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Chivalry at Sea: The U-Boat Captain, the Greek Crew, The Tower and Dinner with the Enemy
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Tomas Gallucci retweeted
They become invisible with age because most women have horrible personalities and once they aren’t hot anymore people don’t want to put up with them besides their families.
That’s why it’s going to be apocalyptic as Millennial women become childless cat ladies.
Some women claim they become invisible with age, but I think it's really just that women are used to people *automatically* paying attention to them because they're young & pretty enough.
Then they're put in a position where they have to make the first moves & initiate convo & they're utterly unused to this, so they struggle.
I've known older women who don't feel invisible, just older, and they tend to be intelligent, witty, & enjoyable to talk to. They don't need the glow of fertile youth as an anchor to get people's attention; they can just talk.
I could be wrong though. Thoughts?
Tomas Gallucci retweeted
One of the reasons I really don’t like Indians as a group is because down in our little hill country Texas community (I’d describe it as a holler in culture) our little store got bought out by Indians. There was no more neighborly chat. The local owners use to sell homemade chili and bratwurst so that stopped. On the outside was now pics of a white couple in lingerie with some kind of beer. I remember how’d they’d get some of our ppl they knew had addictions and wouldnt go to police to do odd handy man jobs for them and then severely underpay them or claim a job wasn’t finished and not pay them at all. Even their “best and brightest” were scum. I’ve associated them with dirtiness, immorality, and cheapness since I was a little girl.
Tomas Gallucci retweeted
The fact that even 1 Indian is a CEO of a US Tech company is evidence of misconduct. Indians have built literally nothing in India. It is impossible that people who have built nothing of true value suddenly shoot up the ranks in the US. It is 100% Visa Fraud & Casteism.
Tomas Gallucci retweeted
ZERO kids on Halloween in Silicon Valley neighborhood.
The "new neighbors" don't celebrate American holidays, they didn't come out for the 4th and they certainly don't put up Christmas lights.
Laid off Americans are moving out of Silicon Valley and are being replaced with H-1B foreigners who can afford to live here and buy homes here.
The cultural impacts are vast and rapid, Silicon Valley no longer feels American, and it looks like another country took over our middle class jobs.
DEPORT THEM ALL!
Tomas Gallucci retweeted
The Post-Wall woman will turn into a real political force after the OG and IG money dries up and they have no money, no marketable skills, and no work history.
They mostly don't drink or smoke, and are health obsessed, so they'll live until 100.
Tomas Gallucci retweeted
THE FBI DIRECTOR JUST THANKED MICROSOFT FOR MAKING AMERICA SAFER
Partnering with industry on security makes sense.
But three weeks ago, on Oct 8, the Labor Department suspended Microsoft from the PERM green card program. The Labor Secretary cited "multiple active federal investigations." The Attorney General stood at that announcement.
The Vice President said Microsoft "replaced" laid-off Americans with H-1B workers.
Now Microsoft is hosting the FBI Director.
It’s like our government agencies don’t even talk to each other.
Tomas Gallucci retweeted
Kevin Costner, 68, worth an estimated $400 million, was accused in court of earning more than he had disclosed. His reply: "Oh good, we'll have to have a treasure hunt to find it."
They married in 2004 at his ranch in Aspen. Three children. She filed in May 2023, after 18 years.
In July a judge ordered him to pay $129,755 a month in child support. By September it was $63,209. She had asked for more than $160,000.
On September 1 she took the stand in tears at the Santa Barbara courthouse. Costner sat a few feet away, in person, for the first time.
Reporters caught him outside.
"Were you laughing?"
"I wasn't. It's a horrible place to be, but this is where we're at."
"What do you hope happens today?"
"It feels so bad. We're talking about somebody I love on the other side. I just can't."
He still loved her. "Of course."
That same day his lawyers filed that she was waging a "relentless jihad" against him, and claimed an unnamed boyfriend had recently given her $20,000.
The judge found her credible and cut the number anyway.
Child support is not a share of the marriage. It is a number attached to the child, which is why a prenuptial agreement can cap what comes out of it. Anything above $63,209, the ruling said, would be spousal support wearing a different name.
Historically, the first marriage cost more. His divorce from Cindy Silva in 1994 ended with an $80 million settlement.
Was this a court protecting a prenup, or a judge deciding what three children need and calling the rest something else.
Tomas Gallucci retweeted
Told my neighbor their Halloween mask was scaring kids and to take it off. Turns out it's a trans and that’s just the way they look now. Still
Tomas Gallucci retweeted
My car wouldn't start in a Tractor Supply parking lot in Tennessee, so I opened the hood.
I know nothing about engines. In American movies, opening the hood is how a man calls for help. It works outside the movies too.
The first one arrived in under two minutes with a fifty-pound bag of chicken feed on his shoulder. No hello. He set the feed on my bumper, put his hands on his hips, and looked into my engine.
Then a man from a truck hauling fence posts. Hands on hips.
Then an older man came out of the store holding a receipt. He had not finished paying. Through the window I could see the cashier still holding his card. I think he heard the hood.
Nobody touched anything. Nobody asked my name. Three strangers stood around my engine like it was a campfire.
"Battery," said Chicken Feed.
"Could be the starter," said Fence Posts.
"It's not the starter," said Receipt.
Fence Posts made a clicking noise with his mouth to show what a bad starter sounds like. Receipt said that was the wrong click and did his own, and for a while two grown men in Tennessee just clicked at each other. I did not interrupt. It felt religious.
It was the battery. The terminals were crusted white. Chicken Feed walked to his truck, came back with a can of Coca-Cola, cracked it, and poured it on my battery.
"Has to be Coke."
"Pepsi works," said Fence Posts.
"Pepsi does not work, Ronnie."
"It's the same acid!"
"Then why'd God make Coke?"
I looked it up that night. Men have been having this exact argument online since at least 2004.
The sun was going down. Receipt said, "Somebody hold a light," and a flashlight was in my hand.
I pointed it at the battery.
"Not there. Where I'm looking."
I moved it.
"Where I'm looking NOW."
For ten minutes I chased an old man's eyes around an engine with a beam of light. I have trained with a sword for twenty years. Nothing has ever asked more of my wrists.
Then, without looking up, Receipt said, "Don't watch my hands, son. Watch my face. Took my daddy eleven years of yelling to teach me that."
So I watched his face. I saw where he was going to look before he looked, and the light was already waiting there.
He stopped correcting me.
The car started on the first try. Nobody cheered. Chicken Feed took his feed back off my bumper, Fence Posts said "There ya go," and in under a minute they were gone, the way they came.
I was closing my hood when a truck two rows over wouldn't turn over. Up went its hood. A father, and a boy of maybe nine.
I walked over with the flashlight. I did not ask. I put the light where the father's eyes were about to go.
He glanced at me. Then at his son.
"Watch how he holds it."
Tomas Gallucci retweeted
They don't have safety equipment because they have enough ppl to spare – at Toronto, Ontario
Tomas Gallucci retweeted
People are angry because they pay $28,000 a year for something they can't price, can't compare and can't understand. Then the pharmacy charges them less if they pay cash than it does if they use the insurance they paid $28,000 for. Broken is an understatement.
Tomas Gallucci retweeted
Bless their hearts, the Street still thinks October payrolls hit 65,000.
On Oct 29 I showed ya the 26,000 forecast.
Remember September? Expected 90K. Got 29K. Whoops.
Payrolls drop Friday at 8:30 ET, three days after the midterms. My take: "low-hire, low-fire" is a cute way of saying nobody's getting hired. Friday we find out how cute.
This is getting grim. But reason to not trust this data… but when it is this bad… how much worse is it truly??
Jeez Louise- just 26,000 jobs!!
Across the entire United States.
That's the October payroll forecast.
Job losses are creeping up, hiring is barely moving, and somehow we're supposed to be reassured because mass layoffs haven't arrived.
They call it a “low-hire, low-fire” labor market.
Apparently, the new definition of a healthy job market is one where nobody gets hired and not quite enough people get fired to cause a panic.
She’s a gold digger in denial.
“Status” attracts a “type” of woman!
“Money” attracts a “type” of woman!
Stop telling young men they need “status and money” to attract WOMEN! (You sound like angry Scott Galloway!🤣)
Normal women—WHO ARE NOT GOLD DIGGERS—want a man with DRIVE and AMBITION and PASSION for something in life!
SMART MEN should date women who want to be with them while they are climbing the ladder! A woman should help you ASCEND! If a woman only wants you when you’ve reached the top, she won't stay with you if you ever DESCEND!😡
Tomas Gallucci retweeted
This is the IT department at FIS .Entire company is filled with H1B and H4 ainties .Not a single American except one c-suite lady .This is not immigration.this is invasion . This is replacement of Americans workers. These are not Americans .
Tomas Gallucci retweeted
Uhm, no.
Since I was a child, the entire senate and the entire House save for Alaska and Hawaii were all done by the time everybody wanted to go to bed at 11, everything was called, minus House races with a spread of less than 500 votes.
Even California reported same-night, not 4 months later.
If you go to bed on election night and don't know who won a midterm congressional race, that's normal. And if you wake up the next morning and find that a candidate who was behind hours earlier has since pulled ahead, that's normal, too. (via @PolitiFact) to.pbs.org/4zqnWBa
Tomas Gallucci retweeted
For the past week I've read on here that Obamacare premiums are set to rise 13%, which follows large increases in preceding years. Simultaneously there are endless stories of Medicare/Medicaid fraud, usually by foreigners.
Those of us who patiently pay our taxes and follow the rules are a bunch of suckers.
Tomas Gallucci retweeted
Our insurance premiums are going up 13% while Indians are scamming $20 million each from Medicaid.
For the past week I've read on here that Obamacare premiums are set to rise 13%, which follows large increases in preceding years. Simultaneously there are endless stories of Medicare/Medicaid fraud, usually by foreigners.
Those of us who patiently pay our taxes and follow the rules are a bunch of suckers.
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**CORRUPTION WATCH**
Walmart cashes about a quarter of every food stamp dollar in the country. Then their lobbyists shows up in Washington to keep the EBT card loaded.
Then underpay their employees who are on the same program. Think about that next time you are in Walmart... we are literally paying part of their compensation while their company falls short.
At the very least its irony but its also corrupt when you consider this is a company worth 850 billion dollars raking in profits.
The card is public. The redemption is private. Then the same companies show up in Washington to keep the program open.
Walmart takes about a quarter of every SNAP dollar in the country. Numerator put it at 25.8 percent of redemptions in the year ending July 2025. State records pulled by reporters also put Walmart and Amazon among the top employers of people on SNAP. Low wage on the way in. Guaranteed customer on the way out.
Massive lobbying effort to keep it this way.
Taxpayer in the middle.
When Congress tightened eligibility in 2025, the grocers did not talk about hunger. They talked about sales. The National Grocers Association said the cuts run about $186 billion over ten years, that eligibility changes alone are about $88 billion of that, and that grocers could lose about 6.7 percent of sales as people come off the card. Kraft Heinz and Ahold Delhaize have already told investors the smaller SNAP crowd dented the earnings report.
The drink makers lobbied the other door. Not “keep illegal aliens on stamps.” Undocumented immigrants are already ineligible. They lobbied against telling the card what it cannot buy. PepsiCo spent nearly $2.8 million on lobbying in the first half of 2025, up from $2.3 million, with SNAP purchase restrictions on the list. The American Beverage Association spent $1.7 million in that same half, more than double the year before, as states moved to block soda and candy.
That is the receipt. A retailer pays wages low enough that the worker qualifies. The worker spends the benefit in the same store. The trade group then fights anything that shrinks the card or steers it off soda. Call it a subsidy if you want to be polite. The engineer name is a closed loop.
It's important that we understand the system and how every part of it appears to be subsidized off of our taxes to make folks rich.
Sources:
Numerator SNAP redemption share via public reporting. National Grocers Association on the 2025 bill and the 6.7 percent sales hit. Bloomberg Government on PepsiCo and American Beverage Association lobbying, first half 2025. Financial Times, May 2026, Kraft Heinz and Ahold on SNAP demand.
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