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Trump Threatens DC Mayor Muriel Bowser With Removal? – “Bowser Better Get Her Act Straight Because We’re Taking Over With the Federal Government”
August 22, 2025

□ [“FBI Raids Former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s Maryland Home"]

As you may remember, Bolton made sure to put out that “No one is above the law” when MSNBC interviewed him about the Mar-a-Lago raid three years ago.  No evidence but it's said that this was about classified documents.  There was an investigation before which Biden's DOJ shut down.  We're also told that the FBI is loading up vehicles with documents from the house.

As always, part of the problem is that we're told so little and it's tough to keep track of over a long period of time.  Ever since I heard about this news, I assume Bolton was famous for working for George W. Bush.  I didn't look it up until I started writing this, he was the UN ambassador for a few years under GWB so I probably heard of him then but his fame is as Trump's NSA.  It's easy to forget this stuff.

That said, he's been around for a long time and connected with many other infamous people, so he may be a good example of how the Uniparty was maintained.  No idea if it's true but I'd like to think that Trump 2.0 is taking down all the parasites and traitors that surrounded his first term.  I also wonder if this is about some precedent, he's not going after a political opponent or someone in the opposing party - like the Mar-a-Lago raid - he's going after someone who used to work for him.

I'm just trying to be optimistic, there are certainly ways to see this as a negative.  As far as we know, Bolton hasn't tried to hit Trump with something big, but he still might, so take him out now as a lesson to the others from Trump 1.0's administration.  In commenting on this raid, Trump said that he didn't know about it, only learned it from the news.  He said he tells Bondi and the rest 'do what you gotta do,' he didn't want to know.  Gotta say, that doesn't sound good no matter what.

U.S. Immigrant Population Falls For First Time in Over 50 Years — Down by 1.5 Million This Year
August 22, 2025

□ [“Variety:  Disney Seeks Original IP Which Will Appeal to Young Men"]

The actual article is rather tedious, starting out by saying the target audience of young men is the real problem, not Disney.  Also they aren't the only target audience, just one among many.  And it never comes close to suggesting any reasons the IP Disney already owns can't do this job, even Marvel and Star Wars which they paid billions to acquire.  If you can't win the male audience with laser swords and people with imaginary powers solving problems by punching each other, maybe you're just not up to the job.  You can't recast Sydney Sweeney as Indiana Jones why exactly?

Variety is a media trade magazine so they need to suck up to Disney but that means the comments and responses are far more interesting and insightful.  Disney can't be told the truth from its supporters, that's the first problem that needs to be solved.  Then there's the specifically "original IP" requirement.  They bought Marvel and Star Wars to appeal to the male audience and it's only taken a decade to ruin that.

There's also the problem that they're trying to put all their IPs together and ruins them all.  Fictional characters in fictional worlds aren't supposed to mix, at least not in this capacity.  So even if by some miracle, Disney found someone who could make a cheap fun movie the guys would like, it'll be corrupted by all the rest of it.

The best we can say is that Disney's problems are finally being acknowledged, even if not completely.  The down side is the same people are still in charge.  Marvel could have kept going after Endgame but had to go *woke.*  That was bad enough but there's no sense of development.  The people who watched the movies building up to Thanos remember those movies more than the characters appearing in them, half of whom died and were reincarnated.  Instead the movies just cram as many expensive celebrities in as possible and do the filming before writing the script, the 'Marvel style' of comics and now movies.

Star Wars is even worse off.  I don't know if the characters can be recast and the Han Solo movie failure is evidence that they can't.  But beyond that, there's nothing to build.  Everything is connected and leads back to Coruscant, to Yoda, to Ben and to Luke blowing up the Death Star.  Without that, there's no much reason to put a Star Wars logo on the product if you're just doing a space fantasy adventure.

And that's all this is, a corporate product.  I haven't seen enough releases to really get it but I've noticed this, and other commenters have elaborated that there's no creativity.  The product comes out like it was done in a factory.  The Falcon America actor complained that he was doing fight scenes with no clue who the opponents were, the actor playing Nightcrawler in the upcoming Avengers movie has made the same comments.  You can argue whether or not movies are really an art form but whatever they are, this is the opposite.

Germany’s Sharp Economic Downturn Sparks Urgent Calls for Regulatory Reform
August 22, 2025

□ [“Obama’s $500M Presidential Center Turns $830M Nightmare as Locals Push Back"]

He took over a park and spent a lot more time and money than he planned to build this giant block of metal.  Apparently it had to be built according to *woke* regulations, that may be why it took so long, but the locals think it's ugly and ruins their neighborhood.  Because Chicago isn't ruined enough.

And what is the point of this giant ugly building?  It doesn't hold any books or documents like a "presidential library" is supposed to so why is it even here?  This sort of thing give the impression that it's there for elite cult members and the rest of us just have to stay ignorant.  It should be worrisome that this might just be full of photos of Obama, and maybe souvenirs like his clothes.  'This is what he wore that one time he went to a gun range!  That is what he wore to the Nobel Prize ceremony!'

Other than enriching the 'deep state' and activists, it's tough to think of anything Obama really did in eight years.  There's Obamacare but the left completely ignores that, they just say the health care system is horrible.  Maybe there's a connection there.  I know for a fact he oversaw a lot of military deployments to other countries with no declaration of war, but he can't really promote that.  So what else is there to put in this museum or whatever it is?

Obama Judge Blocks Trump Admin From Withholding Funds From More Than 30 ‘Sanctuary Cities’
August 22, 2025

□ [“DOJ Releases Audios of Two-Day Interview With Ghislaine Maxwell"]

Well supposedly the actual Epstein documents were released today, at least whatever the Justice Department had.  We know there's plenty of redactions so a lot of stuff will be kept secret, meaning it's probably untrustworthy.  And on Monday we'll probably be told that it was just multiple duplicate pix of him playing Angry Birds and Candy Crush.

The most immediate news about Maxwell's audio interview is that says Trump was never involved with Epstein and was always decent every time she dealt with him.  Also that Epstein did not kill himself, which contradicts what the feds have been saying all this time.  Don't know if she mentioned anyone else but I assume those names would have been the first things to redact.

So we don't know how much of this is worth believing.  That said, it is starting to look like this may be causing the leftist elites to worry.  It may explain some of the recent changes, like suddenly talking about how senile Joe Biden was all these years.  His spokesman Ian Sams had always insisted he was in perfect help, sharp as a tack.  He even said that to Congress but has now testified to them that he only met Biden twice.

More people seem to be stepping back because they might get asked about who used the autopen.  They'll be in trouble whether they answer or not.  We're now told the DOJ opposed Biden's last-minute autopen pardons.  More and more is coming on.  60 Minutes settled with Trump who sued over their edited Kamala Harris interview, otherwise he was going after the unreleased footage from a CBS interview with Biden.  This would show they had a pattern of hiding the truth.  And all of these people wind up connected to rich leftists with ties to Epstein, and/or P. Diddy.

They're still difficult to piece together but at least some of the conspiracies seem to be getting closer together.  The DOJ says it now has evidence that James Comey leaked classified information to use against Trump for his first term.  This violated the Espionage Act but for some reason, they decided not to prosecute Comey.  The same decision was made about Hillary and her unsecure private server.  This sort of thing happens down the line, where some liberal gets in trouble but it's always decided that they shouldn't be prosecuted.

This isn't even limited to politicians.  Illegal immigrant and MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia was caught by police in Tennessee.  He had no drivers license, he was driving a car registered to a human trafficker, and the vehicle was full of several other immigrant males with no luggage or identification but he was taking them to (I think it was) New York for a job.  The police called the FBI about this and were told to let them go.  So they were.  And Democrats universally rushed to support this guy when he was busted for real several months ago.  He's since been returned to the US and set free by leftist judges.

So where is this all supposed to go?  It does seem to be leading to something and we're slowly starting to see an actual direction.  The Clintons, Obama and other elites are starting to appear quite worried about something.  Notice that they aren't going out to make a lot of noise.  Hollywood is breaking apart, they need an audience and are driving them away.  The trans movement and *woke* in general aren't gone but they're severely weakened.  And now they have to focus on Epstein who was also a rich leftist.  Still not enough secrets coming out but it looks like a fire has been set and starting to spread.

“Chicago Will be Our Next” – Trump Says Chicago, New York, San Francisco Crime Crackdown Incoming and Democrats are Calling Him for Help
August 22, 2025