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Asbjørn Perry Sve retweeted
Trump and the GOP have been working hard to keep this video from being reposted on social media. Repost it, keep it alive. Too many people aren't paying attention to who Donald Trump is.
He's a liar, and by his own words, he must be held accountable.🤥
Asbjørn Perry Sve retweeted
—Señora, este chico me ha pedido ayuda para bajar porque acaba de salir del hospital y no puede mantenerse de pie.
El conductor explicó que el joven había subido con mucha dificultad y que le había avisado discretamente de que necesitaba sentarse.
El chico llevaba unos pantalones largos y una chaqueta. No había nada evidente que indicara que estaba lesionado.
La mujer dejó de gritar.
Después dijo que, si estaba enfermo, debería haberlo explicado desde el principio.
El conductor respondió:
—Puede explicarlo si quiere. Pero no tiene por qué contarle su historial médico a todo el autobús.
Una pasajera se levantó y ofreció su asiento a la señora.
El chico seguía mirando por la ventana.
Cuando llegamos a su parada, el conductor lo ayudó a bajar.
Antes de marcharse, el joven le dio las gracias.
La mujer que había iniciado la discusión murmuró que tampoco podía adivinar lo que le pasaba.
Y tenía razón en eso.
No podía saberlo.
Lo que sí podía haber hecho era no convertir una suposición en un juicio delante de treinta desconocidos.
Lo peor es que yo había pensado exactamente lo mismo que ella.
Simplemente tuve la suerte de quedarme callado.
Asbjørn Perry Sve retweeted
I'm an American, a U.S. Army veteran, and I live in Europe.
And I'll tell you something that might upset a few people back home.
I want my fellow Americans to enjoy the same rights, freedoms, and quality of life that millions of Europeans already enjoy.
I want Americans to have access to affordable healthcare without worrying about going bankrupt because they got sick.
I want American students to pursue higher education without burying themselves in decades of debt.
I want Americans to enjoy stronger digital privacy laws, meaningful consumer protections, paid parental leave, and guaranteed paid vacation.
I want police officers held to rigorous standards of accountability, where de-escalation is emphasized and deadly force is genuinely a last resort.
I want Americans to understand that freedom isn't just about what the government cannot do to you. It's also about having the security and opportunity to actually enjoy your life.
And before someone starts screaming about socialism, understand something.
European countries are capitalist democracies. They have private businesses, entrepreneurs, private property, competitive markets, and individual liberties. They've simply made different decisions about what protections their citizens should enjoy.
Europe isn't perfect. No place is. But pretending America has nothing to learn from other democracies is ridiculous.
I served my country. I love my country. And I don't believe patriotism requires pretending that America is the best at everything.
In fact, I believe the exact opposite.
Real patriotism means wanting your country to improve, even when that means admitting another country does something better.
I don't want Americans to have fewer freedoms.
I want them to have MORE.
More protections. More opportunities. More security. More accountability. More freedom to live their lives without being financially destroyed by illness, education, or circumstances beyond their control.
And having lived on both sides of the Atlantic, I know that much of this is possible.
We should stop asking why Americans can't have these things and start asking why they're expected to settle for less.
Asbjørn Perry Sve retweeted
I have to admit, it’s pretty cool that KISS legend @genesimmons has taken notice of the speech I gave at the Palace dinner. 🤩
Wishing everyone a great weekend—with a little rock ’n’ roll and I Was Made for Lovin’ You! ❤️🇳🇴🤘
Asbjørn Perry Sve retweeted
There have been tons of voters in Tennessee that have come forward complaining about how when they went to vote & pushed the button to vote for Jerri Green & Marsha Blackburn’s name came up instead & if you weren’t watching closely you would have voted for the wrong person.
Asbjørn Perry Sve retweeted
There is a very disturbing trend being seen in early voting. Texas, Florida, Tennessee, Ohio are reporting difficulties getting the machines to accept democratic votes. The machines change them back to Republican unless the voter persists, pressing several times to get the correct vote to go through.
Check your machine, check to see that it accepted the correct vote. Make sure your voice counts.
Asbjørn Perry Sve retweeted
I'll give Trump credit for one thing. He held up a mirror to America and exposed just how many people choose hatred and bigotry over humanity, cruelty over compassion, and selfishness over decency.
The worst part? They saw their reflection and loved it.
Asbjørn Perry Sve retweeted
When Billy Bremner passed, there were not too many Premier League managers who made the effort to say their goodbyes, by attending his funeral, Sir Alex came back early from a European game to be there, so in my view he is not a C.
And can't condone that word being shouted @him
Asbjørn Perry Sve retweeted
Kudos to the camera man. He decided NOPE - ain’t letting him pull this shit. Not today. Not on my watch.
Asbjørn Perry Sve retweeted
Donald Trump set another record.
There’s NEVER been an election (since polling began in the United States) where voters said “corruption” was their top worry.
Until now.
Asbjørn Perry Sve retweeted
Buffett on Trump —
"Where did Donald Trump go wrong? The big problem with Donald Trump was he never went right. He basically overpaid for properties, but he got people to lend him the money. He was terrific at borrowing money. If you look at his assets, and what he paid for them, and what he borrowed to get them, there was never any real equity there. He owes, perhaps, $3.5 billion now, and, if you had to pick a figure as to the value of the assets, it might be more like $2.5 billion. He’s a billion in the hole, which is a lot better than being $100 in the hole because if you’re $100 in the hole, they come and take the TV set. If you’re a billion in the hole, they say “hang in there Donald.”
Asbjørn Perry Sve retweeted
It’s funny how big English football is in Norway. The Norwegian Prime Minister, for example, has supported Leeds United since he was around 12 or 13. More than 128,000 Norwegians are members of supporters’ clubs for English football teams.
Asbjørn Perry Sve retweeted
«18 ukrainske “flyktninger” her i vest Norge, har nå reist på en 3 ukers ferie til Thailand – Pattaya og lever herrens glade dager.»
Skriver Fred Johs på Facebook, før han forteller at disse ukrainerne lever av norske penger og mottar rundt 500 000 kroner hver i årlig stønad.
Han lurer også på hvor mange vanlige norske arbeidsfolk som har råd til en slik ferie, etter at Stoltenberg og Støre visstnok har flådd oss alle.
Vi får vel begynne med de 18 ukrainerne da.
Hvor kommer historien fra? Hvem har reist? Hvordan vet han at alle mottar penger fra Nav, og ikke minst, hvordan vet han hvem som betalte ferien?
Det får vi ikke vite.
Men så har vi jo disse 500 000 kronene hans.
Det tallet kjenner vi faktisk igjen fra en NRK-sak i januar 2024. Der fortalte Nav-lederen i Asker om enkelte ukrainske flyktninger som hadde mottatt sosialhjelp tilsvarende det man måtte hatt godt over 500 000 kroner i årslønn før skatt.
Legg merke til formuleringen. Det handlet om enkelttilfeller og en sammenligning med brutto årslønn. Det var aldri snakk om at alle ukrainske flyktninger fikk 500 000 kroner hver.
Nav-lederen presiserte også at ukrainere fikk sosialhjelp etter de samme reglene som alle andre. Faktisk.no gikk gjennom hele saken i februar 2024.
Så hva har dette med 18 ukrainske flyktninger på ferie i Thailand i oktober 2026 å gjøre?
Foreløpig ingenting som Fred Johs har dokumentert.
UDI opplyser dessuten at ukrainere med innvilget kollektiv beskyttelse kan reise på ferie til utlandet. Så selv om historien skulle stemme, har han fortsatt ikke vist at noen har gjort noe galt.
Men så dukker en kjenning opp i kommentarfeltet Natasha Natasha. (Natalya Nylund)
Hun vi skrev om tidligere i dag, som har «I STAND WITH RUSSIA AGAINST THE GLOBAL ELITE» på profilbildet sitt.
Hun forteller at ukrainske flyktninger har mange fordeler framfor vanlige nordmenn. Nav betaler tannpleien deres, hevder hun, før hun trekker fram en historie fra 2011 om moren sin som ikke fikk kommunal bolig.
Deretter forteller hun om en ukrainsk familie hun kjenner, hvor den 18 år gamle datteren fikk en egen leilighet ved siden av foreldrene.
Og da har hun visst fått beviset hun trenger.
Men Nav kan også dekke nødvendig tannbehandling for nordmenn som ikke har økonomi til å betale selv. Dette er en del av den ordinære sosialhjelpsordningen.
Og at en voksen datter får egen bolig, sier lite om forskjellsbehandling. Kommunene har ansvar for å bosette flyktninger, og boligløsningene varierer etter behov og kapasitet.
Så kommer «Natasha»
med denne:
«Jeg sier alltid at flyktninger fra Ukraina er eliteflyktninger fordi de er imot Putin! )))»
Ja, der fikk vi jo vite litt mer om hvordan hun ser på ukrainere som har flyktet fra den russiske invasjonen.
Hun har altså klart å gjøre motstand mot Putin til en forklaring på hvorfor ukrainere angivelig får særbehandling i Norge.
Fred Johs har for øvrig likt kommentaren hennes.
Og mens de to sitter der og forteller hverandre hvor godt ukrainerne har det på norske skattebetaleres bekostning, står vi fortsatt igjen med den opprinnelige historien.
18 ukrainere. Tre uker i Pattaya. 500 000 kroner i årlig stønad per person.
Det er ganske presise opplysninger fra en mann som ikke har fortalt oss hvor han har dem fra.
Men historien er allerede delt videre, og kommentarfeltet fylles med misnøye mot ukrainske flyktninger.
Man skulle nesten tro at dokumentasjon var blitt en unødvendig luksus.
#russiskpropaganda #russland #ukraina #flyktninger
Asbjørn Perry Sve retweeted
Imagine 1941, when German aircraft were bombing British cities, Europe was under the Nazi boot, and Churchill was desperately trying to save his country from Hitler's onslaught.
And then, at that very moment, US President Franklin Roosevelt suddenly announces that the main problem is not Hitler, who is occupying foreign territories and killing people, but the stubborn British, who simply refuse to agree to a peace deal. Worse still, they keep bombing German industrial facilities, damaging the economy of the Third Reich and creating difficulties for international trade.
The American president is terribly outraged. After all, his voters need cheap fuel, the economy needs stability, and he himself needs good approval ratings. So instead of helping Britain, he calls Hitler, negotiates the supply of German goods, proposes easing economic restrictions, and threatens to cut Churchill off from weapons and intelligence unless he stops destroying German industry.
And to finally persuade the Führer to come to the negotiating table, American mediators even propose returning some of Germany's frozen state assets.
All in the name of peace, naturally.
And, of course, for the sake of the American economy, which should not have to suffer simply because some stubborn British people refuse to surrender.
Now try to imagine what history textbooks would look like if Roosevelt had actually behaved this way.
What if he had called Hitler a wonderful negotiating partner, demanded that Churchill surrender territory, and simultaneously tried to convince Americans that Germany needed to be allowed to make money because otherwise it would refuse to make peace?
What if, instead of Lend-Lease, Britain had received an American ultimatum: stop bombing German factories because we need to lower prices before the elections?
What would we say about such a president today?
Would we call him a brilliant negotiator who was simply protecting his country's economic interests?
Or would we say that, for his own benefit, he was helping the Nazi war machine while simultaneously depriving its intended victims of the means to defend themselves?
Fortunately, history took a different path.
Roosevelt secured the passage of the Lend-Lease Act, and the United States began providing massive assistance to the countries resisting Hitler even before America formally entered World War II.
But today, watching Donald Trump's actions, I increasingly find myself wondering what Europe's fate would have been if a politician with the same attitude toward aggression, human lives, and personal profit had occupied the White House back then.
Asbjørn Perry Sve retweeted
In 1893 a Norwegian scientist deliberately froze his ship into the Arctic ice, let it drift for three years, and lost not a single man to scurvy or anything else. Then he walked off it and spent nine months in a hole in the ground eating bear.
Fridtjof Nansen was thirty-two, a zoologist with a doctorate on the nervous system of a worm. His theory was that the polar current would carry a ship across the top of the world if the ship was built not to be crushed. He built one. He called it the Fram, took twelve men, and sailed into the pack.
For three years they lived in the dark and the cold with no fresh food arriving from anywhere. On every previous expedition that had meant scurvy, the disease that had killed more sailors than the sea. Nansen's crew had none. They shot polar bear and seal, and ate the meat fresh and barely cooked, as the Inuit did. The doctor on board had almost nothing to do.
In 1895 Nansen and one companion left the ship on skis to make for the Pole. They got further north than any human had been, turned back, and were caught by winter on an empty island. They built a hut of stones and walrus hide, and for nine months they ate bear meat and walrus blubber and nothing else. No vegetable, no grain, no fruit. They came out in the spring fatter than they went in.
Then they walked home.
Nansen went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize, and lived to 68.
Every schoolchild is taught that a diet without vegetables will rot you from the inside. Two men spent a winter underground on nothing but fat and meat and came out fit to walk across the Arctic, and that was 130 years ago.
