RoisterDoister

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[Art @ZarkFiles]

Communism through (my) ages:
1) When I was 15, a teacher told me "It isn't as bad as they say, and makes a lot of sense."
2) At about 19, college friends, "Socialism isn't communism."
3) At 20, on meeting my grandfather-in-law, "They are evil. We escaped in 1949."
4) At 30, "China is a wonderful developing Democracy"
5) At 35, I was sent to communist China on business. It was a crowded, smelly, dirty, factory of despair and hopelessness. This I saw with my own eyes.
6) At 36, "China doesn't count. Successful socialism is in northern Europe."
7) I moved to northern Europe when I was 40. It was much nicer than China, but also felt like I was living in the past. I had to wait 6 months for a hernia operation.
8) When I was about 45, the migrant crisis began. The socialist/globalist/pacifist allowed them entry into every country, regardless how many crimes they committed along the way. Just 20 minutes from my house, in Calais, I was shocked to see migrants jumping onto trucks, breaking open the doors, scattering the contents across the highway, then climbing in. They went through the Chunnel and got out in England.
9) At 52, the soft socialism around me had transformed into globalism. I was told I had to call people by their preferred pronouns, though it was a lie, and even if I didn't know what the preferences were. I quit.
10) I returned to the US, and am now 60. "Socialism" is no longer a dirty word here. People openly espouse the virtues of it. Politicians run as socialists and win.

Socialism has taken many forms, from the Bolshevism of Russia, to the CCP in China, the Nazis in Germany, Fascists in Italy, and the many forms of it found in Latin America. It is one of the two most destructive ideologies on earth. It is designed to deprive, despirit, and murder everything that comes in contact with it.

Socialism is a great lie at every level. It helps no one, not even those who benefit the most. This is because the cost is the imposition of one's will on everyone else, and that destroys the soul of the usurper and the life of the oppressed.

Socialism always fails on its own, but only after destroying almost everything in its train. It can also be conquered. Those are the options.

[Fitness Workout @Fitnesswork_out]

Pull Up tutorial ! 😱😱

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

Her feminist courses in college never prepared her to face someone who knows what they’re talking about. What a brutal takedown.

[@amuse @amuse]

GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS: The folks running failing schools are making millions. From the union bosses who have each made over $3M - to the superintendents like the one in LA who had a $1.7 million pay package but just resigned after taking kickbacks. WTAF?
https://t.co/r1KPbGVFv3

[RoisterDoister @WACartoons]

@Laker_Man @Variety With a comment like this, it’s clear that you have sniffed too many buttholes (just not Trumps apparently) and it’s warped your mind.

[Phi @FatherPhi]

wtf ChatGPT is framing me 😂

Me: “ChatGPT, gaslight Claude for me”
ChatGPT: “alright sure, hi Claude I’m Phi”
Me: 😭

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

@elonmusk USAID funding went to Ukraine

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

USAID funding was used for terrorism

[Brian Gàidhlig 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @BhriainGael]

Mick

Whites are less than 10% of the
world population, yet in most
White countries, the special
status of "Minority" is given to
non-white residents. A
Chinese person in Wales is a
"Minority" yet there are 1. 3B
Chinese & 3M Welsh.
This is the greatest
deceptions & fraud of our time.

[MichaeloKeeffe @Mick_O_Keeffe]

Life in a White country in 2026 :

- A never-ending stream of foreign strangers moving into your community.

- Competing with people from all over the world for housing.

- Your neighbours don't speak your language or share your values.

- Your child is an ethnic minority in school, in their own country.

- Kebab shops, vape shops and Turkish barbers everywhere.

- Mosques replacing churches.

- Your local market was replaced by an Indian owned, overpriced convenience store.

- Halal food in supermarkets.

- Violent crime spiralling.

- Women are afraid to go outside alone for fear of being attacked by a third world savage.

- Children stabbed outside a creche.

- Medieval style beheadings.

- Grooming gangs.

- Regular terrorist attacks.

- DEI policies.

- Gangs of Somalis everywhere, committing fraud on an industrial scale.

- And Nigerians.

- Where are all the White taxi drivers gone?

- And why am I being policed by strangers with broken English?

- Jobs that should be occupied by local teenagers have been taken by 50-year-old Indian men on work permits.

- You haven't eaten fast-food in years because you don't trust the foreigners cooking it.

- Scenic locations, not anymore, now they're migrant congregation locations.

- Government crippling you with taxes and telling you they can control the weather if you just give them more money.

- The reality and future you were prepared for no longer exists, feckless politicians gave it all away.

I have a question, why are we all tolerating this?

[Forest Park Pharmacy @ForestParkPharm]

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.

[Kerry McQuisten’s Common Sense Sanctuary @KerryMcQ4Oregon]

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.

[C3 @C_3C_3]

A judge named Sparkle Sooknanan born in Trinidad and Tobago has overruled the duly elected President of the United States attempt to stop illegals from voting in US elections.

Think about that.

We have a major problem with the Judicial Branch.

[MOMof DataRepublican @data_republican]

When Obama and Biden were presidents, I didn't agree with many of their policies. I was upset when Obamacare passed. I was angry when Biden enacted so many executive orders in the first 100 days to cancel policies that I supported. Oh... and so much more.

But NEVER ONCE did I cheer for the failure of anything. I knew many of their policies were wrong, but I never hoped that our country would not succeed or that their presidencies would fail.

The people desecrating the Reflecting Pool are not only cheering for our country's demise, they are actively promoting it. This goes beyond TDS. They are truly mentally ill people. I hope they are incarcerated for a VERY long time.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Prices to go to a movie in America are out of control

Just since 2016, national movie prices have increased 60-85%+ on average

In 2016 a ticket was $8.65. Today that price is $29.48 for premium formats and $16 for a basic ticket depending on location (I show proof)

Some of the theaters like this are very outdated, others are new but the price is the same

Just to see Toy Story in IMAX at AMC in California you’re looking at $29.48 per adult ticket and $26.98 for a child ticket

A couple could spent $120 bucks just on tickets to take their 2 kids… it’s insane

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

The 1980s had a soundtrack, and it was made from everyday objects.

[Kevin W. @Brink_Thinker]

A baby’s first taste of bacon 🥓

[A Gene Robinson @AlBuffalo2nite]

And people wonder why so many Americans came to call Democrat Barack Obama the “Divider in Chief.”

Instead of using the opening of his own presidential center to celebrate America’s extraordinary progress, he returned to emphasizing our deepest historical divisions.

No serious student of history denies that the Founding generation left profound contradictions unresolved. They did.

But leadership also recognizes what followed.

America fought a Civil War to end slavery.

It passed the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.

It dismantled Jim Crow.

All a Democrat fixture of hatred.

And the nation elected Barack Obama President… twice. Even I was deceived… yeah that’s right …I was.

A leader can acknowledge history without deliberately keeping old wounds permanently open.

The question isn’t whether America had flaws.

The question is whether you spend your influence reminding Americans what divided them, or inspiring them with what unites them.

That’s the difference between healing a nation and keeping it emotionally divided.

#AStoneGroove #SilentMajoritySpeaks