Tucker in Moscow

[jon-nyc]

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.

[George K]

[Renauda]

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.

[George K]

[Doctor Phibes]

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.

[Renauda]

FuCa starts to spin over Navalny’s death:

https://thehill.com/policy/international/4472914-tucker-carlson-navalny-russia-putin/amp/

[jon-nyc]

Meanwhile…

[jon-nyc]

[Mik]

@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.

[Doctor Phibes]

@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.

[George K]

[Jolly]

@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.

[Mik]

@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.

[George K]

LOL...

https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/02/tucker-carlson-discovers-american-tourists-are-rich/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=right-rail&utm_content=capital-matters&utm_term=third

[Renauda]

@Jolly

Tucker lives in Maine, I believe.

That’s no excuse for “that FuCa” not to get out more.

[Mik]

@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.

[Jolly]

@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.

[jon-nyc]

I’ve never seen chained shopping carts. How do customers use them?

[Renauda]

@Mik

Are the Russian people naturally more law abiding, or is the system simply a lot stricter? Maybe a combination of both?

Neither. They just have a different collective attitude towards public works, monuments and edifices that reflect cultural or national pride or solemnity. The Moscow subway is such.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in Tucker in Moscow:

I’ve never seen chained shopping carts. How do customers use them?

You need to get out more, LOL.

I've seen them at Aldi here in the Chicago burbs - and in good neighborhoods, lest you think I'm racist.