I know what you're thinking, 'Did he post six memes or only five?' Well, to tell you the truth, with all the trending posts going on, I kinda lost track myself. But being how big the internet is, with A.I. generating more every single day, you've gotta ask yourself one question, 'Am I being spammed?' Well, are ya, punk?

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August 1, 2026

□ [“'My Family Doesn't Have Any Money' Hunter Biden Says He's Too Broke To Own a Car or Phone"]

So is he living on the street, begging for change?  And his whole family's in that predicament, how do they pay property tax on that big house they live in?  Something about this doesn't sound right.  He's testifying under oath to make a deposition in a lawsuit with the law firm who defended him so if he buys any food, it'll be obvious that he's lying.

He says that all he owns is his paintings, where are they stored?  He probably had to carry them in to wherever he made the deposition, they might be stolen otherwise.  You'd think he could just sell those and would have money right there.  Then there's the money his mother and father each got on advances for books, what about that?  They're really going to need to explain these financial issues or at least it needs to be hidden in a very obvious way.

He owns the lawfirm $17 million, they've been representing him since 2022.  He says they knew he didn't pay bills from the start but apparently believed *something* would be worked out.  Sounds like they knew about all the corruption going on and would get their share that way and so far that seems to be quite believable.  It's not like they can say Hunter's so wonderful that they'll work for free because JUSTICE!

This story isn't finished yet.  Joe and Jill will be gone soon but Hunter's still got a few decades, assuming nothing unexpected happens.  He's spent his whole life living in wealth and isn't the cleanest tuna on the escalator so he doesn't know how to solve these issues.  I think he's reaching a point where his only hope is to expose all the other rich perverts he knows unless they pay him off.

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August 1, 2026

□ [“Spider-Man Just Destroyed Supergirl in One Day With $168 Million"]

Interesting look at how out-of-touch I am with modern pop culture, I was aware a Spider-Man movie was coming out but I really didn't know when until the last few days.  As opposed to the Supergirl movie which had been hitting me on social media, dozens of ads every day all year and are still coming out.  I'm sure Al Gore-ithims are involved but it's still strange.  I didn't respond to any Supergirl ad until the failure was finally in theaters but still got hit with them.  I don't think I said anything about a Spider-Man movie but I have talked quite a bit about the character and I was still almost-entirely ignorant about this.

Officially the one or two preview days don't count so the box office is all for yesterday.  The reviews I've heard say that it's good, great or at least decent.  Not my problem, I have no interest in seeing it anyway but I am curious about the public reaction and how the media conglomerets will respond to this.  More women are seeing this movie when it opens than have seen Supergirl in the last five weeks and that movie was supposedly aimed at them.  Might as well go to the movie theaters and ask the women waiting in line if they saw Supergirl and why not.  That'll help marketing.

It's still known that Sony own the Spidey-movie rights.  Literally on day one this was the tenth-most popular movie of 2026 and the competition isn't great to easily be the top.  Disney will get a big part of the profits but they got that by not having much to do with the movie itself.  It's entirely possible this is just an exception and people are generally tired of superhero movies, or modern movies in general.  2024's Deadpool and Wolverine was the last one to be a genuine hit and it took three days to make this much.

Other recent competitors did worse.  Superman took seven days.  Fantastic Four took eight days.  Falcon America took 22 days.  Thunderbolts took 23 days and that's all just to beat this Spidey movie's opening day!  And those are the most successful, not even counting the bombs.  If the rest of this weekend is good, and we assume it will be, it's got a good chance of beating any of those movies' overall box office.  In a week or two, you can start adding those other movies together and Spidey still comes out on top.

I'm going to need to think about why the hell Spidey has been used as this media figure to attract an audience.  It's obviously worked, people can tie themselves to a 60+ year old corporate IP.  Like it or not, the companies have figured out how to do that.  Which means they use these techniques, whatever they are, everywhere they can.

It will be interested to see how Disney reacts with this.  Marvel and DC have been cancelling some upcoming projects and added more in just the last few days.  Now Sony has just demonstrated a big success without tying it up with a huge franchise.  This movie does include parts of the MCU and it's setting up the X-Men as a Disney property but it's all irrelevant to the next big release, the bloated Avengers garbage coming out this December.

That movie is a guaranteed failure just from the costs of making it, it could be the most popular thing ever and wouldn't earn a profit for a long time.  But instead it's tied to the last several years of movies no one cared about, those which became less and less popular with each new release.  No one's keeping track of what all the characters were doing before this and there's no way to make it interesting.  Disney/Marvel is going to be in big trouble.

Which brings us back to Supergirl where things are even worse for DC.  The lead actress is still making things worse with every statement.  The movie just came out for digital release and it's in 4th place.  It will never be more popular than it is now and that was the best it could do.  Soon it'll be on streaming, then it'll be forgotten.  Except that it's still reportedly required-viewing for next year's Superman sequel.  The actress and others in the studio have told us we need to see this movie to understand that one and they're going to be making a point of how much better Supergirl is than Superman.  Warner Bros. has to know this is a huge waste of money but they still insist on doing this.

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August 1, 2026

□ [“22 EU leaders Turn on Spain’s Sánchez Over His Migration Failure"]

They say they have but is it the truth?  They put up a floating barrier around Ceuta but are they really watching it?  And how hard is it really to get around?  The whole continent is open.  They've agreed to "suspend" Spain from their open-borders policy which indicates this is just a show, they aren't taking it seriously.  It does nothing to stop the threat and Spain certainly has no reason to change its policies, so neither does anybody else in charge.

Even if by some miracle Spain does change its ways, they can just change back in six months or a year.  Morocco says it was just about problems they're having with Sánchez, something to do with deals he's making with Algeria.  So they sent 60,000 troops to the border.  That's definitely a lie, the only question is how many in Europe will go along with it.  Or how many will actually do something to fight back.

I also have to wonder how much of this comes from Iran.  Shi'ites and Sunnis can certainly find a reason to unite against the infidel and reclaiming the "conquista" would always be a goal.  The fact that it's happening right now suggests Iran is giving the orders but it might be a second- or third-order effect.  This is one reason I haven't been going after Trump's slow attack on Iran because I have assumed he's looking at a larger picture which includes this.  I also think something like this could be part of the plans the US had to prepare after 9/11, given that we're reaching an anniversary next month.  I still think it would have been better if we handled this by July 4 but they have mid-term elections to plan for.  Now let's see if Europe has any chance of surviving.

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August 1, 2026

□ [“Charlamagne tha God Asks Why Fauci Pled the 5th 100+ Times 'if There Was No Crime Committed'”]
□ [“Jasmine Crockett Criticizes Black People Who Voted for Trump: ‘Like, Really?’"]

Another crack might be widening in leftist social structures, blacks daring to challenge the leftist narrative.  I don't self-identify as black so I don't know how much attention they pay to Charlamagne.  He is a leftist but he has also gotten off the reservation and made some sensible observations about how the leftist masters are messing with their subjects.  I suspect a lot of them are paying attention to Fauci and the hysteria of the covid-era, last I saw only 60% had even gotten the vaccine which we'd all die if we didn't get.

And Crockett is criticizing anyone who dares to leave the plantation.  That's what she's there for, it's not like she has anything else to offer.  I'm guessing that most of the dissent is coming from black men who've already seen the leftist agenda as a bad thing and it's just gotten much worse in the last decade or so.  Whatever value Obama had to them has been far outweighed by the *woke* agenda he brought with him.  Now he's spending the rest of his life in mansions surrounded by white people, that's what "diversity" got him.

Hopefully this is another trick by Trump, making the left double down on what's not working.  More blacks have problems with the leftist agenda and they keep doing more of it to keep blacks in line.  We don't know how many it will actually affect but I'm guessing the point is to get as many as possible away from the party by the mid-terms.  The goal is to show the left how much of a small minority they really are.  They can't win many elections for real, they certainly couldn't impose their will on the rest of us and after DOGE and other bills, they aren't even able to fake it with government-funding.  They need this to be a big win.