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Tucker Carlson Gave the Most Important, Riveting Monologue of His Career and It’s a Must Watch
RedState ^ | June 2, 2020 | Bonchie

Posted on 06/02/2020 11:25:22 AM PDT by sickoflibs

Tucker Carlson went live last night after a weekend of violent rioting and looting across many of America’s major cities. He took no prisoners in what was easily the most important monologue of his career. It’s a moment in media history that will still be talked about a decade from now. That’s how powerful it was, whether you agree with every conclusion or not.

Over the course of 30 minutes, Carlson laid out the case that our leaders have failed to protect us in this time of chaos. He played the clips of men and women being beaten, the videos of buildings burning, and the recordings of mobs stealing. He showed the complete lack of respect for human life and property. He named names of those enabling it and let no one off the hook. He laid out the core issues tearing the country apart and the nonsensical responses to them.

While I rarely expect people to watch clips I post all the way through, this is one you should really make time for.

You can find the full transcript via The Federalist.

While Carlson has long separated himself as a step above the other prime time hosts, both on his network and others, this cemented his status as an independent thinker not afraid to speak out. The abandonment of these cities by local officials? He nails them. Governors who pander to the violence? He nails them to. Yes, he even goes after President Trump.

The first requirement of leadership is that you watch over the people in your care. That’s what soldiers want from their officers. It’s what families need from their fathers. It’s what voters demand from their presidents.

People will put up with almost anything if you do that. You can regularly say embarrassing things on television. You can hire Omarosa to work at the White House. All of that will be forgiven if you protect your people.

But if you do not protect them — or worse than that, if you seem like you can’t be bothered to protect them — then you’re done. It’s over. People will not forgive weakness. That’s the one thing, by the way, that is not a partisan point. It is human nature.

Carlson notes that Trump finally promised action last night, but that doesn’t mean his critique and frustrations that it took this long aren’t correct. The President can follow through now or he can’t claim to be the law and order candidate, something I wrote about last night. There are lines that most of his even his most ardent supporters have drawn in the sand. Letting anarchy go unpunished is one of them.

President Donald Trump: If a city or state refuses to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them.

Good for him.

Immediately after that address, the president walked over to St. John’s, which, we just told you, was burning fewer than 24 hours ago, and that provided a powerful symbolic gesture. It was a declaration that this country — our national symbols, our oldest institutions — will not be desecrated and defeated by nihilistic destruction. We fervently hope this all works.

Carlson also goes after many feckless GOP politicians, who instead of denouncing the rioting forcibly, chose to instead tacitly encourage it and deliver typical boilerplate platitudes. Further, he absolutely eviscerated Jared Kushner.

Jared Kushner, for one, has made that point out loud. No one has more contempt for Donald Trump’s voters than Jared Kushner does, and no one expresses it more frequently.

In 2016, Donald Trump ran as a law and order candidate because he meant it, and his views remain fundamentally unchanged today. But the president’s famously sharp instincts, the ones that won him the presidency almost four years ago, have been since subverted at every level by Jared Kushner. This is true on immigration, on foreign policy, and especially on law enforcement.

As crime in this country continues to rise, Jared Kushner has led a highly aggressive effort to let more criminals out of prison and back on to the streets. This is reckless. At this moment in time, it is insane. It continues to happen.

This goes on for half an hour, and there’s little I find objectionable in his words. Perhaps his attack on Nikki Haley was a bit tortured (I don’t think she was trying to say what he interpreted from her comment), but given all that’s happening and all he said, I struggle to focus on that.


TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: carson; fnc; kushner; tuckercarlson
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I saw it last night, a keeper.

The victims of the riots never existed from Dems and too many Republicans perspectives, just like folks gunned down in cities, just like the aborted.

1 posted on 06/02/2020 11:25:22 AM PDT by sickoflibs
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To: sickoflibs

He doesn’t seem very happy with Jared Kushner.


2 posted on 06/02/2020 11:27:30 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: sickoflibs

Later.


3 posted on 06/02/2020 11:28:01 AM PDT by wjcsux (Inside every DemocRAT politician is a fascist dictator screaming to be let loose.)
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To: sickoflibs

I happened to catch most of it. I was impressed.


4 posted on 06/02/2020 11:29:39 AM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: sickoflibs

yes, well done indeed.


5 posted on 06/02/2020 11:29:58 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: sickoflibs

He had me riveted until he blamed Trump


6 posted on 06/02/2020 11:30:56 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: sickoflibs

Saw it too - EXCELLENT!!! Attempted to watch the replay, but Shannon Brie’s extended riot coverage took Tucker’s replay time slot.


7 posted on 06/02/2020 11:31:38 AM PDT by caprock
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To: rightwingcrazy

Kushner is a known problem.
He was against:
Moving the embassy
Pulling out of Paris climate “accord”
Pulling out of the Iran deal
Reversing the policy of forcing schools to allow the creeps into the girls bathrooms.
He lost all of those but we don’t know how many he won.


8 posted on 06/02/2020 11:33:00 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: sickoflibs

I was something to watch. Anyone being able to go 30 minutes without taking a breath, ranting, or repeating themselves is pretty impressive.

Hannity could learn a lesson.


9 posted on 06/02/2020 11:33:16 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: sickoflibs
A lot of people hear did not like it...

I thought it was good...

I think Trump had to wait and see if the locals could take care of it...

It is time to send in the military to NYC and where they are doing nothing...

They will all want money from Trump...

There will be a mass exodus from these democratic run cities now...

The red states are screwed...

Example Austin Texans...overrun by Californians

10 posted on 06/02/2020 11:34:36 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: sickoflibs

I saw it as well. It was right on point.


11 posted on 06/02/2020 11:37:55 AM PDT by Engedi
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“Yes, he even goes after President Trump.”

Is there a shortage of that anywhere that we don’t know about?


12 posted on 06/02/2020 11:38:00 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (ollars in damage.)
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He portrays Kushner as some sort of Rasputin. Even the photo they dug up was wonderfully creepy. Kushner is a fixture, but I’m not sure how much influence he has. Hopefully he hasn’t won anything that matters.

Apart from being his son-in-law, Trump might find him useful as an indicator of how the Left will react to things.


13 posted on 06/02/2020 11:39:52 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: Vermont Lt

Hannity tries to impress his audience by stating:”We have known each other for a long time” to celebrities like DJT and Rudy Giuliani and that he has a license to carry and is well versed in self defense I.O.W. he is a stud.


14 posted on 06/02/2020 11:43:29 AM PDT by 353FMG (Oceans and oceans of snakeoil and not a paddle.)
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To: jersey117

[He had me riveted until he blamed Trump]


He said Trump will be blamed. Just as Dubya was blamed for Katrina. Here’s the transcript:

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-nation-flames-leaders-dithered

Many state and local officials will not act to protect the property rights of their residents, but are actually aiding and abetting the law breakers in their destruction and thievery. Trump could, therefore, invoke Eisenhower’s justification:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act#2006%E2%80%9307_suspension
[In the mid-20th century, the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower used an exception to the Posse Comitatus Act, derived from the Enforcement Acts, to send federal troops into Little Rock, Arkansas, during the 1957 school desegregation crisis. The Arkansas governor had opposed desegregation after the United States Supreme Court ruled in 1954 in the Brown v. Board of Education that segregated public schools were unconstitutional. The Enforcement Acts, among other powers, allowed the president to call up military forces when state authorities were either unable or unwilling to suppress violence that were in opposition to the citizens’ constitutional rights.[5]]

Given that Democratic governors and municipal officials are now complicit in the destruction wrought by rioters and will neither protect business owners nor restore order, I think Trump is well within his authority in putting troops on the streets. The question is whether he has enough troops and what the electoral impact is going to be. Given that the press has been doing the whole Orange Hitler routine pretty much since the inauguration, I’m not even sure it’s even a risky play, politically. They’ve cried wolf way too often.

And Trump is held responsible by voters for rioting in the streets, even though it’s not really within the normal scope of his authority to put riots down. Voters aren’t legal scholars. They’re not up on the Posse Comitatus Act. If Trump’s going to be held responsible anyway, then he should use Federal resources and get this resolved. Bush wasn’t responsible for Katrina’s aftermath. He was held responsible anyway. There’s a lesson in that.

I see this as an opportunity to lock up a bunch of criminals and take felons off the voter rolls, while reminding both owners and employees of small businesses that he has their backs, even if Democratic state and local officials would be content to let them be wiped out financially. The problem with GOP presidents is that they’ve often tied their own hands with respect to scofflaw Democratic local officials where Democrats have ridden roughshod over Republican ones. It’s time to return the favor.

Remember what happened to the Sheriff of Maricopa County, Joe Arpaio, when he acted up against Obama’s edicts? Trump can do the same against the state and local officials that resist his efforts to restore order.


15 posted on 06/02/2020 11:43:41 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Vermont Lt
I was something to watch. Anyone being able to go 30 minutes without taking a breath, ranting, or repeating themselves is pretty impressive. Hannity could learn a lesson.


Hannity could not have gone on for a 30 minute monologue without interrupting himself numerous times.
16 posted on 06/02/2020 11:47:49 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( Stop the fearmongering! Post flu statistics along side COVID-19 statistics!)
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To: sickoflibs

tucker is right.

trump is exposing the lefts leadership.

he will prevail.

we will prevail.

it will be a long hot summer.


17 posted on 06/02/2020 11:48:39 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world)
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To: sickoflibs
Tucker criticizes Trump about once a month.

He does it periodically.

18 posted on 06/02/2020 11:55:08 AM PDT by far sider
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To: sickoflibs

Tucker Carlson is overrated. There was no reason to go after Trump. The President is not Superman and cannot act on every issue immediately. That rant was something I would expect to hear from a leftist.


19 posted on 06/02/2020 11:59:44 AM PDT by hotsteppa
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To: sickoflibs

Long but worth the time to watch and listen. Some of it is very hard to watch.


20 posted on 06/02/2020 12:00:19 PM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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