Tucker Carlson's Caricature of the Average Democrat Voter Goes Viral

In a viral speech all the way from Budapest, Tucker Carlson eviscerates the ruling party and average 20-something voter by comparing living in Democratic cities to being in… prison?

Tucker's Speech in Budapest

Ep. 20 Hungary shares a border with Ukraine

Hey... what happened to all the rumble channel videos?

Tucker Carlson goes to Argentina -- and shows us what it's like to live in a country where the government can't stop printing money
By Monica Showalter

Argentina is a developed country, with an educated population, a huge middle class, and tremendous natural resources.

But when you look at it closely .. you learn quickly why its nationals want to flee, and why anti-establishment "anarcho-capitalist" Javier Milei is leading in the polls and likely to win Argentina's presidency come October.

The problem is inflation -- 165% inflation as of July, according to Steve Hanke's inflation index, which is the most accurate reading.

Tucker Carlson went down to Buenos Aires to find out exactly what that is like, exploring in a mere ten minutes on Twitter just how normal people have to live with it on an extended basis, all because its socialist government can't stop printing money.

It's a doozy -- see it here.

https://twitter.com/TuckerCarl..._printing_money.html

It's powerful stuff because it describes how people lives with this nightmare, and he talks to the best of the best Argentinian experts who live in the country, such as economist and professor Diana Mondino. A prominent economist in the states once told me she was known as "The woman who knows everything.'

It's also fearsomely accurate -- it describes the Argentina I saw during its post-2001 devaluation period, with people losing their life savings to inflation, people unable to get their money out of banks, people bitterly banging on pots and pans in protest, people desperately trying to get hold of black market dollars just to have currency that is worth something tomorrow, and stuffing those dollars under their mattresses. Tucker's segment told me absolutely nothing has changed in that country, except that it's getting worse, and the people are ready to rise up to put a stop to the nightmare. Tucker explicitly explains that Argentina is what it's like to live in a country with extended inflation, with a government cannot stop printing money, which sounds like another country we know, still kind of upstream of that terrible fate.

Tucker starts out with the problem of extended inflation, and shows us how Argentina a hundred years ago was one of the richest countries in the world. He describes how politicians like to print money they don't have "But what happens if you keep doing it year after year?" he asks. Today, it's a run down country, where roads and bridges fall apart, beautiful Beaux Arts, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco buildings are covered with graffiti and trash, and have since gone "ratty."

He begins by interviewing a beleaguered restaurant owner, who describes the impact of the money devaluing 10% every single month and how hard it is to get people to even want to work on those terms.

He then interviews Mondino, who describes poverty and how more than half the country is under the poverty line now. "Chicken is a luxury," Tucker notes. Anyone who wants to buy something expensive has to pay in dollars, but the government "lies" about the true exchange rate for them and gives people less than their true exchange rate.

He then gets into a car and takes a drive to a "cueva" or cave, which are the little illegal black market money exchanges where locals go to exchange their hard-earned paychecks for U.S. dollars simply to preserve the value of their work and purchasing power. It's a jolly place, and everything is orderly, with Tucker handing the man at the bank-like counter a $100 bill and walking out with stacks and stacks of nearly worthless Argentine pesos which will be worth less tomorrow than they are even today.

"Imagine that was your country and this is your national currency and had the value of home insulation you know, and this was your work product, this was what you spent all day working for, and this was what you hoped to feed your family with ... and it had been rendered worthless by greedy dishonest pigs running your government and lecturing you about transgenderism and - but in the end you were left impoverished and they were left rich, I mean that's theft...it was very orderly, but IMAGINE if your life entailed going four times to a quote 'cave' just to get the actual exchange rate on your money that you made by working. Again, they're stealing and they're lying and they're enforcing that lie at gunpoint, they close those places down because they're this little window into reality that the government can't tolerate.

That's what a collapsing society looks like. Everybody's moving backwards, nobody can tell the truth about anything. The functions of ordinary life have to be conducted furtively, in caves."

Naturally, a lot of people say 'no' and refuse to work. The labor force participation rate is very low. The government is fine with it, the NGOs and the press are happy with it.

But in these conditions, it shouldn't surprise anyone that Javier Milei is rising as a political leader in that country and is likely to be elected president by October.

https://www.americanthinker.co..._printing_money.html

We have a member here who is in Argentina and has spoken about how hard it is to get anything there due to the hyperinflation.

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Hey... what happened to all the rumble channel videos?

Looks like Tucker took down his Rumble channel in favor of X.

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Hey... what happened to all the rumble channel videos?

Let's hope it's setting the stage for Tucker to find a home on the internet that's available to all and easy to access with registration at worst, no subscription, preferably plug 'n play.

Tucker is the proverbial canary in the coal mine

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Tucker - Interview With Dave Portnoy

https://rumble.com/v3e4y7r-tuc...th-dave-portnoy.html

The Dave Portnoy interview is quite good. I especially enjoyed it toward the end when Portnoy flipped it around and started asking Tucker questions.

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Tucker - Interview With Dave Portnoy

https://rumble.com/v3e4y7r-tuc...th-dave-portnoy.html

I don't know who's running that Rumble channel, but as of now, it only has ~1300 followers.

The old, now gone channel, was named:
TuckerCarlsonOfficial

I've been watching Tucker's videos on my TV using the Rumble app on Roku. The channel I've been watching is 'Tucker on X' and every single one of his videos are there as of this post. I'm not sure if it's his 'official channel' on Rumble (I kinda think it is) but it has 60.2K followers, and it appears to be official.

For me, it's just easier to watch on a TV using the Rumble app anyway as some of the videos are a hour+ long. If Twitter had such an app I might use it, but they don't and Rumble is easier than viewing on Twitter anyway as the latest videos are always on top. YMMV

Tucker on X: Hyperinflation and Argentina

^^^ Excellent!

Tucker Carlson's eye-opening interview with Argentina's pro-Trump presidential frontrunner, Javier Milei

With Argentina on what appears to be a resolute path towards rejecting socialism, Tucker Carlson went to Buenos Aires to see for himself what was going on, and to interview its presidential frontrunner, Javier Milei. A couple days ago, he began with a curtain-opener video about what life is like in Argentina with 165% inflation, the product of decades of government overspending, and since then has came out with his promised exclusive with Milei, which was quite an eye opener.


Most of us have seen various clips on Twitter and YouTube showing just how fiery and committed to destroying socialism Milei is. He's out to end government money-printing, special interest carveouts that make a mockery of rule of law and government bureaucrat-hiring. He's an open admirer of President Trump, and unabashedly U.S.-friendly. He's unafraid to criticize the Argentine pope. He revels in the beauty and advancement of capitalism and abhors the poverty and misery that come of socialism every time it's tried. He's unabashedly pro-life. He's pure fire against the biased press and he draws gargantuan crowds to his rallies. His views are largely libertarian (the word they use is "Liberal" with a capital 'L' but it's the same thing) and very pro-free market. He vows to cut government down to size. And to kill inflation dead in Argentina, which is the number one issue there, he vows to replace the Argentine peso with the U.S. dollar, which already is the country's unofficial currency.

Of course the press and establishment hate him.

But Tucker decided to sit down with him and find out what he's really about and the result was kind of unexpected.

Turns out Milei is a very thoughtful man, almost a philosopher king of sorts. He's introspective, he thinks things through. He's able to hold an intense conversation about ideas and why some ideas work and don't work. He started slowly, when asked by Tucker about why he was so popular, giving his background in various fields of entertainment, but eventually coming around to the fact that it was his ideas that were resonating with the public.

He was asked about his criticism of Pope Francis, which has led to a few fiery exchanges with the pontiff, and gave a pretty good response, there, too. He ripped into the phony notion of "social justice." He brought up something Tucker seemed unaware of, that the pope had coddled a lot of Latin socialist dictators at a time when he should have been condemning them. In Latin America, that sticks in a lot of people's craws, the sorry fact that this pope will always side with the state at critical times, no matter how failed and nasty those states are and no matter how many lies they tell about being for the people, instead of the people he himself claims to champion who are persecuted mercilessly. Yes, that's a big deal.

Asked why he opposes abortion, Milei gave an excellent libertarian answer which not all avowed libertarians here even understand (although the good ones, such as Ron Paul and Rand Paul, certainly do) -- that a woman has a right to her own body and a baby has a right to his or hers, too, which is an inherent and non-negotiable right to life. That response rocked.

Asked about socialism, Milei gave his most thoughtful answer of all, describing not just the "bloodstained" history of socialism but the roots behind its will to power -- that socialists seem themselves as omniscent and omnipotent which eventually adds up to being a replacement for God. He emphasized that socialism was essentially thievery which not only robs the working men of the fruits of thier just labors, but also creates two-tier justice. The thievery emphasis was a useful one for understanding why socialism fails, and why he stands so committed against it.

He also emphasized the libertarian emphasis on pacificism. which was very attractive. No neocon wars for him.

Asked about global warming, he viewed it as an extension of socialism as well as a fraud.

Asked about China and he gave a surprising answer -- that Argentina wasn't going to do any deals with China on moral grounds because it was a socialist communist regime and therefore all about thievery. People could trade with China if they wanted, but no state deals on the grounds that he sought to make Argentina a moral leader. I doubt anyone had that on his bingo card ... Wow.

He was asked to give advice to President Trump, and accepted the challenge humbly, not wanting to be seen ordering Trump around, tiptoeing around in the framing of it, but urging President Trump to keep doing what he is doing and never back down an inch. That was a thoughtful and masterly response.

One area where Milei did seem to answer oddly was when Tucker asked him if he got down on his knees to pray to God, which was a total Baba Wawa softball question in the states. Milei seemed taken aback and didn't quite answer that directly. He emphasized that he truly appreciated that others were praying for him, particularly at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem (he has reportedly been very attracted to Orthodox Judaism and its emphasis on just laws but remains a Catholic). However, Milei never answered the question directly himself. I am thinking there may have been a cultural issue here, or perhaps a deep felt belief that one doesn't go advertising that he's a praying person just because it might offend God as self-aggrandisement. In any case, Tucker let that answer stand as it was, it might have been too personal a question. It would be weird indeed if Milei didn't pray given his beliefs and his appreciation for others praying for him.

Tucker was a bit light on inflation questions, which perhaps he felt he covered in his earlier segment but it would have been nice to hear more about that from Milei who would have been eloquent. Tucker also asked nothing about dollarization, which is Milei's signature issue and certainly his most radical proposal, the one that is getting him votes, which was a frustraqting omission but I am guessing it's because Tucker knows that most of his American audience doesn't understand dollarization and figure that if Argentines use our money, they will ruin it, which is nonsense. Actually, in the era of de-dollarization in other parts of the world even in basic trade transactions, it's a prestige-builder for the U.S. and increases its clout. It's also a money-maker for the U.S. through a concept known as 'seignorage' which now that the Fed is losing money, would be a welcome bailout for the states. But that's complicated stuff that may not have been cover-able in a twitter segment.

It was deep enough a dive as it was, and listening to this 32-minute segment was something that will be keeping Americans thinking about for weeks. It's an amazing segment, well beyond the bounds of typical sound-bite journalism seen elsewhere. Tucker has a helpful index of where to see particular segments in the 32-minute video here. Be sure to hear it all.

https://www.americanthinker.co...er_javier_milei.html

Yesterday, former Fox News correspondent Tucker Carlson posted a deadly serious interview with constitutional scholar Victor Davis Hanson, and sparks flew. If you tend to get anxious when hearing serious people talk about how deep we all are in the tomato soup, then you might want to skip the video clip, which is on the long side anyway. If so, don’t worry, I have some comments below to give you the gist.
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CLIP: Tucker Carlson and Victor Davis Hanson (33:50).

The two men framed their discussion around the first day yesterday in Trump’s trial in the New York “Business Fraud” Case. It was presided over by Judge Engoran, who last week issued a remarkable summary judgment order finding that, as a matter of law, Trump committed fraud by “overstating” the value of his very-difficult-to-estimate real estate properties on financial documents Trump used to obtain bank loans.

Loans that were all paid back, on time, with interest.

Imagine that you wanted to borrow $100 to buy supplies for your MAGA hat stand. I ask, “how’s business?” You say it’s great. Then I give you the $100, and a few days later you pay me back $120, just as agreed. I go away. Now the State of New York comes along and says, hey, when you said business was “great,” it wasn’t really “great,” it was only “okay.” You lied. Now we’re going to take your house.

That’s a simplification, but not an exaggeration. One of our democratic republic’s essential concepts is that the government can’t just take citizens’ property, not without proving a great reason or without paying just compensation. Governments only snatch people’s property and businesses in dystopian communist hellholes like Venezuela or Cuba, where private property always somehow finds its way into some pugnacious dictator’s grasping, bloody hands.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com...ack&utm_medium=email




https://twitter.com/TuckerCarl...986264588791862?s=20

"Abrupt Change Is Coming": Tucker Carlson Issues Dire Warning For America

Tucker Carlson delivered a sobering speech this week in which he offered a straightforward, chilling notion: That "Abrupt change is coming."

Carlson begins by laying out the significant disconnect between Washington DC and the average American citizen's struggles - particularly how skyrocketing food inflation and housing inaccessibility for the younger generation, is fermenting a dangerous brew of widespread public disenchantment.

https://twitter.com/TuckerCarl...dire-warning-america



https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...dire-warning-america

Tucker Carlson Ep. 43 | Marjorie Taylor Greene

You think elected Republicans in Washington are craven frauds who’d sell your children for a steak dinner at the French Laundry? Actually, says Marjorie Taylor Greene, it’s worse than that.

I just finished the MTG interview, and would encourage Forum members to click on it, see if it doesn’t capture your attention like it did mine. I IS incredible that in the age of alternative media that the narrative, at least initially, is set by the MSM and what’s termed “the Swamp,” entrenched Democrats and Republicans who like their money and power. Marjorie Taylor Green is from a state a long ways from me, and I don’t watch tv news or commentary. Somehow, word had reached me that Rep. MTG, was unbalanced, and immature. She’s not.

Agreed. It was a really good segment. I’d not paid any attention to her prior to this.

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I just finished the MTG interview, and would encourage Forum members to click on it, see if it doesn’t capture your attention like it did mine. I IS incredible that in the age of alternative media that the narrative, at least initially, is set by the MSM and what’s termed “the Swamp,” entrenched Democrats and Republicans who like their money and power. Marjorie Taylor Green is from a state a long ways from me, and I don’t watch tv news or commentary. Somehow, word had reached me that Rep. MTG, was unbalanced, and immature. She’s not.

I'm hoping President Trump has her on his short list for VP. I think she would be great.

I think it's very important for people to see this interview.