# What the fuck is wrong with Tucker Carlson (this time)? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 20, 2020, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-tucker-carlson-this-time/928433 "2020-12-20T01:30:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-tucker-carlson-this-time/928433/161 "2024-02-21T11:54:25Z")
I thought Trump and Putin always had interpreters. Is that because Trump speaks gibberish, not English? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-tucker-carlson-this-time/928433/162 "2024-02-21T12:46:54Z")
That supermarket Tucker went into and raved about?\* Turns out it’s not a Russian store, but a branch of a French supermarket operating in Moscow. It even has the same logo as in France, and the name is a transliteration of the original French into Cyrillic: > **[A quick note about Tucker Carlson's visit to Russia](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/20/2224687/-A-quick-note-about-Tucker-Carlson-s-visit-to-Russia?utm_campaign=trending)** > > I don’t watch Tucker Carlson. I’m not even sure where his content appears these days, since he was determined to be inadequate even by the inadequacies that run Fox “News.” But folks from Comedy Central’s The Daily Show know where to find his... \*I’m not impressed by what apparently impresses Carlson. We’ve got coin-locking cart racks here in our mall, the Walmart here has a shopping cart escalator, and all the supermarkets have fresh artisanal bread. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-tucker-carlson-this-time/928433/163 "2024-02-21T13:05:16Z")
You think that assclown has ever had to do his own grocery shopping? He went to a series of boarding schools ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-tucker-carlson-this-time/928433/164 "2024-02-21T13:05:18Z")
I always thought it was because, although the dignitary in question may have a good command of the foreign language concerned, they still may not have the necessary vocabulary to understand what will be discussed and thus a professional translator who has the time and resources to prepare for the event can do so. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-tucker-carlson-this-time/928433/165 "2024-02-21T13:10:44Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > \*I’m not impressed by what apparently impresses Carlson. We’ve got coin-locking cart racks here in our mall, the Walmart here has a shopping cart escalator, and all the supermarkets have fresh artisanal bread. He also said something about how the coin-locking carts were basically free to use, but were designed to discourage people from taking the carts back to their homeless encampments. The problem in my neighborhood isn’t the homeless stealing carts, it’s people who roll the carts way down the block to the bus stop (or a couple of blocks away to their apartment) and then abandon them. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-tucker-carlson-this-time/928433/166 "2024-02-21T14:06:47Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Then why do the interview? Dollah, dollah bills 🤑 💰 🇷🇺 ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-tucker-carlson-this-time/928433/167 "2024-02-21T14:33:13Z")
Obviously a big reason for him to have done the interview is that it keeps his name and face in public when he’s no longer got a popular Fox News show to do so. Of course many people, on the left and the right, are laughing at him but at least they’re talking _about_ him. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-tucker-carlson-this-time/928433/168 "2024-02-21T17:28:32Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > but at least they’re talking _about_ him. People talk about Hitler, the Devil, and insurance commercials. Doesn’t mean they like the guy or are gonna buy the product. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-tucker-carlson-this-time/928433/169 "2024-02-21T19:26:03Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Of course many people, on the left and the right, are laughing at him but at least they’re talking _about_ him. _There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about._ -Oscar Wilde ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-tucker-carlson-this-time/928433/170 "2024-02-21T20:14:19Z")
…until you discover that being thrown into prison for a homosexuality is perhaps worse. Oscar found that out. Carlson endorses it ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-tucker-carlson-this-time/928433/171 "2024-02-21T20:32:53Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > That supermarket Tucker went into and raved about?\* Turns out it’s not a Russian store, but a branch of a French supermarket operating in Moscow. It even has the same logo as in France, and the name is a transliteration of the original French into Cyrillic: Ha. I read the Cyrillic, and it didn’t sound like a Russian word, so I assumed it was just a nonsense name. This is even better. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-tucker-carlson-this-time/928433/172 "2024-02-21T21:29:36Z")
Yeah, the logo was very familiar. We used to have 2 in the Houston area (the Hypermarché!) but they went out of business at some point with one of them replaced by a rather successful Vietnamese market and the other converted to some other type of store - clothes or tractors or something. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-tucker-carlson-this-time/928433/173 "2024-02-21T21:36:10Z")
Something, something, **[Freedom Fries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries)**, something, something?? ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-tucker-carlson-this-time/928433/174 "2024-02-21T22:38:56Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > That supermarket Tucker went into and raved about?\* Turns out it’s not a Russian store, but a branch of a French supermarket operating in Moscow. It even has the same logo as in France, and the name is a transliteration of the original French into Cyrillic: A couple of points: McDonald’ses in Tokyo are nice, clean, and provide good service despite being an American company. In America, the places are a dump. The local people who are actually managing things and doing the work do have a large impact on the overall quality of the place. I was in Moscow a year or two previous to the attack on Ukraine. I haven’t watched Tucker’s video but my understanding is that he complements the place on being well-run, clean, having good service at the stores you go to, etc. That certainly was true at the time and I have no reason to think that it has changed significantly in the intervening time. But, likewise, Tokyo is also well-run, clean, has good service at the stores, etc. Most European places are better than the US for all of this. Mussolini’s Italy was, purportedly, also a haven of cleanliness and on-time trains. So 1) the US could have those things without turning into a dictatorship, and 2) it’s a fairly tepid measure of how good a dictator is doing. I’d also note that, while central Moscow is quite nice, the country as a whole has poor roads and there’s a lot of guys (even then) who looked to be former military roaming the subways around singing songs about how they’ve been psychology demolished by their government, and a lot of men who seem to have burnt out on life and don’t want to do anything anymore. The cities are having their centers upgraded by the government when there’s going to be public attention - e.g. when hosting a big football game - but that seems to be more about appearances than a genuine concern for the people, based on the scheduling. And, I’d note that the scale of some of the public works in Moscow (and probably many of the revitalizing works in other cities) would clearly have required some serious acts of Eminent Domain. If Biden could just order people to be thrown out of their house, tell Congress to tax the people as much as needed (and they’d obey!), build whatever awesome but unnecessary thing he imagined, and run a band of assassins who will roam around to murder anyone who isn’t paying their taxes then, sure, we could have the world’s bestest and fastest hyperloop system from New York to LA in a few years. But, last I heard tell, Mr. Carlson was on the side of the Republican party and he shouldn’t be a fan of Eminent Domain, massive government expenditures, nor taxes. He’s basically just saying that Big Government is juicy and delicious. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-tucker-carlson-this-time/928433/175 "2024-02-21T23:51:51Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > McDonald’ses in Tokyo are nice, clean, and provide good service despite being an American company. In America, the places are a dump. The local people who are actually managing things and doing the work do have a large impact on the overall quality of the place. I hope you know that this is a huge and pretty unfair generalization. Have you ever worked in fast food or retail? It sucks, it doesn’t pay well, and many customers (oops _guests_ ) expect you to kiss their asses. That’s not “good service” that’s belittling someone who is perceived as less. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-tucker-carlson-this-time/928433/176 "2024-02-21T23:53:22Z")
Then I’ll throw in that the customers are likely better in other countries as well. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-tucker-carlson-this-time/928433/177 "2024-02-21T23:58:31Z")
There are three McDonalds near me. Even the one at the truck stop is not a dump. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-tucker-carlson-this-time/928433/178 "2024-02-21T23:58:51Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > I thought Trump and Putin always had interpreters. Is that because Trump speaks gibberish, not English? Putin didn’t like the cut of his gibberish. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-tucker-carlson-this-time/928433/179 "2024-02-22T00:04:17Z")
You could well be correct. I always try very hard to be polite and helpful to customer service people. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-tucker-carlson-this-time/928433/180 "2024-02-22T00:05:27Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > Putin didn’t like the cut of his gibberish. Damn, you are quick. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-tucker-carlson-this-time/928433.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-tucker-carlson-this-time/928433.md?page=10)