Tucker in Moscow
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And National Review weighs in.
Tucker Carlson seems unaware of how badly he is damaging himself.
The former Fox and CNN host followed up his interview of Vladimir Putin by touring Moscow and comparing it favorably with his own country, raving about its nice subway system and low grocery prices. Charlie and Dominic have ably dismantled this. Even in purely material terms, Russia is a poor country, and many of its people outside the capital live without things we consider the most basic of necessities, such as indoor plumbing.
This may be Tucker’s lowest moment yet. I’m not sure he has ever done anything so indefensibly auto-discrediting. The interview with Putin was at least formally defensible as journalism: It presented the views of a newsworthy world leader. And sure, this is far from the first time that Tucker has told his audience things that were false and/or morally depraved. But Tucker’s whole shtick is to be the guy who is skeptical of official explanations and institutions, in many cases to the point of plunging into the world of conspiracy theory. And here he is, in the capital of an authoritarian state run by a master of real conspiracies, and Tucker just swallows whatever the official, institutional propaganda line is, like he’s a gullible professor of literature with a Che poster on his wall taking a tour of the USSR and parroting whatever he’s told by the graduates of Patrice Lumumba University.
The guy who is usually just asking questions suddenly doesn’t seem to question anything. It’s not just bad as other things he has said and done have been bad; it’s dreadful for his brand.
You'd think that a journalist businessman would get it.
Great line. Sort of his epitaph.
Tucker just swallows whatever the official, institutional propaganda line is, like he’s a gullible professor of literature with a Che poster on his wall taking a tour of the USSR and parroting whatever he’s told by the graduates of Patrice Lumumba University.
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One thing I don’t understand is the big deal about the shopping carts. FuCa must not get out much. They are pretty much ubiquitous here in all grocery and most low end department stores. Has been that way for over 30 years.
And before anyone asks or says it is so…. No, the practice is not mandated or legislated by any level of government. It is purely a corporate retail business decision. And if I recall correctly, it was first introduced by the then US based grocery giant, Safeway, back in the early 1980s.
Elbows up!
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He's essentially saying that he didn't ask him about repression and brutalization of all opposition, because it's all been done before. State sanctioned murder is just so boring.
He should have asked him about space aliens, because Tucker loves that shit.
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FuCa starts to spin over Navalny’s death:
https://thehill.com/policy/international/4472914-tucker-carlson-navalny-russia-putin/amp/
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@jon-nyc that’s nothing. I can get 100 pennies for one right here!
But this subway topic brings up a question Renauda can probably answer. Are the Russian people naturally more law abiding, or is the system simply a lot stricter? Maybe a combination of both?
I’ve always rather admired their charge of hooliganism. It may be difficult to define legally, but I know it when I see it.
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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@jon-nyc that’s nothing. I can get 100 pennies for one right here!
But this subway topic brings up a question Renauda can probably answer. Are the Russian people naturally more law abiding, or is the system simply a lot stricter? Maybe a combination of both?
I’ve always rather admired their charge of hooliganism. It may be difficult to define legally, but I know it when I see it.
@Mik said in Tucker in Moscow:
I’ve always rather admired their charge of hooliganism. It may be difficult to define legally, but I know it when I see it.
That's exactly the kind of law that people like Putin find very useful.
I was only joking
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One thing I don’t understand is the big deal about the shopping carts. FuCa must not get out much. They are pretty much ubiquitous here in all grocery and most low end department stores. Has been that way for over 30 years.
And before anyone asks or says it is so…. No, the practice is not mandated or legislated by any level of government. It is purely a corporate retail business decision. And if I recall correctly, it was first introduced by the then US based grocery giant, Safeway, back in the early 1980s.
@Renauda said in Tucker in Moscow:
One thing I don’t understand is the big deal about the shopping carts. FuCa must not get out much. They are pretty much ubiquitous here in all grocery and most low end department stores. Has been that way for over 30 years.
And before anyone asks or says it is so…. No, the practice is not mandated or legislated by any level of government. It is purely a corporate retail business decision. And if I recall correctly, it was first introduced by the then US based grocery giant, Safeway, back in the early 1980s.
Tucker lives in Maine, I believe. If semi-rural Maine is anything like down here, I've never seen chained shopping carts.
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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@Mik said in Tucker in Moscow:
I’ve always rather admired their charge of hooliganism. It may be difficult to define legally, but I know it when I see it.
That's exactly the kind of law that people like Putin find very useful.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Tucker in Moscow:
@Mik said in Tucker in Moscow:
I’ve always rather admired their charge of hooliganism. It may be difficult to define legally, but I know it when I see it.
That's exactly the kind of law that people like Putin find very useful.
I don't think Navalny was in for hooliganism.
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@Renauda said in Tucker in Moscow:
One thing I don’t understand is the big deal about the shopping carts. FuCa must not get out much. They are pretty much ubiquitous here in all grocery and most low end department stores. Has been that way for over 30 years.
And before anyone asks or says it is so…. No, the practice is not mandated or legislated by any level of government. It is purely a corporate retail business decision. And if I recall correctly, it was first introduced by the then US based grocery giant, Safeway, back in the early 1980s.
Tucker lives in Maine, I believe. If semi-rural Maine is anything like down here, I've never seen chained shopping carts.
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@Renauda said in Tucker in Moscow:
One thing I don’t understand is the big deal about the shopping carts. FuCa must not get out much. They are pretty much ubiquitous here in all grocery and most low end department stores. Has been that way for over 30 years.
And before anyone asks or says it is so…. No, the practice is not mandated or legislated by any level of government. It is purely a corporate retail business decision. And if I recall correctly, it was first introduced by the then US based grocery giant, Safeway, back in the early 1980s.
Tucker lives in Maine, I believe. If semi-rural Maine is anything like down here, I've never seen chained shopping carts.
@Jolly said in Tucker in Moscow:
@Renauda said in Tucker in Moscow:
One thing I don’t understand is the big deal about the shopping carts. FuCa must not get out much. They are pretty much ubiquitous here in all grocery and most low end department stores. Has been that way for over 30 years.
And before anyone asks or says it is so…. No, the practice is not mandated or legislated by any level of government. It is purely a corporate retail business decision. And if I recall correctly, it was first introduced by the then US based grocery giant, Safeway, back in the early 1980s.
Tucker lives in Maine, I believe. If semi-rural Maine is anything like down here, I've never seen chained shopping carts.
Do you have Aldi? They do it. Bigg's used to but they left the US. It's actually a good system.
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@Jolly said in Tucker in Moscow:
@Renauda said in Tucker in Moscow:
One thing I don’t understand is the big deal about the shopping carts. FuCa must not get out much. They are pretty much ubiquitous here in all grocery and most low end department stores. Has been that way for over 30 years.
And before anyone asks or says it is so…. No, the practice is not mandated or legislated by any level of government. It is purely a corporate retail business decision. And if I recall correctly, it was first introduced by the then US based grocery giant, Safeway, back in the early 1980s.
Tucker lives in Maine, I believe. If semi-rural Maine is anything like down here, I've never seen chained shopping carts.
Do you have Aldi? They do it. Bigg's used to but they left the US. It's actually a good system.
@Mik said in Tucker in Moscow:
@Jolly said in Tucker in Moscow:
@Renauda said in Tucker in Moscow:
One thing I don’t understand is the big deal about the shopping carts. FuCa must not get out much. They are pretty much ubiquitous here in all grocery and most low end department stores. Has been that way for over 30 years.
And before anyone asks or says it is so…. No, the practice is not mandated or legislated by any level of government. It is purely a corporate retail business decision. And if I recall correctly, it was first introduced by the then US based grocery giant, Safeway, back in the early 1980s.
Tucker lives in Maine, I believe. If semi-rural Maine is anything like down here, I've never seen chained shopping carts.
Do you have Aldi? They do it. Bigg's used to but they left the US. It's actually a good system.
There's a couple around Lafayette and a couple around Covington, and that's about it.
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I’ve never seen chained shopping carts. How do customers use them?
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