**Tucker Carlson** (0:00)
One of the most frustrating parts of the information overload that we live in now, where things are constantly coming at us through our phones, is that we never get a resolution to some of the biggest stories of our time. Something will just explode, it'll happen. Well, that's amazing, I can't believe that. And you'll have about four hours to think about what happened and its implications, then you're on to the next thing. It's just the nature of having too much information. Now, whether that's by design, whether it being overloaded as part of some diabolical plan to keep us distracted, or whether that's an actual byproduct of technology, unrestrained technology, it's not clear, and it probably doesn't matter because that's the daily lived experience of most Americans. Something huge will happen, you'll form an impression of it, not clear whether that's a correct impression or not, and then we'll move on. And this is true even of really big events. The biggest mass shooting in American history took place a little less than nine years ago, 2017, in Las Vegas. And some guy apparently opened fire on a concert right below him, you remember this, 867 people were injured, 60 were killed by gunfire, at least. And there was an FBI investigation and the authorities stared into the camera and said, we're going to get to the bottom of this. And the normal parasites showed up, telling us that, you know, the lesson is we have too many guns in this country, guns are the problem, you shouldn't have a gun because a lunatic shot people in Las Vegas or whatever. They took advantage of the tragedy to push their own agendas. And then that's kind of last we heard of it. Who was this guy? Some guy. Stephen Paddock, some guy. What was his motive? Unclear. Didn't leave a manifesto, so we don't really know. There seems to be some evidence that the official story is false. Yeah, it's fine. And then because we were so distracted with all the other things that were taking place at the time, no one ever really followed up in a satisfactory way. And so even now, the largest mass shooting in American history is solved officially. But do we have a satisfactory answer that explains why it happened? No, we don't. We're not even close to that. In fact, the answer that we do have may be completely different from the actual answer. We don't know, and no one is actively trying to find out. Because again, we're on to the next thing. And so on and so on and so on, with almost every big news story over the past, I don't know, 15 years more.
And there's kind of no way to change this because there's not enough time in life to go back and reverse engineer what we thought we knew about the most significant moments in American history. But there are a few of them that are worth pressing on even though years have passed. And one of them, one of the top ones after 9-11, which is the most important story of our lives because it completely changed America, the structure of America. But after that, you'd have to say that January 6th is near the top of the list. Why? Well, a bunch of reasons. Most obviously because January 6th produced the single largest federal criminal investigation in American history. Almost every single FBI field office was involved in tracking down the perpetrators of this insurrection, in which many policemen were murdered, and so on and so forth. Well, almost every one of those details turned out to be a lie. It was not actually an insurrection. No one was armed. No one had a gun. There's no such thing as an unarmed insurrection. Can't insurrect if you're unarmed. No police officers were murdered that day. In fact, the only person shot to death that day was a protester who was shot to by a cop, a Capitol Policeman, called Michael Bird. Her name was Ashley Babbitt. You're familiar with the rough outline of this. But the one fact that is true is that this did produce the largest FBI investigation in American history, something 5,000 agents were involved. In the end, they arrested about 1,500 people on federal crimes, and a bunch of those people went to jail. Now, not everybody who is involved that day on camera, provably involved, including people who encouraged others to breach the Capitol, to go inside, to break an obvious law by going into a locked federal building, not all of those people wound up being charged or serving jail time. Nick Fuentes, for example, was on camera encouraging people to storm the Capitol. He wasn't punished for that, apparently. Certainly didn't serve any jail time over it. Ray Epps didn't serve any jail time over it. Same thing. What is that? Maybe just a weird anomaly where the feds spent years in the, again, largest domestic criminal investigation in American history, charged 1,500 people with federal crimes, but just missed a couple who were on camera encouraging others to break the law. Things happen. Bureaucracies are famously inefficient. Maybe they just kind of forgot those guys, or maybe something else was going on. We're still arguing about that.
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