![]() ![]() Rewind back to 2020, the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is the byproduct of something I’ve taken to calling the Kooky Internet to Tucker Pipeline. If you had the misfortune of watching Carlson, you might think that the bizarre idea of a climate lockdown is a patented Tuckerism. The thing that made my eyes pop is something that may have felt like a pithy off-hand comment: The idea that we may soon see “climate lockdowns.” There’s lots going on here: From the sarcastic insinuation that COVID-19 was not real, to Carlson’s side-stepping of the cause of the energy crisis. Leaders in Europe are bringing back the phrase 'flatten the curve,' but this time they're not talking about COVID.” “It's been the refrain for the past years during the COVID pandemic - which was totally real. “Remember back to COVID, when the leaders told us our natural rights would be suspended to, quote, flatten the curve,” Carlson impishly began. Which brings me, unfortunately, to Tucker Carlson.Įarlier this week, Carlson used his monologue to harp on the price of energy - from emergency alerts in California asking residents to reduce energy consumption amid a heat wave to European Union efforts to “flatten the curve” of energy demand to stave off shortages this winter. But, boy, it is sure an effective rhetorical device. Or, at least, if something bigger is going on here, it’s rarely the big thing they have in mind. That because I don’t accept that every allegation made against the global elites, I must implicitly trust them.īut just because someone posits “maybe something bigger is going on here?” does not mean that something bigger, is, in fact, going on here. I am sometimes accused, often by conspiracy theorists, of not accepting that maybe something bigger is going on here. )Īnd if you were in Los Angeles in 1981, you might have grown suspicious of the sudden influx of high-quality, and hitherto largely unavailable, crack cocaine which had appeared in the hands of rival street gangs: “Maybe something bigger is going on here?” you may well have asked. Wandering through the streets of Santiago in 1970, amid a country-wide general strike that had paralyzed the economy and left shelves bare, with protesters demanding the ouster of President Salvador Allende, you'd be right on the money to suggest "maybe something bigger is going on here?" ( CIA, again. Working at a Montréal hospital in 1960, where your fellow doctors are giving patients a mystery compound that seems to cause intense psychosis: Asking "maybe something bigger is going on here?" might have led you to uncover the CIA's MK-ULTRA operation. There are increasingly few situations when rhetorically asking “maybe something bigger is going on here?” is the sign of good things to come. ![]()
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