I don't think I'm alone now.

John Kirby Defends Woke Military, Says Diversity Equity and Inclusion ‘Important’
July 14, 2023

49-Year-Old Transgender (Biological Male) Runner Takes Bronze Medal Away From Woman at Para World Championships
July 15, 2023

□ [“Shocking No One, Interest in NYPD Police Exam Plummets"]

Have they considered lowering the standards?  That might help, although we already have the "Defund the police" riots and they're letting a lot more criminals go free.  So where's the incentive to join the police in the first place?

Maybe they could announce quotas and refuse to hire any white males until they have the same percentage of all the other genders and skin colors.  That's what every other industry is promoting so why not do that with the police force?  They're the government, they can do that, right?

It goes without saying that this is deliberate.  The lawmakers are on the same side as the criminals so the police are the least important when it comes to enforcing the law.  Well, along with the victims.  It's one of those things that proves the problem with big cities, I assume this is going on elsewhere.  NYC just happens to be the most prominent.

At least they keep bringing in more criminals from other countries.  There are laws against that.

Chicago Suburb is First Town in Midwest to Ban Gas in New Buildings
July 15, 2023

□ [“California Implementing New K-12 Mathematics Framework Based on Social Justice"]

Obviously this is part of the scheme but it's just bewildering what the point of this is.  We already saw them before with [I forget the name, ebonics?] and they're just doubling down.  For that matter, wasn't this imposed in the early Soviet Union, trying to feed leftism into every form of education that children were expected to memorize if they wanted to pass a test.  I don't think it was literally 2+2=5 but they had to explain all the soviet-justice causes to answer a basic question in a subject that had nothing to do with it.

I'm not aware if it carried on through the entire Soviet era.  On the one hand, they had to win a few wars so that does require acknowledging reality but on the other hand, things like the space program essentially stopped once the German scientists who did the actual work retired.  But this is clearly what they're doing in California and expect to impose everywhere else.

Even worse, this delusion gets an extra twist by insisting that black students are too stupid to work basic math but somehow they'll be capable of figuring this out.  Maybe it's based on self-identifying what 2+2 equals.  I really can't see the point of that but this is something they've been pushing for decades so there's obviously a reason.  Or something like that.

Massive Explosion Rocks Dow Chemical Plant in Plaquemine, Louisiana
July 15, 2023

□ [“4 People Shot and Killed in South Atlanta – Black Male ‘Active Shooter’ Still at Large"]
□ [“Elderly Maryland Woman Killed After Being Run Over by Black Man in Stolen Forklift in Home Depot Parking Lot"]

There is no report on the skin color of the victims but that doesn't matter much.  There's a ridiculous number of crimes committed by a particular skin color and there doesn't seem to be any civilized people willing to stop this.  At least not of the same skin color.

Given the enormous number of attacks we've seen in the last few years, I doubt the skin color of the victims is particularly relevant.  Might be an excuse here or there but it's really just about killing people and, like it or not, black people are usually found with other blacks.  That's the way Democrats want it.

This does seem to line up several of the left's standard practices.  Population reduction, banning guns, blacks being so oppressed that shooting people is the only sensible option.  They've been able to spend centuries developing this fantasy and imposing it on their subjects as the ideal.

40 Human Skulls from Harvard Discovered Inside of Kentucky Man’s Apartment
July 15, 2023

□ [“Idiot German Eco Terrorist Screams in Pain as Rescue Workers Try to Free His Hand After He Glued Himself to Road"]

Yes, of course it's fun to watch but there's a valid question about what should really be done with these creatures.  'Just leave them there' is totally understandable but they're blocking the road.  It might take weeks for them to die of starvation and it would be wrong to hold the road up for so long.  So what other options are there?

Is the road still functional if you slice off part of it and leave that attached to their hands, just as they chose to do?  Or at least would it be cheap and easy to replace the cement?  Same problem as before, damaging the road is not a proper response.  Or we could just cut their hand off and leave it there, but then it just leaves a mess behind.  The punishment should fit the crime but let's not inconvenience the citizens.

The people who did this obviously deserve no sympathy.  They put themselves into this mess, they can live with the consequences.  Or die, it's not like they have anything worthwhile to add to the world.  Unless their group has ads that say they totally oppose population reduction, it can start with them.

Netanyahu Rushed to Hospital After Losing Consciousness
July 15, 2023

Still paying attention to movies I have no interest in watching.  The new Tom Cruise movie might not be the hit it was expected to be.  In its first three days, it hasn't done as well as Indiana Jones or the Flash and it's way below Ant-Man 3's first three days of release.  If so, that would be a disaster for the whole movie industry, adding Paramount to the high budget bombs along with Disney and Warner Bros.  Ant-Man 3 made as much money on opening day as Tom Cruise has made in three days.

Maybe the movie will have some legs, I dunno.  I'm not a Tom Cruise fan, I've literally just looked up his career to see what movies I've seen that he's in and have already forgotten.  Very few.  And this is a series of big-budget movies based on a tv show so no idea how that works.  So maybe this will be a hit, one of the few Hollywood has had this year, or maybe it's another financial disaster.

Even if this does turn out to be successful, Hollywood is having major problems.  One hit will not pay for all their failures and with the writers and actors on strike, they've got every incentive to just go to cgi animation.  Strange to believe but animation is actually cheaper than making live-action movies, so there's more chance of profit.  Or they could just re-release good movies that people might actually want to see.  Assuming we don't already have them.

Democrat Rep. Pramila Jayapal at Leftist Conference: “We Have Been Fighting to Make it Clear That Israel is a Racist State!”
July 15, 2023