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Quote of the Day: Tucker vs. the Blob
“It might be time to start to reassess the terms we use to describe what we’re watching…. I don’t think we’re watching a debate over how to get to the best outcome…. When the Treasury secretary stands up and says, “You know what you can do to help the economy? Get an abortion.” Well, that’s like an Aztec principle, actually. There’s not a society in history that didn’t practice human sacrifice….
Well, what’s the point of child sacrifice? Well, there’s no policy goal entwined with that. No, that’s a theological phenomenon.
And that’s kind of the point I’m making. None of this makes sense in conventional political terms. When people, or crowds of people, or the largest crowd of people at all, which is the federal government, the largest human organization in human history decide that the goal is to destroy things, destruction for its own sake, “Hey, let’s tear it down,” what you’re watching is not a political movement. It’s evil.
— Tucker Carlson in a speech to the Heritage Foundation, April 21.
Days before his ouster from Fox News, Tucker Carlson delivered the keynote address for the Heritage Foundation’s 50th-anniversary gala. Vanity Fair claimed the speech’s theological overtones pushed Rupert Murdoch to cut ties with his network’s most popular personality.
Other outlets published their own theories for Carlson’s surprising exit, but the Heritage speech created quite a buzz across social media. And for good reason. He’s sharing a concern Americans of all political stripes have discussed for years now, but the DC political class shuns and often tries to silence.
These are no longer the days of Beltway think tanks competing via white papers or senators sparring in good faith on Sunday morning chat shows. Government is no longer a discrete institution jostling with big business, entertainment, and academia for popular attention. Today, all these powers have conglomerated into a power-mad blob, pushing a unified message that’s as destructive as it is censorious.
The Blob suddenly and unanimously pushes certain issues with religious fervor and an inquisitor’s intolerance. No public debate is allowed. Climate Change, #MeToo, Black Lives Matter, Ukraine, and Covid lockdowns, masks, and vaccination were all pushed in lockstep via politicians, legacy media, Hollywood, and corporations. Just as quickly, the issues are dropped for a new one, the latest being trans mania.
There are few voices fighting the Blob from within. A Congressman here, a CEO there. Each is targeted with ferocity. Carlson is just the latest victim. So, he’ll keep up the fight from outside, where he might be more effective.
There’s a reason behind the vast popularity of Joe Rogan, Russell Brand, and countless other outsider commentators. Even an odd duck like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pulling 19% in the polls against the sitting president.
They get big numbers for questioning the Blob. Often for merely noticing the Blob exists. Their listeners often don’t agree with their conclusions, but are just glad someone else is seeing what they’re seeing.
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Jerry, if you were around enough to know what is said here, you would know I rarely have anything to say about state government because since we have fifty there’s plenty of choice for the people. What I think needs to be smaller is the federal government because big breeds corruption and that is what we see. Most of our serious crime involves the federal government.