2/20/24: Tucker's grocery store propaganda, MAGA cultists gather

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David Pakman

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🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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0:00.0	Let's this Tucker Carlson's propaganda Russian grocery store run.
0:15.0	So many of you have written to me about this.
0:18.0	There are now all sorts of videos critiquing what Tucker Carlson did and what I want to talk about today
0:26.0	is how this move this stunt pulled by Tucker Carlson during his trip to Moscow to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin is a classic just a click goes back decades
0:38.8	it's a classic propaganda technique for sort of showing the good side of authoritarian regimes.
0:48.5	This has been done in both left and right wing authoritarian countries and it has been done by both left and
0:55.4	right wing authoritarians as many of you know there are authoritarians on the
0:59.5	right and there are also authoritarians on the political left. So let me set it up for you.
1:05.0	Here is Tucker Carlson going to a Russian grocery store showing how great the selection is and how inexpensive it is you know they say all these bad
1:15.2	things about Putin like he kills journalists and dissidents but the grocery stores
1:21.9	are really nice and very reasonably priced
1:25.2	I went from amused to legitimately angry
1:30.2	So we were guessing what this would cost. Everybody hears from the United States by
1:33.7	the groceries and we didn't pay any attention to the cost as we were just putting in
1:36.8	the car where we would actually eat over a week and we all came in around
1:41.2	400 bucks about 400 bucks.
1:44.4	It was $104 U.S. here.
1:47.4	And that's when you start to realize that ideology,
1:50.7	maybe doesn't matter as much as you thought, corruption.
1:54.0	If you take people's standard of living
1:56.6	and you tank it through filth and crime and inflation,
2:00.6	and they literally can't buy the groceries they want.
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