The internet is annoying. I mean more than usual.

British PM Rishi Sunak Rolls Back Multiple Environmental Policies in ‘Pragmatic’ Move, Worries About Financial Impact on Families
September 22, 2023

□ [“Polish PM Morawiecki Warns Zelensky ‘Never to Insult Poles Again’, as Grain Ban Feud Intensifies"]

Step-by-step, WWIII gets closer to being open.  We never would have thought Eastern Europe would start moving to the side of Russia but darnit, the western rulers just keep doubling down to make sure that happens.  This is the sort of thing that would make rational people question what mistakes they've made and try to turn around as soon as possible before going over the cliff.  But those people are not in charge of our side.

I do wonder how much of this shift is coming from dealings with Russia.  On one hand, Russia obviously has decades of experience Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, so they would probably know how to manipulate them.  On the other hand, they also have decades of experience dealing with western leftists, so it's quite possible that Russia just pointed out that 'the west will respond this way' and were proven right.

Eastern Europe really doesn't want to be 'woke,' they had to put up with too much of that crap in the 20th century.  They have every incentive to be turning away from westerners now that we aren't living up to all the decades of inspiration we provided them.  

Vegas Teen Brags He will Be ‘Out Jail in 30 Days’ After Mowing Down Biking Retired Police Chief
September 22, 2023

□ [“German Razor Company Features Trans Individual with Double Mastectomy Scars as a 'Model'"]

Anheizer-Bush is a German company, haven't these Germans heard about the major problems they've been having with this stupid idea all year?  Yet they just decided to do it anyway?  How can these people be so stupid and still put in charge of companies?

At least it would be believable if these companies had all pushed this out at the same time.  Or if they waited a long period of time between each addition so one day, you finally realize that you're surrounded by these made-up genders and had never noticed it before.  But here they're just holding off long enough to annoy everybody and then the next one comes along to aggravate people even further.

I'm sure it takes companies a while to figure out their advertisements and it's probably different for each company in each industry, but how do these companies not have anyone anywhere who will say 'let's *not* destroy our company'?  They have to know that's what they're doing.  Yet they just keep pushing down on this insanity.

Leaked Images Show What Biden Admin Plans to Hand Out to Illegals at Border
September 22, 2023

□ [“New Report Suggests Disney CEO Iger Wants to 'Quiet the Noise' Surrounding Culture War 'Not Healthy for the Company’s Business'"]

He's lying.  He's said this sort of thing before and was lying then.  The guess is that he's just trying to keep his job to give him more time to ruin Disney as he's been doing.  Lucky for him, most of the chief stockholders have the same goal.  They're going to keep pushing the 'woke' agenda.  At most, they'll try to hide it a little more, no idea if that will work at all.

The thing about damaging a brand is that once it's been ruined, it's very difficult to get back.  Off the top of my head, the only exceptions I can think of are sports teams where they have to replace the players every decade or two, so it's obviously a new team even if it has the same trademarks.  Disney was very important to many people and they're not getting that back, and that's not counting the damage they've done to Lucasfilm, Marvel or Pixar in little over a decade.

Did the people in charge actively think this would be successful or was the whole goal to tear it all down?  If it was the former, they were obviously failing right away so you'd think someone would have turned them around.  If it's the latter...  I don't know, I still can't conceive of how people like this get anywhere in life, much less to the top of a mega media corporation.

I have been wondering if this is part of the decades-long attempt to burn everything down while achieving power.  I'll just make up a simplified example to prove my point since I don't know business or taxes and even if I did, couldn't explain it to others who didn't already understand it.  But here we go:

We always hear leftists complain how profitable companies are and their chief executives.  The company profits don't include expenses but the executives were hired for their negotiation abilities.  Think about it, you're hiring someone to negotiate on your behalf, do you expect them to do a bad job when you hire them and work out a contract to pay them?

These people also understand tax laws so they would look for the benefits.  You're the company, I'm the negotiator you want to hire.  If I say you have to give me $100 million cash before I show up to the job interview, it's guaranteed that you won't hire me.  But what about if you buy a mansion and in ten years you sell it to me for $1.  You get a tax break because you never did maintenance on the mansion, I get a tax break because I'm buying a dilapidated mansion and since I was already living there for ten years, I hired the maintenance.

As I said, that's a made-up example, but is it too far out of line for what the elites are able to get away with over stock options and taxes?  Especially when you consider how many different levels these huge companies operate on.  Understanding of how that works would be helpful for me or any other negotiator you hire.

Then there's the way our leftist friends can work for the government and let us know how the perks work.  Look how many rich politicians and their families run "non-profit" companies.  I definitely don't understand how those work but it's clearly a way to avoid the rules that competent workers and employers have to function under, and the fact that they're so wealthy and complain so much about *other people* having money basically tells us what they're going for.

So this is the result of decades of twisting the tax laws for rich leftists.  We do know that most tax laws don't apply to most people because we're not remotely rich enough to ever deal with them.  It's the people who hire lawyers who get to find creative ways to keep their money while claiming to be non-profit.  I think that's the basic virus that's been used to take over all these companies and make them *woke.*

Resistance strikes the Senate over the new dress code
September 22, 2023

□ [“Senator Bob Menendez [D-NJ] and His Wife Indicted on Corruption Charges"]

Who in their right minds would bribe the guy who runs the Foreign Relations Committee?  They even paid him in cash and gold bars, don't they know how digital currency works?  By they way, is there any proof that these bribes were going to the senator?  Maybe it was all to his wife for her wonderful paintings or her skills at natural gas production in Ukraine, ever think of that?  But no, they charge this politician for no reason.  How racist!

This is the third time he's been charged with corruption after 2015 and 2018, but somehow the charges keep being dropped there too.  Like Dianne Feinstein's Chinese spy and whatsisname banging a Chinese spy, we can assume this will all be dropped quickly enough to keep him in office.

I'm sure it's embarrassing to leftists but it's just another example of how oppressed they are.  Think we'll ever even find out who's paying him the bribes?  Probably not.  If Menendez can get paid, so can everybody else.  They're just teasing us with the notion that this will go anywhere.

Biden to Install Anti-2nd Amendment Activists in White House
September 22, 2023