Send the cat the required amount of string if you ever want to see your family alive again.

Ilhan Omar Caught on Tape Advising Illegal Alien Somalis in Minneapolis How to Avoid Deportation
February 4, 2025

□ [“Georgia Republican Reintroduces Bill to Make Blocking Highways in Protest a Federal Crime"]

Or you could just make it legal to run them over.  That would stop the protests in a hurry.  The only way these people could justify doing this is that they're in no danger whatsoever, unlike everyone else.  Or they're only allowed to do this in black neighborhoods.  You know, to get support.

The left is planning a protest at every state capitol tomorrow at Noon.  There will probably be lots of people since none of them need real jobs, but I don't think this will work out as well as they expect.  They weren't able to get any real protests together at Trump's inauguration, a month and a half later they finally get around to trying something?  This just doesn't come off with any real passion.

I would assume Trump&co. have already expected this and are probably working with the state governments for whatever they're going to do about it.  A few capitols might have something going on but otherwise I think it'll be generally ignorable.  But they're going to get a lot of people in downtown areas who are totally against those protests in the road, in every state at once. They might be calling Republicans in Congress about that too, in addition to the state governments.

Trump Reveals He Left Explicit Instructions for His Advisers in Event of Assassination by Iran
February 4, 2025

□ [“Trump White House Drafting Executive Order to Abolish Department of Education"]

Is he trying to get more votes in 2028 than he did in 2024?  What else could the result be?

Slightly more seriously, this isn't a major attempt on Trump's part.  The Education Department was established by Congress in 1979 - separating it from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare - so he'll need Congress to actually abolish it.  I'm sure he can reduce it quite a bit but it'll be up to lawyers to see how far he can go.  In theory, it might be possible to justify a very small office for observation of national public schools.  A lot of this stuff seems to be Trump making an outrageously big demand and then negotiation it downwards to get what he really wants.

We're seeing that elsewhere.  1000 EPA bureaucrats just got fired.  20,000 government employees have gone with that 8-month deal if they quit their jobs.  Not sure what the deadline is but if they haven't reached it yet, I bet a lot more people will be taking that offer before it's too late.  Plenty of time to learn to code.  The others won't be so lucky.  [Finds the specifics]  The deal ends on Thursday.  On Friday, I expect a lot of them to realize they should have taken the deal.

Even Congress is doing something, they're calling NPR and PBS to come testify about what the hell they're doing.  Hopefully they are working on getting Trump's actions made into actual law and hopefully Trump is keeping them in line.  At the moment I'm optimistic but we haven't seen any real victory or improvement yet.  Glad to hear the illegals are being pulled out, love seeing the leftists going nuts, but there's nothing to point to yet that is an improvement, Trump made it happen.  It all sounds great, I'm not criticizing it, it's only been two weeks, but the clock is ticking.

Scotland Considering Banning Ownership of Cats as Pets in Order to Save Birds
February 3, 2025

□ [“Nearly All USAID Staff Will Be Put on Leave in Addition to Mass Layoffs"]

They have obviously come across something really big.  Musk tweeted that they were just looking for the place that defied Trump's executive orders the most and it turned out to be USAID.  They hadn't been specifically going after it.  It's nice to find when I guessed right.  There are also hints that there are even bigger targets to go after.

I wonder how much of this was about funding the 'new world order,' or at least its self-appointed leaders.  Or how much was just funneling money into their own individual perversions.  They were also funding Wuhan labs where covid was created.  Even more, the State Department has been asked specifically about USAID funding this and refused to answer, September 12, 2023 being one example.

More people know what was going on.  Not sure why they've remained mostly silent all this time, but it doesn't sound like that will last much longer.  It's not like they're going to be able to point to any time they funded Trump supporters.  Or Mitt Romney, John McCain, Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, etc.  Some of the Republican candidates themselves might have gotten USAID money, but that would be yet another secret kept by the Democrats who got most of it.  The Uniparty was being fed for a long time.

No proof yet, but it's also suspected that this wasn't about funding other national governments.  This was about funding elites and resistance movements in other countries, tearing them down the way NGOs wanted to destroy the USA.  A small percentage of the money might have gone to actually helpful acts.  How much of that was a deliberate way to get good promotion and how much of it was just leftists being themselves, throwing other people's money wherever they wanted to and it coincidentally happened to help someone for a change?

Trump Announces “US Will Take Over Gaza Strip and We Will Do a Job With It, Too!”
February 4, 2025

□ [“Neil Gaiman Slapped With Lawsuit For Human Trafficking and Sexual Abuse"]

This is from the nanny.  Not sure how trafficking is included, but Mrs. Gaiman is included in the suit.  She obviously put in time and effort to provide Gaiman with sex victims, typical for a rich man's wife.  That might have been the 'trafficking' aspect.  This lady got some money and had to sign a NDA, which might not be relevant for charges like this.  The suit is also filed in multiple states where Gaiman has residences.

It's possible that Gaiman is just be sacrificed to protect other elites.  I don't think that's going to work very well just because Gaiman's friends and publishers have known about this stuff for so long and are still mostly quiet.  I come from the comics side of things and am regularly checking with the various pros I follow to see how long they'll remain silent.

The court case itself probably won't come up for months or years, assuming Gaiman doesn't just pay her off again.  So the bigger issue is what connections he and his wife had for all the years this was going on.  The people they know should be worried that they'll be dragged in.  Or at least the people Gaiman knows, his wife strikes me as the sort of chick who really doesn't think things through, she just gets everything she wants because that's how the world works.

Democrats Protest In Front of Treasury, Attack Musk, Call For Violence: “Goddammit! Shut Down the Senate… We are At War!”
February 4, 2025

□ [The Fantastic Four:  First Steps | Official Teaser]

Well, so much for that.  I've never been a huge FF fan but come on, they're amazing characters and the whole fictional universe followed in their footsteps.  This was not them.

A lot of it looked like a generic Marvel movie.  So right there is a negative score.  There's only a brief glimpse of Galactus but anybody who knows Big G. realizes that this is yet-another generic world destroying villain.  If you have to do superhero battles, doesn't anybody rob banks anymore?  Other than the people making these movies anyway?

These characters are pointlessly modified, so it's still generic Hollywood.  Ben Grimm does not talk softly and cultured as he discusses the meal he's cooking.  Nor does he wear shirts.  This trailer spent way too much time just on this scene.  Are we supposed to want to see this movie because Orange Man (the good one) is doing this?

Johnny really only got a brief scene, which is ok.  He's a hard character to screw up and this was fine.  Chris Evans was the best thing in the only other real attempts at FF movies.  The rest of the trailer was Reed and Sue narrating which was just appalling.  It just didn't come off well for either of them.  And this is what they're supposed to be doing?  Who is this supposed to appeal to?

The soundtrack was horrible.  Setting the movie in the 60s seems pointless.  There's a sense of timelessness which The Incredibles had, didn't see anything like that here.  Fortunately there was no hint of the Surferette but she'll be there.

2025 actually had two movies which I am tempted to make my first visit to a movie theater in five years.  Now we're down to one movie, unless there's stellar word-of-mouth when this one is released.  The other one is Superman and I'll try to remain optimistic but even avoiding what other people are saying about it, there were already problems.  As with other superheroes, the more we actually think about them, the worse it gets.  At least once upon a time, we were expected to grow out of them.  Now they're everywhere, just as life for normal people is getting harder and harder.  Coincidence?

Colorado Democrat Says His Party is Just ‘Twenty Big Cities, Aspen and Martha’s Vineyard’
February 4, 2025