Carlson's U.S. crew guessed a week's worth of food would cost the equivalent of $400 in Moscow – it was a hundred bucks The post Tucker Carlson Says Trip to Russian Grocery Store Has ‘Radicalized’ Him Against US Leaders: ‘Legitimately Angry’ appeared first on TheWrap.
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Tucker Carlson says he went “from amused to legitimately angry” at U.S. political leaders during a recent trip to a Moscow grocery store, where the independent conservative journalist and his crew guessed that a cart full of food would cost about the equivalent of $400 in American dollars – and it came in around a hundred bucks.
“So we were guessing what this would cost,” Carlson said as he puts his items on the belt. “Everybody [in the crew] is from the United States … and we didn’t pay any attention to cost, we just put in the cart what we would actually eat over a week. We all [guessed] around $400 bucks. It was $104 U.S. here. And that’s when you start to realize that ideology doesn’t matter as much as you thought.”
Tucker loves communism confirmed. Also did he do a quick check to see the wages of the russian people compared to US? Also, is tucker struggling to afford groceries? Also lol at anyone believing tucker or his crew goes grocery shopping.
from the comments section:
USA per-capita GDP is $72,250
Russia is $12,500
That is SIX times difference, yet Russians pay one-fourth as much for equivalent groceries. Therefore, it is STILL relatively much better (50% again) to be a U.S. citizen buying groceries in the US than a Russian citizen buying groceries in Russia.
When you travel to a place where their currency has fallen against the dollar, yes everything is cheap. My girl and I each had steak dinners in Argentina with 3 bottles of wine 2 appetizers for $20. It wasn't because the country was thriving it was because the dollar was strong against their currency. Must be Tuckers first time traveling outside the country.
Yeah I don’t understand his point. He doesn’t understand economies of scale or wartime supply and demand? Or is he a socialist who thinks we should subsidize food prices far more than we do so that our prices are just as cheap as Russia’s?