Reaction & Commentary
THE TEACHER IMMEDIATELY REPORTED HIS THREAT TO AUTHORITIES, WHO SENT HIM TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM FOR A PSYCHIATRIC EVALUATION. HE WAS THERE FOR JUST 20 HOURS, WE WROTE LATER IN HIS DIARY, “I GOT OUTED BECAUSE I STUCK WITH THE STORY THAT I WAS GETTING OUT OF CLASS AND I STUPIDLY WROTE THAT DOWN.
THAT IS THE REASON I BELIEVE I AM SO ABLE TO PURCHASE GUNS.” BUT HE WAS LYING. ’S INTENTION TO COMMIT MASS MURDER AS HE LATER WROTE, “NOT A JOKE,” I WROTE THAT DOWN BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT I WAS PLANNING TO DO. AND HE WAS. HE WAS MENTALLY ILL COME HIS
CLASSMATES KNEW THAT, HE MADE FOR STRANGE FACE FACIAL EXPRESSIONS PAY LAST YEAR HE SHOWED UP TO SCHOOL FOR A FULL WEEK WEARING A HAZMAT SUIT. BOOTS, GLOVES, EVERYTHING, RECALLED ANOTHER STUDENT BEARD POLICE AND SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS UNDERSTOOD PERFECTLY WELL THAT GENDRON WAS FINANCIALLY DANGEROUS. THAT IS WHY THEY SENT HIM TO THE PSYCH WARD.
EVEN HIS OWN PARENTS MUST HAVE KNOWN SOMETHING IS VERY WRONG. >> Jesse: ANYONE’S DIARY DESCRIBES HOW HIS MOTHER HELPED HIM BURY A CAT HE HAD BEATEN TO DEATH IN A GARAGE AND THEN BEHEADED WITH A HATCHET. ON SATURDAY, PEYTON GENDRON FINALLY DID WHAT HE SAID HE WOULD DO COME HE COMMITTED MASS
MURDER FROM OPENING FIRE ON A CROWD OF STRANGERS IN A BUFFALO SUPERMARKET AND MURDERED TEN OF THEM. SO HOW DID THE ADULTS AROUND HIM LET THIS HAPPEN? IN A COUNTRY WITH FUNCTIONING LEADERSHIP, WE WOULD BE ASKING THAT QUESTION. THE SCIENCE OF MENTAL ILLNESS WERE CERTAINLY THERE. THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE MISSED
THOSE SIGNS AND DIDN’T TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY ENOUGH, WEREN’T PAYING CLOSE ENOUGH ATTENTION. IN ANY CASE, THEY DIDN’T FIX IT, THEY LET A KILLER SLIP THROUGH. SO WHAT DID THEY DO WRONG WITH PAYTON GENDRON AND HOW CAN WE LEARN FROM IT? WE SHOULD LEARN FROM IT IF WE WANT TO PREVENT MORE MASS MURDERS.
THAT IS NOT AT ALL WHAT OUR LEADERS ARE ASKING TONIGHT, HARDLY. INSTEAD, THEY ARE ASKING THE ONLY QUESTION THAT EVER OCCURS TO THEM: HOW EXACTLY CAN I BENEFIT FROM THIS? HOW CAN I LEVERAGE THIS TRAGEDY TO MY ADVANTAGE? HOW CAN OTHER PEOPLE SUFFERING MAKE ME MORE POWERFUL? IT DIDN’T TAKE LONG FOR
JOE BIDEN TO FIND A WAY. BIDEN FLEW TO BUFFALO THIS MORNING TO SPEAK ABOUT WHAT PAYTON GENDRON DID. THERE HAD BEEN A NUMBER OF MASS MURDERERS SINCE BIDEN BECAME PRESIDENT, SOME RACIALLY MOTIVATED PURELY LITTLE OVER A YEAR AGO, THERE WAS A SUPERMARKET MASSACRE THAT HAPPENED TO HAVE THE SAME CASUALTY TOTAL.
A SYRIAN BORN MAN MURDERED TEN PEOPLE IN BOULDER, COLORADO, AND EVEN USE THE SAME CALIBER RIFLE THAT PAYTON GENDRON FOUGHT TO BUFFALO. BUT JOE BIDEN DID NOT BOTHER TO KNOW MY FLIGHT TO THAT — HE FLEW TO BUFFALO TO BLAME HIS POLITICAL OPPONENTS THERE. WATCH. >> HEADS OF STATE ASKED ME, WHAT
IS GOING ON? WHAT IN GODS NAME HAPPENED ON JANUARY 6? WHAT HAPPENED IN BUFFALO? THEY ASK. >> Tucker: JANUARY 6TH AND THE BUFFALO MASSACRE. SO HOW IS A POLITICAL PROTEST AT THE CAPITOL RELATED TO A MURDER SPREE BY A DEMENTED TEENAGER IN NEW YORK STATE OVER THE WEEKEND?
WHAT DO THOSE TWO EVENTS HAVE IN COMMON AND WHO ARE THESE UNNAMED HEADS OF STATE WHO ARE CONNECTING THESE NONCONNECTED EVENTS IN CONVERSATION WITH JOE BIDEN? YOU MAY HAVE WONDERED THAT BUT DON’T ASK BECAUSE IT IS NOT MEANT TO BE ASKED, IS A RHETORICAL DEVICE MEANT TO CONNECT EVERYTHING THAT MIGHT
CHALLENGE JOE BIDEN AND A BUNCH ALL THESE THINGS TOGETHER IN THE SAME REPULSIVE MORAL CATEGORY. JANUARY 6TH, MASS MURDER, BUBONIC PLAGUE, IT IS ALL THE SAME AT ALL BAD AND BECAUSE IT IS BAD, JOE BIDEN FOREIGN US TODAY, AFTER 250 YEARS, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO SUSPEND THE
BILL OF RIGHTS AND WE BEGIN WHERE THE BILL OF RIGHTS BEGIN, WITH THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH. SPEAKER YOU CAN’T PREVENT PEOPLE FROM BEING RADICALIZED, BUT WE CAN ADDRESS THE RELENTLESS EXPLOITATION OF THE INTERNET TO RECRUIT AND MOBILIZE TERRORIST GROUPS. >> Tucker: THE RELENTLESS EXPLOITATION OF THE INTERNET TO RECRUIT AND MOBILIZE TERRORISM. OKAY.
CAN ANYONE SHOW, HAS ANYONE EVER SHOWN THAT THIS SPECIFIC CASE, PAYTON GENDRON WAS “RECRUITED AND MOBILIZED” BY THE INTERNET? NO, IN FACT, HIS OWN ACCOUNT, HE WAS MENTALLY ILL. HE SNAPPED. HE HAD BEEN PLANNING THIS FOR A LONG TIME. HE DID WHAT HIS DISEASED BRAIN COMMANDED HIM TO DO.
THE INTERNET DID NOT MAKE HIM DO IT, HE DID IT HIMSELF. EVEN IF GENDRON HAD BEEN “RADICALIZED” BY WHAT HE READ ON THE INTERNET, WHAT THEN COME EXACTLY? MANY HAVE BEEN RADICALIZED. POL POT WAS RADICALIZED BY READING DOS CAPITAL, KILLED MORE THAN A MILLION PEOPLE, SHOULD WE BAN THAT BOOK, BAN ALL
BOOKS COME ALL INTERNET SITES THAT “RADICALIZED” PEOPLE? WHAT EXEC IS JOE BIDEN SAYING HERE? HE IS SAYING THANKS TO WHAT HAPPENED IN BUFFALO OVER THE WEEKEND, YOU NO LONGER HAVE ANY RIGHTS AT ALL, INCLUDING THE MOST BASIC WHICH IS TO READ WHAT YOU WANT. AFTER NULLIFYING THE FIRST AMENDMENT, JOE BIDEN MOVED
TO THE SECOND AMENDMENT. >> THE VENOM OF THE HATERS AND THEIR WEAPONS OF WAR, THE VIOLENCE AND THE WORDS AND THAT STOCK OUR STREETS COME OUR STORES, OUR SCHOOLS, THIS VENOM, THIS VIOLENCE CANNOT BE THE STORY OF OUR TIME, BUT THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS WE CAN DO. WE CAN’T KEEP ASSAULT WEAPONS OF
OUR STREETS, WE HAVE DONE IT BEFORE. >> Tucker: SO BECAUSE A MENTALLY ILL 18-YEAR-OLD USED A SPECIFIC RIFLE TO COMMIT THESE CRIMES, YOU CAN’T HAVE THAT RIFLE. JOE BIDEN’S BODYGUARDS CAN HAVE THAT RIFLE, SO CAN NANCY PELOSI’S COMMIT OF COURSE THEY DO, IN FACT, YOU PAY FOR IT
ALL, BUT THEY ARE IMPORTANT AND YOU ARE NOT, SO YOU CAN’T. BECAUSE THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE FAILED TO PROTECT SHOPPERS IN BUFFALO, YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO PROTECT YOUR FAMILY EVEN THOUGH YOUR FAMILY MIGHT BE EVERY BIT AS IMPORTANT AS JOE BIDEN AND NANCY PELOSI AND THEIR FAMILIES.
BUT THEY ARE NOT AS IMPORTANT. SO WE ARE GOING TO DEFUND THE POLICE AND DISARM YOU, THAT IS HOW IT WORKS, I’M SORRY. AND THEN JOE BIDEN GOT TO THE MAIN POINT OF HIS SPEECH WHICH WAS THAT PEOPLE WHO CRITICIZE HIS IMMIGRATION POLICIES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE VIOLENCE YOU SAW IN BUFFALO.
HERE IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES EXPLAINING THAT. >> THE HATE THAT THROUGH THE MEDIA AND POLITICS AND THE INTERNET HAS RADICALIZED ANGRY, ALIENATED, LOST, ISOLATED INDIVIDUALS, AND INTO FALSELY BELIEVING THAT THEY WILL BE REPLACED — THAT IS THE WORD, REPLACED BY THE OTHER. AND I CONDEMN THOSE WHO SPREAD
THE LIE OR POWER, POLITICAL GAIN, AND FOR PROFIT. >> Tucker: SO YOU LOCK THE COUNTRY DOWN, LOCK KIDS OUT OF THEIR SCHOOLS FOR TWO YEARS, FORCE THEM TO GET “EDUCATED” ON THE INTERNET, BUT IT IS SOMEONE ELSE’S FAULT THAT THEY ARE “ALIENATED?” THEY HAVE BEEN HEARING ABOUT THE GREAT REPLACEMENT THEORY.
YOU’VE HEARD A LOT ABOUT THE GREAT REPLACEMENT THEORY RECENTLY. IT IS EVERYWHERE IN THE LAST TWO DAYS AND WE ARE STILL NOT SURE EXACTLY WHAT IT IS. HERE’S WHAT WE DO KNOW FOR A FACT. THERE IS A STRONG POLITICAL COMPONENT TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY’S IMMIGRATION POLICY. WE ARE NOT GUESSING THIS.
WE KNOW THIS. AND WE KNOW IT BECAUSE THEY HAVE SAID SO. THEY SAID IT AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN. THEY HAVE WRITTEN BOOKS ON IT AND MONOGRAPHS AND MAGAZINE ARTICLES, THEY HAVE BRAGGED ABOUT IT ENDLESSLY AND TALKED ABOUT IT ON CABLE NEWS CONSTANTLY, AND THEY SAY OUT LOUD, WE ARE DOING THIS BECAUSE
IT HELPS US TO WIN ELECTIONS. THAT IS NOT SOMETHING SAID ONCE, IT IS SOMETHING THEY HAVE GLOATED ABOUT AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN, AND WE THINK THAT IS WRONG, AND IN CASE YOU DOUBT US, HERE THEY ARE. >> THE BLUE WAVE IS AFRICAN-AMERICANS. IT IS WHITE, IT IS LATINO, ASIAN
OR PACIFIC ISLANDER, IT IS MADE UP OF THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT THEY ARE NOT WORTHY OF BEING HERE. IT IS COMPRISED OF THOSE WHO ARE DOCUMENTED AND UNDOCUMENTED. >> A COUPLE OF PRESIDENTIAL CYCLES, YOU WILL BE ON ELECTION NIGHT, ANNOUNCING THAT WE ARE CALLING THE 38TH ELECTORAL VOTES
IN TEXAS FOR THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT, IT IS CHANGING, IT IS GOING TO BECOME A PURPLE STATE AND THEN A BLUE STATE BECAUSE THE DEMOGRAPHICS. >> THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF AMERICA ARE NOT ON THE SIDE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. THE NEW VOTERS IN THIS COUNTRY ARE MOVING AWAY FROM THEM.
AND INSTEAD, THEY ARE MOVING TO BE INDEPENDENTS OR EVEN VOTE ON THE OTHER SIDE. >> AND UNRELENTING STREAM OF IMMIGRATION, NONSTOP, NONSTOP. FOLKS LIKE ME, WHO ARE CAUCASIAN, OF EUROPEAN DESCENT, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 2017 WE WILL BE AN ABSOLUTE MINORITY IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. ABSOLUTE MINORITY.
FEWER THAN 50% OF THE PEOPLE IN AMERICA, FROM THEN AND ON, WILL BE WHITE, EUROPEAN STOCK. THAT IS NOT A BAD THING. THAT IS THE SOURCE OF OUR STRENGTH. >> Tucker: [LAUGHS] SO YOU CAN PLAY CLIPS OF THEM SAYING IT AND YOU ARE THE DERANGED CONSPIRACY NOT!
MAY BE THE FUNNIEST PART IS THEY MAY NOT BE RIGHT. THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS DECIDED THAT RATHER THAN CONVINCE YOU PEOPLE WHO ARE BORN HERE THAT THEIR POLICIES ARE HELPING YOU IN MAKING THE COUNTRY BETTER AND STRONGER, THEY WILL CHANGE THE ELECTORATE. AGAIN, THEY SAY THAT. WE ARE NOT GUESSING.
BUT THE FUNNIEST PART IS THEY MAY BE WRONG, ACTUALLY, JUDGING BY RECENT POLLING. TURNS OUT YOUR AVERAGE SALVADORAN LANDSCAPER POLITICS ARE A LOT LESSER TO DONALD TRUMP’S THAN THEY ARE TO JOE BIDEN AND JENSEN NANCY PELOSI’S. THEIR CALCULATION MAY BE COMPLETELY WRONG. THAT IS NOT THE POINT, THE NOT THE RACE AND ETHNICITY.
HAS TO DO WITH TWO THINGS. ONE, THE PURPOSE OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO SERVE U.S. CITIZENS. PERIOD AND TWO, YOU SHOULD NEVER CRAFT ANY FEDERAL, WHICH IS JUST A NATIONWIDE POLICY, IN ORDER TO HELP A SPECIFIC POLITICAL PARTY. THAT IS BY ITSELF IN ISOLATION AND MORAL. DOES NOT MATTER WHAT THE POLICY IS.
AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE DOING. AND AGAIN, THEY PRANK ABOUT IT, NOT JUST DEMOCRATIC PARTY POLITICIANS, VIRTUALLY EVERY MEDIA FIGURE ON THE LEFT HAS BEEN BRAGGING ABOUT THIS FOR DECADES. OH, IT IS A CONSPIRACY THEORY. REALLY? YOURS ANNA NAVARRO FROM HER TIME AS A HARVARD FELLOW AND THIS IS
AS A HARVARD FELLOW AND THIS IS WHAT SHE WROTE, “THE DEMOGRAPHIC WILL GROW IN NUMBERS AND INFLUENCE, MUCH OF UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF HALLUCINOGENS HALLUCINOGENS,” — THAT PIECE IS CALLED OLD WHITE STRAIGHT MALE VOTERS AIN’T WHAT THEY USED TO BE, AND QUOTE. IF YOU DON’T WANT PEOPLE TO BE
PARANOID AND ANGRY, MAYBE DON’T WRITE PIECES LIKE THAT AND RUB IT IN THEIR FACE AND GIVE THEM THE FINGER DAY AFTER DAY. MAYBE DE-ESCALATE A LITTLE BIT, YOU THINK, JOE BIDEN, ANNA NAVARRO? THEY ARE NOT THE ONLY TWO, THIS HAS BEEN THE PREVAILING VIEW ON THE LEFT FOR A LONG TIME, A
POLITICAL PIECE FROM 2013, WE COULD GO ON FOR HOURS, “IMMIGRATION REFORM COULD BE A FINANCE FOR DEMOCRATS. THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY ARE “PUMPING AS MANY AS 11 MILLION NEW HISPANIC VOTERS INTO THE ELECTORATE A JACKET AND NOW THAT ELECTORATE A JACKET AND NOW THAT COULD INDUCED IN THE EL TORO –”
AS NOTED, THAT CALCULATION MAY BE COMPLETELY WRONG. A LOT OF PEOPLE THE DEMOCRATS ARE IMPORTING MAY WIND UP BEING DEEPLY SYMPATHETIC TO THE OTHER PARTY BECAUSE THEY ARE ACTUALLY NOT WHITE LIBERALS, THAT IS THE SECRET, BUT IT ALMOST DOES NOT MATTER HOW THEY VOTE, THINKING ABOUT POLITICS IN THOSE TERMS IS
IMMORAL, THAT IS WRONG, BUT GAMING THE SYSTEM, NOT DEMOCRACY, THE OPPOSITE AND THEY BRAGGED ABOUT IT FOR MORE THAN A DECADE. ANOTHER EXAMPLE FROM 2013. THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ANNOUNCED THAT “SUPPORTING REAL IMMIGRATION REFORM THAT CONTAINS A PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP IS THE ONLY WAY TO MAINTAIN ELECTORAL STRENGTH IN THE FUTURE.
OH, GREAT REPLACEMENT THEORY ANYONE? THESE PEOPLE ARE LUNATICS. THEY ARE TELLING YOU WHAT THEIR STRATEGY IS. WHEN YOU NOTE IT, THEY SCREAM AT YOU AND CALL YOU A CRIMINAL. 2018, “THE NEW YORK TIMES” PUBLISHED AN EDITORIAL CALLED “WE CAN REPLACE THEM.” [LAUGHS] JUST IN CASE SUBTLETY IS NOT YOUR THING.
RIGHT NOW, AMERICA IS TEARING ITSELF APART, AND EMBITTERED WHITEMAN UNSERVED AND MINORITY SWAMPED. WROTE THIS, “DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES WILL HARM REPUBLICANS FOR YEARS TO COME. DEMOGRAPHICS IS DESTINY.” ARE YOU ALLOWED TO SAY THAT? ONCE AGAIN, THEY ARE WRONG AND IF YOU HAVE NOT LOOKED AT AN IF YOU HAVE NOT LOOKED AT AN
ELECTORAL MAP RECENTLY, — YOU ARE WRONG, THE FACT YOU’RE SEEING DEMOGRAPHICS IS DESTINY TELLS YOU THE GREAT REPLACEMENT THEORY IS COMING FROM THE LEFT. THEY DO NOT THINK IT IS A THEORY, THEY THINK IT IS REAL. 2021, “THE WASHINGTON POST” JEN RUBIN CELEBRATED A REPORT THE NUMBER OF WHITE PEOPLE IN THIS
COUNTRY IS DECLINING. CAN YOU IMAGINE? “THIS IS FABULOUS NEWS,” SHE WROTE, NOW WE NEED TO PREVENT MINORITY WHITE RULE.” MY GOD, TALKING LIKE THAT. IS THERE ANY MORE DIVISIVE THING YOU COULD WRITE? WE CAN GIVE YOU A MILLION MORE EXAMPLES. WE ARE OFFENDED BY THIS BECAUSE IT IS WRONG AND WE SAID SO.
BUT FOR SAYING SO, ACCORDING TO CARL CAMERON ON MSNBC TODAY, WE SHOULD BE THROWN IN JAIL. WATCH. >> YOU’VE GOT TO WATCH OUT BECAUSE THE REPUBLICANS HAVE BECOME THE PURVEYORS OF MISINFORMATION, AND WHEN A TWO-PARTY SYSTEM IS BROKEN LIKE THAT, DEMOCRACY IS SERIOUSLY IN TROUBLE. THE PRESIDENT ACKNOWLEDGED THAT.
IT IS TIME TO ACTUALLY START BUILDING THINGS AND MAY BE TAKING SOME NAMES AND PUTTING PEOPLE IN JAIL. >> Tucker: TAKING SOME NAMES AND PUTTING PEOPLE IN JAIL. HMM, WHO WERE THOSE PEOPLE BE? WELL, THANKS TO A SENATE MIGHT MAJORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER OF NEW YORK WE KNOW, SEND A LETTER
TO THE BOSS IS A FOX NEWS BLAMING THE SHOW FOR THE MASS MURDER IN BUFFALO IS SELL AS OTHER MASS SHOOTINGS IN RECENT YEARS, ACCORDING TO CHUCK SCHUMER, THIS SHOW SPREADS DANGEROUS RHETORIC AND NEEDS TO BE PULLED OFF THE AIR IMMEDIATELY IN THE NAME OF PUBLIC SAFETY. AGAIN, CHUCK SCHUMER IS A
FEDERAL OFFICIAL AND A LEAN DEMOCRAT IN UNITED STATES SENATE. THERE WAS A TIME 18 MONTHS AGO THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED A DIRECT VIOLATION OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT. WE HEAR IT EVERY DAY. LET’S THROW THEM IN JAIL. WE WANTED TO HEAR MORE FROM CHUCK SCHUMER ABOUT THIS. INVITED HIM ON THE SHOW TONIGHT
