Why is Rob Reiner's son being punished? Maybe he suffered from postpartum depression?

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□ [“Sammy Hagar Hits Back at Alex Van Halen's 'Complete Idiot' Comment”]

With everything else going on, suddenly there's attention given to aging rock stars.  It's been 40 years and they're still at it.  I don't know if this is happening to all of them or just the ones I pay attention to.

For reasons that make no sense, Alex has been attacking Sammy consistently for the last year or two, trashing everything he brought to the band.  I think if Alex were serious he should give up the royalties for the Van Hagar albums since they're so worthless but we know he's not going to do that.  Sammy and his manager knew how to handle contracts so the band made a lot more money with him than with David Lee Roth.  You willing to stand by your claims, Alex?

There's a couple things going on and I'm not sure if they're connected or not.  Alex is preparing to release a biography and will be promoting it with unreleased Van Halen music.  David Lee Roth had quit touring several years ago but then came back for unknown reasons.  My guess is he needed the money, he got much less than the rest of the band from Sammy's changes to the contracts.  But his recent tour wasn't selling tickets and he had to give up before it got too humiliating.

Sammy even spoke out immediately, offering to help Dave in some way, no specifics were given.  There's no evidence Dave accepted that but he was immediately seen meeting with Alex.  Mikey has stayed mostly silent and Wolfgang has only made statements praising every era of his father's band.  So that's where it currently stands.

It's entirely possible this is all a show for the public.  They're trying to remind people 'hey, remember that band you used to like?  They're arguing again!'  I don't know what the end goal would be.  I don't think anybody's craving a new album and other than the novelty, I'm not sure what a tour would bring them.  Sammy and/or Wolfgang might not even be involved in this scheme.  Frankly I think Alex is the only one who's definitely up to something but it's not clear what.

Alex has been extremely lucky his whole life and made full use of the downsides to being so lucky.  He was never the star of the band, people didn't buy tickets or records for him.  People don't mention hearing some Van Halen song which inspired them to learn drums.  Nobody suggests him in discussions of who to get for a drummer on some track.  He's only ever appeared on one song that isn't Van Halen and it was supposed to be.  The band was supposed to do multiple songs for a movie soundtrack but Sammy refused to do more than one so the other was an instrumental.

Alex has also been able to spend his life on drugs, multiple marriages and connections to his native Netherlands.  We see the problems they're having these days and I just assume Alex sides with the rich people in charge.  That's the way he's always been.  He was part of the biggest band of its time, blood-brothers with the guy who made it so popular.  You want Van Halen, you've got to get through Alex first.  So he got a lot of benefits and didn't face the risk, or public approval.  This leaves a lot of space to develop delusions over the years.  That's why I think it's so strange that this is coming out now.

One thing few people think about is that these bands are "intellectual property" in and of themselves.  Van Halen is not just two brothers who hire a singer and bass-player, it's a private business and we don't know who has what rights in the organization.  Reportedly Mikey had to give up all his rights to become a contract employee before he was allowed to join his final tour, the 2004 reunion with Sammy.  Sammy would have maintained whatever rights he had as a band member but we don't know what those are or if they extend beyond the four Van Hagar albums.  When Dave returned in 2007, I assume he negotiated some increase from the old contracts but there's no clue what he got.

So the majority of whatever's left of the band is down to Alex and Wolfgang, assuming neither of them has sold their rights.  Sammy would be the only other major player in this franchise.  Then there's the fact that Alex has spent most of his life behind closed doors so we don't know what else he's up to with other rich European perverts.  And that's why, assuming this isn't just a public spectacle to gain publicity, I think this is coming to a head now.

Alex recently sold his drums.  He was already out of the business because he never did anything but that would make it official.  As we see with a lot of other aging celebrities, particularly rock stars, they're ready to sell their music to make tons of money, enough to last them the rest of their lives.  So that needs to be settled with Sammy.  There's also whatever political or activist fights are going on behind the scenes.  Alex has not had to deal with reality like normal people do for most of his life so there's really no telling what he's trying to do.  But it's building to a climax.

I'm wondering what other old rock stars are doing these days.  Most of my favorites were popular before I was born but I occasionally think about how they're ending things.  Or other bands who weren't my favorites but were still very popular, what will happen to their legacy?  Mick Jagger is still trying to keep the Rolling Stones going even though Keith Richards is clearly out of it at this point.  He didn't appear in the promotion for their new album and there won't be a tour.  Led Zeppelin is pushing 50 years since they broke up and it doesn't look like anything will change.  Aerosmith is over.

Guns'n'Roses is still touring but tickets aren't selling.  I think they're headed towards the climax we see in Van Halen, just a few differences, like the fact that nobody knows who's running things.  Axl recently had to testify under oath that he had no clue what his position was in running the franchise even though he's listed as the chief executive and chief financial officers.  How do you set up a tour with that?  It's a disaster waiting to happen.

Pink Floyd still gets a little attention, mostly David Gilmore and Roger Waters arguing.  Waters may be the main example of a band as an IP, he thought he was Pink Floyd and it would end when he left.  He was very wrong and it took a long time to realize that.  He's also an example of rock stars not having anybody around them who tell the truth, they just say what the rich celebrity wants to hear.  He expects you to hate Israel as much as he does.

At this point I can't think of many other bands I ever liked who are still around in some form.  Roger Daltrey has announced he's done touring and I have no clue when the Who was last a thing.  They used to be one of my favorites and I rarely think about them anymore.  The Beatles only exist as an IP and their remaining members will soon be gone.  No clue what they actually own anymore.  Genesis is similar, I think they sold their music for tons of money a few years back but I may be misremembering.  A lot of rock stars have done that.  Queen will soon do that, I'm sure.

They have the same problem leftists always have, they complain about the system and then become rich and famous so they are the system.  They can't admit that, they can't even do anything that's really meaningful.  Other than degradation, strange how that always becomes important to them.  Their kids can't do anything, growing up in wealth, so they just chase other kids.  That's the system they've always wanted.

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Something is coming to a head.  It's centered around Iran but it's clearly happening all over.  Trump was at Camp David this weekend but was suddenly brought back to the White House.  Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu was supposed to come to the US but that was cancelled and he went back to Israel.  Iran has issued a "code 100" alert, their biggest military alarm.

The bomber from the UK isn't clear.  I don't know why this would be reported by anybody and in this case Russia was at least one of the reporters.  How do you know they're carrying munitions?  I had initially hoped they were *delivering* them to Britain.  I hope it's not going to Ukraine although that would explain why Russia is paying attention.  If we're lucky it's going to Iran because we have Persians ready to bear arms against the mullahs and IRGC.

Trump has made a statement on Iran, that it comes down to whether he blows up the country, destroys them economically or if they can make a deal.  That's not helpful but he's not trying to be.  His point is that the crucial moment is very close.  Well that's good to know.  There's also a big UN meeting coming next week, that's why Netanyahu was coming over, so maybe we'll finally see what's happening by then.  And maybe Sidney Sweeney will beg me to remind her why she was born a woman.  And monkeys will fly out of my butt.  Or monkeys will fly out of her butt.  Excuse me for a moment.

There's other news with other wars going on but it does occur to me that, as untrustworthy as the media always is, it's even worse now.  I generally treat it like it's real just for convenience but it's not like there's any evidence.  Speaking of which, Russia says it's destroyed Ukraine's steel industry and Ukraine says it's bombing Moscow to destroy Russia's global energy market.  Seems trustworthy.  Ukraine is supposed to have stopped bombing Russian refineries but they didn't.

Ukraine also says Russia is getting Muslims to fight on their side, particularly for Chechnya.  I was planning to give up banging my head against a wall for Lent but the news continues to describe how Russia has supported Muslims, and not just from Iran.  Putin attended the opening of Chechnya mosques in a 2024 visit, Russia became an observer at the Organization of Islam Cooperation in 2005 and has held “Russia-Islamic World” organizational meetings since 2009.  A "Russian-Arab Summit" was planned for this year although there's no word on when or where it'll happen yet.

And it goes even further.  Catherine the Great established a government-run Islamic jurist mufti in 1788.  The Soviets established four state-run Islamic directorates and Russia now has eight self-identified "Muslim republics."  Is this true, is it propaganda and which side is this supposed to put us on here?  But this may explain how Muslims got very good at manipulating leftists, outraged at what was going on in the rest of the world.  The Chechnyan population is 15% Muslim and this is where the war has centered all this fricking time.  And you're just putting this out now?

There are still more details of the war going on.  In Toronto, Iranians - I guess we can't call them "Canadians" - are chanting for the return of the Shah.  In Germany, AfD is either winning more state elections or at least scoring very high.  Berlin is one of those two states and the prime minister has a crisis in front of him since he was supposed to stop this.

Cuba just lost its power grid, again.  It's happened several times in the last few months already.  They aren't getting any help from Venezuela this year so all they have to fall back on is their decades of communism.  And no rich leftists are rushing to bring in batteries or other supplies.  That's how much they care.

There's also other news events which I can't automatically assume are irrelevant to this war.  After months of pointlessly fighting the merger of Paramount and Warner Bros., it sounds like California is ready to admit defeat.  It might take a while but it sounds like they've realized they can't really prevent the studios from leaving.  That would cost a lot of jobs and taxes but if they stay, they'll go broke and have the same result.  So now the state needs to explain why it can't keep obeying its rich leftists.  Hollywood has always been a crucial tool for the leftist warmongers so this will be tough to do.

And involved in all of this is the anti-Israel rhetoric.  It's one of those things that's always reliable, it never goes away, and it doesn't even make sense at this point.  With all these other wars and events going on, how does anyone even come up with Israel being remotely relevant, much less the main priority?  Yet here they are.  It's almost like God had planned for this or something.

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□ [“CNN’s Harry Enton Warns Democrats Polls Have Underestimated GOP in 4 of Last 6 Elections!"]

Polls aren't trustworthy anyway, they just aren't.  It's idiotic to believe you know what millions of people thinking by asking a few of them some very specific questions with only a few permitted answers.  It only works on people stupid enough to believe in polls, and not even all of them.  That's why they've started speculating how far off the polls are.

The only chance Democrats have this election is total voter fraud.  They've just been promoting far too much insanity for far too long for anyone else to put up with anymore.  The fact that Iran has gone on this long does not help Trump or MAGA, especially the gas prices.  Trump said they'd be going down in 90 days and we've passed that.  I hope whatever is going on this weekend is the turning point there but, well, can you really trust that?

I am mildly-curious what CNN is doing here.  They might be seeing that the leftist victory isn't going to happen and trying to warn people but they might also just be trying to encourage more fraudsters to get to work.  For that matter, it's a tv network, they need to fill up screentime with something so maybe that's all this is.  But there's also the fact that they've promoted big victories before and, assuming they keep track of anything they say, looked really bad at the result.  Hillary, Harris, Biden was behind for quite a while in 2020 election night.  That's why they're telling the leftist candidates to pretend to be patriotic and normal.  We'll see how well that works.

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□ [“British Singer Ed Sheeran Cries on Stage, Attacks Trump – Caves to Anti-Israel Mob on Gaza"]

This story has been tough to ignore on social media for the last few days.  That was enough to tell me he was guaranteed to give up.  The whole thing was probably a publicity stunt to help destroy Israel.  Reportedly a bunch of other celebrities have rushed out to demand the same thing.  Rich people with no connection to their beliefs, what else are they supposed to do?  It's not like they could support Israel, there's too many abortions and homosexuals for that.

This is part of the conflict going on in the Muslim world although there's no way to know if Iran is in charge or just involved.  Or those in Saudi Arabia or anywhere else.  But this is a conflict that has been going on for a very long time, at least since the first Israel.  The left doesn't know any of this, that's why they're so easy to manipulate.

"The Hour will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews, until a Jew hides behind a stone or a tree, and the stone or tree will say: 'O Muslim, O servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him.'"

This won't be solved in our lifetime but I think this current iteration is ready to end.  I think that's why these celebrities are being called in, like they have any meaningful influence.  Trying to pull in whoever's like them, cause a distraction for everyone else.  I've never heard of these people but they're filling up social media.  No idea if any real people are involved or if they're all 'bots but the war finds itself everywhere around the world.

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