WASHINGTON D.C- Yet again, Tucker Carlson nails it.
In his opening monologue this week, Carlson said:
“Ever notice how the people who run our country seem so fervently concerned about problems that are totally irrelevant to your life?
If you are like most Americans, you are wondering how to pay your credit card bill, how to afford your kid’s student loans. You’re trying to keep your family together in a society that seems to be spinning apart.”
He continues:
“Those are the problems most people worry about, but not our leaders. In their world, a 16-minute phone call that Donald Trump once had with the Ukrainian President is a national crisis that deserves five full months of forensic rolling new coverage.
“To them, a handful of weird Russian Facebook memes qualifies as a dire emergency, more threatening that the Cuban missile crisis and when someone accidentally mispronounces the name of Willie Brown’s ex-girlfriend, they are so distraught, they devote entire TV segments to the crime. In other words, they have very different priorities from yours.”
Carlson’s point is well made.
Turn on any mainstream media station right now and the biggest part of the news will be dedicated to the COVID-19 pandemic and pushing a narrative that the President got it all wrong.
Rioting, looting, those are rarely mentioned or even discussed because that would bring up that there really is a real problem occurring in America, and it has nothing to do with President Trump.
Carlson said:
“American cities collapsed, buildings burned, law enforcement vanished. Criminal mobs rampaged unchallenged, stealing things and hurting people. Drug addicted vagrants took over the streets, the parks, the public transportation. Anyone who could leave urban America did, and this happened around the country.
“In New York alone, many hundreds of thousands of people, possibly a million people, fled the city. Essentially the entire tax base of America’s largest metro area disappeared in just a few months.”
What Carlson points out next is actually occurring nationwide.
Yet people are hardly realizing it because they fail to watch any other form of media other than the mainstream.
“But here’s the remarkable thing, our political class said barely a word as it happened. Bizarre doesn’t begin to describe the experience of that.
People from the major metropolitan areas are beginning to get fed up with the lawlessness. New York has seen a significant uptick in apartment vacancies and San Francisco is now seeing a 50% increase in residential vacancies. Something that has never been heard of before.”
Carlson then cited a video in which a person claimed that she had called police and received no response from the NYPD after watching people ingest narcotics.
Carlson believes this happened because of the $1 billion dollars in tax funding stripped away from the NYPD. It could well be, but it could also be because police officers are afraid of doing their jobs anymore for fear of being tried in the court of public opinion and losing their pension.
Carlson said:
“Calls to the police went unanswered, that’s what happens when you slash a billion dollars from the police budget. Crime skyrockets, many of those crimes go unreported both because there’s nobody to call and because suddenly, there is immense social pressure not to get the police involved no matter how horrible the offense is.”
In another example, Carlson says:
“Just yesterday, we spoke to someone whose disabled son was assaulted in a New York City Park in the middle of the day. A group of young men came out from behind and knocked him to the ground, they didn’t like the way he looked….When the mother told her college-educated neighbors about what had happened, they made excuses for the criminals. ‘Oh, they are poor, no wonder they are frustrated.’
“That is insane and is totally wrong. Poverty does not cause violence. Being poor does not make you evil. There is never an excuse for assaulting a disabled kid.”
And, in Chicago, Carlson says that Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot received a “letter from a property management company that represents more than 22,000 homeowners and 38,000 residents in her city.
“The letter informed Lightfoot of what you already knew, people don’t feel safe in Chicago anymore. There’s too much looting, too much violence.”
Steven Levy, the President of the company, wrote:
“Residents across the city are adjusting their daily routines out of fear. They are avoiding neighborhood walks after 6:00pm at night. They don’t stand too close to their windows or dare to enjoy their outdoor balconies or terraces. This is not a way to live, and I can’t fault homeowners when they tell me they are considering leaving Chicago.”
Carlson then asks:
“Who is doing this to our cities? Strictly speaking, you know the answer. It is BLM and Antifa, crazed ideologues, grifters, criminals, anti-social thugs with no stake in society with nothing better to do than hurt people and destroy things. Those are the ones you see on TV.
“What’s changed is that the destroyers now have the full support of our professional class…The Democratic Party coddles the mob you see on TV. Our elites fund the Democratic Party. That’s how it works.”
Carlson then went on to note that 99% of employees from Netflix donated to Democrats. Twitter had 98% of their employees also donate to the democrat party. Carlson says the same is true at Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple.
Carlson said:
“So American cities didn’t collapse by accident. Sociopathic children may have burned Wendy’ sand looted the Gucci store, but rick adults made it possible. They paid for it all.
Find a prosecutor who refuses to keep violent criminals in jail and the chances are George Soros put them there. But why? Why are they doing this? It’s becoming clearer. The middle class voted for Donald Trump. Our leaders have decided to punish the middle class for doing that.”
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We are battling over the very soul of our country. We are fighting for our families. And we’re on the brink of losing America.
This editorial is by Kyle S. Reyes, the National Spokesman for Law Enforcement Today. It’s a modern refresh of a previous editorial he wrote… and touches on the desperate tipping point America is facing right now.
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While you were fighting over who among you was more “woke” and which company to boycott … we lost our country.
While you were arguing with coworkers over who would leave the country first if Trump/Biden were elected, the “American Dream” perished.
Don’t believe me? Then perhaps ALL is lost. And I can prove it all to you through the eyes of a child.
The screens around our house in the past couple of weeks stand in stark contrast to what’s in front of them.
The television … the laptops … the iPads … the cell phones … filled with images of the riots. The violence. The hatred.
Just a few months ago, when everyone was working from home – or unemployed – signs were put up around the community thanking police. People cheered and put out Tweets and Facebook images of first responders doing “birthday parades” for little kids.
Now, angry Americans are taking over police departments, shooting cops, pelting them with bricks and bottles of urine and demanding that we abolish them. The images are on certain channels – others ensure you just see the “peaceful protestors”.
Broadcast on the same tv stations are the sounds of tone-deaf leaders. Of anger. Of hatred. Of hurt. Of fear. Of race-baiting, dividing rhetoric and alienation.
In front of those screens run our little daughters.
They are the greatest blessings a young family can have. Filled with innocence, love, joy and our hopes for the future.
What brought a lull in that media noise?
Hearing our pastor give a sermon.
He usually preaches about love. Faith. Hope. But there was a different dynamic in this message.
There was a different energy.
This time, he talked about the end of times.
He’s far from being an alarmist. Just the opposite. But this particular service, he spoke deeply and heavily about being prepared. “For we know not the hour … ”
He wasn’t trying to frighten people. But he also understood that he couldn’t be tone-deaf to the deep concerns of his flock.
It’s hard not to be afraid. It’s hard not to have an underlying anxiety. It’s hard not to wonder and pray over whether your children will have the same opportunities you did.
Growing up, I paid close attention in history class. And I’ve always felt a very deep sense of patriotism. I’ve always felt great respect for my country and believed that if, God forbid, we ever faced World War III, America would once again triumph.
Perhaps my fear, and the anxiety of so many others, is that we were wrong.
We were wrong because of one simple line that I believe may have been written wrong. It should have read, “One Nation, Divisible After All.”
Have we ever faced a time when our country was so polarized? Have we ever faced enemies so dangerous? Have we ever been on such a precipice that a frightening and painful energy radiated through each of us, tying us together in some disturbing, unifying, powerful and yet simultaneously divisive way?
I’m angered to see that we live in a country where we have gone soft. We’ve become hypocrites, and we’ve become pansies.
We forget that our grandfathers stormed beaches to protect freedom. Instead, we demand that the freedom now come in the form of a shelter from hearing words we don’t like.
Our friends and family alienate us because of who we vote for.
We try and put companies out of business because how DARE they not support the Marxist organization Black Lives Matter.
We doxx people and put their families in danger because they dare to support law enforcement.
We don’t question it when ‘leaders’ tell us to stay away from church. Stay away from family. Stay away from friends. Wear a mask. Don’t worry about not having a job. And we don’t bat an eye as the country rapidly marches – or rather sprints – towards the socialism that’s the destruction of a nation.
We give out trophies to kids who come in 8th place. Eighth freaking place. And then we let them take over part of an entire city – Seattle – and play house, allowing rapes and murders to happen in the city while police are kept out.
We dig up the graves of people who have been dead for a hundred-plus years because they had something to do with the Confederate flag, and that offends someone NOW. Then we destroy statues and give “get out of jail free” passes to the people who did it. LITERALLY get out of jail free passes. We have celebrities and politicians starting funds to bail criminals out of prison.
We allow politicians to hijack the country and spend our tax dollars chasing their personal agenda of impeaching a President simply because they don’t like him. Then we have the party that’s supposedly the same as the President who sit around silently while the country burns. It seems as if both parties forgot what they were supposed to be doing and whom they are supposed to be representing.
We pick sides and parties and teams and defend them to the ends of the Earth, ignoring the facts, pointing the fingers and hoping someone else will cover the cost of our skyrocketing and borderline pointless health insurance.
We talk about the number of homeless vets who we have to feed and clothe and house when it’s convenient for us to leverage them like pawns in a game – yet tomorrow, so many will forget to feed and clothe and house them.
We ignore the simple facts about our dangerously open borders and the lack of a vetting process for refugees, then we stand in horror as ISIS attacks and we ask our politicians how they could have let this happen. And then, of course, we put a fast lane in for more to cross the border.
We put in place more gun laws to prevent the bad guys from doing bad things. Because for some reason, we believe that bad guys give a damn about laws and that giving them an open shooting range on a military base or school campus will somehow protect our citizens. But then we completely ignore the massive problem of mental health in this country. We’re more worried about the tool than we are the person.
Hell – not only do we ignore the problem of mental health – we double down on it but crashing our economy, putting millions out of work and then confine them to their homes.
We cry out that police are our enemies … and then we beg them to protect us from the likes of ISIS.
We are talking about DEFUNDING police while telling them that they do a lousy job training. Because the solution to that is making sure they have less money, right?
We have a massive audience talking about ABOLISHING police.
Let that sink in.
We celebrate court rulings with rainbow flags that speak volumes about how far we’ve come and how inclusive we are as Americans … then we tell our neighbors to remove their American flags and stop saying “Merry Christmas” and “Happy Hanukkah” because it offends us.
We send billions of dollars overseas to help the homeless in impoverished and war-torn nations while we cut the funding for our own food banks and homeless programs.
We get into fistfights about “under-inflated balls” while gorging ourselves on beer and wings at football games … while millions of Americans wonder how they’re going to pay their mortgage and put food on the table for their families.
We fight tooth and nail over whether someone dying of stage four pancreatic cancer should be allowed to use medical marijuana while drugs like heroin are running rampant in our schools.
Schools that apparently kids will have to wear masks in, if they ever reopen.
We teach kids that there should be no boys section or girls section at the store, but our kids notice that we won’t sit down with our neighbor for a beer because they have a different skin color and we’re too busy fighting over what is and isn’t racism.
We hold massive rallies demanding $15/hour for flipping burgers … but we sit quietly on the sidelines when our men and women protecting our country who make $11/hour aren’t getting paid because Congress is debating their funding.
We’re told if you go to a protest over the government shutting down your business, you’ll be arrested because it’s a health threat. We’re told if you go to a Trump rally, you don’t care about making people sick. We’re told if you go to a violent riot and torch buildings, you’re a social justice warrior.
We’re terribly focused on what matters to us as individuals. Marriage. Cell phones. Birth control. On and on and on. We’re so worried about what matters to “me” that we forgot that in order for us to have a “me” … we have to first have an “us.” A safe “us.” A unified “us.” An “us” that can at least find some kind of middle ground.
Tomorrow is a new day. So tonight, before bed, we pray … just a little harder, perhaps, than we’ve prayed before.
We put our daughters to sleep and shut off the television. The internet. The phones. The iPads. All screens but the black and white monitor where we can see nothing but innocence.
And for a moment, just one fleeting, precious moment, we’re once again one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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