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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My brother in law said Moscow smelled of vodka and vomit.
This Cooke guy must not have visited many US metropolitan areas today. I live in the Atlanta metropolitan area and it’s not safe at all. Let’s just say that killings are not rare there; and I know that Atlanta is not even the worst of US cities.
I freeely admit to being an outlier in the scatterplot of life, but I see towns and cities only as a place to procure goods and supplies and then escape from as quickly as possible.
With regard to major media, social media, and news personalities, They are not there to look out for you . Their reason for being is to sell soap. Beyond getting advertising they have about as much actual concern for anything as does a an unattended self service gas pump.
Whilst Hitler and Stalin were both SOCIALISTS ( one a Nazi, the other a Commie ) they were NOT "on the same side"! Hitler and the Nazis were always against Commies, as they wanted to be the ones in charge! The Nazis saw the Commies in the same way that they saw Jews, blacks, Gypsies, the old, infirm, cripples, etc.; the list is endless.
Your comment is the ne plus ultra of the uneducated who only imagines that they are stating something of value/factual.
Are you a Russian? If not why are you soooo butthurt over my tagline?
And why do you care that I like Boise, Idaho over some frozen craphole infested with vodka swilling droolers who pine away for the glory days of the Soviet Empire?
The Shark has officially been jumped. Notify Fonzie he’s second fiddle now.
It's really just each to his or her own and there's no "one size fits all", even though we are living in a time when far too many idiots wish to impose what they "think" best for one and all; "15 minute cities", for example.
But the point of it all ( Tucker's visit to Moscow and the many reactions to it, here ) is one man's view of what he saw. THAT'S IT!
Sadly that is NOT how it has been seen by many here, nor those lefties in our MSM.
I've never been to Moscow, never want to go there, but I have been to other nation's capitals, know quit a few of American MAJOR cities well, and also know what our cities were once like and what Moscow has been like throughout its history, through books, documentaries, and newsreels.
I got lost in Camden coming from Philadelphia once. It was like Port au Prince. A line of geese slowly ambled across the street in front of my car.
“He could be trying to warn us.”
“There’s been a remarkable deterioration of many American cities recently. I have seen the same in Europe except Switzerland and Eastern Europe.”
Could be, but why the vague hints? I might have some respect for Tucker if he just came out and clearly stated what we all know to be true....
that the Marxist Democrats that have run and ruined most large cities and governments in the US for the past generation are solely to blame for that deterioration. And it is all quite deliberate on their part. Their pattern... screw things up and then, as “big Government”, swoop in and promise to “”fix”” things if the American people keep voting them into power and keep shelling out their hard-earned $$$. They never deliver on those promises, of course... because that would end their game if anything actually ever got fixed.
But he’s besties with Vlad, so that makes him A-OK ...
On these threads all the Russia/Chicom operatives check in for roll call.
Lol.
I went to Warsaw last year, it is probably the cleanest big city I’ve ever been to.
I care that you consider Boise to be a MAJOR city! It isn't, never was one, and probably never shall be one. I care because FACTS MATTER and your comparing Boise to ANY/ALL MAJOR world cities is lame; but not as "lame" as claiming that "Russians aren't human"!
Do you call people from any other nation "non-human"? How about Mexicans, Chinese, and Germans?
American journalists have interviewed foreign heads of state for 100s of years. Some were honest, some such as that POS Will Durant, wrote glowing propaganda and won Pulitzers for it.
Actually, Stalin and Hitler were partners from the signing of their nonaggression pact in 1939 right up until June 22, 1941 when Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
“Please, for the love of GOD, learn some FACTUAL history!
Whilst Hitler and Stalin were both SOCIALISTS ( one a Nazi, the other a Commie ) they were NOT “on the same side”! Hitler and the Nazis were always against Commies, as they wanted to be the ones in charge! The Nazis saw the Commies in the same way that they saw Jews, blacks, Gypsies, the old, infirm, cripples, etc.; the list is endless.
Your comment is the ne plus ultra of the uneducated who only imagines that they are stating something of value/factual.”
Lol... your over-emotionalism is hilarious. But yeah, Hitler and Stalin WERE on the same side. The side of evil. And Nazis were just another side of that same evil coin. That reality and fact seems to have whooshed right over your head, eh? Too funny.
Actually he lives fairly rural in Maine mostly though I think he just bought a summer home in Boca
Tucker and his wife are independently rich
Nazis and Communists were two rabid dogs fighting over the same bone.
I was referring to the writer of this slop.
But then, WE were GREAT "FRIENDS" of the USSR after that, until WW II ended.
OTOH...when Hitler and the Nazi began they were 100% fighting the German Commies for power. Which IS what I stated and which IS 100% factual.
Most subways are cleaner and safer than ours even in countries we’d think not
I live in a very rich safe county
But most US cities have issues
Demographics
But neos and protocons here will blame only democrats
Race realism is a third rail for them
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