There is nothing worse in life than letting down the one person in the world you want to impress the most. Therapists make billions who feel they didn’t live up to the expectations of their spouses, or parents, or sixth-grade teacher. Pharmaceutical companies profit off men’s feelings of inadequacy. Well, first he tried tanning his balls, and now he’s about to make some counselor in Maine rich: Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was very disappointed with Tucker Carlson’s interview, saying he had hoped for hard questions from the American conservative propagandist and hate speech amplifier.
Per the Daily Beast (and if you speak Russian you can watch snippets of the interview here): “Sincerely speaking, I didn’t fully enjoy this interview,” Vlad said in an interview with a Russian reporter, hinting that he would use Carlson as an agent to facilitate dialogue with the US government. “If today, due to their own reasons, we are unable to conduct direct dialogue, then we should be grateful to Mr. Carlson for the fact that we can do this through him as an intermediary.” Hearing that was like magic to Tucker’s ears. “He likes me. He really, really likes me.”