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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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What can you buy for a dollar in the US...a piece of fruit and a cup of yogurt?
I’ll wager you can get more than that for 100 rubles in Moscow.
There are numerous youtube videos about life in Russia.
My personal reqmt for such things is that the video must not be from a channel that started after 2022. It must predate that. Many do. It’s how you dodge propaganda.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJHWwQ8m2P0
This guy is Australian. Well outside the city.
He quotes numbers of rubles and then dollar equivalent and this is entirely bogus. Foreign Exchange trading takes place in countries hostile to Russia so there is zero reason to think that trading is not corrupted. This is why quoting rubles and then dollar equivalents is not valid.
The correct quote is Rubles per calorie or Rubles per joule or monthly rent AFTER ALL SUBSIDIES, not before them, compared to Rubles earned.
Look around. People own cars. They have nice coats on to be warm. There is plenty of food, which would not be on shelves if it was not being bought.
Russian life is not horrible. Measure it properly and you learn why the US astronauts had to use Russian launch vehicles to reach the ISS for 10 years.
I love it when Tucker gets the Zeepers’ panties in a wad. REMF trash.
” He doesn’t understand that PRICES AND SALARIES ARE LOWER IN EVERY LESS PROSPEROUS NATION ON THIS EARTH. “
This is why comparing GDP is nonsense.
If Groceries cost 4x in the USA.
Gasoline costs 1.5x
Natural gas costs 6x
Electricity costs 2.5x
The basic living costs for ordinary people are far less. So 4x “per capita GDP” doesn’t actually buy anything more.
And we see this on the military side even more, where the typical munitions price for the USA is 10x. (because the MIC is even more inflationary and wasteful than the rest of the economy).
And that doesn’t even impute a value to squalid, filthy cities with unpoliced criminal blacks, and a non-white invasion deliberately created by a failing elite.
comparison for lots of different energy prices by country
https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/electricity_prices/
A wireless plan costs $100 USD, how to they afford that? Americans get ripped off!!!!
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“Carville said “Democrats are easier to fool than Republicans” “
I would definitely question that based on what I see on this board.
The usa is only a first world country on paper.
Apparently, you haven’t been reading the news about the state of the U.S.’s livability.
A cup of yogurt is more than $1.00
Have to agree.
All the countries of the West increasingly look like Brazil etc.
Incredibly luxurious living for the elite. Incredible squalor and poverty for the masses.
Here in the U.S. I can spend $400 at 1 grocery store, or shop at a different one and spend $200 for the same stuff.
This video is idiotic. Does he not understand anything about currencies, PPP, standard of living? Yeah his bill was $100, but that is 1/10 the average monthly wage in Moscow.
However, I’ll bet the average Russian does not earn what the average American does either.
In my opinion and experience all this outrage against Carlson is unjustified. The US isn't that great anymore. We have lost our edge. We are watered down by waste, fraud, malfeasance, slothfulness, social dependents and worthless illegal aliens. We have become a sloppy, soul less, decayed nation without civic or personal pride. Equality and socialism has pulled us down to the lowest common denominator just as Reagan said it would.
America, when we realize she is dead nobody will be alive to morn her loss.
Actually, what should infuriate people is the difference in public schooling there versus here.
Well, yeah, $400 if you regularly shop at Whole Friggin' Foods.
At Walmart? Probably much closer to $100.
And what does Tucker want the U.S. government to do to give us Russian grocery prices?
Price controls?
Did I catch you lying, again?
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