Tucker Carlson's thoughts on Australia. Your takeaway?

[Juxtapose]

He makes sense.

I disagree.

I reflexively shut down when Fox News is brought up but CNN is fine :)

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Glad to see common sense is prevailing.

Look, I don't like Fox News either but if Tucker says something that makes sense then I'm going to give him props for it, same for any CNN news anchor.

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We're getting actual Australians here! I'm not religious myself but I think they deserve our prayers and/or good wishes. I wouldn't wish that totalitarian government they live under on anyone.

[Rachelspiks]

He is absolutely correct, about everything. The place has become a prison, and the police are a gang of corrupt thugs. The politicians (especially in Victoria) constantly lie to cover up their own stupid mistakes, and are always threatening people to "do the right thing and be vaccinated - or else!"
Daniel Andrews, the Victorian state premier, is a f**king dickhead, a piece of shit, an asshole who deserves to be hanged by his - no doubt tiny - testicles. The mainstream media constantly lies as well, especially about the freedom protesters, referring to them as "anti-vaxxers" and the "far-right", even though there is absolutely NO evidence for either accusation.
I don't care what you think of either Tucker Carlson or FOX News in general, but in this instance they are 100% correct.
How do I know all of this, I hear you ask? Simple. I actually live in this disgusting dystopia, I see it all around me every day!

[Rachelspiks]

Note: I had my nationality before listed as 'Russian Federation', and now it's 'Antarctica'. The reason? I was too EMBARRASSED to admit to where I live! This country is a f***ing joke, and sorry for all the swearing, but it is.
Sorry for the deception, but I've now reached a point where I just do not care anymore, and I want to escape from this prison. I hear North Korea is nice at this time of year. At least there is more freedom there.
Come on you Yanks, INVADE! Spread your "democracy", we need it. Did you know we have a lot of oil and other fossil fuels, not to mention uranium, diamonds (the rare and valuable pink ones) and all sorts of other goodies? Yes, we do, so come on now, send in those drones to kill a few "terrorists" (i. e. our politicians).

[Levin]

What's life like on the ground in Australia?

Have you seen what's happening in Canada? twitter.com/.../1445848080767721480

And yet, total silence from the people in both countries.

[Rachelspiks]

@Levin Ugh! Trudeau. "When it comes to keeping you and your family safe..." Safe. Well, if this is what safety entails, I would rather not be.
How does it go again? "Those who are willing to sacrifice their freedom for a little safety, deserve neither and will lose both".

[karaspara]

Mostly made sense

[Juxtapose]

Jfc finally someone who is non-partial and actually judges the video based on what the dude fucking says.

[Rachelspiks]

You're in England. I actually envy you. You're still free. Maybe not for long, but still. :'(

[Juxtapose]

@Rachelspiks America is a bit more free, no mask needed for me in most places & we have A LOT OF GUNS incase the government tries anything too extreme.

[cth96190]

Everything that Tucker showed was self-evidently correct.
His conclusions were also correct.
I live in Australia. Things are actually worse than Tucker’s report showed, but he had a time limit.
Even the thickest leftard simpleton has realised why the government took the guns in 1996 after a staged false flag mass shooting.
Alex Jones was right…about everything.

[okeydoke]

Alex Jones was right about everything? Even the sex change frogs?

[cth96190]

@okeydoke
Yes, the frogs too.
Something that the liars of the left do not mention is that Alex Jones was commenting on a report about an agricultural herbicide call Atrazine.

[okeydoke]

He’s literally stated that he doesn’t report the news under oath in court.

[cth96190]

@okeydoke
That is another lie of the left.

[okeydoke]

Prove it.

[joeldalton]

@okeydoke news.berkeley.edu/.../

[Juxtapose]

@joeldalton You're doing the Lord's work son.

[joeldalton]

@Juxtapose based on how the average liberal male on this site thinks, I have a feeling Atrazine emasculates them, too.

[okeydoke]

@joeldalton
Actually, thanks for the article. I read it and learned something about pesticides.

[joeldalton]

@okeydoke And plastic is giving you a little dick

nypost.com/.../

[okeydoke]

@joeldalton Good thing I’m already well endowed.

[Rachelspiks]

@okeydoke Okeydoke, you're the one who is so horribly misinformed that you believe Australia to be a republic (I saw one of your other comments here), so you're not exactly qualified to discuss any of this. I live in the worst state of one of the most authoritarian nations on earth (Victoria, Australia), and I was actually so embarrassed by that fact that I PRETENDED to be living in Russia of all places!

[Kaneki05]

Tucker is a idiot who don't even understand his own thoughts so i will not watch this. If you want an example of why i think so. I kid you not, he literally dissed Bernie then repeated the same views of Bernie.

By saying the rich should give there money to help out with Covid and healthcare. Which Bernie at the same time was saying the exact same thing that rich have so much money they should pass it down.

So tucker preached a socialist idea when... he promotes hating socialists and dems and all sorts. Funny guy.

[Juxtapose]

Bernie Sanders is a villainous traitor who has bow down to Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. He is now part of the fraudulent, controlled opposition.

[Juxtapose]

*bowed down

[Kaneki05]

I don't really care what you think of Bernie. The point is tucker who claims to hate Bernie and socialist ideas agreed with Bernie and his socialist views. Because tucker is not very smart.

[Juxtapose]

Then I don't care what you have to say about ANYONE.

[Kaneki05]

That's fine longs if you are aware that tucker agreed with Bernie while proclaiming he is not a socialist or dem and hates Bernie on a view that is literally dem and socialist. lol

[Lliam]

That's not the world I want to live in. FUCK "covid" and FUCK the New World Order.
Oh yeah, and FUCK those who think this crap is okay.

[Juxtapose]

"Oh yeah, and FUCK those who think this crap is okay."

^^ that's the most important takeaway of all. Without them this crap would not be possible.

This isn't a conspiracy, they are literally talking about a new world order..

[Sabretooth]

let me explain fox news. Fox News panders to the idiots and to the crazies (so many examples). they sell hatred and fear - they ignore real issues and focus on cultural wars. to prove my case:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/3K18l5WyJJ0

and that leads to this:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/akCAHdNlWis

[Juxtapose]

Is what he is saying in this specific video I posted sensible or not?

[Sabretooth]

he is... the oppression was covered on MSNBC, as well. but, what you need to understand is that while the wail about masks, passports, mandates, oppression... they're cool with it all. case in point, Rebekah Jones. Rebekah was a scientist who was fired be DeSantis... why? because she wouldn't manipulate the data in regards to covid cases and deaths... he also ordered her and her family to be threatened by the police... at gunpoint. as for mandates... well, Biden recently praised Fox for having stricter mandates than he proposed... and for doing so months ago... on their own. ah... the boarder crises: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW4NesMKGwM&t=4s plus, tha-6t would only apply to Texas - a lie Abbot told to give his base red meat. deaths shot up to 1,378 - the average is 7 a day. I can't find the video re referenced concerning the health minister from Canada.

[Rachelspiks]

Oh really. Well, let me explain something to you - Tucker is correct about Australia! I actually LIVE in the shitty country he talks about! He is 100% correct!
"... the oppression was covered on MSNBC" - Oh right, because MSNBC can always be relied upon to tell us the truth, but FOX can't. Of course, LOL :D

[Sabretooth]

@Rachelspiks that's what their lawyers say.

[joeldalton]

Rebekah Jones was not Florida’s “COVID-19 data chief,” nor was she a “data scientist.” Jones couldn’t have manipulated data — even if she had been asked to — because, according to National Review, “Jones did not have the ability to edit the raw data. Only a handful of people in Florida are permitted to touch that information, and Jones was not among them. Instead, each day she was given a copy of the data and charged with uploading it into the system in a manner determined by the epidemiological team.”

Fake news
www.flgov.com/.../

[Juxtapose]

Good catch!

[Sabretooth]

@joeldalton www.npr.org/.../data-scientist-rebekah-jones-facing-arrest-turns-herself-in-to-florida-authoriti

[joeldalton]

NPR is garbage. I'd rather trust the Enquirier

[Sabretooth]

@joeldalton the raid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ5aIjXjxvM

[Sabretooth]

@joeldalton besides, DeSantis has failed from day one in regards to covid... voters there are pissed because of it... for now. he's also a liar:: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQLMSpAW7hI about the media twisting his words. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSHyahA2lxY . and then, there's this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5kAfFxxHCA

[joeldalton]

DeSantis has won from day one. His state stayed open, he allowed his citizens to be free and has a lower death rate than the blue states. He bitch smacks you lefties at every turn.

[Sabretooth]

@joeldalton first: I'm no leftist. 2nd: great joke.

[Sabretooth]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsY4R3Lx2NU

[Sabretooth]

watch this quagmire: https://youtu.be/MU5wAs9tY18

[Juxtapose]

Please don't unironically post a TYT video.

[Sabretooth]

''Look, I don't like Fox News either but if Tucker says something that makes sense then I'm going to give him props for it, same for any CNN news anchor.''.

[Juxtapose]

I'm not gonna stop you but TYT is incredibly foul. They slandered Glenn Greenwald, Cenk wants to fight Joe Rogan, they have shown revenge porn, etc.

With every fiber of my being I say.. FUCK TYT! Genocide denying pigs!

[Sabretooth]

I don't know much about Greenwald... other than they had a spat - I only started watching them on youtube for only about a few years... 2018, I believe Rogan is pedaling nonsense. They've acknowledged the genocide. which isn't to say I don't have issues with them... very few... weed being among them. but, they aren't wrong, here.

[Rachelspiks]

'The Young Turks' are absolutely disgusting. Everything about their show is just foul, and no one with even half a brain would consider them to be anything more than propagandists. Their bias is clear for all to see, and the truth isn't something they have ever really cared about. It's all about point-scoring at the expense of those they do not like. They are not a reliable source of information, so I really cannot understand why you would link a clip of theirs here.

[Sabretooth]

@Rachelspiks so, I suppose Carlson is in bed with them and the whole thing was staged.

[Sabretooth]

just broke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E85GzgKt7ws

[Nomina]

I regularly listen to a podcast with an Australian on it and according to him at least, shit is crazy over there. More in some places than others. Pretty much, according to him, the larger the city the more severe and insane the measures.

[Rachelspiks]

Yes, you are absolutely correct. The state of Victoria is the worst place in the country to be, and guess where I am - in Victoria of course :'(
Just my rotten luck!

[Nomina]

@Rachelspiks that sucks. Where's the best place for a semi-normal life in Australia? The guy on the podcast is in Queensland and for him things alright for the most part.

[Rachelspiks]

I'm not so sure about Queensland. They also have a crazy left-wing government, although the premier of that state isn't as nutty as the one we have in Victoria, so that's something I guess. I think Western Australia is the sanest place in the country at the moment.

[Nomina]

@Rachelspiks aaah, I see.

[Levin]

Sad that people allow their political views to ignore something that is clearly wrong.

What a bunch of fruitloops is all I can say. The world has gone completely mad.

[exitseven]

I do not watch Tucker carlson that much because I would just get too upset. It is heartening to see that people are fighting back there not going along with the BS like a bunch of sheep lie they do in the US.

[888theGreat]

I need to get guns to the Aussie people and let them take their Gov't back from the dictators running the country.

[Juxtapose]

I would love to see Australia's tyrants shot dead in cages just like how they shot dead the dogs in the rescue shelter just to prevent people from driving there.

[Rachelspiks]

Send us some AK-47's. I hear they're easy to use and maintain, that they're very rugged.

[Avicenna]

That is one of the last countries I'd have thought would go full totalitarian. Makes you wonder why...

[007kingifrit]

they always were. no guns = totalitarian

[Rachelspiks]

Australians are f**king sheep, that's why!

[joeldalton]

This is why you never give an inch to gun control lunatics.

[Fuentes]

Sneezing = arrest lol clear communism in Australia they even shoot a dog dead because they feared it had covid biggest joke of a government i hope the people their revolt

[okeydoke]

Tucker is pretty intensely a propagandist. I would need to do more research to come up with an informed opinion.
For the record, I agree that CNN is also biased. That’s why I don’t watch TV news and instead read a bunch of newspapers.

[Juxtapose]

Go right ahead, he's pretty solid here.

[okeydoke]

I watched part of it, but started finding conclusions fairly ludicrous. Australia is not a totalitarian state. Not to say that like every country it doesn’t have issues, but one is not the same as the other.

[Juxtapose]

Come again?

[okeydoke]

That’s exactly like the U. S. suspension of Habeas Corpus in case of an emergency. We have that on the books too.

[Juxtapose]

Those who would give up freedom for security deserve neither.

No power is more permanent to the government than temporary powers given.

[Juxtapose]

But yeah, Australia is 100% a totalitarian, fascist state right now

[Juxtapose]

"relating to a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.
"a totalitarian regime"

[exitseven]

@okeydoke The newspapers are just as bad. You have two choices today either expose yourself to propaganda or else stay blissfully ignorant.

[okeydoke]

@exitseven
That’s a choice, but definitely not true. You have to put in the work to educate yourself using reliable sources and discern through the bull.

[okeydoke]

@Juxtapose
Are you a political anarchist? That’s the only way the use of the freedom/security quote makes any relevant sense.
Using buzzwords like fascist are not at all accurate. Australia is a republic. It does not have a one party system, king, or dictator. Further, the only fascist states that have ever existed are Nazi Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, and briefly Austria. I’d like to see your parallels between Australia’s consitutional republic and the burning down of the Reichstag.

[Juxtapose]

Whatever you want to call it (a small group can dictate just as harshly as a single person) Australia is establishing Medical Apartheid & unacceptable authoritarian rules.

If anyone came up to me to try and enforce rules such as those, I would open fire. Call me an anarchist all you like, tyranny is unacceptable and revolutions have been started over far less.

[okeydoke]

Do you know what political anarchism is?
Living in a society comes with social rules. That’s why we have speeding limits and can’r freely murder or rape.
Mass vaccination has existed since the turn of the 20th century when the first vaccines were developed. Children cannot go to school without numerous vaccines, nor can you join the military without them. Do you know what apartheid is? Restriction of fair housing, education, and medicine on racial/ethnic/gender/sex lines are apartheid. Kristallnacht was apartheid. South Africa had apartheid. This is not.

[Juxtapose]

Australia is instituting a two-tier society and people who push the vaccine admit that they want to make life so hard for people who don't take it that they feel like they have to.

Other vaccines have gone through long-term clinical trials and have a proven history of safety. The jabs do not, they are rushed and are even being forced on people who have natural immunity.

Don't you think it's strange that no antibody tests are being conducted? Don't you find it strange that in America, Congress exempted themselves and these drug companies from the mandates?

[Juxtapose]

Having to show your vaccination status is equivalent to the Nazis asking you to present your papers.

[okeydoke]

@Juxtapose
Why do you keep ignoring my questions? You’re not debating in good faith.

[Juxtapose]

I don't want to answer a billion different questions and digress off of the topic. Most of this shit is just useless semantics.

I'll save you some time and just say if you can look at Australia and say whatever is going on there is okay, you and I will never, ever, ever, ever, EVER find any common ground on this topic.

[okeydoke]

@Juxtapose
Regarding a “two tier society” in regard to vaccines, please read my previous comment about previous vaccines, schooling, and the military.
Regarding other vaccines, no they haven’t. The CDC and FDA have both researched and approved the vaccine. That’s as good as it gets. In the U. S., at least. Please provide proof of anything otherwise.
I’ ve taken Covid antibody tests, so I know that’s not true. You also ignored my earlier point about previous antibodies not preventing future infection.
Most Congress people have gotten the vaccine and all wear masks in Congress. A law was passed forcing all private companies over a certain size to require Covid vaccines. You are factually incorrect.

[okeydoke]

@Juxtapose
Respond to my questions with your next response of the conversation is over.

[Juxtapose]

That is way too much for me to unpack and debunk all on my own for the sake of an internet argument. I can point you in the right direction though.

https://youtu.be/iwPKnOhJRYg

https://youtu.be/obdI7tgKLtA

https://youtu.be/wTwedcnwm6A

[okeydoke]

That’s why you should have been debating properly all along instead of ignoring everything I wrote.

Youtube conspiracy videos don’t count as research. Go use JSTOR and I might give you a chance.

[Juxtapose]

I literally gave you the guy who worked on mRNA vaccines but okay xD

[Rachelspiks]

"Australia is a republic." - okeydoke
No. It isn't. It's a monarchy. Right now it's also a full-blown Orwellian dystopia, a nightmare, a dictatorship. You clearly don't know what the hell you're talking about, and yes, I'm upset right now because I actually live in this shithole country!

[NathanDavis]

except... he does not have thoughts, he reads what the networks' writers hand to him...

and does so, for the ratings that result on his paycheck

[Rachelspiks]

Hey, I actually LIVE in Australia! He is correct, about everything. It's gotten so bad that now the waters around the major population centres are being patrolled to prevent people from escaping, and no one is allowed to leave in the usual manner (by air) unless they have specific authorisation to do so.
Does this sound like a free country to you, or more like East Germany during the Cold War?

[NathanDavis]

@Rachelspiks first of all... my opinion was on Tucker Carlson's having thoughts or not having them... and he clearly does not, he's just presenting was has been given to him

besides that, I do have very close friends and also relatives who are currently living in Australia, so yes, I am well aware of the MANY different situations that are going own down there so...

their personal experience is way different than what you just wrote in your comments so... what would exactly be accomplished here? you have your experience and your perspective, and my close friend and their families have another so... what does it this mean? that one if you is a liar, or that different people can have different experiences while living in the same (vast) country

[disgustingweebtrash]

Australia is just to test extreme covid measures and they're accepting is nicely, wonder which country is next on the list

[goaded]

Was that a Murdoch outlet, by any chance? Australia's total, 18 month, covid death count is lower than one day of America's this month, and 1/3rd of that is since July this year.

[goaded]

[Massageman]

Yup. Please take away Australia.

(Sorry - it really pains me to say that - it was on my bucket list).

[This_Is_My_Opinion8]

Do you know that he had several lawsuits against him? Do you know how they are usually handled?
"But it's not our fault people listen to us. He are an entertainment program not a news cast". Yet people still take them seriously

[Juxtapose]

And yet almost nobody here can just listen to what he says and judge him based off of his words in this one video because they're so hung up on this politicking bullshit.

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

I heard no one can believe Tucker Carlson, so who knows will have to see

[Rachelspiks]

Well, as someone who actually lives in the Soviet Socialist state of Victoria, in the Orwellian land of Australia (we may as well rename it 'Oceania'), I can truthfully say he is 100% correct! "Will have to see"? Trust me, you won't want to. As it now is, Australia makes North Korea look like paradise on earth, and that is NO exaggeration!

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

@Rachelspiks I don't listen to him cause I don't know who is telling the truth or the lie
and I'm losing interest in voting cause one tell me this and another tells me this I'm
not endangering my health by all people

[DaveToo]

Fucker Carlson is a fucking moron. He doesn't belong on any show, much less one that promotes personal opinions.

[Juxtapose]

Eh, out of all the mainstream media personalities, he is the most honest and sincere. Tuckler will host Jimny Dore, Glenn Greenwald & others he disagrees with politically.

[Still-alive]

“Judge, Fox Lawyers Agree: No 'Reasonable Person' Would Believe Tucker Carlson”

www.wonkette.com/tucker-carlson-cant-be-sued-for-slander-because-no-reasonable-person-would-believe-him

[Juxtapose]

Are you guys going to focus on what he actually said in this video or are you going to jerk off in the corner and complain about Fox News?

[Still-alive]

Nah you’re a fake lefty

[Juxtapose]

@Still-alive Imagine having the nerve to claim you know my political views better than I do lol.

You guys suck ass at this.

[Still-alive]

Its as clear as day to anyone really

[Juxtapose]

@Still-alive And I don't believe authoritarian assholes like you guys are real liberals but I did not say that part out loud until now.

[Juxtapose]

Liberalism is against authoritarianism at its core, it's in the fucking name.

The nerve of you tools..

[Still-alive]

authoritarian lol thats a first for me...

[Rachelspiks]

Well, this "moron" is actually telling the truth about Australia in this clip. I've seen it first-hand; the oppression, the brutality, the censorship, and all the other shit. Did you know that Australia has a STATE broadcasting channel? The ABC. Tucker actually mentions it. The ABC makes CNN look like a right-wing libertarian channel. It's so far left-wing that even Stalin himself would be embarrassed by it!

[Juxtapose]

@Rachelspiks Exactly! You live there, you know what's going on and I have seen video footage from Australia so I know it must be even worse than what I have seen.. it always is.

[jshm2]

Just the name makes you know he's telling lies.

[zagor]

I don't pay attention to Mr. Carlson.

[Rachelspiks]

Well, you should, because in this instance at least he is 100% correct.

[msc545]

He is an idiot.

[Rachelspiks]

Who is? Tucker? He's telling the truth. How do I know? Simply because I actually live in the shithole nation he's talking about!
Geez, you people just don't get it, do you? For you everything is "just a conspiracy" if whatever is being proclaimed goes against how you see the world, or wish it would be. Wake the F**K up!

[SamFromFL]

Too extreme