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
When you bomb a consulate with full diplomatic immunity, the gloves are going to come off in unexpected ways.
Not that Iran has clean hands in this regard, witness the 1980 Iranian Embassy hostage crisis. But that was 44 years ago in the midst of the initial fervor of the Iranian Revolution.
There are “flapping” (no rotary propellers) drones that resemble dragon flies, birds etc.
Solar powered, they can be directed to land in the line of sight of their target, waiting. They could wait for days or weeks, just looking for that one programmed face. When the camera eye recognizes the target person, it flies in and explodes against their head.
At fairly low cost, they are demonstrating to the world, and the US Navy, the embarrassing obsolescence of our naval force and its weapons.
Trading million dollar missiles for $20K drones and $100k missiles is a losing equation, when our best ships only carry two dozen of the million dollar missiles, and then have to leave the theater for a friendly theater dockside reload.
This is a favor because it’s better to learn this now, rather than learning it like the Prince of Wales and Repulse discovered as Singapore fell.
The US Navy is MORE obsolete in 2024 than battleships were in 1940.
Please thank the Houthis. This is much cheaper than losing aircraft carriers in the first weeks of a Taiwan intervention, for example.