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Tucker Carlson: “The country is degrading.”

Featuring: Tucker Carlson, Conservative, Right-wing | Political Commentator, Former Fox News Host | National

ICE Protests and Antifa Riots: Tucker Carlson Warns of Total Destruction if America Doesn't Act Fast

Published October 9, 2025 | Video Starts at 07:00

Everything is fine here in Portland. They're liars, or they're intentionally blind to the reality right in front of them, which is The country is degrading. And you can tell by its cities they are falling apart. There's no country in the world with as many ugly, dangerous, dysfunctional, dirty cities as we have. (07:00–07:02)

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Asserts that the U.S. is experiencing degradation.

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“Thousands of people are shot in Chicago every year.”
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“We just imported, I don't know, maybe 10 million new people.”
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“They had a dysentery outbreak in Portland, Oregon last year because the sanitation, the so called homeless camps was so bad.”
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“The United States is moving toward civil war.”
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“There is no American majority, which is to say 51% of people have something very basic in common.”
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“Nobody in charge of the United States over the past, say, 40 years has really tried to articulate why all of us should live together on the…”
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“There's no country in the world with as many ugly, dangerous, dysfunctional, dirty cities as we have.”
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“Our cities are dying the kind of death that can't be permanent.”
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“Out of chaos, people beg for a strong man.”
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“The differences between states are getting more profound.”
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“President Trump has announced...he is sending federal troops to the state of Oregon and to the city of Chicago.”
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“National Guardsmen have arrived, mostly from Texas, in the state of Illinois, in Chicago.”
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“The mayor of Chicago and the governor of Illinois have said multiple times, we do not follow federal immigration law.”
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“J.B. Pritzker, who's been governor since 2019, I think running for president.”
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“It's never happened before, except it's happened like a million times.”
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“Whole parts of Chicago you can't go to. Not if you like me. You Can't. It's so racist and violent.”
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“Look at the outflow from Chicago. Are people who are born in Chicago staying in Chicago. They're fleeing.”
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“The mayor of Chicago is an open racist.”
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“All illegal immigration is bad. Rapid mass migration is always bad because it makes countries crazy and chaotic.”
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“Civil wars become race wars. That is the truth.”
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“Portland, Oregon is one of the prettiest cities in the world. Now, it's a byword for sadness and death, drug use and the homeless.”
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“In the past 20 years, [Portland] has become, thanks again to the influence of a very specific class, professional class, decadent whites. It…”
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“If there was ever a reason to send federal troops into a city, it's 72 year olds smoking meth on the sidewalk.”
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“I don't see how you can have, in a state with no internal, in a country with no internal passports, how you can have some states following…”
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