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>> Tucker: GOOD EVENING AND
WELCOME TO "TUCKER CARLSON
TONIGHT," QUEEN ELIZABETH II DIE
TONIGHT, THE QUEEN AT AGE 96.
THE LONGEST SERVING MONARCH AND
BRITISH HISTORY, BORN IN ONE
WORLD AND DIED IN ANOTHER.
IT’S NOT EASY TO MAINTAIN YOUR
DIGNITY WHILE LIVING IN THE
PUBLIC EYE, MOST OF US COULD NOT
PULL IT OFF OR AN AFTERNOON.
QUEEN ELIZABETH DID IT FOR MORE
THAN 70 YEARS.
I WANT TO ASK YOU ALL, SHE WROTE
SHORTLY BEFORE A CORRELATION IN
1953, WHATEVER YOUR RELIGION MAY
BE TO PRAY FOR ME ON THAT DAY TO
PRAY THAT GOD MAY GIVE ME WISDOM
AND STRENGTH TO CARRY OUT THE
SOLEMN PROMISES I SHOULD BE
MAKING AND THAT I MAY FAITHFULLY
SERVE HIM AND YOU ALL THE DAYS
OF MY LIFE.
FOR THE MOST PART SHE DID JUST
THAT.
AND THAT WAS NOT A SMALL
ACHIEVEMENT GIVEN THE PERIOD SHE
LIVED IN.
THE WEEK THAT ELIZABETH WAS
COORDINATED, EDMUND HILLARY, THE
BRITISH SUBJECTS FROM
NEW ZEALAND, THE BEEKEEPER
BECAME THE FIRST MAN IN HISTORY
TO SUMMIT MOUNT EVEREST.
THE ACHIEVEMENT SEEMS SYMBOLIC
AT THE TIME, BRITAIN ON TOP OF
THE WORLD.
BUT IN FACT BRITAIN WAS ALREADY
OVER WHETHER THE BRITISH KNEW IT
OR NOT.
TO THIS DAY BRITAIN CLAIMS TO
HAVE WON BOTH OF THE CENTURY’S
WORLD WARS BUT THEY DESTROY THAT
NATION FOREVER AFTER VICTORY
CAME, HUMILIATION.
THE EMPIRE EVAPORATED IN ALONG
WITH APRON SELF-CONFIDENCE, AND
ULTIMATELY HAD SELF-RESPECT.
IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE NOW, BUT
BRITAIN WAS NOT ALWAYS A
REGIONAL BANKING CENTER/REFUGEE
CAMP, IT WAS A REAL PLACE WITH A
HISTORY IN A LANGUAGE IN A
CULTURE AND A GENUINELY
REMARKABLE PEOPLE.
THE COUNTRY IN THE
NORTH ATLANTIC THE SIZE OF
ALABAMA THAT SOMEHOW TOOK OVER
THE WORLD AND RULED IT WITH
DECENCY UNMATCHED BY ANY EMPIRE
IN HUMAN HISTORY.
THE BRITISH EMPIRE WAS NOT
PERFECT, BUT IT WAS FAR MORE
HUMANE THAN ANY OTHER EVER.
IT IS GONE NOW, BARELY EVEN
REMEMBERED.
QUEEN ELIZABETH THE SECOND WAS
THAT THE LAST LIVING LINK TO A
TRULY GREAT BRITAIN.
TODAY ON SOCIAL MEDIA, THE USUAL
RULES CELEBRATED HER DEATH "MAY
HER PAIN BE EXCRUCIATING" A
PROFESSOR WROTE ON TWITTER, MAY
SHE DIE IN AGONY.
NO NOTHINGS TO THE MEDIA
INCLUDING A ATLANTIC AND A
COUPLE OF EMPLOYEES AT NBC NEWS
SECONDED THAT THOUGHT.
THE BRITISH EMPIRE WAS EVIL,
THEY WROTE, APPARENTLY TOTALLY
UNAWARE OF WHAT CAME AFTER.
AND SPEAKING OF, WHAT CAME AFTER
THE BRITISH EMPIRE?
HOW FOR EXAMPLE DID AFRICA FARE
AFTER THE BRITISH LEFT?
LET’S SEE, UGANDA GOT A CANNIBAL
CANNIBAL.
RHODESIA BECAME ZIMBABWE AND THE
POOREST COUNTRY ON THE PLANET
UNDER THE RACIST LUNATIC ROBBER
A BLOG WACO, AND AS OF TONIGHT
AFRICA IS BEING INTO THE GROUND.
SO IT’S HARD TO SEE ANY OF THAT
IS AN IMPROVEMENT, BECAUSE IT’S
NOT AN IMPROVEMENT, SORRY.
AND NOW THE ENTIRE CONTINENT OF
AFRICA HAS A NEW MASTER, THE
CHINESE GOVERNMENT.
CHINA IS THE LATEST COLONIAL
POWER TO DOMINATE AFRICA.
IT SUBJECTS WILL BE PINING FOR
THE BRITISH SOON ASSUMING THEY
ARE NOT ALREADY.
IN AN IDEAL WORLD, THERE WOULD
NOT BE EMPIRES, NO EMPIRES, ONLY
SOVEREIGN NATIONS PAIRED BUT WE
DON’T HAVE THAT WORLD I NEVER
HAVE HAD THAT WORLD.
GOING BACK TO THE ASSYRIANS 1400
YEARS BEFORE CORE CHRIST
APPEARED IN THE REAL WORLD,
STRONG COUNTRIES DOMINATE WEEK
COUNTRIES, AND THAT TREND SHOWS
NO SIGN OF CHANGING.
WHAT YOU CAN SAY ABOUT THE
ENGLISH AS THEY TOOK THEIR
COLONIAL RESPONSIBILITY
SERIOUSLY.
THEY DID NOT JUST TAKE THINGS,
THEY ADDED.
WHEN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT
WITHDREW FROM AFGHANISTAN FOR 20
YEARS WE LEFT AIR STRIPS,
SHIPPING CONTAINERS, AND GUNS,
WHEN THE BRITISH PULLED OUT OF
INDIA, THEY LEFT BEHIND AN
ENTIRE CIVILIZATION, LANGUAGE,
LEGAL SYSTEM, SCHOOLS, CHURCHES,
PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
ALL STILL IN USE TODAY.
HERE’S THE TRAIN STATION IN THE
ENGLISH BUILT AND BOMBAY, FOR
EXAMPLE.
THERE’S NOTHING LIKE THAT IN
WASHINGTON, D.C., LIKE THAT NOW.
MUCH LESS IN KABUL OR BAD
BAGHDAD GUARD AND AFTER 75 YEARS
OF INDEPENDENTS, HAVE THEY
PRODUCED A SINGLE BUILDING AS
BEAUTIFUL AS A BOMBAY AT THE
TRAIN STATION THAT THE
COLONIALISTS BUILT?
NO, SADLY IT HAS NOT COME IN AT.
SO DESPITE WHAT THEY ARE
CLAIMING ON TWITTER TONIGHT, THE
BRITISH EMPIRE WAS MORE THAN
JUST.
THE BRITISH DID NOT COMMIT
ACCEPT OUR GHIBLI AGAINST THE
JUDGE DURING THE BOER WAR.
THE BRITISH DID GIVE THEM THE
MAGNA CARTA, HABEAS CORPUS,
FREE SPEECH.
THEY ENDED THE TRANSATLANTIC
SLAVE TRADE AS WELL AS WIDOWS IN
INDIA.
THE BRITISH EMPIRE SPREAD
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY TO THE
ENTIRE WORLD AND PUBLISH SOME OF
THE GREATEST LITERATURE EVER
WRITTEN AND PRODUCED OF FINEST
MANUFACTURED GOODS EVER MADE
ANYWHERE AT ANY TIME INCLUDING
NOW.
IT WAS AN IMPRESSIVE PLACE RUN
BY IMPRESSIVE PEOPLE.
WE WILL SEE MANY EMPIRES GOING
FORWARD, BUT WE WILL NEVER SEE
ONE SO BENIGN.
THAT’S TRUE, AND BECAUSE IT IS
TRUE, THE PEOPLE WHO WOULD LIKE
TO RUN THE WORLD IN A FAR
HARSHER WAY WOULD LIKE TO MAKE
CERTAIN THAT YOU DON’T KNOW IT.
AND SO THEY DESTROY THE
EVIDENCE.
THE EVIDENCE THAT IT EVER
EXISTED.
HERE THEY ARE TEARING DOWN A
STATUE OF A BRITISH
PHILANTHROPIST IN THE U.K. TWO YEARS AGO.
YEARS AGO. [YELLING]
[CHANTING]
DESTROY THE STATUE, ERASE THE
MEMORY.
THAT’S WHY THEY ARE DOING IT.
SLANDER THE RULER, DISCREDIT THE
ENTIRE PERIOD SHE LIVED IN.
AND THAT’S EXACTLY WHY THEY ARE
ATTACKING QUEEN ELIZABETH
TONIGHT.
NOT BECAUSE SHE WAS A BAD