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As usual in this format, Tucker and MTG are on the left-hand margin, my comments indented and lined in purple.
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Uncensored: Marjorie Taylor Greene
Published Apr 3, 2024 • 24 mins
Episode Details
Is Speaker of the House Mike Johnson being blackmailed to do the bidding of the left? It certainly seems that way.
His colleague, Marjorie Taylor Greene, explains.
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Tucker [00:00:00] Since Joe Biden became president, the US government has spent hundreds of billions of dollars fighting an undeclared war against Russia.
No one in all of that time has explained really the purpose of this war, why it would benefit the United States or the world.
Clearly, at least some policy makers are motivated by ethnic and religious hatred.
That's probably part of the real reason.
But officially, no one has told us why we are doing this.
But the net effect has been in part, to send at least $75 billion to the government of Ukraine to fight this war on our behalf as a proxy.
And it's not working.
Two years in the war is still going.
The population of Ukraine has been decimated.
Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have died.
And the country itself is a mess.
It's been wrecked as countries are in war.
Russia is a far bigger country.
It's got 100 million more people in far deeper industrial capacity.
Ukraine can't win.
Everybody knows that around the world.
People are very clear on that.
There's not one informed person outside the United States who thinks that somehow Ukraine is going to beat Russia, because it's not.
But that is almost never said in the United States.
In fact, on cable news, they tell you day after day Russia is going to lose any moment now.
Here's a selection.
Hatred has nothing to do with it. Hatred of Christians? Both countries profess to be Christian. Ethnic hatred? You are resorting to the name-calling tactics of the Left. Shame. To most Americans the Russians and Ukrainians are indistinguishable. The differences matter to us, but not to Americans.
The reason for our involvement is obvious. The United States respects international law and boundaries and opposes the strong taking over the weak just because they can.
We were already at war with China in Korea when it took over Tibet in 1950-51. We voiced our disapproval, but could not stop it. We intervened to stop such aggression when Saddam took over Kuwait in 1990. We stood for Georgia when Russia invaded in 2008.
Much of the money had already been spent on armaments and munitions in the US inventory. It was there in preparation for a war with Russia, and aside from such a war would have had little practical use.
Therefore, much of the money "spent" on Ukraine was in the form of donations of partially or fully depreciated equipment. While our "generosity" was measured by the original procurement costs, it did not require money from the current budget. The current budget was often used to replace such equipment with more modern stuff, something the military wanted to do in any case.
To Ukrainians, this is not a proxy war. We are fighting our traditional enemy, who has taken our independence time and again. That is why we fought in 2022, when the United States was ready to offer asylum to our President and let the Russians take over.
"Decimated" means cut by a tenth, which means four million. Deaths are a closely held figure, but combat deaths are probably between 100 and 200 thousand, civilian deaths maybe 50,000. Germany and Ukraine were decimated in World War II. Not so far in this one.
Tucker needs to define "win." For Ukraine not losing will be sufficient. With western help, we had been holding our own.
Wrong, Tucker. The definition of "winning" is unclear. And it is often stated.
Russia is losing military assets. So is Ukraine.
Russia's civilian infrastructure is being damaged. Russia is under no threat of invasion. They are in no danger of losing in the way that Ukraine is, only perhaps in danger of not winning.
Putin's stated objective is to occupy and hold the Ukrainian oblasts of Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia and Kherson, as well as Crimea, which it has held since 2014. Taking that as the definition, there is a good chance that Russia will not "win."
Soundbite [00:01:22] And we do begin with breaking news.
Win win win.
It's a word appearing in U.S. official statements in new ways and more than ever when it comes to Ukraine.
Ukraine can win.
Ukraine is winning.
Tucker is absolutely justified in his contempt for the U.S. media, from which he came. They have consistently lied about
Climate change
Carbon emissions
"Safety and Effectiveness" of vaccines
Necessity for vaccines
Alternative treatments for Covid 19
The differences between the sexes
Freedom of speech
The war on white people
The reality of human and societal differences.
It is natural to assume that they are lying about Ukraine. And they are, about such things as Hunter Biden's involvement with Burisma, Anthony Fauci's biolabs program here and such.
With regard to war reporting, Tucker needs to get real. The press in every war roots for the home team. Thank God there is still some free press in the United States. Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi and Paul Craig Roberts are generally wrong, in my opinion, but right often enough that I read them and will strongly defend their right to speak. Same with Tucker himself.
Soundbite [00:01:37] But let's not lose sight of how much Russia is losing in this war.
Ukraine is winning.
This is a tough fight, and it's not a foregone conclusion that Ukraine will win in the end.
But right now, Ukraine is winning.
And that's an important message for the world to see.
Soundbite [00:01:52] Russia is losing this war.
They are suffering horrifying casualties, the likes of which they have not seen since World War two, and for very little gain.
But right now, I think it's fair to say Ukraine has the upper hand.
Ukraine is winning its war thanks to the enormous support we and others have provided, and we need to keep the pressure on Putin.
President Zelenskyy described the time as the beginning of the end of the war.
Does he have that right? Well, I think it's clear that Ukraine is winning.
Tucker [00:02:27] Says Barry McCaffrey.
They're liars and buffoons.
And again, if you're looking at all of this coverage from outside the United States, you're laughing bitterly.
This is the leader of the world.
People who blithely tell lies, provable lies like that, that results in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and feel no guilt or shame as they do it.
This is the beginning of the end of Russia, right? That last clip was from a year and a half ago, and they knew it was a lie then, and they know it even more now.
But that has not stopped the push for you, the American taxpayer, in the middle of the total collapse of your own country, in the middle of an invasion by the rest of the world, tens of millions of foreigners coming here illegally.
That has not stopped the press on the U.S. Congress to send still more to the government of Ukraine.
Another 60 billion.
Nobody is for this.
The overwhelming majority of American voters are opposed to it.
Certainly, the overwhelming majority of Republican voters are against the majority of Republican members of Congress have said they're against it.
But the leaders of the Republican Party and, of course, the Democratic Party are completely for it.
Here's the top Republican in the United States Senate, Mitch McConnell, the disgraced Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, saying that as he spends his final months in the U.S. Senate before retiring, his main goal is to send billions more to the doomed government and illegitimate government, anti-democratic government of Ukraine, and hurting any fellow Republican who doesn't agree with them.
Here's Mitch McConnell:
The liars and buffoons claim has a lot to back it up. The US military lied about the vaccines, lied about its involvement in the Covid episode, lies consistently about the need for gay and transgender service personnel, lies about their effectiveness and their effect on morale. However, United States lies and misinformation do not affect the justice of Ukraine's cause.
Ukraine is a sovereign nation. It has held its identity, separate from that of Russia, throughout its long history. It has its own culture. It has its own language, differing from Russian in grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and spelling. As a Russian speaker I assure the reader they are not mutually understandable.
Ukraine was recognized as independent at the conclusion of World War I. Ukraine joined the United Nations in 1945 and retained its seat after the fall of the Soviet Union.
The claims that Putin made in his interview with Tucker to the effect that Ukraine is part of Russia were laughable. Tucker was right to raise his eyebrows and certainly not assent to the lies that Putin was putting out.
As above, these $60 billion are not necessarily current budget dollars.
Public opinion in America is uninformed on Ukraine, as on almost every topic. It is swayed by the media.
The mainstream media has vastly damaged its credibility over the past few decades, and most especially in the four years since Covid. As a consequence the alternative media such as Tucker himself have come into prominence.
Tucker is right that many Americans oppose the war. It is not an informed decision, but then neither is support for the war.
What goes on mentioned is the Jewish question. Jews are overrepresented among the neocons who favor the war and oppose Russia. The Jews are a dominant force in media, not only in the United States but worldwide. The Jews not only bought into the Russiagate narrative, but they authored much of it.
Pres. Zelensky was brought into office by Jewish oligarchs Igor Kholomoisky, who owned the television companies that brought him to national prominence as an actor playing the president of Ukraine. Jews are overrepresented among the Ukrainian oligarchs, just as they were overrepresented among Russian oligarchs in the Yeltsin years. See Amy Chua's Worlds on Fire. The Jewish oligarchs have a reputation for being corrupt wherever they are – Russia, Ukraine, and in some measure in the United States and Canada as well. As Tucker says in this interview, Zelensky enjoys special access to the press. No doubt being Jewish helps.
Soundbite [00:04:00] I finally thought it was time to go in a different direction, but I'm not leaving the Senate, and I'm particularly involved in actually fighting back against the isolationist movement in my own party and so many other as well.
And the symbol of that lately is, are we going to help Ukraine or not?
Tucker [00:04:23] Are we going to help Ukraine or not? Hundreds of billions of dollars, U.S. dollars spent fighting this war against Russia, which is not working at a time when our own country is becoming, in parts, literally impoverished.
So history will record Mitch McConnell for what he is, an evil fool.
But Mitch McConnell is leaving.
The amazing thing is the people who might replace him have exactly the same views.
Meanwhile, Zelenskyy, the leader of Ukraine, a country that canceled its elections, doesn't have freedom of speech or religion is destroying a Christian denomination, the so-called democracy across the world.
Zelensky is telling American media that actually the United States has not done enough for him, and so he is doing all he can behind the scenes to lobby our leaders and our media companies.
Zelensky, by the way, newsflash is directly in touch with the owners of American, some owners of American media companies to massage their coverage of this story, but that he's been trying to lobby the new speaker of the House, Mike Johnson of Louisiana.
Behind the scenes here is Zelenskyy:
The question is whether the United States will first recognize that Ukraine is an independent, sovereign nation. It obviously is, but many would like to deny this as an inconvenient fact.
The second question is whether the United States will defend a sovereign country under attack by a stronger neighbor. As mentioned above we did so the case of Korea and Kuwait. We did not in the case of Tibet. We are wavering as Venezuela prepares to engulf Guyana.
The question is simple. When it is inconvenient to defend right against wrong, it becomes convenient not to recognize the difference between right and wrong.
Zelensky is a wartime president. Suspending elections in wartime is not unprecedented. Most importantly, Zelensky continues to enjoy the support of the Ukrainian populace. The Ukrainian people are behind the war.
Zelensky uses the tools he has. As mentioned above, being Jewish helps.
Soundbite [00:05:30] Said if we have American support, we will win.
If we don't have American support, we will lose.
t's true.
Simple as that.
Ukraine will lose.
But it's not.
But it's not simple.
Yeah.
Yes, of course we will lose.
Not one day.
Of course we will lose some our territories.
And it says or.
But totally it it it will give a look.
And Charlie joins us now from Kiev.
Charlie, we know that President Zelensky spoke with speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Thursday.
What did he tell you? That his message was to U.S. lawmakers? Well, John, in his words, he said that $60 billion aid package should have been approved yesterday.
Zelensky is right to say that without American support Ukraine is likely to lose.
Russia has a huge arsenal. Although it is ostensibly for defense, they have not defended their country since 1945. Instead, they have constantly provoked their neighbors. There was a shooting war in Chechnya, as a people within the Russian Republic itself fought for its freedom. Russia initiated a war of secession in Transnistria, Moldova. Russia initiated a war with Georgia. Russia initiated the 2014 war against Ukraine in which it took over Crimea and sponsored the supposedly spontaneous uprisings in Donetsk and Lugansk, which turned out to be successful.
The Russians were behind many failed "spontaneous uprisings" elsewhere in Ukraine in 2014 such as Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Mariupol and Mykolaiv. Inasmuch as the federal government had been eviscerated by President Yanukovych, it fell to the citizens of those cities to defend themselves. They did, courageously and effectively.
Tucker [00:06:31] Oh, it should have been approved yesterday.
Well, apparently he's successfully made that case to Mike Johnson, the speaker of the House, who has said the second the congressional recess ends his number one priority at a moment when the U.S. is being invaded.
We'll send that $60 billion to Ukraine, possibly as a loan.
Not that, of course, anyone expects Ukraine will ever repay or be grateful for that money.
They're not grateful now.
So we sent a message to the speaker of the House and asked him to come on and explain why, when the majority of the Republicans he represents both the voters and members of Congress, opposes why he would join with Democrats to do the one thing that Americans don't think we should do, which is send another $60 billion to pay the pensions of Ukrainian bureaucrats and funded doomed war.
Why are you for that? And of course, he hasn't responded.
We also sent multiple requests to Zelensky himself for an interview to explain his position.
Of course, he ignored that as well.
Low blow, Tucker. Ukraine is grateful for the help it has received. We are frustrated that it has not been as timely as it could have been.
The Ukrainians' opinion of the United States is higher than it should reasonably be. They see the United States as a prosperous country where things work. They are not as aware as Tucker and me of the many grave problems that are not being addressed or even recognized.
So: we are grateful!
With regard to the interview request, Zelensky would probably be right to be suspicious. More important, were he to grant an interview with Tucker it would damage his standing among his longtime supporters.
Zelensky is unfortunately allied with the wrong group in the United States – the corrupt Biden, Pelosi, Shumer faction. While they seem to be losing, and rightfully so, he cannot abandon them.
There's not a lot we can do, but one person who actually serves in the U.S. Congress and who was saying the truth about this question out loud is a member from Georgia called Marjorie Taylor Greene, and she joins us now to explain what she's doing in the face of this insanity.
Congresswoman, thank you so much for coming on.
Do we mischaracterize anything, any of that, Do you think, I mean, from an outsider's perspective, it seems like Mike Johnson is working.
The speaker of the House, the Republican speaker of the House is supposed a conservative is working with the Biden administration to put the priorities of Ukraine above the priorities of the United States, and to do something that his own voters don't want him to do.
Is that true, do you think?
Tucker frames the question correctly. Given the massive problems that the United States is now facing, can it afford to support Ukraine?
The US has been dedicated for seventy five years to resisting Russian aggression, first in the Soviet Union and now the Russian Federation. We created NATO for that purpose. We shaped our military with that in mind.
Now that we have a clear case of exactly the Russian aggression we have long feared, are we ready to respond?
MTG [00:08:00] Yeah, that's absolutely true, Tucker.
Because the details of the foreign aid package that we're going to be voting on next week when we go back to Washington, we're reading about the details in the news.
Let me tell you something.
Not one Republican member of our conference that I have spoken to has any idea what is in this foreign aid package that's going to give $60 billion to Ukraine and that is even the leadership offices.
They haven't heard from Mike Johnson on the details.
We're reading about it in the news the same way the American people are.
And it's outrageous.
When you saw Zelenskyy right there on that interview talking about, oh, we're going to lose territory.
Oh, we really need this money.
This $60 billion should have been approved yesterday.
Let me tell you, we are losing our country to the illegal invasion that's happening every single day at our southern border.
And I am so pissed off about it because the American people are pissed off about it.
And while our so-called Republican speaker of the House is only working with Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries and Ukraine First Mitch McConnell and the white House and Jake Sullivan, who he talks to on the phone all the time.
We are angry and people have had it.
We don't want $60 billion to go to Ukraine because as we slept last night, Tucker, we just went $40 billion more into debt.
And that's because the interest in our debt is so huge and our debt is so massive.
This is happening while we sleep every single night.
So no, we don't want to send $60 billion to Ukraine.
We want to put our country first.
It's time to care about America.
Marjory Taylor Greene is absolutely right that the border invasion the United States is now suffering is a far greater threat to Americans than Russia.
The issues have become entwined, pro-Biden and anti-Biden. Support for Ukraine's just cause should not depend on Biden.
Greene puts it in perspective. Ukraine wants $60 billion. As stated above, much of this is in already existing, obsolete inventory such as A10s, F16s, APCs and such that could simply be shipped. There would be no need to print the $60 billion.
On the other hand, " as we slept last night, Tucker, we just went $40 billion more into debt." The US debt problem is indeed out of hand. That and the border should be America's top priority – Biden's top priority.
But they are not. The Republicans want to use Ukraine as a bargaining chip. What they are bargaining for is absolutely the best for America, but unrelated to Ukraine.
Tucker [00:09:38] So I mean, is it true, do you think that the Republican speaker would bring this up at when your recess ends and get it passed without the majority of Republicans, but with Democrats like, could that actually happen?
MTG [00:09:51] Yeah.
Yeah, because that's what he's planning to do.
Here's what I've been told.
Well, first off, let's go back to the last vote that we had on any Ukraine funding was on September 28th of 2023.
That was only months ago.
And that vote only 101 Republicans voted yes for $300 million, $300 million to go to Ukraine.
And that was because I pitched an enormous fit and said, take this money out of our Department of Defense.
We should not be funding a foreign war in order to fund our military.
That's completely wrong.
And our military, their mission, as stated on their website, is to put our national security first.
It's all about our national security.
Fighting a proxy war with Russia and Ukraine, which is a non NATO member nation, is not protecting America's national security interest.
It doesn't protect the United States of America.
As a matter of fact, that pushes us closer and closer to World War three.
So we had that vote on September 28th, 2023.
117 Republicans voted no.
That was the majority of the majority.
Every single Democrat voted yes.
Every single one.
They had zero Democrats vote no.
Our Republican Speaker of the House is planning to suspend the rules next week.
He is planning to not put this bill through the Rules Committee.
He's not going to allow us to do any amendments.
Amendments are our way of changing a bill.
Amendments are our way of putting our districts interests who we represent.
That's our job title representative.
It's our way of changing a bill.
My Johnson is going to tie our hands behind our backs and not allow us to do that.
As he brings that bill to the floor.
Every Democrat will vote for it and a small portion of Republicans less than the majority will vote for it as well.
And this this isn't a Republican speaker we have right now.
This is a Democrat speaker of the House, because there is zero daylight between what Nancy Pelosi did last Congress and what Mike Johnson is doing now is our so-called Republican speaker of the House.
Greene touches on the World War III scenario. Only lightly, though. She must know that Putin is a bluffer. Nobody wants World War III, but Putin desperately wants a way out of the mess he has gotten himself into.
Tucker [00:12:03] It's just an amazing thing to see.
Will he take a call from you?
MTG [00:12:09] I'm planning to speak with him on Friday and I'm very much looking forward to that.
Tucker [00:12:13] It's just interesting that he's talking, and a lot of people in the media are talking we haven't been able to talk to, but to Zelenskyy, who's a foreigner with his own interests, of course, but not an American and certainly not, we hope, a voter in this country.
But all these people take calls from Zelensky and and are swayed by him.
Is it a little weird to see an American speaker of the House pay closer attention to a foreign leader or a number of different foreign leaders than he would to his own voters and colleagues in the House and our legislative body.
MTG [00:12:46] Yeah, absolutely.
Especially considering Mike Johnson has, completely changed his character in a matter of about five months after he has become speaker of the House.
Mike Johnson is a Christian.
He he called himself a conservative.
Always has been.
He's a Republican member.
But yet here we are after the many of us was passed just just almost two weeks ago in Washington.
And now with the $60 billion going to, a war in Ukraine, that Americans, 70% of Americans do not support it.
That's the most recent polling, 70% of Americans.
And the majority of our majority of Republicans do not support funding Ukraine.
People want to see a peace deal in Ukraine not murdering more Ukrainians and more Russians.
This needs to end.
But now Mike Johnson has has made a complete departure of who he is, and what he stands for and to the point where people are literally asking, is he blackmailed? What is wrong with him because he's completely disconnected with what we want?
Glad to see Greene call it "murdering Ukrainians." That's what Putin is doing.
Ukraine knows from experience, as do all of its neighbors from the former Soviet satellites, that the murder would not stop when Russia was in control. That's why they must be opposed now.
Tucker [00:13:48] Do you think he is being blackmailed?
MTG [00:13:52] I have no idea.
I can't comprehend.
Tucker.
What radically changes a man.
I mean, if we break down the the second part of basically an omnibus, let's let's break that down.
So Mike Johnson is, is pro-life.
And the second part of the omnibus, just less than two weeks ago, he funded full term abortion clinics, full term abortion clinics.
He funded the trans agenda on children.
I mean, how does that even happen from a Christian conservative Republican speaker? He did nothing for the southern border, did nothing to secure the border.
And this comes on the heels of Lake and Riley being brutally murdered.
This came on the heels of a video that was running on loop on social media, where illegal aliens had rushed our border, ran over Texas National Guard, ran over Border Patrol agents in order to invade our country.
These were military age men, by the way.
This, he did nothing to.
Nothing to secure a border.
It's the number one issue in the world.
He completely changed who he was.
Funded.
The FBI gave him a brand new building, fully funded the Department of Justice that is persecuting everyone on the right and actually targeting our presidential candidate, for for election this year.
Literally trying to put him in jail the rest of his life.
We don't know who Mike Johnson is anymore.
So there's no, I can't comprehend it.
Tucker is pushing an agenda. Greene politely defers.
Tucker is on a rant. He knows very well the give-and-take, compromise that any politician must make. Certainly Mike Johnson more than anybody. One can question the wisdom of the trade-offs he makes, but it does not require attacking the man's integrity. Politics is the art of the possible.
Tucker [00:15:13] Well, I have noticed just from living in Washington for so long that a lot of the top decision makers are lying about their personal lives, and there's something, you know, really amiss there.
And I would definitely say a Mitch McConnell would be among those.
And there does seem to be a connection between the creepiness of your personal life and the deception around your personal life and your willingness to vote with the other side.
I mean, have you noticed this at all?
This is a leading question. Not that Tucker is wrong!
MTG [00:15:43] Absolutely.
And I think it's something that the American people are extremely aware of because none of it makes sense.
How do you become speaker of the House? And let's look at that.
It's basically like there's establishment Washington, runs like a company.
We could call it the firm.
Well, Mike Johnson just got promoted to senior partner at the firm because he has been obeying their every single demand.
He funded the military.
He funded the military industrial complex and everything that they want done.
He funded Biden's open border invasion.
He funded the Green New Deal, the climate agenda.
He funded full term abortion clinics, the trans agenda on kids.
He funded every single thing that the firm stands for and what they're trying to push on the rest of the world.
This is the agenda for the rest of the world.
And they are not they're not hiding it one single bit.
We saw the white House declare Easter Trans Day of visibility, which is the biggest insult slap in the face to Christians all over our country.
And that's the majority of Americans.
They are not hiding it.
How did Christian conservative Mike Johnson go from being a Christian conservative? Voting that way, legislating that way to the speaker of the House that actually funds that agenda? I mean, what in the world happens and you can't help but to question, what do they have on him? Is he being blackmailed? What would make this man do this? And I would argue there's something wrong, because every single time I hear him open his mouth, he's complaining about how tired he is and talking about how he only gets three hours of sleep at night.
Tucker, let me tell you something.
And you know this, too.
I have worked my ass off, like at times in my life where I'm training for triathlons, training for major competitions, working full time, raising three children, and at those times of my life, I was still able to get 7 or 8 hours of sleep.
Busy as can be.
There's something wrong with your conscience.
If you're only getting three hours of sleep at night and you're tired all the time, and it's because you are, you are going against.
You're who you are.
You're going against your inner self.
You're going against the person that you are, but you're turning into something else.
And and I think something is seriously wrong, not only with him, but many other people in Washington, DC.
I don't know about Mike Johnson. As an indictment of establishment Washington, she is right on.
Tucker [00:18:05] And I think that's such a deep that's such a deep point.
And thank you for making that and to the point.
And look, I try to invoke people's religious faith.
I feel like it's personal, kind of not my business.
But Mike Johnson has talked a lot about his faith as a Christian.
And he says it informs all of his decisions.
So with that in mind, here he is funding a government in Ukraine that's putting priests in jail, putting literally putting priests in jail.
Banning a Christian denomination, you know, sending the army in to closed churches.
And he's also funding war in Gaza.
That's killing Christians and blowing up Christian churches.
So how can a Christian be in favor of using U.S. tax dollars to kill and imprison other Christians? I don't understand that.
What does that.
MTG [00:18:51] You know you can't be.
It's called a hypocrisy is what that's called.
That's that.
That is completely against every, every tenet of our Christian faith.
It's against what the Bible says.
You know, if we went to biblical principles.
Tucker.
Biblical principles teach us to not be in debt because we are slaves to our debtor.
But yet this morning when Americans woke up, they found themselves $34.
6 trillion in debt, and it went up $40 billion while they slept.
So that's that is completely against our Christian faith, against our our principles that the Bible teaches us.
But to fund the murder every single day, to fund a war, to pay for it, to continue it, to advise it, to have our CIA on the ground over there running that war in Ukraine against Russia, nuclear armed Russia.
This is beyond this.
You can't even call yourself a Christian if that's what you're doing.
That is a complete departure from anything that is Christian.
And I would argue funding wars all over the world is a complete departure, because here's the truth they lie to us every single day.
Tucker.
The few politicians who are not hypocrites are not very effective.
Ron and Rand Paul. Ben Sasse. Perhaps Jimmy Carter, well-meaning but not a powerful leader. Ronald Reagan appears to have been generally honest, which made the lies he felt forced to tell (Iran Contra, viz) believable or at least acceptable.
May be different today with Tulsi Gabbard, J.D. Vance, MTG herself. People are fed up with politics as usual.
Larry Summers, posed this question to Yanis Varoufakis when he was Finance minister of Greece:
‘There are two kinds of politicians,’ he said: ‘insiders and outsiders. The outsiders prioritize their freedom to speak their version of the truth. The price of their freedom is that they are ignored by the insiders, who make the important decisions. The insiders, for their part, follow a sacrosanct rule: never turn against other insiders and never talk to outsiders about what insiders say or do. Their reward? Access to inside information and a chance, though no guarantee, of influencing powerful people and outcomes.’ With that Summers arrived at his question. ‘So, Yanis,’ he said, ‘which of the two are you?’
Tucker knows this.
Telling us that Vladimir Putin and Russia is going to continue and march across Europe and take over Europe.
That is a complete lie, because that is not what we are seeing with our eyes.
And that is not what history, recent history is showing us.
And that is not the statements of Vladimir Putin and Russia.
That is not what they are saying they want to do.
Taking over all of Europe would be a stretch. Reincorporating the Baltics would not be a stretch at all.
Recent history does show us Russia taking parts of Georgia, Moldava and Ukraine. More distant history shows us that it is a deeply ingrained trait of the Russians.
History shows that the Russians lie more egregiously than people of any other nation. It is what Europeans such as Custine and Tocqueville have written for years, what we experienced through the Soviet era, and what we are seeing now.
They are lying. Read what Putin has said in the past. Read his favorite philosopher, Alexander Dugin.
Tucker [00:20:19] Yeah.
I mean, like they care about Europe.
They blew up their natural gas pipeline, they impoverished Europe, they destroyed the economy of Europe.
Mike Johnson and his friends.
So last question.
Is this actually going to happen? Will this funding go through with Mike Johnson leading the charge after recess?
MTG [00:20:39] Yes.
Everything that I've seen, everyone that I've talked to is this is happening next week.
He's going to suspend the rules.
He's going to bring it to the floor for a vote.
Every Democrat is going to wear their blue and yellow lapel pins and flags and and scarves, and they're going to to vote, defund that.
And we're going to have, you know, a percentage of our Republicans that actually support it will vote to fund it, and it will pass in the House.
It will pass and the House, it'll go to the Senate.
Mitch McConnell will line up his little Senate soldiers, and they will vote for it.
And Chuck Schumer can't wait to pass it because, I mean, because Ukraine is everything, right? Ukraine is everything.
Murdering an entire generation of Ukrainian men is the most important thing that they can do.
And yeah, they'll pass it.
And then Joe Biden will signed into law.
Once again, "murdering an entire generation of Ukrainian men."
Yes, but their alternative is slavery. The Russians have never been kind masters, and they would be especially cruel after having to fight so hard to win a war they started. It would simply be impossible for a Ukrainian man to stay on his native land.
That's why the nation is choosing to fight. That's why help will be very welcome.
Tucker [00:21:29] Yeah.
Shutting down churches.
Well, that's their agenda anyway.
Is there any way to stop it? Do you think?
MTG [00:21:35] If the American people.
If the American people.
Let me tell you something, Tucker.
And I can't make this point loud enough.
The American people can stop our government.
They can when they when they decide that it's important enough for them, when they realize that within ten years, in ten years, CBO has projected that we will be approximately $55 trillion in debt at the current spending levels.
If everything stays the same, we're going to be $55 trillion in debt in ten years.
We are going to implode.
If the American people finally decide they're tired of illegal aliens murdering them.
They're tired of illegal aliens squatting in their homes.
They're tired of illegal alien men raping children and raping women.
Yeah.
The American people finally have had enough and say no, they can stop it.
And let me tell you, Tucker, if the American people say enough of of sending money to foreign wars and foreign aid and funding the murder of people in foreign countries and in countries we can't even find on a map most of the time.
Yeah.
If the American people say they've had enough of that and they're able to engage in this and stop spending all their money on all their hobbies and being disconnected and refusing to look at the serious situation that we're living in right now.
Oh, yeah.
The American people have far more power than I have, and I'm a member of Congress.
If they literally hold our government accountable and stand up and say, enough of this, and I think they should throw out every single elected official, I'm not kidding that every one of us should be thrown out.
This government is a failure to the American people.
And I'm angry about it.
Tucker.
Because I'm a mom, my adult children and that generation and your kids and our grandchildren at the current rate right now, they'll never be able to afford a home.
They have no, strong financial future.
And they are going to be, living and raising their own children in a country whose government has screwed all of us over.
And that is the flat out honest truth.
Tucker.
And so, yeah, the American people could stop it if they really want to.
MTG's conclusion. A good one. She is right on every issue she mentions, and Ukraine is not among them.
MTG [00:23:46] Thank you.
Tucker is horrible wrong. The US and UK and the USSR are to maintain security per an agreement long ago. But the US become the world cop after WW2. True enough the US can't really afford the war but OTOH, it can't afford for Russia to destroy Ukraine either. To my mind the US needs to rebuild it's defense production capability if only to intimidate those wishing to dominate the world - China mainly and Russia to a lesser degree. I can hardly believe that Russia is able to outproduce the US much less the US + the EU in terms of weapons. To my mind that's a political embarrassment. Wonder why Tucker doesn't get it.
Here's why it's important for the US to support Ukraine in its campaign to stop Russia dead in its tracks, drive its occupying forces out of Ukraine including Crimea, and secure Ukraine's borders against the threat of future incursions:
"How is a revived Eurasian--Russian empire to bring about "the geopolitical defeat of the U.S." (260)? An appropriate response to the looming Atlanticist threat, Dugin contends, is for the renascent Eurasian-Russian empire to direct all of its powers (short of igniting a hot war), as well as those of the remainder of humanity, against the Atlanticist Anaconda. "At the basis of the geopolitical construction of this [Eurasian] Empire," Dugin writes, "there must be placed one fundamental principle--the principle of 'a common enemy.' A negation of Atlanticism, a repudiation of the strategic control of the United States, and the rejection of the supremacy of economic, liberal market values--this represents the common civilizational basis, the common impulse which will prepare the way for a strong political and strategic union" (216)" https://tec.fsi.stanford.edu/docs/aleksandr-dugins-foundations-geopolitics
It looks like Ukraine may soon be able on its own to put Russia's energy sector out of business - the thing about oil in the Far East is that it has to keep moving through pipelines - if it stops and the wellheads freeze, that's the end for that well. That's another reason Putin wants Ukraine - huge oil and natural gas formations in the Black Sea and a warmwater port- that's why he took Crimea and Abkhazia, and wants the rest of the Black Sea coast. He can't run a military, but he does have a PhD in natural resource economics from St Petersburg Mining University.
As for Tucker Carlson, our latter-day Lord Haw Haw (that laugh...), Goebbels once remarked that the best propaganda is 80% true, with a 20% false payload. The true part makes the false payload - the important part - a lot easier to swallow, and Tucker is an excellent propagandist, Goebbels would be proud...