I read the news today and saw what I'd been missing, oh boy!

Trump Says He's Considering Giving 20% of DOGE Savings to Taxpayers – And Slash National Debt
February 20, 2025

□ [“Palestinians Line the Streets to Cheer the Parading of Dead Babies"]

Haven't been following if Hamas has actually been returning hostages, but they must be getting around to those who are already dead.  In this case, a woman and her two children, who were four years and seven months when they became hostages.  It's not known how long they've been dead, but Hamas says Israel killed them in some bombing.

So that means the philistines are grateful for the bombings as it gave them the chance to see these young corpses.  It's not something you'd just shrug about and say it happens in war.  You go to the street these corpses are displayed on and applaud.  This is why Hamas gets elected by large majorities by people who are supposed to be dead from the genocide.

Could this be the real point of the latest war against Israel?  A year and a half ago, as leftist media praised how peaceful the Middle East was and Democrats condemned Israel, these hostages were taken.  Since then we've seen a massive shift in views, we see those who are standing for civilization and those who stand for Hamas and Palestine.

At the very least, there would be 'let them handle it themselves.'  But this will promote the viewpoint 'why hasn't Israel just erased these people permanently?'  If you're going to put an end to some of these leftist support mechanisms, that's a good place to start.

And just a note, it might have deeper effects.  The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia responded "What we saw today in Gaza is a disgrace to Islam, an act of blasphemy against Allah."  Not every Muslim will agree with him to be sure, but they will have to think about this.  They all look towards Mecca so whoever's in charge needs to be taken seriously.

Bank of America Targets and Debanks Conservatives - Has Deep Ties to the Chinese Communist Party
February 20, 2025

□ [“So-Called Brooklyn ‘Comedian’ Calls for the Assassination of Trump and Elon Musk"]
□ [“DC Protester Dragging Trump Effigy Trump with a Noose Around its Neck"]

These came out out a couple days ago, but there's been any number of other events like this recently.  The left is trying to find the guts to get Trump killed, or at least order other people to do the work.  They don't seem to have any concern about being investigated for this behavior, maybe they just think they can overwhelm the Secret Service.  Or maybe they have some insiders on the team, but we'll assume that's not likely.

□ [“Oregon Tesla Dealership Shot Up After Violent Democrat Politician's Rhetoric – Second Incident at Location in a Month"]
□ [“FBI Houston Arrests High School Students Planning 'Mass Casualty' Event Against School"]

They're getting desperate for an excuse to start Civil War 2.0.  Their insanity is demonstrated by how eagerly they turn on Tesla.  The company produces non-fossil fuel-powered vehicles, the kind that's supposed to save the planet, and they hate that.  All that devout belief and they suddenly turn against it because of Musk.  WTF?

This sort of idiocy, you couldn't have a character in a novel or movie do that because no one would believe it.  This is probably why the left has gotten away with everything for so long because almost no normal person could even conceive of behaving like this.  Yet here they are, showing off to the world.

They're trying to get Trump but face it, if they suddenly turned on the rest of us, none of them would have any hesitation.  That's what we're watching happen right now.  I'm sure some of them are trying to put together some sort of resistance movement but they obviously won't get very far unless some wealthy puppetmaster is giving them the orders.  I'll assume this will happen sooner or later, but until then they're just going to be doing stuff like this.

Amid Conflicting Reports About Condition, Italian Cardinal Now Says Pontiff May Resign for Ill Health
February 20, 2025

□ [“New FBI Director Kash Patel Issues Fiery Statement with a Dire Warning to America’s Enemies"]

Ok, so what are you going to do about it?  At this point, I'm skeptical of Indians in general, just because there seem to be so many of them in positions of power outside India.  Why not bring back Nikki Haley while you're at it?  Anyway, I'll try to be optimistic, but what will this mean?

I do know Patel was working against the FBI as they went after Trump and Carter Page, so that's something to expose.  I'd like to think that a number of documents are waiting his signature to declassify important documents, such as the JFK/RFK/MLK files.  It's been almost a month since Trump issued an order to make those public, still waiting.

One thing that will be harder for him to do or more difficult for us to understand is to expose what the FBI has been up to all these years.  There's the natural bureaucracy, although Trump and his staff have done fairly well against them so far.  But the FBI has had at least a month to prepare and they do know how to lie and put on disguises.  For that reason, I would be uncertain about anybody Trump picked for this position.  How do you know if they're doing the right thing or serving the 'deep state'?

The down side is even if Patel and Trump are doing the right thing, we probably won't know most of it.  That's just the nature of the job and as much as we want them to release tons of information, they can't release everything.  They're also conflicting people with a lot of options and identities.  It's the sort of thing that may be in history books decades from now, but we'll die never knowing what's really going on.  Feel free to prove me wrong on this by the way.

Ukrainian Lawmaker Confirms US Halted Weapon Deliveries to Ukraine
February 20, 2025

□ [“Captain America 4 Expects Box Office Crash in 2nd Weekend"]

I am getting more used to predicting a failure on Disney movies.  There's still a part of me that is too distant from the movie industry, it just seem wrong to assume few people want to see this crap.  That said, I've had a pretty good track record, but given what we're talking about, it's fairly clear.  Disney product are almost completely failure, especially in the biggest franchises they own.

This movie is nearing the end of its first week and has fallen $20 million behind where Ant-Man 3 was at this point.  By contrast, Deadpool 3 had made more money in the first three days domestically [and I am still shocked to live in a world where anybody has heard of Deadpool, much less has any interest in him.]  Disney is poisoning its own corporate IPs and anything they could have used other characters for, all to promote the *woke* agenda.

At this point I'd have to assume the investors and anybody else with authority are all in on this.  Otherwise they'd be screaming to turn the ship around before it hits the iceberg, or at least making a desperate escape before it's too late.  But there's no noise from that side, nobody saying they should do a Captain America movie that represents America.  But they'd need a new lead actor for that, so that's what you're going to get.

It's also interesting how this movie is described as effectively being a sequel to the 2008 Hulk movie, using characters and villains from that.  This lines up with comments that the Falcon's costume is based on Ant-Man, Black Panther, Cap's shield and I think a few other things, and the storyline is based on a Celestial last seen in the 2021 Eternals failure.  I recall some Disney executive saying there would be no Eternals sequel but they would use the storyline elsewhere.  They're trying to tie together continuity, pasting together pieces of other movies and characters and all they can get is a mess from that.

This is one of the damaging aspects of massive corporate IPs.  It's bad enough that movies require hundreds of people to make even the crappiest products, but they're tied down to other IPs, ruining anything that could be done with this particular release.  You could just take whatever details you like of this version, rename them and make a film about USAngel fighting Orange Man, that movie would probably have a better chance of success than this one.  But then you wouldn't get the expensive Marvel logo, so...

Department of Education Operates Rogue ‘Sanctuary Program’ For Illegal Aliens, Hides Secrets on Encrypted App
February 20, 2025

CIA to Conduct Largest Mass Firing Since 1977
February 20, 2025