Great video. The Right needs to understand that some of their heroes like Carlson are just as Woke in a different sense than their Lefty adversaries. Carlson used to speak truths no one else would speak about the insanity of the Woke Left and extremist Leftists and Democrats in general...but then he fell down the rabbit hole and started believing Russian propaganda and misinformation and actively promoting it. He's not the man he used to be. And neither are many others on the Right who used to speak sense.
Well, the shopping carts and things ike these for entertainment purposes also. And he pointed out many suprising things. I have never been in Russia I just heard the propaganda from the west about it. Tucker is the only one (only real journalist) who created content about it.
Aldi, one of the more affordable grocery stores in the states, has the same coin-operated shopping cart procedure. Why Carlson thought that was news somehow shows that he probably doesn't do his own grocery shopping and hasn't in a couple of decades.
Or doesn't have an Aldi. Sometimes it's as simple as that if you dare to be charitable. Spend an hour at the shopping carts at Aldi and it will become obvious that it's very atypical. People lift their eyes to the heavens because they forgot their quarter in the car or don't have one at all. You will always see someone who has no idea what to do. It's rare. I think you would just shit on Tucker...
I didn’t take the videos about Russia is to say we should emulate them. I took it as let’s see how the efforts to punish Russia with the sanctions have worked. Answer was they haven’t, really.
Pretty much this. A lot of this stuff seems like a reach and I’ve seen a few other similar videos. I watched the interview and didn’t get the same impressions.
The goal of the sanctions was never to punish ordinary Russian people though. Also Tucker showed you what he wanted to show you, not Russia for what it actually is.
@@maxxon99 really? Who would have thought that... considering New York police gave more active personnel than most armies in the world one would think they would do their job..unless their job is to let people commit crimes
@@5tre55full Well, if the Russian Orthodox Church is effectively a state church, and the Russian state has invaded Ukraine, at the very least it should be banned in Ukraine. How has Kisin "sold out"? What loyalty does he have to Russia, a land he left long ago?
@@niandralades2 Centrists aren't necessarily more rational, they just hold views that don't fall neatly into "right" or "left" and don't have disdain for people they disagree with.
@@paulroberts7544 People with views that don't fall neatly on one side or the other and/or are turned off by fiery rhetoric and partisanship on both sides, and who just want to live their lives and don't hate people they disagree with.
It fits and make sense when you connect "right" to it, in terms of rhetoric and prose in the English language. At least if you think about it for a moment. I can see how it wouldn't if English wasn't your first language though
KK is using the weapon of the woke - language - to reframe what Tucker is actually a part of, which is the Dissident Right, or Freedom Conservatives. If anyone is guilty of woke-thought, it is those who demand we treat people according to their character & actions….unless they’re Israeli. Because hardcore Zionists make woke Trans BIPOC vegans look like the new kids on the block. Zionists like KK have been playing identity politics before it was even called that.
You compared the metro station to "the west." I think Tucker compared it to the US. Our metros (NY, San Francisco, LA) are horrendous. Europe has some great ones.
European ones are amazing...or used to be even just 10 years ago. Now most of them are dirty, crime ridden and filled with 3rd world invaders. I can at least say as much for the main one in Slovenija, where I love. Whole aura around main train and buss stations totaly changed, most people try to avoid it, it is basicly 50/50 of citizens and some random maroccans in flip flops on the middle of the winter. Shit disgusts me any time I pass by.
Yeah, to be fair, nearly every western country outside the US/Canada has stellar public transit and metros. At least, stellar in comparison to the United States.
Love the video. But I must correct you dear Konstantinos. In Lithuania, during the Soviet time we actually had few shop trolleys. They were always broken and weals never worked, rusty wires sticking out from every corner threatening to give you tetanus as a shopping experience souvenir. No return mechanism or escalators though. And to be fair, there was no need for trolley. You can always put a quarter of the loaf, bottle of milk and bare bones in a basket. Because that is all we had in the shops. Chocolate and oranges were coming from a mystical land of plenty, that only my mother new the access codes to. We never knew where they come from, because they have never entered the shop floor of a shop.
Ukraine. My mother tells exactly the same stories. Everything's the same and ugly, or scarce. Bottom line: nothing's truly yours as well. Meanwhile you're expected to butter up anyone from your doctor to your boss with some chocolate, beverage, or money wherever you went.
Indeed, but in East Berlin in the 90s, in the GSFG-approved supermarket at Karlshorst, only baskets were available - a very limited number, and if you weren't holding a basket, you weren't allowed in to gaze at the mostly-empty shelves. The black bread was vile, too.
@@dohavename6775 oh yes. The small bribes. If you get a box of chocolates, you can’t give it to the kids, because “what if I need to go to doctors”. All Soviet Union kids washed the head with the same “Kira-Kira” shampoo and half of the houses had the same furniture 🙈. The ones that lived well were the ones that could steel from work. I can’t believe it so many are missing the times of empty shelves and promises 🤦♀️.
@@indre12 off topic, as a Russian, I hope my and your country could be a friend again one day, I know, our history is very complicated after communism, Stalin, and occupation, but we are neighbours. Peace ☮
@@alexbayer2365 I really hope so. Unfortunately it will take a very long time. I see the damage the propaganda done to so many in Russia and even abroad. The lack of humanity and common sense is horrifying. Until that is irradiated there can be no peace. Also do you remember the cartoon about the dragon? Can’t remember how it was called. It was about the knight that would come to defeat the dragon and become dragon himself. “ the rebel is defeated! Long live the dragon!” Shouted the servant. Even the boy with the pure heart almost got corrupted by the gold and power. Up until your country will get rid of all the dragons we can only dream of peace. I hope that you and me live to see that 😊
While "democracy!" is the battle cry of freedom loving people everywhere, we need to understand that the United States of America is a Constitutional Republic based upon the values of individual liberty - not a pure democracy. We simply can't afford to let the whims of a majority strip the rights of the individual.
I am sorry but you're wrong. The American author Auron MacIntyre says it best. The USA is no longer a constitutional republic. It's a democracy. The founding documents are completely useless and have been surpassed by civil rights. It's your second informal constitution. John Adams said, “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
The US has méchanism of democracy in place to décide who runs the government every four years as well as freedom of speech, etc guarantee in her constitution.
You may want to learn the difference between "The United States" and "The United States of America". Hint: It's like the difference between 'legal' and 'lawful'...
I doubt Tucker will ever have Kostya on his network. Why would he? Kostya already bashed him in too many videos, why would Tucker lower himself down to Kostya's level? He's a nobody compared to Tucker ratings. Just pointing out the obvious but I could be wrong. I do wish to see them debate, just not looking like a reality at least for the time being and especially after this weak take video too.
Although I'd like to see that, Tucker is not a debater, his arguments are in a monologue, which ironically the vast majority of us can have those and spew truths here and there. His ability to debate someone else is limited.
@@JohnSmith-dh6vdso your point is that Tucker won’t have anyone on who has constructive criticism of him? Way to go for someone who goes on and on about censorship and one sidedness in media
Stop voting for them then. Vote for the most humble and least ideological candidate, not the one which would get "x" into power. You want an MP who will listen and represents the best for your constituency and the country, not a bullish character who is already a multimillionaire business pundit with personal priorities. Unfortunately, the electorate tends to vote on political affiliation or representation of a leader and are generally uninformed and poorly educated to get it right.
Kisin, your hate for Russia is disgusting and very very telling. Your are not objective, you do not look at facts, you wish to spread your narrative instead of the truth on Russia, because you hate it so much. Do you also have as much disdain for the people living in Russia, Belarus, and other post Soviet Union countries, because unlike you they don't want to leave their countries to live in other corrupt countries such as US, France, Germany, Poland, etc.? You refuse to understand that the majority of people living in the eastern Ukrainian oblasts are Russians who happen to have Ukrainian citizenships because of the division made after WW2, who welcomed Russian troops with open arms considering uneven treatment by the Ukrainian government prior to the conflict. Tucker did a great job interviewing many people hated by the establishment. He did not agree with you on one thing and you feel the need to fight him to get your argument on top, because you're what? A 5-year-old? He liked the idea of coins in shopping trolleys and appreciated Russian architecture and you hold it against him trying to humiliate him over it? What is this? Kindergarten? Lastly you dare to speak about Salvadoran president Bukele and his 85% approval rating, but deny that the Russian president has a similar one, because of corruption or totalitarianism? Do you not live in UK where corrupt government is destroying the country with illegal immigration and welfare and did it not put totalitarianism in place during srandemic like most of "democratic" European countries? You have no idea what you speak of, Kisin.
Tis the grand plan indeed, and she is coming slowly but surely and after the chaotic times, tyranny with mass surveillance. but wait ,we have this already in the USA
This might sound simplistic, but as someone who lives in Japan but wasn't born or raised there - I genuinely think Carlson suffers the same issue many people who move to Japan do, only on a different degree. He assumes the experience specialized for him as a visitor to be the experience of a resident, clinging on the few everyday things he does as a sign of that assumption to be grounded in reality. In Japan it's because of how the locals treat guests (especially non-East-Asian guests). In Russia, it was because he never left Moscow and was always accompanied by designated people who accompanied him. There is a good reason many foreigners who move to Japan end up leaving, there's a good reason when someone rants excessively about Japan as they leave everyone immediately knows they fell for the "tourist experience = local experience" trap, and there's a good reason the foreigners who do choose to stay permanently or at least don't leave sooner than they planned seem to have a view of Japan that is more grounded in reality and capable of pointing the upsides and downsides alike. We don't take the bullet trains across cities and visit beautiful forests and shrines on a daily basis like tourists do. We pay bills, commute to school and work, and go day by day like everyone else, and our commonalities with the Japanese citizens are bigger than just hopping by the same supermarket or taking the same metro line once or twice. Had Carlson been able to explore Russia on his own and also wander away from the big cities, or had he moved there for a prolonged period of time, I believe his image of Russia would be different than the one he currently has. I don't necessarily assume his opinion would turn negative, maybe he would still like Russia and feel comfortable there. But his impression would definitely be more grounded in reality and told from a lens that is at least somewhat more similar to the one of a native Russian local rather than a high-profile American journalist on a formal visit.
Yes I read that the Russians hired Hollywood to do a makeover of the Rail station just before Carlson got there and removed it restoring the station to its decrepit state
It's pretty amazing to me how people are reacting to these videos. First of all, it's clearly done somewhat tongue in cheek, oh my God look what they have! Secondly, the point he was making was what have the sanctions from the West done to every day life in Russia. The answer is not too much, life still moves on. Third, while the Moscow train reaction was a bit over the top, again, the point he was trying to make is that it's SAFE, CLEAN, and a point of pride for the Russians. From what I've read, other stations obviously aren't this ornate but are equally well maintained and safe. The ones in New York, a point he makes again and again, are disgusting and unsafe. Let alone his post interview video is quite clear that he is no fan of Putin, he simply wants the American people to hear him. He does not want our way of life to go away, he wants it to improve. Tucker is old enough to remember Guiliani, democratically elected in New York, making drastic changes and improving the life of the city. So it can obviously be done within our system. I'm no one's fan boy, and thought the entire thing was a bit strange. But I saw the point, and genuinely do not see yours. This essay was rambling and bordered on incoherent by the end. The United States is not a democracy, it's a democratic republic. And not a single person I know wants to go the route of dictator because our govt has become such a clown show. If anything, they want to separate on their own and rebuild what the forefathers meant this country to be, not the den of corruption it has become. That's why there are so many secession movements all over the country. Weak cheese...
Again you idiots, tucker is just showing those in the West the embargoes placed on Russia aren't working. But you farkwits in America with your pea brains listen to your CNN and MSNBC and think "oh those Russians must be starving" because of tough Joe Biden's policies. Fark you're all a bunch ignorant wankers.
Maybe Tucker is too rich to have ever stepped into an Aldi here in the US lol. Though to be honest, I didn't see any carts with a coin mechanism in California until Aldi finally made its way here in 2016, so it's still fairly new in some places.
There was a muslim nanny holding a severed child's head walking near the subway entrance in Moscow for hours before being arrested a few years ago. It's on youtube, check it out.
The dichotomy is simple. We, the people, believe that our politicians are our representatives. The politicians themselves believe that they are our owners. There is a tension here that will eventually explode with all the force of a coiled steel spring.
@@AjaxDGonzoWhich ones? The ones that screwed us this term or the ones that screwed us last term? Its a tennis match, the bats are electrified and we're the ball.
@@LeoRikimaru well personally I think democracy is inherently flawed because it’s a popularity contest. The problem is that the government just has too much power nowadays, it would be better if it were more limited and they left us alone. Alexis Tocqueville wrote about how democracy would eventually start to fail when people realized they could pay themselves through democracy with taxpayer dollars. I think something like 50-70% of all our debt has come from welfare programs and even then there’s also the expansion of every governmental agency.
@@AjaxDGonzo Yes , but remember they can only pay themselves because they have control over the money supply via central banks and money printing (QE). Even Lenin said that a communism was only possible if there was a centralized money system, ie a way of stealing it from earners.
Was that before religion was pretty much everywhere especially in peoples head as god speaking lol Those good ole days are your imagination perhaps lol
Lol…less than a hundred years ago going all the way back to primitive man people fought in wars every generation…’going their own way’ when your clan tribe country religion etc called on humans to fight against the other isn’t ‘going your own way’ your sounding silly and revisionist lol
Fabians were rather moderate socialists back then, not communist fanatics. Hell, many Fabians were actually colonial governors and other high-ups (e.g. Sir Sydney Olivier, the uncle of the actor), completely incompatible with being opponent of private property and promoting violent nationalization of economy. One should study history a little deeper: Shaw encountered significant pushback from his fellow Fabians after fawning about Stalin. Even some who initially supported him, like H. G. Wells, made the U-turn. Wells wrote that Stalin is a "murderous brute" and even that he should have been killed in his crib... So, Konstantine's observation is still valid.
This seems to miss the point. Tucker Carlson wasn’t endorsing Russia; he was showing what the U.S. could be if we invested in ourselves…. The question presented wasn’t why is Russia so good, but rather why is America so bad despite being the wealthiest nation by multiples?!
Yeah, but the subway system was an embarrassing example. Tucker is not traveled enough nor old enough to know that the Moscow subway system was quite impressive even in the days of Communism. It looked far more beautiful and impressive when America was at its height as well.
But Russia is far from an example to look at when it comes to “investing in ourselves”. It’s not good, not good at all. Russia is a totalitarian state where one man is by far ahead and above the rest of the country. The average wage is just $200/week.
@@MrJm323 I am sure he is aware of that. He was pointing that it is in a good condition and there is order there. In 90s it was a mess too, with many homeless people sleeping there.
"Why is Tucker emotionally invested in Ukraine?" Does he think that the more the US is involved, the higher the risk that his children will be sent to die there? I think Tucker has said something to that effect. How do you respond to that?
@@frakismaximus3052 Two of the Kennedy boys, and almost (later president) JFK as well, were lost in World War 2. Your cynicism is historically inaccurate.
Konstantin ! big respect for you saying my mind's about all these things !! Im happy someone understand correctly the situation and doesn't take side of political games !!!
George Bernard Shaw was an enthusiastic member of the Fabian Society whose worldview was much more aligned with the Socialism than classical Liberalism.
Oh the Fabian’s…those people deserve a larger spot in history for shepherding Marxism past the point it should’ve simply disappeared in the West and gifting it a veneer of academic legitimacy. It’s too bad their poisonous contributions are largely unknown.
That's why the term "liberal"in America, Canada heck even the UK means absolutely nothing because the ruling class, deep state, and organisations do not want to shed the liberal name tag, they hope instead the voters keep assuming that liberal in politics means ...liberal!
He also was into eugenics, I have a recording of talking about people who were not worthy should then be killed, he bore no grudges against them, but he said, but they were not of any worth to the human race.
@@ren2871 Nah. I just find the internal contradictions entertaining. Putin's a dictator but Netanyahu isn't. The kind of intellectual integrity you expect from a comedian.
@@ren2871Konstantin's feelings were hurt, otherwise he would have made an actual salient point rather than spending the whole video crying over the fact that Tucker chose to interview the man who invaded Ukraine about Ukraine instead of Konstantin himself. It's quite pathetic.
While I agree that Putin is a despot who needs to be stopped I do believe that the Ukraine issue has more nuance than we are permitted to see here in the west .
I don't think your comparison of Tucker to Tucker is fair. You're comparing Tucker when on Fox to the indie Tucker. And you expect him to be the beacon of everything. He's just a dude. Shaw was an idiot, but Putin is not Stalin. Not a fair comparison either. You suggest west should man up. But if it is not by your terms it's wrong. You are inflating yourself and bogarting the moral high ground while saying stuff that Trump is not a problem but a symptom. What's that supposed to mean? So far he has been the antidote, yet your own preferences increasingly override your reasoning.
Here’s the point I interpreted from Tucker’s posts from Moscow. He’s drawing a direct comparison between the sorry state of democrat-controlled cities and states in the greatest country on earth versus a relatively poor country controlled by a mad man but can still have clean streets, cities and grocery stores. It I also underscores the undeniable impact that high taxes, high regulation, high inflation, high crime, illegal immigration and free stuff for everyone is having on wages and the everyday cost of goods and services in the US which is a direct result of democrat policies. What Tucker did in that regard is very informative and is what good journalism is ultimately about. Don’t shoot the messenger.
It's eye opening to see how different russia is now from the soviet union days, which is how it is portrayed, as though it never left the soviet union.
Thats the point I took from it. Along with trying to ahed light on some of the lies we are fed. No one doubts Putin cannot be trusted and kills his rivals.
This, coming from a guy whose father was a mini-oligarch before getting booted out by Putin... No wonder there's hard feelings, when your racket gets disrupted.
The WTF makes use of woke ideology but probably don't believe in it. Woke means in conformity with critical race theory which is derived from Marxism. Critical race theory came from Marxist professors at US universities. The WEF are corrupt and only believe in power. They are probably not Marxist but are willing to use it to hold onto power and destroy opponents. If burning witches was popular at universities, the WEF would call Donald Trump a witch because he is in their way. Instead they call him a racist because that is the ultimate crime to followers of woke Marxist ideology. They know Trump is neither a racist or a witch but they know it cases much of the population to think critically about open borders mean for them.
Its part of the horseshoe phenomenon. Elements of the alt right share nearly every view with the radical left. Such that they are actually next to eachother on the political spectrum
@miaco Yeah. That is how I see it, too. Like liberals who abandoned the ideas of enlightenment, and indulged themselves in censorship and control, those right wingers abandon their elementary principles (God, family, country) and get amazed by the leaders and societies that hold facades of those values; yet they are corrupt and rotten inside. I hope neither of the woke will prevail.
Like Sam Harris, KK cultivated a right-wing "Trumpist" fan base, for the wrong reasons, something that he now probably regrets doing, having realized their inflexible orthodoxy regarding certain topics.
Tucker simply felt compelled to point out the contrast between the mainstream media depiction and his personal observation. What we had been led to believe would be devastating sanctions appeared otherwise. Pointing out the contrast in cleanliness between Moscow and NYC seemed pertinent. Accusing him of ignorance would imply he hasn’t been fully aware of similar short term beautification projects in all major U.S. cities when foreign dignitaries or events like the Super Bowl come to town. Your criticism rings howl.
You summed up the situation of the past 8-10 years more clearly than I’ve heard in a while. I feel like I occupy the same political space and mindset as you, equally as frustrated with the left and the right.
I honestly wonder if the Russians and Chinese sat down and the Chinese said "we will take the leftists in the West to swamp with propaganda" and the Russians said "we will take the right then" because it feels that way, some of my fellow conservatives swallow the most obvious BS propaganda about Russia and Ukraine that has its roots in Russia.
I dont wanna live in russia or love putin, but the train station is an example of what happened when people fear the state for acting out, we have the opposite problem where people can literally assault others and shit everywhere.
It isn’t about fear of the state, if you act against the state in the USA you will be thrown in prison for a long time, like Jan 6 “rioters”. Our state just doesn’t care about protecting the common people. Russia cares more about the common people than DC ever will, or at least the people in the capital.
The government in the UK is very easy on certain things and hard line on others. Anything involving debt. You'll get absolutely slammed in the UK. Anything involving anti social behaviour, petty crime - they don't care.
There really seems to be disconnection between the voting public and the elected officials as in neither side seem to truly see the biger picture. Mass migration is the perfect example of this. The voting public sees the immediate negative effects of mass migration, the crime rate, cultural friction etc. Leading to voters demanding stop on mass migration. Meanwhile the elected officials see the declining birth rates and the impending demographic collapse, which leads them to try to find new working age people to replase the ever growing retiree population through mass migration. The real tragedy here is that both of these are real issues that need to be addressed, but aren't due to the disconnect between these two parties, leading to bitterness and resentment between them.
The IQ mismatch means mass migration can't work. The replacements, even when trained, can't do the work. Japan already sees the future - Low IQ repetitive work? Robots. You can turn them off when they aren't needed.
I'm very grateful for this. I like Tucker a lot, but he misses it from time to time. No one is perfect, including Triggernometry, as much as I like you guys. Keep free speech alive. I am subscribed.
Because Konstantin is a true free thinker. You don't have to agree with him. But consider there are also idiots in your team not only on the other side ...
The extremes on big sides have swelled to much larger numbers and have adopted utterly irrational ideologies. It’s so sad how reactionary many of us have become.
It's in the word - REACTIONaries. REACTION. Reaction to what? Society is becoming more and more dysfunctional. And that's why there's a reaction to that, which breeds those reactionaries on both sides. This means that there are legitimate complains about how things are, and those should be heard and addressed on BOTH sides, rather than demonized. But it appears that our overlords are more interested in seeing us peasants fighting amongst ourselves
it's like these lunatics feed off each other. One side screams "its birthing persons, not women and you can kill babies just hours before they are delivered" and the other side responds by ban all abortions and consider embryos as persons"
Yes!! I was almost shocked to hear this from Konstantin. Konstantin should have more knowledge of that area of the world. Consequently, my instinct tells me to trust Konstantin. I like Tucker too though! I need to dig in further now.
To be honest, I doubt it will happen. Konstantin has debated people who held opposite views on this topic, but I have never seen Tucker debate anyone who challenged his pro-Russia bias.
@@catsnads01I don't blame Tucker to no debate.. time will tell best about this war and debating it at this time is null as people's thoughts on it are their thoughts and they are not waiverable.
By going after Tucker, the man who just last nite exposed how the Department of Homeland Security, the CIA and the NGO establishment have been censoring us en masse since 2019, through COVID, the 2020 election and Jan. 6 and much more, while pimping for a money-laundering operation called NATO that is slaughtering the Ukrainian people.@@ThomasDanielsen1000
@@marc2hot4uMeh, not really, I lived there for seven years. In many ways freer than America...wont get fired for telling a spicy joke at work, or asking a coworker out for coffee. Also no 'blackshirts' roaming the streets like in Mussolini's Italy. Russians are very educated, hard working, etc...they will not put up with another truly totalitarian state, especially the ones born after the Soviet collapse.
Modern Russia is a theocracy where Putin's critics are all either dead, in jail or exiled. It's actually worse in terms of oppression than it was under Gorbachev
@MarkMcAllister-ni9sf Funny, I've been to Russia a few times myself and agree with your sentiments of the people. But you then are familiar that public protest is non-existent due to the threat of violence, the media is state runned, or journalists and politicians get killed regularly, you don't need brown shirts if the state knocks heads for you and if your in power for over 25 years 😉
😂 You just get better, Konstantin. It’s good to see you post this though it may upset some of the, um, more committed. And, yes, it is entirely someone’s prerogative who they invite to talk and what they decide to discuss, but if they only ever amplify your voice when it reinforces their agenda, you are being co-opted and positioned to validate *all* of that agenda. It is a difficult one and I’m glad you have this avenue to share your fuller pov.
@@NT-fo3me-Tucker repeatedly said he believes in America and he disagrees with Putin. How many times would he have to say it for Kisin to get it. And, Tucker is pointing out that if Russia can keep things economically in control, why can’t the US. Instead, Kisin missed the point and tells us how he got butt-hurt about a possible debate and then calls him a liar and miscompares him to Shaw. This is an incredibly insulting and wrong take.
I wouldn’t call it the woke right. It’s simply that the anti-establishment will use examples of our enemies and compare it to ourselves. BTW, The Soviets constantly did this to the US by pointing out issues with the US versus the mass murder in their domain.
I think woke right is perfect. It’s exactly the same issue as the woke left - being ‘awoken’ to perceived problems in society and advocating bad solutions to fix them.
Woke right is just another tool of WEF that will be used once majority of people completely reject their batshit insane leftist dystopia. They will just turn the switch and start catering to right wing woke and achieve the goals anyway.
Pls explain. The woke left is an identified based idelogy with emphasison institutional power. The populist right is anti establishment and prone to conspiracy theory. They seem like they are at opposite ends of a cognitive spectrum. @Stef3m
I was surprised by Tucker getting "handled". I toured St. Petersburg (then Leningrad) about the time Bernie Sanders and his wife were being "handled" in Moscow. My experience observing the empty markets and food lines was very different from Bernie's. Years later my tour of Moscow revealed the stark divide by the haves and have-nots, greater than the one dividing Beverly Hills from Compton.
If you continued to travel there, you would have observed a pretty impressive increase in the quality of life. Moscow today is far removed from the Moscow of 2010's, let alone the Moscow from the nineties.
@@AbcDino843 in Moscow, yes, but that quality of life quickly dissipates as you move away from the center, uncannily almost following the inverse square law. And once you leave the city altogether... oh, boy... 20% of households still don't have indoor plumbing.
Tucker's take on the coin operated shopping cart was particularly funny in that they were portrayed as a Russian invention. They've been in Canada for decades and in this day and age where people don't really carry cash anymore, make little sense. They only serve to piss people off when they realize they don't have the required coin to use a cart. I really don't mind the interview with Putin as I believe most of us are able to see lies when they're presented. The rest of the videos I could have done without.
We have them at the Aldi's locations in my town and you can often find a loose trolly with the quarter in it. It is frustrating when I forget though because that will be the day no stray trolleys are around.
We have had them in UK for ages now My take on Tucker's little shopping foray etc, was that he was showing people in US that Russia had those every day things which Americans have. Aren't the Democrats quick to believe that Russia is backward, so he was showing otherwise. Showing how clean and opulent the metro was, Tucker was mocking democrats there! Rubbing Biden and the Democrats noses in the dirt, because many metros in some US cities are hell holes I believe! Tucker was just having a good time there mocking his nemeses I believe 😅 Unsure why Konstantin did not understand that !
@@ashleynicole9423 Wrong. Oh how ignorant you are. We have them at Aldi's because it's a European company, and it has nothing to do with "low-income neighborhoods". Aldi's is available in college towns throughout the midwest and in middle class neighborhoods here in NYC. Other than at Aldi's the coin system is not very popular over here. Stores have other ways of preventing cart theft. Big box stores "lock" their carts so they get stuck and won't move if you try and take them past a certain point. Other stores, especially here in NYC have bars at the exit that are spread far enough apart for a person to fit through but not a cart.
Everyone has their weaknesses, vulnerabilities, blind spots, and prejudices. That's why we need a community. That's why we need other people to listen, say their bit, push back, share, etc. Maybe one or the other person comes around, maybe it becomes a division, maybe it becomes a point of accepted disagreement. It depends how important it is. Smart listeners will always hold anything a favorite pundit says with a light touch. No one is infallible. We're all human, all subject to error. That way you won't be terribly disillusioned when you realize someone you like is wrong about something and won't throw the baby out with the bathwater. That way you learn to give your ear and your loyalty to truth, no merely to its vessel.
I listened to the entire video. With regard to Tucker: "The Moscow Grocery Store" Caption: We've been told sanctions on Russia have had a devastating effect on its economy. We visited a grocery store in Moscow and found a very different situation. I live in the USA, specifically New York City. In NYC and other large US cities, a majority of the decision makers have a philosophy that has caused the other portion of the local population and a majority of the population within the interior regions of the US to become disenchanted. Yes, the public transportation in Moscow appears to be much nicer than in NYC. Counterpoint: I have met many Russian people who live in the USA, and I don't know anyone who moved to Russia. [Added later: Regardless of the appearance of certain aspects, in the bigger picture, based on MY interactions with Russian people in the NYC area, Russian people still choose to move to the "West". It seems reasonable to expect that if the location was overall more desirable, I might know someone or someone who knows someone that moved to Russia. Obviously, I am not including Edward Snowden and people who create UA-cam videos. Ideally this information provides clarity.]
Then you aren't looking 20 yrs ago the best super computer that only dealt in facts not ideology claimed in 50yrs Russia would be the safest country for its citizens. Looks like it was right!
@@garriganjim I don't remember the article name or even where I read it, it was pre cursor to cerns d-wave super computer, that's what I remember. It was somewhere around 2012 or 13 the article was made. It was probably a tech magazine. I worked at a laundry mat at the time and in between customers and cleaning I'd read the magazines people donated.
Italian supermarkets -- that's hilarious! Are these the "supermercados" that are the size of the Circle Ks in the U.S.? (Admittedly my experience in Italy is very limited, having visited Rome and Naples mainly.)
We have them in most European countries. I’m astonished it’s such a fascinating system to Americans. What does a supermarkets size have to do with anything? European countries are smaller than the US and we don’t over consume as much. Ofc they are smaller? Supermarket simply distinguishes the store from a traditional outdoor market with individual merchants. Size is totally irrelevant.
I also don't know how he calculated the cost of food in Russia, did he compare Moscow prices to medium income? Because rest assured, cost is much lower in rural areas.
@@ALUCARDTWILLIGHT just compared Moscow to NYC on numbeo, they seem pretty similar in terms of salary vs. average cost of living. No idea where that guy got that percentage from, but it doesn't add up.
No. Cost of groceries is actually MORE in rural places... they just don't shop/buy as much stuff (nor do they have the funds to buy as much). Its basic economics (more people equals more demand, equals lower prices). And, in the country, if they could, they would, lol. But they usually don't have the options, that's just how it is... people are starting to forget that nowadays, with the ubiquitousness and omnipresence of Walmart/etc. even in the seemingly most remote of places. Unless the rural folk's food is coming straight from the community/surrounding farms/co-op/etc... if they go to a grocery store, they will pay more for their groceries. Not less. And what they spend isn't out of choice, lol. @@PvtAnonymous
Woke is perhaps an excessive term at this point, but it's undeniable that many on the anti-woke side (let's call so the coalition of conservatives, classical liberals and others who oppose radical wokeism) are beginning to draw mechanical choices based on first level political affiliation. So, since Putin is opposed to Biden, and Biden is generally on the side of wokes, it "follows" that Putin must be right. This is actually a form of wokeism, where informed judgement about each issue is replaced by rigid evaluation based on identity group... again. Both are Manichean viewpoints, a case of partisanship, but of course "the Woke right" has not remotely reached the levels of insanity touched by the leftist version.
The only part I would disagree with is the term "the Woke Right" or "Tucker Carlson going woke". Woke is a term I'd say is exclusively associated with Marxist narratives, were as what you are describing here is more so a dishonest pushing of narratives and general narrative echo chambers. I wouldn't call this part of the "right" woke, but I greatly appreciate you pointing out how he may be engaging in different forms of propaganda and such. 🤘
Wow. "Woke is a term I'd say is exclusively associated with Marxist narratives"??? This person needs to get out from their echo chamber, climb out from under the rock they have been living under, and learn about what is going on in the real world.
It's actually incredibly fitting. I distanced myself from the left when they started getting deeply into identity politics. Now I'm seeing the same unreasonableness appearing on the right.
Ya’ll are reading too much into it. Tucker is just posing a question. We don’t have to choose between authoritarianism and clean subways. The question is, why are we (the american people) being extorted 3 times the GDP of Russia per year yet can’t maintain our borders or keep criminals off our streets. Why are we obsessed with Russia? Shouldn’t we be focusing on our own problems? Why are we obsessed with authoritarians across the Pacific when we’ve got our own right here at home? Do we have our priorities straight? That’s all, there is nothing else. The right is shifting libertarian and libertarians are not woke. People who like America policing the world freak out when questions like this are posed because they feel safer when we pay for their militaries. Well, sucks to suck
Carlson supports Putin who is an anti-democratic authoritarian and who is responsible for waging war against a fellow democracy. That is going beyond libertarianism and isolationism and is supporting a hostile power. It is like an American in the 30s sympathising with Hitler, Mussolini or Stalin against France and the UK. The big question is why a significant minority of Americans think this is actually a good idea, most noticeably Donald Trump.
what does Japan do right? their trains are on time , almost no crime , clean streets, safe...good education, no immigrants from countries with incompatible values and that dont assimilate. I think that is key. Ask Scandinavia what happened to them !
Tucker went to Russia to let Putin explain his rationale for invading Ukraine. 200 million people wanted to hear what Putin said. Successfully delivered. Tucker's videos of the Metro, the Supermarket and Mcdonalds was intended to show a radical contrast with what is corroding Urban America; inflation, crime, fentanyl and public vagrancy/ illegal immigration. Tucker was successful. Thank you Konstantin for using a particular set of statistics to defend the woke leftists. It helps average people know exactly how to vote in the upcoming elections.
"Wait, 75k is the average American income in America?" No. Not at all. It's a lot lower. I won't even give the figure in my memory - people should look this up.
Yes, as ridiculous as it seems, its over $70k per average family. The inflation rate of the last few years has rocketed the average income in America to such an insane "average". However, the average probably isn't the definition you should use to get an idea of how the average american is living, the median or mode might be better. But I remember growing up in the 2000s, it was like 40k/yr on average... and then I remember it going past 50k/yr and thinking "we're going up!"... but then, it just kind of stagnated there for a while, but slowly increased until just shy of 60k/yr. And then, COVID happened, and the world has been absurd ever since.
Good piece, but still not sure I can associate the term "woke" with the Right Wing. All of my research has associated it with the Left side of the political spectrum- where it originated.
Konstantin Kisin has just confirmed that "woke" is simply a word empty of any meaning. Woke of the right, woke of the left, woke of the center, woke vegetarian, woke burger eater... Woke is simply someone YOU disagree with.
No he’s not saying that, but now I think I know where you stand. Woke people do not debate and don’t use facts or logic they rely on emotions. That is exactly what the right is doing, people like Matt Walsh and Candace Owen’s are now suddenly pure isolations and never once bring up anything about global economics or anything of real fact. They see money being spent and they never bother to take anything a step further. I was fans of them, but now they are just talking about whatever they think republicans want to hear.
Woke refers specifically to an ideology of the left based on critical race theory which has roots in Marxism. That is why the leaders of BLM said they were well trained Marxists. Claiming there is a Marxist right is gibberish. His nose is so far out of joint form not getting invited back on Tucker's show that he has lost the capacity for critical thinking. Conservatives disgree with people for many reasons. Failure to adhere to woke Marxist ideology is not one of them.
He is still annoyed his family got kicked out of Russia when his father was stealing money into his own back account while working with Western governments and companies who came into Russia stealing everything as the average age of death for men became 50 years old as the country was flooded with drugs and again European and American companies and not giving work to locals. Putin put a stop to this, this is why there are so many rich Russia men in their 50s-70s who talk trash about Russia they lost their money flow.
I don’t think the term “woke Right” is accurate at all. Nothing Tucker is doing is woke. He is trying to be so antiestablishment that it’s taking him into some weird places. But nothing woke.
The majority of shopping carts in Canada have these coin mechanisms and we've had them for like 20 years or more, in fact it's weird to find a cart here that doesn't have it if you're in a big city. I laughed a lot when Tucker talked about the wonder they are in Russia.
@@JohnDorian-j7xno, if you don’t have an Aldi’s in your area, then you have likely never encountered them. I have never come across one in my life and I grocery shop every week at several different supermarkets.
@@mcsmoothie7052 okay... but they are everywhere in Canada.... at most stores and all grocery stores, everyone here has used them. It's just funny to me because it's definitely not a new invention.
Fun fact: these carts appeared in foreign retail networks that operate in Russia: Metro CC (German) and Auchan (French). It's not even a Russian thing.
I think you missed the point . Tucker was showing that the sanctions were not working with the full shelves in the Russian supermarket ( unlike in the Soviet Union days ) Food is cheaper in absolute dollar cost there because they probably dont pay the world price instead they produce their own . I agree they have far less dollar value in wages but if they get stuff for half the dollar price one could argue that the Ruble is undervalued though your math is correct . Not sure the price of houses or cars but its probable that somewhere in their economy they actually do have more " buying power " that we do in the west . He was also showing that there is no graffiti or homeless ( crazy ) people ruining the subway for everyone else . The reasonable question is why we have these issues and Russia does not . I believe its a lack of will or moral fiber in the west with a multicultural society partly responsible for this .
Russian bot posters post this as a way of pretending to be "long-time fans" as a way to shame right-leaning channels into silence. "Oh, I usually respect your views, and really enjoy your videos, but this was just so off the mark....blah blah blah" It's literally their standard response. If you see it, you pretty much found the Russian.
@@xandercruz900 " Anyone who disagrees with me is a bot" Literal infantile take to think that everyone must and could only agree with your position, and if not then it's inauthentic.
Bingo! Same with Stewart. You guys do know YOU can go to the Kremlin and do the tough-guy interview you dream of. We'd be very grateful! But I guess it's safer criticizing more ambitious people.
I agree with the Tucker. The point he was trying to make is that Russia isn't our enemy. I agree 100 percent with that, Russia isn't our enemy. The reason the West is in such decline has nothing to do with Russia. Putin didn't cause this. Our own political leaders did. Our real enemies aren't situated in Moscow. They aren't situated in Beijing or Tehran. Our real enemies, the people making our lives and our society worse on purpose are situated right here in our own countries. We here in the West have to stop looking outward in far away countries for a boogie man to blame everything on. Our real enemies are not foreign, they are domestic. They run our institutions, fund our politicians and control our media. I'm dead tired of hearing people bringing up Russia or China like they are the heart of evil, when our own politicians are committing war crimes and are fraternizing around town with Jeffrey Epstein. The people who have destroyed my country aren't in Beijing or Moscow. They are right here in my own country. I refuse to treat Russia or China as my enemy when they haven't done a damn thing to me.
While you chase the "people who control the Media" China builds military Bases all over the world and shitting our economy... But go on, blame it all on the.... "Media-People"
The funniest thing is, they have this shit even in the U.S. at supermarkets like Aldi or Trader Joe. But Tucker isn't doing his groceries where all the other plebs shop
yeah it's like, Tucker is unedited and just freeballin it which is good sometimes, but there's some times where it would help for someone to step in and be like "psst hey tucker, they have these all over the world and they really aren't a big deal, they're a completely pointless thing to cover"
Losers say that sort of shit because they're ignorant. America and the West is trying to paint the picture Russia is failing because of the impositions put on by farking lying idiots in power in America. Clearly the country is thriving and only pea brains who support farkwits like Biden hate to see that. Grow up dikhead and look at the big picture!
There is no institution that represents systemic racism. On the other hand, the WEF exists, and they are open about what their plans are. So putting globalism and systemic racism on an equal footing is a false equivalence.
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wheres yous sources???
@@Moontrue1on1Where's your IQ?
Great video. The Right needs to understand that some of their heroes like Carlson are just as Woke in a different sense than their Lefty adversaries.
Carlson used to speak truths no one else would speak about the insanity of the Woke Left and extremist Leftists and Democrats in general...but then he fell down the rabbit hole and started believing Russian propaganda and misinformation and actively promoting it.
He's not the man he used to be. And neither are many others on the Right who used to speak sense.
LOL, you think that dictators don't dictate their 'approval rating'?
Well, the shopping carts and things ike these for entertainment purposes also. And he pointed out many suprising things. I have never been in Russia I just heard the propaganda from the west about it. Tucker is the only one (only real journalist) who created content about it.
Aldi, one of the more affordable grocery stores in the states, has the same coin-operated shopping cart procedure. Why Carlson thought that was news somehow shows that he probably doesn't do his own grocery shopping and hasn't in a couple of decades.
Or doesn't have an Aldi. Sometimes it's as simple as that if you dare to be charitable. Spend an hour at the shopping carts at Aldi and it will become obvious that it's very atypical. People lift their eyes to the heavens because they forgot their quarter in the car or don't have one at all. You will always see someone who has no idea what to do. It's rare. I think you would just shit on Tucker...
Married-with children, traditional family-wife shops. He is, if you haven't noticed, quite busy.
@@rfphill Or it is as simple as the Tucker *Swanson* McNear Carlson in his name... 😂
I didn’t take the videos about Russia is to say we should emulate them. I took it as let’s see how the efforts to punish Russia with the sanctions have worked. Answer was they haven’t, really.
Even Putin admits Russia is not perfect. But we have neo liberalism. And the corporates will dictate.
Pretty much this. A lot of this stuff seems like a reach and I’ve seen a few other similar videos. I watched the interview and didn’t get the same impressions.
Konstantin is "TOO" smart to have understood this... unfortunately. Deep down, he is an ideologue too.
The goal of the sanctions was never to punish ordinary Russian people though. Also Tucker showed you what he wanted to show you, not Russia for what it actually is.
The sanctions have never targeted food items in Russian shops.
I think the point Tucker was making about the metro station was that it wasn't filled with graffiti and human feces as opposed to ones in the US.
And neither is the one in Pyongyang (North Korea).
(...But, then the ones in Seoul aren't either.)
@@MrJm323that's the point lmao.
And kisin is sold out. Is Russian Orthodox church banned in Ukraine ? Yes or no?
Yeah, but he failed to point out that is largely due to constant police patrols and surveillance...
@@maxxon99 really? Who would have thought that... considering New York police gave more active personnel than most armies in the world one would think they would do their job..unless their job is to let people commit crimes
@@5tre55full Well, if the Russian Orthodox Church is effectively a state church, and the Russian state has invaded Ukraine, at the very least it should be banned in Ukraine.
How has Kisin "sold out"? What loyalty does he have to Russia, a land he left long ago?
AMEN--- Kisin -- keep up the Honest - Truthful WORK --- we as need to HEAR that.
Extremism is bad on all sides. Especially when most regular citizens are moderates.
The term "moderate" is a made-up word by elites so that they can keep the population in line.
"Extremism" is an empty term used by people who view themselves as centrists and therefore more rational than other people.
@@niandralades2 Centrists aren't necessarily more rational, they just hold views that don't fall neatly into "right" or "left" and don't have disdain for people they disagree with.
@@paulroberts7544 People with views that don't fall neatly on one side or the other and/or are turned off by fiery rhetoric and partisanship on both sides, and who just want to live their lives and don't hate people they disagree with.
Depends on how you define the words moderate and extremism.
I don’t understand how the descriptor “woke” applies to Tucker. I get your points, but “woke” doesn’t fit.
It fits and make sense when you connect "right" to it, in terms of rhetoric and prose in the English language. At least if you think about it for a moment. I can see how it wouldn't if English wasn't your first language though
I don’t get it either
I don't think woke is the right word but I think he's just highlighting some similarities in behaviour with the woke left.
@@JohnDorian-j7xHow does it make sense?
KK is using the weapon of the woke - language - to reframe what Tucker is actually a part of, which is the Dissident Right, or Freedom Conservatives. If anyone is guilty of woke-thought, it is those who demand we treat people according to their character & actions….unless they’re Israeli. Because hardcore Zionists make woke Trans BIPOC vegans look like the new kids on the block. Zionists like KK have been playing identity politics before it was even called that.
Just great - and true
You compared the metro station to "the west." I think Tucker compared it to the US. Our metros (NY, San Francisco, LA) are horrendous. Europe has some great ones.
European ones are amazing...or used to be even just 10 years ago. Now most of them are dirty, crime ridden and filled with 3rd world invaders.
I can at least say as much for the main one in Slovenija, where I love. Whole aura around main train and buss stations totaly changed, most people try to avoid it, it is basicly 50/50 of citizens and some random maroccans in flip flops on the middle of the winter. Shit disgusts me any time I pass by.
So? The point is Tucker is totally off base and apparently doesn’t understand how money works. He’s the scum of the right.
Stop being a critical thinker you you human
Yeah, to be fair, nearly every western country outside the US/Canada has stellar public transit and metros. At least, stellar in comparison to the United States.
It seemed to me like a lot of the people applauding him had never been outside the US
Invite him to speak on Triggernometry
Love the video. But I must correct you dear Konstantinos. In Lithuania, during the Soviet time we actually had few shop trolleys. They were always broken and weals never worked, rusty wires sticking out from every corner threatening to give you tetanus as a shopping experience souvenir. No return mechanism or escalators though. And to be fair, there was no need for trolley. You can always put a quarter of the loaf, bottle of milk and bare bones in a basket. Because that is all we had in the shops. Chocolate and oranges were coming from a mystical land of plenty, that only my mother new the access codes to. We never knew where they come from, because they have never entered the shop floor of a shop.
Ukraine. My mother tells exactly the same stories. Everything's the same and ugly, or scarce. Bottom line: nothing's truly yours as well. Meanwhile you're expected to butter up anyone from your doctor to your boss with some chocolate, beverage, or money wherever you went.
Indeed, but in East Berlin in the 90s, in the GSFG-approved supermarket at Karlshorst, only baskets were available - a very limited number, and if you weren't holding a basket, you weren't allowed in to gaze at the mostly-empty shelves. The black bread was vile, too.
@@dohavename6775 oh yes. The small bribes. If you get a box of chocolates, you can’t give it to the kids, because “what if I need to go to doctors”. All Soviet Union kids washed the head with the same “Kira-Kira” shampoo and half of the houses had the same furniture 🙈. The ones that lived well were the ones that could steel from work. I can’t believe it so many are missing the times of empty shelves and promises 🤦♀️.
@@indre12 off topic, as a Russian, I hope my and your country could be a friend again one day, I know, our history is very complicated after communism, Stalin, and occupation, but we are neighbours.
Peace ☮
@@alexbayer2365 I really hope so. Unfortunately it will take a very long time. I see the damage the propaganda done to so many in Russia and even abroad. The lack of humanity and common sense is horrifying. Until that is irradiated there can be no peace.
Also do you remember the cartoon about the dragon? Can’t remember how it was called. It was about the knight that would come to defeat the dragon and become dragon himself. “ the rebel is defeated! Long live the dragon!” Shouted the servant. Even the boy with the pure heart almost got corrupted by the gold and power. Up until your country will get rid of all the dragons we can only dream of peace. I hope that you and me live to see that 😊
This was excellent - reasoned and thoughtful.
While "democracy!" is the battle cry of freedom loving people everywhere, we need to understand that the United States of America is a Constitutional Republic based upon the values of individual liberty - not a pure democracy. We simply can't afford to let the whims of a majority strip the rights of the individual.
I am sorry but you're wrong. The American author Auron MacIntyre says it best. The USA is no longer a constitutional republic. It's a democracy. The founding documents are completely useless and have been surpassed by civil rights. It's your second informal constitution. John Adams said, “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
The US has méchanism of democracy in place to décide who runs the government every four years as well as freedom of speech, etc guarantee in her constitution.
A constitutional republic is a form of democracy. It's like saying David Beckham isn't a sportsman he's a footballer
You may want to learn the difference between "The United States" and "The United States of America".
Hint: It's like the difference between 'legal' and 'lawful'...
@@MrFalconart Well said.
Now Tucker not on fox ask for an interview and debate see what the response is 🤔
I doubt Tucker will ever have Kostya on his network. Why would he? Kostya already bashed him in too many videos, why would Tucker lower himself down to Kostya's level? He's a nobody compared to Tucker ratings. Just pointing out the obvious but I could be wrong. I do wish to see them debate, just not looking like a reality at least for the time being and especially after this weak take video too.
Although I'd like to see that, Tucker is not a debater, his arguments are in a monologue, which ironically the vast majority of us can have those and spew truths here and there. His ability to debate someone else is limited.
@@JohnSmith-dh6vd is your master worried he would get his ass whipped intellectually? Me too, botboy, me too.
@@tanelpolts7257🤦♂️
@@JohnSmith-dh6vdso your point is that Tucker won’t have anyone on who has constructive criticism of him? Way to go for someone who goes on and on about censorship and one sidedness in media
Our politicians have become elitist to a point they don´t represent us .
The word is 'corrupt', there is nothing 'elite' about them. Jeez!
They’ve always been elites, it’s just now normies can see it
They're feeding off the dying carcass that is America. They don't care as long as they get some money out of it.
But Putin does? He's not only elitist he's a dictator and a klyptocrat.
Stop voting for them then.
Vote for the most humble and least ideological candidate, not the one which would get "x" into power.
You want an MP who will listen and represents the best for your constituency and the country, not a bullish character who is already a multimillionaire business pundit with personal priorities.
Unfortunately, the electorate tends to vote on political affiliation or representation of a leader and are generally uninformed and poorly educated to get it right.
It's not the right trying to enslave me
Not yet
@@user-ch4mm7dy3g How so?
@@user-ch4mm7dy3g How so?
If they had their way, corporate feudalism would be even worse than it is now.
I think Konstantin is a bit wide of the mark with his Globalist WEF theory being right wing .
That is what I fear for our country. Make society so bad the people ask to take away our freedoms.
Well said
something something freedom lost will not be met with outrage but with thunderous applause
It takes a populous of very weak & myopic people to voluntarily give their freedom away. America might be getting close.
Kisin, your hate for Russia is disgusting and very very telling. Your are not objective, you do not look at facts, you wish to spread your narrative instead of the truth on Russia, because you hate it so much. Do you also have as much disdain for the people living in Russia, Belarus, and other post Soviet Union countries, because unlike you they don't want to leave their countries to live in other corrupt countries such as US, France, Germany, Poland, etc.?
You refuse to understand that the majority of people living in the eastern Ukrainian oblasts are Russians who happen to have Ukrainian citizenships because of the division made after WW2, who welcomed Russian troops with open arms considering uneven treatment by the Ukrainian government prior to the conflict.
Tucker did a great job interviewing many people hated by the establishment. He did not agree with you on one thing and you feel the need to fight him to get your argument on top, because you're what? A 5-year-old?
He liked the idea of coins in shopping trolleys and appreciated Russian architecture and you hold it against him trying to humiliate him over it? What is this? Kindergarten?
Lastly you dare to speak about Salvadoran president Bukele and his 85% approval rating, but deny that the Russian president has a similar one, because of corruption or totalitarianism? Do you not live in UK where corrupt government is destroying the country with illegal immigration and welfare and did it not put totalitarianism in place during srandemic like most of "democratic" European countries?
You have no idea what you speak of, Kisin.
Tis the grand plan indeed, and she is coming slowly but surely and after the chaotic times, tyranny with mass surveillance. but wait ,we have this already in the USA
"Everything new is something old that's been sufficiently forgotten."
I've always said, "There's nothing that is that never was."
What has been is what will be, And what has been done will be done again; There is nothing new under the sun
Ecclesiastes 1:9
Just look at ANT and DEC - nothing new under the sun
This might sound simplistic, but as someone who lives in Japan but wasn't born or raised there - I genuinely think Carlson suffers the same issue many people who move to Japan do, only on a different degree. He assumes the experience specialized for him as a visitor to be the experience of a resident, clinging on the few everyday things he does as a sign of that assumption to be grounded in reality. In Japan it's because of how the locals treat guests (especially non-East-Asian guests). In Russia, it was because he never left Moscow and was always accompanied by designated people who accompanied him.
There is a good reason many foreigners who move to Japan end up leaving, there's a good reason when someone rants excessively about Japan as they leave everyone immediately knows they fell for the "tourist experience = local experience" trap, and there's a good reason the foreigners who do choose to stay permanently or at least don't leave sooner than they planned seem to have a view of Japan that is more grounded in reality and capable of pointing the upsides and downsides alike. We don't take the bullet trains across cities and visit beautiful forests and shrines on a daily basis like tourists do. We pay bills, commute to school and work, and go day by day like everyone else, and our commonalities with the Japanese citizens are bigger than just hopping by the same supermarket or taking the same metro line once or twice.
Had Carlson been able to explore Russia on his own and also wander away from the big cities, or had he moved there for a prolonged period of time, I believe his image of Russia would be different than the one he currently has. I don't necessarily assume his opinion would turn negative, maybe he would still like Russia and feel comfortable there. But his impression would definitely be more grounded in reality and told from a lens that is at least somewhat more similar to the one of a native Russian local rather than a high-profile American journalist on a formal visit.
Yes I read that the Russians hired Hollywood to do a makeover of the Rail station just before Carlson got there and removed it restoring the station to its decrepit state
thank you for speaking your mind
I live in Europe, I've never seen a supermarket here that DOESN'T have coin-operated shopping carts. I find it annoying, not amazing.
Here in Sweden, quite a fraction of supermarkets gave up on those coin mechanisms. You just grab a cart from its shed and go shopping.
@mikolajtrzeciecki1188 it's the same in iran as well believe it or not
Yeah it really makes Tuker look uncultured
That’s great, so I’m assuming homeless people don’t steal the carts, or inconsiderate people don’t leave them wherever they want?
"I live in ... europe" Classic yank. Europe aint no country that I ever heard of
It's pretty amazing to me how people are reacting to these videos. First of all, it's clearly done somewhat tongue in cheek, oh my God look what they have! Secondly, the point he was making was what have the sanctions from the West done to every day life in Russia. The answer is not too much, life still moves on. Third, while the Moscow train reaction was a bit over the top, again, the point he was trying to make is that it's SAFE, CLEAN, and a point of pride for the Russians. From what I've read, other stations obviously aren't this ornate but are equally well maintained and safe. The ones in New York, a point he makes again and again, are disgusting and unsafe. Let alone his post interview video is quite clear that he is no fan of Putin, he simply wants the American people to hear him. He does not want our way of life to go away, he wants it to improve. Tucker is old enough to remember Guiliani, democratically elected in New York, making drastic changes and improving the life of the city. So it can obviously be done within our system. I'm no one's fan boy, and thought the entire thing was a bit strange. But I saw the point, and genuinely do not see yours. This essay was rambling and bordered on incoherent by the end. The United States is not a democracy, it's a democratic republic. And not a single person I know wants to go the route of dictator because our govt has become such a clown show. If anything, they want to separate on their own and rebuild what the forefathers meant this country to be, not the den of corruption it has become. That's why there are so many secession movements all over the country. Weak cheese...
Very well said, Konstantin. This is the kind of balanced analysis that will ultimately save left and right from suicidal insanity, if anything will.
The war dragging into year 3 is ruining Tuckers narrative.
Again you idiots, tucker is just showing those in the West the embargoes placed on Russia aren't working. But you farkwits in America with your pea brains listen to your CNN and MSNBC and think "oh those Russians must be starving" because of tough Joe Biden's policies. Fark you're all a bunch ignorant wankers.
I am just manifesting my support for Constantine from Poland ❤
Does Tucker know that we have the same system for supermarket trolleys across Europe? That fresh bread is normal too..
Tucker has gone full retard.. never go full retard.
Maybe Tucker is too rich to have ever stepped into an Aldi here in the US lol. Though to be honest, I didn't see any carts with a coin mechanism in California until Aldi finally made its way here in 2016, so it's still fairly new in some places.
Not in America, fresh bread has been absent from America since pre sliced bread
I don't think you understand the point he was trying to make.
@@psy-op he is controlled opposition, good words but look at his works not words!!
They found a leg in a U.S. subway yesterday.
I think that belonged to a guy named Skippy
That’s where I left it! 🤦🏻♂️
There was a muslim nanny holding a severed child's head walking near the subway entrance in Moscow for hours before being arrested a few years ago. It's on youtube, check it out.
The dichotomy is simple. We, the people, believe that our politicians are our representatives. The politicians themselves believe that they are our owners.
There is a tension here that will eventually explode with all the force of a coiled steel spring.
The politicians are right. You "the people" are just fools.
It is the very nature of democracy that jackals rule jackasses.
Well then “we the people” need to do our job better and elect better politicians right?
@@AjaxDGonzoWhich ones? The ones that screwed us this term or the ones that screwed us last term?
Its a tennis match, the bats are electrified and we're the ball.
@@LeoRikimaru well personally I think democracy is inherently flawed because it’s a popularity contest. The problem is that the government just has too much power nowadays, it would be better if it were more limited and they left us alone. Alexis Tocqueville wrote about how democracy would eventually start to fail when people realized they could pay themselves through democracy with taxpayer dollars. I think something like 50-70% of all our debt has come from welfare programs and even then there’s also the expansion of every governmental agency.
@@AjaxDGonzo Yes , but remember they can only pay themselves because they have control over the money supply via central banks and money printing (QE). Even Lenin said that a communism was only possible if there was a centralized money system, ie a way of stealing it from earners.
A beautiful piece. The Facts, the clarity and well thought through presentation. Very well done!
Remember when people would find their own way in life, rather than accept the views of others? Those were good times.
Was that before religion was pretty much everywhere especially in peoples head as god speaking lol
Those good ole days are your imagination perhaps lol
God hasn't gone away, hun. Still causing trouble lol 🙏@@huna1950
When was that?
Uhh no.. when was that
Lol…less than a hundred years ago going all the way back to primitive man people fought in wars every generation…’going their own way’ when your clan tribe country religion etc called on humans to fight against the other isn’t ‘going your own way’ your sounding silly and revisionist lol
Shaw was a Fabian society member so of course he'd gush over Stalin. What a strange observation to make.
Fair point
Bernie Sanders also gushed over the Moscow metro station when he went there for his honeymoon, 1989, a moment before the Soviet Union collapsed.
Konstantine's observation is still entirely relevant.
Fabians were rather moderate socialists back then, not communist fanatics. Hell, many Fabians were actually colonial governors and other high-ups (e.g. Sir Sydney Olivier, the uncle of the actor), completely incompatible with being opponent of private property and promoting violent nationalization of economy. One should study history a little deeper: Shaw encountered significant pushback from his fellow Fabians after fawning about Stalin. Even some who initially supported him, like H. G. Wells, made the U-turn. Wells wrote that Stalin is a "murderous brute" and even that he should have been killed in his crib... So, Konstantine's observation is still valid.
This seems to miss the point. Tucker Carlson wasn’t endorsing Russia; he was showing what the U.S. could be if we invested in ourselves…. The question presented wasn’t why is Russia so good, but rather why is America so bad despite being the wealthiest nation by multiples?!
Yeah, but the subway system was an embarrassing example.
Tucker is not traveled enough nor old enough to know that the Moscow subway system was quite impressive even in the days of Communism. It looked far more beautiful and impressive when America was at its height as well.
But Russia is far from an example to look at when it comes to “investing in ourselves”.
It’s not good, not good at all.
Russia is a totalitarian state where one man is by far ahead and above the rest of the country.
The average wage is just $200/week.
@@michaelw7504 I agree with you, and it seems like you missed the point too
Its just another topic that the yt media can make money on, no loyality
@@MrJm323 I am sure he is aware of that. He was pointing that it is in a good condition and there is order there. In 90s it was a mess too, with many homeless people sleeping there.
This is excellent. Spot on.
"Why is Tucker emotionally invested in Ukraine?"
Does he think that the more the US is involved, the higher the risk that his children will be sent to die there?
I think Tucker has said something to that effect. How do you respond to that?
Someone as rich as Tucker? Fortunate sons don't go to war m8
@@frakismaximus3052 Do you think that the Establishment thinks Tucker ought to be "fortunate"?
@@frakismaximus3052 Two of the Kennedy boys, and almost (later president) JFK as well, were lost in World War 2.
Your cynicism is historically inaccurate.
Konstantin ! big respect for you saying my mind's about all these things !! Im happy someone understand correctly the situation and doesn't take side of political games !!!
George Bernard Shaw was an enthusiastic member of the Fabian Society whose worldview was much more aligned with the Socialism than classical Liberalism.
Oh the Fabian’s…those people deserve a larger spot in history for shepherding Marxism past the point it should’ve simply disappeared in the West and gifting it a veneer of academic legitimacy. It’s too bad their poisonous contributions are largely unknown.
That's why the term "liberal"in America, Canada heck even the UK means absolutely nothing because the ruling class, deep state, and organisations do not want to shed the liberal name tag, they hope instead the voters keep assuming that liberal in politics means ...liberal!
He also was into eugenics, I have a recording of talking about people who were not worthy should then be killed, he bore no grudges against them, but he said, but they were not of any worth to the human race.
The Fabian Society's original coat of arms was literally a wolf in sheep's clothing.
Facts
Konstantin: "Let's stop obsessing about Wokeness. I'm Post-Woke."
Also Konstantin: "The right is woke, too, you guys!"
you are a voice of reason and jungle of extreme everything.
Konstantin coping hard here.
With what? He called the right out on their bull$hit. Were your feelings hurt?
@@ren2871 Nah. I just find the internal contradictions entertaining. Putin's a dictator but Netanyahu isn't. The kind of intellectual integrity you expect from a comedian.
@@ren2871Konstantin's feelings were hurt, otherwise he would have made an actual salient point rather than spending the whole video crying over the fact that Tucker chose to interview the man who invaded Ukraine about Ukraine instead of Konstantin himself. It's quite pathetic.
While I agree that Putin is a despot who needs to be stopped I do believe that the Ukraine issue has more nuance than we are permitted to see here in the west .
Do you think life can improve under a despot?
What nuance do you need? Name me a single valid reason why Putin invaded Ukraine.
@@ren2871 Watch the interview, and there's at least one good valid reason in there.
@@ren2871there are plenty, watch the interview.
I don't think your comparison of Tucker to Tucker is fair.
You're comparing Tucker when on Fox to the indie Tucker.
And you expect him to be the beacon of everything. He's just a dude.
Shaw was an idiot, but Putin is not Stalin. Not a fair comparison either.
You suggest west should man up. But if it is not by your terms it's wrong.
You are inflating yourself and bogarting the moral high ground while saying stuff that Trump is not a problem but a symptom. What's that supposed to mean?
So far he has been the antidote, yet your own preferences increasingly override your reasoning.
The argument made by Tucker Carlson was simple and objective. Metro stations in Russia were better than what the West has got.
Here’s the point I interpreted from Tucker’s posts from Moscow. He’s drawing a direct comparison between the sorry state of democrat-controlled cities and states in the greatest country on earth versus a relatively poor country controlled by a mad man but can still have clean streets, cities and grocery stores. It I also underscores the undeniable impact that high taxes, high regulation, high inflation, high crime, illegal immigration and free stuff for everyone is having on wages and the everyday cost of goods and services in the US which is a direct result of democrat policies. What Tucker did in that regard is very informative and is what good journalism is ultimately about. Don’t shoot the messenger.
Well said!
He was in Moscow, the king's throne. He can make his points if he tries actually living as a normal person in a city like Chelyabinsk or Grozny.
It's eye opening to see how different russia is now from the soviet union days, which is how it is portrayed, as though it never left the soviet union.
Thats the point I took from it. Along with trying to ahed light on some of the lies we are fed. No one doubts Putin cannot be trusted and kills his rivals.
You clearly didn't stick around for the last 2 minutes of this
This, coming from a guy whose father was a mini-oligarch before getting booted out by Putin...
No wonder there's hard feelings, when your racket gets disrupted.
WTF is the woke right? That word has been so overused that it has lost all meaning. It just means something that you don’t like now.
I don't think he knows what it means. You cannot be right wing and woke.
The WTF makes use of woke ideology but probably don't believe in it. Woke means in conformity with critical race theory which is derived from Marxism. Critical race theory came from Marxist professors at US universities. The WEF are corrupt and only believe in power. They are probably not Marxist but are willing to use it to hold onto power and destroy opponents. If burning witches was popular at universities, the WEF would call Donald Trump a witch because he is in their way. Instead they call him a racist because that is the ultimate crime to followers of woke Marxist ideology. They know Trump is neither a racist or a witch but they know it cases much of the population to think critically about open borders mean for them.
Its part of the horseshoe phenomenon. Elements of the alt right share nearly every view with the radical left. Such that they are actually next to eachother on the political spectrum
I think the meaning is something like the "New Right"...
@miaco Yeah. That is how I see it, too. Like liberals who abandoned the ideas of enlightenment, and indulged themselves in censorship and control, those right wingers abandon their elementary principles (God, family, country) and get amazed by the leaders and societies that hold facades of those values; yet they are corrupt and rotten inside. I hope neither of the woke will prevail.
Wow. Thank you for the clarity, Konstantin
Enjoying these monologues gents. Keep them coming👍
Now KK knows how it feels to be Sam Harris.
Cracking comment 😂😂
He certainly does.
huh?
Yeah and just like SH, he has it coming, and he's not exactly being cancelled, just called out.
Like Sam Harris, KK cultivated a right-wing "Trumpist" fan base, for the wrong reasons, something that he now probably regrets doing, having realized their inflexible orthodoxy regarding certain topics.
@@tefilobraga haha 'SH cultivated a "Trumpist" fanbase.'
How was that ever, at any point, true. SH has always had TDS, WTF are you on about.
Tucker simply felt compelled to point out the contrast between the mainstream media depiction and his personal observation. What we had been led to believe would be devastating sanctions appeared otherwise. Pointing out the contrast in cleanliness between Moscow and NYC seemed pertinent. Accusing him of ignorance would imply he hasn’t been fully aware of similar short term beautification projects in all major U.S. cities when foreign dignitaries or events like the Super Bowl come to town. Your criticism rings howl.
Kostya is coping so hard. Russia isn't the comic book dystopia he desperately needed it to be. What horror.
Absolutely excellent. Exactly what I thought and talked about Tuckerwise.
You summed up the situation of the past 8-10 years more clearly than I’ve heard in a while. I feel like I occupy the same political space and mindset as you, equally as frustrated with the left and the right.
an annoying thing is if you declare this then you get labeled as a "centrist" and that gets shit on by the idiot tribalists on both sides
@@EB-bl6cc Centrist is a label to be proud of, the alternative is a radical extremist tit
Me too
I honestly wonder if the Russians and Chinese sat down and the Chinese said "we will take the leftists in the West to swamp with propaganda" and the Russians said "we will take the right then" because it feels that way, some of my fellow conservatives swallow the most obvious BS propaganda about Russia and Ukraine that has its roots in Russia.
I dont wanna live in russia or love putin, but the train station is an example of what happened when people fear the state for acting out, we have the opposite problem where people can literally assault others and shit everywhere.
No, your wrong!
There is other countries with the same style of subway such as Poland or Ukraine. There is no "fear" in this country.
@@MihaShevaagree. Fear isn’t the only factor in this situation
It isn’t about fear of the state, if you act against the state in the USA you will be thrown in prison for a long time, like Jan 6 “rioters”. Our state just doesn’t care about protecting the common people. Russia cares more about the common people than DC ever will, or at least the people in the capital.
@@MihaSheva Homogeneous societies.
The government in the UK is very easy on certain things and hard line on others.
Anything involving debt. You'll get absolutely slammed in the UK. Anything involving anti social behaviour, petty crime - they don't care.
There really seems to be disconnection between the voting public and the elected officials as in neither side seem to truly see the biger picture.
Mass migration is the perfect example of this. The voting public sees the immediate negative effects of mass migration, the crime rate, cultural friction etc. Leading to voters demanding stop on mass migration. Meanwhile the elected officials see the declining birth rates and the impending demographic collapse, which leads them to try to find new working age people to replase the ever growing retiree population through mass migration.
The real tragedy here is that both of these are real issues that need to be addressed, but aren't due to the disconnect between these two parties, leading to bitterness and resentment between them.
The IQ mismatch means mass migration can't work. The replacements, even when trained, can't do the work. Japan already sees the future - Low IQ repetitive work? Robots. You can turn them off when they aren't needed.
I'm very grateful for this. I like Tucker a lot, but he misses it from time to time. No one is perfect, including Triggernometry, as much as I like you guys. Keep free speech alive. I am subscribed.
Why was i ever subscribed to this channel?
Because Konstantin is a true free thinker. You don't have to agree with him. But consider there are also idiots in your team not only on the other side ...
@@FairWeatherCloudhe’s not a free thinker at all. He’s a liberal centrist. It doesn’t get more milquetoast than this. He’s also disingenuous.
@@raskolnikov6443Enlighten us: what's a "free thinker"? You?
The extremes on big sides have swelled to much larger numbers and have adopted utterly irrational ideologies. It’s so sad how reactionary many of us have become.
It's in the word - REACTIONaries.
REACTION.
Reaction to what?
Society is becoming more and more dysfunctional. And that's why there's a reaction to that, which breeds those reactionaries on both sides.
This means that there are legitimate complains about how things are, and those should be heard and addressed on BOTH sides, rather than demonized.
But it appears that our overlords are more interested in seeing us peasants fighting amongst ourselves
it's like these lunatics feed off each other. One side screams "its birthing persons, not women and you can kill babies just hours before they are delivered" and the other side responds by ban all abortions and consider embryos as persons"
One of the best speeches in a long time! Keep up the good work.
Thank Christ for men like you. Keep it up!
You should interview Tucker Carlson
i would like to see this
This is call for an immediate interview or discussion! I will be first in line to watch because I enjoy you both!
Yes!! I was almost shocked to hear this from Konstantin. Konstantin should have more knowledge of that area of the world. Consequently, my instinct tells me to trust Konstantin.
I like Tucker too though!
I need to dig in further now.
@@seasidesue816 I agree and would just like to hear the arguments and be educated even more!
To be honest, I doubt it will happen. Konstantin has debated people who held opposite views on this topic, but I have never seen Tucker debate anyone who challenged his pro-Russia bias.
@@catsnads01I don't blame Tucker to no debate.. time will tell best about this war and debating it at this time is null as people's thoughts on it are their thoughts and they are not waiverable.
@@candygustafson8858 yeah, that's right. Best not to discuss anything that is happening in the world.
Konstantin is embarrassing himself at this point.
How? By not being a Putin simp like Tucker?
He’s a genocidal Zionist joke who’s factually inaccurate aka a lying tosser
By going after Tucker, the man who just last nite exposed how the Department of Homeland Security, the CIA and the NGO establishment have been censoring us en masse since 2019, through COVID, the 2020 election and Jan. 6 and much more, while pimping for a money-laundering operation called NATO that is slaughtering the Ukrainian people.@@ThomasDanielsen1000
but modern Russia is nothing like the CCCP, and Putin is nowhere near a new Stalin. That was Tucker's point!
actually he's quite near...
Agreed, it's more similar to Mussolini.
@@marc2hot4uMeh, not really, I lived there for seven years. In many ways freer than America...wont get fired for telling a spicy joke at work, or asking a coworker out for coffee. Also no 'blackshirts' roaming the streets like in Mussolini's Italy. Russians are very educated, hard working, etc...they will not put up with another truly totalitarian state, especially the ones born after the Soviet collapse.
Modern Russia is a theocracy where Putin's critics are all either dead, in jail or exiled. It's actually worse in terms of oppression than it was under Gorbachev
@MarkMcAllister-ni9sf Funny, I've been to Russia a few times myself and agree with your sentiments of the people. But you then are familiar that public protest is non-existent due to the threat of violence, the media is state runned, or journalists and politicians get killed regularly, you don't need brown shirts if the state knocks heads for you and if your in power for over 25 years 😉
😂 You just get better, Konstantin. It’s good to see you post this though it may upset some of the, um, more committed. And, yes, it is entirely someone’s prerogative who they invite to talk and what they decide to discuss, but if they only ever amplify your voice when it reinforces their agenda, you are being co-opted and positioned to validate *all* of that agenda. It is a difficult one and I’m glad you have this avenue to share your fuller pov.
So, I imagine Konstantin wants to immediately move to El Salvador...?
Perhaps rural Kent will suffice 😂
🎯 🤣
Tucker challenged Putin on many occasions and even raised a journalist’s freedom. Konstantin Kisin was just too emotional to listen.
He was pointing out its appeal to those on the right who believe democracy has failed, not its appeal to himself as an individual. Try to keep up.
@@b.t.3406 You're being overly gracious. It was mostly a monologue... Let's remain grounded.
@@NT-fo3me-Tucker repeatedly said he believes in America and he disagrees with Putin. How many times would he have to say it for Kisin to get it. And, Tucker is pointing out that if Russia can keep things economically in control, why can’t the US. Instead, Kisin missed the point and tells us how he got butt-hurt about a possible debate and then calls him a liar and miscompares him to Shaw. This is an incredibly insulting and wrong take.
Awesome peace! Thank you! 👏👌
I wouldn’t call it the woke right. It’s simply that the anti-establishment will use examples of our enemies and compare it to ourselves. BTW, The Soviets constantly did this to the US by pointing out issues with the US versus the mass murder in their domain.
But is basically the same cognitive issue
I think woke right is perfect. It’s exactly the same issue as the woke left - being ‘awoken’ to perceived problems in society and advocating bad solutions to fix them.
@@Stef3mHow?
Woke right is just another tool of WEF that will be used once majority of people completely reject their batshit insane leftist dystopia. They will just turn the switch and start catering to right wing woke and achieve the goals anyway.
Pls explain. The woke left is an identified based idelogy with emphasison institutional power. The populist right is anti establishment and prone to conspiracy theory. They seem like they are at opposite ends of a cognitive spectrum. @Stef3m
I was surprised by Tucker getting "handled". I toured St. Petersburg (then Leningrad) about the time Bernie Sanders and his wife were being "handled" in Moscow. My experience observing the empty markets and food lines was very different from Bernie's. Years later my tour of Moscow revealed the stark divide by the haves and have-nots, greater than the one dividing
Beverly Hills from Compton.
This has always been the case in such countries. China does it, the soviets did it, Cuba does it...
If you continued to travel there, you would have observed a pretty impressive increase in the quality of life. Moscow today is far removed from the Moscow of 2010's, let alone the Moscow from the nineties.
@@TheDuckofDoom. "This has always been the case in such countries. China does it, the soviets did it, Cuba does it..."
San Francisco does it...
@@AbcDino843 in Moscow, yes, but that quality of life quickly dissipates as you move away from the center, uncannily almost following the inverse square law. And once you leave the city altogether... oh, boy... 20% of households still don't have indoor plumbing.
@@privacyfig sure, but the improvement trend is there across the board. Rural areas will always trail.
Tucker's take on the coin operated shopping cart was particularly funny in that they were portrayed as a Russian invention. They've been in Canada for decades and in this day and age where people don't really carry cash anymore, make little sense. They only serve to piss people off when they realize they don't have the required coin to use a cart.
I really don't mind the interview with Putin as I believe most of us are able to see lies when they're presented. The rest of the videos I could have done without.
We have them in the U.S. at low income grocery stores in bad neighborhoods where people steal shopping carts.
We have them at the Aldi's locations in my town and you can often find a loose trolly with the quarter in it. It is frustrating when I forget though because that will be the day no stray trolleys are around.
We have had them in UK for ages now
My take on Tucker's little shopping foray etc, was that he was showing people in US that Russia had those every day things which Americans have. Aren't the Democrats quick to believe that Russia is backward, so he was showing otherwise. Showing how clean and opulent the metro was, Tucker was mocking democrats there! Rubbing Biden and the Democrats noses in the dirt, because many metros in some US cities are hell holes I believe!
Tucker was just having a good time there mocking his nemeses I believe 😅 Unsure why Konstantin did not understand that !
Use cash, remain free.
@@ashleynicole9423 Wrong. Oh how ignorant you are. We have them at Aldi's because it's a European company, and it has nothing to do with "low-income neighborhoods". Aldi's is available in college towns throughout the midwest and in middle class neighborhoods here in NYC.
Other than at Aldi's the coin system is not very popular over here. Stores have other ways of preventing cart theft. Big box stores "lock" their carts so they get stuck and won't move if you try and take them past a certain point. Other stores, especially here in NYC have bars at the exit that are spread far enough apart for a person to fit through but not a cart.
THANK GOD for Konstantin Kisin
Everyone has their weaknesses, vulnerabilities, blind spots, and prejudices. That's why we need a community. That's why we need other people to listen, say their bit, push back, share, etc. Maybe one or the other person comes around, maybe it becomes a division, maybe it becomes a point of accepted disagreement. It depends how important it is. Smart listeners will always hold anything a favorite pundit says with a light touch. No one is infallible. We're all human, all subject to error. That way you won't be terribly disillusioned when you realize someone you like is wrong about something and won't throw the baby out with the bathwater. That way you learn to give your ear and your loyalty to truth, no merely to its vessel.
Ain't that the truth! 😊
Your biggest enemies are not from afar... they are right in your house.
in this particular context, who exactly are you claiming is the 'enemy' in our house?
@@Ghost_of_a_Flea Mu ham mad ans
@@mrror8933 no n ces
@@Shorter-name the two are not mutually exclusive.
@@mrror8933The two too often are one
You lost me at the approval rating stuff. Nobody knows what numbers are real anymore.
Wow what a good point about tucker being an ass kisser for putin
Right to the point Konstantin! Thanks
I listened to the entire video.
With regard to Tucker: "The Moscow Grocery Store"
Caption: We've been told sanctions on Russia have had a devastating effect on its economy. We visited a grocery store in Moscow and found a very different situation.
I live in the USA, specifically New York City.
In NYC and other large US cities, a majority of the decision makers have a philosophy that has caused the other portion of the local population and a majority of the population within the interior regions of the US to become disenchanted.
Yes, the public transportation in Moscow appears to be much nicer than in NYC. Counterpoint: I have met many Russian people who live in the USA, and I don't know anyone who moved to Russia. [Added later: Regardless of the appearance of certain aspects, in the bigger picture, based on MY interactions with Russian people in the NYC area, Russian people still choose to move to the "West". It seems reasonable to expect that if the location was overall more desirable, I might know someone or someone who knows someone that moved to Russia. Obviously, I am not including Edward Snowden and people who create UA-cam videos. Ideally this information provides clarity.]
Then you aren't looking 20 yrs ago the best super computer that only dealt in facts not ideology claimed in 50yrs Russia would be the safest country for its citizens. Looks like it was right!
Please share the information with me.
@@garriganjim I don't remember the article name or even where I read it, it was pre cursor to cerns d-wave super computer, that's what I remember. It was somewhere around 2012 or 13 the article was made. It was probably a tech magazine. I worked at a laundry mat at the time and in between customers and cleaning I'd read the magazines people donated.
Thank you@@screweverything2215
who cares if you don't know anyone who moved to Russia....it's not about your personal life
Here in Italy coin-operated trolleys at the supermarket are normal since the early '90s
Italian supermarkets -- that's hilarious!
Are these the "supermercados" that are the size of the Circle Ks in the U.S.?
(Admittedly my experience in Italy is very limited, having visited Rome and Naples mainly.)
If Tucker had seen the coin return in Italy 🇮🇹 or Australia 🇦🇺 first, he would have said its because we are communists. Hes a clown 🤡
We even have them in a few places in the US. It's a pretty old concept lol
In The Netherlands that system is standard as well.
We have them in most European countries.
I’m astonished it’s such a fascinating system to Americans.
What does a supermarkets size have to do with anything?
European countries are smaller than the US and we don’t over consume as much. Ofc they are smaller?
Supermarket simply distinguishes the store from a traditional outdoor market with individual merchants. Size is totally irrelevant.
Can you really say the average American spends 11% of its earnings on food? With inflation the way it is, that seems like an old statistic.
Households, so most likely two people involved so yh.
I also don't know how he calculated the cost of food in Russia, did he compare Moscow prices to medium income? Because rest assured, cost is much lower in rural areas.
@@PvtAnonymous medium income of both countries and avg spent on food by both if I'm not mustaken
@@ALUCARDTWILLIGHT just compared Moscow to NYC on numbeo, they seem pretty similar in terms of salary vs. average cost of living. No idea where that guy got that percentage from, but it doesn't add up.
No. Cost of groceries is actually MORE in rural places... they just don't shop/buy as much stuff (nor do they have the funds to buy as much). Its basic economics (more people equals more demand, equals lower prices). And, in the country, if they could, they would, lol. But they usually don't have the options, that's just how it is... people are starting to forget that nowadays, with the ubiquitousness and omnipresence of Walmart/etc. even in the seemingly most remote of places. Unless the rural folk's food is coming straight from the community/surrounding farms/co-op/etc... if they go to a grocery store, they will pay more for their groceries. Not less. And what they spend isn't out of choice, lol. @@PvtAnonymous
You guys are top shelf 🔥
And we are supposed to believe you over Tucker why?
Because he was actually born in Russia and now someone who glazes Putin and regurgitates his propaganda. That's why.
Konstantin lies and is factually inaccurate and supports Zionism and genocide, he’s a shill
Woke is perhaps an excessive term at this point, but it's undeniable that many on the anti-woke side (let's call so the coalition of conservatives, classical liberals and others who oppose radical wokeism) are beginning to draw mechanical choices based on first level political affiliation. So, since Putin is opposed to Biden, and Biden is generally on the side of wokes, it "follows" that Putin must be right. This is actually a form of wokeism, where informed judgement about each issue is replaced by rigid evaluation based on identity group... again.
Both are Manichean viewpoints, a case of partisanship, but of course "the Woke right" has not remotely reached the levels of insanity touched by the leftist version.
Go and look up the term woke. Then try to apply it ironically to these ideas. It doesn't fit.
@@thebobo1229 exactly, the video creator was just trying to be cynically provocative and also try to muddy woke - which he wont succeed at.
Ah, no.
>"the Woke right" has not remotely reached the levels of insanity touched by the leftist version
Not yet.
Why shouldn't the West make peace with Russia and even invite Russia into NATO.
Too late for that did you watch the interview?
But what would be the point of NATO if they didn't have an enemy?
Because Russia has criminally invaded, occupied and illegally annexed Ukrainian territory.
@@rewdwarf123 exactly. Who else would they use to try and scare the populace into submission?
Russia actually requested to join NATO after the Berlin wall fell and everything that happened after that. They were denied membership.
Thank you from poland for all the great job you are doing.
The only part I would disagree with is the term "the Woke Right" or "Tucker Carlson going woke". Woke is a term I'd say is exclusively associated with Marxist narratives, were as what you are describing here is more so a dishonest pushing of narratives and general narrative echo chambers. I wouldn't call this part of the "right" woke, but I greatly appreciate you pointing out how he may be engaging in different forms of propaganda and such. 🤘
Wow. "Woke is a term I'd say is exclusively associated with Marxist narratives"??? This person needs to get out from their echo chamber, climb out from under the rock they have been living under, and learn about what is going on in the real world.
'Woke Right' is an unbelievably stupid term. KK should feel like a total prat for trying to make it a thing.
It's actually incredibly fitting. I distanced myself from the left when they started getting deeply into identity politics. Now I'm seeing the same unreasonableness appearing on the right.
Ya’ll are reading too much into it. Tucker is just posing a question. We don’t have to choose between authoritarianism and clean subways. The question is, why are we (the american people) being extorted 3 times the GDP of Russia per year yet can’t maintain our borders or keep criminals off our streets. Why are we obsessed with Russia? Shouldn’t we be focusing on our own problems? Why are we obsessed with authoritarians across the Pacific when we’ve got our own right here at home? Do we have our priorities straight?
That’s all, there is nothing else. The right is shifting libertarian and libertarians are not woke. People who like America policing the world freak out when questions like this are posed because they feel safer when we pay for their militaries. Well, sucks to suck
Carlson supports Putin who is an anti-democratic authoritarian and who is responsible for waging war against a fellow democracy. That is going beyond libertarianism and isolationism and is supporting a hostile power. It is like an American in the 30s sympathising with Hitler, Mussolini or Stalin against France and the UK. The big question is why a significant minority of Americans think this is actually a good idea, most noticeably Donald Trump.
what does Japan do right? their trains are on time , almost no crime , clean streets, safe...good education, no immigrants from countries with incompatible values and that dont assimilate. I think that is key. Ask Scandinavia what happened to them !
Brilliant spot on
Tucker went to Russia to let Putin explain his rationale for invading Ukraine. 200 million people wanted to hear what Putin said. Successfully delivered.
Tucker's videos of the Metro, the Supermarket and Mcdonalds was intended to show a radical contrast with what is corroding Urban America; inflation, crime, fentanyl and public vagrancy/ illegal immigration. Tucker was successful.
Thank you Konstantin for using a particular set of statistics to defend the woke leftists. It helps average people know exactly how to vote in the upcoming elections.
We have Aldi's all over America where they have the deal with the carts like Tesco but apparently Tucker's not been to one.
This comment chain is the first time I've ever heard of Aldi's. And I've never seen a coin op grocery cart in my 36 years in the US.
There are over 2,000 locations in the US, mostly in the eastern half but there are over 100 in California and some in Arizona.
Sure, but most American cities also have neighborhoods so crime-ridden that even Aldi can't operate there.
Most French supermarkets have carts where you either put a plastic counter or a 50 centimes coin in.
All UK supermarkets (at least the vast majority) use this system.
I like Konstantin but he can’t be more wrong.
He is too wrapped up in his own ideologies and bias. He can't see straight when it comes to things he's already made his mind up on. Sad really.
Excellent Konstantin Kisin !!!!
Wait, 75k is the average American income in America?
It's more like 34k.
"Wait, 75k is the average American income in America?"
No. Not at all. It's a lot lower. I won't even give the figure in my memory - people should look this up.
No
It’s around 40k
"Household income" so the income from 2 people, for the most part
Yes, as ridiculous as it seems, its over $70k per average family. The inflation rate of the last few years has rocketed the average income in America to such an insane "average". However, the average probably isn't the definition you should use to get an idea of how the average american is living, the median or mode might be better. But I remember growing up in the 2000s, it was like 40k/yr on average... and then I remember it going past 50k/yr and thinking "we're going up!"... but then, it just kind of stagnated there for a while, but slowly increased until just shy of 60k/yr. And then, COVID happened, and the world has been absurd ever since.
Good piece, but still not sure I can associate the term "woke" with the Right Wing. All of my research has associated it with the Left side of the political spectrum- where it originated.
Divide and rule
Konstantin Kisin has just confirmed that "woke" is simply a word empty of any meaning. Woke of the right, woke of the left, woke of the center, woke vegetarian, woke burger eater...
Woke is simply someone YOU disagree with.
No he’s not saying that, but now I think I know where you stand. Woke people do not debate and don’t use facts or logic they rely on emotions. That is exactly what the right is doing, people like Matt Walsh and Candace Owen’s are now suddenly pure isolations and never once bring up anything about global economics or anything of real fact. They see money being spent and they never bother to take anything a step further. I was fans of them, but now they are just talking about whatever they think republicans want to hear.
Woke refers specifically to an ideology of the left based on critical race theory which has roots in Marxism. That is why the leaders of BLM said they were well trained Marxists. Claiming there is a Marxist right is gibberish. His nose is so far out of joint form not getting invited back on Tucker's show that he has lost the capacity for critical thinking. Conservatives disgree with people for many reasons. Failure to adhere to woke Marxist ideology is not one of them.
Woke right would be Christian Nationalism a la Steven Wolf, alt right (which is actually left wing) etc
He is still annoyed his family got kicked out of Russia when his father was stealing money into his own back account while working with Western governments and companies who came into Russia stealing everything as the average age of death for men became 50 years old as the country was flooded with drugs and again European and American companies and not giving work to locals. Putin put a stop to this, this is why there are so many rich Russia men in their 50s-70s who talk trash about Russia they lost their money flow.
Pro Ukraine and pro WEF Kisin.
I don’t think the term “woke Right” is accurate at all. Nothing Tucker is doing is woke. He is trying to be so antiestablishment that it’s taking him into some weird places. But nothing woke.
The majority of shopping carts in Canada have these coin mechanisms and we've had them for like 20 years or more, in fact it's weird to find a cart here that doesn't have it if you're in a big city. I laughed a lot when Tucker talked about the wonder they are in Russia.
He's basically admitting that he's too rich and boujie to shop at Aldi's in the States, lol.
@@JohnDorian-j7xno, if you don’t have an Aldi’s in your area, then you have likely never encountered them. I have never come across one in my life and I grocery shop every week at several different supermarkets.
@@mcsmoothie7052 okay... but they are everywhere in Canada.... at most stores and all grocery stores, everyone here has used them. It's just funny to me because it's definitely not a new invention.
Fun fact: these carts appeared in foreign retail networks that operate in Russia: Metro CC (German) and Auchan (French). It's not even a Russian thing.
I’m in Canada never seen a coin trolly in my life LOL. I’ve been all over our beautiful country.
I think you missed the point . Tucker was showing that the sanctions were not working with the full shelves in the Russian supermarket ( unlike in the Soviet Union days ) Food is cheaper in absolute dollar cost there because they probably dont pay the world price instead they produce their own . I agree they have far less dollar value in wages but if they get stuff for half the dollar price one could argue that the Ruble is undervalued though your math is correct . Not sure the price of houses or cars but its probable that somewhere in their economy they actually do have more " buying power " that we do in the west .
He was also showing that there is no graffiti or homeless ( crazy ) people ruining the subway for everyone else . The reasonable question is why we have these issues and Russia does not . I believe its a lack of will or moral fiber in the west with a multicultural society partly responsible for this .
Thank you for this!
I find Konstantin is usually on point, I think this was a miss, I'm sure he'll recover but I'm getting hints of professional jealousy on this one.
Konstantin has a high opinion of himself tbh. Sometimes it's warranted, but it has gone to his head m
Russian bot posters post this as a way of pretending to be "long-time fans" as a way to shame right-leaning channels into silence.
"Oh, I usually respect your views, and really enjoy your videos, but this was just so off the mark....blah blah blah"
It's literally their standard response. If you see it, you pretty much found the Russian.
@@xandercruz900 " Anyone who disagrees with me is a bot"
Literal infantile take to think that everyone must and could only agree with your position, and if not then it's inauthentic.
Bingo! Same with Stewart. You guys do know YOU can go to the Kremlin and do the tough-guy interview you dream of. We'd be very grateful! But I guess it's safer criticizing more ambitious people.
@@xandercruz900
-> joined in November 2022
-> calls other people bots who were here 7 years ago.
OK.
I agree with the Tucker. The point he was trying to make is that Russia isn't our enemy. I agree 100 percent with that, Russia isn't our enemy. The reason the West is in such decline has nothing to do with Russia. Putin didn't cause this. Our own political leaders did. Our real enemies aren't situated in Moscow. They aren't situated in Beijing or Tehran. Our real enemies, the people making our lives and our society worse on purpose are situated right here in our own countries. We here in the West have to stop looking outward in far away countries for a boogie man to blame everything on. Our real enemies are not foreign, they are domestic. They run our institutions, fund our politicians and control our media. I'm dead tired of hearing people bringing up Russia or China like they are the heart of evil, when our own politicians are committing war crimes and are fraternizing around town with Jeffrey Epstein. The people who have destroyed my country aren't in Beijing or Moscow. They are right here in my own country. I refuse to treat Russia or China as my enemy when they haven't done a damn thing to me.
While you chase the "people who control the Media" China builds military Bases all over the world and shitting our economy... But go on, blame it all on the.... "Media-People"
Woooow a coin operated trolley lock 😂😂 Russia is so advanced
Careful, you'll make a sensitive Tucker woke fan seethe 😂
The funniest thing is, they have this shit even in the U.S. at supermarkets like Aldi or Trader Joe.
But Tucker isn't doing his groceries where all the other plebs shop
I think he just wanted to make his homeless encampment barb.
yeah it's like, Tucker is unedited and just freeballin it which is good sometimes, but there's some times where it would help for someone to step in and be like "psst hey tucker, they have these all over the world and they really aren't a big deal, they're a completely pointless thing to cover"
Losers say that sort of shit because they're ignorant. America and the West is trying to paint the picture Russia is failing because of the impositions put on by farking lying idiots in power in America. Clearly the country is thriving and only pea brains who support farkwits like Biden hate to see that. Grow up dikhead and look at the big picture!
There is no institution that represents systemic racism. On the other hand, the WEF exists, and they are open about what their plans are. So putting globalism and systemic racism on an equal footing is a false equivalence.