European lawmakers are calling for a travel ban on Tucker Carlson. After Tucker posted a video on X announcing he was in Moscow to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin‚ the former prime minister of Belgium said the European Union should consider imposing a travel ban on Tucker for serving as a “mouthpiece” for Putin. Who doesn’t love freedom of speech and the press? EU bureaucrats obviously don’t. To call Tucker “Putin’s mouthpiece” even before hearing the interview shows that the left doesn’t really care about the truth. This is the critical point: This donnybrook of criticism over Tucker’s interview with Putin has no base because the interview hasn’t even debuted yet. They don’t even know the questions Carlson asked Putin. But does it even matter what the questions are? For these people‚ no‚ it doesn’t. They will always find a reason to vilify Tucker because he is one of the few‚ rare individuals with the courage to question the mainstream narrative. That’s why he is the incredible journalist that he is. How about you and me? Does it matter what questions Tucker asks Putin? Of course it does. I am hopeful he will ask some tough questions of Putin. I believe he will. But that isn't the point. As a journalist‚ he has the right to interview the most consequential world leaders of our time. Apparently‚ Mike Wallace and Barbara Walters get a free pass to interview Putin‚ but now he’s off-limits to Tucker Carlson? The hypocrisy is unbelievable. Who cares about the truth? To those jumping to conclusion about Tucker‚ calling for sanctions‚ calling him a traitor: You haven't heard the interview. You have no idea what he asked Putin. The First Amendment doesn’t have an agenda‚ and it certainly shouldn’t cave to your double standard. To those of us who care about the truth‚ who want to judge the interview for ourselves after it airs‚ here's what I'm going to look for when I watch the interview. Putin is very good at propaganda. As a former KGB agent‚ he knows how to manipulate people. Tucker is smart enough to know this. And he knows there are people looking for an American dictator. This is how communists take over. They infiltrate the government and then activate grassroots movements to create chaos and cause all kinds of problems. They want the people in the middle to become so desperate that they say‚ "Somebody has got to stop this." That's when the chaos and upheaval become unbearable‚ and people look for a dictator just to make it stop. I am not one of them. I think this is the worst possible scenario. Aleksandr Dugin‚ one of Putin’s top advisers‚ would be pushing Putin to talk about our immorality‚ our embrace of transgenderism‚ and our loss of faith. If you don't know who he is‚ listen to some of my old shows. His whole political philosophy is about using chaos to cause desperation so that a dictator can swoop in like a savior. Dugin is a very dangerous man‚ and he isn’t called “Putin’s brain” for nothing. Tucker has got to keep this on the rails. The interview should not be about America’s domestic problems. We can talk about our problems all day long‚ but I don't want to hear about them from Vladimir Putin‚ and I certainly don't want to hear his solutions. Tucker should say‚ “We’re here to talk to you about the American involvement in this war with Ukraine‚ not our internal policy debates.” Tucker will have lost control of the interview if he allows Putin to go on about America’s immorality more than once. You can let him remark on that once‚ and then you’ve got to say‚ “Mr. Putin‚ this is not about America. We have our own problems. But I don’t think it’s appropriate to talk to you about that. I'm here to talk to you about NATO‚ even the ‘American war machine’ if you want to call it that. I want to hear why you’re in Ukraine. Are you willing to look for peace? What would that look like?" Look for Putin to spin this whole thing into transgenderism and what’s happening in our schools. If he begins to discuss those‚ then he is peddling propaganda. Those are our problems to discuss‚ not his. We know who Putin is. We know how he stops drugs on the streets. We know how he treats reporters who speak negatively about him. They tend to fall from their apartment windows. He doesn't care about our issues other than their use of serving his agenda. Americans deserve an explanation Tucker also said in his video that we’ve been lied to. I want to know about what. We know our problems with the war in Ukraine all too well. Let's hear solutions and what the truth is. Nobody has ever heard from Putin why the invasion happened in the first place. I want Tucker to ask him why he decided to invade at this time in particular. I think the reason Putin invaded Ukraine is that we refused to say “no” to NATO expansion. We made a promise that we would not allow Ukraine into NATO. We said that we wouldn't let Ukraine be overrun by Russia‚ but we also wouldn't let Ukraine into the alliance. It wasn’t written down‚ but we’re people of honor. That’s all Putin was asking for first‚ and that promise was violated. That’s just a fact. We went back on our promise‚ and now Russia has gone back on its promise. But I want to hear the real reason from Putin himself.I also want Tucker to ask Putin to explain what he means specifically when he refers to Nazis in Ukraine. I did an entire chalkboard “Glenn TV Special” about the neo-Nazis funded by the Ukrainian government for border security. They exist‚ and they are really bad guys. If there is more to this story‚ I want to hear about it. There's nobody good in this on either side‚ Zelenskyy or Putin. These are the things I’m looking for in Tucker’s interview with Putin. If he keeps the conversation on track like that‚ it will be a great interview. But to call Tucker “Putin's mouthpiece” before hearing the interview shows that these leftists doesn’t really care about the truth. They don’t care what Tucker — or Putin for that matter — actually says. They don’t care that Tucker is one of several Western journalists to interview Putin and one of many to interview controversial world leaders. All that they care about is their agenda — truth or Tucker Carlson be damned. Want more from Glenn Beck? Get Glenn's FREE email newsletter with his latest insights‚ top stories‚ show prep‚ and more delivered to your inbox.

The water is boiling. We’re the frogs. And it’s working because we’re just sitting here.The president of the United States has started offering detailed accounts of his recent conversations with dead people. He talked to François Mitterrand after being inaugurated in 2021‚ despite that French leader's death in 1996‚ and he recently had a warm discussion with the equally dead Helmut Kohl. Just ask him — he'll tell you all about it. A relentlessly dishonest and dangerously stupid news media cripples us. We’ve lost the ability to say what's happening. Meanwhile‚ a special counsel chosen to evaluate the same president's unlawful storage of classified material in poorly secured personal locations concludes that the apparent crime isn't prosecutable‚ because it would be hard to prove intent when the defendant is suffering from such obvious cognitive impairment. Actual quote:We have also considered that‚ at trial‚ Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury‚ as he did during our interview of him‚ as a sympathetic‚ well-meaning‚ elderly man with a poor memory. Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him‚ he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt. It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.See‚ you can’t prove that the president of the United States intended to do anything because his brain has turned into a potato. He’s too far gone for a jury trial. Also‚ "Mister President‚ I have the football." That whole nuclear launch codes thing should work out just fine. He would probably consult with Beau before he actually fired any missiles‚ and Beau Biden is an experienced military officer‚ man. Not a joke!What’s happening to us is that we’ve experienced such a colossal implosion of ordinary standards and the simple capacity for reason that we can’t avoid slamming into every wall we encounter. “Oh‚ right‚ there's a wall in front of us. Stop with the conspiracy theories!” A relentlessly dishonest and dangerously stupid news media cripples us. We’ve lost the ability to say what's happening. One of my grandmothers kept driving to the supermarket when she was mostly blind and barely able to walk. She said she used the curb to keep her near the right spot on the road‚ so there was nothing to worry about. We hid her car keys and pulled the distributor cap out of her car. But we allow a man who talks to dead people to control the launch codes for nuclear weapons. Shame on us. Shame on us all for the degradation of our standards and the loss of honesty that make us incapable of self-government. I’d say that they're grinding our faces in it‚ but the truth is that we’re grinding our faces in it. Joe Biden isn’t fit for the office he holds. He never was. Pete Buttigieg isn’t qualified to be the secretary of transportation because he was the mayor of a medium-sized and not terribly well-run city. Karine Jean-Pierre isn’t smart enough to succeed as a waitress. We’re allowing our country to be turned into a joke. Democratic prosecutors are charging the Republican presidential front-runner with nonsense crimes and raiding his home‚ while the Democratic president won't be prosecuted for keeping classified materials in his house‚ back when he wasn’t in office‚ because he’s too far gone to have demonstrable intent. We’re not a nation — we're the plot of a Marx Brothers farce about a satirical banana republic. “Gentlemen‚ Biden here may talk like an idiot‚ and look like an idiot‚ but don't let that fool you: He really is an idiot.”We won’t vote our way out of this. Partisan politics descended into a sewer of idiocy and sociopathy because the culture of our country went to hell. We need journalists and professors who aren’t actively stupid and depraved. We need open discussion‚ honest communities‚ connected families‚ and decent people. Several years beyond the point at which the whole sick show became unsustainably foolish‚ we need to become fiercely intolerant of garbage journalism and half-wit activists — and garbage journalists who are half-wit activists. Speak up. Do it now. Call or email the White House and tell them that the senile president of the United States is illegitimate and can’t continue to hold the office. When the people who run your garbage local newspaper publish insane gibberish‚ tell them. (If you're still subscribing to a terrible local newspaper because it’s a habit‚ for crying out loud stop paying them to insult you.) When your child’s teacher sends the students home with insipid homework and moronic leftist garbage‚ say so. When your city council or your school board holds pointless meetings on symbolic resolutions about Gaza or Putin‚ for crying out loud tell them to get back to their real work.Americans are responsible for the collapse of American standards. We're tolerating this descent. Stop tolerating it. Our decline is shameful‚ and it starts in our homes and communities. At least that’s what François Mitterand just told me.

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Apple Vision Pro's official price starts at $3‚499. While its availability is restricted to Apple‚ you won't find this spatial computer on BestBuy‚ Amazon‚ Target‚ Walmart‚ and so on; it doesn't stop people from trying to sell this device on eBay and even overseas‚ where it technically doesn't work. While a few reports highlight how this device is sold at absurd prices of over $5‚000 overseas‚ you should see scalpers' prices for Apple Vision Pro in Brazil: Over $6‚600. While I should mention that this is likely the price Apple could sell this spatial computer in Brazil (No joking‚ most Apple products cost at least twice as much as in the US)‚ I can't stress enough how you shouldn't buy this device overseas. The first reason is obvious: Apple Vision Pro is an outstanding device‚ but it's already a stretch even for a $3‚499 price tag. Paying more than that for a first-generation product that needs many improvements‚ it's just nonsense. If overpaying is not a problem‚ you should consider Apple's lack of support for your "international" Vision Pro. Repairing this device is already expensive (and exclusive to the US)‚ but worse than that is locking yourself out of your spatial computer and couldn't resetting it because you can't travel to an Apple Store in the US since you live in a different country. Lastly‚ BGR's Chris Smith highlighted why you shouldn't buy the Vision Pro outside the US from your friendly neighborhood scalper. Apple has strict rules about how this device works‚ which includes: US Apple ID for downloading apps from the App Store Apple Music and TV app purchases require an Apple ID region set to the US Lack of Apple Support outside the US Unavailability of certain apps‚ features‚ or content And if you wear glasses‚ you need a ZEISS prescription‚ which you can't get outside the US. That said‚ Apple Vision Pro's price is not worth paying if you're outside the US. Especially when dealing with your country's customs. If you don't declare this $3‚499 product‚ you're likely committing fraud in your home country‚ which could make travel with your Vision Pro an issue‚ despite the extra taxes you'll eventually have to pay. With Apple Vision Pro's international expansion set to start sooner rather than later‚ you should at least wait a bit more until buying this spatial computer in the US. Seriously‚ wait for Apple to take off some of the Apple ID limitations. Don't Miss: Don’t buy the Vision Pro outside the US from your friendly neighborhood scalper The post Apple Vision Pro resale prices skyrocket overseas‚ but they’re useless outside the US appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals This $16 clip-on lens kit fits the iPhone or any Android phone‚ and it’s awesome Amazon deal offers a 7-inch Android tablet for under $43 Save 61% on a 6-port USB rapid charger on Amazon Save 75% on a Canon black and white multifunction laser printer on Amazon