Alaskan Standard

I kinda miss readling the headlines of the Weekly World News in the checkout lines. weeklyworldnews.com

أوروبا لا تعاني من "مشكلة" واحدة، بل من ثلاث مشاكل: ثلاث دول أوروبية تعاني من حالة "دوار ما بعد الإمبراطورية" الحاد. أولاً، المملكة المتحدة: تلك الأمة التي صوتت لصالح "بريكست" كي "تستعيد السيطرة"، لتكتشف لاحقاً أنها نسيت تماماً كيف تقود. إن أزمة الهوية البريطانية تشبه مشاهدة أسد متقاعد يحاول تبني نظام غذائي نباتي. لقد استبدلوا الثقة الإمبراطورية ببرامج تدريبية في "الحساسية السلوكية" تليق بقسم موارد بشرية. أرض "تشرشل" تُحكم الآن من قبل بيروقراطية "الدولة المربية" المترامية الأطراف، والتي تخشى الإساءة لأحد على منصة (X) أكثر من خشيتها من الانحدار الفعلي. أما الشرطة البريطانية، التي كانت يوماً ما محط حسد العالم، فتبدو الآن وكأنها تكرس مواردها للتحقيق في "حوادث كراهية غير إجرامية" وطلاء سيارات الدورية بألوان قوس قزح، أكثر مما تفعل في حل جرائم السطو. إنها أمة تتشبث يائسة بجماليات التقاليد — العائلة المالكة، المراسيم، الشاي — بينما نخر "العفن التقدمي" مؤسساتها حتى جعلها تبدو أكثر تطرفاً من حرم جامعة كاليفورنيا. إنهم يريدون "هيبة" القرن التاسع عشر، لكنهم مشلولون بالهشاشة العاطفية للقرن الحادي والعشرين. ثم تأتي فرنسا: العمة الغاضبة المدخنة بشراهة التي ترفض الاعتراف بأنها عاطلة عن العمل منذ عقود. يتجلى "دوار ما بعد الإمبراطورية" لدى فرنسا في حالة دائمة من التمرد التي تتخفى وراء قناع "المشاركة المدنية". هويتها منقسمة بين نخبة واهمة لا تزال تعتقد أن باريس هي عاصمة الكون، وشعب يعبر عن "بهجة الحياة" بحرق مواقف الحافلات كل يوم خميس. يعاني الفرنسيون من "عقدة نابليونية" بدون وجود نابليون؛ فهم يطالبون بمستوى معيشة إمبراطورية فاتحة بينما يعملون 35 ساعة في الأسبوع ويتقاعدون في سن يكون فيه معظم الأمريكيين في قمة عطائهم. ينظرون للقيم "الجمهورية" والعلمانية المتشددة، ومع ذلك فقدت الدولة سيطرتها على مساحات شاسعة من ضواحيها. فرنسا باختصار هي متحف جميل في الهواء الطلق، حيث القيمون عليه في إضراب، والحراس يخشون الزوار، والإدارة مشغولة بإلقاء المحاضرات على بقية العالم حول "العظمة" (Grandeur) بينما فواتير الكهرباء لم تُدفع بعد. أخيراً لدينا ألمانيا: العملاق العصبي الذي قرر أن الطريقة الوحيدة للتكفير عن تاريخه هي ارتكاب "انتحار صناعي" بطيء. إن "دوار ما بعد الإمبراطورية" في ألمانيا هو مرض مناعي أخلاقي؛ فالبلاد مرعوبة من ظلها لدرجة أنها استبدلت الفخر الوطني بجلد الذات العنيف وقوانين إعادة التدوير. هويتهم مبنية على كونهم "القوة الأخلاقية العظمى"، وهو ما يترجم عملياً إلى إغلاق محطات الطاقة النووية التي تعمل بكفاءة تامة من أجل حرق الفحم القذر، كل ذلك بينما يلقون الدروس على جيرانهم حول البصمة الكربونية. إنها أمة من المهندسين الذين هندسوا مجتمعاً لا يعمل. الروح الألمانية، التي عرفت يوماً بالكفاءة والانضباط، تحورت إلى بيروقراطية مشلولة حيث ملء الاستمارة الصحيحة أهم من النتيجة النهائية. إنهم مستميتون لتجنب الظهور بمظهر "التهديد" لدرجة أنهم تحولوا أساساً إلى منظمة غير حكومية ضخمة تمتلك جيشاً يستخدم "مقابض المكنسات" بدلاً من البنادق، خوفاً من أن يُفسر إظهار أي حزم على أنه انتكاسة للماضي.

It's quite literally a color revolution. The democracy playbook people like Norm Eisen or Gene Sharp don't like breaking it out into explicit stages because it implies that color revolutions aren't organic. So I had to assemble it from scratch using their own writings. Here are the steps, and they're trying to do Step 6:

people assume that every time you eat steak you're killing a cow.... but even if you ate 1lb of steak every single day, you wouldn't even kill one whole cow... one cow produces over 500 lbs of meat...and it does this from GRASS which is inedible to humans... cows are basically divine machines that convert inedible food into steak, milk, leather and so much more. yet people continue to say "cow farts are destroying the planet" the cow is the most sustainable and vegan thing you can eat God bless the cow

Doc: How long ago did your OCD issues begin? Me... 😂

So true.

Well well well ... Thursday, April 2 at 7:00 a.m. (Senator Tom Cotton presided) was the traitor of the hour for the RINOs in the Senate today! Say @SenTomCotton ... how does it feel to be the jerk butt who betrayed the American people today. Do you feel good about it? Do you want EVERYBODY in Arkansas to know that YOU personally screwed President Trump today? The Democrats Must love you @ArkTimes @ArkansasOnline be sure and ask Tom how it feels to screw his voters

@DataRepublican @nicksortor @GatesMcgavick @PamBondi Move the DOJ to Florida.

Been researching DC juries this morning. Did you know that DC has a specific school curriculum which is mandatory from 6th to 12th grade which trains them in civic participation including juries? Students are taught how to look past the actual crime and evaluate all charges through "root causes" and equity. There's no chance of a favorable conviction in DC.

The people doing this think they’re the resistance; they’re really just mid-level bureaucrats who got mad that they could no longer leave the office at 4 PM or work from home daily when @PamBondi arrived. And they do not represent all DOJ career staff.

🚨 THIS WEEK: we are formally referring US Senator John Thune & his campaign Treasurer Nicole Weyers for felony criminal charges - money laundering, identity theft, wire fraud, bank secrecy act, false statements to the feds & more. We found the legal path to step into the shoes of the U.S. Attorney General. We have a live federal lawsuit against the FEC on Thune's campaign committee. Take the #ThuneOut Pledge with me: 🚫 NO votes 🚫 NO donations …to ANY 'Republican' until Thune is removed as Senate Majority Leader. Why? Just one example: while President Trump waits on recess appointments, Thune is running 33-second Senate 'sessions' to BLOCK them. These aren't Republicans - they're saboteurs. "Republicans" have now taken our spending and debt to all time historic highs in nominal dollars since the founding of our nation, as a second example. We now have 8 federal lawsuits against corrupt U.S. Senators. With real resources we'd have 70 lawsuits filed against US Senators- that is how bad it is. The purge starts with Thune. 🇺🇸 ElectionWatch.info and see if your name is being used by the corrupt John Thune for laundering money into his campaign (all are over the age of 65): -go to our website -scroll down to the USA map, click on the desired state -let it load, a list comes up of Smurfs, i.e. victims -click on Show Search, or Smurf Search or Advanced Search (use a laptop or PC) -click on the small green box to the left of any person's name -an interactive chart will come up: red line is the number of contributions that day, green line the corresponding dollar amount -click on anything in green text for more data/info

@PoliticalStacy You're right.

The number of retard liberals who don’t understand the difference between absentee voting and the mass mail-out of ballots is staggering in its retardation. Let me break it down for the obvious head injury victims out there. Absentee voting: You actually have to request a ballot like a normal adult, usually with a legitimate reason (sick, traveling, whatever). It’s the old, sane way. Mail-in voting: They just mass-mail ballots to every name on the bloated voter rolls — dead people, movers, duplicates, illegals, you name it — no request, no excuse, no accountability. It’s the lazy Democrat cheat method that floods the system with unsecured paper and turns elections into a joke. Both involve mailing ballots, but one makes you prove you want to vote. The other treats voting like junk mail. That’s why ‘mass mail-out’ sounds shady as hell — because it is.

@RepThomasMassie @mattgaetz Massie is as anti-american as they come. You don't have to celebrate your team mates, but have the decency to just not be an asshole.

@mattgaetz April Fools was yesterday.

Pam Bondi will be known as one of the great crime fighters of our time. She is a patriot who has all of our appreciation. Todd Blanche left his comfortable job at a major firm to defend President Trump against horrendous lawfare. He has shown moral courage, strength and exquisite legal talent. Todd will do a great job for the Trump/Vance Administration and us all.

Below is a list of people that did not receive AID from the American taxpayers. 1. Americans

@peta @DerrickEvans4WV After killing them, do you eat them?

PETA never turns animals away, including those who are sick or dying. Providing peaceful relief to suffering animals is not the same as systematically raising and killing animals for food. PETA spends millions each year on spaying and neutering and promoting adoption. investigations.peta.org/petas-rescue-t…

Every steak had a heartbeat.

@alt_w_v_g I can't wait until realtors are completely out of the process.

Here's what every other professional in a $500K home sale charges: - Home inspector (3-hour physical assessment of the entire property): $500 - Appraiser (determines actual market value): $500 - Real estate attorney (reviews contracts, handles legal transfer): $1,500 - Title company (manages escrow, title search, closing docs): $2,000 Total for the people who do the hard stuff: ~$4,500 The agent who scheduled those people and unlocked the door: $13,750 Every other professional at the closing table charges a flat fee for their work The agent charges a percentage of your home's value As if the house being worth more made the door harder to unlock

If the U.S. residential real estate brokerage industry were a portfolio company, here's what the board deck would say Total addressable market: $170B in annual commissions. 0.6% of GDP 1.5M agents. Median income $58,100 gross. $36,600 after expenses Median deals per agent: about 6 per year Barrier to entry: high school diploma and a weekend course Median age of workforce: 57 This is a $170B industry with the entry requirements of a part-time job at Best Buy The revenue model: charge 5.5% of someone's largest financial transaction of their life for approximately 30-40 hours of work per deal On a $500K home, that's roughly $13,750 per agent. Call it $375/hour On a $1M home, it's $750/hour On a $1.5M home, the buyer's agent who drove you to four showings and said "I love the natural light" earns roughly $41,000 My analyst works 70-hour weeks building DCFs and earns $100K a year. That's $27/hour The real estate agent who told my wife "this floor plan really flows" earned more per transaction than my analyst makes in four months I asked my analyst to model the unit economics. He came back an hour later, visibly upset In 2023, a federal jury found that the National Association of Realtors conspired to fix commission rates. An economics professor testified it was "one of the clearest cases of price-fixing" he'd ever seen NAR paid $418M to settle. New rules took effect in August 2024 Result: commission rates increased in 39 out of 50 states the following year Let me say that again A jury found price-fixing. A settlement was paid. Rules were changed. And prices went up Every other developed country pays less. UK: 1-2%. Australia: 2-3%. Canada: 3-5% The U.S. pays 5-6% for the same service The moat isn't technology. It's not scale. It's not IP It's a licensing requirement that takes two weeks to earn, an MLS system the industry controls, and the fact that most people buy a home 2-3 times in their life and never stop to ask why they're paying $25,000 for someone to schedule a home inspection The industry was built on information asymmetry. Before Zillow, you needed an agent to know what was for sale. Now every listing is on your phone before your agent's had their morning coffee The information advantage is gone. The pricing hasn't changed If I presented this business model to our investment committee, a member would ask one question: "What exactly are we paying for?" And the answer would be: "Project management with a golf cart and a lockbox" Make common sense common again Plz fix. Thx. Sent from my iPhone

@XavierBecerra @IfindRetards found another

Trump's appearance at the Supreme Court this morning is an insult to our entire system of governance. We can't let a wannabe dictator intimidate the high court into abandoning the principles of our Constitution. Birthright citizenship must remain the law of the land.

Why isn’t the IRS prosecuting the Somalis that stole billions? Who in the IRS is responsible for overseeing nonprofits?

@peta @JoeSchm19964270 All of them are.

@JoeSchm19964270 And… no animal is here for your taste buds.

@Just_Virus4 @OpenMind_Kinda @peta Just saying that they kill more than that.

@DeMars4Alaska @OpenMind_Kinda @peta Dawg you cant POSSIBLY defending ts 🥀🥀🥀

@steve_hanke 3/4 of that price rise was during the Biden administration.

Thank Trump's 40% tariff on Brazilian coffee for the outrageous price you’re paying for your morning brew. TRUMP’S TARIFFS = A SALES TAX ON AMERICANS.