Tucker and Candace Put America Second — and Their Hate First – The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator

A year or so ago, when Candace Owens moved over to the Dark Side, I published some thoughts here about her and Tucker. I wrote, with ample documentary evidence, that Candace had become an outright open and notorious Jew hater. But I defended Tucker. I also defended him after he and Fox parted company.

People say that even a broken clock is right twice daily. Whatever.

Neo-Nazis and Neo-Conservatives (Neocons)

I am not now and never have been a “neocon.” In political terms, the prefix “neo” means approximately a newish version of an older philosophy. A “neo-Nazi” is not quite a Hitler-Eichmann-Mengele Nazi but wishes he were. So he learns to raise his arm stiffly, but even Hillary, Kamala Harris, and Elizabeth Warren do that. He learns maybe a few words in German, maybe responds to a sneeze with “Gezunt-heit” instead of “Gahblessyu,” and coyly leaves cryptic references to “88.”

More than half a century ago, the neo-Nazis published a small weekly newspaper under the leadership of George Lincoln Rockwell, who eventually was assassinated by one of his fellow neo-Nazis. Some Jews obsessed over what Rockwell was publishing about them. But others felt better after reading how wealthy and powerful we are. Did the bank turn down your mortgage application? No worries: the Nazi paper says we Jews own all the banks anyway, so some Jew bank, hiding under an assumed name like “Citibank,” “Capital One,” or “Wells Fargo” will lend.

Or, was your kid turned down by Harvard or Yale? No problem: the Jews own Harvard and Yale. And so on. We own America. We own the world. Very enjoyable weekend reading until we are back at work and reality the next Monday, when the boss starts yelling at us again.

So that’s neo-Nazis. And neo-Conservatives (“neocons”) basically were FDR liberals who could not be shaken out of their knee-jerk, whiny, virtue-signaling liberalism until, by the time of Jimmy Carter 30-40 years later, they could not take it anymore. If a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged, maybe some neocons came over after being victimized by street crime. Or Carter clobbered them when the economy tanked with a collapsed bond market and 19 percent interest on home loans.

Maybe it was watching the Ayatollah holding Americans hostage for 444 days, effectively creating a new ABC News competitor to Johnny Carson on late-night TV, Ted Koppel’s “Nightline.” Russia was conquering Africa and South America, and all Carter could do feebly in response was to boycott the 1980 Olympics, penalizing the dreams of American kids who had set aside four years of their lives to train for the shot at gold. As Ronald Reagan arose in 1980 from the ruins and ashes of Carter and Brother Billy and Mizz Lillian, that brought a generation of liberals into neoconservatism.

They bought into Reagan’s agenda, but his conservatism was not Trump’s. Reagan was for “Free Trade,” the opposite of tariffs. He was an interventionist, for example sending Marines to Lebanon where 241 brave patriots were blown up by Hezbollah in one fell swoop.

The thing about neocons is that they still harbored their liberal imagination that Americans have a duty to save and police the world, so they got us into mischief and mayhem, pressing the George Bushes into intervening around the globe in situations not meant for us. Neocons felt they had to bring America into every friend’s overseas divorce. So Iraq and Iran were killing 500,000 of each other in only eight years, and we had to get into their mess. No one in history, even the Russians during under Jimmy Carter’s presidency, ever came away a winner after getting involved with Afghanistan. Yet, we undertook a Kandahar “regime change.” And so on.

 ‘America First’ Means We Stay Out of Other People’s ‘Forever Wars’ 

I just recently published my article here articulating that we do our best when we let people outside our borders kill each other all by themselves. Interventionism is foolish neoconservatism. We don’t need that and should avoid it like the plague. We don’t owe anyone anything. Rather, everyone owes us — particularly the British and French. At least the Brits gave the world Churchill, then threw him out after he saved all their hides from Hitler. But the French?

In that recent article, I explained why we need to stay out of those overseas conflagrations, endless “forever wars” that offer us nothing but deaths without spoils. We save them; some of our boys get blown up; their wives become widowed; their kids become orphaned; and we don’t even take the spoils — like oil fields and refineries — as repayment, as in wiser times. After we save them, they get rich off the oil we helped them keep, although we have earned those spoils with the blood of our best, most idealistic, patriotic souls. They end up with surpluses, and we with $34 trillion in debt.

We mostly need to keep our boots off foreign soil. To that degree, Tucker reflects views that so many of us hold, a sense that America comes first — and no one else. We do not owe other people’s displaced refugees a home in our country. Even if we wanted to save the world that way, we cannot. Too many of them to save without taking us down with them. We see what they have done to France, England, Germany, Holland, and so much else of Europe. We don’t need that. We don’t owe them. Frankly, the virtue-signaling Europeans also could have and should have told them to go find new homes in Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Libya, and other places where the spoken language is Arabic anyway, the only permitted religion is Islam anyway, and the ethnicity is Arab anyway.

“America First” is compellingly logical and simple. The Democrats have always known that, too. The Democrats fought against Hispanic immigration tooth-and-nail for generations until they saw how millions of undocumented Hispanics — i.e., Illegals — turned California from the state whose majority of citizens gave us Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Pete Wilson, George Deukmejian, and others to a state so Deep Blue that it ends up with a Jerry Brown, Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom — and a $100 billion (and more) “bullet train” that has not seen a piece of track laid in 15 years.

The Democrats saw they could turn the evenly split electorate forever by importing tens of millions who cling to government assistance for survival. We don’t need that.

Tucker Fails to Distinguish ‘Hate First’ from ‘America First’

So I was big on Tucker while he was at Fox and as soon as he departed. Now he would have even fewer restraints on telling it like it is. And that is how his new soapbox began. I defended him quite vigorously. But, as he became increasingly independent, he inadvertently exposed how higher-ups at Fox actually had helped him avoid revealing the side of him that President Trump calls “Kooky Tucker Carlson.”

Smart people have a gift of discernment. They can distinguish between very similar things, identifying subtle but critical nuances. Thus, it is desirable to advocate and live by a mantra that we must always put America First. That we need to stay out of foreign entanglements that lead to “forever wars” aimed haplessly at effectuating regime change. Think: Iraq. Think: Afghanistan. Think: Libya.

But … what if a foreign government aims actively and openly to pursue a tangible national enterprise focused on destroying you? Can you distinguish that? Is that good — allowing North Korea to develop nuclear weapons aimed at us and aircraft or launchers capable of destroying Washington, D.C.? Or Red China or Putin? Should “Head in the Sand” isolationism-at-all-costs lead us to ignore evidence that certain enemies are hell-bent on incinerating America?

Tucker cannot see that nor grasp it even though the Iranians could not be more clear: “Death to America.” They build a nuclear arsenal. Death to America. They create the launchers and aircraft to deliver the nuclear payloads to our cities across the globe. Death to America. Hundreds of thousands of them in the streets of Teheran, chanting “Death to America.”

What kind of —  kook — cannot figure out that we have our own national existential need to stop Iran from getting nukes? And since we are lucky enough to have Israel as an ally with the same agenda — because the Ayatollah maniacs happen to be aiming at the Jews, too — and Israel now is doing all the dirty work for us, why would any kook who presents as an “America First” conservative line up with Elizabeth Warren, Tim Kaine, Bernie Sanders, Rashida Tlain, Ilhan Omar, Tim Walz, Kamala Harris, and Biden’s auto-pen?

The problem, it sadly appears, is that, for Tucker, it is not “America First,” though it almost is. Rather, for Tucker, it is America Second. And, yes, that is very close to first, but first is:  Hate. Animus. Hostility. For Tucker, that’s first. Hate First, America Second.

Whom does he hate? I did not pick up on it earlier when he was at Fox News, but I started noticing. He flies to Moscow and sycophantically gives a respectful two-hour platform to Putin, surprising even Putin that the questions were so softball-easy. Gives another platform for a reviled Nazi apologist and Holocaust Denier. A platform for Andrew and Tristan Tate. A platform for the leftist woke apostate Jew, Ben Cohen, of Ben & Jerry’s. Another platform for Candace Owens. See a pattern?

I don’t like pinning “antisemitism” on people who harbor detestable views if there is an alternative explanation. But the Tucker I defended twice has revealed himself to be a guy who has a Jew thing for whatever demonic reason he does. And so, that deep pent-up hate blinds him to the actual reality of America First.

America First does not mean sending our boys into the Mideast to fight Israel’s wars. We have never done so, and we never should. As I showed recently, not only would that be bad for us but Israel also does not need or even want other countries getting boots on the ground in their wars.

Soon, there are Piers to Nowhere, and food being dropped from the sky and landing on people’s heads, and idiots like Kama Harris telling ABC News that she has “studied the maps” when she would not be able to use a map to find her local Starbucks without Alexa or Siri barking directions.

But America has a deep stake in piggy-backing on Israel’s yeoman’s work in taking down the Iranian nuclear enterprise. Those nuclear weapons have been designed to fit onto ICBMs, Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles. Iran does not have ICBMs to reach Israel just as Israel does not have them to reach Iran. The ICBMs are meant to drop nukes across continents on our cities. We need to bomb Fordow, the Ayatollahs’ mountain-based nuclear enterprise, before those nukes visit us. We have to. America First.

The good news is that, if we blow our chance, the Israelis will save our butts anyway, as they often do, because they will be acting “Israel First.” And we will be the lucky beneficiaries of their heroism, courage, incisive strategic insight, and uniquely creative military strategizing. It cost us $4 trillion (in today’s numbers) to fight World War II. We give the Israelis $3-4 billion every year in military credits, which we require them to spend here, supporting our defense contractors. When cynics ask how much we spend on Israel, they fail to realize that we spend far more propping up all the various Arab Muslim sovereigns surrounding Israel. But even if we did not, it would take more than 1,000 years of $3-4 billion annually to equal the $4 trillion-plus that the Israelis will be saving us from a World War III started when Iran would be dropping a nuke on the White House of a future Kamala Harris or Auto-Pen.

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