Throughout the ‘80s, I reported for the WSJ from the dying USSR and its satellites and cronies in Eastern Europe and Latin America. All the govt-run stores were a pathetic joke. People would line up not knowing what they were in line for because they needed everything. And when they got the stale food, or horribly made stuff with their ration cards they rightfully complained about how awful it all was.
The worst were the hospitals, which besides the stores and schools, I always made a point of sneaking into and reporting on without a “minder.” They were so sad. In the poorest countries (Romania or Nicaragua) there were 2 to a bed. In Cuba, doctors asked me if I had dental floss, because they ran out of suture material.
It was the same in EVERY Marxist country. When the govt runs everything, nothing is good for anyone…with the exception of the 1% ruling class.
That’s the reality of socialist economies. There’s no middle class. Only a tiny ruling class and everyone else, who live like shit. It’s not a joke. It happens to every country in which it’s imposed, no matter the culture, the race, or the history. That’s the future that the useful idiots supporting Mamdani and other Marxists face. I’ve seen it once, and I hope I don’t live to see it in my lifetime in my own wonderful country.
@timburchett@BernieSanders Think of the opportunity - you could setup a non-profit, get millions from an NGO that gets millions more from grants from US government bureaucracy all to help folks fill out the online forms to obtain copies of birth certificates. Just think of it.
JUST IN: Team USA women's curling advances to semifinals after an insane shot from Tabitha Peterson.
Peterson was seen using the hammer (last shot) to curl a shot around three Swiss stones before it rested just a hair closer to the button.
Insane.
🚨 Senator Fetterman plans to attend the State of the Union and hopes his fellow Democrats "don't put up those silly paddles and all those kinds of weird protests."
"Last year, it made us look like children."
"Have some dignity... we can agree or disagree and not call people names or... behave in such ways..."
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NEW: Don Lemon tries lecturing a pastor on the First Amendment after a mob of far leftists stormed a church in Minneapolis.
Pastor: “This is unacceptable. It's shameful to interrupt a public gathering of Christians in worship…”
Lemon: “Listen, there's a constitution, the First Amendment to freedom of speech and freedom to assemble and protest.”
Pastor: “We're here to worship Jesus because the hope of the world is Jesus Christ…”
Lemon: “But did you try to talk to them?”
Pastor: “No one is willing to talk. I have to take care of my church and my family so I ask that you would also leave this building.”
Imagine storming a church mid worship and thinking you are the good guys.