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Donald Trump meets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
https://www.youtube.com/live/8JWKvjJS5EY?si=oEnljFcXCSfhSAp8
Is it just me or is Trump getting taller?
The most recent picture I saw of Trump shows him standing next to a defeated-looking Zelenskyy, probably taken from the meeting the video above is about. Of course, the latter is a manlet so this makes Trump look bigger. Trump is a tall guy at 6’3″.
Haiti is a very civilized county. It also has a very civilized and well-mannered president, so it was probably a temporary lapse of judgment that he drank from a water pitcher in front of the UN assembly:
https://x.com/runews/status/1839388657146593313
In case any of our cucked white politicians spoke after him, they probably took a sip from the water pitcher as well in order to show their solidarity.
A very civilized Indian gentleman enriched his host country Singapore by taking a dump in front of one of the most expensive pieces of real estate, not just in Singapore but the entire world:
https://archive.ph/lP4Ve
The judge was based, but not based enough:
The left-wing dictators want to ban the AfD: https://www.dw.com/en/calls-grow-in-germany-to-ban-far-right-afd/a-70371841
German politics is a total shitshow. On a more positive side, the Green party is imploding and the “liberals” (FDP), which are happy to gobble the cock of any party who invites them to form a governing coalition with them, is becoming completely irrelevant. In the recent election in Brandenburg, they got 0.83% of the vote.
Hurricane Helene has ravaged the Southeast of the US. Thankfully, FEMA has been preparing well for such an event, for instance by using their money on illegal immigrants and diversity initiatives:
https://archive.ph/rcjMW
On Telegram, I am reading that FEMA is turning away volunteers. They also allegedly confiscate (and destroy) supplies provided to hurricane victims by citizens. People claim that there is a racket behind FEMA, i.e. they get food rations from “approved suppliers”. Google completely suppresses such stories, so I am sure that they are completely made up.
They are offering two week contracts for medical workers in Ashville, NC paying $86 an hour for two weeks, and the hours are long. You’re given about 5 hours to sleep, and if you claim unable to sleep then you get paid a sum for those hours as well. It’s terrible working conditions, though. You get flown in, and you’re basically put up in a tent for the duration. There currently is no guarantee of power or running water.
Pickernanny, what kind of “medical workers” are those? That’s significantly below what doctors in the USA make, so I imagine it’s nurses or something?
That’s correct. Also factor in long hours and OT pay.
I have no words for this shitshow.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/4/gender-nationality-sufficient-to-grant-afghan-women-asylum-top-eu-court
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2024/oct/04/eu-court-rules-gender-and-nationality-enough-to-grant-afghan-women-asylum
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/top-eu-court-rules-gender-nationality-enough-afghan-women-be-granted-asylum-2024-10-04/
https://www.dw.com/en/eu-top-court-rules-afghan-women-are-a-persecuted-group/a-70404394
I’m not very surprised. The Taliban treatment of women makes it pretty clear that any Afghan woman fulfills the criteria for protected/asylee status.
But that’s the wrong topic to be discussing. The right topic to discuss is whether we should accept refugees and asylees at all.
Personally I’m of the opinion that we should not accept them. Ever. If an immigrant is not a benefit to a country (for example a highly-skilled worker), or in a legitimate marriage with a national, then they should never be allowed to settle in the country.
There are probably exceptions I’m not thinking of right now, but coming from a dangerous country is not one of them. Fix your own country instead of running off to another.
There should probably even be a cap on high-skilled workers. As we can see in the US, once such a program gets established, corporations heavily abuse it in order to suppress local wages. A friend from Beijing sarcastically remarked that “first they send Nobel laureates, then come the professors, then the foreign students, etc.”. Before you know it, the country is flooded with foreigners.
The elite shit-rag The Atlantic put out an article that laments that even at elite colleges students are no longer able to read books:
https://archive.ph/uKA4z
Amusingly, that article does not mention “blacks”, “diversity”, or “affirmative action” at all.
Do you think it could also be an environmental factor as well? I mean, even reasonably intelligent whites entering college these days probably have some degree of brain rot from being raise on tablets and smart phones. How many 18-22 year olds have the attention span to properly comprehend a text book, or whatever the article is referring to?
I am sure that IQs are down across the board. In fact, there is even research on the negative Flynn effect, i.e. the observation that IQs are dropping. Arguably, this has to do a lot more with mass immigration to the West than environmental factors. Still, when I read “elite college”, the first association I have is “anti-white bias”.