Posted on 02/13/2024 11:21:25 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Tucker Carlson’s fulsome praise of Russia’s capital city is so far off the mark, it’s embarrassing.
Moscow,” Tucker Carlson announced this week, from his populist redoubt at the World Government Summit in Dubai, “is so much nicer than any city in my country. I had no idea. It is so much cleaner, and safer and prettier, aesthetically. Its architecture, food, and services than in any city in the United States. And this is not ideological. How did that happen?”
The simplest answer to this inquiry is that it didn’t.
I daresay that Carlson did, indeed, have a nice time when he visited Moscow. As a rich foreign tourist who was being carefully minded by the Russian government, he was undoubtedly exposed to the Moscow that its champions wanted him to see. And that city, I’ll wager, is pretty swell. But still. Better than every city in the United States? The idea is ridiculous. I have been to Moscow. I have also been to most of the major cities in America. There is no sense in which Moscow could be placed at the top of the list. There is a small part of the place that is rather pretty, and, thanks largely to the mafia, a few good restaurants have popped up, but the rest of it remains as bleak and moribund and soulless as it was during the Soviet era. It is a museum, and an ugly one at that.
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Thanks FRiendd!
Yes.
I remember him.
We are building a fighting force of extraordinary magnitude!
“Ron Brown and Vince Foster come to mind ...”
And at the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist wacko (lol).... I posit that JFK was an ‘inside job’.
—> Tucker is against World Government until they pay him a million dollars for a speech in Dubai.
Truly silly comment
A mental illness pandemic.
Move to South Chicago and see how long you live.
The political mixture in Weimar Germany wasn’t that black and white - Communists vs Nazis. There were Communists divided into Stalin\USSR & Trotsky supporting factions, non-Marxist socialists, social democrat socialists, authoritarian conservatives and monarchists with some overlap between them. All fighting for political space & each other.
How about Norilsk, Chelyabinsk or Vorkuka? Lots of Russians voted with their feet and live in our cities. How Americans in garbage dump Russian cities like that?
In South Chicago they like to torture folks like Marcus before they kill him.
He might last a while.
;-)
Many thanks, from those of us who DO know and understand these historical facts, for adding all of that. Perhaps others just might now have learned something...or not.
I’d prefer Siberia to Portland, Oregon, or Dearborn, Michigan.
I posit JFK was done in by the KGB ...
Portland, Seattle, San Francisco? Better wear the turdhopper boots.
“but not as “lame” as claiming that “Russians aren’t human”!”
For the last two years right here on Free Republic we’ve had people calling the Ukrainians “Nazis”, calling for the extinguishing of the Ukrainian identity, and in some cases calling for the extermination of the Ukrainians.
Did any of that offend you? If not then don’t expect me to get all busted up about your feelings.
“I care that you consider Boise to be a MAJOR city!”
So what? You’ve had your say now accept that your little tantrum and tirade here isn’t going to change my point of view even one iota. And move on.
Also, you’ve inspired me to alter my tagline.
Congratulations. Only one other FReeper ever inspired me to do such a thing. You’re in very special company.
“I posit JFK was done in by the KGB ...”
Question is, who had more motivation? I think LBJ had plenty, but I could be wrong.
London, Paris, Tokyo, New York City, Berlin, Los Angeles, Boise.
More probable the DGI - Cubas Intel service as retaliation for the multiple attempts on Castro. The KGB was likely aware of it.
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