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Tucker Carlson: “No one alive has seen anything like that before in the…”

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Tucker and Mike Cernovich on Nicolas Maduro's Capture, Charlie Kirk's Murder, and Battling Demons

Published January 5, 2026 | Video Starts at 49:55

He's like, no, we want the oil. And like, this guy's bad and we're taking him out and we're going to run it. Never. No one alive has seen anything like that before in the United States. So you wonder. And that's why I'm saying I think we're for good or bad, fully in the empire stage of civilizational development, the republic stage is over. (49:55–49:58)

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Asserts that the current U.S. foreign policy approach is unprecedented in modern history.

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“The death of whites, their mass, massive contraction as a racial group globally.”
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“The fact that they appear to be backing Delci Rodriguez not because they love her, but because they're in favor of stability over chaos and…”
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“If Venezuelans in the United States return to Venezuela immediately, as I think they should be required to do, like, immediately.”
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“Look what happened to Rome and London and Venice and every other seat of every other empire.”
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“I just want to focus on the United States to keep it from becoming Bolshevik Russia.”
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“The pivot really was not the fall of Rome, that was the end.”
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“The big pivot though was the move from republic to empire.”
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“Maybe what we saw two days ago is the beginning of a period where like, okay, we're an empire, we're embracing it.”
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“We live on a continent sized country with 350 million other people and we'll probably have 500 million by the time we're old.”
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“We run at least half of the world.”
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“I hate the idea of having an empire, but we do, right?”
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“You saw the President saying, this worked. We're going to do it in a bunch of other countries.”
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“To remove the leadership of the country and replace it with a pro American.”
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“The only country that wants [regime change in Iran] is Israel. And not even Israel. It's Bibi. It's specifically Netanyahu, and some of his…”
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“My biggest concern about what just happened in Venezuela is that will be seen as a template for Iran.”
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“The foreign policy leadership that I've grown up with and that I know personally, that's not even in the top five [priorities].”
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“The main form of institutionalized hate is not anti Semitism. It's anti white hate in the United States.”
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“Ron DeSantis calling out anti white hate by name.”
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“The neocons are intentionally breaking [the Trump coalition] because they want to keep JD from becoming.”
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“If you run around calling people Nazis, the chance that you're going to convince them to become Nazis is pretty high.”
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“Trump didn't dress it up with a lot of lying about democracy or human rights. He's like, no, we want the oil.”
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“I think we're for good or bad, fully in the empire stage of civilizational development, the republic stage is over.”
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“No one cares about Congress.”
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“So the claim when Charlie was murdered was that this was antifa or some antifa adjacent person or organization.”
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“I don't know that but. And I don't have any other theories, I just, I don't even understand the story. But, but if people said it was true…”
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“This is a manifestation of the spiritual war, the destruction of whites.”
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“The basis of Christianity is this guy who Christians believe was God who came down and then, like, got brought up on false charges and…”
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“Why is there a cult artwork at the Department of Justice?”
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“The New Testament says that a lot.”
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“No, but I think anyone who's in a position where other people listen to him is under particularly fierce attack.”
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“The Bolshevik Revolution, the Spanish Civil War, what's happening in Ukraine, it's all the same.”
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