Not much today.

Biden Heads to Wilmington after Spending Week at Beach House – a Full Year of His Presidency On Vacation
August 4, 2023

Eric Adams Now Considers Housing Illegal Immigrants in Tents in New York City’s Central Park
August 5, 2023

There's a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie.  It's a cartoon so it's much cheaper than the standard live action superheroes, but it doesn't seem to be doing well.  It's taken three days to make more than Indiana Jones did on opening day and you know what a monster hit that was.  It has a chance and they haven't covered international box office yet, but still...

It's a Paramount movie, as was the recent Tom Cruise movie, so this definitely isn't just a problem for Disney.  It basically comes down to people boycotting a lot of these movies in general, and/or it's the economy ensuring that they're not going to waste money on stuff like this.  The massive success of Barbie and Super Mario Bros. shows that it's still possible to have a hit, but it has to be something people want to see.  Why you'd want to see these is a different issue, but it's still there.

I don't know how TMNT is being handled but from the failures we've seen of late, the studios are blaming marketing and the fans.  Marketing is fundamentally collectivist, grouping people however you want to so you can tell everybody what to do or not do.  It obviously works to an extent but that doesn't mean it's accurate, so that just leave blaming the fans, who are somehow incapable of deciding not to spend money on this crap.

The fact that Barbie is so massively successful makes me wonder if they really have some sort of plan, basically tearing down all their old icons.  That makes no sense and I don't know why they would do it, but what other explanation is there?  They actually expected all these other movies to be at least mildly successful and are completely missing out on why they're getting it wrong every time?

I would also assume the studios are all working together on this.  Disney gets all the blame but all the major studios have been handled by rich and famous leftists for decades, so they're definitely in on giving the government absolute power and using them as propaganda.  Consciously or not, I think that's what the boycotts are about.

Award-Winning Barack Obama Biographer Drops Several Claims That Obama Frequently Fantasized about Gay Sex to Former Girlfriend
August 4, 2023

Obama Judge Who Worked with Hunter Biden Gives Trump Until 5PM Monday to Respond to Motion to Silence Him Before Trial
August 5, 2023

□ [“Riot Breaks Out in New York City – Crazed Youths Waiting For Social Media Star’s PlayStation 'Giveaway'"]

That's...  *sigh*  Riots for a video game.  I know the rioters are black but come on, people!  Is that why you're here, to get a PS5?  They're just too lazy to go out and shoplift one which they totally get away with in this city.  And they're probably whining about being oppressed because they have so much free time to riot for a video game.

This is just depressing.  Sure, I can make observations like it's their skin-color and the leftists in charge and an increase in the overall insanity we're all facing these days, but come on!  This is just mindlessness for its own sake.

And why were the police sent to do anything?  Isn't NYC one of those places that hired a bunch of social justice warriors to handle tasks like this?  Give the police less to focus on?  Or is this too dangerous so the rulers can't risk their own actual servants, so they'll send in cops?  That seems more likely.

Illegal Chinese Bio-Lab Discovered in Fresno, California Was Subsidized by Gavin Newsom
August 4, 2023

Two U.S. Navy Sailors of Chinese Origin Arrested for Passing Highly Sensitive Military Information to China
August 5, 2023

□ [“Backpage Founder Commits Suicide Ahead of Federal Trial"]

Backpage is a website to find cheap, easy sex.  They've also been dealing with prostitution and underage.  And suicide was the next step?  Didn't he know Democrats are in charge?

There has been a number of odd suicides lately, people who may or not be famous or wealthy.  Even if they are, they're very low on the ladder, but it just sticks out that they went to suicide while under investigation or that they were about to be.  We don't see any conspiracy between them but this is happening enough that there has to be something going on.  My guess would be that it has to do with the child-trafficking.

Somebody is doing something about this.  Under normal circumstances, I would say it's the feds, and maybe they are part of it, but we don't live in normal circumstance.  If nothing else, you'd think they'd be keeping a watch to make sure these people don't kill themselves, at least not until they've given out all the info.

And maybe that's what's happened, whether it's the FBI or some secret organization.  For that matter, it's entirely possible that there was no suicide, but it was reported like there was.  Then again, with the way things are these days, maybe it's China or something like that.

Democrats and Media Come After Third Party Candidate Cornel West for Unpaid Taxes
August 4, 2023

Green Hypocrisy in Full Swing: 16 Million Trees Axed for Wind Farms in Hypocritical Eco-Crusade in Scotland
August 5, 2023

□ [“Austrian leader proposes enshrining the use of cash in his country’s constitution"]

More countries are getting involved with things like this, especially the lesser powers who have to put up with others pushing this.  I think it's probably different for each nation and probably for each individual in that nation, but they all see the problems with this digital currency.  If I remember correctly, the US is even retreating to a national digital currency because the rest of the world can't be forced to go along with this.  So far.

I've wondered what will happen if and when they mandate the switch.  Can people just start paying their rent and buying groceries like nothing else has changed?  You'd think so because that would be a convenient bribe - I know I'd go along with that just out of convenience - but many people wouldn't do it at all and a lot more aren't going to get required IDs, much less implants, to cover this.

Then there's the question of the money just appearing or does it get transferred from the already-existing bank accounts?  That's another thing nobody's going to go along with.  This digital currency is just a form of financial hostage-taking when very few people will accept.  As I said, rent and groceries are fine but not if it's coming out of my bank account and not if the government takes control of it.  Which they already have but you get my point.  At least in theory, I can skip paying food and rent, cash out the account and buy a new car in cash.  But that's what they're trying to stop.

One thing they're doing with this is bringing back the old insights on these systems were created in the first place.  It's not about power, much as the power-lusters claim otherwise.  Money is about spending your time and effort in exchange for the currency to purchase what you choose.  Each individual has that right and our rulers want to deny that at all costs.

Moderna Executive Faces Intense Scrutiny from Australian Senator over Failure to Provide Serious Adverse Reaction Data for Covid mRNA Shot
August 5, 2023

Well, not sure it it's true, but apparently there will be a new Guns'n'Roses song out in a week.  Well, not really new, this is one of the tracks that existed long before Chinese Democracy was finally released.  It was included in some of the leaks although I'm having trouble finding which leak it was.  In a little over 100 days, the release of Chinese Democracy will be closer to their previous album, Spaghetti Incident, than to today.  They had released two tracks in between those two albums, one of which included Slash and Duff, before they quit the band.  In 2021, they released two tracks, the first studio recordings released since Chi Dem.  And that's all they've had to show for the last 30 years.

I've long wondered if they were a puppet.  I can't figure out how that work in music, but they were insanely promoted for the first several years - hanging out with Hollywood druggies will do that - and then just stopped, but not for any real reason.  Ok, fine, they could be manufactured by the elites and the media, but they still have to produce something people want to listen to.  They created one album and a handful of other songs and still sell tons of concert tickets to this day.  They're not selling well for the current USA tour but they did fine in Europe.

Could that be why they're doing this release (if they actually are)?  It's possible.  But the fact that Slash and Duff have been back for seven years and this is all they have to show for it tells us that this isn't a real band.  Sure, they do solo albums, but this is not how musicians actually work.  Being in control was far more important to Axl than actually doing anything, and that's what he's done for thirty years.

Woke NASCAR Indefinitely Suspends Young Driver for Liking Meme Mocking George Floyd
August 5, 2023