Tucker sounds the alarm on the Democrats’ weaponization of the omicron variant

While the omicron variant appears to be inconsequential, the Democrats have big plans for it. (Hint: Think of Australia.)

Tucker Carlson is always enjoyable but sometimes he goes beyond being interesting and entertaining and makes points so profound they deserve to be widely shared. That’s why I’m using this post to share with you Tucker’s Wednesday night monologue regarding the way the Biden administration is using the appearance of the omicron variant—which seems to be mild, at most—to continue its crackdown on American liberties.

Although the monologue starts off lightheartedly with a little riff about the Biden administration canceling Mozambique, although the small nation has no omicron problems (apparently all those African nations look the same to the Bidenites), it swiftly turns serious. Tucker has clips of mainstream media talking heads speaking hysterically about the latest variant and follows that with reports about the new and interesting ways the administration is clamping down on individual liberties. He’s especially disdainful of the CDC’s vast overreach.

During the monologue, Tucker makes the point that we’re very swiftly going down the path we’ve seen in parts of Australia. He plays footage of breathless Australian reporters recounting how a massive manhunt caught three young men who escaped from an internment camp in which they’d been placed. Sundance has a few more details, which he wrote before the men were recaptured:

Last week people were stunned to discover the Chief Premier of Australia’s Northern Territory, Michael Gunner, had triggered an operation using the military to round up Aboriginal tribes and place them into a COVID quarantine facility called Howard Springs.

Premier Gunner became furious at people who questioned his decision and said the native Australians wanted to be in the camp. {Go Deep} Well, early this morning three men scaled the wall

Remember the Watertown police thuggery during the “Boston Strong” manhunt for that punk terrorist? Looking for this punk they shut the whole city down and treated law abiding residents like potential terrorist in a warrant less, Fallujah type search of innocent, non threatened citizens. How many times did you see police refusing the illegal diktats of blue governors during the scamdemic lockdowns? You better believe it can happen here and quickly.

the monologue starts off lightheartedly with a little riff about the Biden administration canceling Mozambique

With that observation we catch a glimpse of one aspect of Tucker Carlson's unique presentation that stands him head and shoulders above and ahead of anyone in his orbit.

First, Carlson starts off with humor, a "lighthearted" style that prevents the viewer from dismissing him as merely a shrill, repetitive critic of the kind the viewers will see in the next hour on Fox with Sean Hannity. Thus, Carlson disarms the reflexive critic.

Second, we all know that this is a set up, like the set up for a joke punchline and so the anticipation builds audience interest as we wait for Carlson's punchline.

Third, in wonderful Saul a Linsky style Carlson defines the Biden administration with ridicule. The Biden administration is so inept that it can't find Mozambique on the map but nevertheless presumes to issue Fiats that are logically absurd. So, any viewer sympathy for the Biden ministration or for the concept of mandates by executive order, is effectively discounted. Define your adversary with ridicule and the debate is over.

Fourth, any good writer will tell you that drama thrives, indeed is entirely dependent, on the writer's ability to surprise the audience with reversals so when Carlson goes on to describe the horrors now occurring in Australia, he reverses the mood and the impact is therefore so much more profound. Because he has committed steps one through three and perhaps more, he drives his argument home.

How much more effective than the tedious catechism recited night after night by Sean Hannity whose intentions are good, whose instincts are for the most part good, but whose delivery, quite apart from his interminable interruptions and endlessly long questions, is off-putting.

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