Friday, January 16, 2026

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Film: Resurrection (China)

Unbelievable filmmaking. Utterly confusing story. I fell asleep at the beginning. Is this necessarily a bad thing? The last three vignettes grabbed me better than the first couple. What percentage of human beings on the planet could watch this and get anything out of it? I guess over/under 1-5%.

Film: Juror #2

A dismissed film. Under no expectation of greatness and viewed as a simple one-off watch, I say quite good. I'd put it up against any old crime procedural on TV, and it adds a much weightier, moral dimension to the standard fare. I venture to say the old man still has it.

Stand Up: Nikki Glaser

I didn't laugh once and found her to be the one of two words you cannot utter. 

Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Bad Things

Sure, Trump's lawsuit against Powell is dumb. But not as dumb as California's wealth tax. Trump motivated by ego, CA dems motivated by envy. I'd rather deal with ego.

Tuesday, January 13, 2026

All True

This ICE chaos is fomented by the structures of the Democrat party. Here's how the scam works.

1) Refuse to "come out" for open borders, so you can maintain some ability to be elected.

2) But, refuse to enforce immigration law in any capacity, calling any such efforts racist. While there might be very good arguments for not turning teachers, etc into immigration enforcement officials - they actually argue all efforts are racist and unlawful. Very strange! So they opt not to enforce the border, or in schools, or businesses, or really anywhere. Nor do they even attempt to come up with humane alternatives. 

3) Resist any effort by those who lawfully want to curb illegal immigration. When the Feds attempt to enforce, Democrats create sanctuary cities and refuse compliance. This is illegal, of course but they figure if they all do it, the Feds can't really do much. The Feds need cooperation with local law enforcement to deport criminals but the the sanctuary cities block these efforts. 

4) Thus, Feds turn to more draconian efforts like ICE. 

Now you might argue that the Trump admin is using ICE as shock troops to usher in an authoritarian government. I'd be a whole lot more open to that argument IF Democratic cities enforced any type of immigration law at all. But they don't. So as a US citizen, on a practical level only get the option of open borders or ICE. 

5) The Far left agitators then rally in reddit and other informal spaces to "disrupt ICE" and provoke a backlash. This provides cover for the Democratic establishment. They don't need to actually pass laws or use their political power to disrupt ICE, they let their lackys do it. They just comment on the backlash and blame Trump for the instigation. Classic FLN playbook, the same playbook the Palestinians use. It just isn't gonna work anymore because everyone is wise to it. Defenses adjust in other words.

Logging

Film: Marty Supreme

My favorite film of the year thus far. Chalamet lays down the gauntlet in a movie star turn.

The Phones

I know everyone's worried about the phones for children, but judging by the ICE and No Kings protests, I think the phones for old white people might be the problem.

Monday, January 12, 2026

Wild Times

Trump doing some massively dumb and smart things at the exact same time really throwing me for a loop.

1) Going after the Fed and Powell. Massively dumb.

2) Capping credit card rates. Massively dumb.

3) Slow playing the Venezuela situation. Seems very smart. The critique offered by liberals that he's not replacing the regime, I'm like - what? You want a civil war and an Iraq situation in our hemisphere? 

4) The Iran thing. Smart so far. Let's see if he can keep it up. Bombing the facility looks to be paying off. The threat against regime targets for not attacking protestors seems to be paying off as well.

This world...

Saturday, January 10, 2026

Belatedly Correct

AOC and Mamdani now saying "we support Hamas" is anti-semitic.

This position was available to all Leftists since Oct 8, 2023. But for some reason it took them 2.5 years to get there.

Iran

I'm as happy as the next guy for the Iran protests, but do we need to involve ourselves? Can we resist making it about us?

Friday, January 09, 2026

Logging

Comedy: Robby Hoffman

Surprised at how much I enjoyed it overall. Two observations, though:

1) She seems to have completely aped Sebastian Maniscalco's style and delivery, but applied to her own content and writing. Never seen anything like it before in comedy.

2) Special felt too long...could use a 15% haircut.

Thursday, January 08, 2026

For Those Who Can't See It

The woman shot by ICE in Minneapolis was wishcast and provoked by far left anti-ICE groups organized though reddit and other social media platforms. 

This was entirely predictable if you even remotely follow far left political agitation. A few months ago they were spreading blatantly incorrect propaganda about ICE raids in my town that popped up in a local reddit feed. I dumbly responded "this is a lie" already debunked and was promptly blocked by a reddit moderator. On these anti-ICE forums you are not allowed to dissent or say anything that "supports ICE" and apparently that includes pointing out factual inaccuracies. Why? Because the purpose of these groups are to agitate for political outcomes rejected by American voters. So...they go around and provoke ICE in a number of different ways. These are not the best and the brightest either. They are underemployed losers who gain some type of purpose by doing this stuff. In any case, going around systematically harassing law enforcement in numerous cities is a surefire way to get someone injured or killed. It happened yesterday. Now people are protesting. This is like pissing away money on sports gambling and then protesting you're broke.