Another billionaire appointment. Ambassador to the UK. Fill that swamp.
10 years ago, none of these fucks would have wanted anything to do with Trump because he was a failing has been celebrity "billionaire". Being president got him back in the circle of importance and he's used it ever since to build actual wealth and ensure generational wealth for his family for centuries. What a fucking con people chose to overlook.
In the search to eliminate waste and unaccountable spending, a $20 billion annual savings plan is immediately available to incoming President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE): American taxpayer dollars flowing to the United Nations.
Each year the U.S. provides nearly a quarter of the U.N.’s total expenses, including assessed or mandatory "regular" funding of more than $3 billion and voluntary contributions that have vacillated between $10 and $15 billion in each of the past two years. Taking into account in-kind support services, the total is likely even higher. U.N. demands and U.S. subsidies have ballooned, with U.S. payouts almost doubling over the last decade.
Alarm bells ought to ring out for Americans both because of how the money gets spent and where it is going.
Here are a few of the rabbit holes where your money ends up. U.S. taxpayers pay for U.N. tax-free salaries; for U.N. lounges set up for watching sports games with bargain prices for food and drink; for media campaigns and other festivities to celebrate the "International Day of Neutrality" invented by Russia, Afghanistan and friends, and the "International Day of Banks."
U.S. dollars for peacekeepers include the blue helmets in southern Lebanon (UNIFIL) who have kept busy observing Hezbollah rearm, build terror tunnels, take up positions among Lebanese civilians, and fire at Israelis.
The surging expenses of the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights – from your wallets – have included staffing and support for a Chinese "Independent Expert" on "international financial obligations of states on the full enjoyment of all human rights," an "expert" on "a democratic and equitable international order" who advocated that the International Criminal Court tackle American crimes against humanity, and an "expert" on "International Solidarity" created at the behest of Cuba.
Congress has long been skeptical about U.N. uses of American money, so much so that they have insisted upon an annual report on "United States Participation in the United Nations." The most recent report during the Biden administration was published in March 2024 and covered the year 2022. Here is its astonishing conclusion:
"It is increasingly challenging for the United States to identify cost savings at the U.N. given the growing demands that U.N. member states place on the organization."
DOGE can respond to this apparent brain-freeze with the proper course of deserved financial oversight. The U.N. budget, which covers everything from well over 100,000 long-term employees, administrative costs, peacekeeping, and a broad range of agencies and subsidiary bodies, deliberately lacks the transparency necessary to end misuse and corruption.
The General Assembly, for instance, is nonplussed about breaking its own elementary rule that no new activity will be approved without the cost being calculated and presented before the vote.
Sign now and squeeze member states later is familiar practice, as is tapping unused resources in one corner to satisfy unfilled appetites in another.
At the heart of the U.N. financial structure lies the bad idea that the United States must pay for whatever abomination it votes against. Fans call it burden-sharing. We pay for what we don’t like, and other countries help pay for our priorities. The truth is that the end product doesn’t shake out on the plus side either for American national interests or taxpayer pocketbooks.
A 2005 Task Force on the United Nations, initiated during the George W. Bush administration and headed by Newt Gingrich and George Mitchell, voiced concern about insufficient supervision and talked a lot about reform. As it turns out, the watchword of "reform" in U.N. circles has been a euphemism for "keep on keeping on" until somebody notices, again.
Congress has also come up with other formulas for withholding money from the U.N., like refusing to fund a tiny list of U.N. projects dedicated to the destruction of the state of Israel. However, the U.N. has invented more such projects and Congress has taken years, if at all, to add to the withholding list and to confront the fundamental moral rot epitomized by the U.N.’s systemic demonization of Israel.
DOGE creates an opportunity to clean house.
They can anticipate at least two rejectionist camps. Democrats who flog the erroneous idea that multilateralism begins and ends with the U.N. And New Yorkers who figure they benefit from U.N. diplomats wining, dining, and hanging out in their neighborhood, whether or not they are hosting entourages of terrorists and criminal masterminds. Not only should the material and spiritual benefits of otherwise developing the prime real estate of midtown Manhattan be factored in for the sake of the locals, but the rest of the country also deserves a voice.
A long overdue tally of American U.N. expenditures versus American needs is not a call to end American generosity or compassion beyond our borders. It is a call to protect the American goose laying the golden eggs from an avaricious and dangerous United Nations.
The Biden administration thought that finding savings for U.S. money filling U.N. coffers was a challenge. To which DOGE can be all set to reply: challenge accepted.
Anne Herzberg is legal adviser and U.N. representative of NGO monitor.
Anne Bayefsky is president of Human Rights Voices and director, Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust. Follow her on X @AnneBayefsky.
Republicans get upset when people call them authoritarian, and then they encourage that power and decision making be given to two unelected twitter trolls who don’t understand basic civics.
Republicans get upset when people call them authoritarian, and then they encourage that power and decision making be given to two unelected twitter trolls who don’t understand basic civics.
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Republicans get upset when people call them authoritarian, and then they encourage that power and decision making be given to two unelected twitter trolls who don’t understand basic civics.
You don't think we should seek to eliminate waste and unaccountable spending by our government? Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are both extremely successful business men - who better to do the job? And as a side note, they also want to end the annoying Daylight Saving Time, which I think most American's would be thrilled about.
Republicans get upset when people call them authoritarian, and then they encourage that power and decision making be given to two unelected twitter trolls who don’t understand basic civics.
You don't think we should seek to eliminate waste and unaccountable spending by our government? Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are both extremely successful business men - who better to do the job? And as a side note, they also want to end the annoying Daylight Saving Time, which I think most American's would be thrilled about.
I think we should have people cut waste who are knowledgable and qualified to do so. There’s probably thousands of people who could do a better job of this than these two. The worship, idolatry, and false attribution of qualities projected on people just people they’re wealthy is part of the reason we’re in this jam.
Republicans get upset when people call them authoritarian, and then they encourage that power and decision making be given to two unelected twitter trolls who don’t understand basic civics.
You don't think we should seek to eliminate waste and unaccountable spending by our government? Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are both extremely successful business men - who better to do the job? And as a side note, they also want to end the annoying Daylight Saving Time, which I think most American's would be thrilled about.
Elon built his business on govt rebates at Tesla and defense contracts at SpaceX. Does the irony escape you?
Republicans get upset when people call them authoritarian, and then they encourage that power and decision making be given to two unelected twitter trolls who don’t understand basic civics.
You don't think we should seek to eliminate waste and unaccountable spending by our government? Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are both extremely successful business men - who better to do the job? And as a side note, they also want to end the annoying Daylight Saving Time, which I think most American's would be thrilled about.
Elon built his business on govt rebates at Tesla and defense contracts at SpaceX. Does the irony escape you?
yeah I actually think him licking trump's boots all relates to subsidies and/or contracts that he wants for SpaceX
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These two men are wealthy because they built and grew successful businesses. You don't achieve that by wasting money, hiring unqualified employees and making foolish business decisions. That is proof and evidence that they are wholly qualified for the job. Whom would you suggest would be a more appropriate choice?
These two men are wealthy because they built and grew successful businesses. You don't achieve that by wasting money, hiring unqualified employees and making foolish business decisions. That is proof and evidence that they are wholly qualified for the job. Whom would you suggest would be a more appropriate choice?
Jamie Dimon would be one, for instance, that I would much prefer. Reed Hastings as well. They both run better businesses that were not propped by govt contracts and they aren’t right wing trolls.
These two men are wealthy because they built and grew successful businesses. You don't achieve that by wasting money, hiring unqualified employees and making foolish business decisions. That is proof and evidence that they are wholly qualified for the job. Whom would you suggest would be a more appropriate choice?
And I was just pointing out imaginary qualities people give the wealthy.
These two men are wealthy because they built and grew successful businesses. You don't achieve that by wasting money, hiring unqualified employees and making foolish business decisions. That is proof and evidence that they are wholly qualified for the job. Whom would you suggest would be a more appropriate choice?
And I'm sorry, why do you think the business that Vivek sold was "successful"? They were buying patents for drugs that were failing in clinical testing. He ended up raising several hundred million in angel and PE funding, and were scooped up by Viking in an IPO. Their big bet failed and the business wrote down 75% of its value, but Vivek was already out. Not one entity or subsequent entity from this start-up was EVER profitable.
So you tell me what qualifies him to run this "dept". I just told you why he wasn't qualified.
Yet another billionaire appointed to the POOTWH administration. This time to head up NASA. How many does that make now? Real reflection of ‘Murican society, as opposed to “the swamp,” eh?
These two men are wealthy because they built and grew successful businesses. You don't achieve that by wasting money, hiring unqualified employees and making foolish business decisions. That is proof and evidence that they are wholly qualified for the job. Whom would you suggest would be a more appropriate choice?
Verrryy successful businesses… Although Trump has never filed for personal bankruptcy, hotels and casino businesses of his have declared bankruptcy six times between 1991 and 2009 due to its inability to meet required payments and to re-negotiate debt with banks, owners of stock and bonds and various small businesses (unsecured creditors).
These two men are wealthy because they built and grew successful businesses. You don't achieve that by wasting money, hiring unqualified employees and making foolish business decisions. That is proof and evidence that they are wholly qualified for the job. Whom would you suggest would be a more appropriate choice?
Verrryy successful businesses…
Although Trump has never filed for personal bankruptcy, hotels and casino businesses of his have declared bankruptcy six times between 1991 and 2009 due to its inability to meet required payments and to re-negotiate debt with banks, owners of stock and bonds and various small businesses (unsecured creditors).
Like how POOTWH University is one of, if not the, most selective universities out there and a degree from there will open so many doors and opportunities. Much better than any Ivy League universities. Just ask JD Byryder.
Stays light longer. Standard time it gets dark earlier.
I love Daylight Time. It's admittedly for selfish reasons (post-work bike rides for more of the year than if we were always on Standard Time). I'd love for it to be all year. That said, it would be dark well into the morning into the winter, which can be a safety concern).
Anecdotally, it feels to me like far more people want Standard Time all year than Daylight Time. I'd hate that because it would definitely cost me some rides.
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Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
President Trump is always willing to be interviewed - even in hostile environments.
I look forward to the blenderized word salad of nothing burders. And then the post interview tweets that begin with, “that nasty, bleeding woman is so rude…..”
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Elon and Vivek should tackle US funding for this boondoogle organization and score a multimillion dollar win
Let's take a close look at the enormous sums that flow to the United Nations from U.S. taxpayers' wallets
In the search to eliminate waste and unaccountable spending, a $20 billion annual savings plan is immediately available to incoming President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE): American taxpayer dollars flowing to the United Nations.
Each year the U.S. provides nearly a quarter of the U.N.’s total expenses, including assessed or mandatory "regular" funding of more than $3 billion and voluntary contributions that have vacillated between $10 and $15 billion in each of the past two years. Taking into account in-kind support services, the total is likely even higher. U.N. demands and U.S. subsidies have ballooned, with U.S. payouts almost doubling over the last decade.
Alarm bells ought to ring out for Americans both because of how the money gets spent and where it is going.
Here are a few of the rabbit holes where your money ends up. U.S. taxpayers pay for U.N. tax-free salaries; for U.N. lounges set up for watching sports games with bargain prices for food and drink; for media campaigns and other festivities to celebrate the "International Day of Neutrality" invented by Russia, Afghanistan and friends, and the "International Day of Banks."
U.S. dollars for peacekeepers include the blue helmets in southern Lebanon (UNIFIL) who have kept busy observing Hezbollah rearm, build terror tunnels, take up positions among Lebanese civilians, and fire at Israelis.
The surging expenses of the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights – from your wallets – have included staffing and support for a Chinese "Independent Expert" on "international financial obligations of states on the full enjoyment of all human rights," an "expert" on "a democratic and equitable international order" who advocated that the International Criminal Court tackle American crimes against humanity, and an "expert" on "International Solidarity" created at the behest of Cuba.
Congress has long been skeptical about U.N. uses of American money, so much so that they have insisted upon an annual report on "United States Participation in the United Nations." The most recent report during the Biden administration was published in March 2024 and covered the year 2022. Here is its astonishing conclusion:
"It is increasingly challenging for the United States to identify cost savings at the U.N. given the growing demands that U.N. member states place on the organization."
DOGE can respond to this apparent brain-freeze with the proper course of deserved financial oversight. The U.N. budget, which covers everything from well over 100,000 long-term employees, administrative costs, peacekeeping, and a broad range of agencies and subsidiary bodies, deliberately lacks the transparency necessary to end misuse and corruption.
The General Assembly, for instance, is nonplussed about breaking its own elementary rule that no new activity will be approved without the cost being calculated and presented before the vote.
Sign now and squeeze member states later is familiar practice, as is tapping unused resources in one corner to satisfy unfilled appetites in another.
At the heart of the U.N. financial structure lies the bad idea that the United States must pay for whatever abomination it votes against. Fans call it burden-sharing. We pay for what we don’t like, and other countries help pay for our priorities. The truth is that the end product doesn’t shake out on the plus side either for American national interests or taxpayer pocketbooks.
Congress has also come up with other formulas for withholding money from the U.N., like refusing to fund a tiny list of U.N. projects dedicated to the destruction of the state of Israel. However, the U.N. has invented more such projects and Congress has taken years, if at all, to add to the withholding list and to confront the fundamental moral rot epitomized by the U.N.’s systemic demonization of Israel.
DOGE creates an opportunity to clean house.
They can anticipate at least two rejectionist camps. Democrats who flog the erroneous idea that multilateralism begins and ends with the U.N. And New Yorkers who figure they benefit from U.N. diplomats wining, dining, and hanging out in their neighborhood, whether or not they are hosting entourages of terrorists and criminal masterminds. Not only should the material and spiritual benefits of otherwise developing the prime real estate of midtown Manhattan be factored in for the sake of the locals, but the rest of the country also deserves a voice.
A long overdue tally of American U.N. expenditures versus American needs is not a call to end American generosity or compassion beyond our borders. It is a call to protect the American goose laying the golden eggs from an avaricious and dangerous United Nations.
The Biden administration thought that finding savings for U.S. money filling U.N. coffers was a challenge. To which DOGE can be all set to reply: challenge accepted.
Anne Herzberg is legal adviser and U.N. representative of NGO monitor.
Anne Bayefsky is president of Human Rights Voices and director, Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust. Follow her on X @AnneBayefsky.
and who complain about unelected bureaucrats...
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The Golden Age is 2 months away. And guess what….. you’re gonna love it! (teskeinc 11.19.24)
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Whom would you suggest would be a more appropriate choice?
So you tell me what qualifies him to run this "dept". I just told you why he wasn't qualified.
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Although Trump has never filed for personal bankruptcy, hotels and casino businesses of his have declared bankruptcy six times between 1991 and 2009 due to its inability to meet required payments and to re-negotiate debt with banks, owners of stock and bonds and various small businesses (unsecured creditors).
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Anecdotally, it feels to me like far more people want Standard Time all year than Daylight Time. I'd hate that because it would definitely cost me some rides.
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-EV 8/14/93
The Golden Age is 2 months away. And guess what….. you’re gonna love it! (teskeinc 11.19.24)
1998: Noblesville; 2003: Noblesville; 2009: EV Nashville, Chicago, Chicago
2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
2013: London ON, Wrigley; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
2020: Oakland, Oakland: 2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana; 2025: Pitt1, Pitt2
same amount of daylight.
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you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
-EV 8/14/93
President Trump is always willing to be interviewed - even in hostile environments.
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
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