I’ve watched people walk out of the UN all week and I keep thinking the same thing: then what the hell is the point of the United Nations?
You don’t have to agree. You don’t have to like what’s being said. But if countries can’t even sit in the same damn room and listen to each other, what exactly are we paying for?
I’m tired of watching our tax dollars disappear into institutions that seem increasingly incapable of doing the very thing they were created to do.
Wars everywhere. Countries refusing to listen to each other. Delegates walking out when they don’t like the speaker.
And we call this the UNITED Nations?
At some point you stop fixing something that clearly isn’t working.
Dismantle it. Keep whatever actually serves a purpose and build something better.
Because whatever the hell this is, it isn’t “united.”
#ENDtheUN
@BuzzPatterson My husband is 82 and he has those dreams, plus his IBM badge won’t open the door, plus he was a university professor and he can’t find his lectures or the building or the classroom, etc.
@DaManRich1738@FreddyLA7 We like Freddy. He’s positive and uplifting. Besides “special treatment” is not zero sum. There’s plenty more of it to go around.
When I was growing up in Charleston, SC, as a young Air Force pilot, I lived downtown and walked to the Market frequently to drink beers and chat up College of Charleston girls.
These were the same years that Darius and Hootie & The Blowfish were just starting out. They played in bars for a minimal cover, and I’d walked over to listen.
I’ve been a fan ever since. Darius is a good man and a great American! I love this song.
Please share.❤️🇺🇸
@CheerfulHarried@tanpukunokami I was just going to post that my grandmother (only 5 years older than your grandfather) peeled apples that way too. She often used a pocket knife and her peeling was VERY thin. No waste! I miss her.
Consider the story of a legal immigrant who did everything the hard way.
He came to America twenty years ago. He worked sixteen-hour shifts washing dishes in commercial kitchens. He saved every single dollar. He hired an immigration lawyer. He filed stacks of federal paperwork.
He waited in line for eleven years.
He studied the Constitution at 2:00 AM after grinding his body to the bone.
The day he took his oath of citizenship in a federal courthouse, he wore his only Sunday suit, pinned the Stars and Stripes to his chest, and wept openly because he had earned the right to call himself an American.
Now look at what that same man watches on the evening news:
A group of military-aged men walk across the Rio Grande on a Tuesday morning.
By Wednesday afternoon, they are handed a humanitarian parole stamp, a pre-paid debit card, a smartphone, and a chartered bus ticket to a major American city.
Eleven years of sweat, sacrifice, and total obedience to the law on one side.
Forty-eight hours, free cash, and a government handout on the other.
That legal immigrant asks the question that cuts straight to the bone:
"Why did I spend eleven years respecting the front door, while the government rolls out a red carpet for the people who kicked down the fence?"
Every politician lecturing this country on 'compassion' needs to answer that man.
When you punish the people who follow the rules and reward the people who break them, what do you think happens to the soul of a nation?
Look at the greedy colonialist Jews (in red) expanding into the small territory of the Muslims (in green). Remember, Israel is a colonizing project but Islam is a peaceful religion that did not spread via colonialism.
CNN investigated Nick Shirley instead of the actual fraud in Minnesota and California.
If that doesn’t convince you that they are not NEWs, but a Propaganda Machine, I don’t know what to tell you.
Basic History for the Uninformed:
1. Before Israel, there was a British mandate, not a Palestinian state.
2. Before the British Mandate, there was the Ottoman Empire, not a Palestinian state.
3. Before the Ottoman Empire, there was the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, not a Palestinian state.
4. Before the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, there was the Ayubid-Kurdish Empire, not a Palestinian state.
5. Before the Ayubid Empire, there was the Crusader Frankish and the Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem, not a Palestinian state.
6. Before the Kingdom of Jerusalem, there were the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, not a Palestinian state.
7. Before the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, there was the Byzantine empire, not a Palestinian state.
8. there was the Sassanid-Persian Empire before the Byzantine Empire, not a Palestinian state.
9. Before the Sassanid-Persian Empire, there was the Byzantine Empire again, not a Palestinian state.
10. there was the Roman Empire, not a Palestinian state, before the Byzantine Empire.
11. Before the Roman Empire, there was the Jewish Hasmonean state, not a Palestinian state.
12. Before the Jewish Hasmonean state was the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire, not a Palestinian state.
13. Before the Hellenistic Seleucid empire, there was Alexander the Great's empire, not a Palestinian state.
14. Before Alexander the Great, there was the Persian Empire, not a Palestinian state.
15. Before the Persian Empire, there was the Babylonian Empire, not a Palestinian state.
16. Before the Babylonian Empire, the kingdoms of Israel and Judah were not Palestinian states.
17. Before the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, there was the Kingdom of Israel, not a Palestinian state.
18. Before the Kingdom of Israel, there was the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, not a Palestinian state.
19. Before the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, there was an agglomeration of independent Canaanite city-kingdoms, not a Palestinian state.
There have been many governments there, but never a Palestine.