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@WallStreetMav The UN has always been a bad deal for the US. It gives every piss pot nation a chance to stand up and blame the US of being the worst country, while the US hosts it, pays for much of it and diplomats use it so they can live/party in NYC with diplomatic immunity.

The United Nations is on the verge of financial collapse. The Trump administration is demanding reforms and spending cuts. The UN leaders refuse to make any changes. They are demanding that the USA pay the UN without any reforms being enacted. Should Trump let the UN collapse?

@MatrixMysteries People have to read contracts: insurance, credit cards, mortgages, car loans, student loans, etc.. or they will end up screwing themselves. She underinsured herself and paid lower premiums for years. Now she loses that bet and cries about it. Her fault, not the insurance co.

A woman loses her home in a fire. She asks insurance to rebuild the SAME home—no upgrades, no expansion. Insurance says NO. Her policy only covers what the house USED to cost. After years of paying premiums, she finds out the “coverage” disappears when she actually needs it.

Tres comunistas entran en un bar: uno pide un cóctel mixto de $15, otro un Martini de $10, y el tercero un cerveza de $6. Cuando llega la cuenta, basados en su mantra, se ven obligados a dividirla equitativamente. La semana siguiente, los tres regresan al bar una vez más, pero esta vez piden cuentas separadas, por lo que el barman les pregunta por qué no están dividiendo la cuenta equitativamente, ya que en el comunismo, todos pagan la misma parte justa. Los tres comunistas acceden de mala gana, y una vez más dividen la cuenta en tres partes iguales. La semana siguiente, los tres comunistas regresan, pero con una turba de devotos seguidores, y protestan contra el barman para que cambie los precios de todas sus bebidas al precio de la bebida más barata del menú. Por miedo a que su negocio sea vandalizado o quemado, el barman accede. Así que la semana siguiente, todos los comunistas entran y disfrutan de sus bebidas a $6 con precios igualados, y celebran los éxitos del comunismo. Los comunistas continúan con esto durante varias semanas más, hasta que un viernes regresan al bar y lo encuentran cerrado, con un cartel afuera que dice que el bar ha cerrado por quiebra. Y eso, camaradas, es como funciona el comunismo.

When you don't have logical arguments, try yelling.

@TheGeneral_0 When quiet logic doesn't work, try yelling.

Why does Randy Weingarten, the President of the Teachers Union act and sound like a deranged lunatic?

@rawsalerts Somebody posted an indication that the rate of descent was unusually high. Pilot or wind problem? Altimeter? Time will tell.

🚨#BREAKING: Watch as dashcam video shows a United Airlines flight clipping a light pole during landing before striking a bakery truck on the ground, leaving the truck driver hospitalized. 📌#Newark | #NewJersey Watch as dashcam footage from a bakery truck captures the moment United Airlines Flight 169, a Boeing 767-424ER arriving from Venice, clips a light pole during its final approach into Newark Liberty International Airport before striking the truck on the ground. The impact occurs in the final seconds before touchdown, with the light pole visibly bending toward the runway after the aircraft passes overhead. At the time, winds were gusting above 35 mph, creating challenging headwind conditions that may have contributed to the close clearance. Despite the incident, the aircraft carrying 231 people on board landed safely with no reported injuries and taxied to the gate under its own power. The truck driver was hospitalized with small cuts. Authorities are expected to review the incident. The FAA is investigating

Yep. Nailed It!!

@CollinRugg Saturday a passenger on a UA flight into Newark attacked a flight attendant and tried to open the cabin door. Not a good weekend for UA at EWR.

JUST IN: Baltimore bakery truck struck by a United Airlines plane coming in for a landing at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey. According to local reports, the plane was a United Airlines Boeing 767-400. Senior vice president of Transportation & Logistics at H&S Bakery, Chuck Paterakis, says the driver was headed from Baltimore to New Jersey when he was hit. The driver suffered minor injuries, according to Fox Baltimore. "Our maintenance team is evaluating damage to the aircraft and we will investigate how this occurred," a United spokesperson said.

@markeas08323906 @crampell Never had that happen to me. That happen often?

@ancap24 @crampell some places want an ID to verify the credit card your using

A friend asks: “Has it occurred to anyone that the MAGAs think you have to show IDs at restaurants because they’ve been eating all their meals at strip clubs? This isn’t even an unreasonable theory”

Politicians should be subjected to the outcomes of their policies. Here the Chicago mayor is protected by regular Chicago PD officers. His protection detail should be 100% the DEI hires he wanted. Feminist pols who say that women are the equal of men, should only have females for protection. Of course, trans advocates should get tranny protection.

@NorthernerY @catholicbob Oh, I'm wrong a lot. I'm married, so I hear that several times a day. But, I do need something more than a cliche to convince me I'm wrong.

I’m warming to the idea of some kind of relief for student loans. Growing up Gen X, we were told a college degree is the ticket to a professional career. We weren’t told it had to be in a STEM field, any degree would do. Also, college was affordable. A semester of college at the University of Maryland in the early 80s was about $800 for a full course load. Sometime later things changed. Now college costs a lot more and is no longer the ticket to a professional career, but we never stopped telling kids to go to college. Now kids are massively in debt, unable to find work commensurate with what they need to not only service their debt, but also do the things we need them to do, like buying homes and starting families, so that we can enjoy our later years. If we don’t do something, the system is going to crash, and it’s not going to be pretty. What happens when “boomer hate” moves off social media into the streets?

@SharylAttkisson I'd be happy if they just stopped delivering my mail to other people (and vice versa).

(POLL) 91% say they should be able to opt out of junk mail in their USPS mailbox

@alexthechick @crampell Hey, you want to call me something worse, like asshole, go right ahead. From an obnoxious twit like you, I'll take it as a complement. BTW, that's not how humans communicate beyond the 3rd grade. Words matter. If you can't use them correctly, best to keep your mouth shut.

@ancap24 @crampell So, you are just pretending that you do not know how human beings communicate to try to make yourself look oh so good? Because, it's not working. All it's doing is proving that you are being unintentionally dense. And I am being kind by thinking it is unintentional.

@TheCalvinCooli1 Certainly who becomes the next Pres is more important than whether there is a Peter Buttigieg in the world or not. So, if he believes in unlimited popular democracy, let's vote on whether he should exist or not. 50% plus 1 vote against and it's goodbye Pete.

🚨New: Pete Buttigieg is calling for electing the president by the Popular Vote instead of using the Electoral College “What if we selected our president by letting the person who got the most votes take office, instead of the Electoral College?”

@SkyleDye @kenoath58 @Handre Seems some uncertainty about who said it, so I went with 'who knows'.

@kenoath58 @ancap24 @Handre Nah, I think it was Samuel Clemens….

Walter Duranty won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for systematically lying about the Ukrainian famine while 7 million people starved to death under Stalin's forced collectivization. The New York Times correspondent knew exactly what he was doing when he filed reports describing "shortages" and "food difficulties" instead of the mass starvation unfolding before his eyes. Duranty's articles praised Soviet agricultural policy even as entire villages disappeared. He wrote glowing accounts of collective farms while peasants ate bark and grass. When other journalists reported the truth about the Holodomor, Duranty dismissed their accounts as "malignant propaganda" and assured American readers that Stalin's five-year plan was working brilliantly. The Times promoted his coverage on the front page throughout 1932. Duranty lived in Moscow, traveled through Ukraine, and witnessed the consequences of central planning firsthand. He chose to cover for Stalin because he believed the Soviet experiment represented humanity's future. Like many Western intellectuals of his era, he convinced himself that millions of deaths were acceptable collateral damage for building socialism. The Pulitzer committee rewarded him for this moral bankruptcy. The Holodomor perfectly illustrates what happens when states control food production and distribution. Stalin confiscated grain to feed cities and export abroad while rural Ukraine descended into cannibalism. Free market economists had predicted exactly this outcome when central planners replaced price signals with bureaucratic decree. The Times has never recinded Duranty's Pulitzer Prize.

@alexthechick @crampell Of course I know that. But, if an adult says restaurant and doesn't mention alcohol, I have to assume he is a piss poor communicator. And he's a pol?

@ancap24 @crampell Any restaurant that serves alcohol will ask for ID unless the person ordering is obviously over 21 and even then corporate policy is to ask always. But you know that, don't you?

La paradoja del Socialismo. — El Socialismo necesita que existan los pobres. — Prometen ayudarlos. — Pero si realmente los ayudan, dejarían de ser pobres. — Y sin pobres, no se necesita Socialismo.