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Tucker Carlson did not ask Putin about how so many of his opponents wind up imprisoned and murdered, or the warrant the International Criminal Court has out for his arrest for war crimes in Ukraine.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Tucker is a coward, a propagandist and a squidgy little estrogen stuffed dumpling.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I love the part where he goes shopping and compares the price of his basket to the price in the US, and it comes out to about 50% cheaper. What he doesn't mention is that Russians bring in 10x less money a month than Americans do, which makes the cart much more expensive.

Tucker knows this, he's hoping the maga hats don't

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I love that Tucker is astounded by the "push in a coin to unlock it" technology. That segment might have been one of the first dozen times he actually personally set foot in a supermarket.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

“with this handy rent-a-cart system, the dirty homeless wont be able to get their grubby hands on them!”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

That's just not a thing in the US

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I know he'd be offended, but lets not make estrogen a bad guy, eh?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

It’s not a bad thing just like you say, if he takes offense to it then that’s his problem :)

Maybe he shouldn’t feel so insecure about his own sexuality then if he wants to attack others for it

[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Nobody expected him to ask tough questions. I don't even think anyone expectet him to ask mediocre interesting ones. He was just a propaganda tool. And a cheap one, too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Even Putin thought he was a weak interviewer. He said he was bored.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

If you weren't convinced by the interview, his overemotional gushing over the subway and grocery store tells you all you need to know about who's knob he sucks.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago

It shows that Tucker is a bitch for attention.

The man is fucking loaded, he doesn't need to do this job for the money - he does it because he's a bitch.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Carlson is basically an actor and a troll, nothing more.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I saw some clips of the interview and felt like I was watching the movie "The Interview"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The former Fox News personality has drawn criticism for his recent interview with Vladimir Putin, which took place just days before opposition leader Alexei Navalny was found dead in a Russian penal colony.

But over two hours, Tucker Carlson did not ask Putin about how so many of his opponents wind up imprisoned and murdered, or the warrant the International Criminal Court has out for his arrest for war crimes in Ukraine.

But the clear implication of the video, scored with dreamy music and swelling strings, is that even though Vladimir Putin's regime imprisons and kills political opponents, and invades neighboring countries without provocation, it's all worthwhile because Moscow has an immaculate metro station.

Many commentators compared Tucker Carlson's enthusiasm for Moscow's metro to the boast of Italians fascists of the 1930's that Benito Mussolini "made the trains run on time" (a claim historians dispute).

Field Marshall Grigory Potemkin was said to have built facades of phony, idyllic-looking villages along the route that Empress Catherine II took to Crimea in 1787, to improve her view.

They were in town to interview Vladimir Putin, but he didn't ask any Muscovites to say what they thought of their president, or the elections in March, the invasion of Ukraine, Alexei Navalny, or other imprisoned dissidents.


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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You know who really does "make the trains run on time" and had several prime ministers resign in succession? Japan. You don't need a dictator for that. Wtf is even the point of that line.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Also, Mussolini didn't make the trains run on time. He forbade the press from reporting the trains running late