't seen a bloom and onion since
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i've been here by the way i don't think that's a native food um coming here really has shocked me
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and i thought it was nice i didn't know it was this nice and i hope that you know how nice it is
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as compared to places that you think are great i mean you you just have amazing advantages
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and if you want to know what can happen if you take those for granted and allow your leaders to act
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against your interests the interests of your children and of your nation then go to san francisco
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or new york city previously great cities that led the world um that are now pale limitations sad
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dangerous imitations of themselves and ask yourself especially in san francisco which does look like
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an australian city those of you who have been there go there now and remind yourself this could happen
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to us problems like that are actually pretty easy to avoid you just need to make common sense
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decisions like i don't know put your own people first enforce the laws already on the books don't
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put up with absolutely ridiculous behavior like defecating on the sidewalk you don't need to put up
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with that actually that's not a human right um just stick to those the problem is that when you allow
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them to fester they are pretty hard to fix actually you can get into a vortex and i've traveled to an
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awful lot of countries around the world and met a lot of really nice people and smart people
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who live in awful countries awful countries have you been to argentina everyone should go to
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argentina because argentina is a lot like the u.s and a lot like australia and canada for that matter
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it's a beautiful country with great people really smart impressive people a deep culture natural
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resources that places like china dream about um and has every advantage and they got into a spiral
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of self-hatred and bad rule and allowed a series of leaders to just absolutely wreck the place and
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wreck their spirit and when you wreck a people's spirit it's pretty hard to fix that so if i were
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australian and i kind of wish i was australian actually at this point i love your language i love
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your profanity i love your sense of humor i love the aplomb with what you deal with dangerous animals
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it's also impressive and cool um but if i were an australian i'd wake up every single morning
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and say i'm an australian right i'm an australian i'm way more impressive and when great britain on
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whose behalf you fought from 1900 in the boer war all the way through afghanistan the number of
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australians who've died at the command of corrupt leaders in great britain is unbelievable australia i
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was just reading this because i'm seeing all the the digger monuments around and i'm really interested in
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that and i was reading yesterday that australia in the first world war lost 1.2 percent of its
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entire population in that war its entire population the casualty rate among australian troops in the
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first war was 68 percent killed or wounded highest in the world the united states by contrast and we
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commemorate the first world war armistice day 0.1 percent so you gave disproportionately to that and
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every subsequent effort on behalf of other countries which is a selfless and kind thing to do and you
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should be lauded for it but i think especially with the assange stuff that's just a sign that it's time
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to act on your own behalf and defend your own country and i hope that you will thank you
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how good was that can we just give another round of applause to our special guest
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we um we are going to do a few question and answers but uh i'll start with the first one tucker
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obviously you've interviewed many people who's the most challenging and why
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i've interviewed a lot of drunk people people who have anxiety attacks on camera live
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i've interviewed an awful lot of politicians where you just feel like there's something so dark coming
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off them you know you get that feeling like i'm not really sure what you're into
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and i don't really want to know but i'm pretty sure drinking human blood is part of it you just
00:23:59.040
i mean honestly if i'm being honest i think trump is one of the hardest to interview
00:24:05.460
not and i don't i love trump personally actually and i agree with him on so many things and i'm
00:24:11.360
certainly rooting for him now the department of justice justice in the united states is trying to
00:24:15.940
take him out of the presidential race on utterly fake charges so i'm totally for trump in those ways
00:24:21.320
but he's difficult to interview um because he's what's the word discursive he sort of goes off in
00:24:28.240
other directions which very often are hilarious so you go in there with a set of questions like you
00:24:34.040
know like your dutiful little dorky journalist i gotta ask him about this gotta ask him about that
00:24:37.820
and you get to about midway through the first question he's off wow another thing and you just sort
00:24:44.520
of realize no my job is not to get my questions answered they won't be anyway just enjoy it
00:24:51.380
sit back and think of england um so yeah that's difficult unless you sorry i shouldn't have said
00:24:57.740
that excuse me um unless you approach it with the right cast of mind which is just let it go this is
00:25:04.120
this is a kind of performance art you're in the middle of the installation you know what i mean
00:25:08.140
uh so i'm interviewing him soon again and um and i'm really looking forward to it i mean i'll just
00:25:15.640
say one last thing it is i mean i've been doing this for 33 years it's the only job i've ever had
00:25:22.460
and my views on it have changed really dramatically and my views about my co-workers who i despise
00:25:27.280
um have also changed dramatically despise more than really anybody uh in the world um but and that's a
00:25:34.940
heartfelt sentiment too i'm not just saying that i really mean it from the bottom of my soul
00:25:38.180
um but my views on it have changed and i think that one of the one of the mistakes that journalists
00:25:44.160
make a lot of them are are insecure and mediocre as people which is why they're in the business in
00:25:48.320
the first place so they can suck up to power and feel strong when they're weak inside um but one of
00:25:53.320
the mistakes they make when they go into an interview is they're thinking about the people back in the
00:25:56.920
newsroom and they're trying to impress them that's the real audience for the interview and so you see
00:26:01.220
them ask these questions these inherently fruitless questions all of which are designed not to elicit
00:26:06.260
information from the person being interviewed but to illustrate the journalist's moral superiority over
00:26:10.720
the person he's talking to well is it true mr putin and you eat children i do not eat children
00:26:15.860
but you do and he sort of has to wonder like does the guy expect putin to be like well it's funny you
00:26:21.620
asked i do eat children actually um and you caught me you caught me and i'm going to tell you now
00:26:26.060
exclusively that i eat children of course not the whole point is to let all the other dummies back
00:26:31.140
in the newsroom at abc news or nbc or what you know whatever these ridiculous absurd totally discredited
00:26:36.000
news outlets to let them know that the journalist is brave and i feel at my advanced age at 55 that
00:26:43.160
that's actually kind of not my role that my role is to elicit information to the extent that i can for
00:26:47.600
people watching and in the case of interviewing someone like putin about whom i do not have strong
00:26:51.940
feelings by the way i should say i still don't smart interesting very russian i'm very american
00:26:57.480
you know my goal in that interview was not to let people know putin's bad they can decide for
00:27:03.160
themselves they're adults don't anybody tell you who you have to hate i decide that i'm an adult man
00:27:08.740
i pay my taxes i'll decide who i hate who you what do you think i'm your dog no you know if i hate
00:27:14.740
putin i can hate putin if i like putin i can like putin it's completely up to me not up to you
00:27:18.160
okay so anyway um but my job is just to get they haven't heard him talk to even get him talking
00:27:23.960
just get a corpus of information out there from which they can make up their own minds
00:27:28.700
and i took in a lot of abuse for doing that oh you're his puppet or whatever shut up
00:27:34.480
you know the holy was completely ridiculous and in point of fact i mean they've told me to hate
00:27:39.440
putin for the last four years i've never figured out why i mean i i don't want to live in russia
00:27:45.380
i'm not russian they don't have the freedom of speech that we have in my country therefore i
00:27:49.420
don't want to live there it's kind of that simple um but i don't know why i should be mad at putin
00:27:53.980
great britain doesn't have freedom of speech do you know what i mean so like if you really think
00:27:59.640
about it i'm mad and should be mad at people who have hurt my family people are like wrecking my
00:28:04.940
country and driving inflation up to a point where my kids can't afford houses and filling my
00:28:08.560
neighborhood with people who aren't from there and who are hostile and making our country
00:28:13.420
completely you know shattered the social fabric is gone who did that did putin do that no joe biden
00:28:19.860
did that so if it's a question if the question is who is a greater threat to your family vladimir
00:28:26.560
putin or joe biden vladimir putin never called me a racist like what are you even talking about i
00:28:32.820
don't have any feelings about vladimir putin this guy's a lunatic who's wrecking my country
00:28:36.180
so again don't tell me how i'm supposed to feel i reserve that right for myself because i'm a free
00:28:42.300
man it's that simple thanks ducker i had a i saw a couple of our friends from the press gallery have
00:28:50.640
a smile when you uh were getting into the free press so i might ask paul sakal from the sydney
00:28:56.400
morning herald to ask a question great thank you
00:29:00.120
you've almost thanks for your speech of course mr carlson um it's the media can be extremely
00:29:08.880
negative so it's nice to hear uplifting comments about our country it's an amazing country it is
00:29:13.020
and i think we forget that in australia oftentimes i appreciate that you've pre-empted uh my question
00:29:17.940
on putin putin putin which i think you i think you did strategically because you knew it's what
00:29:23.860
we'd ask putin he's so bad and i also appreciate that did he make you take the covid shot take the
00:29:31.020
what the covid shot no he didn't sorry sorry sorry sorry
00:29:39.580
the the covid shot saved probably tens of millions oh yeah yeah definitely definitely
00:29:47.180
safe and effective this is why everyone loves the media probably a hundred times more
00:29:50.980
it's like a time capsule it's like it's like you're like the last japanese soldier on okinawa you
00:29:59.040
think the war's still going no it didn't save millions of lives it's hilarious sorry i'm sorry
00:30:05.020
i'm being boorish can i get the full answering without interruption okay i beg your pardon um
00:30:09.340
i'm interested in in in your position on putin that many people in this crowd would adore
00:30:16.040
conservative prime minister in this country like john howard tony abbott main mainstream right
00:30:21.360
wingers like boris johnson australian liberals some of their mps are in the crowd are vehemently
00:30:27.640
anti-putin they believe he's a reprehensible figure who doesn't believe in the values of conservatism
00:30:33.560
such as the rule of law and democracy which gives us the freedoms we have in our country
00:30:37.480
uh-huh i'm interested do you feel any do you feel any level of shame or regret that
00:30:43.640
you you were you were termed a useful idiot and then post your interview vladimir putin himself said
00:30:50.020
in his russian media that he was surprised at how weak your questions were and he also said that you
00:30:55.780
were wrong when you said that no other journalist had asked to interview him he said that's not true
00:31:00.520
we only thought tucker was the only person to report fairly i thought that you
00:31:04.460
were describing putin as a psychopathic liar and yet now you're taking his word for things
00:31:09.880
do you i mean let me let me just let me just let me let me um let me just quickly unpack your absurd
00:31:18.040
soliloquy if i can um first i i'm i'm stuck on the idea that boris johnson is a right winger
00:31:24.360
i do you know boris johnson i do boris johnson is uh is a criminal buffoon who like so many
00:31:31.600
who claim to love ukraine is single-handedly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of
00:31:36.840
thousands of ukrainian men in this war the ukraine cannot win and i would just i would refer you to
00:31:43.120
wikipedia how many how many more people does russia have than ukraine do you know 100 million
00:31:50.900
100 million and in a land war that's a relevant number it is not possible for ukraine to beat
00:31:57.300
russia the best they can do is sue for peace that's been known including by zelensky who wanted
00:32:02.720
that since the early days of this conflict and boris johnson on orders from the biden administration
00:32:09.540
shut down and this is not a disputed fact this is a fact admitted by everybody now shut down the
00:32:15.300
peace negotiations almost two years ago and ukraine has been completely destroyed and now zelensky has
00:32:20.580
passed a law allowing foreign corporations to own land there so you tell me what ukraine is going to
00:32:25.720
look like in 30 years when all of it is owned by black rock and multinational corporations and its
00:32:31.900
population is not ukrainian okay so so the tragedy of what's happened in ukraine orchestrated by the
00:32:40.020
western powers including your government and i hope you do and and driven by my government i feel shame
00:32:45.080
about it i hope you do too is really one of the great crimes of my lifetime so the idea that somehow
00:32:50.680
if you're against that you're for putin well of course that's absurd and by the way speaking of
00:32:55.660
your friend boris johnson he attacked me of course ad hominem and so i called him he was a journalist
00:33:01.060
not surprisingly a man of low character not shocking and so i called him and i said well you've called
00:33:06.820
me all these names why don't you sit down for a conversation i happen to be in your rainy depressing
00:33:10.600
slum london and we could have a conversation and he said i won't do that unless you pay me a million
00:33:16.760
dollars that's a fact that's an in non-dispute i have the text messages so if that is the credible
00:33:24.540
source of the slur that look if i were a toady of putin or i loved putin i would just say so
00:33:28.940
because why do i care i've already been fired i don't work for anybody i have no incentive and by
00:33:35.080
the way it's perfectly fine if people love putin well i don't understand what that has to do with
00:33:38.800
anything we are citizens of different countries we should judge first and foremost our own leaders
00:33:44.400
how's our country doing how are my children doing what's their future look like none of that has
00:33:49.220
anything to do with putin except to the extent that you all this country sit back your government
00:33:53.860
allows the biden administration to push us into nuclear war which is where we are right now right
00:33:58.260
on the cusp of it and somehow that's not a story that is that putin doesn't respect human rights
00:34:03.900
or the rule of law okay well just today julian assange was released after 12 years
00:34:10.100
12 years in custody and your government did nothing the uk made it possible and the united
00:34:16.960
states demanded it you tell me how that's consistent with the rule of law or democracy
00:34:20.780
it's not it's ruled by the intel agencies it's lawlessness and it's a crime so i'm not i mean
00:34:26.760
i'm not saying that we're morally equivalent to putin i'm not saying that what i'm saying is our
00:34:31.440
concern should be first and foremost how are our countries run and we give our own leaders a pass
00:34:36.200
time and time again because they point to some other creep on the world stage and say he's bad
00:34:42.040
kim jong-un is bad well yeah of course he's bad that's why i don't live in north korea that's why
00:34:47.140
i don't live in russia i have no interest in living in russia but the point is you're bad too
00:34:52.440
and the fact that he's bad does not allow you to continue being bad what and the last thing i will
00:35:00.100
say that i really feel deeply and i really resent on an emotional level and you'll pardon my passion
00:35:06.360
i don't know you i'm sure be very close friends if we did know each other but i i really resent what
00:35:12.400
i have seen across the west in the past 15 years and it's a sea change from my youth when my father
00:35:16.840
was a reporter this alignment between media organizations and the government i find disgusting
00:35:22.880
actually i i think it's it's a perfect it's a perfect inversion of what you're supposed to do
00:35:30.120
if you're a journalist your job is to challenge power on behalf of the powerless it is not to align
00:35:36.560
with the powerful against the powerless and that is precisely what you have done i watched your abc this
00:35:42.860
morning in my hotel room for about 20 minutes until i looked around for a vomit bag and i watched
00:35:49.240
it was one of the most gross i couldn't even believe it was real the first story this is
00:35:54.060
unbelievable the first story the first story was assange god bless them that is the biggest story
00:35:58.380
the second story was a family of four found dead in a house i think in a suburb of sydney but it may
00:36:05.640
have been melbourne i beg your pardon but four australians found dead of what they suspected was a drug
00:36:11.100
od apparently they've been taking a new synthetic opioid that has emerged in australia and is killing
00:36:16.580
people now this is a huge problem where i live much bigger than here so i but i'm familiar with it
00:36:19.780
and the reporter said it's probably the synthetic opioid and it's been seen and they're dead
00:36:24.520
on to the next story the next story was the australian government's new law that will require a
00:36:29.600
prescription to buy nicotine products and we were treated to a 15 minute lecture on abc whatever the
00:36:37.660
hell that is about how nicotine is dangerous and we need to keep it out of the hands of australians and
00:36:42.520
i'm like wait a second nicotine first of all is not dangerous that's not true it's factually
00:36:46.420
incorrect you know nothing about the science a b compared to what compared to what oh we have this
00:36:53.760
new synthetic opioid that's killing people the government not too concerned what they're really
00:36:58.260
concerned about is that people might be using nicotine which by the way has the byproduct of
00:37:03.280
raising testosterone levels and making people a little harder to command that's a massive threat
00:37:07.100
so this is the point where the media gets involved and says wait a second let's chart the death toll
00:37:15.560
from vaping versus fentanyl maybe one's a little worse than the other and what exactly are you doing
00:37:21.200
about it why don't you press your ministers and your prime minister what are you doing about it
00:37:24.840
about drug use and the answer is nothing instead they're hassling people who adults who want to use
00:37:31.280
nicotine which i would highly recommend to every person in this room as a life enhancing god-given
00:37:36.080
chemical that's just my view but i'm like a media should be like holding these people to the fire
00:37:42.920
on that or the vax injuries and deaths which are manifold they're everywhere are you joking
00:37:49.260
and in and and like countries that actually believe in science and there are a few in europe
00:37:54.580
they're looking at the and every vaccine causes injuries every single one one of my children was
00:37:59.500
injured by a flu vaccine this is known in the united states we're not allowed to sue we can sue
00:38:03.700
makers of playground equipment totally fine you can sue anybody for anything gun manufacturers you
00:38:08.200
cannot sue vaccine manufacturers and every vaccine causes injuries every single one and there's a
00:38:12.100
database publicly available in the united states that shows you how many and the covet vax the mrna
00:38:17.260
vax from pfizer has caused more injuries than all self-reported injuries than all the previous
00:38:22.680
vaccination campaigns for the last 50 years combined and no one in the media has written a story about it
00:38:27.900
because well there are a couple reasons one is that pfizer is one of the largest advertisers on
00:38:32.940
television in the united states and the point is not to sell the product and i worked in television
00:38:36.880
my whole life so i can this is not speculation the point is not to sell some weird drug for
00:38:42.080
rheumatoid arthritis to tv viewers because people can't prescribe their own drugs no that's not the
00:38:46.780
point this is not a retail sales pitch this is an insurance policy that the drug makers are buying
00:38:52.920
with the big media companies where your biggest advertiser maybe if we have a lot of vax injuries
00:38:57.340
from a brand new product you won't say too much and they don't i think that's completely corrupt and
00:39:02.000
shameful and and i have to say you know i was i was fired over a year ago so i don't have to like
00:39:08.240
worry about this or be defensive about it because i like don't have a job so there is a certain freedom
00:39:13.020
in unemployment and so i sympathize with you guys who work for these companies that are like truly
00:39:18.220
corrupt and you sort of know that but you don't want to deal with it because you've got kids and a
00:39:20.800
mortgage i get it i've been there but let's just be honest everybody else knows what it is everyone
00:39:25.560
else knows how corrupt you are and so there's a reason they have contempt for you i'm just saying
00:39:29.800
thanks tucker um on on that on that on that note i might pass you over to
00:39:40.000
andrew green from the abc oh i love it you're gonna take my nicotine it's dangerous
00:39:46.760
good afternoon tucker a prescription for nicotine okay i'm i missed that segment this morning it's
00:39:54.360
shocking you should watch it it's the dumbest thing i've ever seen on television
00:39:57.180
um i do want to ask about a country you haven't mentioned today and that's china but before that i
00:40:06.640
wanted your response to the former vice president mike pence who has tweeted in the past hour or so that
00:40:13.900
the assange developments are a a miscarriage of justice by the biden administration
00:40:20.700
and that assange endangered the lives of our troops can i just apologize for something that i said and
00:40:29.240
i and i and it's my fault when i ascribe sort of all badness to the biden administration that's
00:40:35.000
actually not true you know the worst things that happen in our capital city are a bipartisan effort
00:40:39.280
and they are that's just a fact and so i don't want to be partisan and claim it's all the democrats
00:40:44.080
fault it's absolutely not on the worst things that are happening in america immigration and
00:40:48.760
pointless wars and covid policy it was both parties guys like mike pence aligning with guys
00:40:54.400
well joe biden's not a person anymore but the people around around joe biden and you know the
00:41:01.920
truth is you want to the actual i won't be boorish but mike pompeo was trump's cia director and it
00:41:08.080
emerged and it's factual that as cia director when assange was locked in the ecuadoran embassy for
00:41:13.900
however many seven years or something um that he plotted to murder him and assange had never been
00:41:20.540
charged with any crime in the united states at all in under our system and yours you can't just
00:41:25.420
murder people because they embarrass you so assange leaked cia secrets and pompeo was director of cia
00:41:31.120
plotted to murder him that's a fact and the remarkable thing is that no one arrested mike
00:41:36.120
pompeo he's still walking free he's a guy who plotted a murder he's a federal bureaucrat in a
00:41:43.080
democracy federal bureaucrats people just like appointed to a job as a political favor can't just
00:41:48.120
kill other people they don't like that's not allowed speaking of russia and yet in my this is aimed
00:41:55.780
at my country people are like no that's totally reasonable like pompeo's an upstanding guy no he's
00:42:00.360
a criminal he's a criminal and he tried to murder the guy who exposed his crimes it's super simple
00:42:05.320
it's what the mafia used to do it's why they won every jury trial killed two jurors the others acquit
00:42:09.360
and he tried to do that and it blows my mind and i think i think mike pence is a sad weak man but i
00:42:16.620
think that's an incredibly shameful tweet i read it and i was enraged by it and i'm just sorry that i
00:42:21.060
didn't describe the problem in greater detail previously
00:42:23.820
i'll get on to china now uh you may or may not be aware of a strategic partnership australia is
00:42:43.620
involved with with your country and the united kingdom called orcas where we will get nuclear
00:42:50.040
powered submarines can i get your assessment of that and it was largely in response to china
00:42:55.880
do you think china poses a threat here i think that um
00:43:00.160
you know i first of all i think it's very complicated but i think the overview is this china
00:43:05.780
has 1.4 billion people and not enough resources or land australia has 26 million people and
00:43:12.700
a sparsely populated continent that is brimming overflowing with resources that countries with
00:43:20.920
expanding economies need and i don't know how expensive your politicians are i'm guessing not
00:43:25.380
very so i don't think it'd be too much of a lift for china to just buy them all and i assume they
00:43:31.900
already are doing that i mean obviously they are doing that and they're doing that in my country too
00:43:35.180
they bought the current president's son um so i'm not mad at china for that well they did they
00:43:41.600
bought hunter biden i mean that's the whole story and um and it's proven okay so i'm not mad at china
00:43:47.240
about that just for the record i'm not particularly anti-china um i don't want to live in china it's not
00:43:52.440
my system uh at all and i find a lot of parts of the culture repugnant on the other hand i see china
00:43:57.760
in china a country acting in its own interest so i'm not mad about that i'm mad about the countries
00:44:02.640
like my own and possibly yours that allow themselves to be taken advantage of that's the truly shameful
00:44:07.480
thing so i don't hate again i just don't hate china you know i see a rapidly growing country
00:44:13.060
that will do whatever it can to help itself and if it crushes people in the way it will okay so that
00:44:20.500
that's pretty reasonable that's kind of a you know time-tested model your job is not to be crushed
00:44:25.760
and so i'd be very very very concerned about i don't think you face an imminent invasion or anything
00:44:30.120
um i do think that the concerns about china just the the size differential the resource question
00:44:38.740
population these are the fears that have pushed generations of australian governments into a
00:44:44.300
counterproductive alliance with the united states and great britain i think the view here is that the
00:44:50.440
u.s will rescue us if we ever really have a problem and i don't think that's true i'm sorry to say that
00:44:56.500
and i and i'm just saying that is i just don't think it's true and i think you're unwise for
00:45:00.920
believing it's true and i think a lot of people on taiwan thought that was true it turns out not to
00:45:04.880
be true um i think a lot of pashtuns in afghanistan thought that was true a lot of montagnards in
00:45:10.320
vietnam thought that was true you know a lot of christian iraqis thought that was true and all
00:45:14.480
them are the hard way that it's not true that in the end countries act in their own interest and in a
00:45:19.020
democratic system leadership changes every four or eight years with different views expressing you know
00:45:24.980
evolved opinions from the public so no democratic country can be longitudinally reliable as a
00:45:31.600
partner simply because its government changes so often that's just a fact it's not attacking i'm
00:45:35.560
not attacking the united states i'm not attacking you i'm just saying if you think that allowing
00:45:40.200
the u.s government to stage you know foreign troops on your soil they didn't beat you in a war
00:45:45.900
did they then why do they have foreign troops here that's i mean i'm sorry i know i'm offending
00:45:49.640
everybody it's just a fact and i don't know if that's like a huge part of your economy but like
00:45:53.680
rule one in my country is we don't have foreign troops on our soil because we're a sovereign
00:45:56.440
country and i don't understand why all these countries allow it i mean i love the united
00:46:00.480
states i'm glad you know that we're we've got the whip hand i guess but i just i don't think any
00:46:05.540
country should put up with that no you can't have soldiers in my country go away you know what i mean
00:46:10.680
like we can be friends but having troops on my soil suggests not a friendship but a master slave
00:46:16.100
relationship and i'm just not into it at all and i don't think you should be into it either
00:46:20.260
thanks tucker one final question from the press gallery uh cat wong from aap
00:46:27.880
hi tucker thank you so much for your address today um so you talked a little bit about immigration and
00:46:35.700
in the past you've talked about how uh white australians americans europeans are being replaced
00:46:41.020
by non-white immigrants in what is often referred to as the great replacement theory this is the same
00:46:46.300
have i said that whites are being replaced well i don't i don't think i said that well it's been
00:46:52.220
mentioned on your show 4 000 times and really when did i say that on your i said whites are being
00:46:58.180
replaced you have said that before really yeah i i would challenge you to cite that because i'm
00:47:02.720
pretty sure i haven't said that i said i said native born americans have are being replaced including
00:47:07.100
blacks native born americans native born americans americans who like black americans have been
00:47:12.060
african americans have been in the united states for in many cases their families over 400 years
00:47:16.080
and their concerns are every bit as real and valid and alive to me as the concerns of white people
00:47:21.780
whose families have been there 400 years so i i've never said that whites are being replaced
00:47:25.080
not one time and you can't say that i'm sure um we just met but when our relationship starts with
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a lie it makes it tough to be friends so let's let's pull that back i'm happy to explain what i do
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think well you actually can't say it because i didn't say it and i don't believe it and i'm telling
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you that to your face so why don't you just accept me at face value my concern is that the people who
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are born in the country are the main responsibility of its leaders and as noted earlier when those
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leaders shift their concern from the people whose responsibility it is to take care of
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to people around the world to put their priorities above that of their own citizens that's immoral
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and they are being replaced in my country people who are born in the united states
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and the birth rate tells the whole story they are not at replacement rate and so the u.s population
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is growing because we're importing people from other countries and my view is that happy people
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have children and a functioning economy allows them to do that and we don't have that and so you
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need to fix the economy and fix the culture and make it so that people who want to have kids can
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you don't just go for the quick sugar fix of importing new people like that's my position
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and if you think that's racist that's your problem i never called you racist
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but of course you but of course you are suggesting and i must say one of the reasons people don't
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like people like you in the media is that you never say exactly what you mean your slurs are all
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by implication and you're about to tell me the great replacement theory is racist or anti-semitic
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whatever i i've said what i've said to you right now like a hundred times in public i hope to if i live
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long enough to say it a hundred more times i think it's completely honest and real not racist or scary
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it's factually true it's not a theory it's a fact and you're the whole point of your question
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was to be like you're a scary racist well i haven't my response is no i'm not okay well
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how about no more lying in your questions and then i'll answer it okay well um this is the same
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theory or as you say idea that has inspired the new york buffalo shooting where 11 black americans
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two white americans were killed it's also inspired it's not first of all it's inspired the worst
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the one of the worst australian how do they get people this stupid in the media i guess it doesn't
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pay well look i i'm sorry i've lived among people like you for too long and i i don't mean to i don't
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mean to call you call you stupid maybe you're just pretending to be but i've never i'm totally against
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violence i'm totally against the war in ukraine for example which doubtless you support and like all
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dutiful liberals support more carnage i don't i hate mass shootings actually nothing i said what does it
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mean to inspire something my views are not bigoted against any group they're honest they're factual
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that's not hate that's reality and my views derive from my deep concern for americans actually americans
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aren't having kids because they can't afford to and nobody in charge cares and so that's my position
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that doesn't inspire mass shootings how dare you try to tie me to some lunatic who murdered people
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how dare you actually and in fact i mean do you know what i mean i'd be like you know hitler wore
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those shoes a lot of people are saying that you're like hitler can you explain those shoes hitler wore
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exactly the same shoes and you're like i've got nothing to do with hitler that's how i feel about
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your absurd disingenuous question right so therefore you support gun control what i thought it could
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get dumber but it did no i don't support disarming law-abiding people so they can't defend themselves
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so the government has a monopoly on violence i don't think so first of all in my country that's illegal
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as you know but moreover it should be illegal in every country a sovereign person has the right to
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defend himself and his family period and that said i'm totally opposed to harming anyone anyone have
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you been calling are you concerned about the war in ukraine and the countless innocents being
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murdered there every single day i doubt you are probably putin bad i am i'm a christian i hate
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violence i hate mass shootings i have guns at home and often on my person when i'm in the united states
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i'm proud to say because i want to defend myself and those i love against violence that's the point
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i'm not perpetrating crimes i'm not shooting strangers i'm defending what i love
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and if you're against that i guess i would ask why why would you be against that
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well so you don't think you harbor any kind of responsibility for these hate crimes
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i'm sorry i'm trying to be charitable i'm trying to be charitable
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i was like maybe you're just pretending to be dumb now i don't think it's an act
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tucker thank you uh for taking those questions i'm sure you enjoyed uh actually i loved it i just feel
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sorry i mean because i got here and the country's so unbelievably beautiful and the people are so
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cheerful and funny and cool and smart i'm like your media's got to be better than ours it can't
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just be a bunch of castrated robots reading questions from the boss
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and then it turns out it's exactly the same maybe even a tiny bit dumber
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i'll repeat the essence of your question you can i can i can hear
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concerned and i don't understand like i guess i do understand why the institutional republican
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party in washington hasn't done more to secure elections we have this problem of electronic
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voting machines which are not more efficient they don't produce more precise answers than
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written ballots and they don't get us the tally quicker than written ballots so the question is
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why do we have them okay that's one area but the much more significant fact i would say is that the
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way americans vote was changed completely using the pretext of covid and the idea was that americans
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were so sick with this killer virus that emerged from a pangolin in a wet market they were selling
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mammals in a seafood market for some reason in wuhan they were so incapacitated they couldn't
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actually make it to the polls and so they needed to have their ballots anonymously picked up in these
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drop boxes without using voter id and then nothing with voter fraud at all it was purely a medical
00:58:11.060
response well now covid is of course still around hasn't gone anywhere once fauci created it it's
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going to be here forever but we're not worried about covid anymore for some reason and but the
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voting changes remain in place and it's very clear to me that the point of them was to abet voter fraud
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obviously and i don't think that you okay that's fine there's voter fraud around the world but you
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can't simultaneously claim that you're here to defend democracy and abet voter fraud at the same time
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because voter fraud undermines democracy very obviously more than anything else right if people
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can't trust election outcomes you don't have a democracy and americans can and i'm very distressed
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about it and i don't really know but there seems to be no appetite to do anything about it i mean one
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of the things you know and i won't go on this last thing i'll say but the question of voter id is not a
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question in most civilized countries france for example you don't have an id you can't vote
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because how do we know who you are and we take elections seriously even in france primitive stinky
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france takes elections so much more seriously than we do it's it's shameful to me as an american
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and so but we were told you can't do that because african americans just don't have ids
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really is there evidence for that so in my country you can't do anything without a government id
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you can't cash a check you can't have a bank account you can't buy a pack of cigarettes you can't
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check into a hotel you can't get on an airplane you can't get on a greyhound bus you can't do anything
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without a government issued id of course you can't drive a car and so some enterprising
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independent journalists went out and tried to get the numbers on this and it turns out
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nobody doesn't have a government id if you don't have a government id in the united states that means
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you can have no contact with government you get nothing from government you don't exist in the eyes
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of the government without a government id so the adult population of americans of any color who don't
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have government-issued ids is like approximately zero okay it's like someone in a nursing home
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and yet nobody in the media noted this and to this day we don't have voter id laws in state after
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state because it's considered racist and it's yet another example of the way that ruthless people
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with i think evil intent leverage the inherent decency of the citizens of our country to get their way
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if they said we're just going to commit voter fraud and if you don't like it we're going to shoot you
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the people of the united states would rise up as one and put them down but instead they say you're
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a bad person if you ask questions you're a racist well no decent person wants to be a racist including
01:00:34.560
me that's awful i think god created every person with identical moral value identical we are all
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creations that's my view so racism is like abhorrent to me so i don't want to be called racist and now
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there's anyone else in my in my sweet country because americans are really decent people so that claim
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right there is enough to shut down the opposition sufficient to roll over it and that is exactly
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what's happened and i and i hope we're at a point where we just stop taking them seriously these are
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people who don't care about the meaning of words who will accuse you of abetting a mass shooting
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because you think your country has too many illegal aliens like it's freaking insane so obviously they
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don't really mean it they don't really care they just want you to be quiet because you're inconvenient
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and my strong advice to you is don't be quiet because if you're quiet i mean anyone anyone who
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would force you and your children to take the covid vax long after it became clear it was neither safe
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nor effective anyone who would do that i mean what wouldn't they do to you honestly like they've shown
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who they are as far as i'm concerned thank you tucker amazing thank you thank you so much thank you sir
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