NEWS HEADLINES: Tucker Carlson’s EPIC Speech At Turning Point USA * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Noah

TUCKER CARLSON:
To me, is liberation.

It’s the freedom to say what’s obviously true as a free man and not a slave.

Ladies and gentlemen, Tucker Carlson! I never miss a Charlie Kirk event ’cause I love Charlie Kirk, and I know Charlie Kirk very well.

But I always forget what the walkout is like and it’s— I feel like I’m gonna have a seizure, it’s like— Anyway, thank you so much for having me.

This is more people in one place than I’ve seen since the last Charlie Kirk event I was at, so it’s hilarious. So, I notice everyone’s been talking about Epstein tonight and I wanna kinda differ from the crowd a little bit in saying that I watched Ben Shapiro yesterday, and—

Boo!

No, before you boo me, I thought he made a really solid point. He’s like, “It happened a long time ago. Who cares? And by the way, we should trust the government and whatever the bureaucrats tell us. And by the way, it’s wrong to ask a lot of unauthorized questions.”

So, I just want to go on the record to say that— no, to say I think that’s absurd, and it’s exactly the kind of thinking that I personally voted against in the last election.

In the last election, I spent a lot of the month of October campaigning with and for the president.

I voted for the president. I never vote for anybody generally. I know they’re always telling you, “You must vote or you can’t have an opinion.” Oh, shut up.

I don’t like to vote, but I did vote this time. I don’t like to vote because I don’t believe in any of them.

And this time, I really felt like I know Trump well, I love Trump personally, and what we were looking at was just so awful and totalitarian and stupid.

And it wasn’t even the arguments that I disagreed with from the Kamala Harris— it’s weird to even say her name now. Who was that exactly? It was like a bad dream.

But it wasn’t even so much the arguments I disagreed with, though I definitely disagreed with the arguments.

It was the style of argument that drove me completely bonkers, summarized most crisply by, “Shut up, racist.”

Whatever you said, it was, “Shut up, racist,” and it’s like— but wait. You know, first of all, I’m not a racist, but that’s not even the point.

The point is, I just told you what I think. I just asked you an entirely legitimate question, mostly, “What the hell are you doing?”

And rather than answer it, you didn’t pay me the respect that you would a human being.

You treated me like a slave or an animal by telling me to stop barking. “Shut up, racist.”

And I won’t put up with that, because I’m not a slave or an animal.

I’m an American citizen. I’m an adult man who pays his taxes.

So, you know, I ask people questions for a living, and very often I get answers that I don’t care for, that I disagree with, that I think are stupid.

But at least they’re answers. At least the person responding is treating me like a human being with a soul created in the image of the Creator.

He’s paying me the respect that every human being is due.

When you ask a direct question to someone in charge, you are due— that person is morally bound to give you an answer.

He’s not bound to agree with you, but he’s bound to stop and answer your question.

And the left never did that. They would dismiss you out of hand.

“You are not worth listening to. Be quiet.”

And that’s, of course, where the impulse to censorship comes from.

It comes from the belief that you don’t deserve to speak because you’re not fully human. They own you.

And that’s what I voted against above all.

I mean, I voted against a million different things that I hated about the last administration.

Their insane desire to start pointless wars around the world.

Their total unwillingness to protect this country domestically, to protect the people who live here, to protect the territorial integrity of the country, bringing in tens of millions of people illegally, giving them free stuff the second they get here, making a mockery of citizenship.

I hated all of that.

But the thing I hated most was their total unwillingness to answer any question about why they were doing what they were doing.

Because it was just too insulting.

And every single time, I would just feel like raising the middle finger and screaming obscenities, which is not an adult response, I’ll concede, but that’s how I felt.

And I think that’s really at the heart of why the Epstein thing is so distressing.

I mean, the guy was some weird sex freak who was abusing girls. We knew that.

But the fact that the US government, the one that I voted for, refused to take my question seriously and instead said, “Case closed. Shut up, conspiracy theorist,” was too much for me.

And I don’t think the rest of us should be satisfied with that.

And by the way, let me just say really quickly ’cause I was so mad about it that I think I found out part of what’s going on.

I think we are gonna find out more, and I think the truth, for whatever it’s worth, in case you’re interested, is that the DOJ didn’t release lots of incriminating sex videos with Epstein and his billionaire pals because they don’t have them.

They don’t have them because when the original search warrant was served 2007, I think, possibly 2006— I think ’07— it was basically designed to protect Epstein.

The search warrant was written in such a way to make sure that the feds never got their hands on the actually incriminating evidence.

It’s another way of saying the cover-up has been going on since 2007— almost 20 years.

And so the real question is not, “Was Jeffrey Epstein a weirdo who was abusing girls?” Yes, we can answer that.

The real question is, why was he doing this, on whose behalf, and where did the money come from?

And those are the questions that need to be answered, and I think it’s entirely fair to ask them.

And it’s not adequate to say anyone who asked them is somehow desecrating the memory of little girls who died in Texas.

I’m not gonna put up with that answer. I don’t care who gives that answer.

That is not acceptable.

And I think the real answer is Jeffrey Epstein was working on behalf of intel services— probably not American.

And we have every right to ask, on whose behalf was he working?

How does a guy go from being a math teacher at the Dalton School in the late ’70s with no college degree to having multiple airplanes, a private island, and the largest residential house in Manhattan?

Where did all the money come from?

And no one has ever gotten to the bottom of that because no one has ever tried.

And moreover, it’s extremely obvious to anyone who watches it that this guy had direct connections to a foreign government.

Now, no one’s allowed to say that that foreign government is Israel because we have been somehow cowed into thinking that that’s naughty.

There is nothing wrong with saying that.

There is nothing hateful about saying that.

There’s nothing anti-Semitic about saying that.

There’s nothing even anti-Israel about saying that.

I’ve spent my entire life, pretty much, in Washington, where I knew and loved a number of people, including one very close person, who worked at CIA.

That has never prohibited me from saying, “I think the CIA has done some horrible things.”

Murdered a bunch of people, participated in the murder of a sitting US president.

It’s got a whole trail of crimes.

That doesn’t make me a disloyal American. It doesn’t make me anti-American in any sense.

I was born here. My family’s been here for hundreds of years. I love this country. That’s why I live here.

So criticizing the behavior of a government agency does not make you a hater. It makes you a free person. It makes you a citizen.

You’re allowed to do that because you’re not a slave. You’re a citizen.

And you have a right to expect that your government will not act against your interests, and you have a right to demand that foreign governments not be allowed to act against your interests.

That’s not creepy.

It shouldn’t be forbidden.

And yet all of us have trained ourselves to believe that you can’t say that somehow, that that’s, like, too naughty and forbidden.

And the effect of making that off-limits has been to create a lot of resentment and, I’ll say it, hate online, where people feel like they can’t just say, like, “What the hell is this?”

You have the former Israeli Prime Minister living in your house.

You have had all this contact with a foreign government.

Were you working on behalf of Mossad?

Were you running a blackmail operation on behalf of a foreign government?

By the way, every single person in Washington, D.C. thinks that. I’ve never met anyone who doesn’t think that.

I don’t know any of them that hate Israel.

But no one feels they can say that.

Why?

And I think the longer that we play along with it, the more subterranean and creepy and hateful the conversation actually becomes.

So I think it’s better just to say it right out loud.

Did this happen?

And of course, that question has been asked of the government of Israel, and their answer is, “We’re not gonna tell you.”

And I think our answer should be, “No, no, no. As long as we’re sending you money, if you were committing crimes on our soil, we have an absolute right to know.

Did you do this or not?”

And yet everybody has been so brainwashed into thinking that’s somehow an expression of hate or bigotry, when it’s not.

It’s a baseline question that every US citizen has a right to an answer on.

What the hell was this?

And by the way, if it turns out that it was nothing at all, that somehow Jeffrey Epstein really did earn $165 million giving tax advice to somebody, which is, for the record, a lot more than most people pay their accountants, and that none of this was actually a foreign intel operation, and that there was no blackmail involved—

And that actually Bill Gates was just hanging on the island because the weather was especially good, and no one was videotaped doing anything immoral or illegal and then that was used against them to get them to obey—

If all of that is false, then just tell me how it’s false.

But don’t call me a lunatic.

And when Fox News runs a piece, as they did yesterday by Hugh Hewitt, saying that anybody who’s got even more questions about Epstein is some kinda nutcase with an unhappy personal life, is spending too much time on Twitter in the fervid fever swamps of conspiracies—

You know, up yours, buddy.

Then why don’t you answer the question then?

Don’t let anybody insult you— anybody— and I mean anybody ever, get away with insulting you instead of answering a legitimate question.

Okay? Ever.

And by the way, you will hear certain people say, “Well, you know, that means you hate the person.”

No, it doesn’t.

I’ve got a bunch of kids. I would never let them get away with that.

If I caught one of my kids, you know, smoking weed in the bathroom at my house, and I was like, “Are you smoking weed in the bathroom?”

“Shut up, racist.” “You hate me.”

No, you’re my child. I don’t hate you.

Answer the freaking question.

Were you smoking weed in the bathroom or not?

I’m not the criminal here. You seem to be.

So I just think it’s really important to get into that headspace.

And even now when people talk about this topic, I can promise you, since I spent all day on the phone yesterday on this topic with informed people, they’re like whispering certain words.

And I’m like, “Why are we whispering?”

Why should I be ashamed as an American about wanting to know what the hell that just was?

Why should I be embarrassed?

I’m not the bad guy here.

Why should I be embarrassed to ask, “What’s in this war for us?”

“We gotta go to war.”

“Shut up.”

“You’re a bigot if you don’t want it.”

First of all, I’m not a bigot.

But second, that’s kinda not the point.

The point is, what’s in it for us?

Why is this a good idea?

Shut up.

And it’s exactly the style of argument that I voted against and I will never accept it.

I don’t care who does it.

I will never accept that.

Give me a legitimate answer, a reasonable answer, a sincere answer, a good faith answer.

We may disagree.

You may say, as a good friend of mine who’s, like, totally deranged but a good person, said to me yesterday, “Iran is the biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world,”

You know, reading the talking point that apparently everyone— a bumper sticker that is for sale somewhere, I guess.

And I’m like, “Okay, um, I don’t even know what that means exactly, but how many Americans have been killed by Shia terrorism in my lifetime, which is 56 years?

I can’t think of any.”

I’m sure there have been some in the United States.

There have been Shia terror attacks sponsored by Iran and the US.

I can’t think of any.

There was 9/11.

That was a Sunni terror attack.

And then there’s the drug epidemic which has killed more than a million people during that same period—

People I know.

My next-door neighbor’s kid— dead.

People, a bunch of people I know have died.

And a bunch have been totally screwed up and taken out of life, basically.

Their lives have been hollowed out.

They’re husks.

They’ve been totally destroyed by drugs.

That’s the reality that I live in in the United States.

So you’re telling me Iran is a bigger threat than the people peddling this garbage?

I don’t think so.

Not where I live, it’s not.

“Oh, shut up.”

And the person literally said, “You know, we’re gonna have to agree to disagree.”

Uh, disagree with what?

What are you even talking about?

But at least he gave me an answer.

He didn’t say, “Oh, you hate so-and-so.”

He didn’t go immediately to motive.

Okay, so this is always the tell.

This is when you know you’re dealing with someone who has zero interest in getting to the truth of the question, and instead is trying to make you be quiet in order to roll over you and make you obey.

And the tell is when they go immediately to motive.

“Well, you just hate some group,” or, “You’re taking money from some other group.”

And neither one happens to be true in my case, but I always feel like saying, “Well, okay, what if I am getting paid, or what if I do have some kinda creepy bigotry?”

Which I don’t, because I think it’s immoral.

God created individuals. Each one—He knows the hairs on your head.

Each person has a soul. No person is seen by God as a member of a group.

Each person is seen by God as an individual.

So I don’t like that. And I really don’t. I’m not just saying that.

And I mean every individual on the planet, regardless of what he looks like or what he believes. That is true of every person.

And I sincerely mean that.

But even if I didn’t—maybe I was some, like, full wacko and maybe I was, like, taking tons of money from some bad country, one of the bad countries you’re not allowed to talk about or like—

Qatar!

Qatar! That’s the most hilarious. Qatar is kind of controlling our conversation.

Qatar. Evil Qatar. [laughing] I’m laughing.

I’ve actually been to Qatar. It’s awesome. Never taken a dollar from the Qataris or whatever they’re called. A great country.

But, uh, but whatever.

But even if I was, like, on the payroll of Qatar—which I guess I’m, like, I can’t now—but anyway, even if I was, it still wouldn’t make the question any less relevant: why is this a good idea?

And their refusal to answer that question lets you know right away that you are not dealing with a person of good faith.

You’re dealing with a propagandist who is trying to control you.

And I would say, at exactly that point, that’s when you say out loud, “I know who you are. This is all fake.

You can’t even answer the question. You’re trying to make me shut up ’cause I’m a bigot, like the liberals did 7 months ago, and that’s when we voted them out.

So I’m not putting up with that. I voted against this and I won’t tolerate it.”

So, the second point I would make, before maybe taking a couple of your hostile questions, I hope—about Qatar—

Is I was brooding about this today.

What about the Epstein story is so uniquely infuriating?

And I’ll just say, I mean, I’ve never met Epstein, but, I mean, I know a million people who knew Jeffrey Epstein.

He—it is true that he was around. Like, everyone knew Jeffrey Epstein. I don’t think I was cool enough to actually meet him, but, like, he was just a guy who was kind of circulating around, like this rich guy who knew everybody.

What is it ab—and everyone knew he was a creep, but then there are a lot of creeps in that world.

Just telling you what you probably know already.

What is it about Jeffrey Epstein that’s so infuriating to people, so infuriating that it’s actually causing seismic political problems?

And I hope that they’ll address it and it’ll get better. I really do.

But what is it? I’ll tell you what it is.

It’s the frustration of normal people watching a certain class of people get away with everything every single time.

That’s what it is. And that drives me absolutely bonkers.

By the way, it’s one of the things that bothers me about immigration.

You know, as someone who got arrested in Syracuse, New York as a kid ’cause I had an expired driver’s license and brought to a cell, I’m watching people come—

That actually happened. I have done time.

It does change a man. Yes, I joined a gang.

I watch, you know, 60 million people come into the country illegally or overstay their fake refugee status or whatever.

I mean, it’s—the whole thing’s a scam, and they get housing vouchers and free education and free cell phones and plane tickets.

It’s like, wait a second.

Not only are they not getting punished for breaking American law, as I would and have, they’re getting rewarded for it.

The unfairness of it drives you crazy, and it’s particularly galling in the case of Jeffrey Epstein and the whole constellation of people around Jeffrey Epstein, all of whom seem to be getting away with scams.

And how do you know they’re getting away with scams?

I’ll tell you how. Because they’re useless and they’re rich.

So how do you come to a place where some of the least impressive, most useless people who have no actual skills become billionaires?

How’s that legitimate?

And by the way, if you ask this question, at least in Washington, it’s like, “Oh, well, yeah, sounds like you’re a socialist.”

“Sounds like socialism.”

Yeah, okay, I’m a socialist now. All right.

I was a Qatari agent or a bigot, and now I’m a socialist. All right.

Leaving aside my committed socialism, can you answer the question?

How did Bill Ackman get nine—nine billion dollars?

Bill Ackman a pretty impressive guy? I know Bill Ackman.

No!

Bill Ackman’s, like, well-connected and super aggressive. That’s it.

And I think, you know, well-connected, super aggressive people deserve a fair living like everybody else, but if you’re accruing nine billion just because you’re willing to do anything, I don’t know why we have to pretend that’s good.

How did Epstein get four Gulfstreams?

How did he get an island, a massive ranch in New Mexico, the biggest house in New York?

Like, what is that?

Like, at some point, the basic economics really matter, and they matter because, not that it’s bad that rich people are getting richer.

It’s bad that everyone else is getting poorer.

And it’s especially bad that young people can’t afford homes.

Let me just put a very precise point on this.

If you want a measure of how your economy is doing, I personally favor eliminating GDP as a measure.

It’s clearly not relevant.

They tell me Japan has a stagnant GDP.

Have you been to Tokyo?

It’s the single most radicalizing experience you’ll ever have, because it’s just so nice.

“You lost the war? Really? Can we lose a war and wind up like this?”

GDP. No. I don’t know what even that is.

The total economic activity.

Oh, no, no. My measure’s really simple.

I got a bunch of kids—can they afford houses with full-time jobs at, like, 27, 28?

And the answer is, no way.

And the answer is that 35-year-olds with really good jobs can’t afford a house unless they stretch and go deep into debt.

And I just think that’s a total disaster.

That’s a complete disaster.

Why? Two reasons.

One, if people don’t own things, they don’t feel ownership of the country they’re in, and the country gets super volatile ’cause people feel like they’ve got nothing to lose.

When you have a lawn, trust me, you’re thinking long term.

Second, it’s really hard to have a family without a house.

It is.

It’s, like, super fun to live in an apartment if, you know, there’s, like, a bar downstairs, you’re in a cool neighborhood.

“I’m in East Village, it’s so cool.”

Try to have three kids.

You’re not gonna have three kids there. You can’t.

Nobody wants to raise their kids in that neighborhood.

Nobody wants to raise their kids in an apartment.

People do it ’cause they have to. Nobody wants to.

People want a little house, not some McMansion, just a little normal house.

That is the actual American dream, and that is what is totally unattainable for young people.

And so the only young people in general that you will ever meet who have houses are young people whose parents help them.

And God bless their parents. That’s a perfectly great thing to do for your kids.

But most people’s parents can’t afford to do that ’cause they’re already in debt from their pointless college degree.

So that is a national emergency.

And I know that there are certain cable channels who are spending all this time talking about, “Oh, they’re about to elect a socialist in New York City.”

Which, uh, obviously I’m opposed to it.

He’s not even a real socialist. He’s like a trainee vacs—you know, rich kid liberal guy.

“Mom, Donny.” He’s a fake leftist, but whatever.

Why do you think that’s happening?

One of the reasons it’s happening is because normal people with normal jobs no longer believe they can win in this system, and that all the money is going to the worst people.

And no one even stops to ask, “What the hell is going on?”

How did Bill Ackman get so rich?

I mean, I know he went on CNBC and, like, talked down Herbalife.

You know, bet against companies by driving down their stock prices.

That’s what he’s been accused of. I’m not accusing him here ’cause he’d sue me if I do.

I’m just suggesting others believe that might have happened.

He’s already threatened to sue me for saying that.

But there are plenty of people who do do that, and I’m not saying even that it should be illegal.

What I’m saying is that our leadership class should say something about it and should assign a moral value to it.

And if you’re getting rich by loaning money to people at incredibly high interest rates, that’s something you’re gonna have to talk to God about.

That is not good. That is not virtuous. That’s disgusting.

And the fact that nobody feels free to say that, nobody feels like you can just say, like, “30% on a credit card? Why is anybody paying their credit card bill?”

I said to somebody recently I feel like I’m very moderate and sensible and—well, yeah, that’s what they used to call it. It was forbidden.

I said to someone recently, “You know, we really need a political party where people just, like—it’s the ‘Hey, I’m not paying my credit card bill’ party.”

And let’s just—let’s just bring down Citibank.

Just not permanently, maybe permanently. Whoo!

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