good evening and welcome to Tucker
Carlson happy Friday do you remember
when you first heard about the Chinese
government's one child policy
it sounded so foreign so crazy so
grotesque here the Communist party was
deciding how many children people were
allowed to have there was State
monitoring of pregnancy there was forced
sterilization there was infanticide at
scale
to the Western mind the whole thing was
repugnant an alien but maybe the most
Un-American thing about the Chinese one
child policy was the policy itself the
idea that government could insert itself
into the most intimated Tales of your
private life struck most Americans at a
gut level as incomprehensible the whole
point of America was to avoid plans like
that the whole point of America was
personal freedom that's why the country
was founded what you do in private on
your own time with your own money within
the boundaries of the law was your own
business and nobody else's business
was a foundational point and on that
question there appeared to be thank God
bipartisan agreement conservatives
believed in the Bill of Rights liberals
believed in personal choice my body my
choice they said government out of our
personal lives
they said that for decades
now we know they didn't mean it
turns out that liberals were very eager
to intrude as deeply as possible into
people's personal lives just as long as
they controlled the government
once they were in charge they set about
doing this with no limits and no
acknowledgment of the existence of
personal Liberty it's been going on for
a few years but it became very obvious
the moment that Joe Biden was
inaugurated president which as it
happened was two years ago today
now that day January 20th 2021 hours
after the ceremony the White House
issued a fact sheet explaining how Joe
Biden planned to quote deliver immediate
relief for families Across America that
are struggling
that seems like a pretty good idea and
you expected of course a list of maybe
economic developments or fixing the
roads or a plan to fight inflation or
stop the fentanyl epidemic but no that's
not what you got at the very top of that
list was a directive on what you were
supposed to wear
the bid Administration declared a quote
100-day masking challenge to all
Americans and they informed you that it
was your quote patriotic duty to cover
your face
almost nobody said anything about this
but it was a sea change in American
politics just 15 years before
politicians in both parties had publicly
denounced the burqa as a symbol of
Oppression
if you couldn't show your face in public
you could not be free
that's what they said and of course they
were right it's true
now you had one party demanding tissue
paper burkas for the entire population
and the other party for the most part
staying silent as they did it
that was a big deal
and in retrospect Republican
acquiescence to mask mandates was a
major mistake
if they can tell you what to wear they
can probably tell you what to inject
into your body and if they can do that
there's really nothing they can't do
they can control every aspect of your
life no matter how intimate and of
course now they do
because they want to
as you've probably read by now the
consumer product safety commission has
suggested the government will soon ban
gas stoves
now gas stoves have been a staple of
American kitchens for more than a
century you may have one in your home
you may have grown up with one but
apparently and nobody knew this until
like a week ago these stoves are a
hidden Hazard that we must eliminate
so why do we suddenly know that gas
stoves are a hidden Hazard Why did no
one tell us this before where'd this
information come from
well as the Washington Free Beacon has
reported government Regulators are
citing a study from a group called The
Rocky Mountain Institute and the Rocky
Mountain Institute recently partied
partnered with the Chinese to implement
a quote economy-wide transformation of
America
okay
so the Chinese government by proxy gets
to decide how you cook your dinner what
appliances you're allowed to have in
your own kitchen
that's right declared the Washington
Post and it's a good thing
the hidden hazards of these appliances
the post declared with obvious relief is
finally getting attention finally we've
been waiting for it you can imagine the
celebration in the post Newsroom where
they've been fretting about gas stoves
for decades and finally the science has
caught up to their concerns
well unfortunately for the Washington
Post Newsroom and the by Administration
and most of all the Chinese government
not everyone in America was immediately
on board with the idea of getting rid of
your gas stoves because they're a hidden
hazard
many people kind of like gas stoves and
they were pretty annoyed thank heaven
that someone might want to take them
away on the basis of one piece of
garbage science pushed by the Chinese
government so the whole Banyan gas
stoves thing became a PR disaster for
the Democratic party and they responded
accordingly no they didn't pull back and
say oh we're not going to take away your
gas stoves oh
they pretended it never happened in fact
anyone who is worried about the
government Banning your gas stoves they
told you is an illiterate mouth breather
and possibly a dangerous cunan militant
the problem is not that we're taking
your gas stoves it's that you're worried
that we might take your gas stoves you
freak
watch this
the gop's latest cultural nonsense the
imaginary ban on gas stoves that they're
all getting mad about over on Fox we've
even gotten to the point where a debate
over gas stoves and whether or not they
affect childhood asthma has turned into
the fear of jack-booted thugs breaking
into people's homes to have gas stoves
pried out of their cold at hand equating
it with the priorities of God and
Country and you know what have you this
is just about the purely the patrolling
that we have in Republican politics
right now right there was the gas stove
initiative that they were formerly
outraged about well this is really
delusional drivel from the Harem of the
unhinged over at Fox News you have Ron
DeSantis I'm going to protect your
guests everybody talking about gas
stoves gas it's so stupid
yeah it's pretty funny
right Wingers with nothing else to worry
about just one day decided to create a
moral Panic about gas stoves they just
imagine that someone might be coming for
their gas stoves maybe because the
consumer product safety Commission of
the Biden Administration said they were
coming for your gas stoves but noticing
that is not just to sin oh no it's worse
than that it's another battle in the
culture wars say the people who elevated
bathroom politics and people's sexual
orientation to the very top of the queue
of political concerns they're worried
about a culture War
stop for the culture wars
in other words submit
and right on cue The Washington Post
took up the new Battle Cry gone were the
stories about how we need to ban gas
stoves in their place for attacks on
Republicans for worrying that someone
might try to ban gas stoves quote
GOP thrusts gas stoves Biden's green
agenda into the culture wars oh not the
culture wars
probably true that most conservatives
would be happy not to talk about culture
at all if people would just leave their
culture alone and stop intruding into it
and telling their children who to have
sex with
disrupting the ancient division between
men and women and say the bathroom
no Republicans are not driving the
culture wars for all their many faults
actually it turns out Democrats are
trying to ban gas stoves and they've
been working on this for several years
now problem was we just didn't know
Los Angeles San Francisco Seattle New
York City have already restricted
hookups for gas stoves and gas ovens San
Diego which was once upon a time in nice
and reasonable place as it plans to ban
all gas stoves outright by 2035. at
which point it will be in ravana
now remember all of this this moral
Panic on the left about gas stoves stems
from fake science about the health risks
of natural gas pushed by the Communist
Party of China why would China push fake
science like that maybe because the
United States has some of the biggest
natural gas reserves in the world
and if we can be convinced not to use
those gas reserves we will be weak and
they will be strong they're not Banning
gas stoves it's that simple
but for the left of course cow Towing to
China comes instinctively but it's
bigger than that
the real Instinct here
is that banning things other people like
and enjoy is the purest expression of
power
when you can snatch someone's pleasure
away you feel like God
is just irresistible to certain sorts of
people to weak people pathetic people
who cluster together
in What's called the Democratic party
for warmth and safety and Power
notice conservatives aren't that
interested in their party
they'd rather be with their own family
but your average leftist is weak and
Afraid inside
and so the party is the most important
thing not the individual the party
together we are strong a part we are
powerless
turns out some people like menthol
cigarettes
not allowed oh mental cigarettes but
some people like them particularly poor
people they like them don't have a lot
of Pleasures menthol cigarettes are one
of them
but they can't have them anymore they're
being banned menthol cigarettes cause
cancer shut up
well of course a lot of things cause
cancer probably more than we know
potentially cell phones cause cancer
potentially diet soda causes cancer they
do in rats they're not banned how come
because the people who make and use
those products have paid millions in
campaign contributions to keep them
legal
but nobody cares what Menthol smokers
think they're at the bottom of our caste
system they're poor so no more pleasure
for them
menthol cigarettes are out along with
the many small businesses that sell them
watch
the biggest seller at the Elmsford smoke
shop these days are The Vaping products
but a close second is menthol flavored
cigarettes I think that's a basic like a
human right to buy like a favorite uh
cigarette if they want owner Anna Yao
says Menthol products have always been
popular it's why she keeps them
displayed behind the cash register next
to the regular cigarettes but soon Anna
may not be able to sell any of those
flavored butts very difficult very hard
for us the FDA today proposed a plan
that would in fact ban menthol
cigarettes and flavored cigars saying
the actions have the potential to
significantly reduce disease and death
as for Anna she hopes the FDA will
reconsider so her business can survive
it's really hurt my business
what's so interesting is the lady you
just saw was cleared up from this
country she doesn't speak regular
English she's obviously an immigrant her
first response is well buying the kind
of cigarettes you like is a human right
and she's absolutely right and she
probably moved here for that reason but
boy do they hate tobacco and it's not
because it causes cancer they don't care
about your health they close the gyms
during covet anyone who closed a gym
during a pandemic that killed people who
were fat clearly doesn't care about your
health at all they hate nicotine they
love THC they're promoting weed to your
children but they're not letting you use
tobacco or even non-tobacco nicotine
delivery devices which don't cause
cancer why do they hit nicotine
because nicotine frees your mind and THC
makes you compliant and passive that's
why they hate it it's a real threat to
them
new legislation in New York would raise
these cigar attacks how people die from
cigars
it's 75 now in New York the tax and
cigars will be 95 percent
get some attacks on weed is in New York
for some more weed
no more nicotine for you
you should also know that New York has
also banned the use of plastic straws
now why'd they ban plastic straw you
know there's a reason for this
but we can't remember what it is to be
fair neither than can Kamala Harris
do you ban plastic straws I think we
should yes I mean look I'm gonna be
honest it's really difficult to drink
out of a paper straw when you had if
you're just like if you don't gulp it
down immediately it starts to bend and
then you know the little thing catches
it and then you know but so we gotta
Kind of Perfect that one a little bit
more let's let's encourage Innovation
and you know I think we could do a
little bit better than some of those
flimsy plastic straws but we do need to
bend the plastic
let's encourage you to face it you can't
even get the points to take off on time
you can't even get the rats out of Penn
Station but you who've never had a job
are going to invent an alternative to
the plastic straw hmm we'll wait what
are you gonna come up with a titanium
straw what got any ideas in that
Carmella Harris
these are the last people who should be
regulating anything they want no
innovation if it got in the shower with
them
but the bottom line is they have no
Authority they have no constitutional
authority over your personal life if
it's not in the Public's fear
they have no right to ban it you can
smoke any kind of menthol cigarettes you
want you can cook at any stove you want
only you decide what goes into your body
period That's the promise of America
and if we don't stand up for that and
say no no come and get it
unless we're not embarrassed to be made
fun of by MSNBC oh you're obsessed with
gas stove no you're obsessed with gas
stoves buddy you're obsessed with
controlling my life and I'm not going to
let you come and take it how's that
but no one says that so now they're
banning laundry detergents because those
are dangerous too incandescent light
bulbs they're also on the way out the
department of energy has just banned
them they look too good so now you're
stuck with some glowy fluorescent crap
you're saving the planet
there's no Rhyme or Reason the only
thing that unites all of these
regulations is the control they hand to
a small group of dumb people with no
demonstrable job skills who only feel
alive when they're crushing the weak
this make up these insane laws because
it makes them feel like Jesus that's the
truth in Massachusetts now you can't
throw out your old jeans and your old
socks anymore it's a civil offense to
dispose of textiles it makes you want to
go in to throw t-shirts all over
Martha's Vineyard just to break the law
the country has banned shower heads that
work and toilets
so those are the rules for you no rules
apply to the people in charge Hunter
Biden gets to lie in a federal gun form
but you can't throw out your old jeans
you can't have a gas stove
but they can drive drunk
you only arrest for the purpose of
dealing with a felony that's committed
and I don't count drunk driving as a
felony
so you don't count drunk driving as a
felony but catching a menthol smoke is
now a felony using a shower head that
you don't like or the wrong light bulbs
or throwing away your old socks
this is insane and it only continues
because people put up with it you have
no constitutional right to tell me what
clothes to wear what to put in my body
what flavor my cigarettes are none of
this
is in your purview as a politician fix
the freaking roads
you're totally incompetent this is a
country that was founded
because people didn't want to pay a t
tax and so they started a war
but it's changing
and a lot of Americans we hate to say
particularly affluent ones particularly
affluent middle-aged women living in
cities not to be too specific are
totally for this
today the New York Times published an
op-ed from a woke American woman who
spent 16 years living in China what does
she miss about China she misses the
Communist Party of China co-parenting
her children she thinks the Chinese
commissars did a better job as a mother
than she could have she misses their
firm hand and we're quoting not making
this up this is New York Times Day quote
our stringent government co-parent
quickly made its presence felt the woman
rights the girls Chinese kindergarten
lectured us on everything including how
many hours our daughter should sleep
what they should eat and their optimal
weight
the Communist Party fat shamed this
lady's kids quote we sometimes felt as
if our children were alone to us for
evenings and weekends to be delivered
back to school each weekday
now again she's not writing a new
version of Darkness at noon
she's complimenting the government of
China the piece Ends by noting quote
tight control of the Communist party's
surveillance State results
in its own kind of freedom
okay that is an American that person is
sick and if you don't recognize how sick
that person is if you long for a fascist
government to call your little girls fat
you're a sick person okay the fact that
the New York Times would run that
and expect all of its readers to applaud
oh if only the government would tell my
kids they're fat this would be a better
country
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