Welp...
Posted on 02/15/2024 11:00:28 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Tucker Carlson says he went “from amused to legitimately angry” at U.S. political leaders during a recent trip to a Moscow grocery store, where the independent conservative journalist and his crew guessed that a cart full of food would cost about the equivalent of $400 in American dollars – and it came in around a hundred bucks.
“Coming to a Russian grocery store, the ‘heart of evil,’ and seeing what things cost and how they live, it will radicalize you against our leaders,” Carlson said in the video shot on-site as he shopped for eggs, bread, wine and other staples. “That’s how I feel, anyway, radicalized. We’re not making any of this up, by the way. At all.”
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“So we were guessing what this would cost,” Carlson said as he puts his items on the belt. “Everybody [in the crew] is from the United States … and we didn’t pay any attention to cost, we just put in the cart what we would actually eat over a week. We all [guessed] around $400 bucks. It was $104 U.S. here. And that’s when you start to realize that ideology doesn’t matter as much as you thought.”
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U.S. residents spend 6-7% of disposable income on food. Lowest percentage in the world. Russians spend around 40%.
Liberals oppose standing up to our foreign enemies.
Sound familiar?
“US has some of the highest food costs in the world. (Not the highest) but insanely higher than most western nations”
Try Denmark. I limit myself to soup and bread. That’s the best I can afford when I am there.
Not really. Gas and electricity are quite cheaper than e.g. in Europe. Even the food is not that expensive.
Lots of electronics stuff is actually a real bargain here!
As far as food -
Do not look at the prices of you brand food. Compare prices of generic low quality food to the food in many poor countries.
Even in America, you can spend a lot less on groceries if you buy them in dollar store, Big Lots, dirty stores in you know what neighborhoods or bargain store brands, and similar.
You do not do it, since you can afford the better stuff.
People in poor countries are stuck to that kind of food. Often old, expired, dirty and infected.
E.g. when stuff is nearing expiration date in US stores, they take them off and send to Haiti or Mexico. By the time, these make it to shelves, they are technically expired. But people there will jump on them.
Cheap medications in Mexico, that US people are traveling to get from there, are usually expired and re-labeled pills which would have to be discarded in US.
Think about that!
So tell me scumbag, what name should I call you for referring to “my type”? Is it because I’m black?
Now let me tell you something substantive which is way outside of your ability to deal with.
Many many countries on the planet Earth have lower standards of living and lower cost of living than the United States.
If you think that means we shouldn’t consider Russia an enemy, because their grocery store charges less, you have a screw loose.
As was explained to you by many people here, Russians have a considerably lower standard of living. For people like you who don’t understand facts, that means they earn less money than Americans.
What you neocomnunists keep doing is mixing up issues because you are all emotions and no intelligence.
We cannot evaluate other countries and their intentions towards us based on their standard of living or how much they charge in a grocery store.
And that even has very little to do with whether or not our grocery prices are too high for your communist sensibilities.
Just because we have other communists in this country like you, who pursue a whole lot of crazy policies such as green policies and so forth, does not mean that Russia or any other particular country isn’t our enemy or is in any way superior to the United States of America.
Now do me a favor and try to keep your type away from my type because you are unintelligent.
That’s one good thing about you, Williams - you’re waaay out of the liberal closet.
What Joe, et alia, is standing up for is keeping the money laundering spigot wide open. There are many pols of all sorts, and others, in that et group.
Salaries in Russia are much lower.
It is interesting that poor countries charge their people less for products. But underneath all that, poor countries produce less and the people have less.
There is something wrong with Tucker when this is the basis for his anger against our leaders.
Something is seriously wrong with Tucker Carlson.
Frankly we should have realized that when he praised Kanye’s brilliance, and wrote about “the way white people fight”.
Tucker is a mess.
Try Denmark. I limit myself to soup and bread. That’s the best I can afford when I am there.
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Switzerland may be even more expensive.
I once tried to visit Davos, to see where Kerry, Soros and Schwab are spending their hard earned money!
Could not spend the night there, just passed as fast as I could . being hungry, i found some cheap place and got the cheapest thing on menu. It was like $100.
There is not a single liberal policy or democrat politician that I support or have ever supported in my life.
Apparently, you cannot say the same.
Russia gained a fraction of 1% of Ukraine in 2023 in exchange for 250K+ casualties. I'd say that's money well spent.
So I’ve come to believe we have a government full of neolib and neocon war mongers and donors masquerading as D or R, but yet fully aligned with outsiders and our military industrial complex. They view a fiscally responsible and safe USA with secure borders as secondary priority to profits for the few and sending billions a year to other countries, be they in Middle East or in Europe. We need to take our country and money back and secure our borders. We could do it by purging the insiders trashing us.
I visited Ukraine in 2016 and 2017:
Gasoline was more expensive - over $4 per gallon - at the time USA price was maybe $2?
Grocery store prices were lower.
Restaurants even lower compared to USA.
How many billions and lives lost has she schemed and cost Ukrainians and American citizens to keep her war going?
There are many coastal states where electricity and natural gas rates are at EU levels.
https://www.energysage.com/local-data/electricity-cost/ca/
TEven within the USA there are major differences in incomes and living costs. So people even with lower incomes can live comfortabley in low cost states.
FR seems to be able to understand that when it comes to US states.
But they are still stuck in a Cold War rut where everything in Russia is automatically bad regardless of actual facts.
Welp...
"The key OECD indicator for international comparison of poverty is the poverty rate, which is defined as the percentage of people living in households whose income falls below half the median household income of the total population (OECD, 2020).
According to this statistic, the poverty rate in 2016 was 10.4% in Germany, 12.7% in Russia and 17.8% in the United States. From the perspective of qualitative research on poverty in Russia, this figure is astonishing.
In fact, the value for Russia is very close to what the Russian Federal State Statistics Service Rosstat itself indicates as the national poverty rate for 2016 (13.2%), even if they use an absolute poverty line."
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1468018121996075
I wonder how many of the people complaining about Tucker’s take on Russia have ever been there themselves.
It’s the price/income*exchange rate.
Well, in his case, Maine prices. Apparently he hunts too.
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