Phil Paul Beck

ID Specialist, graduate of Mizzou Med

[Bound For Mars @Bound_For_Mars]

@SketchesbyBoze

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

A thread of what cities in the United States looked like a century ago

1. Buffalo, New York, 1908.

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

On this day in 1944, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. died in his sleep in a stone farmhouse in Normandy. He was 56 years old, and he had spent almost his entire adult life trying to be worthy of a famous last name.

He was the eldest son of President Theodore Roosevelt. In the First World War he went to France and was gassed and badly wounded at Soissons leading his men. That same summer his younger brother Quentin, a pilot, was shot down and killed over France. Ted came home with lungs and a leg that never fully recovered, and before he even left Europe he helped found the American Legion so that ordinary soldiers would have someone looking out for them.

Between the wars he did almost everything. Governor of Puerto Rico. Governor General of the Philippines. Businessman, explorer, writer. He could have spent the Second World War safe behind a desk. Instead, at 54, arthritic and walking with a cane, he talked his way back into uniform and into combat.

By 1943 he was fighting in North Africa and Sicily under Terry Allen, and their loose, unpolished, soldier-first style rubbed General Patton the wrong way. Patton had them both relieved of command. Roosevelt didn't sulk. He asked for another job, any job, as long as it kept him near the fighting. They made him assistant commander of the 4th Infantry Division.

Then came D-Day. He hid a heart condition from the Army doctors. He wrote to his commander three separate times, in writing, begging to go in with the very first wave rather than watch from a ship. He was the only general to land in the first wave on any beach that morning, the oldest man in the invasion, walking through machine gun fire with a cane in one hand and a pistol in the other.

The boats came in a mile off course. Officers froze. Roosevelt limped up and down the beach under fire, studied the ground, and said, "We'll start the war from right here." Then he spent the morning waving men forward and sorting out the chaos so calmly that terrified 20 year olds looked at this old man with a cane and decided that if he wasn't scared, they wouldn't be either.

His son Quentin, named for the uncle killed in the last war, landed at Omaha Beach the same morning. They were the only father and son to come ashore together on D-Day.

He died a month later. A heart attack in his sleep. And here is the part that gets me. On the very day he died, the orders had just come through promoting him to major general and giving him his own division. He never saw the paperwork. He never knew he'd earned the Medal of Honor either.

At his funeral his pallbearers were seven of the most famous generals of the war, Bradley, Hodges, Collins, Barton, Huebner, and George Patton. The same Patton who had fired him. Patton wrote in his diary that Roosevelt was one of the bravest men he had ever known.

Years later Omar Bradley was asked to name the single most heroic thing he witnessed in all of World War II. He didn't pause. He said, "Ted Roosevelt on Utah Beach."

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

The CEO of StubHub exposed in SEC documents to own a hedge fund thats scalping millions of tickets on StubHub making a fortune

Everything is a scam

“StubHub bills itself as an online marketplace for fans where they can buy and sell tickets, but it turns out that StubHub CEO himself also has a hedge fund that is scalping millions of dollars worth of its own tickets”

“The company went public on the New York Stock Exchange last fall. They had to file documents to the Securities and Exchange Commission, and in those SEC filings, we find some interesting information. The CEO, Eric Baker, actually owns and manages a hedge fund by the name of Andro Capital.

Its business: selling millions of dollars worth of tickets on StubHub — So essentially, StubHub and its CEO are in the business of mass scalping”

Here’s a step by step of how the scam works

- StubHub CEO’s Andro Capital buys large numbers of tickets, sometimes in bulk from primary sellers, other brokers and events

- They then list and sell those same tickets on StubHub at much higher prices

- When fans buy the tickets, Andro makes a profit on the price difference, this is the scalping markup

- StubHub helps them by handling the listing, pricing and delivery of the tickets, sometimes with special arrangements or lower fees for Andro

The result is millions of dollars in ticket sales flow through Andro on StubHub, and the profits go back to the hedge fund that StubHub CEO Baker owns and manages

It means with his big money and influence he can move in early, gets the tickets for events, then mark them and rob everyone blind

[Derrick Goold @dgoold]

From @Hochman: 'PCA 2.0.' Cardinals' 1st-rounder Trevor Condon plays like Pete Crow-Armstrong per MLB Network https://t.co/u5M2eusN8F

[Rod Dreher @roddreher]

How is this dude even human?!

[Ben Stevens @BenScottStevens]

Yeah, I’m going to watch Erling Haaland lead the Viking Row after leading Norway to the World Cup quarters about 732 more times today.

[Phil Paul Beck @philpaulbeck]

@oroborous Cry harder

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

🇺🇸

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

We dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan, twice, and 80 years later they light up their cities in our colors as a show of how much they love us.

Meanwhile, we bailed half of Europe out, twice, and their governments take every last opportunity to signal how much they despise us.

[Annie Agar @AnnieAgar]

a red card for THIS??

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

SIR HARRY KANE! FIRST OF HIS NAME! ENGLAND’S SAVIOR!

[Hater Report @HaterReport]

England fan tried to smuggle beer into a World Cup match with a “beer jacket” 😂😂

[Chase Daniel @ChaseDaniel]

KC has really turned into the soccer capital of America.

Unreal

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

Give Mandami credit. He is doing exactly what he said he would do when elected. He is turning New York into a socialist/communist anti American city by getting “politicians” like Darializa Avila Chevalier elected. Here is just a sampling of things Chevalier has said, tweeted or done. (This is not an onion article. These are all facts)

Founded a group at Columbia with the express goal of overthrowing western society

Called all white women ugly colonizers while criticizing interracial relationships

Wishes she could wipe her ass with a the American flag

Waved a Hamas flag the day after October 7th attacks

Wants no borders

Wants to abolish the police

Wants to abolish prisons

Against all deportations. Clarified that even if a non citizen murders or rapes somebody deportation is immoral

Said all of the United States is on stolen Native American land

Things she has not done in her career. Had a job.

On the brightside though at least she never said America deserved 9/11. (At least that we are aware of yet) Unfortunately the other candidate Mamdani endorsed Aber Kawas did say that. And got elected. In NYC. What a world

[Nick Adams @NickAdamsinUSA]

He can stay.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

At this point, Kansas City is a Dutch territory.

[Izengabe @Izengabe_]

If you want to know why the socialists are winning NY it's because NY is already a failed socialist welfare state. 42% of NYC residents are on Medicaid. 1 out of 5 are on food stamps, 1/3 live in rent stabilized apartments, 1 out of 20 living in public housing, 1 out of 4 work for either the government or a government funded non-profit. NYC has a government budget larger than Florida. NYS has a budget larger than Texas & Florida combined. The City has fallen. The lunatics are in charge. The only question is when do they run out of other people's money.

[Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz]

LOL, absolutely brilliant.

[FOX Soccer @FOXSoccer]

ELITE row celebration from Norway after clinching the Round of 32 🇳🇴

Martin Ødegaard led the squad on the drum