Paul Tashner

Adventurer, MBA & Anthropologist. Grandpa. 22 yrs int'l business & travel, x-USSR, Africa, Europe. Built @Jeep biznis in Kazakhstan. @UVa @Wahoo 1980!

[Paul Tashner @PTashner]

@AprilSpark1890 He’d love a cool postcard from your town in Ireland. As a guy who traveled internationally a lot, a small momento that makes them smile when they see it, and reminds of that day.

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Love it!

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A new look at Walmart!

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Haha, great views of America!

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Love the perspectives!

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Well done!

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Haha, in America speed limits are suggestions voluntarily followed.

[G-PA @IndianaGPA]

Some World Cup visitors come to America expecting chaos... and leave wondering why everyone waved at them from a pickup truck.
They figure out pretty quick we're a friendly bunch, might argue about everything under the sun, but we'll still help you change a tire, recommend a good diner, and call you “buddy" like we've known you since Little League.
Then there's driving.
They ask, "What's the speed limit here?"
We say,
"Well... technically 55."
But what we mean is, "Keep up with traffic or prepare for judgment."
And distance? We don't measure that in miles.
"Oh, it's about 10 miles away" means nothing.
"It's about 15 minutes if you hit the lights right" now that's real American math.
By the time they leave, they've learned three things:
Americans are nicer than advertised
Speed limits are more of a group activity
And everything, absolutely everything, is measured in how long it takes to get there
Welcome to the U.S.—where the people are warm, the coffee is bottomless, and "just down the road" could mean anything.

[Ev Hand @Evan_Hand]

18 days before the World Cup began, someone said that this tournament was going to expose how much of a “shithole” the US really is Well… a few weeks deep into the World Cup, we’ve seen that not only is America not a living hellhole, but this has brought everyone more together

[Paul Tashner @PTashner]

Spot-on.

[Saggezza Eterna @FinalTelegraph]

Communism is not a political philosophy; it is a profound declaration of war against human nature, excellence, and spiritual truth.

The democratic process has become an engine for a terrifying pathological movement. When you look at the modern left, you are not looking at a legitimate political alternative; you are looking at a calculated assault on reality itself. They do not win at the ballot box through superior ideas or economic viability. Instead, they weaponize the darkest corners of human nature. The modern voter does not choose the left because they genuinely believe in a utopian paradise; they vote for them out of a deep, bitter hatred for beauty, excellence, and natural hierarchy. It is the resentment of the baseline mediocre looking at the exceptional and wishing to drag it down into the mud. The left understands this psychological vulnerability perfectly. They have realized that the easiest way to conquer a civilization is not through external warfare, but by validating the envy of the masses. They promise an artificial equality that can only be achieved by severing the tallest heads in the room.

To understand the terrifying mechanism of this ideology, one must analyze its deceptive moral architecture. The left cloaks itself in the language of compassion, empathy, and social justice, but this is a calculated obfuscation designed to secure raw political power. They have absolutely no intention of helping the marginalized, the poor, or the working class. To them, human suffering is merely a resource to be mined, an excuse to expand the borders of the state and diminish individual autonomy. They preach a false gospel of virtue while practicing pure, unadulterated Machtpolitik (political action by a person or group which makes use of or is intended to increase their power or influence; power politics). Once they secure control, the masks slip instantly. The compassionate advocate transforms overnight into the ruthless apparatchik, demanding total obedience to the new regime. This is the oldest trick in the political playbook, a strategy that Machiavelli exposed centuries ago: project the illusion of mercy and religious devotion while quietly preparing the tools of absolute subjugation.

The historical record of communism is not a series of noble mistakes; it is an unbroken timeline of deliberate, systemic horror. Wherever this ideological virus has infected a nation, it has followed the exact same trajectory: it lies, it cheats, it steals, and ultimately, it kills. From the frozen, brutal landscape of the Soviet gulag system to the forced starvation of the Holodomor, communism proved itself to be a meat-grinder for human souls. In Maoist China, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution systematically dismantled thousands of years of profound culture, replacing family loyalty with state worship and resulting in the slaughter of tens of millions of innocent lives. In Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge turned entire cities into literal killing fields, execution chambers where citizens were murdered merely for wearing glasses or speaking a foreign language, a supreme crime against the state’s mandatory ignorance. This is the true face of communism: a ravenous beast that consumes its own children in a futile attempt to force reality to conform to a broken, academic theory.

"Communism is not a political philosophy; it is a profound declaration of war against human nature, excellence, and spiritual truth."

The modern apologists who sit in coddled Western universities, sipping expensive coffee while defending the virtues of Marx, deserve nothing but absolute ridicule and contempt. They are the useful idiots of our generation, individuals so profoundly disconnected from reality that they believe they would be the intellectual elite directing the utopia, rather than the first casualties lined up against the wall. They claim that true communism has never been tried, a defense so dripping with arrogance and historical illiteracy that it borders on the psychopathic. How many more millions must die before these ideological cultists admit that their system is fundamentally broken? Every single time this experiment has been run, it has resulted in economic devastation, cultural erasure, and mass graves. To support this ideology in the modern era is to display either a total absence of intellect or a terrifying desire for human suffering.

We are entering a period of existential political warfare, and we cannot afford to show an ounce of intellectual mercy to those who wish to destroy our civilization. The time for polite debate, bipartisan compromise, and gentle disagreement is entirely over. The left’s ultimate goal is the complete financial and social expropriation of everything you have built, wrapped in the guise of democratic equity. They want a society dominated by a vast, unyielding technocracy where individual merit is treated as a social crime and dependency on the state is mandatory. If we allow even a trace of this ideological poison to remain within our institutions, our schools, or our halls of governance, it will inevitably fester and destroy the nation from the inside out.

We must draw an absolute line in the sand. We will never accept the creeping tyranny of statism, we will never bow to the forced consensus of the mob, and we will never apologize for defending beauty, strength, and truth. Our objective cannot merely be to manage the decline or contain the spread of leftist ideology; our objective must be the total and complete intellectual destruction of any trace of communism within our borders. We must aggressively expose their chicanery, humiliate their pseudo-intellectual leaders, and reclaim the cultural ground that was surrendered through decades of conservative cowardice. The future of our civilization depends on our willingness to look at this terrifying threat, call it by its true name, and utterly eradicate its influence from our society once and for all.

We can and will get through this,
Blessings,
Saggezza Eterna

[Paul Tashner @PTashner]

@SeldyX18 @thewakeninq George Floyd riots. So many mass killings in our churches and schools and gatherings like New Years in New Orleans. #1 export from America is Hollywood movies and TV shows revolving around gunfights and blood. We promote a violent culture. Nothing to do with Trump.

[American Nightmare 🇺🇸 @thewakeninq]

A German fan said it best:

“If you want to hate America, watch the news. If you want to love America, drive through it.”

Over 3.6 million fans packed stadiums for the World Cup, breaking attendance records. Millions came from every corner of the globe and experienced what the headlines never show: welcoming people, incredible hospitality, and a country unlike any other.

The media sells outrage. America sells itself.

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

Remember when American liberals and Euro socialists told us to boycott the World Cup because of Trump?

Remember when these same idiots claimed nobody would come and ticket sales would suck?

We just set a FIFA World Cup attendance record! 3.6M million soccer fans to date. The highest-ever in the history of the tournament! 🌎❤️

Take from that what you will.

[Paul Tashner @PTashner]

Equality for all turns everyone equally poor. Except the elites at the top.

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

Before the weekend ends and America moves on to the next headline, we need to pause and look at a story that matters more than almost any other—the collapse of Venezuela, and what it warns us about if the last democratic superpower ever falls the same way.

This didn’t happen overnight. It happened step by step, over one generation.

VENEZUELA: HOW A PROSPEROUS NATION COLLAPSED

1992
Venezuela is the 3rd richest country in the Western Hemisphere, powered by oil and a growing middle class.

1997
Venezuelans become the 2nd largest buyers of Ford F-150s—a sign of widespread prosperity.

1998
Hugo Chávez is elected, promising to “redistribute wealth” and fix inequality.

2001
The country votes again for socialism, framed as compassion and fairness.

2003
The government imposes price controls and currency controls.
Black markets appear. Shortages begin.

2004
Private healthcare is fully socialized.

2006
Inflation rises sharply as massive welfare programs expand without real economic backing.

2007
All higher education becomes “free.”

2008
Key industries—oil services, steel, cement, telecom—are nationalized.
Production drops almost immediately.

2009
Private gun ownership is banned.

2010
The currency is devalued by 50%, crushing savings and accelerating inflation.

2011
Oil production begins a steady decline due to mismanagement and lack of investment.

2012
American politicians, like Bernie Sanders, publicly praise Venezuela’s model.

2013
Chávez dies. Nicolás Maduro takes power and tightens state control.

2014
Opposition leaders are arrested or silenced.

2015
GDP collapses. Hyperinflation begins.

2016
Severe food and medical shortages spread nationwide.

2017
The constitution is suspended. Elections are no longer meaningful.

2018
Inflation exceeds 1,000,000%. Maduro “wins” a widely fraudulent election.

2019
Unarmed civilians are killed by their own government.

2020
More than 8 million people flee the country to escape hunger and repression.

2023
Minor economic improvements fail to relieve mass poverty.

2024
Disputed elections trigger protests and global isolation.

2026
Maduro is removed by force. Venezuela is liberated after decades of ruin.

THE HARD TRUTH

It took one generation of “progressive” leadership to turn one of the richest countries on Earth into a nation defined by hunger, fear, mass graves, and mass migration.

This is the lesson history keeps teaching:

You can vote your way into socialism.
But history shows people only escape it through collapse, violence, or foreign intervention.

And here is the part Americans must understand clearly:

If this happens in the United States, there will be nobody coming to save us.

No outside superpower.
No rescue force.
No second chance.

Freedom is fragile. Prosperity is not guaranteed.
And once lost, they are brutally hard to recover.

Venezuela’s people paid the price.
America cannot afford to learn this lesson the same way.

[Paul Tashner @PTashner]

Yes, America still is…Beautiful and free.

[Hanna’s World 🌍 @HannasWorldUK17]

@WhiteHouse @CindyLo47495817 I’ve been trying to tell people for years. America is awesome.

https://t.co/rHmqqzQZxB

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USA scores 2:15 into the game!

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Crowd chanting U S A! U S A!
Go USA @FIFAWorldCup @USASoccer

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@DSA_Watch Thankful many are recognizing the “Red Storm Rising”. I lived & worked in ex-USSR with 75 years of communist rule.
If there is only one world power, hope it’s the Republic of USA

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Awesome!

[Oliver Henry @oliverhenry]

I now understand the American dream.

I came to the World Cup because I was offered a last minute ticket to watch England play Croatia in Dallas and I started documenting my journey.

The content went viral on social media. So much so, the President of the United States saw it himself.

I was invited to attend the grand opening of the great American state fair for freedom 250 and halfway through Donald Trumps speech, I was told to come and wait back stage for a photograph.

This sort of thing could only happen in America.
As an Englishman I never really understood what America has to make it “the land of opportunity”

But results speak for themselves.

[Paul Tashner @PTashner]

Great insights. Median income in the US is $55-$60k, which AI assures me puts us in the top 2% worldwide.

And yet the leftists and communists chant about oppression and affordability in the mega cities - all run for decades by Democrats. NY. Chicago. LA. Boston. Seattle.

[Jeffery Mead @the_jefferymead]

The 4th of July should be celebrated.

This is the greatest country in world and it offers more opportunity to black people than any other country.

You don’t have to love the fact that this country was started with slaves.

But you also shouldn’t ignore the institutional foundations that were laid in order to allow us to now have more opportunity than blacks anywhere else.

[Paul Tashner @PTashner]

@the_jefferymead Great insights. Median income in the US is $55-$60k, which AI assures me puts us in the top 2% worldwide.

And yet the leftists and communists chant about oppression and affordability in the mega cities - all run for decades by Democrats. NY. Chicago. LA. Boston. Seattle.