Tom Boss

@The_FJC To whitewash this self enrichment is a great achievement! And: The IRS isn’t allowed to check the taxes of the tax cheat and his family as well.

Trump turned down a $10 billion dollar settlement from the IRS for illegally leaking his tax returns. Instead of accepting the money, he chose to defer and have the US government create a fund of $1.776 billion for those who suffered as he did. The claim was made under valid US laws. Any other president like Obama or Biden would have taken the money and run. Trump not only put America First, he put AMERICANS first, over himself.

@sergeian @Filopator81 @Wandregisel98 @DickJanssen7 I have only 280 letters. The Russian speaking minority in the East didn’t have bigger problems until 2014. And we have mainly to know that Ukrainian borders are internationally recognized. And if a part of a country wanted to be separated, there’s a process in Europe. War isn’t.

@ToBo_CH @Filopator81 @Wandregisel98 @DickJanssen7 You don't know the history of that region well. Due to its geography, they fell under the influence of neighboring powers. At times, their elites would shift their allegiances practically several times a day. The ground was prepared, all that remained was to deepen and direct.

If Europe joins Russia in the escalation spiral and does not convince Ukraine to make territorial and political concessions, then all current complaints about Russia's violence will appear like peanuts compared to what lies ahead. Concessions are justified not by Russia’s aggression, but are made inevitable by the strategic blunders of the EU, NATO, and Ukraine in transferring this deeply divided nation from a neutral position into the Western camp at the expense of economically beneficial relations with Russia. This transfer goes against the interests of average European citizens and only serves the hubris of European political elites — which explains the internal divisions within Europe and, consequently, its diplomatic paralysis.

@MichaelAArouet Why don’t you ask India? Asia is the main client of the Gulf states. India is nearby.

Can someone please explain why Europe does nothing to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz? It has much more to lose than the US. But hey, who needs oil, jet fuel, and gas for next winter, right?

@sergeian @Filopator81 @Wandregisel98 @DickJanssen7 We have polls and elections. Of course the US always meddles somewhat. But there’s a big majority for stronger connections with Europe. The separatist „movement“ started after the Krim invasion by „green men“. It’s an obvious covert operation.

@ToBo_CH @Filopator81 @Wandregisel98 @DickJanssen7 How do you know that the separatist movement was fake but the revolutionary movement was real?

@sergeian @Filopator81 @Wandregisel98 @DickJanssen7 Organizing a (mostly) fake separatist movement and doing terrorism isn’t stabilizing but division.

@ToBo_CH @Filopator81 @Wandregisel98 @DickJanssen7 Even if we take that on faith, how does it refute what I said?

@eugyppius1 For stores to open even longer, while not having more revenue, is only adding cost.

Not a hill worth dying on, but whenever you criticise mandated Sunday closures you get a few retorts that are especially flimsy: 1. "Just plan around it bro." Thank you for this profound insight. Most people already plan their shopping, the issue with mandated closures is that more things must compete in one's planning for fewer time slots and with more people doing the same things at the same time in those fewer time slots. It's a cost. 2. "I like taking walks on Sunday tho bro." That's great, you might discover you can also take walks on Sunday even if the supermarkets are open. Rhetoric about a common rest day sounds good but the truth is that millions of Germans already work on Sundays. We've chosen one specific high-impact sector to close, then we added a bunch of exceptions (train station retail, apothecaries, bakeries, restaurants, cafes, etc.), and now we have to pretend like there's a principle, when in fact this debate is entirely about details. 3. "But consumerism sucks bro": Great, let's really put the knife into consumerism and force everybody to close on Saturday too. The truth is it's fun to say things like this but forcing retail to close on Sunday has real documented costs, a lot of squishy subjective benefits, and everywhere these laws have been liberalised there is no demand to go back.

@ConciousLabRat As the Ukrainian government warned in advance, most people went to shelters. Of course, Russia could find some legitimate targets (as Ukraine does). But bombarding Kiev‘s Sewage treatment plant to get an environmental disaster and possibly epidemics isn’t a legitimate target.

Hold on, Russia launched 90 missiles at Kiev and only two people died? I thought Russia was targeting civilians. Are they saying they need 45 missiles per person?

@daveg Modern homes following the Minergie™ standard can easily heated and cooled with centralized heatpumps and floor heating/cooling.

@daveg Or simpler. As it was a need for 3 weeks, we didn’t see it worthwhile to get AC. With climate change accelerating, more people think about it or getting it. As many Swiss (or German) homes central heating aren’t suited for AC, it would be a very slow process.

The Swiss grid is almost completely carbon free, yet it is largely illegal to install air conditioning in a house in Geneva, without a doctor's note and heat pumps have the a/c mode disabled and fines issued if used. A mean spirited degrowth mindset that transcends class and hides behind an environmental narrative even when it has nothing to do with the environment, like here. This is emblematic of a pathological hatred of the future and progress, that is a threat to Europe.

@redl3tters @Liathetrader With climate change, your wish will come through. As the duration of heat waves get longer, I‘m thinking as well about AC, when it’s hot. But 11 months of the year I don’t think of it. And now, as thousands of Americans write about it.

@Liathetrader I will not rest until every European has industrial grade air conditioning constantly blasting them in the face and loving every second

One of my business school friends comes from a wealthy Swiss banking family and lives in the ritzy part of Geneva where the average house is in the tens-of-millions range. When I visit, I stay in his guest room and sweat profusely at night because, for all their wealth, these bozos can’t understand the unmatched pleasure that is a nice, cool room to sleep in at night. Bunch of uncultured rubes.

@redl3tters This guy for sure visited the US and many hotels in the world and decided to not want AC. That’s hard for you to understand. The American idea of living in a fridge is as strange to us as him to you.

@basilaev_oloxoy Of course that’s bullshit. The living standards from 1960-1980 in western Europe & the USA were far higher. Heck, the living standards in Eastern Germany was higher than in the USSR. The development of the USSR from 1910-1970 was still impressive.

Советская элита жила гораздо хуже элиты США это факт Но простые рабочие и крестьяне в СССР жили лучше всех в мире

@Parkidem_Sofia You write so well, you can’t be this ignorant. By starting an illegal attack war and killing civilians since 2014, Russia can’t be surprised and appalled that Ukraine is defending itself and strikes back. Ukraine damages mostly military & industrial targets. Russia could retreat.

Our children are not fake. Their lives are not fake. I'm a mother of four children, I have three daughters. As a woman, as a mother, it's unbearable for me to see teenage girls who were killed in their sleep. And I don't understand how women representing European countries in the UN call the dead bodies of girls killed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Starobilsk a "fake". How warped must a woman's consciousness be to turn a blind eye to the war against children? This is a degeneration of the feminine principle. Even Russian media outlets opposed to the Russian government are reporting that the Armed Forces of Ukraine did indeed strike the college. There was no Rubicon nearby. Journalists, Russian journalists who have left and are working for foreign publications, you may hate the authorities, your colleagues who have chosen a different side, but these are your children by blood, Russian children. Girls. If you stay silent and write lies that nothing happened and it's a "fake", then tomorrow they will kill the children of your friends, your relatives, your children. We need to convey the truth through all possible means. Our Human Rights Ombudsman, Yana Lantratova, is already writing in English specifically so that at least someone might show conscience and convey the truth, which the West is shying away from, because admitting the truth means admitting that they are sponsoring a regime that kills children. After all, not only these children died. In Lisichansk, a 17-year-old girl, a student of Dal' National University, was killed by a drone in two days. The Belgorod and Kursk regions are drenched in the blood of civilians. The strikes by French missiles on a children's playground - that's not a "fake" either. There's a deliberate genocide of the Russian population going on. And it's no longer hidden. It's time for Russians to wake up. If you're a journalist - write the truth, if you just live abroad - don't grovel, defend your spirit and Russia, if you're doing business - don't put money above your homeland. All Russian people should unite and the authorities don't even matter here - unite for the country. Our civilization is at stake. t.me/lantratovaDOBR…

@thereds8 It’s completely on Russia to retreat to the internationally recognized borders. In Europe, wars are forbidden. You don’t compromise with a criminal.

Do you notice how Carney, Anita Anand, and the EU clowns never talk about achieving peace with Russia? It’s because they don’t want it.

@sergeian @Filopator81 @Wandregisel98 @DickJanssen7 Since 2014, Russia attacked Ukraine with covert operations. Remember the funny uniforms of Russians invading the Krim. „Independence fighters“. The same in the Donbass.

@Filopator81 @ToBo_CH @Wandregisel98 @DickJanssen7 Yes, Ukraine is very different - Russia came to stabilise while the western alliance came there to destabilise

@ASkrobar @KoanEggie Mercedes & BMW bauen für die Klientel die ihre Karren noch kauft.

@KoanEggie Währenddessen bauen Chinesen Autos mit Ambiente, schlicht und elegant, wogegen der Mercedes so billig aussieht wie ein thailändischer Puff.

Solange deutsche Autobauer Autos für den Deutschen Markt und die Autobahn bauten, waren sie weltweit auf Erfolgskurs. Dann meinten sie, der chinesische Kunde sei wichtiger, und bemerkten nicht, dass sie weder Chinesen sind noch irgendeine Ahnung vom chin Markt haben. Deutsche

@wieglutz94318 @Adme777Jan @AlexWallasch @RKiesewetter Russland hat den Krieg 2014 gestartet. Neben den vielen Kriegen, die Russland seit 1991 führte. Sie sollten denken statt Propaganda wiederholen.

@ToBo_CH @Adme777Jan @AlexWallasch @RKiesewetter Mussten diese das durch einer Krieg bewirken? Erst Hirn einschalten, danach das Internet. Russland hatte sich parallel auch gut entwickelt.

Hier der endgültige Beweis: @RKiesewetter ist charakterlich ein wirklich übler Mensch. Was für eine miese Diffamierungstaktik hier in der zweiten Hälfte des Videos. Kiesewetter ist eine wirklich schlimme Gefahr für Deutschland. Er muss dieses Land und seine Menschen wirklich hassen. Warum?

@Wandregisel98 @DickJanssen7 @Filopator81 As Russia feels. Financing & supporting Ukraine with its industry helps. And Europe doesn’t attack other countries. As long as Russia doesn’t attack an EU or NATO country, Europe doesn’t strike back militarily.

@ToBo_CH @DickJanssen7 @Filopator81 Europe is full of cowards, they talk but don't do anything

@Wandregisel98 @DickJanssen7 @Filopator81 It is. That’s why Europe supports Ukraine and manages Russia during Russia’s suicide mission.

@ToBo_CH @DickJanssen7 @Filopator81 Damn bro, who knew the solution was to just make war illegal

@DonJournalie @EberleSebastian Wenn die USA Kanada überfällt oder Deutschland Österreich, ist es ein illegaler Angriffskrieg. Welche Sprache die Bürger eines Landes sprechen ist irrelevant. Bei der Volkszählung 2001 nach Ethnie waren 77.8% Ukrainer, 17.3% Russen.

@EberleSebastian Russland ist keine fremde Macht. Die meisten Ukrainer sprechen Russisch im Alltag. Es ist ein Bruderkampf.

Es ist bemerkenswert, wie viel Hass und Verachtung die Ukraine hier von Menschen erfährt, die sich in ihren Profilen selbst als „Patrioten“ (🇩🇪 💙) bezeichnen. Nur weil die Ukrainer es wagen, ihr Vaterland zu verteidigen und sich weigern, sich einer fremden Macht zu unterwerfen.