Tucker Carlson warned that “something bad’s coming” during a speech in Washington, DC this week.
“If something really dramatic in your country happens, like young people can’t get married, you know, or buy houses, or have any hope for a future that approaches the middle-class upbringing they had, then you’ve got a huge problem, and someone should be responding to that,” Carlson said.
Carlson noted, “One thing Americans are not used to is being poor… but what if we ran out of money at the very same moment that American society is more fractured, our social fabric is in tatters, and we’ve let in millions upon millions of people who have no affinity for the United States.”
He added, “If your economy is like on the brink of collapse, you know, if your country is literally bankrupt, someone would say that, and if food inflation gets so crazy that people are actually complaining about it… it doesn’t make me an expert on the people or anything, but I do live among people who aren’t rich, and they’re like legit upset about what groceries cost.”
You can say you care about America, but if you’re sending $100 billion to foreign countries right now, you’re lying. pic.twitter.com/jFmBlAW3qG
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) October 25, 2023
“When your country is at war, civil liberties disappear, and we saw this in the last 20-year war on terror, and I supported all that stuff, and I have egg on my face. I’m worse than that; I’m ashamed of the measures that I supported,” Carlson said.
“Angry people who feel like they have no recourse, who don’t think elections are real… they have real grievances, legit grievances, and the only way to tone those grievances down is not by creating some East German surveillance state, which we have done, or throwing people in prison for loitering outside the capital, which is their house after all. That doesn’t work long term.”
Carlson concluded, “The moral duty of the people running a country is to look out for the people in that country, period. That’s always true, and it doesn’t mean they can’t help other people, but if they pay no attention whatsoever, and in a moment when every person… can feel that something bad’s coming, everybody knows that.”
