News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:
Journalist and reformed bow-tie enthusiast Tucker Carlson recently returned home from a trip to Russia with glowing reviews of the former Soviet Union and its leader, President Vladimir Putin.
Carlson praised Russia for its clean cities and pristine subway systems. Here are 9 other things that Tucker saw that convinced him Russia is definitely better than the USA.
- No other journalists anywhere for some odd reason: Tucker confirmed the streets are completely clear of loathsome journalists. Also, the prisons are full for some reason.
- No tampon dispensers in the men’s restroom: Paradise!
- A small village where a bear is mayor: Tucker was astounded to learn the bear established effective local policy and manages an entire city budget, all while drunk on vodka. Biden could never do that.
- No Taylor Swift: And no Travis Kelce. It’s hard for Americans to imagine such a world.
- Slow drivers in the fast lane are sent to the gulag: Also, fast drivers in the slow lane are sent to the gulag.
- No one has to worry about who will win the next presidential election: Much less stress this way.
- Functional nuclear warheads are available for purchase by private citizens at every newsstand: That would never be allowed here. Because of wokeness.
- Totally awesome super amazing tracksuits as far as the eye can see: In America, we have a shocking lack of 20-something-year-old men hanging out on the street corner casually flipping around butterfly knives while wearing black Adidas tracksuits. We’re living in tyranny!
- Astounding lack of George Floyd murals: Not even in the subway.
Go here to read the rest. Tucker’s new favorite song:
Next scoop for Tucker: How Mussolini made the trains run on time.
In addition, for preventing the next pandemic, it has been determined that the approved vaccine will be administered via vodka, insuring that all citizens of all ages become properly inoculated.
I suspect that Tucker’s “glowing review of Moscow” is not so much about how wonderful Russia is, as it is about noting that American cities need to do better at maintaining clean, attractive and safe surroundings.
News this AM that Putin’s jailed opponent, A. Navalny, died of “natural” causes after attendants failed in an attempt to revive him.
It’s my understanding, that outside the big cities, Russia is a 3rd world country. So, Tucker got suckered by Putin.
My problem with Carlson is that I have my doubts he really believes much of anything. I am beginning to think that his whole career has been pandering to audiences. In the past he was an interventionist, supportive of our war in Iraq. In the past he was very critical of Putin. Prior to that phase he was a moderate Republican. Now he is a paleocon isolationist populist.
The man is 54 and he makes radical changes in positions that would be more appropriate for a man in his twenties. He is now mouthing utter crap that he has to know is false. Of course I may be misreading him, and he may simply be an eternal convert like Mark Shea.
Up until February of 2022, Russia was a high middle income country which had over 23 years successfully undertaken a program of social and economic reconstruction. You could certainly offer a critique of Putin up to that point, but the country had experienced continuous improvement. The trouble was, Putin and his camarilla have had an ambition to reconstruct a modified version of the East Bloc as it was in 1985. You can see the results over the last two years.
Comparing a person to Mark Shea is crude way of saying you think very badly of that person.
“My problem with Carlson is that I have my doubts he really believes much of anything.”
Agreed. For me, it was his time at The Daily Caller that turned me off.
Isn’t it strange how Russia seems to have certain perpetual impulses?
From the days of Ivan IV (at least) through the worst days of Stalin and up to the present hour, I would argue that all of these have been present to some degree.
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