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Now THAT warms my heart!

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/awkwardness-saturday-january-31-2026

There was more good news—it’s the Art of the Deal: Global Edition. The United Nations, long despised by conservatives, announced yesterday that it faces financial extinction. Yesterday, ABC News reported, “United Nations faces ‘imminent financial collapse’ without urgent action, UN chief says.” ...

In hindsight, looking back with cooler heads, maybe the UN shouldn’t have shut down the escalator right when Trump stepped aboard. Maybe the UN shouldn’t have unplugged his Teleprompter right as his speech started. Just saying. FAFO, and so forth.

Yesterday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres dispatched an urgent letter to all member nations begging for cash. It began, “Dear valuable member, I would hate to have to revoke your gold-star membership, but we need URGENT ACTION ON A 10X MATCH within the next 48 hours!” Or words to that effect. Anyway, Guterres told member nations that the international war-making body will scrape the bottom around July, when difficult decisions must be made, unless overdue members cough up their arrearages.

By overdue members, Guterres was almost certainly referring to the UN’s sugar daddy, the United States. Apparently, we have gotten somewhat behind in paying nearly $2.2 billion in annual dues, plus another $1.8 billion owed for the UN’s laughable “peacekeeping missions.” It amounts to four billion total, which includes last year’s entire annual US membership fee. Nor have we paid anything so far this year, in 2026. (Venezuela, ironically, is the second-worst-paying member, owing around $38 million, which is a rounding error compared to the US’s red-inked ledger.)

The UN’s annual budget is $3.5 billion, or about one-third of Minnesota’s Learing fraud, which to be fair, has been teaching invisible kids for around ten years. Maybe the UN should ask member nation Somalia for the extra support.

So lemme see, Brazil has 220M and we are at 350M people. Seems they should be paying substantially more, per capital. BTW, I’m reading a book on the life of Cândido Rondon, trailblazing explorer…it seems Teddy Roosevelt decided to explore the Amazon region with him. He shows up with a ton of equipment, stupid amounts of elegant food etc etc.- he ended up being carried out on a board, so sick he could barely function. His son Kermit was along. Rondon was eventually elected as the first indigenous president

Noooooooo!

The UN is really good at laundering the cash into bad actor countries five stars for that. Cyprus is the poster child for that.
Trump should be using UN troops on immigration deportations we paid in our share.