When life gives you lemons that need some help, use lemonaids.

Seven People, Including Five Americans and a Telemundo Executive, Die in Helicopter Crash in Kenya
August 19, 2026

□ [“Democrats Bomb Out on Manly Men, Settling for Sexy"]

All these years of telling us masculionity is bad and good looks are subjective, especially heterosexuality, but the left has all ditched that to suddenly declare they've found "sexy men"!  And by an amazing coincidence, they're all totally leftist.  It's like they've completely missed the last decade or three of feminist propaganda.

Last election cycle they finally noticed that men weren't voting for them.  Apparently the best way to attract them is to show off sexy men.  Um...  Something about that doesn't sound quite right.  Where exactly do you find these male voters who are looking for sexy men to vote for?  You know what, I'm not sure I want to know where you find them.

This is just an attempt to ignore a problem that all leftists face, they don't have a clue how to appeal to the working class.  Especially men although they are also limited when it comes to women without a college degree.  At least those women like looking at sexy men but we're always told that women are too smart to fall for that.  And anyway, they're still working class so they have no chance of getting with the rich leftists who oppress us.

The real problem is that leftism only works for the wealthy and they need poor people to stay wealthy.  I forget how many but some DSA leaders have already been exposed as coming from wealth.  They wouldn't have time to aspire to leftism otherwise, they'd be busy earning a living.  The only poor people they deal with are the employees in their mansions who have no chance of ever buying mansions for themselves.  So naturally the elites are going for the most superficial appeal they can find to win over the masses.

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August 19, 2026

□ [“Harry and Meghan Abandon Hollywood Activism, Crawl Back to Britain Six Years Later"]

I'm surprised they're still married.  I thought she'd have dumped him once she lost all the perks of being attached to the royal family and doesn't strike me as the most devoted wife either.  Maybe it's just about the image, they spent the last six years trying to promote themselves as some sort of 'power couple.'  They've promoted themselves with reality tv and there's just no audience for it.

I'm assuming the British royal family has the most complicated financial system on the planet and it's much cheaper to stuff these two in a mansion for the rest of their lives than to let them go free.  So they're in no danger of poverty but they probably won't be allowed to do anything else.  Harry and his brother reportedly have a very strained relationship, that probably won't change when William takes the throne.

It also doesn't help that he does things like whining about how taxpayers aren't funding his security, or at least not funding as much of it as he wants.  You can make an argument about how much the royal family really deserves that but he's the one who left.  You can't be the public's responsibility in private, especially when you've spent your entire life being so freaking rich.

And now they've found that they can't get anywhere on their own.  All these years complaining about Britain, that's where they run to.  If I was king they wouldn't even be allowed to come back.  This leftist elite mentality is really what's destroyed the civilized world and I'm sure his mother would totally support that if she was still alive.  His father too for that matter.

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August 19, 2026

□ [“Trump Announces 'The Most Crushing Economic Operation Ever Taken Against Any Country' on Iran"]

A few weeks ago you were doing that with the military, now you're using economics?  I'll use the word "tarrifs" for convenience but it's not clear what he's doing.  The threat is against anyone anywhere who is still funding Iran.  Why didn't you do that in the first place?

In theory I can see this is a valid option, although I thought the same thing about the military operations of a few weeks ago, and for the last six months.  But I keep saying this, Muslim countries don't crack under the pressure like western nations do.  Afghanistan stood up against Russia for almost a decade.  We sent in troops and the Taliban retook power a couple decades later.  You need to wipe the mullahs out to get rid of them and I don't see a way to oversee the victory without troops on the ground.  The only other option is for Persians to stand up and fight but that hasn't happened so far and I wouldn't bet on it happening any time soon.

The mullahs just have to survive.  They're threatening more attacks in the Strait and on US assets in Europe.  They might be able to do a bit of damage but probably nothing major.  But they don't have to do anything other than wait.  Just the fact that Trump keeps announcing something big will happen is also a problem, it makes us expect success at some point.  Or progress, let's say progress, we're still not seeing any of that.

In less than three weeks, we will have reached the point where Trump promised gas prices will be a lot cheaper.  I still don't think that has anything to do with Iran, it's based on the oil deals he signed when he took over in January 2025, but I think that's the tipping point.  If gas prices start dropping big time, he'll look good, but if the mullahs are still there, it won't help.  He got rid of Maduro in a day, that was awesome.  This mess is the opposite, it's exactly what he was supposed to avoid.

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August 19, 2026

□ [“Two Men Dressed as Women Show Up to Toronto WNBA Game – Declare for Next Year’s Draft"]

The WNBA may not even realize they're feeling the heat yet but that's because they're idiots.  The rest of us can see that this is going to keep happening.  There's no way to know how many of these guys are making a point, how many are just enjoying the joke, how many see an opportunity for money or publicity and how many are insane enough to believe they can pick a new gender.  The longer it takes to fix this problem that they brought on themselves, the worse it's going to get.

It may depend on the Al Gore-ithms but my social media has been flooded with pro-trans posts for quite a while.  You can say it's all posted by 'bots but someone is pushing this and it's not helping politicians who really need this topic to go quiet until after they win some elections.  At a guess, I'd say it's partially the insanity of the pro-trans movement and partially just trying to cause chaos in general.  And then there's the 'bots, serving their masters.

So how long with this stay limited to the WNBA?  The females there had been causing problems for a while which I totally ignored because duh, the WNBA.  Black players were attacking one or two of the whites, something like that.  So it was already getting attention when this started.  I don't know if that will happen in other sports or anywhere else but it really does seem to be ready to explode everywhere.  Most people want nothing to do with this trans movement and they don't need our consent so that's going to be conflict.  They're also insane.

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August 19, 2026

North Korea Rejects Trump Overtures, Calling US-South Korea Drills 'Provocative, Aggressive'
August 19, 2026