Tucker Carlson Answers Your Most Asked Questions

One of the problems with running a podcast is it's all transmit and no receive. You yap yap yap yap yap under the microphone, but you never hear what the people listening think about what you're saying. So, we have a segment called Ask Tucker in which our members, people who have joined TCN, which is our movement slashnetwork get to ask questions and we answer them. And some of the questions are really smart and make you think maybe we should listen more and talk less. In any case, Ask Tucker is at tucker carlson.com. It's for members. Join us. >> Jeremy G from Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania. Tucker, like you, I'm fed up with the Republicans. I'm reluctant to support them, but I also don't want to give the DSA a win. I may regret it, but I'm going to give the Republicans one last chance. What do you think? >> I get it. I don't I mean, there's so many things about the DSA that offend me, the anti-white stuff especially. Um, but the whole revolutionary posture. I like this country. I grew up here. I've lived here my entire life. And I don't want to tear it down. I want to save it. So, and I also don't like the kind of aesthetics of DSA, like unhappy, weird, gender transitioning rich kids. Like, no thanks. On the other hand, you have to keep two things in mind. One, there are certain things you can't support, and getting pushed by Israel into a war with Iran that destroys the American Empire is high on that list. So, no, I'm not rewarding that. Second, is the DSA actually an alternative to what we have to the uni party? Where are they on the Iran war? They're not saying much. Where are they on the tax code? They're not saying much. Where are they on improving the life of the average person? Not people who are here illegally, but the average American whose ancestors fought in the Civil War. I don't think they have anything to say about that. So you have to sort of wonder like is the DSA real actually or is it just another fake alternative that we're being fed in order to disguise the truth of the system which is it you know it's a tiny percentage of the population getting its way to our detriment. So I guess what I'm saying is yes the DSA is different from the Republican party for sure but are they how different are they on the core issues? I don't know. You tell me. Gan R from Houston, Texas. Tucker, any thoughts on that freak, James Telerico, running for Senate in my home state of Texas? The guy gives me the creeps. >> Jean, go with your gut. I tell my kids this all the time. If someone smells creepy, he is. If you get like a weird sex vibe off someone, it's real. If you think someone is lying to you, you're right. That guy gives some of the creepiest vibes of any person in the public sphere. I don't care what you think of Ken Paxton. I don't care what you think the Republican party. James Telerico who's using Christianity. That is what offends me about James Telerico is the blasphemy. Running around telling everyone he's a Christian when he's not. When he has full contempt for biblical Christianity and hates people who adhere to it and whose program is totally anti-Christian. Running around lecturing the rest of us, I'm a Christian. There's something infuriating about that. I will take a lecture from an atheist. We just disagree. I think you're tragically wrong. But there was a kind of honor and the honesty about it. There is no honor at all about taking someone else's religion and using it as a cloak for subverting that same religion. So there's really no one more repulsive to me in the public sphere than James Terico. And like Eugene, a lot of that revulsion begins on a visceral level. I look at that guy and I'm like, "Uh, no, you're not having dinner at my house, weirdo." >> Jeff from Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri. What are the chances of forming a third party called the America Party that truly represents the majority of our country? The current political machine would fight it every step of the way. But I think we live in a unique time where a third party would be taken seriously. >> Jeff, I meditate on this every single day. This is like the substance of my time in the sauna every day thinking about this exact question. Clearly, the way you framed it is the truth. Our current system doesn't represent the majority. Most people are opposed to the priorities of the Republican and Democratic parties. It's that simple. And the promise of democracy is minority rights will be protected, of course, according to the Constitution. But the majority will get its way because it owns the country and that hasn't happened in decades. And so we need an alternative that does exactly that. What's the majority view on things? I don't know. It's not hard to find out. We have the Gallup poll every single day. I'm not saying we should govern by polling. I'm merely saying if what the government does over decades bears no resemblance to what the majority wants, it's not a democracy and I would like democracy because I I I grew up believing that we had one and that was my birthright. So yeah, there will be a third party. Will it be the next cycle? I don't know. You know, politics is not is not my area, believe it or not. Even though I've talked about it for my entire life, I don't have a gut level understanding of it. Partly because I find it disgusting. It's utterly transactional. It's not rooted in any belief at all. It's just a way of grabbing power peacefully. They used to say if politics was a way to settle disputes peacefully or something peaceful about our politics. People die because of our politics. A lot actually. So I'm not sure any of this is what I thought it was. But I do know that over time you can't have peace in your country unless its leaders pay attention to the desires of the majority. You're just not going to have peace. So you're at that point you can like suppress them and surveil them with flock cameras. or you can prepare to be overthrown. Like that's where we're moving, right? So, yes, I am praying for a third party and I think we'll get one. >> Timothy F from Charleston, South Carolina asks, [clears throat] "If the Democrats win next month, does it have any effect on the wars in Ukraine and Iran?" >> That is a great question and I'm not sure is the answer. So, the Democratic leadership is fully on board with the war against Russia. We are waging a war against Russia. The Trump administration, like the Biden administration, is at war with Russia, the largest nuclear armed power in in the world. So, that's crazy. And we've been sort of lulled into not noticing that. But it is happening. And it's happening because the Democrats push it. They started the war by telling Russia, "We're going to bring Ukraine into NATO." That happened in February of 2022. So, um, make no mistake, this is their priority, and Republicans have signed on to it. The Iran war, same thing. Both parties have been talking for 40 years about how we need to overthrow the Iranian government for some reason. Well, because they're paid to say that by Israel. So, um, that will not change unless the Democratic leadership is is under extreme pressure from its own voters. And I hope that happens. I pray that that happens. That sincere Democratic voters and a lot of people who've never voted Democrat, who are about to vote Democrat in this midterm because of the betrayal of the current administration, there are a lot of those, they say, "Wait a second. we're not gonna be betrayed again. Stop the wars. I mean, people forget, they look back on the 80s and 90s as sort of a houseion period in American history. Like, that was so nice. It must have been so great to grow up in the ' 80s and '90s. Well, I did, and I can confirm it was. But why was it so great? Cuz we weren't at war. That's why. War kills your economy. It makes your society chaotic. And it causes people to become callous and desensitized and brutal toward each other. You can't kill innocents in a foreign country without changing as a country. So, um I pray number one on my list is that we will stop these wars. They're wars of choice with no reason to wage them other than a small group of people who somehow think they own Russia because their ancestors live there or something. Get out of my country. That is that's totally irrelevant. I'm sorry. My ancestors are from somewhere, too. And I'm sure they were mistreated, too. But I'm not hijacking America's foreign policy to settle a hundred-y old score or a 300-y old score or whatever. Stop. You just have to That's not hate. That's love. It's love for America, for your nation. We're No, we're not going to use the United States military, the $ 1.5 trillion a year United States military to settle your ancient blood feud because this is a new country. This is the promised land. This is a country that left all that behind that is not hostage to ancient rivalries. So anyone who can restore our foreign policy to an Americaentric pro-America posture will have my support. But I you know I don't see any candidates right now who are promising that. So the average water pipe in [music] this country is over a half century old and that means a lot of our water is not very good. And it's got forever chemicals, antibiotics, pesticides, and all kinds of things in it. And that's why we're excited to partner with a company that has a solution to all of this. It's called Wise Well. Wise Well makes filters that give you actual control over the water that you drink, that you give to your kids. 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Who are the three worst?" >> I would say the three best are Marjgerie Taylor Green, Joe Kent, and Thomas Massie. You'll notice none of them holds office right now. Joe Kent was uh defeated twice in his effort to uh get elected to Congress from Washington State. He was defeated in um one of the most extraordinary disinformation campaigns run by Nick Fuentes on behalf of the neocons. Nick Fuentes is a fed and is working for the side he claims to oppose obviously. And this came or it's not obvious I guess to a lot of people because he like denies the Holocaust so he must be whatever. No, no. Nick Quentes is working for the neocons and always has. And so he was part of a bipartisan effort to keep Joe Kent out of the Congress because Joe Kent's wife was killed in Syria in a neocon war. He had credibility. He's reasonable. He's not a hater. He's a Christian. And they had to keep him out. Marjorie Taylor Green was driven out of a movement she helped create because she's like, "Hey, why don't we release the Epstein files?" Done. And Thomas Massie just noticed that like Apac controls 90% of members of Congress and what is this? And that was enough to have his primary in the Commonwealth of Kentucky flooded with tens of millions of dollars from people who don't even live in the district or the country. So all three of them have been exiled from the American political system for telling the truth. And to me, the willingness to tell the truth, the bravery to tell the truth in the face of opposition is the hallmark of integrity. It's what I want. Who's the worst? everyone else. I mean, it's just it's it's like how do you even scale them? I mean, James Telerico is the creepiest. He's the one if he ever entered the sauna when you were there, you would jump through the window. But it doesn't mean he's the worst cuz they're all kind of the same. They're all fake. They're all totally unwilling to sacrifice themselves for the people they lead. And that is the definition of leadership. The willingness to die for the people you lead. That's a father's duty. That's an officer's duty. That's a president's duty. It's a member of Congress's duty. And none of them are willing to accept that. So they're all disgusting as far as I'm concerned. >> I can't believe Ted Cruz didn't get an honorable mention. >> Ted I mean Ted Cruz is like but Ted Cruz is also like the saddest member of Congress. His life personal life is a true disaster. No respect at all at home. And which is like there's nothing worse than that. I'd rather get beaten in a hundred elections than have my wife and kids not respect me. Like there's nothing worse than that. I'd rather be dead than that. And I mean it too. And and Ted's just like this sad, greasy guy who's been told his entire life that he's a genius because he has a high verbal IQ. Well, I have a high ver I have a higher verbal IQ than Ted Cruz. And I can promise you I'm not a genius. And this is the problem with having a high verbal IQ. It's like a party trick. I have it so I can say this. It's like everyone's like, "Oh, you're so smart. You're so smart." But you're not actually. You just You're like a a trained dog. like you can, you know, identify the cup the ball is under, but it doesn't mean that you're building a power grid. You know [laughter] what I mean? You're making wise decisions in my personal life. It's like there's a huge difference between facility with words and wisdom. And I've never seen a clear example. And these poor guys, and I know a ton of them cuz like of course people who are super fluent in a lang have some skill, they know everyone else who has the skill. So I know a ton of these people. And a lot of them are so angry because they've been told their whole lives, I got an 800 on the verbal SAT. I'm a genius. And their lives haven't turned out at all like what they had hoped. They've fallen so far short of their own expectations. And they're just filled with like self-hatred and disappointment. No one appreciates how smart I am. You know, the smartest people, the wisest people know how absurd they are. And Ted Cruz doesn't know how absurd he is. Everyone else knows, however, so I just feel sorry for him. >> Tom F from Floral Park, New York. Tucker, whenever I hear you talk about the donors pulling the strings behind the scenes, I wonder how sleazy the whole process is. Can you pull back the curtain and tell us about the donor class and how they control these candidates? >> Well, I mean, at the root of it is the belief that every politician has that money equals power. That you cannot and and they all feel this way. Even the good ones and I know some I have known some decent people in politics because I've known everyone in politics and a tiny percentage the outliers are decent people but even they are captive to the lie that the amount of money you raise determines whether or not you succeed. So they all believe that. So once you believe that, you leave yourself open to manipulation because I believe as Paul the Apostle told us, the worship of money is the root of all evil. And that is true in every context. And so because they believe that, they're totally vulnerable to people, you know, rolling in the donors. Miriam Adlesen, who's not even from this country, who's living off money she inherited from her deceased husband that he got from like exploiting human weakness in the gambling industry. Even the whole thing is so repulsive. But you know, she's got an agenda. Her agenda is the state of Israel and the L could party in Israel. Okay, I'm not mad about that. I mean, we all have our agendas. It's not her fault that our system and the players in the system, our politicians are willing to sell out their own country because she gives them money, starting with Trump. But not just Trump, all of them. By the way, Mary Mson is a James Telerico donor. So why would Miriam Adlesen, who's Trump's biggest donor or second biggest donor, why is she giving money to Trump's opponent, James Tel, because she's agnostic. She doesn't care because she doesn't care about the United States at all. She's not even American. Maybe in name, but she's not American. She's not from here. And I don't think I don't even know she lives here. She's using the United States to help another country. But that's true of all donors, even the ones who don't care about Israel. are using the United States, our country, our government, our tax dollars, our military to affect some private end. They basically privatize the US government. So, it's going to use the US government to help my company, help my family, help another nation I'm more loyal to. And you have to ask like whose fault is that? I mean, we spend a lot of time and I do spend a lot of time like attacking Mary Men. Actually, don't even dislike Mary. I know Mary Mson. I don't dislike her. I'm not mad at Mary Adlesen. There are other donors I'm mad at, right? Paul Singer or whatever. But that's kind of misplaced anger really. What people would allow this? Like where's our self-respect? Where's our love of our own children? I don't understand why we put up with it. I just don't understand. Like, how about no? I'm a father of four, so my role is how about no. I'm the no guy. That's my job. I don't say it with glee. I say it because I have no choice and someone has to say it. And we're the no guys in our country. Like, how about no, you can't do that. And just say it unequivocally, not with hate and not by implying violence, but firmly rooted in principle. And again, love of country and love of your own family. How are your kids going to do in the system? I don't think very well. So, I just wish there were more of that. I really blame us. I blame myself for going along with this for all these years that I was in Washington. And I always felt like it was kind of wrong. And again, it's not just the Israel lobby, which is the most powerful, of course, and the most ruthless by far, but it's hardly alone. It's the Pharma lobby. It's crazy. The the week after I got fired from Fox, Fox got all its pharma ads back. That's a fact. I mean, my staff were still there told me that and they were told that in a meeting. We the company's getting the network's getting its pharma ads back. I was not even a particularly obsessed opponent of pharma. I'm not an expert on pharma. I was just like, I don't think the COVID vacc works and it seems like it's giving people I know heart attacks. Like maybe we should slow down. I was very moderate on pharma. Um maybe we shouldn't be giving everybody SSRIs and aderall and benzoazipines. Like maybe that's not helping. My criticisms were very mild. But even those were just too much. So you have a system in which the donor class really sincerely feels like they have a monopoly on speech and on action like they won't tolerate any opposition at all. They're entitled. Why are they entitled? Because they've been allowed to control the system for so long that of course they feel that way. That's how you spoil a child. And by the time the kid's 14, it's like well I can't you know they they're completely unreasonable because you've catered to every whim. And so their expectation understandably is that every desire will be met instantaneously with what they want. You created this child. I blame the parents and in this case I blame our leaders for putting up with this crap. Like where's Ted Cruz's self-respect? I was elected to Congress to serve Israel. Can you hear yourself, Tubby? 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Not obsessive self-hatred, that's obviously pointless. Um, and a kind of narcissism actually, but just like an honest comparison of yourself to who you want to be, to God. You know, we suck. So, that is the one truth that no one ever tells. People rarely tell themselves that. And parties are just a collection of people. So, yeah, they they they will not learn. No one ever learns. Okay? It's like Seinfeld, no learning, no growing. Um, but they'll be taught. You know, you always hope for a world where people just like take subtle cues like we just got wiped out in a midterm election. Maybe we should pivot and change. But unfortunately, the history of people suggests that it takes more than that. You really, you don't pull your hand back from the stove until your fingers start to melt. And you sort of hope that people would wouldn't take that much. you wouldn't have to like hurt someone or that person wouldn't have to hurt himself in order to learn an obvious lesson, but there's little evidence of that. So, um, are we moving towards socialism? Obviously. Obviously. Will it be good? Probably not. I mean, if socialism, if the socialism you're telling me we're getting is 1985 Stockholm, you know, Denmark in the 70s, it's fine. It's fine. It's not what I would create, but but if you're saying it's, you know, Poland in the 70s, then, you know, that's the worst possible thing we could have because So, look, people are responding, voters are responding to something real, which is it's no longer a middle class country and hasn't been since Obama's second term, 2015. The majority is no longer middle class. That's a huge, massive change that like no one even noticed when it happened. I wrote a book about it, which no one seemed to read, but anyway. Um, poor me. Uh, sorry, pardon the self-pity, but I felt that was the biggest thing that happened, you know, that decade at least. And people didn't know that it happened because the New York Times didn't put on the front page, but they felt it. Like this is not this is like a very lopsided country all of a sudden. And people who fly first class are flying like in a really comfortable way and the rest of us are traveling like animals. It didn't used to be that way. There wasn't as big a difference between the way the rich lived and everybody else lived. It's become like Mexico. We used to make fun of Mexico for that. Mexicans are nice. It wasn't an attack on the Mexican people. It was an attack on their system which was pyramid-shaped and unstable as a result. That's how they got drug cartels. That's how Venezuela collapsed and Hugo Chavez got elected. He was elected. That's how Hitler was elected. He was also elected. So like a a wildly unequal economic system has political consequences every single time. And unfortunately, those consequences tend to make things worse. Which is to say, I may be voting for a a DSA member, a socialist in the hope that this country will become more equal and less volatile, but what I'm almost certain to get is a system in which the connected and the already rich have much more power. Or we just get rid of the rich, we eat the rich. Okay? You know, I'm not too upset about the destruction of the billionaire class. Actually, I secretly favor it. But I don't lie to myself and think that they're going to be that their money will, you know, somehow everybody will just be happier and calmer and better off. You're just going to get a new billionaire class and they're going to be the technocrats who administer the new system and they're going to have guns unlike the billionaires. So, no, I'm not hopeful at all. I'm not hopeful at all. But can I say one last thing because that's so grim. I do think that people's relationships have gotten better and more real in the past 10 years. I notice it in my own life and I see it all around me. People are much clearer about what matters. There's much less frivolous talk. I know the masses are supposedly mesmerized by professional sports and drugs and all stuff. That maybe some truth in that. But in the world I live in, people are deep and honest and loyal to each other and families are closer. Like that is real. every conversation I have it's like yeah I want to my kids are moving in next to me that was not the America I grew up in at all it's a much better version of it so I think as all these terrible things are happening on a macro level there are beautiful things happening on a personal level and I it so I just I just want to be grateful for that and I want to say it out loud >> Elizabeth K from Seattle asks Tucker do you think the murder of Charlie Kirk will help or hurt the GOP in the midterms in 2028 general election and why? >> Well, it's been a disaster. Well, for Charlie, his children, and his widow, number one. For those of us who knew him well and loved him, number two. But for the country, number three. Um, and for the Republican party. I mean, Charlie was the single most important organizer in the Republican party by far. There used to have this thing called the RNC was the Republican National Committee, and it had power and you knew who ran it. And Haley Barber runs the RNC. It's a big deal. People send money to the RNC. That's all gone. No one's no normal person would ever send money to a party organization. The parties are totally corrupt. Like sending money to Scientology. Who would do that, you know? No. Charlie filled that void. It was turning point. You know, you want to get voters out. You're You want Ken Paxton to beat that Terrico kid, whoever that guy is, creepy guy. Um, you send money to Turning Point and that's all done. They destroyed Turning Point. It was on completely on purpose. They destroyed MAGA. They destroyed the Republican party and the same people, the neocons did it. And they did it on purpose. So Trump was elected for the second time in 2024 with the broadest coalition the Republican party's ever had. And you had, you know, hippie natural food moms from Napa. You had a