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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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[VargReallyDidNothingWrong]

Keep imagining your glorious Russian Empire that has achieved two things across a 1000 years span.

Well, compared to the glorious Latvian/Lithuanian/Estonian empire it accomplished at least 1 thing - conquering and ruling over each of those multiple times over that 1000 year span.

You can smell the impotent rage coming off your posts through the screen

 

[CAPTAIN HAPPY]

Well, compared to the glorious Latvian/Lithuanian/Estonian empire it accomplished at least 1 thing - conquering and ruling over each of those multiple times over that 1000 year span.

Last I checked, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia aren't under Russian rule anymore. What's that about?
Maybe you should go there on your unicorn and ask what do people there think of Russia. I'm sure you'll attract a whole mob of people begging to be back into the block.

You can smell the impotent rage coming off your posts through the screen

lol
Maybe you wouldn't smell shit if you'd change your pants more often.
What's worse? Having impotent rage against an impotent culture of subhuman orcs or sucking their cock from the other side of the Earth? Don't answer that. Even the penguins can smell your pheromones whenever you think about cock.

 

[Overly Serious]

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.

I do see a difference between reclaiming a part of your country that was lost for a few decades and is still populated by people who are your people, who want to rejoin your country and was historically part of your country; and that of what the word "expansionism" conjures up when the other poster starts talking about colonialism, aggression, etc. I've not denied any events but I have denied (rightly so) the person I was replying to's colouring of them. And I think you yourself know that their lines about "the last expansionist state" etc. are wrong. Hell, I missed off Israel from my list earlier - I don't know how I managed that!

You will also, I hope, accept my point that it's a meaningless fig leaf to say you haven't formally annexed a territory as if to say you're not an aggressor when you stage coups, install proxy governments, loot natural resources, use military dominance to coerce unequal trade agreements or sales of said resources, etc.

Which honestly is the more aggressive behaviour: destroying a country like, for example, what the West did to Libya, or re-absorbing your historical people and territory who actively want you to do so as was the case with Donestk and Luhansk or Crimea after a relatively brief period of their being owned (unhappily) by another territory? I'd answer confidently it is the former. But the person I replied to which wasn't you, was going on about "expansionist powers" as a proxy for moral right.

I'm not a big fan of any government but so far as they're a necessary evil, people should be free to choose their own.

 

[make_it_so]

The Captain and his pants-shitting slav blood feud sperging here just further reinforces my belief that bringing all these post-Soviet lolcow nations into NATO was a mistake.

 

[There Is Light At The End]

Why?
You can't reach fat ass yourself?

Never suspected you as a Fatty McFatterson von Blubberbass. It's nice of you to be honest with everyone. And a quantity of some is not enough. You need a lot

 

[CAPTAIN HAPPY]

Never suspected you as a Fatty McFatterson von Blubberbass. It's nice of you to be honest with everyone. And a quantity of some is not enough. You need a lot

I must remind everyone, that according to this lot, I'm be big mad one here lol

 

[Feline Supremacist]

I need to remind the baltoids that no thinks about them unless they start the yappy Chihuahua act. Then we ignore them.

 

[There Is Light At The End]

I'm be big mad one here

Yes. You definitely are. You are so mad, that if butthurt can be used to produce electricity, yours would have enough to power up a small town and sell some to neighbouring cities as well

 

[CAPTAIN HAPPY]

Yes. You definitely are. You are so mad, that if butthurt can be used to produce electricity, yours would have enough to power up a small town and sell some to neighbouring cities as well

Am I?

 

[VargReallyDidNothingWrong]

Last I checked, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia aren't under Russian rule anymore.

Yeah, but Russia was never under Latvian, Lithuanian or Estonian rule. And that's the key difference

Maybe you should go there and ask what do people there think of Russia.

Why would I need to do that when I can simply read your posts? The people there, despite being virtually no different from Russians and in many cases speaking Russian and living in cities that are no different from Russian cities (because they were all built during the Soviet Union), think they are enlightened Europeans and that 200 kilometers to the east Russians all live without running water, having never seen a toilet, and riding bears to their job (which is raping, probably).

 

[make_it_so]

Am I?

You spent the better part of two pages raging about how Russians are dumb subhuman animals that never amounted to anything and that their nation sucks and deserves to die. Yeah, you sound a little ass-hurt.

 

[CAPTAIN HAPPY]

You spent the better part of two pages raging about how Russians are dumb subhuman animals that never amounted to anything and that their nation sucks and deserves to die. Yeah, you sound a little ass-hurt.

What I said is that Russia is a piece of shit landmass and is no different than any nigger infested shithole Putin apologists want to compare the entire Western world to.

The rest of the beef is on your end. I don't bitch and moan and leave faggy disslikes because my feelings got hurt instead of trying to prove my point otherwise.
I just like to enrage retards and laugh at them.

Yeah, but Russia was never under Latvian, Lithuanian or Estonian rule. And that's the key difference

Exactly. Key difference is that everyone under Russian rule hates its guts and every single culture overrun by those fags at some point in the modern fucking era has attempted to fight out of it to greater or lesser extent.
You don't see Texas or California commencing with Civil War 2 against Washington.
You don't see German provinces getting ready to overthrow the Budnestag and bring back HRE.
At best, you'd have retards in Scotland, Wales or NI trying to pull some ridiculous independence bullshit to comical results and even if they'd succeed, they'd get their ass blown by sheer nonrecognition by any other country in the world.
With that said, show me one country that fought out of the Soviet shitblock that is doing worse than they did under that shit. Save yourself the time. Everyone not under Russian rule is doing better than under it.

Why would I need to do that when I can simply read your posts? The people there, despite being virtually no different from Russians and in many cases speaking Russian and living in cities that are no different from Russian cities

The Russian ethnic populace is always an enclosed system of reprobate settlers who keep to themselves, refuse to integrate and are just shitty gypsy'esque people. A lot of them live off of welfare or crime.
I swear to you, you will not find any ethnic Russian beyond Russia that are not white nigger vatniks.

(because they were all built during the Soviet Union),

No they weren't lol
They expanded during the Soviets, because, surprise surprise, when you're an agrarian country, impoverished by a greedy, corrupt empire, you need big families to survive off the land. Naturally these families then split and gather at industrialization points. Problem is that in any other country industrialization happened before WW2. In the Ruso Soviet Empire, it happened way after with famines and civil wars filling in the gap.

think they are enlightened Europeans and that 200 kilometers to the east Russians all live without running water, having never seen a toilet, and riding bears to their job (which is raping, probably).

Nobody, and I mean nobody, in Eastern Europe thinks they're enlightened anything. We hate the Russians because they're white nigger filth and we are indifferent to Euros, because they're gay.
The average Easter European just wants to get by and stay the fuck away from politics. NOBODY wants to be a part of the Russian block, besides shizophrenic alcoholics, destitute from their own families.
All the while anyone who wants to go to Europe, they go there, earn good money through hard work, some stay, some come home and help out us locals trying to get the Soviet stink out that's still here 30 years later.
And the fucking gal of some shitstain dumbass westernoids who go to Moscow, fuck a cheap prostitute and drink some
diluted vodka to then tell us what we should think of Russia, propagating literal bullshit propaganda in our faces, thinking they'll be taken seriously. I reiterate, get the fuck out of here.
Stupid shits like you are trying to equivocate how nice, kind and hard working Mexicans are to someone who lives in El Paso. It's pure fucking arrogance and madness on your end.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

You don't see Texas or California commencing with Civil War 2 against Washington.

Texas can survive without America, America can not survive without Texas.

 

[CAPTAIN HAPPY]

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Texas can survive without America, America can not survive without Texas.

Cool article.
Where're Abbott's armies?

 

[Rei is Shit.]

but comparing Singapore, Tokyo, and Dubai to other cities in the world is kind of dumb since those cities are elite cities, and Tokyo is clean and nice because of Japanese culture.

What the fuck is NYC? LA? Boston? Ect.

Or are you just admitting that the USA no longer has any AAA tier cities?

 

[Spud]

Learn a trade.

It's decent advice but you would want people who share your ideas and values to go into more industries that would require degrees. Like becoming a Lawyer, small business and tradesmen always need a good lawyer on standby in case any legal issues come up.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Oh come on. Today's standard of radicalization are so low that even reading national geographic can turn a child into Hitler according to the powers that be.

A book about pirates a family friend got kid me would be seen as radicalizing now.

 

[There Is Light At The End]

A book about pirates a family friend got kid me would be seen as radicalizing now.

even fucking moomins can radicalise you, since, main character is white, has loving family and friends. And no niggers

 

[Otterly]

And at a certain point, I don't think the average person cares as much about abstractions as the concrete reality of his life.
This is what the progressives don’t seem to get. If it’s a choice between commie tyranny and starving to death while being raped by invading brown people or right wing tyranny and death camps with the trains running on time and law and order, people will pick the jackboots, every time. Sorry but there it is.
Where I live has gone from extremely safe to not within twenty years. As a kid I could roam around all day. Id never let mine do that now. As a young woman I could happily walk home from a night out alone and not even worry. Now people aren’t safe in the day. The roads are a mess. The trash isn’t taken regularly. It’s like the third world but without the warmer weather.
ORDER is probably as important or more than the law bit of law and order.

I highly doubt that Moscow is as ordered as Singapore or Reykjavik but I would imagine seeing the Moscow metro after whatever American metro he’s used to is a bit of a reality check

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

What the fuck is NYC? LA? Boston? Ect.

Or are you just admitting that the USA no longer has any AAA tier cities?

Did you read my post? I pretty much said just that.

Though as someone else pointed out later, it's a bit more complicated because the countryside in America isn't anywhere close to Russia's where plumbing is often a luxury.

I do see a difference between reclaiming a part of your country that was lost for a few decades and is still populated by people who are your people, who want to rejoin your country and was historically part of your country; and that of what the word "expansionism" conjures up when the other poster starts talking about colonialism, aggression, etc. I've not denied any events but I have denied (rightly so) the person I was replying to's colouring of them. And I think you yourself know that their lines about "the last expansionist state" etc. are wrong. Hell, I missed off Israel from my list earlier - I don't know how I managed that!

It's obvious from the way you think about this conflict you just get your news from pretty much only Tucker. You doubted, despite it being so common knowledge leaders in the boonies in Russia have brought it up -- that Putin is sending men from the outer provinces to die was bullshit because the Russian military wouldn't train those men. Do you know how much you made me laugh with that statement? I don't even think you know enough about this conflict to know why that's so funny.

Fortunately the ideas about Russia here, which are either from Russaboos or Americans that think in a very distinctly American way, are pretty marginalized and never really will get anywhere outside of places like the Farms, because anyone that gets into power is at least going to understand Russia and its history to a minor degree and aren't going to blindly trust sensationalist interviewers.

My favorite part is where you justify Russia's conquest because Putin claims it's theirs because they won it in earlier conquest so it can't be Ukraine's.

Nobody, and I mean nobody, in Eastern Europe thinks they're enlightened anything. We hate the Russians because they're white nigger filth and we are indifferent to Euros, because they're gay.

You have maybe 1 or 2 posters here that are that are bigtime simp for Putin, I think one's in Romania, they go around on the farms telling everyone everyone over in Eastern/Central Europe supports Putin and we both know it's not true, and without powerleveling too much I know flat out that person was deliberately lying, as Russaboos do, much like Trump's weirder flunkies like Bill Mitchell back in 2012.

In Eastern Europe you can't walk 3 feet without hearing someone insult Russia or Putin with no pretenses of journalistic neutrality on the news in those countries.

The people here have no IDEA how much Russia is hated, not just for WWII but for historical things that people from young countries like the USA can't even comprehend. They describe Russia in such a naive way. The way they talk about stuff like "well, people have the right to self-determination" and stuff is all, all entirely within American ethos and ignores so many cultural nuances that shape this--but ultimately, Russia wants to grab land. The above idiot is probably going to try to tell me Poland, Romania, the Baltics, East Germany, etc. should be back with Russia too as "it was theirs."

People in Eastern Europe think Tucker is a moron because he goes over there, interviews Putin, doesn't know any of the history of the region or seems to deliberately want to ignore it, says a bunch of things that make Putin sound not so bad that is entirely American-centric bullshit. The sad thing is, these people don't even know or care that Russia has done the same things before always on the same pretexts, always engineering an optics situation (little green men) or such so chumps like them can carry water on the world stage and argue for their politicians to go easy on them.

I think it's telling when people come in here, get mad, doubt everything that is said with "well, I doubt the boonies in Russia is as run down as Baltimore!" or as if they couldn't advertise their ignorance enough. They use their knowledge of American history and American values to try to fit in the wide chasms of ignorance they have and apply it to Russia when Russia isn't even held together the same way America is.

Though the best part is they simp for Russia as the savior of the white race when Russia takes over and suppresses local cultures and identities. They know this and still don't care.