When Tucker Carlson traveled to Hungary last week, he delivered speeches on the state of America, LGBT ideology, and the West at large. One was delivered at the Mathias Corvinus College (MCC) Fest, in which he apologized for “the behavior” of Biden Ambassador David Pressman, whom he called a “creep,” “not a diplomat but an activist and a Biden donor.”
“The whole point of diplomacy,” Tucker said, “is not to hector other nations for its own sake, to show up in someone else’s country and scream at them because they’re different from you, because they have a different history or language or religion or culture. That is the opposite of diplomacy.” Tucker slammed Pressman as a “grave embarrassment,” calling his comments “an outrage to me as someone who pays his salary.”
Tucker’s speeches followed a visit by Pressman, who delivered a speech in which he criticized Hungarian lawmakers for being intolerant of LGBT values and gender ideology:
“I would like to speak this evening about freedom, and I would like to speak tonight about love, but I cannot speak about them without speaking of hate. The sad and somber truth is that as we assemble here today, LGBT people are under attack around the world including in Hungary.” Pressman speculated that anti-LGBT legislation is driven by “cynicism and expediency” rather than genuine “ignorance, or hate, or fear”: “Preying on the vulnerable to stir up hatred, to rally supporters, to augment poll numbers, is nothing new in this country or my own,” Pressman had said.
The sad and somber truth is that as we assemble here today LGBT people are under attack in countries around the world, including in Hungary. pic.twitter.com/wKGwkpbYC9
— Ambassador David Pressman (@USAmbHungary) June 18, 2023
Tucker criticized Pressman’s pro-LGBT comments, not because he disagreed with its contents, which he did, but because of what he saw as the violation of good principles behind his attempt to push values onto smaller nations.
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“If your empire is selling something no one wants, you’re not going to be in business very long. And my hope is that the United States is in business for a thousand years, I love the United States, it’s my country. I, to, restate was born there and am never leaving, I love my country. But the people who run it right now are dangerous and insane, and you can see that in the way they’re treating your country,” he said. (Perhaps a buried lede is the fact that Tucker explicitly and nonchalantly referred to America as an “empire.”)
Carlson defended Hungary, saying it is a country that is minding its own business and not wreaking havoc on other nations. “They hate Hungary, and they hate it not because of what it’s done but because of what it is, it’s a Christian country and they hate that. And that’s the truth, and no one wants to say it but it’s true,” he said. “It’s not rational, this is happening on a gut level, but it’s expressed in American policy.”
Tucker heavily disparaged the American “ruling party,” calling them “the party of the childless, the unmarried, the people working for low wages for large corporations and living in tiny apartments in overcrowded cities that are rife with crime.” He said the only people who support the American elite are “people who are working for big nonprofits or big banks, living in crowded conditions very often alone, in big soulless cities, having their food delivered by immigrants, and spending their time glued to a screen.”
Tucker Carlson went off in Budapest:
"The ruling party is the childless, the unmarried, working for low wages for large corporations and living in tiny apartments in overcrowded cities rife with crime, having food delivered by immigrants, and spending time glued to a screen." pic.twitter.com/Im62rNPShO
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) August 26, 2023
Toward the end of the speech, Tucker said he believes the “post-[WWII] order is collapsing, NATO is going to collapse, obviously, you can’t have the main, the driver of NATO, which is the United States, sabotage Germany’s main source of cheap energy NordStream. The Biden administration blew up NordStream! And the Germans are so self-hating they won’t say anything about it.”
Tucker in Hungary: "The world is reseting completely. The post-war order is collapsing. NATO is going to collapse. NATO cannot stand long term." pic.twitter.com/QzEla49erc
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) August 28, 2023
Tucker parted with some life advice, in which he extolled marriage and reading books:
“From my experience, the most important thing I ever did besides get married was read books. Not tweets, not electronic, but paper books in traditional form and read them every day. That to me is education, reading, but books.” Tucker said his father instilled in him the love of reading books, who was self-taught. “Schools come and go, and their purpose changes over time. Most modern universities were once effectively seminaries, now they’re anti-God.”
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