Actually Shirley can be very serious if she wants.

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□ [“UK’s Keir Starmer Wants To Send 10-15 Thousand Troops to Ukraine for 5 Years"]

Russia has 600,000 troops.  That's not enough to make a dent.  Britain has 74,000 troops.  That's a huge percentage sent off for this.  If you go to a warzone, you're part of the war and nobody in NATO has any obligation to help you for your stupid decision.

This is probably just talk, European elites trying to compete against each other and look tough.  They've had over three years to show they really took this seriously so why now?  Partially they need to act like they're worth anything without the US, so that's obviously not going to go anywhere.  But beyond that, there's just this obsession with Russia and Ukraine, focusing on it to the cost of all else.

I don't assume other NATO members are the same as the US, but we only seem to hear from the chief executives and not the legislatures who you'd think would actually be voting for war.  Maybe Starmer can just go send troops to fight wherever he wants and Parliament has to go along with him, but it seems unlikely.

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□ [“M-She-U Strikes Again!  Vanessa Kirby Confirms Fantastic Four Will Push Gender Politics"]

Because that's what people want from the FF.  They also make a point that Johnny isn't a womanizer and cares more about people's feelings.  The team is about forming a foundation for global peace to build a stereotypical leftist society.  This has very little to do with the actual characters and everything to do with pushing the *woke* agenda.

One point I keep making is that, although I've seen very few of the movies, one thing I liked about the MCU was how it used as much of the source material as possible, or at least built from there.  It wasn't just raw material to be ignored in favor of leftist propaganda.  Can't say when or how that changed, but it clearly did.  And this was supposed to be the next step, after Ant Man 3, the Marvels and Falcon America.  I don't expect this to do very well either.  If Snow White can be a huge disaster for Disney, the FF can do that for Marvel.

Superheroes are a juvenile concept and there's enough problems these days for people to find them boring, 'growing out of them' as it were.  Even if they weren't, the *woke* agenda is pushing the audience away, as is the economy.  Then there's the way Disney treats like a fully-built franchise that has a right to expect people buying more, no matter how much crap they churn out.  They think they can just pick an IP, spend several hundred million on it, and have a guaranteed hit.

They must have had some actual plan with the post-Thanos era but this clearly isn't working.  Kang was supposed to be the main bad-guy and that actor was paid to go away.  There's little connection between the movies and nothing in the way of an over-arching story, part 1, part 2, 3, 4, etc.  And now the FF are supposed to fix things by getting everybody ready for another Avengers, which is just dozens of cameos the audience is expected to recognize.  The real audience will be rooting for Galactus.

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□ [“NY Attorney General Letitia James Declares Virginia Home Her ‘Principal Residence’"]

Democrats will desperately need to ignore this, she's the one who's been going after Trump for any excuse they can find.  Being wealthy enough to own multiple homes, she had one in Virginia and on August 17, 2023, signed legal documents for a mortgage and giving a relative 'power of attorney' in handling this affair.  Those documents stated that this house in Virginia was her principal home.

This was just a few weeks before she took Trump to court for fraud, and New York Public Officers Law § 3(1) states that “No person shall be capable of holding a civil office who shall not have resided in this state” a certain time.  Law § 30(1)(d) says that office is immediately vacant if the officeholder moves to another state.  So right there, she had no right to go after Trump for anything.

This probably won't really change anything.  She's certainly not going to be punished, just like the Epstein and P. Diddy allies.  But this will make a case against the persecution of Trump that the left has indulged in for the last decade, and one more block in the wall against the activist judiciary.

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□ [“Globalist Puppet Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Begs U.S. to Return to the World Health Organization"]

I'm sure he obeys all the globalist elites, but China is his real master.  Covid was so helpful in expanding their power but the WHO still doesn't think the virus came from Wuhan biolabs.  That's how trustworthy they are.

China is having trouble and needs to use all the weapons they have available, which is why they're calling in the WHO.  It's looking like that's the point of Trump's tariffs, to break other nations away from China and get them back into proper free world-economies.  Essentially the tariffs are to shock everyone, those who see re-negotiation as a good idea can be helpful, the rest will side with China as a united enemy.  We'll see what effect this has on BRICS.

But the WHO needs to go away forever.  We haven't even looked into them and everything about it seems horrible.  Globalism will never die, unfortunately, but the purge is needed.  Just the fact that Trump is making these people so desperate is great, we need more of that.  Until proven otherwise, I'll assume they're all human traffickers and demon-worshippers, that's why they want to be everywhere in the world.

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