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.
What’s this sudden attack on Kushner? I haven seen his name even in the news at all lately. What does Kushner have to do with anything? It seems Trump has put a lot of trust into his son-in-law. He must know him very well and have faith in him.
Horrible!....he blamed Trump!
He was disgusting!
Then he blamed Pence
then Kushner
Hey Tucker....how about blaming Antifa.....and George Soros
I wondered if Fox allowed Shannon’s show to run long to avoid replaying Tucker?
Ridiculous.
I agree but did think he had a good point about Pence. What bothers me most is that Tucker doesn’t seem to realize that Trump is dealing with a lot of information that the press can’t access because it’s classified. Right now he is facing traitors everywhere in our own government. We are likely headed into a civil war before this next election.
He was phenomenal. I respect him.
It’s pretty obvious Jared is in the pocket of corporate globalists and is also a liberal - making things worse.
There’s so much more. He stopped the hold on H-1B!!!! Jared is a globalist POS.
Sometimes the truth is painful.
Jared is a globalist, wall street Manhattan hack. He is liberal, he is BAD NEWS. When Bannon left the WH the globalists took over the WH ( except for Trump ).
He did indeed. It was terrific! I only hope the President was watching and turned to Kushner and told him to get out!
Some here say that he was harsh on PDJT and sure, it’s easy to see how that interpretation could be made. I didn’t see it that way at all... the specifically harsh words were for others (Kushner, Haley et al) but after all, they don’t have a role to play in the government unless PDJT gives it to them. I view those comments as ‘constructive criticism’ that PDJT can take or leave. As my Daddy used to say, “a wise man changes his mind.... a fool never does.” I believe that PDJT has learned well on the job.... both from his own experiences as well as considering the views from those such as Carlson.
A local radio DJ here in Delaware played the whole monologue on air.
Yes, I enjoyed it.
The comments about Jared Kushner despising Trump voters made my jaw drop.
I’ve never heard this before.
I do know Ivanka’s a bit liberal but she’s a girl and it’s not so obvious.
But Jared Kushner? Tucker creamed the guy.
I certainly hope the President himself was watching, and watching closely. He should have booted Mr. Ivanka and his own daughter back to NY 4 years ago. They are liberal friends of Chelsea Clinton. Let them live in the hell hole that liberals like Cuomo and DeBlasio have made (I’m sure they both voted for them).
Nobody likes Jared. His father is an ex con and Jared took it out on Chris Christie. So his parents think their shit dont stink. Made both sons wives convert or no marriage. Refused to met other sons girlfriend until she converted. How do you believe in Jesus one day and not tbe next????
Only reason I can think of for the Jared hate is that he’s Jewish. Whatever crimes he’s committed or what treason he has engaged in are well hidden. It would be enlightening for the haters to explain to all of us what a dastardly person Kushner is.
I hope they weren’t avoiding the replay. I’m not interested in any more riot coverage - the anarchy must end yesterday.
Exactly!
That’s just Tucker’s schtick.
He has done the same thing in the past.
He goes along for days saying important things in his style, which is pretty good.
Then suddenly he pulls an “Ann Coulter” with a nonsense and hurtful remarks which are unlike the real Tucker.
I think he enjoys doing that.
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