{"id":14346,"date":"2026-08-15T04:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T11:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/?p=14346"},"modified":"2026-08-15T04:21:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T11:21:51","slug":"tucker-carlsons-ten-point-manifesto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2026\/08\/15\/tucker-carlsons-ten-point-manifesto\/","title":{"rendered":"Tucker Carlson’s Ten-Point Manifesto"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Axios<\/a>. My comments are intercalated and signaled by ‘BV.’<\/p>\n

[Tucker] Carlson said any successor to America’s faltering political system should begin with a shared understanding of what the country “should be,” which he distilled into 10 points.<\/p>\n

Fair:<\/strong>\u00a0The same rules should apply to presidents, federal agents and elites such as\u00a0Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>, whose impunity Carlson cast as emblematic of an “Epstein class” enriching itself through a corrupt system.<\/p>\n

BV: Of course!<\/p>\n

Sovereign:<\/strong>\u00a0Carlson claimed Israel pushed the U.S. into the Iran war through “bribery or threat or both,” while describing foreign lobbying, corporate control of government and high-interest debt as forms of “slavery.”<\/p>\n

BV: As for the claim about Israel, I don’t understand why Carlson makes it. What’s his evidence?\u00a0 Of course, Israel would be the first nation to be nuked into oblivion should the Islamo-theocrats in control of Iran acquire nuclear weapons.\u00a0 So Israel, among all the nations of the world, ought to be, and presumably is, the most concerned about the Iranian threat, and is of course pleased that the USA, under Trump’s leadership, is doing something about it.\u00a0 \u00a0But the Big Satan (USA) is also in the cross-hairs, as are the nations of Europe.\u00a0 The IRGC is a threat to civilization tout court<\/em>.\u00a0 Tucker should praise Trump for his fearless leadership.<\/p>\n

As for “corporate control of government,” Carlson may have a point that ought to concern conservatives. I understand that our government has a 10% stake in Intel Corp.\u00a0 This deserves discussion and not Hannity-style dismissal.<\/p>\n

Productive:<\/strong>\u00a0America should rebuild farming, manufacturing and craftsmanship while rejecting an economy dominated by finance, real estate speculation, surveillance systems and weapons.<\/p>\n

BV: The things mentioned in the initial clause are\u00a0 taking place under Trump.\u00a0 As for the second clause, it is impossible that our economy not be devoted in large part to surveillance systems and weaponry given the external and internal threats we face from our adversaries:\u00a0 The Chi-Coms, NOKO, radical Islam, imperial Russia, and the commie takeover of the Dems by the DSA.<\/p>\n

Beautiful:<\/strong>\u00a0Carlson alleged that urban planners deliberately “uglified” American cities, and portrayed brutalist architecture, graffiti, public drug use and violent crime as deliberate attacks on the public.<\/p>\n

BV:\u00a0 Deliberately?\u00a0 Attacks by whom?<\/p>\n

Healthy:<\/strong>\u00a0Carlson embraced RFK Jr.’s food agenda, called for universal sobriety and said widespread use of drugs such as Xanax, Adderall and SSRIs had left Americans “half-addled.”<\/p>\n

BV: I agree completely.<\/p>\n

Honest:<\/strong>\u00a0Government officials should be punished for lying to citizens, and most classified records \u2014 including on the JFK assassination and 9\/11 \u2014 should be opened.<\/p>\n

BV: Yes!\u00a0 And Trump is doing just that.\u00a0 The transparency of the Trump administration is in stark contrast to the lack thereof in previous administrations. Example: UFOs\/UAPs.\u00a0 Tucker should thank Trump.<\/p>\n

Optimistic:<\/strong>\u00a0Carlson argued that having children is a biological imperative and the foundation of long-term thinking, while blaming aging and childless elites for policies that disregard future generations.<\/p>\n

BV: OK, but if one cares about future generations, then a terror-state such as Iran under the IRGC cannot be allowed to develop nuclear weapons and the ICBMs to deliver them.<\/p>\n

Wise:<\/strong>\u00a0Schools should teach how the physical world actually works and what he called unchanging facts about human nature \u2014 including innate differences between men and women \u2014 rather than credentials, screens and technological fads.<\/p>\n

BV: Bad writing, but I agree.<\/p>\n

Decent:<\/strong> The U.S. should apologize and pay restitution for killing noncombatants, reverse Trump’s “Department of War” rebrand and stop funding allies that commit what Carlson called genocide, citing Israel.<\/p>\n

BV: This is the unhinged Carlson 2.0.\u00a0 (I suspect that his being cashiered by FOX played a major role in his unhinging.) What noncombatants?\u00a0 The DOD rebrand is just honesty. War is not just defense: it is attack and defense.\u00a0 By the way, ‘DOD’ was itself an obfuscatory rebrand; Trump restored the original name.\u00a0 Finally, to refer to Israel as ‘genocidal’ is an Orwellian inversion of the truth.<\/p>\n

United:<\/strong>\u00a0Carlson called for halting immigration until the effects of AI become clearer, ending benefits for undocumented immigrants and making English the sole language of federal documents and ballots.<\/p>\n

BV: I agree entirely re: the second and third points.\u00a0 The first point obviously needs qualification.<\/p>\n

In conclusion, this manifesto is deeply flawed, but does make some good points. I used to think highly of Tucker Carlson,\u00a0 It is too bad he lost his way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Axios. My comments are intercalated and signaled by ‘BV.’ [Tucker] Carlson said any successor to America’s faltering political system should begin with a shared understanding of what the country “should be,” which he distilled into 10 points. Fair:\u00a0The same rules should apply to presidents, federal agents and elites such as\u00a0Jeffrey Epstein, whose impunity Carlson … Continue reading “Tucker Carlson’s Ten-Point Manifesto”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,32,363,187,29,30,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-matters","category-current-affairs","category-jewish-question","category-political-apostasy","category-political-ponerology","category-political-psychology","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14346"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14363,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14346\/revisions\/14363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}