Wednesday, during his show’s opening monologue, FNC host Tucker Carlson reiterated his criticism of the United States’ involvement in the Ukraine-Russia conflict.
Carlson mocked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s address to a joint session of Congress, likening the Ukrainian leader to a strip club manager.
Transcript as follows:
CARLSON: Remember when Sam Bankman-Fried showed up in Washington wearing a t-shirt and spouting nonsense, and all the self-described geniuses declared him a hero? The media, the Congress, the White House, they all love this weird little guy called Sam Bankman-Fried. Do you remember that?
Somehow we were reminded of it today when the President of Ukraine arrived at the White House, dressed like the manager of a strip club and started to demand money. Amazingly, no one threw him out. Instead, they did whatever he wanted.
American taxpayers declare Joe Biden will continue to give Zelensky whatever he demands for, “as long as it takes.” Tellingly, Biden never specified what “it” is. As long as it takes to do what? Push the Russian army back to pre-invasion borders? Sounds reasonable.
That’s what most Americans likely assume, those who are still paying attention. But that is not what Zelensky means, and it is not what he is asking for.
Zelensky is demanding regime change in Russia, just like in Iraq and Libya, and a long list of other failed states. Except this time, in the heart of the Eurasian landmass, next door to the entire civilized world. That’s what Zelensky has called for repeatedly, and every dollar we send to him goes toward that end. At this point, he’s getting a lot closer to achieving it.
So what happens if he “wins?” What does the ensuing chaos look like? Thought about that? Who is going to secure the world’s largest nuclear arsenal once we help Zelensky topple the Russian government? Who replaces Putin?
Strangely, those topics did not come up today because that wasn’t the point. The point of today’s visit to Washington was not to make the world more stable or make wise decisions, much less to help America. That’s always at the bottom of the list.
The point was to fawn over the Ukrainian strip club manager and hand him billions more dollars from our own crumbling economy. It is hard, in fact, it may be impossible to imagine a more humiliating scenario for the greatest country on earth. And we would love to blame Joe Biden for it, but we can’t really, not entirely, at least.
This was bipartisan masochism. The uniparty is alive and well despite the best efforts of voters, including last month. And if you doubt that it’s alive and well, here’s a picture of Zelensky that he had taken with a group of elderly Republican senators in Kiev back in May.
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