Posted on 02/25/2023 4:54:27 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski
Fox News host Tucker Carlson outlined Thursday what $100 billion in Ukraine aid could have been spent on in the United States.
“Let’s pretend we would only spend $100 billion in Ukraine so far. You know we have. What can we do with $100 billion here in the United States? For one thing, and this has been in the news recently, we could modernize our rail system to avoid the thousand derailments we have every year and the mushroom clouds over Ohio that sometimes result from that,” Carlson, a co-founder of the Daily Caller and honorary member of the Daily Caller News Foundation, said.
“$100 billion is more than five times the entire discretionary budget of the Department of Transportation,” Carlson continued. “There is just $13 billion in the DOT budget for transit and less than $3 billion for Amtrak. Remember that? The artery that connects the cities on the East Coast?”
A train carrying toxic chemicals derailed near East Palestine, Ohio, Feb. 3, prompting evacuations and shelter-in-place orders as authorities moved to address the release of the chemicals. The National Transportation Safety Board reported Thursday that overheated wheel bearings apparently caused the accident…
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I heard a report that Fox News has turned over all their 1/6 video footage to Tucker Carlson, and they will not give it to anyone else. does this mean he will be able to slant coverage on the 1/6 issues in the same way he slants his presentation of Ukraine issues? And is this a good or bad thing?
The same news organziations that have statisticans looking at models for elections could not find physically impossible vote dumps in the early hours of the morning, or sequential batches of ballots with the same Biden/Trump ratio regardless of batch size. Basic excel is really hard for smart people /s
Tucker is pandering to the isolationist conservatives to save his reputation. His current trick is to give extended "two minute hates" to win back his audience, which shows what he really thinks of his viewers.
Tucker will only be allowed to show what his corporate masters at Fox will allow him to show.
More controlled opposition.
Yeah,
Stepped on it that time.
no worries FRiend, we all miss the tag from time to time
Thanks, I did not. And indeed a robust discussion favors all here.
No problem. Thanks.
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