Hmmmm, no one has ever seen me and Superman together. I wonder...

"Ladies and gentlemen, we regret any inconvenience the sudden economic problems might have caused. This is due to periodic financial and political issues we encounter. There is no reason to become alarmed and we hope you join us to make America great again. By the way, is there anyone who knows how to beat Iran?"20250618

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□ [“Trump on Israel-Iran War: 'Next Week Is Going to Be Very Big – Maybe Less than a Week'"]

Oh?  He's going to release the Epstein files?  Or is that a different 'next week' promise?  So hard to keep track.

I'm being a bit cynical on that although as I've said, I think Trump is handling Iran the right way.  We're probably not out of the danger zone but we're close, that's probably what Trump is referring to here.  Israel is doing all the heavy lifting, at least officially.  I'm sure we're helping in some ways, that's just not going to change, but we should be minimizing it.  If nothing else, Israel needs to know it can't always rely on us.

Trump also says they might be ready to start negotiations again in two weeks, another indicator that something is going on now.  It's possible that we were finally able to hack into their main computers so anything that's kept there is now ours.  That would include all the blackmail info they have on Americans.  I'd like to think that the Trump team is getting ready to use that.  And for that matter, maybe the mullahs and their elites have already given up and they're just negotiating how to protect themselves.

□ [“Iran Launches 2,000 km-Range Sejil Missiles at Israel for the First Time in History"]

All that said, there's still something very suspicious about all the news we get about this war.  Who is news like this supposed to appeal to, given that there's no information on if the missiles actually hit anything?  That's a pretty useless weapon if it didn't hit anything.  Similar to that is the rhetoric about Iran being on the urge of developing nukes.  We've been told that for decades!  Either Iran has had nukes for decades but haven't used them for some reason or they've never been close.  I'm trying to think of a third option but nothing is coming to mind.  So even if I'm right about my suspicions above, there's still more going on with this war that we're kept ignorant of.

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□ [“Gutfeld Slams Democrats ‘Screwing Over’ Legal Migrants, ‘Invading is easier than waiting in line’"]

Just someone on tv saying this but this does seem to be getting louder.  Since Trump won the election, the left clearly has refused to learn anything, and many of their subjects are tired of that.  It's still going to be two years before the next election season and they're just repeating the same nonsense about how Trump is failing at everything and everyone hates him.  This has been going on for over eight years, it's time to try something else.

Not going to cite any details but some new poll somewhere says 62% of Democrats think the leaders are too *woke* and that needs to change.  If it's the sort of poll Democrats would trust, that's yet another sign that they've got major problems.  The people being polled kept mentioning the trans movement as something that really isn't important to most people but the leaders are obsessed with it.  There's crime, illegal immigrants, the economy, the war, a lot of other things that affect more people, which Democrats ignored when they were in charge.

Obviously we're not going to hear about how much less money the party's sub-groups are getting now that DOGE has taken down USAID and other funding.  We also won't hear about those how many in the party are just no longer showing up.  Maybe because they aren't being paid, maybe because the leftism has become too, what's the new buzzword? "toxic."

Because we've never seen anything like this before, it's impossible to guess how far it will go.  The left has suddenly lost a large amount of support they always expected to be there.  How much more will turn out to have always been an illusion?  How long will they continue to double-down on the very things that put them in this position?  They've infested virtually every part of society so that's how deep the reactions will run.  And we're only five months into Trump 2.0.

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□ [“Rep. Luna (R-FL) Demands Congress Subpoena George Soros 'Why Hasn’t This Been Done Years Ago?'"]

Because they'd need his permission to do that?  Just a guess.  He's quite old, very easy to assume he'll be dead long before Congress has the guts to do anything about him.  You're in Congress, why not issue of subpoena for something?  Or, I dunno, file a bill for the government to seize all his money.  Democrats hate rich people, they should support that.

Something that might be more relevant is that last weekend, on the day of the riots and the Army's birthday, two of our self-appointed royal families united.  Hillary's true love Huma Abedin was assigned her latest fake marriage, George Soros' son Alex.  It was a very expensive wedding and no liberal dared complain about all the waste for an out-of-date institution.  Just think of how the government could have used that money instead.

Soros must be planning for what happens to his money when he dies and it looks like Alex is the puppet who will receive it.  He doesn't seem to have a known social life, it's like he just suddenly met a woman a dozen years older than him - he'll turn 40 in a few months - and was assigned to her.  It's not like they're going to have any children so that part of the family tree is over.  Maybe the Clintons are just trying to fill up time for the last few years of their own lives.  But this is something Congress could be looking into.

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□ [“Michelle Takes Another Public Swipe at Barack on Her Podcast"]

Sounds like basically nobody is listening to her podcast other than to get hints that her marriage is in trouble.  In this instance, she says she's glad she didn't have a son because he'd be like Barack.  That's kinda messed up.  Either your husband is that horrible of a person that you shouldn't be with him or he isn't and you don't want boys to be like that.  You'd rather have the bad ones.

A month ago, she had Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky and was clearly flirting with him, about how she'd be with him 'if I was single.'  He's rich but aren't there any limits among these people?  I'm getting the impression that she's doing this podcast in an attempt to have something going on in her life that's not centered around her husband.  It's not going to work, especially with the lifestyle she's been used to for the last couple decades, but it's something.

I'm still astounded by how quickly Obama and Michelle vanished from public attention.  Naturally there's a reduction when he stopped being POTUS, that's kinda the point, but I was under the impression he wasn't going to go completely private afterwards.  Maybe because he's black, maybe because he's one of the younger POTUS we've ever had, yet that's exactly what he did.  [Obama was the 12th youngest POTUS ever elected.  Bill Clinton and JFK were the only two elected younger than Obama and born in the 20th century.]  As little respect as I have for Obama, I still expected him to be able to do something in public for the last eight years, because that's the sort of thing he was elected for.

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□ [“James Gunn's Superman Box Office Plunges Despite Massive Marketing Campaign"]

It's just pre-ticket sales, but a few days ago we heard how it was doing way better than Fantastic Four.  The FF will come out later but Marvel is so desperate for an audience that they opened pre-sales early just in case.  They even claimed that pre-sales were doing so good that the computers broke down trying to handle them.  That didn't happen for previous movies like Endgame but it means a hit, right?  And then it didn't even happen for the new Superman.

And now that movie's already running out of steam after a few days of pre-ticket sales.  Did the Barbie movie have problems like this or was Barbie able to overcome difficulties in ways that Superman would never consider?  Whatever, clearly people are not interested in spending money on this stuff anymore.  You can argue that it's superhero fatigue or overall Hollywood fatigue, but it's still interesting.

Marvel and DC really need a success at this point.  They've spent insane amounts of money trying to build and rebuild their franchises and it's just making things worse.  I still think their goal is an Avengers/JLA crossover that comics fans waited decades for but that's not how the movie industry works.  At best it's just mediocrity and otherwise it's *woke* propaganda and only the studios want it.  Nobody else will pay for that crap.

Disney and Warner have ruined their franchises which took decades to build.  I'm not sure they can ever be recovered but it would absolutely require someone in charge who wants to do what actually worked for all those years instead of what they're doing now.  And where would you find someone willing and able to do that?  Just to find anyone competent, these companies would need to guarantee a buttload of money even if the people they hire fail completely.  No one else would take the job.  Maybe they expect A.I. and streaming to save everything?

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