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Tucker Carlson: “An organization at a certain scale always exists for its own…”

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Published August 18, 2025 | Video Starts at 21:45

It's the guy who runs the plumbing with a MAGA hat. It's his fault. He voted wrong and he's the reason you're poor. I mean, that's such a perfect description of what's happening. And An organization at a certain scale always exists for its own self perpetuation. Is that true, do you think that's right? Yeah. There's a historian, Robert Conquest, and he has three laws of power. Yeah, absolutely. (21:45–21:51)

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“If another country, I don't know, decides to move 2 million people by force in the biggest internment mass migration since the Second World…”
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“You can't fly across the country right now with a single stop and get there on time.”
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“Nobody seems to care, but, like, our air traffic system is, like, collapsed.”
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“It's majority white countries that are being targeted for mass migration and it's only those countries.”
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“We've gone so long with no violence, really, 160 years, which is amazing for any society.”
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“Aligning yourself with Benjamin Netanyahu, while there's definitely some overlap in interests, and I don't think any of this is personal…”
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“The United States forms unbreakable alliances with countries that share its values. That's what we're told.”
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“Washington wrote that. Yeah, 100% Washington said the people who stand up and say, wait a second, nothing against that other country, but…”
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“The food that we eat, produced by huge food companies, Big Food in conjunction with Pharma, is destroying our health, making this a weak and…”
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“The levels of chronic disease are beyond belief.”
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“Big tech, big pharma, and big food combine together to form an incredibly malevolent force pumping you full of garbage, unhealthy food with…”
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“We see the world becoming homogenized, and there's something in us normal people, I think, that find that very distressing.”
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“There are huge forces pushing against [diversity], leveling forces. Everyone's the same. Same attitude, same sports, same food.”
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“Your thesis is that's on purpose, that's not natural, and it's a power grab by governments.”
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“One of the core beliefs about economics, I think, that most people have, because it's just intuitive, is that in order to receive a reward…”
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“The system as one of its like core imperatives has got to divide the population.”
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“They're doing it and have been for 60 years.”
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“Those are the founders who's 100 Anglo Protestant, like 100%.”
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“When you change the population, you change [the country].”
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“Our food supply is rotten. It didn't used to be this way.”
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“The media is a participant in this system.”
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“It does seem like we're moving toward dictatorship.”
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“I think the Democrats are much more eager for dictatorship than the Republicans generally.”
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“People's faith in democracy, whatever that is, has been badly shaken.”
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“I just don't think you can govern in the way that our government currently governs forever.”
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“Clearly that, that's what Trump's election was about [voluntarily trying to scale back the empire].”
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“In Arkansas, I was reading, because I know one of the people involved, the Attorney General of Arkansas, Tim Griffin, is a perfectly nice…”
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“Our core beliefs as a country circa 2025 anyway are that everyone has to live in exactly the same way whether they want to or not.”
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“The majority of people on the Internet giving their opinions are kind of fake on some level.”
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“He really served one meaningful role in his life, which was to keep a certain variety of nationalism out of the conservative canon.”
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“People are not fighting the government, they're not killing the tyrants, they're killing themselves.”
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“Republicans in Congress [are] laying the found work, the basis for [making central bank digital currency impossible].”
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“There's almost no description of the upside for the average person [regarding AI].”
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“They will be shut down, but they won't be censored. They'll be overwhelmed by AI.”
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“The stats prove it. But...that fact is suppressed.”
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“It's everywhere and it's in every country. It's in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, UK, US.”
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“It's the youth wing at the Democratic Party, of course.”
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“YouTube is suppressing this show.”
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“Google has decided you should have less information rather than more.”
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