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Tucker Carlson: Radicalized By His Trip To Moscow​

Radicalized By A Trip To Moscow​

In a post last week ("A Good Weekend For Russia"), when news broke that Tucker Carlson was in Moscow and might be interviewing Putin, we wrote:

Even if he doesn't get an interview with Putin, Tucker is likely to report what he sees there, and what he's going to see is a city that looks like it's doing well economically (on top of being cleaner and safer than American cities like New York or Los Angeles).

It turns out we were right. In an interview at the World Governments Summit in Dubai, said the trip to Moscow radicalized him:

What was radicalizing, very shocking, and very disturbing for me was the city of Moscow, where I'd never been. The biggest city in Europe, 13 million people--and it is so much nicer than any city in my country, I had no idea. My father spent a lot of time there in the '80s, when he worked for the U.S. government, and barely had electricity. And now, it is so much cleaner, and safer, and prettier--aesthetically: its architecture, its food, its service--than any city in the United States that you have to ask...How did that happen? [...]
And at a certain point, I don't think the average person cares as much about abstractions as the concrete reality of his life. And if you can't use your Subway, for example, as many people are afraid to in New York City because it's too dangerous, you have to sort of wonder like isn't that the ultimate measure of leadership? And that's true, by the way, it's radicalizing for an American to go to Moscow (I didn't know that, I learned it last week), to Singapore, or to Tokyo, or to Dubai in Abu Dhabi, because these cities--no matter how we're told they're run, on what principles they're run, are wonderful places to live. They don't have rampant inflation, you're not going to get raped... [the interviewer interrupts at this point].

See For Yourself​

You can watch the full interview below, in which Tucker also weighs in on Biden's mental competency, the war in Gaza, and other topics. Here's a guide to the times when different topics come up, if you'd like to skip to them:

• 00:00:00 Interview Against U.S. Opposition: Tucker overcomes government spying to secure a Putin interview.
• 00:01:30 Political Neutrality of Interview: Tucker emphasizes truth-seeking over political bias in interviewing Putin.
• 00:03:13 Leadership of Putin vs. Biden: Tucker contrasts Putin's effectiveness with Biden's shortcomings.
• 00:06:08 Decline of U.S. Cities vs. Moscow: Tucker attributes U.S. urban decline to policy failures, contrasting with Moscow's improvements.
• 00:07:33 Putin's Willingness for NATO Compromise: Tucker discusses Putin's diplomatic efforts and rejection by NATO.
• 00:09:15 Reaction to Putin Interview: Tucker reflects on negative media and political responses to his Putin interview.
• 00:15:11 Media's Role in Democracy Erosion: Tucker criticizes media alignment with power, undermining democracy.
• 00:19:41 U.S. Foreign Policy Morality Questioned: Tucker questions the ethical stance of U.S. foreign engagements including on Gaza.
• 00:23:15 Uncertainty in U.S. Political Leadership: Tucker highlights the unpredictability of American politics and the value of admitting ignorance.

Let's wrap this up with a brief trading update, since we have to make more money in America to insulate ourselves from the problems here Tucker describes.

Trading Update​

Here's how we did on last week's earnings trade exits:

1. Call spread on Snap (SNAP 6.80%↑). Entered at a net debit of $0.22 on 2/6/2024; expired worthless on 2/10/2024. Loss: 100%.
2. Call spread on Affirm Holdings (AFRM 0.25%↑). Entered at a net debit of $0.20 on 2/8/2024; expired worthless on 2/9/2024. Loss: 100%.
3. Call spread on ELF Beauty (ELF 1.02%↑) (buying the $172.50 strike calls and selling the $175 strike calls). Entered at a net debit of $0.90 on 2/5/2024; exited at a net credit of $1.00 on 2/8/24. Profit: 11%.
4. Call spread on ELF Beauty (ELF 1.02%↑) (buying the $162.50 strike calls and selling the $165 strike calls). Entered at a net debit of $1.10 on 2/5/2024; exited at a net credit of $2.24 on 2/8/2024. Profit: 104%.
5. Call spread on Estée Lauder (EL 2.44%↑). Entered at a net debit of $0.40 on 2/2/2024; exited at a net credit of $0.95 on 2/5/2024. Profit: 138%.
6. Put spread on NetGear (NTGR -10.69%↓). Entered at a net debit of $0.35 on 2/7/2024; exited at a net credit of $0.85 on 2/8/2024. Profit: 143%.

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[Sister Miriam Godwinson]

I was last there in 2016. The touristy parts of the city were fine but where we were staying was much sketchier.

Overall Moscow was not significantly better or worse than DC at the time. (I'm from the DC area so that's my main big American city to compare to.)

I did like the metro a lot because I cannot drive so I always appreciate a usable transport system. For me, NYC's subway sucks less because it's unsafe and more because it's an incomprehensible, impossible to navigate piece of shit. But to be fair, it is like 100+ years old.

They upgraded the metro a few years ago with an extremely impressive feat of engineering by taking WW2 era industrial tracks that go all around the city, converting them for public use and tying them into the existing subway system. Since they originally linked industrial sites, you get a sleek state-of-the art train rolling smoothly and silently through the grimiest industrial lanscape you can imagine (and sometimes small bits of a forest). It feels surreal.

Since the design of the entire thing is ultramodern as fuck, I had a major cyberpunk moment when I once found myself hiking across the said industrial landscape at half past midnight. The station was eleveated to the level of the second floor and shone like a beacon in the night, a pristine marble-and-steel island of corpo territory at the edge of the dark and unlit Badlands.

But enough about trains I guess.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

They upgraded the metro a few years ago with an extremely impressive feat of engineering by taking WW2 era industrial tracks that go all around the city, converting them for public use and tying them into the existing subway system. Since they originally linked industrial sites, you get a sleek state-of-the art train rolling smoothly and silently through the grimiest industrial lanscape you can imagine (and sometimes small bits of a forest). It feels surreal.

Since the design of the entire thing is ultramodern as fuck, I had a major cyberpunk moment when I once found myself hiking across the said industrial landscape at half past midnight. The station was eleveated to the level of the second floor and shone like a beacon in the night, a pristine marble-and-steel island of corpo territory at the edge of the dark and unlit Badlands.

But enough about trains I guess.

Even Ayn Rand loved her trains. Must be a Russian thing.

 

[JambledUpWords]

I’m not against more passenger trains in the US, but I wouldn’t consider using it if crime isn’t taken care of. High crime rates is probably the biggest argument for not using public transit

 

[VargReallyDidNothingWrong]

Imagine thinking an American base in Djibouti is the same thing as invading Ukraine, Dagestan, or Chechyna.

What about an American base in Afghanistan or Iraq? What about one in Libya? What about one in Syria?

 

[Sister Miriam Godwinson]

I’m not against more passenger trains in the US, but I wouldn’t consider using it if crime isn’t taken care of. High crime rates is probably the biggest argument for not using public transit

I get that you can't put a cop on every bus stop, but surely assigning a couple officers to every subway station is doable? If only to keep out the riff-raff like junkies, etc.

 

[Overly Serious]

You realize other countries pay for our protection, right?

Well, we were going to have to pay but then you lot got rid of Trump so we're good again. More I.O.U.s on their way!

But you realise that I was talking about US expansionism and you have bases in places that most certainly are not wanting them. My point is that only if we're talking actual settlement is US not expansionist. In terms of resource control, economy, determining elections and choosing governments, the USA is plenty expansionist which is what I said. I mean, you don't think Syria is "paying you for your protection" just because you have US bases there? And does it really count as the country's wish if the government that agrees to such things is appointed by the USA in the first place? The US staged a coup in Ukraine in 2014 when it looked like going in favour of Russia rather than the EU and Victoria Nuland is on tape talking about who to make the next Ukranian leader.

Buying up resource rights is what every nation does.

Not at the barrel of a gun it isn't. You bought up Iraqi oil at way below market rates. Do you think the Iraqis in charge of that decision didn't know perfectly well who put them there and who would remove them if they didn't? Why did reconstruction funds (paid for with Iraqi oil sales) go to Haliburton rather than Iraqi companies that would do it for a fifth the cost? Do you think it was a free choice of the people of Afghanistan to approve a pipeline project that prior to the invasion they'd repeatedly rejected? Or the millions of barrels of oil being extracted by the US from Syria right now is "buying up resource rights"? Do you think it's a free choice of the Ukranians that the law was changed to allow Blackrock to buy up huge tracts of Ukranian farmland or for tonnes of their topsoil of their farmaldn to literally be sold for export? Or was it something approved by a government that literally is having their salary paid for by the US (US taxpayers specifically).

It is absurd to claim such things are "what every nation does". You claim the US isn't expansionist but the US military spreads across the globe far, far from home. And any country that doesn't "invite" them in is punished or gaslit until they do. Every decade since WWII, US forces have drawn closer to Russia. Russian bases have not drawn closer to the USA. Which is the expansionist power? There are now more countries in the world WITH US troops in them than without.

That's a far cry from conquering another nation and murdering its citizens. What an absolutely asinine post. The USA is interested in military supremacy, but it is not interested in conquering and claiming other nations.

Not what I wrote. The US is not interested in claiming other Nations as part of its territory. It's very interested in ensuring those countries have compliant governments who do as the USA wishes and the USA uses its military power to bring that about. Surely you're not going to pretend otherwise? And surely you're not going to pretend that this process isn't expanding. Invading and saying "this is part of my country" is not in favour for the USA. And why would it be? The USA is a Democracy. Any expansion of its territory in formal terms would mean voting rights for the conquered people. No, its PR does not allow that. It dominates in other ways but it still uses its military power to do so.

It's asinine you people will also start up by criticizing the USA for everything it does, but excusing what Russia does with this kind of Whataboutism.

Not really. You said Russia was "the last expansionist power". Which is a little silly. China is or is working on it. The USA is just doesn't use overt annexation. Several others would be if they could. Turkey would love to claim some of its neighbouring territory. Azerbaijan just stole part of Armenia.

As to whataboutism, maybe if Russia goes for the Baltics but it hasn't done yet. It's not even likely to go for Western parts of Ukraine. The four oblasts it is claiming were historically Russian, are filled with Russian people, have temporarily been part of Ukraine for a matter of decades due to a pen stroke from a Soviet premiere that's it. And two of those oblasts were without question trying to secede from said country and want to rejoin Russia. Revanchist? Sure - I'd allow that. Expansionist? Not yet.

Buying into the idea that everything America does abroad is colonialism,

Never used such a term, wouldn't use such a term. The USA isn't trying to settle other territories with people. Just dominate them and control their resources and economies. Though as you bring it up, they're certainly trying to do so culturally. E.g. forcing client countries to introduce US LGBTQ policies and "education".

 

[There Is Light At The End]

So you're basically admitting to talking out of your ass and going with gut feelings here? My dude, it's not that hard to find out what it's like there. You probably should think long and hard why stealing washing machines was such a big modus operandi for the Russians... many, if not most, of those people don't even have toilets indoors, they still have outhouses.

Never been in Russia yet claims those things are real. Either fat trolling or falling for lies on internet

 

[Overly Serious]

And now many regions of Russia now have very few men. Putin conscripted men particularly from the Western parts of Russia where resistance/rebellion/activists could weaken them, so they send a large portion the men off to war to die so they have no physical means to rebel or resist

Giving potential rebels military training and active war experience is the last thing you want to do with such people. If that were the case.

It kind of did. The phrase "Have you noticed how prettier Moscow became under Segei Semyonovich?" became a local meme becuse the Deer Herder (Mayor Sobyanin is an ethnic Buryat) has a fetish for prettying things up. Knocked down all street kiosks, banned ads on building facades and keeps laying down pavement tiles everywhere because his wife owns the pavement tile factory. Quadrupled park maintenance budget and did some very fancy things with public transport too.

He became mayor in 2010.

Spoiler: Before and after

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I bet that has a positive effect on cutting down crime. Urban areas that are ugly or vandalised or otherwise look like they're not valued increase crime. I'm sure of it.

But enough about trains I guess.

If you post about trains three times in a thread, you know who will appear.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

Giving potential rebels military training and active war experience is the last thing you want to do with such people. If that were the case.

okay, everything else but especially this just tells me you're pissy about woke shit in the west and are a big enough idiot to think this war is some great war of values. this is far from actual reality and you're just arguing from your gut and emotions, because not only is this demonstrably true, that they're sent to the front lines--it's common knowledge, and yet still you have to carry water for Russia because you feel like you're flipping off the west for degeneracy, or something.

It's a war of aggression to conquer another country for economic reasons, bro. Your Russia simping is hilariously pathetic.

MILITARY TRAINING? Are you even paying attention to -anything-? They're being shoveled out with rusty ancient AK-47s like zerglings.

What about an American base in Afghanistan or Iraq? What about one in Libya? What about one in Syria?

You guys have eaten the Ron Paul sandwich, where if we just left the terrorists alone they'd leave us alone. That they are fighting oppressors. Again, this is USSR propaganda from the old days that found its way into your brain. I don't get how you guys are claiming this is a war of defense and then making whataboutist arguments defending aggression. You're just arguing whatever with no consistency.

I wouldn't talk about Afghanistan if we are going to talk about Russia and aggression, anyway.

 

[Rick The Stick]

Nigger America

That's my favorite eminem song

 

[Feline Supremacist]

okay, everything else but especially this just tells me you're pissy about woke shit in the west and are a big enough idiot to think this war is some great war of values. this is far from actual reality and you're just arguing from your gut and emotions, because not only is this demonstrably true, that they're sent to the front lines--it's common knowledge, and yet still you have to carry water for Russia because you feel like you're flipping off the west for degeneracy, or something.

It's a war of aggression to conquer another country for economic reasons, bro. Your Russia simping is hilariously pathetic.

MILITARY TRAINING? Are you even paying attention to -anything-? They're being shoveled out with rusty ancient AK-47s like zerglings.


You guys have eaten the Ron Paul sandwich, where if we just left the terrorists alone they'd leave us alone. That they are fighting oppressors. Again, this is USSR propaganda from the old days that found its way into your brain. I don't get how you guys are claiming this is a war of defense and then making whataboutist arguments defending aggression. You're just arguing whatever with no consistency.

I wouldn't talk about Afghanistan if we are going to talk about Russia and aggression, anyway.

Nigger you argued for days there are more than two genders, you're a moron.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

Nigger you argued for days there are more than two genders, you're a moron.

No, I argued that there is probably a biological basis for transgenderism and that human sex differentiation is biologically more complicated than XX/XY chromosomes because of the intermediating effects of hormones; however, I stated this is probably for a minority of them today and what we are seeing now is a social contagion. You didn't understand any of this though because you've never studied developmental biology and probably think the baby comes down the chimney from a stork. Your comprehension of this and on other issues though tends to kind of strange. I'm willing to give you a pass though because you're sometimes funny and I'm pretty sure English isn't your native language since you have trouble understanding sentences sometimes.

Funny enough, you were the one arguing that women born with boobs and vaginas were men that should be raised as men because they have diminished internal gonads and XY chromosomes even though the male part isn't expressed due to androgen immunity. The fact that you think physical and psychological women should be in men's sports because of their chromosomes is unreal and I can't believe you kept arguing that.

But this is all above your head given how you remembered it.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

No, I argued that there is probably a biological basis for transgenderism

Yes and could be any number of things, from environmental to genetic error and anything in between.

and that human sex differentiation is biologically more complicated than XX/XY chromosomes

And every single scrap of evidence in your rambling, run on on tl;dr posts relied on nothing that has ever passed even basic scientific muster, and was taken verbatim from tranny wishful thinking, claiming men could be women and vice versa. That's why you're a moron.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

Yes and could be any number of things, from environmental to genetic error and anything in between.

And every single scrap of evidence in your rambling, run on on tl;dr posts relied on nothing that has ever passed even basic scientific muster, and was taken verbatim from tranny wishful thinking, claiming men could be women and vice versa. That's why you're a moron.

Okay, one post, since you're crying out for my attention in yet another thread.

You're obsessed with this topic dude, and you can't even summarize my arguments, and you haven't even graduated from high school yet. It's incredible seeing you proclaim anything about science with expertise. I don't even know why you keep using the word "gender." I don't, I don't think 'gender' is a particularly scientific concept so I avoid using it. Animals and plants do not have 'genders,' and 'gender' is the type of mentalism the Behaviorists tried to remove from science, and on that point I would agree with them. You're adopting more wokeshit than I am, and you don't even have the knowledge to realize it.

Everything I said about hormones and sex development is literally, literally stuff they teach in Biology II classes at any university, because human sexual development and how hormones intermediate is not controversial. You keep giving confused answers on how to classify people with Klinefelter's in part because your position kind of traps you as MEN with Klinefelter's are clearly men despite their chromosomes. I doubt you know what it is.

You're free to link the post, but what you're doing here is posturing and trying to troll with a completely irrelevant discussion that you don't understand, both because you don't have the advanced English skills to understand biological terminology, and because your knowledge of biology is about on par with your average Russian villager's. Like the rest of your posts on Kiwifarms, you strongly assert things far beyond the scope of your education just hoping people with your biases will cheer you on.

I invite anyone to click the link (potentially nsfw) and see what FS has, for years, been trying to tell me is a man, he keeps bringing this up over and over again despite not having the grasp of either English or biology to understand half the words on the page:

Complete androgen insensitivity syndrome - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Oh Lawd I hella trigger this tranny lmao

 

[AgendaPoster]

Trading Update​

Here's how we did on last week's earnings trade exits:

1. Call spread on Snap (SNAP 6.80%↑). Entered at a net debit of $0.22 on 2/6/2024; expired worthless on 2/10/2024. Loss: 100%.
2. Call spread on Affirm Holdings (AFRM 0.25%↑). Entered at a net debit of $0.20 on 2/8/2024; expired worthless on 2/9/2024. Loss: 100%.
3. Call spread on ELF Beauty (ELF 1.02%↑) (buying the $172.50 strike calls and selling the $175 strike calls). Entered at a net debit of $0.90 on 2/5/2024; exited at a net credit of $1.00 on 2/8/24. Profit: 11%.
4. Call spread on ELF Beauty (ELF 1.02%↑) (buying the $162.50 strike calls and selling the $165 strike calls). Entered at a net debit of $1.10 on 2/5/2024; exited at a net credit of $2.24 on 2/8/2024. Profit: 104%.
5. Call spread on Estée Lauder (EL 2.44%↑). Entered at a net debit of $0.40 on 2/2/2024; exited at a net credit of $0.95 on 2/5/2024. Profit: 138%.
6. Put spread on NetGear (NTGR -10.69%↓). Entered at a net debit of $0.35 on 2/7/2024; exited at a net credit of $0.85 on 2/8/2024. Profit: 143%.

Oh shit oh shit oh shit
Look at all those numbers and stonks

 

[Smar Mijou]

And yet Zelensky does everything to try to keep his nation alive, and these people whine and make fun of him. Sure, Zelensky asks for aid, but Russians keep AMERICANS in prison for political bargaining reasons on trumped-up charges. It's fucking traitorous that people would carry water for the Russian government. Some influential assholes just made supporting Russia look edgy and cool, and that's why you will never get any real reasons out of them, just insults. If you look at who supports Putin usually it's the most obvious grifters or

Yes, Russians have American prisoners in jail for political reasons. Just as we have/had Russian people in jail for the same reason. Along with many other countries doing the exact same thing against their adversaries throughout history, it's nothing new. As a side note to that, the most recent US victim of the Russia/Ukraine war? Gonzalo Lira A.K.A. Coach RedPill. And he was killed by the Ukrainians. You know, the ones that are supposed to be our "allies" in this whole mess.

You realize that the only reason Russia doesn't want NATO near it isn't because he is afraid NATO will invade. That's so stupid and I can't believe you guys buy that. He literally just wanted to invade nations that aren't controlled by NATO. NATO only exists because Russia invades other nations. That's literally the reason NATO exists. It's to protect other nations from Russia. Which is why Russia doesn't want NATO nearby.

Holy shit dude, calm down. We get it, you hate Russia. Nobody on here is arguing against that or being a simp for Putin. But for all your sperging, maybe you should read up on the entire history of NATO. It wasnt only designed to be a deterrent against the USSR, it was also designed to spread globohomo agenda foster European unity against "aggressive nationalism". Regardless of the truth of the matter, Putin seems to contend that The US had promised his predecessors that NATO wouldn't expand towards Russia, a promose that was swiftly ignored under Yeltsin's tenure and increasingly more under Putin's regime.
Whether that's right or wrong isn't for us to decide, but like I said above, I wouldn't be comfortable with China increasingly encroaching on US boarders. Either way, the world isn't all black and white, it isn't all "Russia=Bad USA=Good", or whatever tickles your pickle. I think we could all probably agree that for the majority of the regular people from all over, we just want to be left alone to live in peace, without the constant threats of war, politics, and other pedantic bullshit.

 

[AgendaPoster]

I think we could all probably agree that for the majority of the regular people from all over, we just want to be left alone to live in peace, without the constant threats of war, politics, and other pedantic bullshit.

The tragic reality is that is not going to happen and that other people fuck with you, and you will likely fuck with other people.

 

[SBG]

It's been a civil war since 2014, long before Russia joined in. Because most of the Eastern regions are Russian and only ended up temporarily in this new country called Ukraine because of a stroke of a Soviet premiere's pen. A region that has been part of Russia and populated by Russian people for a long time that only recently weren't, hardly makes for expansionist. The people there wanted to not be part of Ukraine, they were historically part of Russia. It's far less expansionist than it is simply restoring the historical norm. Hell, by those metrics retaking Kiev wouldn't be expansionist though that would be a different case because the people there didn't want to be part of Russia.

I'm not going to get into an argument about how acceptable Russian intervention is here, since I doubt we'd see eye to eye.

My position here is just that it's far more sane to say "yes Russia is acting expansionist and that's a good thing" than it is to say "Russia isn't expanding into another country". Because in the latter case you have someone not accepting that an event even took place, which feels about as nuts as when the pro-Israelis pretend Israel hasn't likely bombed a bunch of civilians over the past few months.

 

[Woe-B-Gon (TM)]

Him being radicalized was literally “Every other big city in Russia, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore can keep there commons clean. Why can’t we with the most funded cities in the world?”

His radicalization was asking why can’t the US at least put the thin veneer of at least looking nice.

Why does that sound familiar?



Oh.