I think government is a government-conspiracy and if you disagree, you can't be trusted.

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April 18, 2025

□ [“Joe Biden is Trying to Charge $300K to Give Speeches But No One is Buying"]

People don't want to spend money to have anything to do with Biden?  What about the zillions of people who voted for him in 2020?  You'd think they need his senility wisdom more than ever now.  They could even ask for details about how he came to the decision that he shouldn't run again and how he managed to convince the DNC to go along with him.  It's like no one wants to give that any thought.

But it's strange how this happens at the same time that Hunter stops selling his expensive paintings.  Maybe if they offered one of them free for whoever pays his father to speak.  It looks like nobody will give them money if Joe is no longer in office which leads to some questions about why they'd give them money when he was in office.  No one wants to be the last one paying Biden off when the secrets come out.

Obama was getting 400K for speeches when he left office and that was before all the inflation.  The fees aren't just a payoff, it goes to staff as well.  Hard to believe but Biden has people around him who think others want to be around him.  With rumors about Hunter's financial problems, and other long-time celebrities in similar predicaments, I'm wondering if these people always expected the money to keep coming in, so they have no savings ready when it stops.

Have to admit, I thought it was weird that he was even trying to go make speeches.  He's spent his whole life as a politician, so that's just part of his character, but he's senile and thrown out with a coup and really old.  There's a point where'd think he and the people around him just wouldn't want to keep going out.  But maybe it's more of a necessity than we realize.  Biden's people work for Joe Biden, they probably aren't the sharpest knives in the bunch.

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April 18, 2025

□ [“Tulsi Gabbard Releases 10,000 Pages of RFK Assassination Documents — 50,000 More Pages Incoming"]

Well, that's a start.  I only realize this in hindsight, but it doesn't seem to be making a big deal to people at the moment.  I've had several webpages open for weeks on what's been revealed from the JFK files and haven't even looked yet.  And nobody that I follow has mentioned anything.  Virtually none of this stuff would be meaningful to anyone but the most obsessive, but either there was nothing important that wasn't already known or people are deliberately staying silent about what's come out.

Looking into the articles, I don't know how much of this was known to the obsessed and how much was obvious whether you knew it or not.  Oswald desperately wanted to work for Russia and/or Cuba.  The CIA was involved in many places.  There's a worldwide list of cities they had bases in, I guess that would be useful.  Supposedly they ran the State Department and JFK wanted to shut them down.  The CIA didn't think there was a lone gunman, but I don't think they said who any of the others were.

That's about it, not that interesting.  The other files I had open, which obviously I haven't looked at, are people taking their own conspiracy theories further based on whatever they find.  I really don't think Hitler managed to get out of Russian-surrounded Berlin and moved to Argentina where he died decades later [assuming he's not still alive...] and nobody bothered to mention this until now.

He just spoke natural Spanish and got by without power or influence and nobody ever needed to escape before being purged.  Bernie Sanders needs private jets to go around to his rallies but Hitler would just use public transportation?  Or walk around on foot?  Or had 1940s Argentineans asking who's that white guy driving a car around?  Not buying it.  Anyway, back to the JFK conspiracies...

What does strike me are all the immediate connections.  People we've heard of, in or out of the assassination theories, seeming relevant again.  Amusing tidbits like JFK Jr. writing a letter to Joe Biden, calling him a traitor, probably for hiding the secrets.  Or more relevant connections, like we see with the CIA and other names.  It's real easy to make conspiracy theories out of this stuff and if anyone is paying attention to these releases, they're probably digging through all the years of examinations they've already been through, looking for any sudden changes.

Sounds like there was nothing here to bring them to a close, that will be the same for RFK and MLK.  It's true that there are still JFK documents that haven't been released, but we also know there's a lot of P. Diddy and Epstein allies walking around loose and that isn't being revealed either.  People are tired of not winning and these files aren't going to change that, so do something about it.

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April 18, 2025

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April 17, 2025

□ [“Fantastic 4 Full Trailer Reaction And Breakdown"]

Odds are at this point I won't see the movie, but there's still a slight chance.  I could still find enough affection for the FF to be curious but there's not much else.  The trailer itself is just done very badly, opening with a description of who the FF are, how they got their powers, how everybody loves them for doing something that's not explained.  It's all coming off like propaganda with nothing to actually base it on.  It's the fricking Fantastic Four, we don't need a roadmap but actual good characters would be helpful.

About the best thing I can say about the trailer is that Johnny seems more believable.  Badly written, but he at least came off as the character we know.  He would say nice and/or funny things about finding out his sister's pregnant, he would not gush about how she'll be the best mom ever.  And that's about as good as the trailer gets.  The media asks Reed "Are we safe?" and an actor who doesn't remotely look like Reed is confused before finally answering "I don't know."  The *real* Reed would have ten different answers with long explanations of more than one syllable per word, all summed up with 'yes.'

Sue is the 'girl boss' who's supposed to be the main character, and thinks it's helpful to give orders because 'we're a family.'  If you need to tell people you're family, you really aren't, especially your brother and husband.  She's just pretending to believe she's an actual woman, that's probably why they're including her pregnancy here.  They'll probably skip Franklin and get to the second child, a girl, whose name escapes me.  Sue will probably be the one who beats up the not-Silver Surfer.

Ben is just a goof that everybody loves.  They made sure to include that stupid dinner cooking from the teaser, which almost guaranteed I won't see the movie.  It's like they read some short character descriptions to a bunch of focus groups before writing a script and changed the actual characters based on the responses.

I don't know or care much about the cgi or the 1960s setting anyway and I watched it on my cellphone so other people's complaints or comments about that didn't matter to me.  It just comes off as something the people in charge expect us to like and they won't accept any dissent.  That may be what they remember from the 60s but it's not what the FF brought to the world.  And I'm not even getting into the 'multiverse' idiocy.

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April 18, 2025

□ [“Liberal Supreme Court Justice Kagan Denies Emergency Appeal to Stop Illegal Mexican Family Deportation"]
□ [“DC Circuit Court Halts Judge Boasberg’s Contempt Order Against Trump Admin Officials"]

The judicial conflict is still going on.  This or that judge rules for or against Trump.  But a few like these suggest that more is going on in the background.  Kagan made no comment, but despite being a leftist, she wasn't going to help these Mexicans.  The circuit court wants Boasberg to explain his decision without including the merits of that decision, near as I can tell with all the legal words being used.

They're putting down lines which can only be crossed with specific legal reasons.  Finding people in contempt for not obeying an order you had no authority to give, what's up with that?  Now maybe that decision can be justified but it'll take more than just because you say so.  And if you disagree, here's some judges that say so.

The same DC circuit court stepped in on another judge.  Biden's EPA was grabbing all the money it could in its final days, Trump stopped it.  A judge overruled Trump and the money needed to be funneled to whoever immediately, this court has put that on hold.  I'd like to know how much of this is predetermined by established legal practices and how much is battle-by-battle between different judges.  I'm just going to be pessimistic and assume it won't favor our side, but when is the Supreme Court going to speak out on this?

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