I self-identified as a woman but then I suddenly didn't know what a woman was so I went back to being a man.

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August 17, 2026

□ [“Declassified Documents Reveal Salacious Details About Swalwell’s Relationship with Fang Fang"]

I didn't even know he's resigned until I looked up to make sure he was still in Congress, he resigned in April.  I probably covered this at the time but it shows how much is going on that it's easy to lose track.  He resigned because of charges about sexual misconduct and assault although he still denies them.  Nothing about his affair with a Chinese spy who paid him - nothing suspcious about a woman paying a man for sex - and installed her people to work in his office.

Fang Fang ran out of the country in 2015.  The FBI was already investigating, they already knew about this and they did nothing.  He's taking bribes and gives foreign spies free access to his office but they only considered charging Fang Fang after she'd fled the country.  I'm blanking on the other examples at the moment but in the last few days we've heard about other big illegal events that the FBI had investigated but didn't bother to do anything about.

This is the most obvious example of Chinese influence on our elites, you can certainly point to other congressmen from California like Dianne Feinstein or Nancy Pelosi who got very rich somehow.  I've noticed that overt communists have been pointing to China as the real leader, the ones who know how to get things done.  Partially it's idealizing Mao but it's also obeying his successors.  China has a lot of experience with that.

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August 17, 2026

□ [“Mob of 'Youths' Attack, Kick and Punch Anyone in Sight at Wisconsin State Fair"]

The left is trying to make this happen, I think, there doesn't seem to be any other purpose.  Is this just supposed to make people afraid of the skin color these "youths" have?  That's not going to end well, people will be carrying weapons and be ready to fight back.  But then what else is the point?  Couldn't tell from the video if their attacks were specifically aimed at any other races or if they just went after anyone but it seems to be the latter.  Not a good move.

This sort of thing will also encourage more security in public events.  More people will be willing to just take these "youths" down.  It will also increase the popularity of people and places that are willing to protect others.  Since Democrats aren't willing to do that for anybody but themselves, they won't be on the winning side.  And these are their own voters.

I'm guessing the left wants chaos.  A few might speak out and blame "racism" but unless they can figure out a way to blame Orange Man, the rest will just ignore this.  At least in public, in private they'll be working out how to get more of this.  Given all the other problems the Great Lakes region has been having for the last several months, it seems very important to them.  And having said that, it just occured to me that these "youths" might be Muslim and that was the reason for this attack, just because they can.

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August 17, 2026

□ [“Hollywood’s Climate Change Campaign Falls Flat with Voters"]

I go back and forth on how many real victories we can give Trump credit for but one definite win he's had is how the 'global warming' movement has basically vanished from public attention.  The main reason is probably because DOGE and the Big Beautiful Bill cut out all the taxpayer funding these activists were getting and without that, no one will pay for them to babble on about how we're all going to die.  But there's a wider effect to this, like everybody suddenly woke up from a bad dream.

There's not even a sense that ' oh well, it's too late now.'  Those who were determined to keep pushing this have just turned the page and decided Orange Man Bad or 'destroy Israel' or become a brand-new gender.  It's quite possible they're planning how they'll restart this as soon as they seize power again but that's just it, the spell is broken.  They're not going to be able to make people fall for 'the world is going to end in two years!' anymore.

I've always suspected this belief is just 'earth worship,' a modern-day version of trying to worship the goddess (and notice how the Earth is never considered male.)  I'm not sure how Trump did it, or if he's even aware of doing it, but I think that's what he's done here.  Again, the most obvious method was just to make it a lot harder to earn a living promoting this belief but it's just amazing how willingly the most devout believers dropped it as soon as it stopped being convenient.  That's how dedicated they were to the "science."

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August 17, 2026

□ [“WNBA Apologizes to Women Forced to Cover 'XX-XY' Shirts During Fever-Dream Game"]

This might be a deliberate stunt although I'm not sure who would be behind it, but it's still funny.  A mother-daughter team were wearing those shirts to a game when security came over and told them someone somewhere was offended so they had to change.  Because they're female, they quickly obeyed, but they did speak out after the game.

So the WNBA had to speak out and admit that wearing shirts like this is not actually offensive and it was all security's fault.  There was no mention of why security did this, did he - we'll assume security was male - just go around bullying women into changing their shirts?  Was he violating any rules about WNBA secuirty or was he just doing what his employers wanted?

This will quickly be forgotten but it's yet-another example of how the WNBA is causing its own problems.  XX chromosomes are a really obvious way to determine who is or isn't a woman yet not only do they ignore this, their own employees are going after fans who dare to suggest this in public.  It really doesn't help that they're dragging their feet on solving this problem so more of these problems will just keep happening.  Just how much is this worth fighting for?

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August 17, 2026