I thought Darth Vader betrayed and murdered the cat!

DNC Chair Ken Martin Withdraws Resolution Recognizing Israel’s Right to Exist
August 26, 2025

Robert E. Lee Painting Returns to West Point
August 31, 2025

□ [“After Days of Wild Conspiracy Theories Aibout His 'Death,' Trump Has Public Sighting"]

Maybe it's just because all the public attention never stops but I hadn't even noticed until yesterday.  The left should be really disturbed by how obsessed they are with this guy.  I will admit that just because of the times we live in, his absence was a bit worrisome.  For that matter, there are reasons to suspect this is some sort of fraud and there are few explanations that would make Trump look good.

That said, I wonder if he just decided he needed a break.  Trump's work ethic is outstanding but nobody can keep that pace up 24/7.  Getting close to a holiday, it makes sense that he'd take a week or so off.  It's also believable that his time-off would be *before* the holiday, so that he can go to work and fewer people will be around to bother him.

As for the negative aspects, there is a reason to worry about his health.  There's also the fact that Trump is often much shorter than we've seen for most of his public life.  There are conspiracy theories that this is an impostor and I sorta agree, but I don't think any of these theories have a believable explanation.  My reasoning is that Joe Biden had imposters too, so why did they keep around the old senile idiot?  He could still be mostly kept out of the public eye, speak more coherently the rare times he is seen, and still say last year that health problems mean he won't run for election.

With Trump, I'm starting to wonder if it really is some unbelievable explanation.  Maybe it's not an impostor, it's the real Trump who has been physically changed somehow.  Maybe it's a common Secret Service tactic but with so much danger, they've made the imposter permanent.  Just speculation of course but this is just added to the list of things I'm not happy that Trump is going along with.

First Population-Wide Peer-Reviewed Study Finds Covid “Vaccines” Increase Risk of Multiple Cancers
August 31, 2025

□ [“UK Protests Gain Steam"]

I hope this is true.  My big worry is that it will just be like the protests here in the US, old white people with nothing better to do.  It'll just go on and barely anybody will notice or care.  But although there's not much in the way of news, this does appear to be continuing in ways the rulers don't want.  But they're the ones who made it necessary.

On both sides of the Atlantic, we see our elites just become open about tyranny.  Fortunately it's not as bad here, but we see celebrities just ordering people who disagree to stay silent.  Will Smith is the most recent one I noticed, but this just isn't a place where you should be able to think you can get away with that.  I assume this is why they invented terms like "dis/mis-information" as an excuse to demand silence and censor speech.

It's worse in Europe of course.  They're openly siding with child rapists and invaders.  I don't think we've heard anything from the 14-year old girl arrested for trying to protect herself.  They have to let this keep happening but they also can't admit that.  Maybe her fellow prisoners will know how to handle her.

LGBT man dressed as a woman blames Christian parents for the Minneapolis shooting
August 31, 2025

□ [“Israel Kills Ahmad Ghaleb al-Rahawi, Yemeni Politician and Houthi PM"]

Other Houthi leaders were killed in the attack.  This is clearly part of the proxy war against Iran.  This may make a difference for the Red Sea although we haven't heard much about what's going on there.  It is strange to watch this part of the war, where once-in-a-while something happens but there's no real context that we can see.  Yet the attack on Iran seems to have made a difference, so perhaps this one will too.

Meanwhile there's talk about Israel immigrating the philistines someplace else.  Strange how the people who support illegal immigration are totally against this.  Their home is so miserable that they need to go somewhere else to live a better life, isn't that the point?  Why is it different here?  And not just because no one wants to put up with the philistines.

Naturally Europe is all against Israel, siding with their new Muslim masters.  They've also continued to follow their old leftist masters, redefining "genocide" so it still applies to the ever-growing population.  They never even notice the contradiction, nor ask why they side with the anti-gay anti-abortion side against the nation where both are legal.  70+ years of leftists proving why they're guaranteed to fail.

Guess What? NYT Says Mamdani Is Not a Socialist!
August 31, 2025

□ [“Netflix Co-Founder Donates $2 Million to Support Newsom’s Redistricting Effort"]
□ [“Teachers Union Helps Fund Newsom’s Radical Redistricting Push Ahead of 2025 Vote"]

This has got to be about laundering money for some reason, otherwise what's the point?  The state government is the one doing the redistricting, they already have tax money and they already agree with these donors on the goal.  Is this a way to help pay Kamala Harris' campaign debt?  Have all the other options of giving bribes suddenly vanished?

Newsom clearly self-identifies as the chosen 2028 candidate but it's increasingly looking like he's gone off the rails.  There's incoherent media statements, like defending the redistricting by saying "we’re gonna punch these sons of bitches in the mouth.”  There's paying someone to post online for him, there's ignoring problems in the state.  Haven't rebuilt anything from last year's fires, and none of the charity donations went to the victims.  The state debt just keeps growing.  There's the failed high-speed rail which has barely started getting build, years behind schedule and many millions over budget.  There's the way he always supports illegal immigrants over actual Californians, no matter what California laws they break.  And his wife's non-profit is being investigated for laundering a lot of money.  She was recently seen taking selfies with a gang-member and child-rapist.

But Newsom seems to be coming off like his aunt and I don't mean that in a good way.  Nancy's an aging lush but at least she used to be capable of politics.  Newsom's much younger but seems to be in the same situation.  Not sure if they're deliberately trying to set up a political dynasty but this just looks like an increasing failure, which they're already surrounded by.

Democrat Lehigh County PA Commissioner Arrested at City Hall In Massive Multi-State Drug Bust
August 31, 2025