When life gives you lemons that need some help, use lemonaids.

Seven People, Including Five Americans and a Telemundo Executive, Die in Helicopter Crash in Kenya
August 19, 2026

□ [“Democrats Bomb Out on Manly Men, Settling for Sexy"]

All these years of telling us masculionity is bad and good looks are subjective, especially heterosexuality, but the left has all ditched that to suddenly declare they've found "sexy men"!  And by an amazing coincidence, they're all totally leftist.  It's like they've completely missed the last decade or three of feminist propaganda.

Last election cycle they finally noticed that men weren't voting for them.  Apparently the best way to attract them is to show off sexy men.  Um...  Something about that doesn't sound quite right.  Where exactly do you find these male voters who are looking for sexy men to vote for?  You know what, I'm not sure I want to know where you find them.

This is just an attempt to ignore a problem that all leftists face, they don't have a clue how to appeal to the working class.  Especially men although they are also limited when it comes to women without a college degree.  At least those women like looking at sexy men but we're always told that women are too smart to fall for that.  And anyway, they're still working class so they have no chance of getting with the rich leftists who oppress us.

The real problem is that leftism only works for the wealthy and they need poor people to stay wealthy.  I forget how many but some DSA leaders have already been exposed as coming from wealth.  They wouldn't have time to aspire to leftism otherwise, they'd be busy earning a living.  The only poor people they deal with are the employees in their mansions who have no chance of ever buying mansions for themselves.  So naturally the elites are going for the most superficial appeal they can find to win over the masses.

Trump Attacks Federal Reserve Governors During Summit with Crypto CEOs and Financial Executives
August 19, 2026

□ [“Harry and Meghan Abandon Hollywood Activism, Crawl Back to Britain Six Years Later"]

I'm surprised they're still married.  I thought she'd have dumped him once she lost all the perks of being attached to the royal family and doesn't strike me as the most devoted wife either.  Maybe it's just about the image, they spent the last six years trying to promote themselves as some sort of 'power couple.'  They've promoted themselves with reality tv and there's just no audience for it.

I'm assuming the British royal family has the most complicated financial system on the planet and it's much cheaper to stuff these two in a mansion for the rest of their lives than to let them go free.  So they're in no danger of poverty but they probably won't be allowed to do anything else.  Harry and his brother reportedly have a very strained relationship, that probably won't change when William takes the throne.

It also doesn't help that he does things like whining about how taxpayers aren't funding his security, or at least not funding as much of it as he wants.  You can make an argument about how much the royal family really deserves that but he's the one who left.  You can't be the public's responsibility in private, especially when you've spent your entire life being so freaking rich.

And now they've found that they can't get anywhere on their own.  All these years complaining about Britain, that's where they run to.  If I was king they wouldn't even be allowed to come back.  This leftist elite mentality is really what's destroyed the civilized world and I'm sure his mother would totally support that if she was still alive.  His father too for that matter.

Karen Bass:  Los Angeles Will Multiply Her Campaign Donations 6-to-1 — “If You Donate $5, the City Turns It Into $35”
August 19, 2026

□ [“Trump Announces 'The Most Crushing Economic Operation Ever Taken Against Any Country' on Iran"]

A few weeks ago you were doing that with the military, now you're using economics?  I'll use the word "tarrifs" for convenience but it's not clear what he's doing.  The threat is against anyone anywhere who is still funding Iran.  Why didn't you do that in the first place?

In theory I can see this is a valid option, although I thought the same thing about the military operations of a few weeks ago, and for the last six months.  But I keep saying this, Muslim countries don't crack under the pressure like western nations do.  Afghanistan stood up against Russia for almost a decade.  We sent in troops and the Taliban retook power a couple decades later.  You need to wipe the mullahs out to get rid of them and I don't see a way to oversee the victory without troops on the ground.  The only other option is for Persians to stand up and fight but that hasn't happened so far and I wouldn't bet on it happening any time soon.

The mullahs just have to survive.  They're threatening more attacks in the Strait and on US assets in Europe.  They might be able to do a bit of damage but probably nothing major.  But they don't have to do anything other than wait.  Just the fact that Trump keeps announcing something big will happen is also a problem, it makes us expect success at some point.  Or progress, let's say progress, we're still not seeing any of that.

In less than three weeks, we will have reached the point where Trump promised gas prices will be a lot cheaper.  I still don't think that has anything to do with Iran, it's based on the oil deals he signed when he took over in January 2025, but I think that's the tipping point.  If gas prices start dropping big time, he'll look good, but if the mullahs are still there, it won't help.  He got rid of Maduro in a day, that was awesome.  This mess is the opposite, it's exactly what he was supposed to avoid.

Hasan Piker’s Brother Held Top-Secret Clearance — Worked on Air Force One and Nuclear “Doomsday Plane” at Boeing
August 19, 2026

□ [“Two Men Dressed as Women Show Up to Toronto WNBA Game – Declare for Next Year’s Draft"]

The WNBA may not even realize they're feeling the heat yet but that's because they're idiots.  The rest of us can see that this is going to keep happening.  There's no way to know how many of these guys are making a point, how many are just enjoying the joke, how many see an opportunity for money or publicity and how many are insane enough to believe they can pick a new gender.  The longer it takes to fix this problem that they brought on themselves, the worse it's going to get.

It may depend on the Al Gore-ithms but my social media has been flooded with pro-trans posts for quite a while.  You can say it's all posted by 'bots but someone is pushing this and it's not helping politicians who really need this topic to go quiet until after they win some elections.  At a guess, I'd say it's partially the insanity of the pro-trans movement and partially just trying to cause chaos in general.  And then there's the 'bots, serving their masters.

So how long with this stay limited to the WNBA?  The females there had been causing problems for a while which I totally ignored because duh, the WNBA.  Black players were attacking one or two of the whites, something like that.  So it was already getting attention when this started.  I don't know if that will happen in other sports or anywhere else but it really does seem to be ready to explode everywhere.  Most people want nothing to do with this trans movement and they don't need our consent so that's going to be conflict.  They're also insane.

French Drones Smuggle Drugs and Cell Phones Into Prisons – Disrupt Work of Hospital Rescue Helicopters
August 19, 2026

North Korea Rejects Trump Overtures, Calling US-South Korea Drills 'Provocative, Aggressive'
August 19, 2026

I don't know, just include something that uses the word "memes" or "cat." It's not like anyone's going to read this anyway.

August 18, 2026 Frank Beard, ZZ Top drummer, age 77
Idaho Café Owner Kicks Pro-Life Conservatives Out of His Establishment, Compares Them to KKK
August 18, 2026

□ [“St. Louis TV Station in a Fight to Retrieve Its Archive After Cloud Company Went Bust"]

In the near-future, this is going to be a big issue for a lot of companies.  This PBS station had a contract with a cloud storage unit but something interfered so now they've lost everything.  Now they've lost their history and needed to work out who to sue to regain access to the storage.  This is a major problem and we're going to see how many companies have to face this.

This is why physical units are so important and, at least anecdotally, appears to be growing in popularity these days.  It's most notable for movies and tv shows, probably music and I'm sure other mediums are following.  You pay the company for a copy of their product, it does not mean renting it on your computer until they turn it off for whatever reason, or modify it to promote the current *woke* agenda.  It's why I don't consider my books complete until I have received physical copies.

This does create extra problems with storage, finding a place to maintain everything and making back-up copies.  Things can still go wrong but at least there's less of a chance.  I was always pleased at keeping my vhs tapes just in case they were needed, I even bought a spare vcr when I realized that dvds would be taking over soon.  Even without a television to play them on,  I was glad to store them and still feel bad that all of it was lost for personal reason a couple years ago.  But at least I did the work and maybe someone somewhere can still use those tapes.

I think the current cloud storage system is going to collapse soon, either from something going on in the World War or the companies and government behind it will just shut it off to prove they can.  Over the years there's also been any number of anecdotes about companies upgrading their files to the new version which then stopped working somehow so they were screwed.  By the same token, I wasn't surprised to learn many years ago that the Army still maintains and uses those ancient media systems precisely so they can still access original old material.  The government will be able to do this, they don't want the rest of us to have that opportunity.  This new technology helps them erase the past.

Minnesota “Outstanding Refugee” Award Recipient Defrauded Medicaid for $1 Million+ with Help From Sex-Trafficking Ring
August 18, 2026

□ [“DOJ to Deploy Record 1,000 Federal Monitors to Polling Places Nationwide for Midterms"]

On the one hand, that doesn't sound too big, that only averages 20 monitors per state and there are probably more than a thousand polling places in the US.  But it also says they only monitored 86 jurisdictions in 2024 so this is obviously a large increase.  They're probably aimed at the most likely tampering suspects so this is covering more targets.  As always, I'll be negative but we'll have to see.

We will also see how it goes without illegal immigrants voting.  Trump has announced that over 24000 have been found in the 2020 election with many millions of votes left to count and has declared that he actually won.  I assume we can all agree that's what happened but it's one of the down-sides of such big leftist schemes is that it takes so long to verify and then there's nothing to be done about it.  Some of us demand payback, where do we get that?

As much as I continue to insist the left will successfully steal the midterms, I will also point out how much work the Trump 2.0 administration has put into keeping that from happening.  There's all the defunding of NGOs, there's kicking out illegal immigrants and exposing as much of the fraud as possible.  Then there's the way the left has just delusionally insisted they'll win everything next time and aren't shy about the tyranny they want to impose on us.  The stereotype about 'mid-terms' shouldn't be happening this time around, both sides should be wanting the enemy crushed as badly as possible.

If there's any justice, it's the left that should be hit the hardest.  You can see that with their members suddenly trying to pretend they're patriotic in the most-idiotic ways, or just plain admitting their side is nuts.  And that's just those who are speaking out, a lot more would be quietly vanishing.  Only the most dedicated blue spots should easily win the election and even they might be facing more problems than they're used to.

Anoka County, MN, Prosecutor Charged in Sex Trafficking Ring — Used Shell Companies to Hide Profits
August 18, 2026

□ [“Disney Sues FCC to Protect ABC’s Public Airwaves After Leftist Network Faces License Audit"]

There's a number of legal issues going on these days.  I'm not sure if it's becaues we're getting close to the mid-terms or if it's just the way things work but there's judges ruling that illegal immigrants can hide in churches because of course leftists support that.  20 states are suing DC to protect illegals as truck drivers.  Minnesota is suing Texas over sending back a member of ICE because apparently that's who federal agents work for or something.  All of this is relevant, possibly even more relevant than Disney, but my perspective is focusing on these producers of illusion and propaganda with their IPs.

Disney owns several tv stations - I think studios own a few but are limited to that for some reason - and these are being hit by the FCC for their pro-DEI hiring practices, i.e. blatant discrimination.  Disney supports that so they're fighting back but this also connects to some of the programs they produce.  The daily The View show, late-night talk shows, there's an issue on whether or not these qualify as "news shows."  Every time I look in to the specifics I immediately stop giving a f*ck so I don't know how that issue applies to these shows, but Disney and the FCC do know and are very concerned about what is being broadcast in compliance with the law.

I am focused on Disney, not because I care about their tv shows or networks but because I think they are a major part of modern leftism and the *woke* agenda.  The enormous reach they have in pop culture is astounding, and if it's not still growing, it's only because they've created their own failures.  It's not clear when they became a leftist icon but they have been one for a long time.  Star Wars and Marvel are the franchises I pay attention to but it's easy to find others that are owned by the mouse.  My favorite band for the last 35 years has been Queen and after years of bouncing from one record company to another, they signed with a Disney sub-company and have stayed there.

So they are a peak source of modern leftism and as such are on the front-lines as pushing this onto the rest of us.  They've always assumed that their way is the only way to go and government must comply with their wishes.  Here they are fighting to decide what benefits their tv shows get and protect their ABC stations, ABC having always been part of Disney's plans even before they purchased the network.  They've always been close so that's why I think this particular legal fight is very important to them.  Do they have to submit to the government or vice-versa?

Key Architect of Trump Impeachment/Ukraine Hoax Alex Vindman Loses to Socialist in Florida Primary
August 18, 2026

□ [“Russia Expands Strikes on Ukraine’s Critical Infrastructure"]

I would be taking this more seriously if it wasn't for the obvious question, 'why do they still have any critical infrastructure?'  You've been invading them for four and a half years!  The critical infrastructure should have gone the way of the dodo back in 2024.  You really expect us to believe you finally had this brilliant idea?  It sounds like Ukraine doesn't really have a military anymore, just drones.  Which is fine to an extent but there's not much you can do with them against a real enemy.  But apparently Russia isn't a real enemy, so what are you complaining about?

It's also ambivalent how much support Ukraine is really getting from the west at this point.  I'm not sure any *real* news is coming from this war any longer and it looks like most people are just ignoring it anyway.  Russia is threatening the UK and the EU for the support they do provide, or attacking Russian ships.  Hopefully that's their problem, not ours.  It would be nice to think that the US has totally dropped support and that's why we're ignoring the war these days.  But then, based on what news we are getting, I don't really see how Ukraine is in a different position than Iran is these days and that doesn't seem to be ending any time soon either.

I still try to figure out if this war really is connected to our fight against Iran, or China, or leftism in general.  Partially it's just Russia and Ukraine's problems that go back for centuries but you could say that about Persia and the rest of the world.  It's the way leftists have been connected to these wars for so long that makes me suspicious, it's not like the fight between (for instance) India and Pakistan which is quite important to those people but not to anyone else.  But the left stayed focused on this war for the first few years until they moved on.  Still no explanation but this looks like a problem they really wanted to create.

Abdul El-Sayed’s Mother Worked for Terror Group That Funded Osama bin Laden, Taliban, Hamas
August 18, 2026

I self-identified as a woman but then I suddenly didn't know what a woman was so I went back to being a man.

American Tourist Dies After Being Struck by Lightning While Trekking Up Erupting Mount Etna
August 17, 2026

□ [“Declassified Documents Reveal Salacious Details About Swalwell’s Relationship with Fang Fang"]

I didn't even know he's resigned until I looked up to make sure he was still in Congress, he resigned in April.  I probably covered this at the time but it shows how much is going on that it's easy to lose track.  He resigned because of charges about sexual misconduct and assault although he still denies them.  Nothing about his affair with a Chinese spy who paid him - nothing suspcious about a woman paying a man for sex - and installed her people to work in his office.

Fang Fang ran out of the country in 2015.  The FBI was already investigating, they already knew about this and they did nothing.  He's taking bribes and gives foreign spies free access to his office but they only considered charging Fang Fang after she'd fled the country.  I'm blanking on the other examples at the moment but in the last few days we've heard about other big illegal events that the FBI had investigated but didn't bother to do anything about.

This is the most obvious example of Chinese influence on our elites, you can certainly point to other congressmen from California like Dianne Feinstein or Nancy Pelosi who got very rich somehow.  I've noticed that overt communists have been pointing to China as the real leader, the ones who know how to get things done.  Partially it's idealizing Mao but it's also obeying his successors.  China has a lot of experience with that.

German Parties Converge To Discuss Keeping Law that Makes It a Crime To Insult Politicians
August 17, 2026

□ [“Mob of 'Youths' Attack, Kick and Punch Anyone in Sight at Wisconsin State Fair"]

The left is trying to make this happen, I think, there doesn't seem to be any other purpose.  Is this just supposed to make people afraid of the skin color these "youths" have?  That's not going to end well, people will be carrying weapons and be ready to fight back.  But then what else is the point?  Couldn't tell from the video if their attacks were specifically aimed at any other races or if they just went after anyone but it seems to be the latter.  Not a good move.

This sort of thing will also encourage more security in public events.  More people will be willing to just take these "youths" down.  It will also increase the popularity of people and places that are willing to protect others.  Since Democrats aren't willing to do that for anybody but themselves, they won't be on the winning side.  And these are their own voters.

I'm guessing the left wants chaos.  A few might speak out and blame "racism" but unless they can figure out a way to blame Orange Man, the rest will just ignore this.  At least in public, in private they'll be working out how to get more of this.  Given all the other problems the Great Lakes region has been having for the last several months, it seems very important to them.  And having said that, it just occured to me that these "youths" might be Muslim and that was the reason for this attack, just because they can.

CNBC Mocks Democrats and Elizabeth Warren After SGDP and Inflation Report — “None of These Horrible Things Have Happened”
August 17, 2026

□ [“Hollywood’s Climate Change Campaign Falls Flat with Voters"]

I go back and forth on how many real victories we can give Trump credit for but one definite win he's had is how the 'global warming' movement has basically vanished from public attention.  The main reason is probably because DOGE and the Big Beautiful Bill cut out all the taxpayer funding these activists were getting and without that, no one will pay for them to babble on about how we're all going to die.  But there's a wider effect to this, like everybody suddenly woke up from a bad dream.

There's not even a sense that ' oh well, it's too late now.'  Those who were determined to keep pushing this have just turned the page and decided Orange Man Bad or 'destroy Israel' or become a brand-new gender.  It's quite possible they're planning how they'll restart this as soon as they seize power again but that's just it, the spell is broken.  They're not going to be able to make people fall for 'the world is going to end in two years!' anymore.

I've always suspected this belief is just 'earth worship,' a modern-day version of trying to worship the goddess (and notice how the Earth is never considered male.)  I'm not sure how Trump did it, or if he's even aware of doing it, but I think that's what he's done here.  Again, the most obvious method was just to make it a lot harder to earn a living promoting this belief but it's just amazing how willingly the most devout believers dropped it as soon as it stopped being convenient.  That's how dedicated they were to the "science."

Federal Judge Releases Woman Accused of Defacing WWII Memorial — No Cash Bond Required
August 17, 2026

□ [“WNBA Apologizes to Women Forced to Cover 'XX-XY' Shirts During Fever-Dream Game"]

This might be a deliberate stunt although I'm not sure who would be behind it, but it's still funny.  A mother-daughter team were wearing those shirts to a game when security came over and told them someone somewhere was offended so they had to change.  Because they're female, they quickly obeyed, but they did speak out after the game.

So the WNBA had to speak out and admit that wearing shirts like this is not actually offensive and it was all security's fault.  There was no mention of why security did this, did he - we'll assume security was male - just go around bullying women into changing their shirts?  Was he violating any rules about WNBA secuirty or was he just doing what his employers wanted?

This will quickly be forgotten but it's yet-another example of how the WNBA is causing its own problems.  XX chromosomes are a really obvious way to determine who is or isn't a woman yet not only do they ignore this, their own employees are going after fans who dare to suggest this in public.  It really doesn't help that they're dragging their feet on solving this problem so more of these problems will just keep happening.  Just how much is this worth fighting for?

Minnesota Election Officials Let Hamas Members Vote in Primaries, ‘Vouching’ System Without IDs
August 17, 2026

Oh my stars! Not your stars, they're all mine! Hands off!

Parents Sue California School For Student ‘Field Trip’ to Mosque – Girls Told to Wear Hijabs
August 16, 2016

□ [“Hollywood Stars May Be Getting Out of Politics, Voters ‘Tired of Celebrities Telling Them How to Think’"]

This isn't confirmed, just a few celebrities whose fame is going downhill and a couple self-appointed "experts."  To an extent I think it's true.  If nothing else, even studios have finally started realizing that they can't keep repulsing the paying audience.  Bad enough that they can't sell movies but they kill the movie franchise - Star Wars being the most obvious example - and that's more than just movies and tv.  No one's buying the toys or the fast-food tie-ins.  You're hurting other industries by having rich celebrities push the *woke* agenda.

I always cite the example of getting most of the "Avengers" to promote Kamala Harris.  If anyone decided to vote for her because they said so, it shows how weak of a candidate she was.  If anyone refused to vote for her because of their endorsement, that's bad enough.  If it didn't make any difference, it was a waste of money because they all got paid to endorse her.  Trump won all the swing-states and gained voters in every category except white female college graduates so celebrities really aren't as helpful as they think they are.

As the saying goes, 'politics is downstream from culture' so this suggests that even some Democrats might be getting a hint.  They don't know what to do about it but they're running into the differences in their own voting blocks.  A female congressional candidate in Seattle can't say anything about supporting LGBTQ or she'll lose the Muslim vote and it's clear who's more important.  This lines up with Hollywood realizing that they need to appeal to as many people as possible, regardless of politics.

So we'll see how celebrities handle this.  Several months ago at a concert, Mick Jagger started ranting something about Trump but the audience made it clear they weren't interested.  Mick didn't get this far by being stupid and immediately changed the subject.  I think that's why he recently called out Bruce Springsteen for doing such rants.  The people who think there's nothing more than politics can't even make good art and nobody's interested in them.

Dolly Parton Cancels Public Appearance at the Last Minute Amid Ongoing Mystery Health Issue
August 16, 2026

□ [“Hakeem Jeffries Rejects DSA Agenda But Welcomes Them Into Democrats’ ‘Broad Caucus’"]

Another example of the party's internal struggles.  He's obviously lying to everybody, including himself.  We don't know for sure if DSA is actually in charge of the party now but it sure looks like it but here he's trying to claim they're just allowed in but everyone disagrees with him.  They need to convince the rest of the party not to run away.  He's also trying to show off to Republicans how unbeatable the party is now.  They've lost to Trump for ten years but *this time* it'll work!

There's no concrete evidence but we're at least getting the impression this really isn't working for them.  Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) gave a speech in a big room and less than ten people were in the crowd.  The problem with modern technology is that we can't be sure the video was real or that we knew when it was taken.  It was quite a distance from the speaker, there's no evidence it was actually Kelly.  But that said, if this is what really happened, it does show a serious drop in people willing to come out to support Democrats.

This lines up with how quiet the streets have been this summer.  All these years of people showing up to protest and riot the evil Orange Man and they're not here now even though he's supposedly more evil than ever.  The obvious reason is that DOGE and the Big Beautiful Bill have cut the funding for activists and that's probably a major reason for this.  But I also wonder how much of it is that the economy is actually better than leftists and their pet media tells us and the protesters have actually been able to get real jobs.  Those who aren't rich had to do something and the leftism is just repulsing enough people that perhaps some of them are out trying to be more normal.  As they do that, they realize it works better and more are encouraged to quit.  I don't know how likely that is but it sounds nice and it could explain why Democrats might be seeing fewer dedicated followers these days.

Thousands without Power and Homes Swept Away as Hurricane Lala Slams Into Hawaii’s Big Island
August 16, 2026

Connecticut Board of Education Member Wearing Cat Ears Demands Black Teachers Be Paid More - It’s an ‘Extra Burden’ to Work While Black
August 13, 2026

Court of International Trade Upholds POTUS Authority to Shut Down $800 De Minimis Tariff Loophole
August 14, 2026

□ [“Caitlyn Jenner Torches WNBA’s 'Hypocrisy' — Backs Ex-NBA Stars, 'XX Are In, XY Are Out'”]

I'm guessing the WNBA will cave in fairly soon if they can't even get the trans on their side.  Off the top of my head, I can't think of anyone more famous than Bruce Jenner for anything other than being trans who decided to change their gender.  Jenner was an Olympic champion back when I was born, there's a limit to how famous you can get that way.  Other than that what does he do, marry the ex-wife of the guy who would be OJ Simpson's lawyer and start that bizarre Kardashian franchise?

Anyway, the WNBA is kind of stuck here.  I am not a sports fan but one benefit for those who are is that the rules are pretty clear.  Things like crossing the lines, how long they can hold a ball, physical contact with each other, these things are pretty clear to coaches, refs and fans whether you did or didn't do something wrong.  If two players do the same thing, you can't say one of them committed a "foul" because they were acting in 'bad faith.'

These are women in charge so I'm sure it'll take them a while to come to any real conclusion.  The WNBA doesn't have a real paying audience so they're funded by the NBA, they might speak out to rush this to a conclusion.  I'm sure more is going on behind the scenes and I don't know what answer they'll come up with but I suspect people are trying to get to the end as soon as possible.  If they can't even keep their own trans people in line, there's no way to win.

Minnesota Senate Candidate Peggy Flanagan Cheered Leftist Mob Destroying Christopher Columbus Statue
August 16, 2026

□ [“Supergirl Flop Starts James Gunn DC Collapse! Four Female Superhero Projects Dumped!"]

It only took four years for Marvel to get from the first Iron Man to Avengers.  DC can't even follow that example, it's been almost as long and they have very little to show for it.  They're cancelling stuff that was announced years ago and production still hadn't even started on.  Even worse, they're watching the success Sony is having with a Marvel character right now, it just passed $2 billion worldwide.  It could be the worst movie in history but it's still a success which DC has never come close to.

A new DC tv show is debuting today, probably as I write this.  It can't be called "Green Lantern" because apparently "green" is racist or something.  Recent promotion has declared how it promotes the *woke* agenda.  I don't think anybody as at the point where we'll openly proclaim these releases to be failures in advance, just because we don't want to be wrong, but everybody expects this to be ignored.  It's also been noted that this show will only use the superhero aspect reluctantly but it's supposed to be good despite that.  Then why are you using these IPs in the first place?

To an extent, it's like Hollywood is finally realizing how limited the superhero genre is, which they used to know a few decades ago but have forgotten .  There's also the way they need to tie themselves to these decades-old corporate properties.  There's also the way these companies are tying themselves to people who are more concerned with their own image than anything else.  I don't think there really are any "c-list" characters but I'm in the vast minority on that, most people realize that he's just pushing IPs that no one has ever heard of or cares about.

Gunn is getting defensive just because he has so little success to point to at DC.  With Supergirl's failure, he, the lead actress and the screenwriter have all come out to sound at least slightly-more apologetic to the audience who didn't show up.  They always go back to saying how awful the fans are but there's at least a sentence or two about how they didn't produce anything people would pay to watch.  Not going to help but it's a start.  DC needs to figure out how it got itself into this mess, that's the only way to get out of it.

Ghana Migrant Arrested Multiple Times in Two Weeks For Raping, Sexually Assaulting Oklahoma Women
August 16, 2026

When I was young, I dreamed of posting on a blog. No one told me what a degrading experience it really was.

P. Diddy Out of Solitary Confinement, Back in ‘Gen-Pop’ After Fight that Delayed His Prison Release
August 15, 2026

□ [“Hugh Hefner Reported Jeffrey Epstein to FBI After Playmate Claimed He Raped and Trafficked Her"]

This headline is wrong.  She did report it to Hef, this happened in 2005, then she didn't hear back from the FBI until 2020.  Hef died in 2017, he clearly didn't report it and given what he did for decades, it's pretty clear he was in on it with Epstein.  Sex, money or some sort of cult, that's still up in the air.

But it's yet-another example of how someone somewhere knew all about this but they died a decade ago.  Sure, you can start naming all the famous people who came to visit him or were part of his franchise but they're all getting old and dying too.  Maybe in another 15 years, the FBI can announce that they investigated this but didn't find anything.

Epstein's been dead for over seven years and this is as far as it's gotten.  Even more annoying is how all the relevant information is right there, members of Congress have been checking it out for quite a while.  Yet nothing whatsoever is being done.  Trump's not even getting criticized for promising to release all the info on day one.  This is coming off like more of a joke than anything else.

Multiple People Shot Outside Dorms at Virginia State University
August 15, 2026

□ [“The DNC Just Went Full DSA — and This Vote Proves It"]

Don't see much to write about today, just a bunch of articles about how Democrats are purging the old otrying to keep the young from destroying everything.  This one is about a party resolution to abolish ICE as well as to reform it.  They think they can have everything both ways and never notice the contradiction.

I'm guessing that they think this will win over voters, that if one option doesn't convince you, another one will.  I guess it's similar to Hollywood thinking they can plan a 'four-quadrent' blockbuster, something to appeal to everyone.  That has limits in movies and is a completely different mindset from how you elect politicians.  But to be fair, it has worked well in places.  Include welfare, you get the black vote, for instance.

But they don't realize that this shows how they have no clue what they're doing.  Moreover, making contradictory promises just to win an election shows that power is what they're really after and everything else is secondary.  They're all agreed on this, which shows the kind of people they all are.  So that's enough incentive reason for people to not side with them.  I'm going to continue assuming they'll steal all or most of the elections in a couple months but there are big reasons to think they'll fail, which is clearly what the Trump administration is aiming for.

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Far-Left Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey Dances to Rap Music at Black Entrepreneur State Fair
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□ [“Invaders Turn Ceuta Beach into a Slum, Hold Massive ‘Fight Clubs’ by the Water"]

Well, 'fight clubs' sounds like something military-age males would do if they don't have internet or bars to pick up chicks.  They built their "slum" out of straw and cardboard.  In one sense, they just expect to be there temporarily so they don't need anything more.  In another sense, that's all they can build, partially because it's all they brought with them and partially because it's just a beach by the water.  But they're already filling up the area with waste and the potential for disease.

I did notice there wasn't much news about this for a week or so.  I haven't heard if they'd actually crossed into Spain yet but also nothing about what Spain (or anyone else) is doing to defend themselves.  This looks like the sort of thing where you could just send a few ships by, use flamethrowers and that would solve the problem.  Yet no one is doing that.  Hell, Russia could do that and would win massive support across Europe.

Like every other problem, it's not going to go away.  Worse, the enemy has time, our side doesn't.  They can try as many invasions as they want, they only need to win once and European elites already side with the invaders.  I haven't seen any direct evidence but there does seem to be a growing indication that it was literally always the plan to replace native Europeans.  Not clear who would have come up with that idea, leftists or Muslims or elites or Russia but it's just too believable that this was the goal all along.

Denver Businesses Fret After Democratic Socialist Beats 15-Term Dem Incumbent in Primary
August 15, 2026

How long will it take the WNBA to figure out what "basketball" really is?

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□ [“Cambridge's Fabulous Fabulist Jason Arday Found Dead, Assumedly By His Own Hand"]

This guy was getting a lot of attention for the last week or so.  I think he was the youngest black professor ever hired by the University of Cambridge.  He was hired because of DEI and I generally avoided the news on him, it sounds like everything he'd done had been a complete fake and plagiarist which the university was aware of and protected him because of skin color.  I might have the specifics wrong but it looked like a standard leftist scheme, one reason I didn't pay much attention to it.  He had just resigned from Cambridge.

And now he's found dead.  So far no obvious cause has been given, it was "unexpected" but nothing "suspicious."  Given how all the elites at Cambridge supported him - and the university is over 800 years old so we're taking serious elitism - there's every reason to think he was murdered so he won't give out any secrets.  The media will report that it was definitely "suicide" and that'll be that.  The murderers may have come from many possible places, he was black after all.

That said, it's entirely possible this was just a suicide.  He'd never had to face the consequences of his actions before and had no idea how to handle it, so this may have been the only way out.  It's also quite possible that everyone who worked for him will blame whitey.  They've never had to face consequences either and aren't going to start now.  That's what England has been reduced to.

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□ [“Senior CCP Intelligence Official/Sniper Buys Historic Building 650 Feet From the White House"]

The war continues in it's usual senseless way.  First of all, there's no reason for DC to allow this.  Second of all, this guy will be spied on 24/7 so what's the point?  He'd be checked before bringing in a new bioweapon and what other options are there?  He's not going to communicate to anybody, maybe he's just there to be ready when something else happens.  Who knows, maybe this is a peace offering from China and he's in charge of turning in some other spies.

□ [“Trump Imposes 100% Tariffs on Some Chinese Drones Over National Security Concerns"]

But every side has been learning what drones are capable of.  I'm still not sure what they're good for other than spying and bioweapons but I'm sure other possibilities have been found.  It's kind of spooky to think about but the negotiations going on might be including discussions of what can or can't be done with drones in various aspects of war, similar to how nuclear missiles were handled once upon a time.

By now it seems to be agreed that China is the main enemy in this war, the 'final boss' after Iran, leftists, Russia or whoever else.  But because of the way it's going, it's not obvious as far as deploying troops to battlefields.  With drones, we don't even know what that means anymore and that's not counting the economic turmoil.  I've seen reports that China is having an economic crisis but there's no way to know if that's true or how it would affect them.  At this point, even if we die of old age, I'm not sure we'll know what's actually going on in this war.

Michigan Rabbis Fear Upcoming Democratic State Convention Might Not Be a Safe Space for Jews
August 14, 2026

□ [“Massachusetts Mayor Arrested on Fraud and Laundering – $1.6 Million in Covid Loans as Personal Slush Fund"]
□ [“Former Columbus, Mississippi Vice Mayor Indicted For Money Laundering, Bid Rigging"]

It's going far too slowly but we are starting to see how party members are using their authority to make themselves rich at taxpayer expense.  Things like this are probably just a natural part of the job, it's why government should be as cheap and powerless as possible, to minimize the number of people who try to get away with this.  But there's also no sense that these people are connected, they were just helping themselves.

□ [“Southern Poverty Law Center Executive Was Sleeping with Prominent Racist and Paid His Bills"]

This is a better example of the leftist conspiracy as their elites get to ignore their own rules.  Little attention has gone to the SPLC funding "racism" so they have something to complain about, the left doesn't want to think about that.  This isn't just individuals helping themselves to a share of the cash, this is overturning their whole party's way of life.  Nothing in the article indicates that either of these two were married but if I had to place a bet, I'd say at least one of them is.  The left really doesn't like marriage so adultery is always a bonus.

Trump and MAGA are the wave that has made this happen, or at least made it so big so quickly, but it's still not doing enough.  These scandals will quickly be forgotten and replaced with others.  No connections that reveal who all the players are here.  One of the left's best weapons is that everyone else just gets tired of this struggle because it never goes anywhere.  All they have to do is wait and they win.  Trump is supposed to be a great showman, he needs to prevent some undeniable wins.  Otherwise anything he's brought will be washed away very quickly.

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August 14, 2026

□ [“CNN:  Michigan Voters Not Impressed with Abdul Mohamed El Sayed 'He is a weak candidate'”]

He's the one getting the most attention of the leftist candidates, probably because of all the attention Muslims in the area have gotten this year.  The uber-leftists are in charge of the party and it's clear to others who badly they're handling it.  Even pet media needs to come out and say these people aren't helping push leftism on the masses.  El-Sayed has tried to delete all his social media posts but too late, he's on record as saying he'll obey shariat law until he dies.

More in this region is coming out.  Muslim voter fraud has been uncovered in Minnesota.  Next Tuesday there will be a Christian protest in Dearborn, Michigan, which is mostly Muslim.  Far-left streamer Hasan Piker is still ranting in public, now he's demanding Democrats everywhere drop everything to help him, even if they don't like him.  I'm sure this guy can be easily replaced but he seems to be significant to someone somewhere, why else would I have a clue who he is?

As much as I criticize the Trump administration not getting things finished, I must admit that this may be the point.  They're giving the enemy time to make themselves look ridiculous and easier to identify.  We've been hearing more recently about how Muslims really don't like dogs.  "Man's best friend" can find a lot of men who side with him against the enemy.  Other Democrats aren't sure how to fight this or even how to admit to it.  I'd like to think this will reach a crescendo in a month or so but we'll see.

Dallas Airport Cancels Plans to Install Islamic Foot Washing Stations After Governor Abbott Intervenes
August 14, 2026

Every book of a thousand pages starts with one internet post. WTF is up with that? Who made that rule?

Border Czar Tom Homan Delivers Blunt Message to Sanctuary States: ‘You’re Not Going to Stop Us’
August 13, 2026

□ [“WNBA Announces They 'Will Work Weeks and Months' to Decide Who Belongs in Their League"]

It didn't take them weeks or months to figure out what a woman was when they created the league, what's changed?  There must be a reason it was called the "women's" league in the first place.  But if they start looking back at the last couple decades, they start seeing all the other pro-trans arguments that work against them.  A few people have started saying the players need to go through the surgery, which contradicts all the claims that 'genitals don't define your gender.'  They didn't have this requirement to putting them in the military or putting men in women's prisons.

The WNBA's statement did include that *some* of these people were working in "bad faith."  That's not going to work either, there's no way to prove which people are working in "bad faith" to have the same results as people working in "good faith," getting to play on a sports team.  Their coaches and players are saying trans can play on the team, that would just encourage more to try.  So what's the problem?

They're going to go quiet.  It won't solve the problem, they've still got brand-new transgenders trying to join the league, but they'll want as little attention as possible going forward.  But will the trans and their supporters obey?  The rest of us are already entertained by this and they can't just go silent when it's convenient.  If they could, this wouldn't be a movement.  But if they start making a ruckus, it'll just be bad publicity for them.  The left supports them but the mid-terms are in three months, this is the wrong time for them to deal with this.

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August 13, 2026

□ [“California’s High Speed Rail Program May Run Out of Money by the End of 2027"]

That's going to make it hard to finish by 2028 but it was supposed to be finished by 2018 so look how that worked out.  It's quite possible the money is being laundered but it's also possible that it's just plain incompetence.  The left is in charge, there's no way to know the specifics.  They also have no incentive whatsoever to fix things.

They're still on the first 34-mile section of track out of the 800-or-so they were supposed to have done eight years ago.  Jerry Brown was pushing this the first time he was governor and finally got it to happen the second time, this does suggest it's much more about laundering the money than actually doing anything.  Probably explains why Arnold Schwartzenegger was such a big supporter too.

Gavin Newsom will be stuck with it when he runs for POTUS although he'll probably just say the federal government will fund it.  That's a bonus for liberals.  Even if it wasn't, I don't know how they could stop it at this point.  The government can fake the polls saying the public still wants this and it's not like they need to put it up to a vote ever again.  The left will just keep leeching off this as long as possible until there's just ruins which are forgotten.  "Look on my works, ye mighty and despair."

Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Installing Dedicated Islamic Foot-Washing Basins in Bathrooms
August 13, 2026

□ [“Jen Psaki Makes a Horrible Admission About the Party’s Nominating Process on the Air"]

She admits that the party leadership chooses the candidates, not the voters.  Well we knew that, I've always assumed that's why Bernie was able to stay in the primaries so long.  He wasn't trying to win, he was negotiating with those-in-charge to make sure they installed leftists who could pretend not to be leftist when they needed to.  The people who handle primaries are already leftist so they helped out.  Nothing to do with her personality but Hillary might technically have been the least-leftwing Democrat candidate in the 21st century.

Psaki is trying to say that it's changed now which sounds wrong in several ways.  The rich leftists want their leftism promoted and won't give tons of money if they don't get it.  But leftism is just about demanding money and sending men-with-guns to take it from others.  For some reason government makes all the money but needs to take it away from others.

This is just pushing out something to keep the party members in line.  They need to believe they're opposing the people in charge and never notice the contradictions.  I don't know who Psaki is doing this for or why.  It's possible that's not even relevant, just putting out more noise to join with all the others doing the same thing.  What she's saying is less relevant than going on MSNBC and sitting on a panel for a few minutes.  That's what they get paid for.

John Brennan Panics, Claims Trump Will “Pull Out All the Stops” to Interfere in Midterm Elections
August 13, 2026

□ [“Kennedy Center Board May Have Found Workaround on Changes Opposed by Dems"]
□ [“D.C. Council Demands Governors from 10 States to Pull National Guard From Nation’s Capital"]

I knew the Kennedy Center was being fought over although I still don't know why, but I didn't know the National Guard was still in DC.  There's the conflict about the White House renovation, the basin between the Washington and Jefferson memorials, probably others but those are the ones that come to mind.  Something about the basic civil improvements in DC is pissing Democrats off, which lines up with Hillary Clinton's recent demand to restore the old ways as soon as they took over.

As always, the fact that Democrats are fighting about these things all at once just comes off as suspicious cult-like behavior.  I think more than anything, that's why Trump brought in the National Guard, because they can be federalized and under his command.  He can keep DC basically safe and whatever leftist schemes are going on won't just be covered up by the local police.  It would be nice if there's some actual proof but day after day, that's what these patterns look like to me.

Just a brief look at DC history shows a lot of underground activity, the sort of thing that elites and criminals would get into.  I'm looking into the Krazy Kat Klub but I'm sure there's been a lot more in the last 200+ years.  I'd like to think Trump is digging that out but as with everything else, there's no sense of progress or direction.  I'm just making this stuff up from what seems most likely, it would be nice to actually get some evidence of what's really going on.

Supposed ‘Comedian’ Margaret Cho Says if You Make Jokes About Trans People, Trans People Die
August 13, 2026