Too busy shopping for Russian groceries, Tucker Carlson was unavailable for comment

“But Putin seemed ljke such a nice guy!”

Putin critic Alexei Navalny dead at 47, Russian officials say

Tucker’s over on a Disneyland tour of everyone’s favorite dictatorship, oohing and aahing over the cheap cost of groceries.

Reality check, Russians spend three times more of their income on food than people in the US. https://t.co/8BJuRY9mau pic.twitter.com/pFISqUjH80

— the_VP5 (@the_vp5) February 15, 2024

UPDATE: Over at Hot Air, I see that David Strom has thoughts on Carlson’s homage to Moscow. It’s an excellent take, and worth reading in its (brief) entirety, but here’s the bottom line:

‘Tucker isn't wrong that our leaders are terrible. I say so often enough. But I do so because I want our country to be LESS like Russia and China, and instead, we are becoming MORE like China and Russia. 

Criticizing America for not being more like Russia is ridiculous, destructive, and blind to reality. 

UPDATE:

full story here