If I had known we'd end up here, I'd have become a space monster

India Lands Chandraayan-3 on Lunar South Pole
August 23, 2023

□ [“California Democrats Want to Give Unemployment Benefits to Hollywood Strikers"]

If you have a job but you don't want to show up, you'll still get paid.  Wonder what the motivation for this is.  But it'll probably only apply to certain people who get privileges that most people are denied.  Because they vote Democrat so they can't be treated like the peons, the ones who have to pay for these middle-class people (at least) to not have to work.  I assume this law will be passed unanimously.

Still trying to figure out that point of the Hollywood strikes.  Few people have any interested other than entertainment, almost nobody is actively supporting them, especially their stupider demands like increasing the number of employees and basing it on skin color and whatever other distinctions they're after.  The fact that this is happening along with a large number of expensive movie failures indicates that this was the plan, but what's the goal?

Something to do with A.I. seems like the best guess but the people involved couldn't be stupid enough to think they can plan for this, could they?  But then what will they do with it?  A.I. writers and actors would effectively be expensive cartoons, but that wouldn't guarantee an audience, so what other options are there?

Blue Beetle has become the latest failure.  After its first three days, Barbie has gone back to the #1 spot.  We all expected it to be a bomb but a few people (myself included) were at least skeptical enough to say it *might* do well, or at least ok.  It's just about being cautious, otherwise I'm sure we'd be laughing at our successful prediction now if we'd just gone with the obvious.  I know I would.

So by now it must be official, the popularity of superhero movies is gone.  I'll say it again, there's three possibilities, there's the generic tropes which have grown boring, the Hollywood propaganda and the economy which decreases the desire to pay for ever-more expensive tickets.  The specifics are probably different for each person, but there they are.  The Flash couldn't even succeed with Michael Keaton as Batman, and they probably won't get him back again.  Maybe Ezra Miller is still available.

I'm trying to speculate what's going on behind closed doors.  James Gunn is supposed to be in charge and nobody has a clue what his decisions are, whether there will or won't be another movie about this or that character, whether they will or won't include which actors or be connected to other movies.  I get the impression that he's just over his head, probably spending too much time with little boys touching his silly place. That would explain how he got the job.

The continuity is pointless.  It's difficult enough to keep continuity in line with one series featuring a large group of people on-stage and behind-the scenes, it's just ridiculous to think that will work for a movie franchise.  Star Wars did a good job because it was created and owned by one man.  The original Star Trek was a bunch of stand-alone episodes and it's the obsession of the fans that has made any of that work.  [Never been a trekkie, I have no idea if it's worked at all, but...]  Otherwise, the closest you get is a movie sequel that isn't bad, Godfather II probably being the best-known example.

Otherwise, there's little that works beyond novelty.  You might have the Three Stooges meet Jack the Ripper or something like that, but fans of either side don't take it too seriously.  And that's just in movies.  Remember, Superman and Batman didn't hang out in each other's stories.  The early team-ups were broken into individual pages done by the character's creative teams.  Archie and Disney characters knew each other but they were in short, one-off stories that could be read in any order with no difference.

The turning point was when Stan, Jack and Steve were basically the only creators handling the entire run of titles.  They could keep track of what was going on in each title and build on previous stories.  This is basically what's led to the modern era of mass entertainment and is why it's failing.  The notion of continuity has finally infected every industry so now they're incapable of producing an interesting story.

Japan Issues Shelter-In-Place For Okinawa After North Korea Fires Ballistic Missile
August 23, 2023

□ [“Maine Hospital Holds Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Prayer Service Where Whites Apologize for Their 'Internalized Racism'"]

This is just...  These people are broken.  They are not capable of functioning as basic human beings and they're the ones who have seized control of the world.

The psychology of most Democrats is pretty simple: They are neurotic people who are failures in most aspect of life, but have large egos and wish to be big and important. The constant crusades of big-government socialism, and the quixotic fascism of woke totalitarianism, allows these petty, marginal beings to feel as if they are strong-thewed muscular sword-and-sorcery heroes cutting down foes all around them.

It's like they were just born that way.  I can see the reasoning behind the first son of every family being the important one.  

□ [“Some Thoughts on Why Leftists Can Only Destroy and Never Create"]

This is really just a note-to-self, I'm doing a few things at the moment.  Where I think there's a plan is that they've been able to take over the entire world to impose their insane views.  The only advantage we have is that they are just automatic failures.  They can't get by without real men and those are the ones they're trying to destroy.

It's proof that God is male, that's why they always oppose Him.  It also explains their need to molest children.

Putin: Ukraine “Throwing Their Soldiers On Our Minefields, Under Our Artillery Fire, As If They Are Not Their Own Citizens”
August 23, 2023

□ [“Those Who Disobeyed Road Barricade Survived Maui Fire; Those Who Didn’t Perished"]

I'm still going back and forth on if the Maui fires were deliberate.  Convincing arguments could be made either way.  But what's really coming across is the incompetence of liberal leaders.  This is where I think we have the closest to a chance of winning, that the left is fundamentally incompetent, they are *broken.*

At least a few generations ago, they still had to be capable of doing basic tasks and valuing competence.  Virtually everybody's life was spent growing food to survive, there was no other choice.  But progress and invention was finally capable of giving people time to think, or oppose thought.

That's what worries me, it is still possible they could be making plans.  Even more, they can get others to make plans and then pick-and-choose from there.  Then there's all the foreign military agents crossing the border.  I can't figure out why they haven't attacked yet but that just suggests they've got even bigger plans which probably involve wiping out *everybody.*

Biden Administration Announces Massive $5 Billion COVID-19 Funding Called “Project NextGen”
August 23, 2023

Tonight is the people who want to come in a distant second to Trump have a debate.  Maybe they'll even have to say they'll fire the prosecutors going after Hunter.  Seriously, this is just a joke showing how damaged our country is.  It's been going back a long time but has become alarmingly obvious over the last three years.

None of these people have charisma, they don't really have any ideas and if they did, they wouldn't have been permitted to make it this far.  I'm really starting to think that the "long game" has involved leftists spending decades pretending to be Republicans so they can infiltrate the party and eventually take over, a 'controlled opposition.'

Even without the election theft, none of these people have a chance of beating Biden.  The last few years have been all about destroying America and these people have done nothing but support it, or at least pretend to oppose it.  There's barely going to be any mention of inflation, of gas prices, of ESG scores or spending billions upon billions of dollars for a war that doesn't involve a NATO ally.  They're not going to ask how many people are dying of "suddenly" and only a token reference to Biden and Hunter taking bribes.  Real problems that real people are having and they want nothing to do with it. The Hollywood strike will probably get more attention.