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15-Year-Old Illegal Alien Charged with Murder After Fatal Long Island Stabbing
July 13, 2025

□ [“Over 400 Protests Against Trump Admin Scheduled to Take Place Nationwide on July 17"]

I'll have to check if these things are scheduled every month or if they just happen here or there every few weeks.  I checked my local event and they actually have several this week.  Checked a few others cities and didn't see any except Thursday.  One of my local events was today so I went to all the effort to get dressed and go outside and drive down to see what they were doing.  Wasn't worth it.

Seven people, white and middle-aged or old, just standing at the street and holding signs.  This is a weekend and today was actually cooler than normal for mid-July and that's the best they can do?  Tomorrow and Thursday will be during rush hour traffic but this can't be encouraging.  What do they expect to get from this?

Can't point to any specific examples but I get the impression they're one finger and others on the hand are more functional, the gangs and invaders being obvious examples.  It's not exact, these people have no strength but they do have influence.  I'm just trying to work out an accurate analysis, not diminishing whatever they might actually be capable of but not over-estimating either.  Maybe these seven are just the people who will show up without being paid.

For that matter, it's only 400+ events prepared for Thursday.  A few months ago they were doing 1500+ across the country.  This could be showing how the leftist resistance is a failure.  And these are the people who made sure they lost the election.

Airplane Crashes at London Southend Airport, Just Moments After Takeoff
July 13, 2025

□ [“James Gunn's Superman Box Office"]

I gave the movie barely any thought this weekend, then I happened to look up how it's done and suddenly thought of something to say.  $122 million domestically, another $95 million internationally.  That's not bad but it's not great and this was a ridiculously expensive movie, costing well over $300 million to make and a lot more marketing.  Just the fact that domestic did much better than international isn't a good thing.

It might be popular over the next several weeks.  Less likely, the audience might be done by next weekend.  It probably won't be a bomb but it has to get close to a billion dollars to turn a profit and that's not likely.  The reports are quite mixed.  Some people like it or parts of it, others feel the opposite.  What I've heard just removes whatever temptation to see it I had so they can probably do without me.

Comparing it to other movies gets even worse.  Deadpool and Wolverine made almost as much money domestically in three days than Superman has made globally.  That's what a hit looks like.  Ant-Man 3 did almost as well in the first three days.  That's what a failure looks like.  The 2013 Superman movie did almost well and that's not counting inflation for ticket prices.  The point is that Superman will not save the day.

This will not help the Fantastic Four movie in a few weeks.  That movie looks increasingly like it will bomb.  The actors are repulsing the audience.  Since I still think Marvel and DC are headed towards a multiverse crossover, Justice League/Avengers, why not have James Gunn and Pedro Pascal do an ad promoting their movies to bring in Trump supporters?  Gunn pulls out his phone and films Pascal as they try to appeal to people.  The novelty would get tons of publicity, what could go wrong?

Kentucky State Trooper Shot, Two Dead, Multiple Victims Injured in Lexington Church Shooting
July 13, 2025

□ [“Fox & Friends Hosts Urge Trump to Provide Answers About ‘Ticking Time Bomb’ Epstein Case"]
□ [“Trump Gets Ratioed for the First Time After Weighing in on Handling of Epstein Documents"]

Pressure is building.  Trump isn't lazy although we don't know if the same can be said about the impersonator we've been seeing recently.  This is also making the point that unlike leftists, Trump supporters are willing to turn against the people in charge.  A fair rebuttal would be asking who else they can turn to and I don't have an answer for that.

One problem every side is facing is that this isn't just a group of bad people.  A lot are involved and they are everywhere, at least everywhere important.  There's the fact that Trump is often (always?) replaced by an impostor these days and the Secret Service is having problems.  I haven't followed the news there but it stems back to the assassination attempt a year ago today and doesn't sound like the Secret Service is completely trustworthy.

Checking my coverage of events a year ago, I notice a BBC presenter and a black actress I never heard of were both publicly calling for Trump's assassination in early July.  Just those details about them suggest they could be connected to Epstein and his ilk.  Democrats were already pushing very heavily to get Biden out, like there was a deadline.  Then on July 8, Biden said "we're done talking about the Epstein files debate, it's time to put Trump in a bullseye."  Just those details suggest a connection to the Secret Service.

A day or two before the assassination attempt, former Democrat Senator Joe Manchin said that the party would decide Biden's fate on Sunday, i.e. the day after the assassination attempt.  Manchin had replaced Robert Byrd as Senator, Byrd had been mentor for Biden and Hillary Clinton in a number of ways.  The point I'm trying to make is that there's a lot of history in these people and institutions, including the Epstein files.  Manchin, Biden, Hillary and Byrd are one example of those connections and a brief look at Byrd's life shows who he was connected to in building the modern Democratic Party as well as the executive branch.

It's not that people don't get that there are complicated aspects to the Epstein issue, it's that the people in charge aren't even explaining the complication.  It looks more like they're ignoring it entirely, not helped by Trump (or his impersonator) saying he can't believe that anybody's mentioning this.  The goal should be to put out all the information immediately and to provide straightforward explanations of why that hasn't been done yet.  Which Trump and his people aren't doing and will not help them succeed.

Spaniards and North-Africans Street Battles in Torre-Pacheco After Moroccan Immigrants Badly Beat Pensioner
July 13, 2025

Today is Harrison Ford and Patrick Stewart's birthday.  And you thought there was nothing special about it.20250713

□ [“62-Year-Old New Jersey Woman Charged for Driving Through Anti-ICE Protesters Surrounding and Pounding on Her Car"]

This is a bit surprising.  I get that laws differ from state-to-state but I had recently realized that it had been a while since we heard about idiot protestors blocking traffic and surrounding cars.  I guess I'm naive, when Florida made it so you can drive the hell away from these threats, that everybody suddenly took it as a given that that's the way it should be.  I'm not sure if it's more stupid or more abusive but either way, don't do that to people or you deserve to be run over.

The whole notion of pedestrians taking over the roadways is fundamentally totalitarian.  The people doing this think that they're so important, everyone else must stop no matter how long it takes.  I would also support this woman having a gun in her car and being willing to use it.  The footage gives no clue but this woman turns out to be black, I'm sure New Jersey will drop any charges.

It's always leftists who say 'people just want to live their lives' and claim to support oppression, then oppress people by interfering in their lives.  They just assume they know best.  We're all an interchangeable collective, except for them so the rest of us have to obey.  I don't think it's possible to remove that mentality from everybody but that seems to be the real enemy we're fighting.