If you can read this, you have my sympathy.

Panic Buying at Costco Over Port Strike Fears
October 3, 2024

□ [“Jaguar Wright Labels Jay-Z a ‘Monster’ Like Diddy — Hundreds of Victims Ready to Speak Against Him and Beyoncé"]

The names are starting to come out.  No idea who Jaguar Wright is, but I know who Jay-Z and Beyonce are.  It's possible that I've even heard one or two of their songs over the decades.  Jay-Z, besides becoming a billionaire in a short period of time, also worked with guys like R. Kelly, who's been in jail for a few years on childrape and childporn and dealt with underage females like Aaliyah.

We still don't know the details, but connections like this are becoming obvious.  We're getting to a point where the accused will need to prove their innocence, rather than the accusers proving their guilt.  That's not a good way to go but there's no reason to trust those who were such good friends with Diddy being surprised by any of this.  Why would he want anything to do with you if you never went to his parties or were just sitting around in the back all quiet?

□ [“Ashton Kutcher in Panic Over Ties to Diddy — Fears He'll Turn on Famous Friends"]

Yeah, that would be the smart thing to do.  I would take it as a given that he's already turned on you before his arrest even became public.  Kutcher stared in a hit tv show with Danny Masterson, a rapist Scientologist who is related by marriage to John Phillips, king of the Hollywood perverts in the 1970s.  They're all very closely connected, and Kutcher fears Diddy will start naming people to save himself.

Dude, he's got the video.  There is no benefit to saying you were at his parties and knew what was going on if he doesn't have footage of that.  He was a big name who associated with other big names, he'll have footage of all of them.  Pretending that someone was there who really wasn't isn't going to save him.

This is what I mean about reaching a point where the accused need to prove their innocence.  Kutcher was close to two massive rapists, and we're supposed to believe he never had the slightest clue about either?  This is the sort of thing where you'd be better off turning on everyone else to save yourself.  It's not like these are the kind of people who will 'take one for the team.'

D-PA Representative Susan Wild's Car Gets Booted in D.C., Too Many Fines for Parking in Handicap Spots
October 3, 2024

□ [“Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) Claims Israel is Refusing Ceasefire Talks to Help Trump Win Presidency"]

Maybe Iran is the one who doesn't want a ceasefire because US elections are so important to them.  Or Hezbollah.  Or Hamas.  Or their supporters.  All these people who at no point are willing to say they were wrong about trying to destroy Israel for decades.  In fact, they're still trying.  But the US presidential election is so important to them that they want a ceasefire anyway and it's all Israel's fault that hasn't happened.

This simple-minded mentality is infuriating.  We're nearing the first anniversary of the start for this most-recent attempt to destroy Israel and these Iran/Hamas/Hezbollah supporters want to pretend it's all about the US politics, because nobody else in the world has anything going on that's more important to them.  Might as well ask why Joe Biden hasn't done anything about it.

Zelensky is doing campaign ads in the US, why aren't you criticizing him for trying to affect the presidential election?  He didn't even invite Russia to the ceasefire talks a few months ago, but you don't object to that.  Oh wait, he supports Democrats, so there's that 'rules apply to everybody' thing.

MSNBC Producer Admits Network is ‘Doing All They Can’ to Help Elect Kamala Harris
October 3, 2024

□ [“$1 Billion in FEMA Funds to Resettle Illegal Immigrants — FEMA Now Lacks Resources for Disaster Response!"]

The news about this hurricane seems to have died down quickly.  Remember Katrina when it was all we heard about for weeks?  Times have changed.  Maybe media coverage would last a little longer if there was some way to blame Trump for this.  Now they're just stuck with government not having enough money to accomplish its required tasks because they've spent it on something else.

□ [“North Carolina Governor Still Hasn’t Deployed 1,000 Troops Approved to Assist Hurricane Recovery"]

The rulers are showing their priorities.  The American government isn't here for Americans, it's here for everybody else, we just get the privilege of paying for it.  You're not even sending troops out to help the people right there.  Is that how you would want to be helped?  The federal government is forbidding delivery of aid supplies by the private sector.

Hopefully, one thing this is doing is showing the people who can actually do something and help, and who won't.  I'd like to think they can make connections to work together in future disasters because those are ready to happen any day.  The alternative is what we've seen, the people who are going to steal all elections in the future if they can get away with it.  Which side would you rather be part of?

Dockworkers Strike Ends as Workers Reach Deal
October 3, 2024

□ [“Speaker of Georgia Parliament Signs Into Law a Ban on LGBT Practices and Propaganda"]

This is going to be pushed more, although it will make European countries more resemble Muslim countries, but that will mean more leftists will support them so it's fine.  The globalist President of Georgia refused to sign, and is apparently a female, so that explains that.  Parliament can overrule her.

This will cause problems for Georgia joining the EU but at this point, I don't think that's going to matter much.  EU members are starting to realize this was a trap and are looking for ways to get out.  Haven't heard anything about Germany securing its borders, which means it was either a fake to make news headlines or they're taking it very seriously.  If the former, it would get tons of press by euroelites for being so hateful and bigoted but if the latter, others are quietly thinking that they should do the same thing.

□ [“Emmanuel Macron admits the EU 'could die' as he issues dire warning about bloc's economy"]

It's already lasted too long as it is.  I could actually see a point to this back in the Cold War, at least in theory, but it's definitely unworkable.  So the rulers are just going to double down, which will drive more people away.  As a noted diplomat once said, "The more you tighten your grip, the more nations will slip through your fingers."

They're already going to try.  Macron is whining that the EU isn't doing as well economically as China or the US, which was the whole point of unifying the continent.  Another EU elite demands a more "integrated single market" to create pan-European businesses of the required global scale.  They're going to try infecting the entire world with the same parasite that helped them take down Europe and we can already see it failing here.

□ [“CNN Launching Paywall, Consumers Must Pay for Content That No One Watches for Free"]

Don't have enough access to streaming to have much knowledge of how this works, but I have been interested in what I've been hearing about company failures.  Few people are going to pay for this stuff and nobody's going to pay for all these different channels, so all these companies are throwing away money by trying.

CNN has already tried this with a streaming network that died in about a month, yet they're doing it again, with no incentive for people to watch this.  Even if, for instance, they announce that they'll be listing all of Diddy's celebrity friends at his parties on the streaming service, sure, that would get a lot of people signing up immediately, but then there's no reason to renew it next month.  And even those customers will be limited because once the information gets out, the rest of us don't need CNN to get it.

We also see this on streaming networks that do movies and tv, most notably Disney+.  There's a reason cable networks existed.  Most people didn't watch very many of the available channels, but it was a fairly cheap price to make them all available.  A customer could follow their favorite sports team, watch their favorite shows and catch the most immediate news.  Not sure how much money each channel actually made, but they could sell ads which probably helped out a lot.

Now that isn't remotely enough and they're neglecting that the customers don't want to put up with this.  Being free, tv already lowered the standards immensely just to come into our homes.  Cable tv wasn't free but it was still a decent price for people willing to waste time staring at a screen, a slightly-more expensive expansion of free tv.  But no one would follow this for streaming and the companies have dug their own graves by trying.  They must expect government to save them because I have no clue what else they think they can get from this.