I'm not saying this would be better if the cat wrote it but it would be cuter.

July 26, 2025 Tom Lehrer, humorous songwriter, mathematician, age 97
Trump Announces a Trade Deal with the European Union - EU Will Invest $600 Billion More in the US
July 27, 2025

□ [“Fantastic Four Box Office Crash!  Loses to Superman!  Avengers Doomed?!"]

Luckily I got to ignore most of the promotion this weekend, didn't even bother to check youtube for reviews.  I did see a couple early on and the reaction is mixed.  It's only Sunday evening of opening weekend so it might theoretically become successful but that's not likely.  Disney/Marvel needs a hit and they spent far too much on this to accept anything other than massive success, which this isn't.

Estimates are that it will do better globally than Superman this weekend because Superman failed outside the US, but he won domestically.  Haven't checked the actual estimates but I assume that means his opening weekend compared to the FF, not that he did better this weekend.  But the FF had a huge drop in attendance after opening night which must be worrying Marvel.

I don't know how they did it, but arguably their original success in comics came from getting the kids to actively track down new comics every week.  If they weren't buying a complete set, they at least picked up ever #1.  Somehow the company has transferred that to opening night for movies but that's just a disaster we can see happening now.  Movies require far too many people and too much money to rely on the fanboys on opening weekend and the nature of the industry repulses everyone else.

I get the impression that a lot of people wanted to say in advance that this would be a bomb.  I can only speak for myself but I suspect we're still wary on doing that even though that last couple years of Marvel movies have shown we'd have been mostly right if we'd gone ahead and said it.  That's natural, we're not stupid enough to place a bet on the failure, there's just no indication that this movie will succeed.  It should also be noticed that the quality is almost completely irrelevant.  We don't think it'll fail because it's bad, we think it'll fail regardless.  Marvel and DC should be very worried about this.

Marvel is estimated to be spending around $300 million just for the cast of the next Avengers movie.  That would need to be the most successful movie in history to come close to breaking even and the last five years were supposed to build up to this.  Just think, if they'd just stuck with the original plan, the Kang Dynasty would have been released on May 2.  But this is far more entertaining than any of these movies could possibly be.

Trump Administration Launches Investigation on Universities Giving Scholarships to Illegals
July 27, 2025

□ [“CIA Director Ratcliffe:  Indictments and Prosecutions for Hillary Clinton, James Comey, John Brennan"]

It's still going to be a few weeks before they get to this but don't worry, this time it's actually going to happen.  I have deliberately not been looking back at everything that went on and not just because of all the pages I filled out covering this.  At this point, it's not annoying so much as tiresome that they keep saying they're going somewhere with this stuff.  Why even bother?  Just flat-out tell us what all this information is.  Ok, it'll prevent convicting them in court but it's never going to get far anyway, at least this would be far more believable.

That said, the fact that they're citing Hillary is a definite point in their favor.  As far as I know, Hillary hasn't said a whole lot in the last few months.  Maybe she's just drunk like Nancy Pelosi but it seems strange.  There's obviously personal risk to prosecuting Hillary, maybe we'll find out why.  Compared to her, Comey and Brennan are very minor players here, regardless of what they actually did.  I'm still skeptical about going after Obama but these three are quite relevant and have ties to all the other big players, including Obama and Bill.

They say more stuff will be declassified.  I haven't paid much attention so maybe I'm missing something but there doesn't seem to have been many shocks in what we've heard so far.  Stuff we already knew is confirmed, probably with tedious descriptions.  Nobody is surprised by anything being revealed, although maybe no one else is really focused on this.  People seem to be detached, 'something was just hit, ignore it and keep focused on whatever I'm doing.'

The 'deep state' in general must be worried.  Trump's NSA John Bolton reportedly received a report that the 'Russia hoax' was all a hoax - like you couldn't tell from the name? - and deliberately did not inform Trump about that.  He hid the document in a file, which may be one of the rooms or SCIFs that had recently been discovered.  There's a point where the traitors can't depend on each other and some will be willing to turn the others in.  They also don't have a whole lot of options to fight back unless they're willing to go public.

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July 23, 2025

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July 26, 2025

Two White People Savagely Beaten By Vicious Black Mob in Downtown Cincinnati
July 27, 2025

□ [“Nigel Farage explodes at £23.5k 'Shariah law administrator' job ad on DWP site"]
□ [“British Police ‘Elite Team’ to Monitor Social Media for ‘Anti-migrant’ Posts"]
□ [“Passengers on Flight to Scotland Spring into Action on Deranged Man:  'I’m Going to Bomb the Plane…Death To Trump…Allahu Akbar!'"]

Britain has got to be getting ready to resist.  I go back and forth between they're ready to fight or they're effectively dead already, but right now, I think they're going to resist.  But to make it work, they need to purge the invaders and their government supporters.  They need to show why they were the peak of civilization for centuries and created their successor.  It's been almost a decade since they voted for Brexit and the elites have prevented that as much as possible.

This is showing the problems of Muslim immigration.  When they take over, the land is theirs forever.  In America, that can be easily ignored because we have a big country and it's easy to ignore.  That's not Britain.  Native Brits are the second-class inferiors in all but name and the government is thrilled with that.

You could make an argument that this demonstrates the flaws of atheism, that it just makes everything weaker and easy to overtake.  We see that lesson spreading across western Europe which has ignored the church and depended on the hated Americans to handle all the real work.  Meanwhile our leftist atheists want us to be more like Europe.  They'd love to have government agencies managing shariat law here and perhaps they already do in Chicago or New York or Los Angeles.

I've always wondered if this was a long-term part of the 'war on terror' which started for most of us in 2001.  I was always a supporter of the 'war on terror' although I dislike how some of it was handled, but it's possible this was actually part of the plan.  Show western strength and ability for a decade or two, then give the other side a chance to show what they reduce civilization to.  And this lines up with how we've seen leftists fall apart, especially now.  They're ready to collapse, we just need to give them the push.

Florida School Board Chair Under Fire for Social Media Post on Hulk Hogan’s Death:  “Good.  One less MAGA in the world.”
July 27, 2025

□ [“GOP Probe to Investigate Slavery Is in California After ICE Raid Uncovers Child Labor Abuse"]

The raid was at a pot farm owned by one of Gavin Newsom's allies/donors.  Don't know if it's state or federal, but there are laws against people under age 21 working on legal pot fields and laws against children under 16 having jobs anyway.  There's no way this can't be deliberate and people more powerful than Newsom are part of it.  This slave trade may have helped his career, where he's been part of California and San Francisco politics since January 1997.  Just speculating but it may also have helped his rich Democrat relatives.

I don't *think* Democrats could have maintained a consistent slave trade since the 1800s but maybe they've kept their experience relevant in other ways.  It would certainly explain how they owned blacks, then segregated blacks, then decided to let blacks vote for Democrats and it's worked ever since.  For whatever reason, they want more of that these days as we see here.

It's not an exact parallel but this does seem connected to standard leftism, believing that they can control their inferiors and that will be better for everybody.  It could even explain why they need massive immigration.  There's more to it than that of course, like just getting rid of white people and submitting to Islam, but one could make the argument that this is what Democrats have always believed.

Clerical Error Leads to Violent Criminal’s Escape, Massive Manhunt in New Orleans
July 27, 2025