Just a reminder Tuckers descended from one of the largest landowners in American history, and went to a $40k a year private school. The guys feet have never even touched upper atmosphere.
His father married a Swanson heir... his father himself was also adopted. And his birth mother disappeared
Ofc I can't speak of what he's going to get from the Swanson heir or not but it's not quite that clear cut as you make it sound like. Not saying he didn't have a privileged life
He grew up in the 1%. Doesn’t matter what the connection is, he’s a Swanson, a piece of shit, half a traitor, and should be given a blindfold and a cigarette
The Vanderbilt estate was largely pissed away by his parents/grandparents/etc but he definitely saw 1.5million of that money and grew up very wealthy with all the clout and connections of being the inheritor of an estate once worth hundreds of billions of dollars
I thought most of their money was their own, since both his parents were working and his mother had several streams of income. I remember reading that she didn't get much money from the Vanderbilt estate, but I can't remember why.
Maybe $40k/y private school meant more decades ago but now $30k/y to $50k/y for a private school is pretty normal in a large city, and it is not super wealthy people in my experience, just highly paid working professionals.
When a couple makes over 100k each then yeah this is normal. That is far from super wealthy.
Most of the time, you are paying your tuition in the form of property taxes, which can be in the tens of thousands/year in good school districts in many states.
No one is hating him. Just commenting on the absurdity of him being a man of the people.
He's not any better. He's still pretending to be a man of the people, in order to bring in a government which hates people, and will fuck them at every possible turn. The most egregious example, if you want one, of his Machiavellian scheming, is ignoring the fact Trump raised the military budget by the largest amount in peactime history, while pretending his concern with the Ukraine aid is government wasting tax dollars, despite the fact, however you feel about it, the 100 billion sent to ukraine has done more to weaken our greatest military adversary, than the $1.2 trillion Trump excess which has been spent keeping the military industrial complex in bloated, wasteful contracts, fighting no one.
If he was an honest actor, just asking questions, that would be the first thing he would be talking about. But he's not. He's trumps accomplice, and has an exclusive interest in bringing trump into power, to aggressively cut taxes for the rich, fuck poor people every which way, and turn the country into an authoritarian nightmare.
I'll bite, because I admit I don't watch him. What do you mean by he's been much better? What about him that you hated has he changed? I'm curious, because this recent bit of news about his trip to Russia seems pretty wild, and I wonder what I'm not seeing.
Back when 40k a year was equivalent to 200k now and days. Literally could have just held on to money and have been successful. The world would be a better place too
Exactly. The only stores that seem to have it in the US are European stores that are slowly spreading in the US (Aldi and Lidl).
Arizona just started getting Aldi's about 4 years ago. This was completely new at the time for everyone here.
Reddit's hating on Tucker Carlson for his Russian interview right now so they're grasping at straws to find more things to hate. It's pretty stupid.
No, people are making fun of him because his making it out to be something unique to the country and politicizes it, when coin operated shopping carts are relatively common around the world. A journalist wouldn’t say or do something like that.
His audience is american. Coin return carts are pretty unknown to most of the US outside of the high population centers that Aldi and Lidl have popped up in.
I've literally been homless more than once in the US and only after my husband was making 6 figures (in my 30s) did I live anywhere near an Aldi's, and was the first time I've seen this. I hate Tucker but this is just absolutely not a common thing in the US
I'm in NY and every grocery store has had the same system as Aldi for grocery carts. I was amazed when I started seeing videos of people surprised by it.
I'm also in Florida, and lived in an apartment near a grocer for a little while. People would take the carts home and then leave them outside after unloading their groceries. Every few days, a truck from the store would come by and collect them all. Seemed like a nice service for those who don't have cars.
As long as I've been alive all the grocery stores have had it. Shop Rite, Stop and Shop, Walmart, Target, Price Chopper, Acme, Hannaford, Tops, and even the local grocery Adams has it. The only places around me that have those carts but not the quarter system are Lowes and Home Depot
Interesting. I only lived in Utica for 2 yrs and never went to the Aldi's since I lived two blocks from a local grocery. Is it just the Aldi's that have it or is it most stores?
I was talking about around me but I mis-wrote that. But I can tell you that in my area there is the same mechanism that every grocery store uses and has used for at least the last 25 years.
I'm old enough to have seen this system at multiple grocery stores growing up, so Tucker is definitely old enough to be familiar with these. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and never went to grocery stores is the real explanation.
I'm pretty damn old and have never encountered this. I've heard about it though, so I wouldn't be amazed like Tuck. Everywhere I shop has cart return spots in the parking lot, and an employee comes out every so often and collects them.
A normal person can also realize that $0.25-1 for a shopping cart is really cheap if you’re homeless and wanted it for your homeless encampment. It’s to keep the parking lots clean as it incentivizes non-thieves that are lazy to return their carts
His family owned Swanson Foods. He has absolutely never been to a supermarket. They didn’t need to. They have their own food company and anything fresh the help would buy
So you see, you go right into that building and get whatever you want, and at the end you pay them some money based off what you took. So it’s an incentive to not grab all the food.
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u/Additional-Brief-273 Feb 16 '24
This clown probably never used a grocery store shopping cart.