Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan Experience: Podcast Number 2138:
“What makes it particularly galling, and hard to live with, is when you call that system a democracy. That’s too dishonest for me. I would much rather live in a monarchy where everyone thinks that the king has been assigned by God to rule over us, and his whims are law. That makes sense. I don’t like it, but at least it has internal coherence.
When Congress stands up to pass a $60 billion funding bill for Ukraine, when seventy percent of the population doesn’t want it, when Congress is ignoring the actual problems in our country like the economy and the border, and they’re calling in Congress over the weekend to pass something that people don’t want, while ignoring the demands that people do want, and if Congress does the same kind of thing again and again and again for fifty years, and journalists call this system a democracy —that dishonesty will drive you insane.
Because it’s just too dishonest.
Why not just say: “We don’t give a shit what you want, we are getting something out of this Ukraine funding, whether it’s the thrill of being masters of the universe, or whether it’s money from the defense contractors, whatever we’re getting out of it, is more important to us than popular opinion, this is not self-government, ordinary people don’t run this country, we run this country, so shut up and obey” — if Congress at least said that, you would be like “okay, I get it, those are the terms”.
But if I get another fucking lecture from Joe Scarborough about defending democracy, when America is not a democracy, it’s not even a close approximation of a democracy, then I’m going to go crazy.
Because I just can’t deal with the lying anymore.
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I guess what bothers me is that the lies aren’t sophisticated.
When I look back over my now-sort-of-long-life, and I recognize all the times I was previously deceived, you know I didn’t know I was being tricked. I wasn’t aware. They tricked me, and successfully pulled it off.
There’s something incredibly insulting and demeaning, to tell me something that’s a lie, and I know it’s a lie, and you know I know it’s a lie — we both know it’s a lie, and nonetheless you’re demanding that I pretend to believe it? What you’re really saying is: “I have no respect for you. You’re my slave. I’m demanding that you participate in my lie.”
The lack of stealth really bothers me a lot.”
—Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan Experience: Podcast Number 2138
There’s a purpose when it comes to forcing you to tell blatant lies, as in “men can be women”. When you are forced to say something you know to be untrue, they have ever-so-slightly dehumanized you, and even if you secretly know it is a lie, you still buy into the concept very slightly... by uttering the words.