Now the United States has pulled
its troops out of Afghanistan and
the Taliban has taken control over
the country.
We're getting a sense of just how
far right the right wing in the
United States has gone because they
went from fear mongering about the
Taliban to now giving them props.
Let's start with Lauren Boebert who
is a Republican member of Congress.
She tweeted, the Taliban are the
only people building back better.
>> Oops.
>> I mean, is it oops though?
I mean, it's a oops for us,
because we certainly wouldn't want
to live under the control of
a group like the Taliban.
But for conservatives in
the country, for
right wingers in the country, for
people like Lauren Boebert,
taking people's rights away
apparently seems like a great idea.
>> Yeah, well,
there's two parts of this, one is
their enormous celebration anytime
something wrong happens to America.
The women's soccer team lost, yes.
We hate America.
Wait, what happened?
Well, this is weird.
The Taliban beat us.
Yes, yes, go Taliban,
build back better.
Now right wingers are like
she's joking.
Is she?
>> No, she's not.
>> Okay,
is she then allowed to joke about
our other enemies like go ISIS,
Nazis build back better,
we believe in you.
Can she, is that okay?
I mean, here she is cheerleading
for the Taliban.
Now that which leads to the second
part, well,
do they really disagree?
I mean, Taliban is against all
the things they're against,
against abortion against vaccines,
against science,
against doctors- >> Against Women.
>> Against women's rights,
against abortion.
I mean, and in fact that's going to
lead to some of the others and
I want to come back to both.
>> Yeah, and
let me be clear about something.
I see a very significant problem
with avoiding valid criticism of
any given government or
any given group in the name of
preventing US imperialism, right?
So I think that you can be against
the United States occupying
a country like Afghanistan.
So I'm very much in favor of
the troop withdrawal.
And simultaneously acknowledge
the fact that the Taliban is not
a wonderful group that we would
want to live under, especially
considering the brutality that
they've used against certain groups
of people who don't follow along
with their extremist views.
So I just wanted to get that out
of the way.
But we do have other examples for
you, including Nick Fuentes
who shared his thoughts about
the Taliban.
He argues that the Taliban is going
to ban abortion, vaccines, and
gay marriage.
Maybe we were fighting on the wrong
side for 20 years.
>> There you go, that's perfect.
Fundamentalists have a feather.
>> Nailed it.
No, you nailed it, that was good.
>> Got it, I'm here all week.
Anyway, they're the same.
That's the bottom line, right?
They flock together or something
like that. [LAUGH] >> So
that's a white nationalist, and
he thinks like, I love
fundamentalism or the Taliban man.
Maybe we're on the wrong side,
maybe we should be on the side
with Taliban.
I mean, how is that for
deeply ironic and he's not joking.
I mean, he is against all of those
positions.
And he is saying like,
maybe they got a point.
Tucker Carlson said it last night.
>> Well, let's go to
Tucker Carlson's video from last
night because he's a little more
subtle, but pay close attention to
what he argues went wrong with
the US efforts in Afghanistan.
>> Over the past 20 years,
for example,
Congress has allocated close to
a billion dollars to export
academic feminism to Afghanistan.
Where'd that money go?
It went to programs like a two
years master's degree in Gender and
Women's Studies offered at
Kabul University, something Afghans
apparently never knew they needed.
Another US government
effort meanwhile funded, quote,
activities that educate and engage
Afghan men and boys to challenge
gender stereotypes, right?
They weren't doing that enough.
And of course, always and
everywhere leaders enforced
the most American of all cultural
exports affirmative action.
American funded gender advisors
demanded that women compromise
at least 10% of
the Afghan National Army and
a still larger proportion of that
country's political leadership.
Thanks to American imposed gender
quotas, dozens of women ultimately
were installed as representatives
in Afghans Parliament.
How'd that work?
Well, the whole thing was
a sham, as always.
In fact, many of these new female
Legislators had never been to the
provinces they claim to represent.
Almost nobody in Afghanistan
liked any of this by the way.
And why would they?
As one USAID official conceited
in the classified report, quote,
focusing on gender made things more
unstable because it caused revolt.
It caused revolts, but officials
kept doing it, they kept pushing
radical gender politics anyway
because they could, because they
were in charge of the Stone Age
people they were going to educate.
>> I mean, can you blame them for
revolting against that kind of
stuff?
Anything that would call for
equality in that society,
can you blame them for
wanting to push back against that?
>> So a lot of people that
are decent human beings look
at the situation out here and
say, look, obviously the military
activity occupation didn't work.
We stay there 20 years, and
we got nothing.
And the minute we leave,
it turns out, no,
the Afghan military was a joke,
the government was a joke.
It had no popular support, right?
But our hearts break for
the women there, they're going to
have to suffer under Taliban rule.
And Tucker Carlson comes and goes,
are they really wrong?
And so now if you thought that was
subtle, at the end of the of that
segment he got less than, I'm going
to read you the quote, okay?
That's starts out similar,
but this is a different one
than the clip you just saw.
He says, it turns out the people of
Afghanistan don't actually want
gender studies symposia.
They didn't actually buy the idea
that men can become pregnant.
They thought that was ridiculous.
Now this sounds like the type of
thing Tucker says on the show all
the time about America, right?
With us conservatives,
we don't buy those ideas.
He continued,
they thought that was ridiculous.
They don't hate their own
masculinity.
They don't think it's toxic.
They like the patriarchy,
some of their women like it too, so
now they're all getting it back.
So maybe it's possible that we
failed in Afghanistan,
because the entire neoliberal
program is grotesque.
>> Yeah, that's why we
failed in Afghanistan.
>> No, but guys,
do you understand that quote?
He's saying they don't like
the patriarchy and
us trying to tell them that, hey,
don't do toxic masculinity.
>> No, they love the patriarchy.
>> I'm sorry,
they love the patriarchy and
maybe they're right and
the neoliberals are grotesque.
The Taliban is okay, the liberals
are grotesque for saying women
should have the same rights, and
he says their women like it too.
The Taliban's got this figured out.
I mean, that is literally
Tucker Carlson, Fox News Right Wing
leader say, Taliban's are on to
something there.
I mean, patriarchy for
the win, right?
And all those things are things
that they complain about,
the right wing in this country
complains about in America.
I mean, look,
he's saying that the Taliban's
masculinity is not toxic.
The one where they whip women,
kill women.
>> Yeah.
>> Behead women.
>> No, they love it.
>> That's not toxic?
>> They love it.
They love it.
You'd have to have a problem with
it to find it toxic.
But the right wing in America has
moved so far.
I mean, look,
the Overton window conversations
get a little annoying.
Let's just they devolved.
They devolved even further than
what we experienced during the Bush
administration, which was pretty
bad to begin with, right?
During the Bush administration,
it was nonstop fear mongering about
the very groups they're
now applauding,
the very groups they want to model
the right wing after in America.
Think about how dire the situation
is here within our own borders,
where they feel emboldened enough
to look at the Taliban and look at
the extremists in other countries,
and say, you know what, maybe we've
been fighting on the wrong side.
Maybe this was great.
Maybe we need to implement
some of these policies here
in the United States.
But we've always known it, Cenk.
We've always known it.
It's always been bubbling up
right beneath the surface for
the right wing in America.
It was certainly true in all of
the policies that they pushed for.
I mean, state after state,
red state after red state.
Look at the types of rollbacks
they've done on reproductive rights
for women.
Which by the way,
reproductive rights for
women are health rights for women.
Women get to decide what they do
with their own bodies should
they become pregnant.
And it's not up to some politician
to make that decision for her.
And yes,
it's different from a COVID vaccine
because the coronavirus pandemic
has to do with a contagious virus
that harms other people, okay?
So anyone who tries to make that
comparison, walk away, kick rocks.
Go ahead.
>> Yeah, and Ana, I've been calling
them the American Taliban for
over a decade now.
And that's because we're logical
and we can see the things that
they're pushing for.
Now the mainstream media we used
to be pre-Trump were their biggest
defenders.
We're so offended that
these radical left wingers called
our beloved Tucker Carlson and
beloved Fox News.
Remember they were all trying to
get jobs with Fox News, the CNN and
MSNBC guys before Trump, they would
always kiss Fox News ass.
Calling them the American Taliban,
that is outrageous.
That is inappropriate language.
Is it outrageous?
Now they're cheerleading for
the Taliban.
So I mean,
Irene makes a good point,
she's one of our members.
We do the show with you guys.
Irene said if the Taliban
ran the US,
Boebert wouldn't be in government.
That's right, they
don't allow women in government.
Yet this jackass comes out and go,
Taliban building back better
here let me see your tweet one
more time.
Put that up because I want you to
think about this.
So of course,
a lot of people have criticized her
tweet is outrageous, etc.
They're sharing against this.
But now, imagine if Ilhan Omar had
sent this tweet.
The Taliban are the only people
building back better.
What would Fox News have said then?
Ilhan Omar is against America,
she's for the Taliban.
And here she is,
she did it in Fox News,
Lauren Boebert, Taliban rocks.
So that's who Tucker Carlson is.
When you see Tucker Carlson,
understand that's Taliban Carlson.
That's who he is.
>> Yep.
>> He just cheerleaded for them.
It was amazing saying that their
masculinity is not toxic.
And then,
they appear to be free, etc.
Yeah, I mean,
look, I read you the quotes,
you saw the video.
These guys are monsters, and
if they got their way,
they would do this similar, if not
the same things as the Taliban.
They would restrict everybody's
freedom, they would be
authoritarian dictators, and the
very first people whose rights they
would take away would be women's.
>> We did not spend nearly
$2 trillion by the way,
not 1 trillion.
Recent estimates indicated that
we spent $2 trillion on the war
in Afghanistan.
That money did not overwhelmingly
go toward curriculums pushing for
equality in the country.
That money overwhelmingly went to
defense contractors and weaponry.
So don't buy the very clear
deflection that Tucker Carlson is
engaging in here because he would
have you believe that everything
that went wrong with that war was
the identity politics that
we engaged in.
That's the kind of garbage that
he's trying to push there.