“…but its leaders abandoned its actual mission of peace a long time ago.” And it has served as an anti-western, anti-American, and anti-Israel platform controlled by Islamists and Marxists dedicated to the destruction of the free world. I hope they go belly up and move the hell away from NYC to Somalia!
If the UN continues to exist, I would prefer it be on American soil so we can spy on them and keep a close watch over their activities. We could start charging them rent for the land and buildings, tho.
David Rockefeller donated the land for the UN headquarters. It was previously slaughterhouses and tenements. So it would revert to its original purpose. But the UN completed a building renovation in 2015 spending $2.3B in an 8 year period. Mamdani could gut the building for far less money and make it rent controlled for zero rent. The Somalis would pay for energy and upkeep.
The U.N. is like the Department of Education. Good White People™, who have the critical thinking skills of a dull 4th-grader, imagine that these organizations are saintly and worthy of support because of their names.
The U.N. unites nations! The Department of Education educates! How can anyone oppose these virtuous organizations?
Thing is, it's not just that there's no nation-uniting or educating going on; both organizations foster and breed cultural toxicity and general enshittification, even as their bloated taxpayer-funded budgets mostly pay for the sinecures of absolutely worthless functionaries.
I feel like we just had a week of ground hog days with all the freezing cold down here in TX but with very little snow, not even enough to cover the grass but with enough ice to make travel a worry, still waiting for remains of ice to melt or evaporate but this week we're no longer below freezing and the power has stayed on the whole time. Maybe I'll be able to keep track of what day it is again!
Groundhog Day is one of those movies you can watch over and over and still enjoy as much as the first time you saw it. I think it and The Princess Bride are my two favorite movies that never get old. Neither needs a sequel.
Groundhog day is one of those movies you can watch over and over and over again and not realizing that you're watching it over and over and over again.
I've said it here before but the Trumpsters biggest win by far is exposing the titanic levels of graft that we didn't know about. Dems and RINO's don't care but maybe the independents will finally realize what's going on and move a little more to the right.
Go to Benny Johnson's YouTube channel. He put up a sorta mini documentary on California's 100 billion homeless fraud! It's about 20 min, but, hits pretty hard.
The only organizations that actually decrease homelessness are privately funded. Union Gospel Mission, Salvation Army, and We Heart Seattle, to name just a few. The rest are part of the Homeless Industrial Complex. Big salaries, big staff, big failure.
Big failures? Like all governmental organizations they primarily want to grow their staffs and budgets. Really solving problems would put the brake on all that.
Oh, but they are crazy wackos and will ruin the country! At least that is what they told us. They being the established media goons, Cronkite, Huntly & Brinkly etc. I really struggled with that. The Birchers sounded perfectly sane to me, but everyone opposed them so I chickened out and was persuaded that thr Birchers were bad. We'll never know.
I was not able to see a problem with Birch Society, particularly after learning that Diplomats were allowed to engage in criminal activity with impunity.
Oh we'te the John Birch society, John Birch society, here to save the country from a Communist plot.Join the John Birch soviety dtomping out the reds, we'll use our hands and hearts anf If we must , we'll use our heads
You and a ton of alot of other people too. It was before my time, but I still was affected by the "sniff of disdain" from the Left and had always assumed the Birch Society was "a bunch of stupid racists" too.
Mentioning the JBS reminded me of Joe Pyne. Probably because Joe interviewed Robert Welch founder of the JBS. Pyne had a tv interview show out of Philadelphia in the 1960’s. He was the original shock jock. He used to bring the usual lefty loons like Commies, homosexuals and feminists on his show in front of a live audience to debate, scream insults and kick them off of the show. Good times. I’m sure Mr. Surber remembers.
It is noble to help people less fortunate than you.And 2 try to give them a way to improve themselves.However, when all you're doing is shoveling money into a sink hole and not improving anything.Maybe it's time to stop shoveling. Give me a fish and I'll come to your door every day to beg for another one. Teach me to fish and you'll never see me again.
Better yet, let’s just move the UN headquarters to Somalia and cut out all the middle men with their hands out! Then we can put the new Board of Peace in the former building that SAID it is dedicated to charitable, peace keeping motives, but the proof is in their cutting programs instead of pork bureaucrats! Where’s the lie, tho?!
When you’ve been the only business selling widgets for decades, and suddenly a competitor pops up down the street, you’re going to be forced to rethink your entire business model or go under.
I didn’t understand that myself? I must have missed the context, or perhaps he was tongue in cheek referring to his future plans for the Board of Peace….
Trump is a builder! This makes sense in the context of taking a failed, bankrupt property, completely gutting it, and rebuilding it as something of value.
The UN does have tremendous potential. If it was cleaned up, (and if the world itself was cleaned up), it could still serve a purpose. Trump is building a better UN in the Board of Peace, which could at some point just replace the UN. Just like MAGA is building a better Republican party and at some point will succeed in replacing all the RINO's.
USAID started as a good idea too, but waving money and power in front of politicians, many of whom are from poor third-world countries, is like making a recovering alcoholic a bartender at a wedding reception.
The only logical response to Guterres is, “What have you done for me lately?”The UN is nothing more than an internationally corrupt, criminal money laundering operation, of which the lionshare of the money keeping the game afloat has always been provided by the US for decades upon decades.
Just like NATO, and USAID, and a plethora of other high minded organizations and operations running rampant around the world, all have been sponging off of the US for decades.
It is beyond heartening to see our President and Secretary of State throw the wrench of all wrenches into all these corrupt, crooked and wholly anti-American machines and say, “NO MORE FREE LUNCH ON US.”
USA assessment is north of $10 billion for UN. While China assessment is about $600 million. (Which China usually pays late.).
Meanwhile, China dominates many UN agencies like WHO, and routinely rounds up votes that go against US. Yet somehow , USA is expected to fund this circus contra its own interests.
As for ability to pay…. China has run up massive trade surpluses w almost every country in the world, dumping its excess output at prices intended to strangle local competition. But again, China assessment for UN is <6% of what they want US to pay.
UN is hardly worth the time or $$. Yesterday’s idea. Yesterday’s people. Yesterday’s world.
And china is still classified by them as a "developing nation." Nuclear bombers, ICBMs, and subs; almost the biggest economy in the world; astronauts, space stations, huge military, and they still are classified a "developing nation."
". . . the UN has morphed into an unaccountable worldwide bureaucracy with mission creeps into culture, health and human rights. No one opposes these things per se . . ." Actually, I oppose these things per se. By "healthcare" the UN means abortion and forced covid shots. By "human rights" the UN means forcing conservative cultures to tolerate homosexual behavior like that running rampant in the decadent, post -Christian West. The UN is not a force for good in the world or for peace. It is a force for moral chaos and a shield for dictators. It should be abolished.
It has also been a major driver of mass immigration flows into Western countries, creating probably one the greatest threats to western civilization since the atom bomb.
Because the Left always infiltrates existing institutions; disguised by the trappings of respectability, its subversive goals are achieved far more easily. Look around and see what has happened to the Episcopal and other establishment churches, to the public schools and universities, the Boy Scouts, the DAR ...
MUNGA? I think the fact that the UN has been complicit in funneling migrants into western nations is a big middle finger to the US. Trump could be looking to reform the UN by starving them into submission? A negotiating tactic?
If the UN had it in their 2020-2024 US fully paid up budget by Biden - to assist/coordinate w other NGOs, Countries, Soros/Cartel/CatholicCharities and Contractors to facilitate importing Illegal immigrants into the US, and US States funded illegal living & medical expenses while here…. I bet Trump w/b willing to fund a UN Program to assist ICE in Deporting them the hell back OUT of the US.
Just not holding my breath…still waiting after Reagan got taken on the 1986 Amnesty bait-n-switch by Congress…
Move it to Antarctica and you will see how important it is. The UN is a bureaucrat’s dream. Make huge salaries, enjoy diplomatic immunity, and not have to live in your shithole of a country. All can be had in Antarctica. Yet for some reason it’s in the largest city in the world in the freest country in the world, spewing hate towards its host. I wonder why that is??
No gas from Russia? Unless it's indirectly bought from India. It's the same with their auto sector. Volkswagen could be forced to pay hundreds of millions of euros to Chinese rivals to buy carbon credits under EU rules. They have the "choice" of paying billions of euros in fines, boosting EV sales by slashing prices, or buying credits from less polluting competitors. I find it interesting that China is being hailed as less polluting, even though it opens hundreds of coal plants each year.
One of the reasons I find Don Surber's thinking and mine to be so aligned is, because in every column, I find some quotable phrase or sentence that resonates strongly within me. Today it was "unaccountable worldwide bureaucracy". The UN was designed as a 'Peacekeeping' organization to prevent the consequences of another world war. World Wars 1 and 2 showed all people, everywhere, that the destruction of mankind is available and, if brought to bear, irreversible. Out of genuinely good ideas (like setting up the UN in the US, who kept the world from speaking German or Japanese), there always seems to be born ever new levels of bureaucracy birthed under the guise of 'doing good'. Our own Congress has 'devolved' into much the same thing. I think more and more people are catching on to what President Trump is trying to achieve - the 'biggest' and the 'baddest' (USA) doing the 'most' and 'best' for the rest of the world to actually make, not only the US, but the world a better place. The world needs a leader, and we have one, not a global 'ruler' or 'king', but someone who has a vision that could propel the world ahead for a very long time. So far, Trump is winning the 16-level chessboard of the world. Keep playing, President Trump. Keep playing.
“…but its leaders abandoned its actual mission of peace a long time ago.” And it has served as an anti-western, anti-American, and anti-Israel platform controlled by Islamists and Marxists dedicated to the destruction of the free world. I hope they go belly up and move the hell away from NYC to Somalia!
I would have voted for moving it to Somalia.
...and give each U.N. representative his or her weapon: choice of AKM assault rifle or RPG-7 rocket-propelled grenade launcher.
Provide them with custom fitted bomb vests. Then send them to Iran.
You could not afford the graft expense...
Of course they'd be fine with it, because they "just want to help the world."
Real simple!
The US out of the UN!
The UN out of the US.
Been wanting this since 1965ish C.G. .
That's been my motto for ages.
Why wasnt Somalia on the quiz??
Because then we would still be funding it...from Minneapolis.
I'd nominate Tehran.
If the UN continues to exist, I would prefer it be on American soil so we can spy on them and keep a close watch over their activities. We could start charging them rent for the land and buildings, tho.
I would say that has been going on from the beginning. You know the old "J.R. Ewing saying: Keep your friends close and your enemies closer".
Pay ? Not those deadbeats , money only moves one way through the UN .
...and keep your enemies cioser
I would prefer they move it to Qatar ; makes targeting more economic ( fewer missiles ) . Besides they deserve one another .
Maybe Mayor Mamdani will do the right thing and convert the UN building to low income housing. LOL... how perfect would that be!!
Or maybe a homeless shelter for all those vagrants who are currently freezing to death on the streets of his city.
or as the CEOs of all the energy companies say, "Two weeks of super cold weather can fix a plethora of mismanagement.
I'll bet that this place will soon turn out like in the movie, "Escape from New York" with Kurt Russell.
Snake Plissken... great name!!
David Rockefeller donated the land for the UN headquarters. It was previously slaughterhouses and tenements. So it would revert to its original purpose. But the UN completed a building renovation in 2015 spending $2.3B in an 8 year period. Mamdani could gut the building for far less money and make it rent controlled for zero rent. The Somalis would pay for energy and upkeep.
I favor turning it into a big, beautiful Trump casino and hotel.
Would be the biggest and best casino ever!!
It already works like a casino as Americans lose their money to the house globalists.
LOL. I second that.
lol
Who wants to go to New York?
Except that Mamdani loves the UN ideals of Muslim and Communist world dictatorships, so he would never disturb them.
Maybe convert it to a viral gain-of-function research lab. I hear Bill Gates is looking for work.
Should become a medical teaching college especially with all the Major Hospitals that are nearby.
The U.N. is like the Department of Education. Good White People™, who have the critical thinking skills of a dull 4th-grader, imagine that these organizations are saintly and worthy of support because of their names.
The U.N. unites nations! The Department of Education educates! How can anyone oppose these virtuous organizations?
Thing is, it's not just that there's no nation-uniting or educating going on; both organizations foster and breed cultural toxicity and general enshittification, even as their bloated taxpayer-funded budgets mostly pay for the sinecures of absolutely worthless functionaries.
Enshittification! What a great word! Mind if I borrow it?
Enshittification: Instead of bringing the low-level students to the level of the bright students, bring the bright students down.
I didn't coin it, but I am happy for it to be promulgated far and wide!
An ingenious perspective. What is even more impressive was your ability to use shittifacation and sincures in the same sentence. Touché.
see my earlier post two minutes ago.
For a “Groundhog Day2” movie they could just re-release the first movie!
Heh 😏
Chuckle, chuckle...
So true! 😆
I recently bought the movie online, just so I'd have that "sequel" ready to enjoy tonight.
I feel like we just had a week of ground hog days with all the freezing cold down here in TX but with very little snow, not even enough to cover the grass but with enough ice to make travel a worry, still waiting for remains of ice to melt or evaporate but this week we're no longer below freezing and the power has stayed on the whole time. Maybe I'll be able to keep track of what day it is again!
Groundhog Day is one of those movies you can watch over and over and still enjoy as much as the first time you saw it. I think it and The Princess Bride are my two favorite movies that never get old. Neither needs a sequel.
Look up ‘Second Hand Lion’. It is a sleeper feel good movie we love to watch about every 3-4 months on movie night.
Amen M.R., wonderful sleeper.
Groundhog day is one of those movies you can watch over and over and over again and not realizing that you're watching it over and over and over again.
Thanks for addressing this colossal wastes of money & collection of human garbage.
I remember being laughed at when I said Reagan should pull out. That's how long I've despised the UN
I've said it here before but the Trumpsters biggest win by far is exposing the titanic levels of graft that we didn't know about. Dems and RINO's don't care but maybe the independents will finally realize what's going on and move a little more to the right.
Go to Benny Johnson's YouTube channel. He put up a sorta mini documentary on California's 100 billion homeless fraud! It's about 20 min, but, hits pretty hard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PXvPsFGCeo
The only organizations that actually decrease homelessness are privately funded. Union Gospel Mission, Salvation Army, and We Heart Seattle, to name just a few. The rest are part of the Homeless Industrial Complex. Big salaries, big staff, big failure.
Big failures? Like all governmental organizations they primarily want to grow their staffs and budgets. Really solving problems would put the brake on all that.
Exactly!
Big revelations they were
everybody talked trash about the UN, the Donald, just did it!
The John Birch Society was saying it over 50 years ago.
Oh, but they are crazy wackos and will ruin the country! At least that is what they told us. They being the established media goons, Cronkite, Huntly & Brinkly etc. I really struggled with that. The Birchers sounded perfectly sane to me, but everyone opposed them so I chickened out and was persuaded that thr Birchers were bad. We'll never know.
I was not able to see a problem with Birch Society, particularly after learning that Diplomats were allowed to engage in criminal activity with impunity.
Oh we'te the John Birch society, John Birch society, here to save the country from a Communist plot.Join the John Birch soviety dtomping out the reds, we'll use our hands and hearts anf If we must , we'll use our heads
You and a ton of alot of other people too. It was before my time, but I still was affected by the "sniff of disdain" from the Left and had always assumed the Birch Society was "a bunch of stupid racists" too.
Mentioning the JBS reminded me of Joe Pyne. Probably because Joe interviewed Robert Welch founder of the JBS. Pyne had a tv interview show out of Philadelphia in the 1960’s. He was the original shock jock. He used to bring the usual lefty loons like Commies, homosexuals and feminists on his show in front of a live audience to debate, scream insults and kick them off of the show. Good times. I’m sure Mr. Surber remembers.
Yup and their office was in my old home town
It is noble to help people less fortunate than you.And 2 try to give them a way to improve themselves.However, when all you're doing is shoveling money into a sink hole and not improving anything.Maybe it's time to stop shoveling. Give me a fish and I'll come to your door every day to beg for another one. Teach me to fish and you'll never see me again.
After USAID and the Somalian Daycare fraud, why would we fund the UN? It's time to pull out and kick them out. The UN is a larger version of USAID.
Better yet, let’s just move the UN headquarters to Somalia and cut out all the middle men with their hands out! Then we can put the new Board of Peace in the former building that SAID it is dedicated to charitable, peace keeping motives, but the proof is in their cutting programs instead of pork bureaucrats! Where’s the lie, tho?!
agreed but will never happen. aoc will triple their funding and half of that increase will go to worldwide abortion.
book it dano!
Money-laundering outfits, every government and international agency.
Yes. And, Congress doesn't care because both parties benefit indirectly.
I was surprised that Trump made that comment about keeping the UN in NYC & that it has tremendous potential - he has to be kidding.
When you’ve been the only business selling widgets for decades, and suddenly a competitor pops up down the street, you’re going to be forced to rethink your entire business model or go under.
Probably on 🎯 !
Note the Donald apparently has complately ignored the un in all his diplomatic work and ending wars. The un is worse than useless.
I didn’t understand that myself? I must have missed the context, or perhaps he was tongue in cheek referring to his future plans for the Board of Peace….
I never take PDJT literally (the way the left does) when he says something like this.
His true meaning always emerges later on down the line...
He keeps his enemies close, which is a difficult strategy for most to endure.
You didn't miss anything - he was definitely referring to the UN.
I don't think he was lying. Lots of organizations have tremendous potential, but never fulfill it. Two different things.
Trump is a builder! This makes sense in the context of taking a failed, bankrupt property, completely gutting it, and rebuilding it as something of value.
Bored of peace
..???
Head fake?
That statement will calm the UN Clowns and lull them into a false sense of security.
The UN does have tremendous potential. If it was cleaned up, (and if the world itself was cleaned up), it could still serve a purpose. Trump is building a better UN in the Board of Peace, which could at some point just replace the UN. Just like MAGA is building a better Republican party and at some point will succeed in replacing all the RINO's.
USAID started as a good idea too, but waving money and power in front of politicians, many of whom are from poor third-world countries, is like making a recovering alcoholic a bartender at a wedding reception.
Good luck with that.
In a similar vein, Mamdani the Genius, has appointed an EX-CON as his head of Dept of Corrections. You cannot make this stuff up….
Who better to
Know...
Yes. We knew from the day they called themselves the "Democratic" party that it was all a big paradox of reality.
It never did serve a purpose. Has the un ever actually accomplished anything except expend massive amounts of mostly US money?
It's called diplomat talk. Lots of buttering up.
Reshaping the globally economy every day...
The only logical response to Guterres is, “What have you done for me lately?”The UN is nothing more than an internationally corrupt, criminal money laundering operation, of which the lionshare of the money keeping the game afloat has always been provided by the US for decades upon decades.
Just like NATO, and USAID, and a plethora of other high minded organizations and operations running rampant around the world, all have been sponging off of the US for decades.
It is beyond heartening to see our President and Secretary of State throw the wrench of all wrenches into all these corrupt, crooked and wholly anti-American machines and say, “NO MORE FREE LUNCH ON US.”
Take a national referendum -taxpaying US Citizens only….of how much the US should support each UN program….
USA assessment is north of $10 billion for UN. While China assessment is about $600 million. (Which China usually pays late.).
Meanwhile, China dominates many UN agencies like WHO, and routinely rounds up votes that go against US. Yet somehow , USA is expected to fund this circus contra its own interests.
As for ability to pay…. China has run up massive trade surpluses w almost every country in the world, dumping its excess output at prices intended to strangle local competition. But again, China assessment for UN is <6% of what they want US to pay.
UN is hardly worth the time or $$. Yesterday’s idea. Yesterday’s people. Yesterday’s world.
Amen, brother!
And china is still classified by them as a "developing nation." Nuclear bombers, ICBMs, and subs; almost the biggest economy in the world; astronauts, space stations, huge military, and they still are classified a "developing nation."
". . . the UN has morphed into an unaccountable worldwide bureaucracy with mission creeps into culture, health and human rights. No one opposes these things per se . . ." Actually, I oppose these things per se. By "healthcare" the UN means abortion and forced covid shots. By "human rights" the UN means forcing conservative cultures to tolerate homosexual behavior like that running rampant in the decadent, post -Christian West. The UN is not a force for good in the world or for peace. It is a force for moral chaos and a shield for dictators. It should be abolished.
It has also been a major driver of mass immigration flows into Western countries, creating probably one the greatest threats to western civilization since the atom bomb.
Why does this always happen to altruistic institutions??
Because the Left always infiltrates existing institutions; disguised by the trappings of respectability, its subversive goals are achieved far more easily. Look around and see what has happened to the Episcopal and other establishment churches, to the public schools and universities, the Boy Scouts, the DAR ...
You nailed it.
In shorter terms they see a way to get their hands on someone else's hard earned money without expending much effort .
Because good people get busy with their own lives and stop paying attention...they just keep writing the checks and paying the "bills".
un is not an altruistic institution.
I wonder how much UN money comes back to our politicians?? The Trumpster is cutting the mothers milk of politics, graft dressed as empathy.
If you don’t fund it they won’t come. That goes for our various programs that invite fraud.
Ooohhh
MUNGA? I think the fact that the UN has been complicit in funneling migrants into western nations is a big middle finger to the US. Trump could be looking to reform the UN by starving them into submission? A negotiating tactic?
Their “4-10s” Refugee Plan could get Trump funding…..resettling 10 million refugees for four years….Back Out of the US…..
Huh?
If the UN had it in their 2020-2024 US fully paid up budget by Biden - to assist/coordinate w other NGOs, Countries, Soros/Cartel/CatholicCharities and Contractors to facilitate importing Illegal immigrants into the US, and US States funded illegal living & medical expenses while here…. I bet Trump w/b willing to fund a UN Program to assist ICE in Deporting them the hell back OUT of the US.
Just not holding my breath…still waiting after Reagan got taken on the 1986 Amnesty bait-n-switch by Congress…
Sounds about right. All Trumpian moves are with a plan. Let's see if the UN comes back with a reorganization proposal.
Move it to Antarctica and you will see how important it is. The UN is a bureaucrat’s dream. Make huge salaries, enjoy diplomatic immunity, and not have to live in your shithole of a country. All can be had in Antarctica. Yet for some reason it’s in the largest city in the world in the freest country in the world, spewing hate towards its host. I wonder why that is??
UN looks to me like the dictatorship called the EU.. non-elected bureaucrats running STUPID,
no gas from Russia? better cut down your neighbor's tree for heat.. foolish masses
No gas from Russia? Unless it's indirectly bought from India. It's the same with their auto sector. Volkswagen could be forced to pay hundreds of millions of euros to Chinese rivals to buy carbon credits under EU rules. They have the "choice" of paying billions of euros in fines, boosting EV sales by slashing prices, or buying credits from less polluting competitors. I find it interesting that China is being hailed as less polluting, even though it opens hundreds of coal plants each year.
Please, don’t enshitify Antarctic. It’s the last place on earth with minimal shit.
Somalia it is.
It p-o's me, too.
Trump could refit it as a resort/casino…already staffed with potential housekeepers, gardeners, and bell hops….
One of the reasons I find Don Surber's thinking and mine to be so aligned is, because in every column, I find some quotable phrase or sentence that resonates strongly within me. Today it was "unaccountable worldwide bureaucracy". The UN was designed as a 'Peacekeeping' organization to prevent the consequences of another world war. World Wars 1 and 2 showed all people, everywhere, that the destruction of mankind is available and, if brought to bear, irreversible. Out of genuinely good ideas (like setting up the UN in the US, who kept the world from speaking German or Japanese), there always seems to be born ever new levels of bureaucracy birthed under the guise of 'doing good'. Our own Congress has 'devolved' into much the same thing. I think more and more people are catching on to what President Trump is trying to achieve - the 'biggest' and the 'baddest' (USA) doing the 'most' and 'best' for the rest of the world to actually make, not only the US, but the world a better place. The world needs a leader, and we have one, not a global 'ruler' or 'king', but someone who has a vision that could propel the world ahead for a very long time. So far, Trump is winning the 16-level chessboard of the world. Keep playing, President Trump. Keep playing.
👏🏻
The UN has gone so far off the rails as to what was supposed to do that it isn’t worth “saving”.
I think it's worse than that, and they never intended for a moment to do what they were "supposed to do."
I'm now quite sure the money I spent as a ten year old on UN merch went directly to leftist causes without a moment's delay.
"...trick or treat for UNICEF!"
Yeah, I'm that old...
Me too, and I vaguely remember something like that...
It's still around.
I did "trick or treat for UNICEF" back in the day
Memory lane M.P. .