Tucker Carlson Is Wrong About Moscow — And The United States

The Federalist ^ | 2/14/2024 | David Harsanyi

[marcusmaximus]

At the World Government Summit, Tucker Carlson told a gathering of world leaders that Moscow “was so much nicer than any city” in the United States. “It’s radicalizing for an American to go to Moscow,” Tucker went on. “I didn’t know that. I’ve learned it this week, to Singapore, to Tokyo, to Dubai and Abu Dhabi, because these cities, no matter how we’re told they’re run and on what principles they’re run, are wonderful places to live

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If you’re wealthy, I imagine, Moscow is pretty great. This is true of most European cities. When you’re an American tourist, you tend to stay in clean and beautiful city centers, eat at the best spots, and wander around the most attractive areas of town. In Europe, you get to see onion domes that were built by serfs dotting the skyline. I’m sure it’s neat.

It is also true that if you’re an average person, Moscow is awful. The average Muscovite is most likely to live in some grim outlying apartment complex, many of which were built during the Soviet era. That’s if they’re lucky. Many Russians live in Novosibirsk, Ekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Omsk, and Ufa. Russia’s per capita yearly GDP is around $13,000. In the United States, it is around $83,000. It’s around $46,000 in Mississippi, our poorest state. Most Russians are living in what most Americans would consider poverty.

Not everything is about money, of course. Religious commitment? Around 50-65 percent of Americans claimed religion was important to them (depending on the poll). In Russia, it’s at 16-34 percent. The Russian divorce rate is at 74 percent, the highest in the world.

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But that doesn’t change the fact that 20 percent of Russian households don’t have indoor plumbing. Or that a third of Russian hospitals don’t have running water.

[marcusmaximus]

America. Love it or leave it, Tucker.

[MeganC]

If Tucker moved to Moscow he could also enlist for the war. He should. He really should.

[i_robot73]

>America. Love it or leave it, Tucker.

The faux dichotomy fallacy of ‘debate’ *facepalm*

He loves it...enough to call out the B.S./her flaws via non-Const. governance/lawlessness

[Recovering_Democrat]

I like Tucker, but the freedoms we have now need to be protected. Russia isn’t even close. And I can think that and still believe Ukraine is none of our business.

[Tench_Coxe]

You have an unhealthy fetish regarding Tucker Carlson, marcus-on-the-spectrum.

I mean really, your obsession with the guy is like a jilted girlfriend.
Get a grip.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Come on down to Tennessee, Tuck. Come see Johnson City. It would make Moscow look like a shite hole.

I'll whip up some BBQ ribs, homemade cornbread and slaw. Then we can sit on my huge front porch and sip some nice Tennessee moonshine.
I've gotta spare guest suite if'n you need to stay over.

[marcusmaximus]

“The decades-long effort of the American left to portray the U.S. as a backward hellhole is finally paying off. One hopes the right will not follow suit — though some populists are already starting to sound indistinguishable from the average progressive leftist. “

https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/14/tucker-carlson-is-wrong-about-moscow-and-the-united-states/

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

You seriously don’t think Tucker Carlson loves America? Man have you been gaslighted. You don’t think we have enemies within this country? You don’t think American cities have been turned into a Third World shit holes? You don’t think that 90% of the people driving semi trucks across this country are now Indians, and Mexicans and others mostly who don’t speak English? You don’t think that you’re being invaded knowingly by the government? You don’t think your biggest enemy lives in Washington DC in Silicon Valley? Do you think Putin is your enemy?

[Republican Wildcat]

It is also true that if you’re an average person, Moscow is awful. The average Muscovite is most likely to live in some grim outlying apartment complex, many of which were built during the Soviet era. That’s if they’re lucky. Many Russians live in Novosibirsk, Ekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Omsk, and Ufa. Russia’s per capita yearly GDP is around $13,000. In the United States, it is around $83,000. It’s around $46,000 in Mississippi, our poorest state. Most Russians are living in what most Americans would consider poverty. Not everything is about money, of course. Religious commitment? Around 50-65 percent of Americans claimed religion was important to them (depending on the poll). In Russia, it’s at 16-34 percent. The Russian divorce rate is at 74 percent, the highest in the world. But that doesn’t change the fact that 20 percent of Russian households don’t have indoor plumbing. Or that a third of Russian hospitals don’t have running water.

These facts will be proclaimed "deep state propaganda" I'm sure soon.

[bray]

Right, we need to fight Russia in Ukraine and the dollar is not collapsing. Putin knows more about America and its goodness than most Dems do.

[JonPreston]

[marcusmaximus]

America is the most beautiful and the greatest country in the world, warts and all.

[JonPreston]

why is Mitch pushing $60bn more to Ukraine?

[Republican Wildcat]

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[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

God Almighty. Tucker Carlson wasn’t talking about freedom. He was talking about the reality that American cities have been turned into Third World crap holes. Go to California. Drive from San Diego to Seattle at the I five corridor. Go into Portland and Seattle like I have for the last 10 years. And you will see the destruction. It is not happenstance. Your leaders, the ones that you place above Putin for some stupid reason are your enemy. They are causing the destruction of America. You think you have freedom. Look at all the people that are in jails in Washington DC right now for walking through a hallway. Grow a brain. God dammit.

[hardspunned]

America, Love it, then Fix it. Turncoats accept globohomo trans tyranny and pitch shrill shill fits whenever normal Americans say, enough of your sick, traitorous DC fellow travelers.

[McGruff]

TDS - Tucker Derangement Syndrome

[JonPreston]

[Republican Wildcat]

Why are you so dishonest as to claim people say things they didn't say, deny you said things you did say, and then start secondary arguments that have nothing to do with the subject you are responding to?

Because you are wrong and you know it and cannot defend what you claim to stand for. That's why.

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

Do you think your enemy is Putin? Is he the one destroying your country right now? Seriously my friend you have been gaslighted in the extreme..