PHILOSOPHY: There are absolute standards about human behavior.

Thursday, October 15, 2026

https://tuckercarlson.com/live-show-october-7-2026

Charlie Kirk Was Right About October 7th. Dave Smith on This Generation’s 9/11.
The Tucker Carlson Show
•Premiered 5 days ago•95 mins
<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2026-10-14>>

FROM BEHIND THE “tuckercarlson.com” PAYWALL?

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Tucker [00:00:00] Today is October 7th, 2026. It’s the third anniversary of the most horrifying, certainly the most widely publicized attack on mainland Israel in its history. Three years ago today, of course you remember, forces of Hamas, the militant group, also the, at the time, government of Gaza, the Israeli-controlled, semi-technically independent area south of Israel, taken by the Israeli government in 1967 and run ever since.

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The idea that it is okay to murder innocents. Well, it’s of course not okay. Morally, it is always wrong, always and everywhere. But it is also a guarantee of your own destruction. Because what you do to others will be done to you. This is not simply a religious precept. It’s of course a Christian idea. It’s an Eastern idea, often called karma. It’s very close to a physics principle. It is just always true. You will be treated as you treat others. And so if you murder innocents, you can look forward to a very tough future in which people you care about are murdered despite the fact they are innocent. And so wise nations don’t behave this way. They also calculate threats on a realistic basis. They don’t become hysterical, they don’t go insane. They understand that, yes, it’s a dangerous world, but not everyone wants to kill you. And your entire gross domestic product does not have to be taken up with preparing for some war or other. And if it is, you will guarantee having that war or either. These are obvious things that wise people understand. That, of course, you need to be prepared. And of course it’s true to some extent that… You know, strength is a good defense. You want to deter opportunistic attacks on your nation.

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How about a war on the people who are putting fentanyl into our society? How bout a war in behalf of the hundred thousand people or seventy thousand last year died of drug ODs? Why don’t you fight a real war against the people that are killing our citizens? But instead you’re lecturing us about our bad attitudes about a foreign country and you’re going to go community to community on some kind of tour that we’re paying for. To tell us that we’re the problem, our bad attitudes are the problem? It’s hard even to talk about this without using obscenity. You wanna use obscenities in response. No government official has a right to tell you what attitude you can have, ever, in a free country. You can have any attitude you want and come to any conclusion that you want. What you can’t do is commit violence against other people, and you shouldn’t. And you should oppose the use of violence against innocents, always, including the use violence by Israel. Against the Palestinians, including the use of violence by the United States government, the Trump administration, against fishermen off the coast of Venezuela, against girls going to school outside Tehran. That is wrong. It’s wrong when it happens here. It’s right when it happen there. It will always be wrong.

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And that’s why we have absolute standards about human behavior that apply to every person, regardless of whether he is Christian, Muslim, Jew, or Buddhist, regardless of he was black, white, or Asian. Those standards remain in place always, they are immutable. People didn’t think them up, God laid them down. And we have one job, which is to obey them and to judge others by those standards, regardless of how much money they have or how much they’ve given to Donald Trump or whether they’re friends with Attorney General Todd or not. And on the basis of those standards, what happened to Israel on October 7th is wrong. It’s immoral, it’s disgusting. And what Israel did in response to what happened to Israel October 7 is also wrong, disgusting and indefensible. And that will always be true. And calling it hate does not change the fundamental truth of that. But failing to acknowledge those absolute standards will destroy this country. And we hope that we get back to universal standards soon. 

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While many of the things Tucker has said, I’m not so sure that are “absolute truths”.

BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), I believe he is right that somehow someway sometime  somewhere — around the globe — humans developed certain “moral principles” for the thriving of the species.  Eventually, everything devolves back to the principles of individual liberty.  However they came to be.  And like the “Law of Gravity”, they are as immutable as any physics principle.

What’s right and moral is the guiding principle.

Any politician or bureaucrat who advocates policies that would or do break those “laws” deserves our scorn.

Dona Nobis Pacem

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POLITICAL: Bad policy message by DJT47 gets rejection by all men of good will

Monday, April 13, 2026
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/04/05/easter-morning-message-of-hope
 
It’s getting harder to tell which side is the authoritarian theocratic regime run by demented hateful nut jobs. (You Crazy Bastards would be an excellent title for a book on the Trump 2.0 administration.)
 
By John Gruber
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https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/07/tucker-carlson-rips-donald-trump-easter-iran-truth-social-post-00861281
 

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“How dare you speak that way on Easter morning to the country?” Carlson said in a monologue on his podcast. “Who do you think you are? You’re tweeting out the f-word on Easter morning.”

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https://podscripts.co/podcasts/part-of-the-problem/bridge-and-power-plant-day?scroll_to_words=Tucker+Carlson&search_type=basic

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“Because these are laws that are not created by people. They supersede people. But on January 4th, when the President of the United States told us he was stealing that our country was stealing something that didn’t belong to us, people should have piped up and said something, but they didn’t. And that got us all the way to yesterday, which was Easter Sunday. “

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https://podscripts.co/podcasts/part-of-the-problem/trump-backed-down?scroll_to_words=Tucker+Carlson&search_type=basic

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Did Tucker Carlson coming out against Trump, his biggest, the number one right wing, you know, show in the country? Maybe, maybe it did. But what? Even if it did have an effect, what did it do? Stop Donald Trump from doing bridge and power plant day? Okay. All right, fine. Stop just more death and destruction from coming that still wouldn’t have opened the straight of her moose or overthrown this regime. Man, look, we will see where all of this goes. Obviously, it’s still a very, very risky situation. but I will say I will end this on the note that I started it on, which is that thank God Donald Trump was just completely bluffing.

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​This is what set off a Tucker Carlson rant.  And that rant was cited by @ComicDaveSmith.  That’s how I found it.  It really made the case that DJT47 is not a Christian and really terrible human being. 

Can’t say that I disagree.

Remember the Gooferment and almost all the politicians and bureaucrats are immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy.

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POLITICAL: Why does the USA fund the Israeli Gaza extermination?

Sunday, August 3, 2025

https://tuckercarlson.com/john-aguilar-highlights-2

Firsthand Witness: They Shoot Into Crowds Of Unarmed Starving Civilians, Highlights
Premiered 1 day ago•13 mins

<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2025-08-02>>

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Tucker and Tony Aguilar discuss the horrific animal-like treatment of civilians in Gaza at the hands of Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Ok here’s a post that will probably offend about ½ the country, get me kicked off Social Media sites again, and get a lot of <synonym for excrement> from family, friends, and strangers.

BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), here goes!

I am moved to almost tears  — and I’ve only cried real tears a few times in my life  — I’m not a “crier” or a “Karen” about most everything.  I try an emulate The Buddha, WWJD, and be the pessimistic optimistic (i.e. plan for the worst and be pleasantly surprised when it turns out better than expected) I think I am.  On most things, I figure “small stuff” “this too will pass” and “it could be a lot worse”.  I sit at my keyboard nearing the end of my adventure and “Face Life”.  Just like this blog’s title “Reinke Faces Life”.  

This <synonym for excrement> in Gaza has got to stop.  Killing starving humans and inflicting savage trauma and death on little children has really gotten to my heart and soul.

While there is little I can do about it directly, other that sit and rant, I don’t intend to sit and let it go on without speaking up. Pastor Martin Niemöller spoke up when there was big price to pay. 

Now I am a gun-owning pro-life pro-choice little L libertarian and think that the “system” is the problem.  But this has gone on too far and for too long.

The President DJT4547 can stop this with a stroke of a pen but seems to be unable to muster up the moral fortitude to say to Israel: “Stop!  The USA is not giving you another dime until it stops.”   (He could do the same with Ukraine but that’s a topic for another day!)

I have never been a fan of the US foreign policy for as long as I can remember.  The Christian Brothers, all vets from WWII and Korea, made me anti-war.  I remember the pro-Israel propaganda back when I first recognized it in the movie “Cast A Giant Shadow”.  Bit I also remember the USS Liberty being attacked by Israel and the US Gooferment didn’t say “boo”!①

Yes, I remember the atrocity of October 7th.  It was horrific.  But, when you have humans in box and are torturing men, women, and children, don’t be surprised when the “worm turns … … into a snake” and bites you.  When you back men into a corner, they will attack with savagery and mercilessness that will stun you.  

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . .” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Seems like Palestinians are a lot like the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.  

So starting today, I am going to annoy all the politicians and bureaucrats to stop funding Israel.

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FOOTNOTE:

①  USS Liberty. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/06/08/were-fed-it-survivors-of-uss-liberty-look-answers-55-years-later.html

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PEACE: DJT45 Dissents From Washington’s War Agenda

Saturday, June 17, 2023

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/06/13/tucker_carlson_trump_is_the_one_guy_who_could_be_president_who_dissents_from_washingtons_war_agenda.html

Tucker Carlson: Trump Is The One Guy Who Could Be President Who Dissents From Washington’s War Agenda
Posted By Ian Schwartz On Date June 13, 2023

    Ep. 3 America’s principles are at stake pic.twitter.com/eJNSUVvvqY
      — Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) June 13, 2023

  • Tucker Carlson delivered a monologue on former President Donald Trump and the war agenda in Washington in his monologue on the third episode of ‘Tucker on Twitter.’

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Whatever else you say about him, Trump is the one guy with an actual shot of becoming president who dissents from Washington’s longstanding pointless war agenda. And for that, that one fact, they are trying to take Trump out before you can vote for him. And that should upset you more than anything that’s happened in American politics in your lifetime. Even if you don’t plan to vote for Donald Trump, even if you would die before voting for Donald Trump, which if your right, and a lot of people feel that way, even still the destruction of our democracy which is the right of voters to support any candidate they want — even candidates that don’t want war with Russia — the destruction of that should keep you up at night.

Yes, Donald Trump is a flawed man but his sins are minor compared to those of his persecutors. In this life, we don’t get to choose our martyrs. We can only choose our principles and America’s are at stake.

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Yes, and because he objects to our warfare state, he must be destroyed.  What happened to the USA that was myob non-interventionist?

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POLITICAL: January 6th was a “tour” or entrpament; not an insurection

Monday, March 13, 2023

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/03/07/january-6-video-capitol-police-were-tour-guides-for-q-shaman/

January 6 Video: Capitol Police Were ‘Tour Guides’ for ‘Q Shaman’
Joel B. Pollak  — 7 Mar 2023132

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WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 6: Jacob Anthony Angeli Chansley, known as the QAnon Shaman, is seen at the Capital riots. On January 9, Chansley was arrested on federal charges of “knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, and with violent entry and disorderly conduct …

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IMHO all those folks were “lured” into a Democratic trap to discredit DJT45 and misdirect “We, The Sheeple” from the election frauds.

Immediately all those convicted of these bogus charges should be immediately exonerated.  And, all those involved in the conspiracy to make this happen should be immediately arrested and tried.

Why didn’t these defendants have these videos at their trials?  Any of the prosecuting lawyers should be disbarred!

Argh!

“No justice; no peace”

Or “True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.”  — MLK

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MONEY: Has time finally run out?

Wednesday, March 16, 2022

https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/peter-schiff-warns-tucker-carlson-inflation-only-has-one-way-go

Peter Schiff Warns Tucker Carlson: Inflation Only Has One Way To Go!
BY TYLER DURDEN
TUESDAY, MAR 15, 2022 – 08:11 AM
Via SchiffGold.com,

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Last week, we got another big jump in consumer prices with the February CPI data. Peter Schiff appeared on Fox News with Tucker Carlson to talk about the rampant inflation. He said it’s only going to get worse. Inflation only has one way to go.

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I’ve blogged about this self-inflicted national disaster for decades.  Been aware of the problem since the late 60’s.

And, I hope that I don’t I’ve to see some very ugly chickens come home to roost.

The problem is the FED! The Federal Reserve Bank is a misnomer. IT ain’t “federal”. It reserves nothing. And, it ain’t a “bank”. It is a private cartel of the elite banks run for their benefit and that of the entrenched politicians.

When will “We, The Sheeple” wake up?

If, ever!

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TINFOILHAT: When did Moderna Began Developing Covid-19 Vaccine

Wednesday, January 5, 2022

Moderna Began Developing Covid-19 Vaccine Weeks Before First Official Outbreak Recorded
12/25/2021, 3:05:04 PM · by ransomnote · 35 repliesDailyExpose.uk ^ | 12/25/2021 | CAPTAINDARETOFLY

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Conservative and political commentator Glenn Beck recently revealed to Fox News host Tucker Carlson that the Covid-19 vaccine was already in development since December 2019, months before the United States felt the full effects of the pandemic and at least two weeks before China confirmed its first official outbreak of coronavirus.Beck drew attention to the fact that gain-of-function research involving bat coronavirus samples began in the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China as early as 2015. It is a known fact that these experiments were being partly funded by White House Chief Medical Advisor Dr Anthony Fauci and other organisations…

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Who knew what and when?

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