 Alright, Taka Carlson. Alright, we're gonna flip topics now. We're gonna go to Taka Carlson tonight I'm gonna show this video. I'll probably stop it in the middle I'll probably stop it in the middle for you guys to for you guys to for me to comment but This is the question Taka Carlson asks Or not asked. This is the answer he gives. This is why America is great So I want you to think for a second if I asked you why is America great? Just think about it for a second. Why is America great? Give me three reasons two reasons one reason What makes America great and now yeah, the trigger warning trigger warning to Taka Carlson fans This is Taka Carlson's answer To what makes America great? I Mean, I have to say that neither one of the two reasons he gives would make my top five Oh, can you guys hear you can't hear that right? All right, here we go. We'll try it again We'll unmute it this time that that will help here. We go Tonight there is a huge amount going on right now as you know really a torrent of news historic amounts To begin tonight. We are going to ignore all of it. We've never done that before This is a news show brought to you on a news channel But in this second Friday after the election, we'd like to take a 20-minute break from developments So many things seem so completely screwed up right now that it can be overwhelming and over time It's also misleading if you pay too much attention to what's happening You can easily conclude that America is a rotten country. All right. I just want to say I Agree completely what Taka Carlson. I've said it on the show stop obsessing about politics about what's going on right now and And and about you know what what what people think about America? So Absolutely, take a break stop all this. Let's focus on long-term and what really makes America a great country a Great country, but that's wrong. It's not America is still the best there is Two things about America make it great to the country and its people. This is so notice two things the country and The people I get the people will see if I agree with the way he phrase, but the country That's what makes America great Truly beautiful place. It is the first thing. It's an amazing if you're absorbed in your phone all day It's easy to forget that but look around. It's stunning Switzerland has the Alps and Bob way has Victoria Falls But multiply that by an entire continent and you've got what we have America From the islands of Puget Sound the islands in Casco Bay to the Rockies and the Badlands the Upper Peninsula and the Appalachian Mountains in between Spend a day hiking through the Shoshone National Forest in Wyoming. You might not see another person How can a place so gorgeous be so empty? We've got a lot of those here Wake up in Big Sur, California some morning the smell of redwoods and salt air will change you You'll feel things you inherited from your ancestors coming from places the modern world cannot touch We are blessed to live in a place like this more than we acknowledge All right, I don't even know where to start on this one guys So it's the scenery It's nature Wow, it's not New York City not skyscrapers. It's not Silicon Valley not technology Oh, well, we know what Tucker Carlson's view of Silicon Valley is It's nature and Tom. Yeah, I agree with yours. You're you're three are pretty good although I would put declaration of independence but It's more important than a constitution, but No, it's the scenery. It's the mountains. It's the lakes. It's Going on a hike and not seen anybody. I mean you could do that in the Sahara Desert by the way You can hike for days and not see anybody That's what makes America great the scenery nature Now notice a long long time ago. I said this is a long time ago I said that the one day when the authoritarian comes to power That authoritarian will unite two things He will unite environmentalism and That will get people from the left excited about him and Religion and That'll get people in the right excited about him the authoritarian of the future in this country other countries are different But in this country we'll have to unite a Love of America with nature environment and Religion Christianity That's what comes together. That is a winning strategy to be the dictator of the United States of America Tucker Carlson now has one of those Nature that's what makes this country great. It's beautiful now look this country is beautiful, but lots of countries have beautiful nature Let me say that again lots of countries have beautiful nature Maybe ever beats New Zealand and you can hike in New Zealand for more than one day and not see another human being That's not unique to America Israel tiny little country can't hike and I'll see another human being probably although I've done that but Beautiful nature That's what makes the country unique special great not just special great. No Nature's nice nature's nice. Okay, but there's hope people there's hope there's hope because the second one is the American people Now listen to this No matter what happens next no matter who becomes the president remember the country's beautiful Nothing can diminish the dignity of an eastern white pine towering above the spruce in a new England forest How did trees have dignity? I would think I would think you'd say something like You know Pfizer Moderna discovering you draw. I don't something like that that you know that dignity dignity of a tree Make America great All of it is ours to enjoy. Thank God And we've got a lot of people to enjoy it with an awful lot Americans are still the best people misguided as we sometimes are This isn't an especially religious country anymore, but surveys on church going do not tell the whole story Even now most Americans know they're not really in charge of the universe They know there's something bigger out there bigger than all of us combined And when you understand that when you know in your bones how small you are and how short the ride is likely to be You tend to treat people better Americans do so what makes America great is that it has people who think that they are small Insignificant in the big picture of things and that the right is short life is short This in a sense what he's really saying is people have faith. They're not maybe they're not religious in a traditional sense But they have faith They have faith and that's what makes American people great It's not Their sense and you'll notice it throughout this video freedom is not mentioned once Liberty is not mentioned once Individual rights is not mentioned once the Constitution the Bill of Rights the Declaration of Independence is not mentioned once It's our faith that we are small insignificant beings with a short lifespan and we can't control the universe That's what makes America great. I'm speechless. That's where We'll keep going because Americans are nice people. They're the nicest people in the plant now They are but why Americans nice are they nice because they think they're small puny creatures in this vast universe Or that they are they nice because they're free Isn't it true that free people generally are benevolent people that freedom breeds benevolence that people Who are founded on the principle of individual rights and therefore on the principle that they can take care of themselves Do they have a mind that they are responsible for their own life? Also respect other people who have the same rights and have the same capabilities and same abilities Free people are people who respect other people Respect the other people's freedom other people's minds other people's productive ability other people's traders But no, no, no, that's not go there No It's the smallness and the short lifespan Don't let cable news fool you don't want us fool. Yeah, don't this is a profoundly nice country the nicest in the world It is a nice Americans are kind to children to pets to strangers pets I mean pets is important. He keep repeating us how wonderful we are to pets. This is what it makes our acre great We're kind to pets. We don't eat our dogs. We give more money to charity than any other place There's another distinguishing factor. Yes, we do because we're free He won't mention that and the fact that we give charity that's it's not that we produce It's not that we create again. It's not Silicon Valley or Pfizer or vaccines or creating or building It's not skyscrapers. It's no nothing creative It's our charity. That's what makes us the greatest country in the world tip our waiters more we tip There's no country on earth. You'd rather be lost in someone will help you. It's true all true in America We don't eat dogs. We rescue them. There we go again. We sleep on the bed. We give them funny names. We cry when they die Yeah, okay. I'm not gonna comment sweet country In some ways, it's getting better the music's definitely improving. So is the food the music's improving Music is improving. You just told Tucker Carlson say that one of the things they make a maker great is the music is improving What universe does he live in? Believe it or not, we still make things here and a lot of them are pretty good We actually make more things than we've ever made before one of the lies of the Tucker Carlson and other economic nationalists We just make it with fewer people Because we're super efficient at it. We'll talk about efficiency some other time Now probably won't change Americans love innovation, but they're distrustful of anyone's radical plans for the future Most people here don't want an abrupt reshuffling of everything Remember the American Revolution. I mean, yes, it's true today. Americans don't want a dramatic reshuffling of things because But they certainly did during the revolution. That's what it was. It was called a revolution They prefer incremental improvement. That's why we've had only one revolution. It's why we fought off the metric system all these years We fought off the metric system and this is a virtue The metric system is so much more rational than ounces and pounds and miles and God But no Tucker, it's American to hate the metric system We don't want revolutions. We want incremental change Puerto Rico by the way has incremental change. So at the gas pump They they they price it all and and the gas is all on leaders But everything else is in the old system like they started to move towards metric and they stopped Which is the worst of all worlds. You get a combination of both It's why we still have Christmas and always will Christmas in America is great. This is what makes America great Christmas. I didn't know that many people don't It's still the happiest time of the year and therefore it's the most American America is a happy country It is or was or should be but why isn't that what's interesting? Isn't the real question why and Maybe that has to do with freedom Maybe that has to do with the founding fathers. Maybe have that has to do with the principles on which this country was founded Not in Tucker Carlson's world despite everything our happiness is fundamental. It's in our founding documents Yeah, it's in our people. Yeah, nothing happening tonight can take that away I Right, I mean, I think that speaks for itself the shallowness the arrogance the stupidity of it and that combination of love of nature environmentalism Religion not explicitly stated in Christian terms is solely But religion I'm afraid of Tucker Carlson. He scares me I've said this before It's a Tucker Carlson view of the world that scares me his transformation from a small L Libertarian type free market type to a nationalist conservative Pro environment environment remember conservatives were always poor environment was Teddy Roosevelt who started in the National Parks and and confiscated land in order to preserve it but And that's a bigger issue. We should talk about National Parks sometime, but Tucker scares me Tucker's views of the world scare me and This combination of left and right which Tucker embodies leftist economics with the rightist nationalism and Religion respect and admiration for religion that combination Religion on top of religion is Truly scary and and the thing to be most worried about in our future. 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