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Desperate Venezuelan Dictator Maduro Advances Christmas to October 1st for the Second Year in a Row
September 10, 2025

□ [“Kamala Harris Slams Joe Biden in New Book, Second Term ‘Recklessness’, Her Lack of Support"]

The publisher needs to at least try to keep this from looking like a blatant payoff.  Since the release is getting close, they're releasing some parts that are theoretically supposed to interest people.  Nobody has any interest in Kamala herself and I'm sure she doesn't go into details of how her political career started, the main focus will be on how Biden got ditched and the party was stuck with her.

Of course in the last four years, she saw absolutely any indication of Biden's mental problems, he was always the sharp leader she'd always seen.  This does not make her look good and will minimize anybody who believes anything in this book.  Of course it's also possible she's never read it and has no idea what it says.  If she can ignore Biden, whom she believes is POTUS and her boss, she could ignore a book with her name on it.

She also whines that Biden's staff didn't do enough to set her up for success, ignoring all the things they put her in charge of and quickly gave up on.  There's also the fact that Biden's staff work for Biden, not her.  This is why queens consider themselves important, because they're married to the king, but Harris was not even married to Biden.  Get over yourself, lady.

Finally, it was Biden and Jill's decision for him to drop out.  Now this is a place where Harris would have been relevant if she had anything to continue.  In real command situations, the man in charge will ask his people if he's making a mistake, or what they think about the topic under discussion.  A bad leader is just told what he wants to hear but a good leader looks for disagreements precisely to identify what he might be missing.  But no one around Biden would be allowed to say anything like that.

No idea if Harris' book will be a failure.  Some people will buy it, out of curiosity if nothing else.  She's already been paid millions of dollars for the advance no matter how badly it sells but what else is there for her to do?  She'll basically be laughed off the stage if she tries to be POTUS again but she's still young enough that she can't just watch television until she dies.  And like it or not, she's still one of the highest ranking Democrats out there. She may be following in Joe Biden's path in a few years, pushed back into something she isn't remotely capable of doing for several years because the party is just that desperate.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett's Disgusting Comment About an Autistic Woman R*ped and Murdered by Illegal Alien Gangster
September 10, 2025

□ [“Leftists Access Restaurant Where Trump Is Dining and Scream at Him From a Foot Away"]
□ [“Secret Service Missed a Glock in a Bag at Virginia Golf Course Trump Was Golfing At"]

WTF is the SS doing?  IDK.  The golf incident was last month but they have to physically check everything someone is bringing to where Trump is and they missed this.  The guy responsible was placed on leave for the investigation.  The other incident was last night, Trump went to a restaurant and people were right there to harass him up close.  They were members of Code Pink - who knew that was still a thing? - and hated Israel because Trump is hitler.  That doesn't really make sense but that's what these people do.

Maybe it's the weather getting cooler but the left is just getting more aggressive.  Or desperate, depending on how you look at it.  So it's not surprising that they'd be making even more attempts to kill him.  And others as well.  Another right-wing leader was assassinated today, Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA was shot at an event in Utah.  I know nothing about him but I see a lot of reactions - the left is gloating about it - so he's important to others.

There's the insanity of just deciding to shoot someone.  You can't have a civilization if there isn't a certain amount of security wherever you go and as the Secret Service demonstrates, even those at the highest level don't get as much as you'd expect.  Most of us are complete nobodies but this makes us worry about regular crime, or going to an event and being caught in the crossfire, or just used as a random target by some insane leftist.  There's probably reason they're back to wanting to ban guns, which they'd been mostly-silent about for a few years.

Fauci Directed Colleagues to Destroy Federal Records and Delete Emails, Then Denied It Under Oath
September 10, 2025

□ [“Poland Scrambles Fighter Jets After Reports of a Russian Drone Across the Border"]

My assumption on hearing this last night was that it was a fraud.  We've already got troops supporting the war - no reason to think Trump has called them home - and Poland's leaders are eager to get involved.  Even if that wasn't the case, Ukraine has already launched missiles at neighboring countries that aren't Russia and nobody cared so why would this be any different?

But of course the people who think Russia is stupid enough to just start bombing NATO members while they're already busy with another war feel they have something worth saying.  And if Russia really wanted that, they'd just send in a few drones because that's all they're worth.  This just got more unbelievable the longer it went on, then even the anti-Russian leftists sites I check suddenly shut down these claims as not a believable source.

A few days ago, Putin pointed out that foreign troops in Ukraine would be legitimate targets.  Well that's why we have Special Operations.  This may have been one of the reasons they were around, either training and supplying Ukrainians to do this or just handling it themselves anyway.  Not saying they were American but I'm sure they're from some NATO member.  They really want this war to get bigger.

Newly Declassified FBI/CIA Files:  Two Saudi Gov't Operatives May Have Been 9/11 Hijackers' Advance Team — Official Narrative in Tatters as Timeline Shifts Back to 1998
September 10, 2025

□ [Jimmy Kimmel Live: Spinal Tap – "Big Bottom"]

I will give them credit for a decent-not-great performance of this classic song, but I have not been impressed with the Spinal Tap comeback effort.  I was never a huge fan.  I'm not sure the original movie is really a classic but enough people disagree with me and it's still fun, especially the music.  But I just cannot see how the world really needed a sequel 40 years later.

My understanding is that the movie creators/lead actors own the trademark so they're required to do something as the band every few years.  Most of the ads I've seen for it show clips from the old movie which they must be allowed to use, and the few new clips really aren't interesting.  It gets even worse in the interviews that have been released recently.  I've seen two of them and am not interested in seeing any more.

This is where the appeal for this sort of thing just leaves me behind.  Maybe I just was never enough of a fan, maybe it's because they didn't actually make an on-going career of this so there's just a lack of interest for me.  Then again, looking up their individual careers in tv and movies, other than Harry Shearer on The Simpsons, you barely need more than one hand to count anything I've ever seen from all of them, and even most of that is as very small appearances.  I have no idea how much of All in the Family I saw and Rob Reiner hasn't contributed much else to my life.  Of what I have seen from any of them, almost all of it is in the 'I saw it once, a long time ago' category.  Michael McKean in The Brady Bunch Movie is in second place after Spinal Tap.

Or maybe the real problem is that they just look old.  Well they are old, upper-70s at the youngest.  Fictional characters can stay young, the actors not so much.  I just don't see any appeal, and it's not remotely funny.  It's so pointless that I can't even be sure what lines are supposed to be a joke.

I rarely see any movies and even when I do, it's something that I've watched countless times before.  2020 was the last time I saw a movie I'd never seen before and 2019 was the last time I went to a theater.  I was really surprised to discover that this year had four movies that actually tempted me but so far we're 0 for 3.  There's still a very small chance I'll see it but it seems unlikely.  On the bright side, it probably wasn't that expensive to film so they don't need me to make a profit.

Paris is Burning on New Prime Minister's First Day With Widespread Protests, Violence and Destruction
September 10, 2025