Thucydides Nuts

@CynicalPublius If “Military Brat” is a thing then “Intelligence Service Brat” should also be one as well…

RE: Tucker My theory on Tucker is that for years on the major networks he had producers who protected him against his own worst instincts. Then when he went out on his own he was able to fully indulge those instincts, wallowing in them, and he's turned into a white male Candace Owens as a result. The insane laugh should have tipped us off a long time ago, sadly.

@CatholicCo200 @Warbucksonhood @izthisJudah I don’t know about attempted murder, but “mental assault with a deadly weapon” sounds about right…

@RudyTerrada @Warbucksonhood @izthisJudah Seriously, am I crazy, or should it be attempted murder if you pull out a loaded gun and point it in someone's face in an unlawful manner?

A Black woman harasses and pulls out a gun on a White dad and his 14-year-old son. Dad fights back, disarms her, and knocks the violent thug out cold.

@vickAlmondo @GumyGumSage @Warbucksonhood @izthisJudah As no one fact checked the original claim, I didn’t. Here’s another tale, it’s about Vick the Prick & his High Horse…

@GumyGumSage @RudyTerrada @Warbucksonhood @izthisJudah Okay Gumygumsage

@CynicalPublius So then they’ll be losing a) the revenue Scottish whisky and maybe even b) Scotland itself as Westminster hurting the Scottish whisky industry through it’s own stupidity will no doubt fuel another drive for Scottish independence…

Apparently the British government is contemplating banning the harvesting of peat because digging it up releases carbon and the fascists running things in the UK have a goal of being "net zero carbon emissions" by 2050. Which will result in the destruction of the Scotch whisky industry. The horror.

My wife and I own Forest Park Pharmacy, and we don't accept insurance. None of it. That decision is exactly why we could fix what happened to a patient today. A family came in wanting to transfer their kid's antibiotic to us. The child had already STARTED the course. Then, mid-treatment, the insurance company decided the last 14 tablets suddenly needed a "prior authorization" before the other pharmacy could hand them over. A sick kid, halfway through an antibiotic, and the answer was "please hold." The drug is linezolid. It's a generic. It's been generic for over a decade. It treats serious gram-positive infections — the kind you do NOT want to stop antibiotics in the middle of, because an interrupted course is how you breed resistant bugs and end up right back where you started. So why the hold-up on a cheap, common generic? Follow the fake math. Insurance and the PBMs behind them price drugs off a number called AWP — "Average Wholesale Price." People in my industry have another name for it: "Ain't What's Paid." It's a benchmark number, not a real-world cost. On paper, the AWP for just those last 14 tablets is about $2,500. My cash price for the same 14 tablets? $18. Read that again. The system that's supposedly "protecting" this family from cost is the same system that inflated an $18 medication into a $2,500 line item, then slapped a prior auth on it to "review the expense" THEY invented. They manufactured the problem, then billed everyone for the privilege of solving it — and made a sick kid wait while they did it. This is the whole game. When a drug is priced honestly, there's nothing to "manage." When it's priced off a fantasy benchmark, you get spread pricing, PA paperwork, pharmacy phone trees, and delayed treatment — all dressed up as cost control. Here's the part nobody tells you: roughly 90% of prescriptions are low-cost generics. For the vast majority of what people pick up every day, running it through insurance does two things — raises the real cost and risks delaying your care. That's it. That's the value-add. That's why we fired the insurance companies. No middleman deciding your kid can't finish their antibiotics on schedule. No fake prices. Just the real number, on the shelf, today. The medication was always cheap. The insurance was the expensive part.

Let’s talk reflecting pool. Warren G. Harding built it on swampland and the structure beneath it would have been fine - if it had been built on stable ground. The whole thing started sinking slowly. Presidents all the way up through Carter kept trying to prop it up with little cement pours, and regularly draining and cleaning it. Algae was a problem even then because there was no real circulation system. No pumps. No filters. Reagan added some more concrete, realizing the entire pool was now 12 or 13 inches lower than it should be. It had sunk over a foot and pulled loose from its structure. Clinton publicly acknowledged that the entire pool needed demolished and rebuilt, and that it would take hundreds of millions of dollars to do it right. The Bushes just kept trying to plug leaks and clean it. Every time they had to drain and scrub the thing, it cost around $100,000 to do so. George W. Bush actually had plans drawn up to rebuild it.  Obama decided to revise and execute the Bush renovation, which was needed, but it was flawed, and he spent tens of millions of dollars on it. He raised the pool up with a timber under-structure so the water ended up being even shallower, which means that’s the point at which the water started getting warmer. He also turned off the chlorinated city water supply into the pool and began pumping water in from the tidal basin - that’s the somewhat stagnant water that comes in from the Potomac River and surrounds the Jefferson Memorial. There was algae before, but with those changes came even more algae. Obama‘s reasoning was that the basin water would be cheaper instead of using the city water supply. He had the pool tiles removed from the bottom and another layer gray cement put in place along with gray-tinted reflective paint, which gradually faded away. By the time Trump’s first term came around, the cleaning had to be done every three or four months, some of the Obama structural repairs were failing, and the leaks were rampant again. By the time Biden got into office, Obama’s reflecting pool fixes were cracked and the pool was leaking hundreds of thousands (probably millions) of gallons of water. Biden opted to clean the pool, but performed little maintenance, and did no substantial refurbishment. Trump’s fix was to try something that the other presidents hadn’t. Whereas Obama had used a gray reflective paint and cement, Trump tried a combination sealant liner - it isn’t paint. Those sealants are similarly light-reflective to what Obama used. Trump switched up to blue from the dark gray. He added nanobubblers. When we walked around it the other day, there was only a small patch on the middle of the left side that may have been coming up. It was too windy and stormy to see why. It was not as if the sealant was coming up all over the pool and floating to the top because it wasn’t. We did see the algae cleaning going on and the crews, you could tell, were tired of being harassed for doing their jobs.  Vandals have damaged the grass, they’ve cut into the liner in other places and the knife lines are clear in the videos. We did see the National Guard soldiers coming in. We also saw them placed around the America 250 construction area and in between the museums. Five vandals have been arrested since we walked through. It’s unbelievable to me that they want to destroy something we could all enjoy out of hatred for a president whose policies they don’t even understand.  And the mainstream media is reprehensible. They aren’t reporting. They’re spinning propaganda as usual.

@klara_sjo Should’ve ordered pizza… 🤷🏻‍♂️

You can really tell when a meal is cooked with love vs cooked with hate. I cooked some rice beans and sausage for the umpteenth time while angrily bitching to myself about stupid bullshit, and lo and behold, the food is almost bland and over seasoned. It's still edible, but something is missing. What it's missing is love. This got cooked with hate and anger. Never cook with hate and anger.

@Valiant_Muslim People, jets don’t f’n have propellers… 🤦🏻‍♂️

Truck vs Fighter Jet the veteran drove the truck straight into the sea

@Trad_West_Art @klara_sjo Now that you mentioned it, hadn’t noticed there was audio. Thanks for bringing it up…🤮

@klara_sjo I cant cope with that femslop music

Your born again virgins, sir

@EthnikosLao @izthisJudah The post where I first saw this clip last year alleged the lady died. Obviously not true since she was later charged… 🤷🏻‍♂️

@RudyTerrada @izthisJudah I doubt she died. We would've heard about it. Definitely cracked her skull though. You can hear it.

@klara_sjo Goastse, the flag…

These pride flags are getting out of hand.

@CynicalPublius Is it me or does Andy Burnham give off a game show host vibe? I could totally see the guy hosting Match Game, Hollywood Squares, or Let’s Make A Deal… 🤷🏻‍♂️

@PolitlcsUK Is "Karen" a popular British name?

🚨 PICTURED: Andy Burnham takes a selfie with Labour MPs

@elonmusk, you really need to find a way to allow a post to be edited/corrected by the poster. I made a post based on information I had seen on another X post about Christolyn Mormon and her road rage incident and in spite of the fact I added information correcting my original post further on in the thread, I’m still dealing with people correcting me. As someone who actually pays for X, I should at least be easily able to edit my original post. I mean if Facebook allows me to do that and I not paying Meta… 🤷🏻‍♂️

@god_biker @izthisJudah If you had continued to read the thread before commenting, I corrected myself. The post in which I first heard of this incident claimed she had died and tried to blame the guy… 🤷🏻‍♂️

@RudyTerrada @izthisJudah She did not. It happened in the city I live.

@klara_sjo Lucky for him they only captured him and didn’t smoke him…

Australian soldiers pose with a captured Turkish sniper disguised as a cannabis bush. Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey, 1916

@Warbucksonhood @izthisJudah I stand corrected, the post I saw last year claimed she died. Upon further research Christolyn Momon was just knocked out… atlantanewsfirst.com/2025/09/19/bon…

@RudyTerrada @izthisJudah is that true

@BowTiedMara Zurdo típico. And a former guerilla to boot. (insert Milei quote about negotiating with the Left here…) 🤷🏻‍♂️

@RudyTerrada Petro is such a clown

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@willchamberlain 🎶 I don’t care what they say, it’ll always be Turkey to me… 🤷🏻‍♂️

Perhapse Turkiye shoulde have triede scoringe more goalse instead ofe trying to controle howe we spelle theire name