"Hell Has Frozen Over": The Internet Is In A Tizzy Over This Tucker Carlson Clip Seemingly Calling Out MAGA's Crackdown On Hate Speech

It's been a genuinely chaotic week, my friends. And though I privation I could accidental that thing surprises maine anymore, that would beryllium a lie.

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In the aftermath of the fatal shooting of governmental activistic Charlie Kirk past week, immoderate politicians connected the close person been keen to present consequences to radical they find are "celebrating" Kirk's death. Here's a tweet from Rep. Nancy Mace applauding the firing of 3 Clemson University employees who she said were "cheering for assassinations."

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Just yesterday, Jimmy Kimmel's late-night amusement was pulled from the air owed to threats from the FCC implicit his comments astir the imaginable governmental leanings of the shooter. And among the voices sounding the alarm connected the dissolution of the close to free speech is blimpish commentator Tucker Carlson.

Carlson appeared with a beardown connection connected the taxable earlier this week connected his podcast, The Tucker Carlson Show. A peculiar clip from the amusement has since gone viral connected X.

"You anticipation that Charlie Kirk's decease won't beryllium utilized by a radical we present telephone atrocious actors to make a nine that was the other of the 1 helium worked to build," helium says successful the clip. "You anticipation that."

"You anticipation that a twelvemonth from now, the turmoil we're seeing successful the aftermath of his execution won't beryllium leveraged to bring hatred code laws to this country."

"And spot me, if it is, if that does happen, determination is ne'er a much justified infinitesimal for civilian disobedience than that. And determination ne'er volition be," Carlson says.

"Because if they tin archer you what to say, they're telling you what to think, determination is thing they can't bash to you, due to the fact that they don't see you human. They don't judge you person a soul."

"A quality being with a soul, a escaped man, has a close to accidental what helium believes," helium says astatine the extremity of the clip. "Not to wounded different people, but to explicit his views."

Carlson, who carved a sanction for himself arsenic a right-leaning talking head, mostly connected Fox News, made immoderate superior waves online with his statement.

One viral tweet astir the clip read, "Hell has frozen over. Tucker Carlson is calling retired the fascist authoritarian Trump authorities for insidiously utilizing the assassination of Charlie Kirk arsenic an excuse to abolish the First Amendment, circular up Americans, and transportation retired the Nazification of America."

This idiosyncratic said "The Earth conscionable tilted disconnected its axis."

"Got maine defending Jimmy Kimmel and agreeing with Tucker Carlson, I hatred it here," 1 idiosyncratic wrote.

This idiosyncratic said they "never thought successful a bazillion years" they'd retweet Carlson. "This is the mediate guys. We yet recovered it."

And finally, 1 tweet read, "When Tucker fucking Carlson is 'the dependable of reason' you KNOW crap is fucked up."