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Tucker Carlson: “Shut down. Just the parasite economy. Because it's going to…”

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Published July 22, 2025 | Video Starts at 45:16

So someone you know in the next 10 years is going to shut it down. Because the public doesn't want this at all. They don't want. Shut what down? Shut down. Just the parasite economy. Because it's going to get shut down, this is. And everyone participating in it knows that they're trying to steal as much as they can before it gets shut down. (45:16–45:22)

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