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Springfield Illinois City Council Bans Trump Shirt Without Citing What Law They're Enforcing
January 18, 2025

□ [“Jury Finds CNN 'Committed Defamation Against Navy Vet Zachary Young' – Owes $5 Million in Emotional and Financial Damages"]

Big media is suddenly being hit hard in a number of ways.  For CNN, the $5 million is just for the damages, it's not counting the actual punishment.  In 2021, they reported that this guy was profitably trafficking these people out of Afghanistan before the Taliban took over.  They had no facts to work with and their internal discussion shows that they knew it, yet they reported on him anyway.  CNN is claiming that they're broke, they've lost hundreds of millions of dollars over the last few years from their own broadcasting.  We'll see if that helps.

CBS is being sued by Trump for $10 billion and is considering settling.  They blatantly altered an interview with Kamala Harris on 60 Minutes and called that "journalism."  You'd think they could argue that she'd have won the election if they didn't do that, but apparently that's not an option.  The leftist Washington Post newspaper is bleeding readers.  Basically leftist media in general has demonstrated how untrustworthy they are and the audience has left.

So it's probably not a surprise that the New York Times, of all media, is doing articles about how the Biden administration covered up Biden's senility.  Not sure if they're mentioning how they and all the rest of the media helped out, but it's almost amusing how they suddenly realize that they don't look good for all the years of doing this.  But yeah, it's all Biden's fault and the people around him.  They did everything.  Just ignore all their own articles about how rightwingers used misleading video to make Biden look bad.

The timing is definitely not a coincidence, but it is still amazing that this is all happening now.  The same media also pushed the fake virus, the war, the wonderful economy and all the brand-new genders, but that still wasn't enough to win them a new audience.  We're watching this right in front of us and it's still hard to believe this is happening.

Moss Landing, CA Power Plant Erupts in Flames; Immediate Evacuation Order Over Toxic Air Hazard
January 17, 2025

IRS Head Forced to Resign 3 Years Early as Trump Prepares to Drain the Swamp
January 18, 2025

□ [“Many Washington DC Roads and Metro Subway Stations to Close During Inauguration"]

Not sure this has anything to do with the inauguration itself, it may be based on what the left will do.  Or what Trump will do, for that matter.  Less than 48 hours to go.

I'm not happy with it but this is probably a sign that we're good American letting Biden and these tyrants just leave.  We'll see what happens after that, but at least at the moment, the public impression is for a peaceful transition of power.  Then everything will break lose.

Trump will be going after illegal immigrants immediately.  They probably have the documents ready for him to sign and he'll probably do that immediately.  I mean while he's giving a speech after being sworn in, he'll probably be signing the papers as he does it.  I wouldn't think he'd have to return to the Oval Office for this.

We don't know what he'll do, but other executive orders will need to be about the national debt.  Apparently we'll reach the debt ceiling on Tuesday so there must be plans in place for that.  Not sure what Congress can do with a bare-majority of votes, assuming all the Republicans go along.  Then there's all the foreign and domestic enemies who will strike.

□ [“Biden White House Depressed as They Prepare to Depart; Recent Visitor Says it's ‘Like a Morgue’"]

That's nice to hear.  The left does tend to have bad reactions to losing, they don't know what to do.  They thought they'd stay winning.  Now some of these people could be dangerous with whatever knowledge they take out with them, but I would hope Trump+ will be tracking them and changing everything they can to make sure their info is as out-of-date as possible.  As I said, there is some danger, but I don't think these people would be too much of a danger.  If nothing else, who's going to follow their orders when they're out of office?

Biden Rants About "Equal Rights Amendment" as "The Law of the Land" Even Though It Wasn’t Ratified
January 17, 2025

Trump, Melania and Barron Make Triumphant Return to Washington, D.C., Aboard Air Force One
January 18, 2025

□ [“Neil Gaiman Dropped By Publishers After New York Magazine Expose"]

They're not dropping him, they just say there's no plans to publish anything new.  I only come from the comic book side of things so for me, it's mostly the fact that DC isn't giving up Sandman.  They've owned 100% of it since day one and it's been too big a seller.  Don't know if they got anything out of their attempt to start a franchise.  I also pay no attention to the tv show so I have no idea if that's still going on.  With Marvel, I'm just amused (in a sad way) that there's yet another delay for Miracleman, and it's already been 30 frickin years.

But the story is getting more attention.  Noted comics creator Scott McCloud ["Understanding Comics"] just posted that his long-time friendship with Gaiman was over from these accusations.  No word from people like Alan Moore or Frank Miller.  I did notice that Mark Evanier ["Groo"] had suddenly stopped posting on his website.  It might be because he's helping "my pal Neil" (the phrase he always uses for reference) but he's a leftist in Hollywood so he might be handling the fire or Trump.  Still interesting timing for all of this.

Most comic book news is still ignoring this, but commenters on youtube have said that the industry knew about this for years.  And nobody said anything?  To an extent that's believable but there's also a point where I have to ask what they're thinking of, especially after the last several years.  Gaiman hasn't done comics for years so it's not like protecting his reputation is that relevant, and this was going on before the internet.

There's been another revelation which, if true, is very disturbing in a creative sense.  But it also sounds like something that there's no way to have kept secret for 30+ years.  Sandman is what his fame is based on and reportedly he basically stole the concept from British writer Tanith Lee and her Tales of the Flat Earth novels.  I had never heard of her but she had a long career that must have been fairly successful, and nobody noticed this before?  Nobody mentioned it?

Looking up the wikipedia page, ok, this is less of a scandal than it seems.  Some of the basics are there, Dream and several of the Endless.  Gaiman didn't even bother to change the names.  That said, he clearly stole the basic idea but moving beyond that took his version in different directions.  Maybe he stole other stuff from different people, but that's a different issue.  Stealing the basic characters and not even renaming them, that's one thing.  Not giving Lee any credit whatsoever for all these decades is much more offensive.  Apparently her career ended and she died in 2015, so he can't even make up for it now.  He's kept silent about it this long, just as he's kept silent on other things, so that's probably not going to change.

Of all the news, that was the part that bothered me the most.  I'm fine with the theft but the lack of gratitude is wrong.  Anyway, more people are speaking out about the accusations and I think this is just the start.  Gaiman himself isn't the main target, it's all the other rich and famous people he's been connected to for so long.  They're the ones in utter panic at this point and we'll see how they react in a few days.

Report of an Abduction Leads to Discovery of U-Haul Filled With Chinese Migrants in Florida
January 18, 2025

□ [“Stephen Colbert is Sad Biden is Leaving Office, Says Trump Might Pull Him Off the Air"]

We can't vote for him again, stop giving us reasons to!

This self-obsession is one thing which distinguishes the left.  Even though I use the terms "right" and "left," I am opposed to them, I think "center" and "edge" would be more accurate.  People in the "center" simply wouldn't think this way.  Trump didn't take you off the air last time so unless you've been molesting children or going to P. Diddy parties, there's nothing to worry about.  Yet for some reason this celebrity is worried about what will happen to him!

They all think someone is *GOING AFTER THEM!!!*  Very few people pay any attention to them whatsoever and even fewer watch their tv shows or whatever they do.  Yet somehow they're the target, Trump thinks about them every waking moment.  That's projecting their own obsessions on to someone they don't like.  They might even think that everyone else is exactly like them so they'll be targets too.  That's just not how being a mentally healthy person works.

It might be about trying to keep their ever-shrinking audience scared, at least partially, but I don't see how that's important.  They appear to be thinking more about Trump than about the viewers and the whole reason they're in this mess is because they *thought* they knew how everyone would obey them, at least all the *good* people would.

I think this is a fundamental aspect of the collectivist mind, although I don't have a clue how it works.  It might be the cause or just an aspect.  But it lets them focus on the wrong things no matter what else is going on.  I might be describing or defining it the wrong way, but this does seem to be a basic description of what's wrong with these people.  On the bright side, it makes them less competent as an enemy than they think they are, which they'll learn when the battle starts for real.

Snoop Dogg Performs at Inauguration Pre-Party in DC
January 18, 2025