David Beruh
1.1K posts
David Beruh
@daveberuh
Grand Strand Health Coaching
North Myrtle Beach, SC Beigetreten Ağustos 2015
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@DanielOyefusi Hugh called the Chiefs an "easy mark" and hoped Spencer Fano would replicate the Joe Thomas success. For the record @hughhewitt Joe Thomas led the Browns to ZERO playoff wins. Since the drafting of Myles Garrett the Browns are 1-2 in playoffs, the Easy Marks are 17-5 w/3 SB wins.
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@VinnysCorner1 9
NHL - Rangers: 1
MLB - NY Mets: 2
NBA - NY Knicks: 2
NFL - NY Jets 1 + KC Chiefs 3
I'm counting the Chiefs because I became an Eagles fan in 1999 while living outside of Philly and then converted to KC when Reid went there in 2014.
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How many championships have your favorite teams won in your lifetime???
(NHL, MLB, NFL, NBA)
I’ll Start: 9
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@billybinion With all due respect, I think the point is not ridicule the person but the idea that US Taxpayers were paying someone $272,000 with so little marketable skills. It points out the utter waste in addition to fraud and abuse that besets government spending.
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I didn’t like USAID. But watching people gleefully mock a woman for having to start over at ~60 is bleak. You can disagree with someone’s politics without losing basic empathy. The internet has broken a lot of brains.
Alec MacGillis@AlecMacGillis
"Sheryl Cowan, 57, was making $272,000 a year as a senior VP at a U.S.A.I.D.-funded nonprofit when she was let go at the end of March 2025. Last month she had an online interview for a $19-an-hour job managing a Penzeys Spices store in Falls Church, Va." nytimes.com/2026/04/21/us/…
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@tedlieu First let's be clear in many cases they were paying the leaders of these group and helping them organize. Second, law enforcement pays informants not random non-profits.
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This is one of the stupidest DOJ cases in history. Southern Poverty Law Center wasn’t paying the Klan, they were paying informants to who were helping to take down the Klan.
Unless you believe white supremacists all of a sudden took over SPLC, this entire case makes no sense.
FBI Director Kash Patel@FBIDirectorKash
The money doesn’t lie. The evidence shows the charity who supposedly fought the Klan - FUNDED the Klan. The charity who supposedly fought Neo-nazis - FUNDED Neo-nazis. The SPLC engaged in a massive fraud operation to deceive their donors, funded the very hate groups they claim to oppose, and then hid their operations from the public through shell companies and fake entities. This @FBI and @DAGToddBlanche won’t let them get away with it any longer.
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Ultra-Processed Foods, Health, and Dementia, by @daveberuh open.substack.com/pub/davidberuh…
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OPINION: Babe Ruth would be a bust in the modern era.
He never played against the best African American or overseas players.
He dominated an era where pitchers were mediocre, fatigued and had primitive training.
He was unhealthy and unfit, and ultimately a defensive liability.
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@realjammerjoh @DrJStrategy And by wrecking energy security you mean about a $1 a gallon increase in gas, which is likely temporary. Compare that to the cost of US weakness, when Russia took the measure of Joe Biden and decided it was good time to invade Ukraine.
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How on earth can someone even write this nonsense? ‘Repricing security’, ‘tilting towards the America’s’, while wrecking the collective wests energy security, and driving energy prices in the west through the roof? It is clear to me that your only concern is your ‘Trustfund’ on the Cayman Islands or something like that, or you lost the plot entirely.
jammerjoh.com/entries/in-eng…
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Food for thought.
Iran Is Not Winning. It Is Unraveling.
The prevailing narrative on Iran has it almost perfectly reversed. We are told that Tehran is winning a war of wills in the Gulf and that Donald Trump is gambling recklessly with the world’s most sensitive chokepoint. In reality, Iran is not consolidating strength; it is managing decline. And Trump’s play on the Strait of Hormuz has quietly forced energy markets to reprice security—tilting the balance decisively toward the Americas, and away from Europe, Asia and China.
The Islamic Republic no longer resembles a confident revolutionary project.
With the old clerical core leadership shattered, power has splintered between a camp that recognises a deal with the outside world as the only path to survival and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a class of military dictators with guns, patronage networks and a rational fear that any genuine settlement will ultimately throw them overboard. This is not a unified strategy at work; it’s infighting, paranoia, a fragmented system in late-stage decay, crumbling under pressure.
Into this fragmentation, the White House has introduced a form of calibrated coercion too often caricatured as impulsive.
Around the Strait of Hormuz, Washington has threatened disruption without fully triggering it, forcing shipowners, insurers and policymakers to absorb a hard truth: dependence on vulnerable, seaborne Middle Eastern barrels is not a passing inconvenience but a structural risk. Iran can harass tankers and jolt day-to-day sentiment; it cannot rebuild a broken economy on sporadic shocks to global shipping. And the world must deal with the end of Pax Americana!
The underlying playbook is anything but novel. Sun Tzu’s insistence that “all warfare is based on deception”, Machiavelli’s counsel that a ruler must manipulate appearances and exploit factionalism, and Alfred Thayer Mahan’s argument that sea power and control of chokepoints shape the fate of nations are not museum pieces. They are, in this case, the operating code. Trump’s opaque signalling, deliberate use of disinformation and visible but limited naval posture in and around Hormuz amount to a modern, Mahanian use of sea power as economic statecraft.
Energy markets are already adjusting. Tankers are head to the Gulf of America. In a world where a single strait can a risk to economies is Europe and Asia, without ever being fully closed, assets tied to secure basins and diversified export routes deserve a premium.
The Americas sit in an enviable position: vast, politically stable hydrocarbon resources, multiple pipelines and ports, and no dependence on a distant maritime chokepoint controlled by adversaries. By contrast, Europe, much of Asia and China find themselves downstream of vulnerabilities they do not control and regimes they cannot stabilise, exposed to shipping routes that can be threatened faster than alternative supply can be mobilised.
All of this plays out against a domestic backdrop in Iran that looks less like revolutionary vigour and more like fear. A state that cannot safely keep its internet on, that must rely on public brutality to deter dissent, is not projecting confidence. It is signalling weakness, to its own citizens as much as to its rivals.
Winston Churchill once remarked that “in war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity; in peace, goodwill.” Iran’s leadership offers only defiance, without realistic prospects of victory or peace.
The uncomfortable conclusion for those still insisting that Tehran is “winning” is that what they are observing is not the rise of a regional hegemon, but the protracted, strategically exploited unwinding of a brittle regime at the centre of an overexposed energy system.
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@Deep__Rex @DrJStrategy Disagree on the "Bad for Trump". We still don't know. Trump has faced his last election. Defeating Iran will be a signature achievement, even if it is a loser politically in the short run.
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@DrJStrategy It was obvious the USA was winning as soon as Iran went from rockets to drones. A month ago, they said Iran was winning, now it's no one is winning, in June it will be the USA won but at what cost, then OK it was obviously great for the USA but bad for Trump.
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@DrPaulOffit Dr. Offit, those who didn't criticize Fauci and Biden's Vaccine oversteps have forfeited the moral authority to comment now. Apologies to the American public and those harmed during the pandemic are required.
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@SWHornborn @DefiantLs Politicized and weaponized ... disgraceful performance by Public Health Officials during Covid and they still don't understand the damage they have done.
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@DefiantLs Yes, and had the government not weaponized the vaccine, we wouldn't be here!
On top of that, it didn't even freaking work!
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Dr. Paul Offit on people who choose not to vaccinate,
“I see it as enormously selfish... taking other people's freedom"
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@DetroitPistons Every higher seed won opening weekend by 9+ points, except one. As a Knicks' fan ... the Pistons were the only team in the East I thought were definitively superior to the Knicks. Strange result. Orlando looks good.
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@OrenKessler Actually Sinwar's people were already liberated and self-governing in Gaza. Sinwar's dedicated his life to wiping out the State of Israel.
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Sinwar "gave his entire life until the end fighting for his people’s liberation," added Donald Borenstein, architect of Mamdani’s viral video campaign.
Josh Kraushaar@JoshKraushaar
SCOOP @J_Insider via @WillBredderman: "Zohran Mamdani’s video chief lauded Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar" "The Oct. 7 mastermind died in ‘heroic’ style, according to Donald Borenstein, director of video for the Mamdani campaign and City Hall" jewishinsider.com/2026/04/zohran…
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