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Posted on 02/16/2024 5:55:52 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Tucker Carlson has been mocked over a fawning video praising Moscow's 'cheap and fresh' groceries - while overlooking the much lower wages in Russia.
The former Fox News firebrand wheeled a grocery cart around a Russian superstore while marveling at the stock as he continued his Putin PR tour.
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The video drew widespread ridicule from people online, as many pointed out the disparity between the average wage in Russia - which is the equivalent of $9072 - or 6.5 times less than the average US salary of $59,428.
Many joked he was working for free as a one-man 'tourism marketing team' for Vladimir Putin's country.
'Tucker says groceries in Russia cost about 1/4th of what they cost in America,' one person wrote on X.
'What he doesn't mention is the average Russian salary is 1/5th the average US salary.'
Even his fans were disparaging. 'I love Tucker but this $104 charge for groceries is misleading if you look at the average salary for a Russian citizen is about $14,771 according to Google,' one supporter said.
'Tucker should also have to live for a month on an average Russian salary, in an average Russian apartment, and see how his grocery budget looks then,' scoffed one X user.
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Tucker stepped in it, here.
Really stepped in it this time. Salaries are one sixth of American salaries and food costs are 1/4-1/6th. Poor Russians. They should overthrow Putin right now, turn their country over to BlackRock and go on to live a great life being raped while supporting “our” democracy.
Tucker is an idiot. His statement that anyone who thinks that Russia is an expansionist power is an idiot, proved that the person who said it is one himself.
If Russia is so much better than the USA like he says, Tucker can move there.
Oh and we have the privilege of paying a large fraction of thsoe bloated salaries to the government in return for which the taxpayer receives a whole host of “service” that can’t be had in Russia. Tucker is a lying scoundrel.
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This is why news broadcasters have management, editors, researchers, and facts checkers.
Coming to a country near you. Notice how the media who loved Russia for the last 50 years is now hating it to create a false story.
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Very disappointed in Carlson. Another example of a “journalist” becoming a personality. That rarely works out well.
As a retired person living on savings I can’t say I’m much benefited by much higher salaries in the USA, but if Biden could reduce food prices by 75% I might be able to say something positive about him.
When we went to Poland, we were told one of the no-nos there is to mention the low prices to Poles, because to them, those prices were considered high, because of their relative low salaires.
It’s a matter of perspective. He’s ‘ridiculed’ for being amazed at prices and the appeal of the grocery store, but there are other countries out there (like the ones from which all of the illegals we’re getting come from) that have equivalent wages and higher prices and product availability that are less, too.
The US has higher wages, yes, and much higher prices than 3 years ago - at least from my experience.
The ‘goal’ here with this and other TC stories isn’t about legitimate critique here - it’s to try anything to ‘get TC’ because he talked to Putin and isn’t “all-in” on putting UKR before anything else Americans want and need first. Ask yourself this - when was the last time we saw ANY MSM luminary Jorno go to an American grocery store and do a lengthy video?
Not anymore. They just repeat DNC propaganda.
I have no problem with Tucker talking to Putin, I’m not at all for censoring Tucker.
But he’s coming off now as more of an Ugly American.
“Tucker stepped in it, here.”
How so, by pointing out that Russians can live nearly as well as Americans, given their FAR LOWER cost of living?
Tell Tucker that Navalny is dead.
“Tucker stepped in it, here.”
No. He did not. He was showing how much Russians pay for food. It has to do with economies of scale.
Our own food costs would be about half what they are now were it not for laws passed that enabled just a few companies to monopolize our food production.
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