Tucker Carlson goes grocery shopping in Russia
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Time to let the shit hit the fan . Anyone still asleep at this point is t worth another day of this bullshit. Hell I'm going to need a vacation from this hyper inflated bullshit. Life better get a whole lot easier.
I went to Rural King to exchange a bad battery I purchased from there (same store) 6 months ago ... Identical battery swap. Same exact battery brand and type. 6 months ago, NOT 'on sale' or discount, it was $39.99. Same battery today, 6 months later, $54.99.
Tucker isn't accounting for the fact that Russian income is no where near ours.
The average American makes over 40,000 a year, the average Russian doesn't even make a quarter of that.
For the Russian income, their groceries are very expensive.
All this video does is point out how far the dollar goes in poorer countries.
This may be the most practical video he's made.
Edit to add... I'm getting more and more in need of a prayer time to not get to radicalized the more I think about this. We are under seige. I fill a cart to feed my family and Im over $300 and that's buying to make ever dollar count and doing without anything unnecessary. Gotta go pray about it some more.
Radicalized = awake...
Not woke.
True.
Awakening.
Woke/Awake implies having arrived at a final destination of knowledge, wisdom and closeness to God.
It is a life long and never ending process. Hence the GREAT AWAKENING.
That is WISDOM.
Noting that he's one of a little handful of journalists that actually has a clue what normal things should cost normal people.
And friend, we're with you. We don't go shopping often in supermarkets since we've been rotating prep stock, and have local milk and egg providers. But when we do, we go once and fill a cart with things we don't make (yet?)... and have the only full cart in the store.
It's an economic war.
We lost.
"We
lostare losing, but we can turn it all around with the right leadership.or how about saying God Wins,
and we get rid of their piece of crap system
and replace it with God's Abundance?;)🐸
Rebuild better after the war.
The "economy" is not some abstract entity. It's the sum total of all our labor and spending. It doesn't belong to anyone and so it can't be won or lost.
You just live in an era where federal corruption dominates all other social functions.
It's a social war predicated on White genocide.
Here's a little longer version of the video that shows him entering the store and shopping a bit.
https://x.com/TheWakeninq/status/1758097544708538621
Does it have more information on average salary? I had to search for it (under $15k USD) which puts the grocery price in line with the average American salary ($60K).
I feel like it would need a deeper dig to put those numbers in context though.
I think we need to find a mean legal salary, the one that most citizens make, as opposed to an average.
Exactly.
You compare these prices to what the Russian earns and the weakness of the Ruble, and they're very expensive from the Russian perspective.
Thank you for these!
That looks like a pretty nice grocery store where he was at.
Most bigger chain groceries are fairly nice across the pond. Familiar as any Maxima XXX or Rimi to my my eyes.
Reminds me, I need more buckwheat!
that's a great video! thanks for sharing, shows how absolutely soulless and demonic these 'people' in charge really are.
Jesus called them vipers.
Just got back from S Africa, a member of BRICS.
A beer? 1 usd.
Rotisserie chicken at the grocery? 2 usd.
My favorite nandos sauce at grocery?
2.50 usd, not 8.50.
Oh, final note. One of the finest bottles of wine from western cape?
3 usd.
Yeah, it is a thing.
I see they still have a Christmas tree up. Russians....they're just like us.
I noticed that too and wondered if Tucker was there closer to Christmas.🤔
He should've went to an ammo dealer and bought 9481.37 RUB worth of goodies.
Maybe WTP aren't paying to much these days...KEK
This seems to be a juxtaposition of Boris yeltsin's 1989 trip to a US grocery store that led to the downfall of communism under the Reagan administration.
Here's a little bit of history for the younger annons:
Yeltsin was a member of the Politburo and Russia’s upper political crust, yet he’d never seen anything like the offerings of this little American grocery store. “Even the Politburo doesn’t have this choice. Not even Mr. Gorbachev,” Yeltsin said.
A Sickening Revelation It’s difficult for Americans to grasp Yeltsin’s astonishment. Our market economy has evolved from grocery stores to companies such as Walmart and Amazon that compete to deliver food right to our homes.
Yeltsin’s reaction can be understood, however, by looking back on the conditions in the Soviet Union’s economy.
potentially super-rich country as ours has been brought to a state of such poverty! It is terrible to think of it.”
Yeltsin was not the only person fooled, of course. There is copious documentation of Western intellectuals beguiled by the Soviet system. These individuals, who unlike Yeltsin did not live in a state-controlled media environment, saw the Soviet system as both economically and morally superior to American capitalism despite the brutal methods employed in the workers’ paradise.
https://www.nhregister.com/neighborhood/bayarea/news/article/When-Boris-Yeltsin-went-grocery-shopping-in-Clear-5759129.php#photo-6130395
$400 for a week's worth of food. For one person? My wife and I eat well, we eat non-processed, fruits, vegetables, eggs (couple dozen a week, I have 3 a day with spinach), I eat lots of meat--beef, chicken, and also lean pork chops. The diet we have is not cheap, not easy. We make meal prep for most of the week on Sundays.
Having said all that, and to underline we don't eat out, nothing garbage for the body (or at least we minimize it); and it's $125-150/week at grocery, $200 at costco/sams (my vice is a low-cal energy drink, 2x a day sometimes, hers is coffee), we get those 5 dozen eggs there, Kodiak pancake mix, which she makes muffins with bananas and blueberries.
We spend $350-400 for two people, and we eat a bunch. WTF is tucker getting for himself for the same cost? My point is that he's probably only getting about $150 worth. Still more expensive than Russia, but not that much more.
That includes his crew, however many people that is.
Tucker said in the first part of the video, what an American family of 4 would eat in a week. That's why he went for the boxed cereal, I believe.
Oh, I totally missed that. I thought he said for one person.
I wish he would show if the American products contained bio engineered ingredients… my best guess is they don’t… only in America do they allow poison to be sold to the people.
Radicalized? No it won't. It tells us we are lied to and they all need to go. But we aren't the radicals they are buddy. Controlled oppo.
I have been coloring my hair for years. Always paid about $8 or so for the dye. This week I went for the same thing: Price was $16.99!! I almost fell over!!! 100% increase!!! 100%!!! So that, some mouthwash and a couple of makeup things on sale: Price: $60.00!! Should have been less than $30.00!!
I'm not getting it. That cost of goods still has to be scaled to correlate with the average income discrepancy in the two economies. Someone needs to do the math on that.
In case of confusion: He said something like it was "$400 for all of us", and "it was $104 US dollars here". So the $104 means per person.
$100 a week per person may sound normal to our ears, (or sound a bit high) but the median yearly salary in russia is ~$14000 whereas the median yearly salary in the US is ~$45000. So the difference is substantial
The average Russian makes the equivalent of 700 dollars a month.
Compared to their income food in Russia is extremely expensive.
Tucker's experience is a nod to the strength of the American dollar. The dollar goes a long long way in countries where the population is largely impoverished.
Tell me about your time in Russia glowfed. Take your lunch break.
Putin and his cronies are a massive part of the globalist elite; houses in Mayfair, kids at Eton, Superyachts in the South of France, shopping at the Passei de Gracia and Quadrelateral D'Oro. All the while Russia outside the big cities is poorer than you can imagine - rural India or Pakistan levels of poverty. Outside the rich elite life hasn't changed much since Communism - fresh flowers on Stalin's grave, hammer and sickle on public buildings.
Putin has done well to convince people that he is some kind of anti-globalist. He isn't. He wants a global order led by himself, not the USA.
I've not (recently) seen anything showing that level of poverty. I wouldn't deny that it exists, same as U.S., but in my researches it doesn't seem like a poverty riddled country.
As to Putins intentions.... Propaganda abounds.
The most shocking statistic is male life expectancy = 65. Outside of the big cities it is a lot lower than that. There is no country in the world where white man die younger. I've been to rural Romania, and rural Russia is an awful lot poorer than that. I've spent a lot of time in India and I would rather live in a poor village in rural India than in rural Russia. Dirt, poverty and massive alcoholism. Desperation. The poorest state in the US has a GDP/capita 300% of Russia, when you visit rural Russia it is a lot higher.
St Petersburg is nice, but noticeably poorer and scruffier than Budapest, or even Zhagreb, probably on a par with Bucharest.Much worse than Llubliana. Moscow was a huge shock- it's not at all like a Western City. , real 3rd world city. Last time I was there I stayed in a lovely communist era flat - wood paneling and a grand piano in the living room - gorgeous - the problem was that outside the apartment block the sidewalk had crumbled into mud, and drains were overflowing and to get from the flat to the metro you had to wade through a mixture of mud and shit. Worse than a Mumbai slum. When I say a shit hole, I mean literal shit, and mud in the streets.
I travel a lot and I am always surprised when people on here post comments about Russia, or Spain or the UK, countries I visit a lot. I'm in the UK right now, flying to Spain tomorrow, Berlin and Belgrade in March. Hopefully visit Albania for the first time later this year. I get the feeling that a lot of posters on here don't travel much, which makes it easier to believe mad stuff
`People are pinning their hopes on someone who is going to let them down badly
Interesting. Quite opposite of what I thought. Thanks for the info and response.