'Tucker Carlson Tonight' host discusses the Georgia Senate runoffs and preserving the integrity of elections
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Good evening and
welcome to
Tucker Carlson tonight
its election night, once again,
the poles have just closed in
two Georgia, special election
Senate races.
The two of them will decide in
effect, who controls the entire
federal government.
The stakes are: not low.
Officials are counting millions
of mail in ballots. As we speak
right now in those ballots all
night,
they may be counting them all
week.
Confusion, uncertainty, massive
wait times. They are all normal
now at least thats what we
have been told to believe,
but this isnt normal
it wasnt, always how things
work
not too long ago, just a few
years ago, Americans expected to
learn their election results on
the night of the election, and
usually they did
were voting machines that much
more efficient back in twenty twelve
know they werent
the difference was we required
most people to vote in person
back then
in person voting reduces fraud
and reducing fraud and the
appearance of fraud was
important to us.
We wanted people to believe the
results when they came in.
We wanted to protect the system
that made all of our good things
possible.
We wanted democracy to continue,
but then everything changed.
The main driver of the change
they will tell you was the
corona pandemic
simply became too dangerous to
show up in person to vote.
Think about that for a second.
It doesnt really make sense.
If you can go to the
grocery store and most people
can and do, then you can go to a
polling place.
Theres, no medical reason. You
cant vote in person,
its not inherently unsafe.
Obviously
almost no one in the media has
ever made that point.
They know that mail in elections
help Democrats and they are for
that thats. The whole point:
when republicans complain about
it, the left doesnt answer the
questions. They just get
hysterical and start screaming
about racism.
You may be wondering what racism
has to do with potential health
risks of in person voting.
First of all its a racist
question, so dont ask it ever
again:
instead, we are going to let Jon
Ossoff explain the answer.
Ossoff is one of the Democrats
on the ballot tonight in
Georgia.
He is unusually oily entitled
young man who has never in his
entire life from what we can
tell done anything meaningful
or impressive, or even had a real
job.
Hes got a list of credentials
the length of your arm, all of
which youre supposed to be
impressed by, but not a single
actual a compliment
in a world of shallow
politicians. Jon Ossoff is
lighter than air.
He meets Beto Orourke, look like
Teddy Roosevelt, but he does
know one thing:
if youre worried about election
fraud, you are a racist
here. He is in an interview
yesterday,
my opponent and the other
senator Kelly Loeffler and
Georgia Republicans have been
filing a lawsuit lawsuit to
purge the roles to make it
harder for people to vote.
It is an open attack on black
voters in Georgia and its a
disgrace and its an echo of the
legacy of Jim Crow.
Oh the legacy of
Jim Crow
so lets see not to be to
Pacific about it. Specific
about about the Brown versus
Board of Education ended school
segregation in nineteen fifty four
that was sixty seven years ago.
If Jon Ossoff had been born. That
decision came down. He would now
be old enough to qualify for
Medicare,
but he wasnt born them.
Jon Ossoff was born in one thousand nine hundred and eighty seven a
year. Some of us remember very
well.
This was a free country when Jon
Ossoff with was born in fact
freer and much more equal than
it is right. Now,
in one thousand, nine hundred and eighty seven Jim Crow was a distant
memory.
It is ancient history. Now
get the day before the selection
there was Jon Ossoff, invoking
Jim Crow, like that diabolical
Kelly Loeffler is this close to
turning back the night riders
and segregated water fountains.
Almost seventy league years later,
youve got to wonder how long
can this scam continue
as long as people keep falling
for it and they do keep falling
for it
if youve been keeping track at
home, youre, probably wondering
what is intent, echo of the
legacy of Jim Crow. At this
point
everything the Democrats dont
like is Jim Crow.
Just in the last year, they told
us that in person voting the
filibuster, even mispronouncing,
Kamala Harris Name name by
the way she cant pronounce
Herself- are all vestiges by
Americas, racist history,
so whats the remedy for a
history. This evil,
you guessed it more identity.
Politics
cant have enough.
Okay, we are going to play along
just for the sake of amusement
lets. Consider the identity of
some of the players into night
S. Election
lets start with the
strangely famous Stacey Abrams.
What is Stacey Abrams identity?
If you ask CNN, she is a
brilliant novelist with the
grace of a runway model,
Ifif you SK, berms or self, or the
many sycophants around her her
real identity of the governor of
Georgia.
She ran for that office two
years ago.
She lost by more than fifty thousand
votes, but in the Democratic
party they have decided not to
notice
without voter suppression.
Stacey Abrams would be the
governor of Georgia.
If this country wasnt
racist, Stacey Abrams, would be
governor,
it was the voter suppression,
particularly of african american
communities, that prevented us
from having a governor, Stacey
Abrams right now.
Stacey Abrams ought to be the
governor of Georgia
when racially motivated, voter
suppression is permitted. We
cannot truly say that we live in
a democracy
yeah, so Stacey
Abrams is the actual governor of
Georgia or would be if you
werent, a racist.
So governor is her identity.
Abrams sister, a woman called
Leslie Abrams gardener. She is
an actual federal judge
appointed by Barack Obama and, as
luck would have it because this
is an amazing time in our
countrys history. The judge is
now overseeing a case on
election integrity that involves
a group funded by and we are
not making this up. Stacey
Abrams the celebrated novelist
runway model, Governor
Gardner, has refused to recuse
herself from the case that
involves her sister
heres, how she explained that
refusal
one can only assume that the
argument is something to the
effect that if my sister is
actively engaged in a cause, I
cannot be impartial.
This argument is mere
speculation,
laughs,
just mere speculation.
Okay lets move from the
speculative to the actual.
What is not? Speculation are
going to be shocked to learn
this is that judge. Gardner
has just given her sisters
organization. Precisely what they
wanted,
weird, how that works, not
speculate on that
or Republicans argue that
thousands of voters in Georgia
should be excluded from
participating in the election.
For this simple and obvious
reason,
post office change of address
records show they had left the
state. They were no longer in
Georgia. Therefore, they couldnt
vote in Georgia because theyre
not in Georgia
that seemed simple and obvious,
but that standard does not meet
the burden of proof in Stacey
Abrams sister escort.
Therefore, thousands of voters
can vote tonight in Georgia, even
if theyre, not living in
Georgia, arent Georgia
residents,
all they need to do is identify
as Georgia voters
you can change her gender. You
can also change your state of
residency just by identifying
thats how identity politics
works.
It goes without saying that the
actual identities, the real
identities of tonights
democratic candidates, are
off limits.
True things, cant be spoken,
thats, the rule.
You cant talk about them.
You can call Raphael Warnock,
for example, a pastor, a
Christian, a pro choice,
christian but dont. You dare
mention the words he actually
utters in church sermons.
If you do, that, CNN would like
you to know youre, probably a
political operative working for
the hard right,
in fact, youre taking his words
out of context,
Reverend Warnocks, pro choice,
stance and his words from the
pulpit, often taken out of
context, have been the target of
the fiercest republican attacks,
often taken out of
context
so whats. The context.
Welcome in the interest of
objectivity and fairness, we are
going to play one of the clips
that CNN just told you is being
taken out of context
its from one of Raphael,
Warnocks sermons a few years
ago,
as you listen to what we are
about to play, try to imagine a
context in which this would be
okay to express in church.
Listen
if it is true that a man who
has dominated the news and
poisoned the discussion for
months needs to repent, then it
is doubly true that a nation
that can produce such a man and
make his vitriol go viral needs
to repent.
America needs to repent for its
worship of whiteness.
Oh America needs
to repent for its worship of
whiteness.
Okay
with that time. So let us know
when you discover the missing
context here:
oh
its, not hiding somewhere in the
video. We just showed you the
relevant parts of the video
Raphael, Warnock doesnt say
just kidding after his racist
scree with CNN means when he
says they are admitting context,
is that we dont fully agree
with their preferred candidate,
who was Raphael Warnock?
We are not telling you that, yes,
America needs to repent for its
worship of whiteness.
We are appalled. Anyone would say
that, while wearing some kind of
clerical garb in a church,
it is transparently racist.
We dont see the country the way
that CNN producers or Raphael
Warnock does
we dont believe its a
fundamentally racist country of
the police officers are
gangsters and thugs.
We believe the obvious
immigrants come here in some
cases risking their lives
precisely because America is the
least racist place they could
find, or it was
people like Raphael. Warnock
would like to change that
and how about Jon, Ossoff
whats his identity,
thats, not an easy question to
answer when the sum total of
your personal achievements could
fit comfortably in the ashtray
of a sports car.
At various points Ossoff has
claimed he once worked as a
senior national security staffer
on Capitol Hill, which is pretty
funny because, in fact, Ossoff was
what is called him Washington, a
legislative correspondent
that job consist mostly of
responding to letters from
constituents.
In other words, he was the male
boy
and not in a very impressive
office, either
Jon Ossoff works for a Georgia,
congressman called Hank Johnson
who is easily hands down. Ask
anybody in Washington, the single
dumbest member of Congress and
thats saying a lot
back in two thousand and ten. Just in case. You
think we are overstating the
case Johnson. In a hearing
which was on television, asked a
Navy admiral with deep concern,
whether the island of Guam,
which is an island, not a
floating platform, might capsize.
If too many troops were moved
onto a base, there
watch this tape, youll see the
gears slowly. Turning in his head,
as he asked the question
during a congressional
hearing, Congress and
Hank Johnson Democrat of
Georgia made it hard for Admiral
Miller to keep a straight face
being asked about moving troops
from Okinawa to the island of
Guam.
My fear is that the whole
island will become so overly
populated that it will tip over
and capsize.
We dont anticipate that
my fear is that the
island will tip over
keep in mind. This was before
legalized marijuana that
happened in the Congress.
Moments like that did not deter
ambitious young Jon Ossoff from
applying to work with that man,
cumbersome and Hank Johnson, and
why would they deter him?
That moment became a blueprint
for Jon Ossoffs entire career
lean into your mediocrity
dont, deny it embrace it and
when youre challenged hide
behind identity politics
that works.
We know it does because thats
all hes ever done.
Two years after leaving
Johnsons Office, Ossoff took
shamelessness to a brand new
level.
He went on on twitter and
encouraged people following him
to support one of the leading
propaganda outlets for the
Communist Party of China, and
just in case you think we are
exaggerating heres what he
wrote,
especially during the eighteen Party
Congress, follow chinese state
media.
Most politicians might feel
slightly hesitant about
endorsing chinese state, run,
media and public, but not Jon
Ossoff.
If you learned anything from
Hank Johnson, if youre going to
do it, you might as well go all.
In
last year we learned that Jon
Ossoffs media company is
media. Company received
thousands of dollars from a
Chinese, backed media giant
Ossoff didnt even bother to
claim to care about
transparency.
In fact, he refused to release
any more financial documents
related to foreign investors,
but stop asking questions.
America is racist,
thats, the answer to everything.
By the way it would be nice if
someone disagrees with a claim
which we are all the time,
because that claim is totally
false, its poisonous and its
wrecking what has been for a
couple hundred years now, a
pretty great country buried
ours,
but increasingly no one pushes
back.
In fact, recently, a lot of
republicans have been saying the
same thing
last night again to you one
among many examples: the
republican leader in the Senate
Mitch, Mcconnell didnt, bother
holding hearings on election
integrity or mail in balloting
that mightve been nice.
Instead, he was busy attacking
police officers in eulogizing.
George Floyd.
Remember him
St George, the convicted
violent felon who apparently
died of a drug o dot d in
Minneapolis,
big conservative that
Mitch Mcconnell defender of
America.
Then there is
Senator Mitt Romney of Utah.
He was on the street mounting
Blm slogans on camera
kind of his Jane Fonda moment.
At the same time, to a public
and senators should have known
better, called for a place on
Columbus Day the day that
celebrants the discovery of this
country with something called
Juneteenth,
not a terrible anniversary or
anything, but no one had heard
of it just last year, and
everyone has of course, already
forgotten about it.
We dont know whats going to
happen tonight.
We do know that if Democrats win
the two elections on the ballot
today, they are not going to be
too concerned about Juneteenth.
They never cared about that.
They have much bigger goals in
mind like a limited and the
filibuster, letting them do
whatever they want. In the
Congress, adding new states to
the union changing the flag,
packing the Supreme Court,
ending the independence of the
judicial branch in more than
anything, giving citizenship to
tens of millions of new foreign
nationals illegal aliens now
known as their base.
None of that should come as a
surprise,
weve seen it coming for a long
time.
The question we need to ask.
Transcript generated on 2021-01-05.