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American Airlines on the Brink of Strike Before Busy Summer Travel Season
June 1, 2024

□ [“King Charles Continues Trying To Evict His Brother Prince Andrew From 30-Room Royal Lodge"]

This may just be conflict among elite perverts who've spent their whole lives together, but I'm more interested than usual.  Maybe it's just because everything else is going wrong right now, but this is just happening now?  Andrew's got all the evidence of what his family did with Jeffrey Epstein, has no income and somehow got a 75-year lease for this mansion, but Charles wants him out.

Why wouldn't the guy who self-identifies as king be able to throw people out of any of his various homes?  I can understand that there would be other laws in place, but the guy isn't paying rent either.  You'd think there was a point where he can go live somewhere else.  Or if he has evidence Charles doesn't want getting out, put him into some private apartment surrounded by men with guns.

I doubt there are many people in England who give much thought to Andrew anymore, much less anyone else in the world.  He never gets to be king, so there's not much else to say that you can't get from the tabloids, and he's too old and disgraced to be much use anymore.  It's just an example of how the elites really can't get rid of each other, no matter how bad things are.

Of All People, Mitt Romney Torches the Trump Trial D.A. as "Political Malpractice"
June 1, 2024

□ [“Companies Are Scaling Back ‘Pride Month’ Celebrations Over Fears of Conservative Boycotts"]

You could have done this a year ago, you would have lost less money.  But for some reason that wasn't an option.  Somehow there's supposed to be enough *woke* people out there who will suddenly become eager to buy your product, making up for all of those who lose interest because you insisted on going *woke.*

Yet those people never show up.  Assuming they actually exist, they'll continue to hate you as much as they always did because you defied them.  Ten years ago, you didn't live up to whatever *woke* standards they came up with today, so you're evil, end of story.  You can't win, you can't even get them to shut up and find something else to do with their lives.  The fact that you even tried to comply with them shows that you're a much easier target than others, so they'll keep going after you.

First of all, it's a deep blow to the companies.  Unless they're already established as pro-*woke* agenda and/or limit this to certain locations, I think any of them who put out more of this propaganda will be hit hard.  Sane people aren't going to put up with this any longer and in this economy, we can always find reasons to save money.

It's probably different for each company, but the lower levels will need to confront their board of directors about this.  They didn't get to be in charge if they weren't leftist, so they don't care how much it damages their brand.  It's the workers under them who will have to pay for it.

‘This is London, Not Londonistan’ Huge Patriotic Rally in Central London Against Mass Immigration
June 1, 2024

□ [“North Korea Launches a Massive Ballistic Missile Test in Show of Force Against South Korea"]

Well, if the US can do that against Russia, other nations can do that too.  They might even have more reason, North and South Korea have been at war for the last 75 years.  Haven't heard about the US trying to do anything to stop this.  I guess they'd need China's permission to do anything.  Anyone else in eastern Asia would have to rely on the US, and look how that works out.

□ [“‘Non-Starter’: Netanyahu Slaps Down Biden’s Major ‘Peace Proposal,’ Says Israel Has Agreed to Nothing"]

A more rational response.  He's not going to give in to the Hamas supporters running the US, there's no benefit to that.  Israelis spend their whole lives being accused of genocide, so that doesn't really phase them anymore.  I keep hoping they'll finally get around to doing it for real so the accusations actually mean something, but they never do.

One thing that leftists around the world are having to deal with is the war, which is a good way to eliminate their insanity.  People who continue to deny reality don't last long in war and they should be the real targets.  The arms manufacturers would probably make more money selling to Russia directly, but that's not allowed for some reason, so Russia gets to take it on the battlefield for free.

Standard & Poor’s Cut France’s Long-Term Sovereign Credit Rating From AA to AA−
June 1, 2024

□ [“Emboldened by Hamas and Iran, Students for Justice in Palestine Announce Plans to ‘Besiege’ White House"]

You can do that?  I thought going after government offices was "insurrection," even if important people were there.  I guess not, so when should other groups that disagree with the government get in on this?

But this does look manufactured.  Supposedly they have busses set up to bring people "from across the country."  Only a few cities are listed in this location, none of them from the other side of the country.  [I don't have instagram so I can't see the original post.]  But just the fact that they're getting busses ready looks fake.  Can't the devoted followers find their own way to join up?  It's like they need the ones who are just doing what they're told.

Just the poster looks fake.  "Fake" isn't the right word, but there's a style of leftist illustration that seems to be all they've used for decades.  They never get any artistic types who have their own style.  Some illustrations are good but most are generic, faceless humanoids in red.  Makes me wonder if the FBI/CIA has the trademark on this art style.  They're certainly involved in this.

White House Admits in Federal Court They ‘Doctored’ Biden’s Special Counsel Testimony Transcript to Make Him Appear Less Incompetent
June 1, 2024

□ [“Real Estate Investor Says Nobody Wants to do Business in NYC Following Trump Verdict"]

In the next week or so, we should start hearing more about things like this.  I don't use the term "second or third-order effects,"  but I do know the basic concept, and that's what our rulers always seem to miss.  You hit this target, then it reacts and leads to consequences on others which will then have further effects.

At least real estate is based on the actual land, which means a long-term commitment.  Every other business has reasons to avoid dealing with this city now, and it's not like there weren't already enough problems with economics and crime.  It's not just New York City that's going to be dealing with this either.

There's the investors who don't see a reason to try building anything, there's also transportation of supplies.  Maybe they don't want to go, maybe the businesses can't pay for goods, or they've lost their customers anyway.  This will affect employment and the money that would be spent by the workers.  Safe to assume NYC will find more excuses to increase taxes.

And this is just real estate and economic ramifications, there's a lot more going on among the people and everyone else.  The fire is building and will soon take everything down.

Chicago Alderman Will No Longer Share Crime Alerts With Constituents; They Create a Bad ‘Perception’
June 1, 2024