Tucker Carlson is willing to bet his “beloved fishing camp” that things are “about to get very serious” in America.
With the 2024 elections quickly approaching, Carlson warned on Friday, “This is not going to be a race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.”
Carlson, who, since parting ways with Fox News, has been setting X on fire with a no-holds-barred approach to long-format interviews, delivered the keynote speech at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s 70th Anniversary Gala.
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Tucker on 2024: “This is not going to be a race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.” It’s about to get very serious. “
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“They’ve done everything they can by legal means — which are in fact extra-legal means, if we’re being totally honest,” he told attendees of the current administration. “Completely Third World stuff.”
“Take the opponent out of the race, and they’re still losing,” he noted. “So, I mean, I don’t know what’s going to happen. This is not going to be a race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. I would bet my beloved fishing camp in Maine that that is not going to happen. That’s not going to happen.”
“So what will happen?” he asked. “Well, I don’t know. One of, like, 400 distinct other possibilities… pick one.”
One of those possibilities is particularly concerning to Carlson.
“If it’s Gavin Newsom,” he stated, “we should be very, very concerned. That guy’s scary, and I mean it.”
“I mean it,” he stressed. “Scary. But that’s a whole separate conversation.”
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Carlson predicted Americans will witness unimagined upheavals in the near future.
“These issues will be forced,” he said. “Soon. Like, in a year. And the road from here to November of 2024 is going to be filled with developments nobody in this room could foresee, I can promise you that.”
“So, it’s about to get very serious, for sure,” he stated. “Only leadership of the world at stake, which is also, by the way, we now know, the most lucrative possible franchise in human history.”
He challenged the audience to let their imaginations “run wild” for a moment.
“What wouldn’t they do?” he asked. “What haven’t they done? What might they do next?”
It’s a grim exercise, and according to Carlson, the only question we as Americans can truly answer right now is, “How will you prepare yourself for that?”
“Take this seriously,” he urged the crowd. “As much as you want to retreat and pretend ‘everything is fine, sit down,’ it’s not fine, okay?”
He stressed that the “small group of people” who are running the United States of America does not “represent anything close to a majority” of Americans.
“Just to restate,” he explained, “Donald Trump, who was hated as a blood enemy by over 40 percent of the population and who’s been attacked in ways no political figure’s ever been attacked in the West, is beating the incumbent president.”
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That alone, he argued, is “a sign of revulsion, deep dissatisfaction with what we’re doing.”
Though the majority of Americans may not be “on board” with the policies that are destroying our nation, he ominously warned, we are dealing with the “darkest” people he says he has ever dealt with.
“The people who are responsible for it are the most dishonest, the most ruthless, the most anti-human group I’ve ever dealt with, and I spent 35 years living in Washington,” he stated. “I don’t even recognize these people. And what they’re doing… it’s so dark. They’re doing things that can’t even on an academic level conceivably help the United States or the population that lives here.”
He pointed to the border and the “seven million people from the poorest countries in the world” who are illegally crossing our borders, only to receive “public benefits.”
“I mean, that right there will destroy the country,” Carlson said, “and they did that on purpose.”
“So, these are really, really dark people,” he stressed. “The darkest.”
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All we can do, he reasoned, what we all must do, is “be the opposite of that.”
“This is the moment to try a little harder, to be a little bit better,” he said. “This is not the moment to be drunk all the time. This is not the moment to tell lies.”
“If they go lower, go higher,” he urged the attendees. “And there are many reasons for this, and one is spiritual, just to be totally honest.”
“I do think this is a spiritual battle,” Carlson continued. “There’s no political explanation for it whatsoever.”
He reminded people of how they feel when they are honest and proud of themselves.
“You’re power ebbs when you lie,” Carlson stated. “Tell the truth.”
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Melissa Fine is the former executive editor of Casino Player, Strictly Slots, and Poker
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1 fan. Melissa currently lives with her dog and two cats in a tiny town in the Sierra
Nevada foothills.
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