MAGA voters are moving to Russia 'because it feels like America during the 1950s and 20% of local women look like supermodels'
I too once had a positive view of Putin but his decision to invade Ukraine was clearly a disastrous overreach and I no longer feel any support for him.
The Americans who commented on the good looks of Russian women are right. I particularly admire Polish women but all Slavic women are at an advantage. My girlfriend is Slavic and I think she is unusually good-looking for her age
MAGA voters have explained why they turned their backs on the US for a new life in Russia, claiming the former communist state is a 'positive vision of 1950s America'.
Conservative men have cited the country's Christian values, beautiful women and stunning scenery as the reasons behind their move.
After losing faith in their hero Donald Trump, some have moved as far east as Siberia, unfazed by the prospect of being led by an autocratic dictator.
They have even expressed admiration for Vladimir Putin, choosing to believe his narrative about his decision to invade Ukraine.
'I think he's a good man,' ex-pat Peter Frohwein, 62, told the Free Press. 'This lie that he's somehow a dictator — just because he was in the KGB doesn't mean he's ever killed anybody.'
Frohwein is divorced with no kids, but has hopes of starting up a family. He moved from Atlanta to Yalta in the Crimea in July 2023.
'Twenty percent of the women could be supermodels,' he said, explaining he anticipates his children would speak three languages: English, Russian and Mandarin.
'I wouldn't seriously consider starting a family in the U.S. today,' he added. 'The U.S. is a political mess. Socially, things are a mess. Spiritually, things are a mess.'
Bernd Ratsch, 56, agrees with this assessment of US politics and moved to Moscow from Texas in 2019.
'Is Trump better than Biden? Of course. But do I want him? Would I vote for him again? No. It's just, "Boy, shut your mouth for a while,"' he explained.
Meanwhile, family man Joseph Rose has managed to carve out a career with his YouTube channel documenting his new life in Moscow.
'I would say that Russia is becoming a bastion of Christianity and that America is becoming the opposite of this,' Rose explained.
'I do think it was God leading me to where I needed to be right now. I was put in a spot where I could be used.'
Rose, 49, relocated to Russia from Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife and children and has not looked back since.
'I often say it feels like our positive vision of 1950s America,' he explained.
One program manager from Texas, who wished to remain anonymous, suggested Russia offered a simpler way of life.
'People are running around in America wondering why we have so many problems with suicide and depression, and they’ll virtue signal and talk about the phones, and it’s this and that, and the reality is children are not allowed to be children,' the father-of-six said.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13396031/MAGA-voters-moving-Russia-conservative-values.html
************************************************Seattle Regretting Minimum Wage for Delivery App Drivers
As a regular Doordash customer myself, I hope this folly does not spread. I get excellent service at the moment
Seattle became one of just two cities across the nation to impose a minimum wage for delivery app drivers in January—and now it is having a bit of buyer’s remorse.
The Seattle ordinance mandates that such workers receive the equivalent of at least $19.97 an hour. In a completely predictable fashion, delivery app companies such as Uber Eats, DoorDash and Instacart decided that they could not absorb these added costs and reacted by passing the costs onto consumers in the form of additional customer fees ranging from $5 to as much as $25 per delivery.
As I noted in a column for The Hill earlier this year, New York City’s latest minimum wage increase, to nearly $18 an hour, similarly prompted delivery app companies to impose higher delivery fees, and food delivery workers realized smaller tips and reduced hours and flexibility as a result. The same thing is happening in Seattle.
A recent NPR story noted that many restaurant owners, and some drivers who realize how the law may negatively affect their income, have raised concerns and made their opposition to the ordinance known. Peter Pak, who owns a Korean restaurant in the city, testified against the new minimum wage law at a city council meeting, explaining that orders at his restaurant had dropped by around 40 or 50 percent since it went into effect.
While Seattle City Council President Sara Nelson indicated that she sympathizes with such concerns and wants to find a way to reduce costs, she still does not seem to grasp basic concepts of economics and running a business.
“My interest is to come to an agreement that makes those fees go away so that the cost of deliveries is lower, so that it drives demand up,” Nelson told NPR.
But her proposed solution is to get the delivery app companies to agree to reduce their delivery fees in exchange for compensating drivers less for their time and mileage.
As the saying goes, however, “There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.” The costs must be borne by someone. You can’t use the force of government to impose significantly higher costs on businesses and then simply wish them away. So Nelson and her ilk are trying to fix things by micromanaging businesses even further by telling them to foist more of the costs on drivers and less on consumers (as if that would solve the problem).
Of course, if she were genuinely interested in making the “fees go away so that the cost of deliveries is lower, so that it drives up demand,” all Nelson and others on the city council would need to do is repeal the costly mandates that they imposed on businesses in the first place. But that would be far too sensible.
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Miss Israel is branded a 'war criminal' and threatened with a KNIFE for wearing sign saying 'I'm an IDF soldier' while walking through New York City
Miss Israel Noa Cochva has been blasted as a 'war criminal' and had a knife pulled on her in New York while inviting people to ask her questions about being in the IDF.
The beauty queen filmed herself carrying a poster that said 'I am an IDF soldier. Ask me anything' around Washington Square Park on Monday.
One onlooker slammed Cochva telling the 25-year-old, 'You are a war criminal.' 'How do you sleep at night,' one person asked.
Cochva responded, 'I sleep really well because I know that I'm in the right side of history.'
'I heard there was a Zionist here,' said a woman wearing a camouflage crop top and pants.
She then pulled out a knife and bite off the cover in front of Cochva saying she works on boat.
The woman put her face in the camera saying 'you little Zionist' as the crew tries to backway.
'This is f*****g stupid. You guys should go home,' said one man. 'I don't think there can be peace now,' another said.
An American Air Force soldier asked Cochva how she felt about being required to join the military at a certain age.
'It's the best thing ever. When I served my duty, I felt like I had a really big purpose,' Cochva said. Many people approached the beauty queen and thanked her for her service.
'I'm with your people and I thank you for being so brave and showing that,' a woman said.
Cochva posted the video to Instagram along with an emotional response to the critics.
'The amount of hate that people had for me today. I was just trying to have peaceful conversations with them,' she said.
'But it's a whole different experience to witness something like that. We can't let things like this happen.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13397337/Miss-Israel-Noa-Cochva-New-York-City-IDF.html
*************************************************Judge Blocks Suspensions of Middle School Female Athletes Who Refused to Compete Against Male Student
A West Virginia judge granted a preliminary injunction allowing several middle school girls to compete after the school district banned them from competition after refusing to play against a biological male, according to 12 WBOY, a local media outlet.
Five middle school female athletes forfeited their positions at a track meet in April after they were informed that they would have to compete against a biological male, prompting the school district to allegedly bar the girls from future competitions, according to WDTV News. The students sued and Republican Attorney General Patrick Morrisey of West Virginia filed an amicus brief in support of the students.
A Harrison County judge ordered that the school’s decision be temporarily halted while the lawsuit plays out, according to 12 WBOY.
“I want to say to these students and their parents: I have your backs,” Morrisey said in a press release. “You saw unfairness and you expressed your disappointment and sacrificed your personal performances in a sport that you love; exercised your constitutionally protected freedom of speech and expression.”
The Harrison County Board of Education argued during the injunction hearing Thursday that it had not targeted the female students but that the district’s rules dictate that athletes who voluntarily remove themselves from a meet will also have to skip the following competition, according to 12 WBOY News. The board reiterated this in a statement following the judge’s decision.
“The students were permitted to engage in their selected form of protest without issue,” the board said in a statement, according to a press release. “In fact, the coaches and principal were aware of the likelihood of the protests and permitted the students to remain on the roster for their events. Those students, like all of the other students on the team, however, were subject to a team rule that any player who scratches in an event cannot participate in that event at the next track meet. This neutral, school-specific rule was in place before the students’ protests and has nothing to do with those protests in any way.”
Two of the students claimed, however, that they had never been made aware of the rule and that they had been made to do additional drills at the following practice as punishment, according to 12 WBOY News.
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