During a recent speech, Tucker Carlson took aim at Joe Biden’s mental health, claiming that Biden suffers from dementia and is unaware of his surroundings. Carlson also accused the media of concealing the truth and suggested that they are either “too stupid to breathe unaided” or “liars.”
Carlson began by addressing the media’s reaction to Biden’s performance in a presidential debate. “I watched CNN today, and they had the presidential debate, the US presidential debate. It was amazing on every level. But what was especially amazing was afterward, they went to the panel of assembled democratic operatives posing as journalists, and all of them were, like, shocked to discover that Joe Biden has dementia,” Carlson said.
Joe Biden’s dementia, as seen from 10,000 miles away. pic.twitter.com/Vc2QzqwQQM [1]
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) June 29, 2024 [2]
He criticized the media’s pretense of being surprised by Biden’s condition, stating, “What? Oh my gosh, he’s non compos mentis. No way. Are you serious? And I’m thinking to myself, what year is it? 2024?”
Carlson recalled that he had heard from a reliable source in 2019 that Biden’s family was concerned about his mental health. “I said this on TV at the time and was denounced as a racist or something. But his sister had told a friend of mine that the family was upset and that his son, sadly, had passed away. The family was convinced he needed to get it out of his system by running for president,” Carlson explained.
Carlson criticized the media for ignoring Biden’s obvious cognitive decline. “It was obvious the whole time that he had no idea where he was, and that it was cruel, and that his grasping, horrible wife, who poses as a doctor, was pushing this so she could go to state dinners. And everyone knew this,” he stated.
He went on to describe the reaction he received while traveling abroad. “Everywhere I’ve traveled around the world for the past four years, people are like, ‘So Joe Biden, how is he?’ I think he has dementia. He certainly does. Everybody knows because they have, I can’t remember, the internet, and it has video on it, and it takes about 15 seconds to determine the leader of the most powerful country in the world with this mass nuclear arsenal involved in two simultaneous wars, doesn’t know what day it is, and that’s really scary,” Carlson remarked.
Carlson also touched on the media’s role as gatekeepers of information. “Our media are not just observers of reality or describers of reality, people who bring you the story first on the scene. No, they’re the gatekeepers to reality. You don’t know what the world looks like, except through them like they are the pipeline through which all information flows. Yeah, in the United States, they’re political actors. They work for a political party, in effect, if not officially, they all work for the Democratic Party,” he said.
He concluded by discussing his understanding of democracy, emphasizing the importance of the majority’s will. “Democracy, simply defined is the the idea that the people own their country. It was their country, and they hire people to represent them, but fundamentally, they are shareholders in this enterprise. They’re owners. They’re not serfs. They’re not renting it. This isn’t a rental car. It’s your car. You change the oil in it because it belongs to you, right? And that’s what citizenship is. And so in a democracy, you know you don’t have to do everything the majority wants every moment, but over time, if what you’re doing bears no relationship to what the majority wants, then you know for a fact, it’s not democracy. And you know you can try to convince people of things. You can say, well, you know you want this, but I think you should want that, and here’s why, but you can’t ignore them, or else it’s not a democracy. It’s an oligarchy.,” Carlson asserted.
Carlson criticized the Democrats for prioritizing their own agendas over the will of the majority. “These defenders of democracy are now saying, ‘Obviously Joe Biden’s got Alzheimer’s and he’s super unpopular, he can’t win, therefore we need to replace him.’ It was a landslide in 2020 that gives him the authority to do whatever he wants, whether you like it or not. Yet, at the same time, because he might not win against the Orange Man, we need to take his job away and let the donors put someone in there who can beat the Orange Man,” Carlson said.
He concluded by suggesting that the Democrats have a different understanding of democracy. “Maybe we’re defining the word democracy a little differently. Maybe you think democracy is when we do exactly what you and eight of your friends want. Whereas I think democracy is when you do the will of the majority over time,” Carlson stated.