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The Iran war is bleeding America dry and it's far worse than you think. Thomas Massie is one of the only people in Congress sounding the alarm. Tomorrow night he joins us to explain, live at 6 PM ET only on t.co/sLkXnGKCFd

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Former CIA officer John Kiriakou on why Iran is far from the most dangerous threat this country faces: https://youtu.be/S3aYb4j6XAc

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Why are the very same politicians pushing the US to fight more wars for Israel also promoting mass migration and spying on citizens? MTG on the many ways neocons hate America. Tonight, live at 6 PM ET only on TuckerCarlson.com.

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Jeffrey Sachs on the real origins of the Iran war, and the coming economic devastation: youtu.be/sFow6dOMfg

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One of the reasons we've been able to live with people of different faiths in this country for 250 years is that we don't mock other people's religious faith. Unless you're absolutely forced to, unless you're trying to make me attend your religious rituals or bow down before a god I don't consider God, unless it comes to that, we kind of let each other have our own religious views.

And that has worked. That's changing very, very fast, however. But ask yourself, can you imagine Donald Trump sending out a meme mocking Rabbi Schneerson? And of course, under no circumstances could you imagine that, because under no circumstance would that ever happen. Trump would not be allowed to do that, and Trump would never even consider doing it.


But sending out multiple images mocking Jesus? No problem at all. So that gives you a more precise sense of what our civic religion actually is. A civic religion, by the way, is not a conventional religion. Civic religion is a series of customs—some enshrined in law, not all—that a society, civilization, and its government observe. And it doesn't necessarily mean there's a god at the center of it. That's why it's a civic religion rather than a conventional religion.


But our civic religion—if you, again, take three steps back and just assess the country with the eyes of a visitor, a modern Tocqueville, you can see it really clearly. What are the events? Who are the people who we treat with reverence? Who are we actually not allowed to make fun of? What is blasphemy in modern America? Those are the questions you ask if you are trying to understand what our operative religion is.


What's the religion of our leaders?

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The leader of our country is saying, “I will take no instruction from God,” because, as he showed in his recent meme, “I am God.” So that kind of raises the question, is that okay?


Seems to be okay. There were no massive protests in front of the White House. There was no attempt really to do anything about this. In fact, many Republican leaders shrugged it off. Self-professed Christians shrugged it off, no big deal. “You know, he's just Truth Social-ing. Don't pay attention. It's just a joke. It's a joke, what, you have no sense of humor? Mocking Jesus? Giving the finger to God? You're so uptight.”
And as for his attacks on the Pope, Republican leader after Republican leader, including the Speaker of the House, the self-described Christian, fervent Christian, Bible scholar, joined in attacking the Pope.


You're going to have to wonder, is this the behavior of a Christian nation? Is the United States a Christian Nation?

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Donald Trump is not the first president to give the finger to Jesus, hardly, but he is the first president to do it in public.

And this has been going on long enough and it's reaching a kind of boiling point right now, that we can begin to see the outlines of what the actual religion of the United States government is, certainly this administration.
Because there always is one.


There's no secular government, never has been one, never will be one. A truly secular government would have no purpose. Its leaders would have no destiny. There would be no real reason to continue on. It certainly wouldn't have any evangelical zeal. And our government does have evangelical zeal. We're spreading democracy and free-market principles around the world, freedom, or whatever. So every government is motivated by religious impulse, whether the government admits it or not. And ours certainly is.


So what is the civic religion of the United States? What's the religion of the U.S. Government? What's the religion, honestly, of Donald Trump?


It's not Christianity, clearly. It's Israelism. It's the defense of Israel. Now, how do you know that? Well, because the United States has set up as its chief foreign policy in the defense of Israel, that's one clue. There's that. But it's much deeper than that.
Who are the main enemies, as identified by the president of the United States, of his government domestically? Who are his enemies? Who does he dislike? Who does he attack? Who does he go out of his way to undermine?


People who doubt. People who stand in the way of the aims of the secular government of Israel. And that would include Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thomas Massie, and the Pope. Now how do you know that's what it is? Well, because that's the only thing they have in common.

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Tomorrow with Russell Brand. Order his new book now at store.tuckercarlson.com/

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We cannot be a free and prosperous country until we are a sovereign country. What does that mean? Our leaders elected by us have to be able to make decisions in our interests. Not to the exclusion of everyone else, you don't have to end other people's civilizations in order for your own country to prosper. Doesn't work that way. But you have to put your people's best interests first, or it's not a legitimate system.

And if there's another country and an arrangement with another country that's preventing you from doing that, you have to fix it. And then there are also moral questions. If that partner, your closest ally, the only democracy in the Middle East, is killing kids in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Iran, and doing so without apology, if it's committing war crimes every single day for years with your money and your weapons, at some point you're implicated in those crimes. And you have to stop that too. It's all bad. There's no upside. Where's the upside?


And so the United States has to, and hopefully the first thing we do when and if this war is resolved, is detach from Israel. Not declare war on Israel or treat Israel as an enemy. They may treat us as an enemy. As they have before, when they tried to sink the USS Liberty, an American naval vessel, a surveillance vessel, they treated us as an enemy. We don't have to treat them as an enemy, however, and we shouldn't. But we should treat them like we treat every other country—as an ally, but with restrictions and reservations and red lines. No, you can't act against our interests.


This distancing should begin with a total end of aid of any kind, military or economic, to Israel by the U.S. Government. And people who love Israel, some of whom are pretty successful, can send all the money they want to Israel, and that's fine. But the U.S. Government should send not one more dollar to Israel and not one piece of military material to Israel, not one more fighter jet or bomb or missile defense system or small arm or ammunition of any kind. Because Israel is aggressively acting against our interests.


And so to continue to arm and finance them, their generous welfare state, for example, or their military, to defend their nation, is not only contrary to core American interests, it's just masochism. Watch us hate ourselves as we fund a country that's killed more Americans than most other countries have. That's just a fact and not just on the Liberty. Every war that Israel has pushed us to join has resulted in dead Americans.


And the fault lies ultimately with our leaders who are going along with us. It's their fault first. It's not the Israelis’ fault. It's our fault, but they're implicated in it. This relationship has resulted in a lot of dead Americans, a lot. And it's time not to end it, not to set up an adversarial relationship, but to set a healthy conventional relationship where Israel can pay its own bills and fund its own military and act within the constraints imposed on it by its own economy and population.


That's what normal countries do. Most countries live with neighbors that don't like them with whom they have testy relationships, but they make accommodations because they have no choice. There's no country in the world that acts with total impunity because it knows a much larger country will backstop it, no matter what it does, that just doesn't exist in the natural world, because it's not natural. It's grotesque. And it's terrible for the United States. And now it's obvious.

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