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Tucker Carlson has issued a harrowing warning about potential blackmail on members of U.S. Congress, claiming that numerous politicians have approached him with their concerns that the most egregious type of compramat could be planted on their personal devices in order to keep them in line with the priorities of the deep state.

During Carlson’s appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience released on Friday, Carlson came out with a bombshell revelation, claiming that many powerful individuals in U.S. politics are deeply afraid of being framed for possession of child pornography.

“They’re worried about someone putting kiddie porn on their computer,” Carlson said. “Members of Congress are terrified of the Intel agencies; I’m not guessing at that. They’ve told me that—including people on the intel committee, including people who run the intel committee, the people whose job it is to oversee and keep in line these enormous secretive agencies whose budgets we can’t know. They’re ‘black budgets.’ They’re the parents; the agencies are the children.”

“They’re afraid of the agencies,” Carlson continued. “That’s not compatible with democracy. Democracy is a very simple system. Even representative democracies like ours—the people rule. They do so through elections. They express their preference through voting. They send their people to the capital city to run the government on their behalf.”

“Whenever you have unelected people who are not accountable to anyone making the biggest decisions, you don’t have a democracy. You have something else, I would call it a tyranny or whatever you wanna call, it’s not a democracy. So that’s, like, super obvious. It’s playing out in front of everyone, and no one cares, and no one does anything about it, and I think the reason is because they’re threatened, and if you look at the committee charimen who allow this sh*t to happen year after year… they all have things to hide,” Carlson opined.

While Carlson’s general idea that the threat of falsified pornographic blackmail is a threat to the accountability of leaders makes sense, his particular contention that this is contrary to an idealized form of “democracy” is more controversial. The dissident political philosophy Curtis Yarvin, who appeared on Carlson’s daytime talk show before Carlson’s ouster from Fox News, articulates the case against democracy, arguing that, much like the threat of planted child porn, the supposed fiction of democracy serves to obscure power’s true nature and facilitates deeply malign exercises of political authority.

“Our problem is democracy. Democracy is a dangerous, malignant form of government which tends to degenerate, sometimes slowly and sometimes with shocking, gut-wrenching speed, into tyranny and chaos,” Yarvin writes in An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives. “You’ve been taught to worship democracy. This is because you are ruled by democracy. If you were ruled by the Slime Beast of Vega, you would worship the Slime Beast of Vega. (A more earthly comparison is Communism or ‘people’s democracy,’ whose claim to be a more advanced form of its Western cousin was perfectly accurate—if we mean ‘advanced’ in the sense of, say, ‘advanced leukemia.’)”