Thursday, October 31, 2024

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

I Call Bullshit

Now a lot of people are coming out and criticizing the gender dysphoria social contagion. But I was there for this. It was so obvious as it was happening. Did anyone study the Salem Witch Trials? Anyone in these schools bother to read the Crucible? I know this doesn't make complete sense, but I believe a large amount of this madness we see today is simply people not reading anymore. Because they can't recognize what is happening right around them. The dynamics.

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Logging

TV: The Penguin E1-4

After the flashbacks to Sophia Falcone's pointless torture at Arkham, I'm officially out on the show. I thought the show was about The Penguin rising to power...not watching Meadow Soprano in a torture porn. Is there anything more played out than mental illness or queer stories (not that there's anything wrong with it) on TV these days...

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Sam Harris - Andrew Sullivan

One candidate captured his party, the other candidate is captured by her party. Neither is a vote of confidence. Trump's an ego maniac and a narcissist. Not a Fascist. Or a wannabe dictator. Harris is a nothing - a cardboard cut out who will do the bidding of whatever Democratic interest groups can apply the right pressure. What signature issue does she have? What does she actually care about? I honestly have no clue. I don't think she does either.

Saturday, October 26, 2024

Israel - Palestine

If your issue was wanting the war to end, you'd have better odds with Trump as President. For egotistical reasons, he would be more likely to negotiate a deal to end the war than Harris, IMO. 

The Genocide Crowd

I never heard a peep from the genocide crowd during 2007-2023 while Hamas terrorized Gazans and Israelis and orchestrated this entire war. Nor during the entire Syrian Civil War. Nor while Iran quashed protests or executed thousands of their own citizens. Nor when the Chinese locked up millions of Uigers. Nor when Russia targeted civilian infrastructure in Ukraine. Nor when North Korea holds all its citizens as slaves. Nor when ISIS massacred civilians all across Iraq. Continual silence. And now, they ask nothing of Hamas, Iran, or the Palestinians. And they wonder why no one in power listens. Because they have no principles, only feelings. 

Friday, October 25, 2024

Liberals Could Rule the Roost

I believe liberals could easily hold an electoral majority in the United States if they simply backed off the crazy pedal. Examples:

1) Relax on the extreme versions of DEI and trans issues. 

2) Don't do really dumb economic stuff - the pure thievery - like rent control or attempting to tax unrealized capital gains. 

It shows me a lot that they aren't capable of moderating and using common sense, despite it being in their interest. 

Thursday, October 24, 2024

Maybe Evil?

Or at the very least toxic femininity. So many levels of wrong here.  NIH commissions a 9 million dollar study of the effects of puberty blockers on kids. Note: this is taxpayer money paid to scientists. The results show no mental health benefits to the kids going on blockers. BUT...here's the kicker...the women in charge of the study refuses to publish the results because of the "political environment." So...the American public is denied information it PAID FOR because the results don't conform to what the woman in charge wants them to. Insanity.

This is Weird

Kamala emotes re: being a parent and making mistakes.  Thing is - did she parent much? I'm not denigrating step-parents here, but the kids were already adults by the time Kamala married her hubby.

As an aside - if Trump had a successful career and didn't settle down until age 48 and then became a step-dad - would this be a political plus or minus? I have to think the Democrats would use this against him. It would be some type of evidence of being a toxic man. Yet for Kamala, it hasn't been an issue. 


Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Trump is a Fascist?

Harris calling Trump a Fascist makes me think Harris doesn't know what a Fascist is. She's closer to the Big Lebowski than Winston Churchill.

The Problem

With the Dems spending the past decade blaming toxic white men for all their problems -- now they've gotten some of what they want -- and ran many of those men out of town. But now they actually have to do stuff like produce tv shows, print newspapers, educate students, and run the country -- and they don't have the white men to blame anymore. Is there any evidence the job being done is better than before? Seems to me a whole lot worse.

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

My Guess - 50-70% 

Of trans kids have stories just like this one.

Young Boys Perspective

They see a guy like Elon Musk building rockets and cars. They see Ohtani hitting home runs against 95mph fastballs. They admire these accomplishments. Then they see Kamala being celebrated for...being a woman, half-black/half-Indian, and full of phony joy?

Who do you think they will admire? How do you think they will vote in the future?

Friday, October 18, 2024

The Liberal Mind

Is rotten. Andrew Sullivan goes on a deep dive this week about how liberals in the Biden-Harris administration suppressed scientific evidence to continue unwise medical treatment on "trans kids." Just a pure cut and dry case of ideology over reality. But there is so much more...

Harris criticized Israel's invasion of Rafah earlier this year. Had she been President, she might've used her leverage to stop it. Yet that is where Sinwar was. The invasion of Rafah lead to the death of Sinwar. Now I understand those who oppose Israel. They see the issue clearly: they think Israel was founded on a crime and can only continue to exist through more crime against the Palestinians. They are wrong, but they are clear. American liberals on the other hand are both wrong and unclear. They on the one hand welcome Sinwar's death and defend Israel's right to protect themselves. Yet...they Israel only to protect itself in a certain way - a way that won't allow them to protect themselves. They want to live in a dual reality where Israel can protect themselves without inflicting any damage on the Palestinians. Please explain how in the real world this is supposed to happen? This is like asking a football team to win the game, but not allow them to play offense because that will hurt the feelings of the other team. Huh? What are we even doing or talking about here?You see this on nearly every single issue for liberals. 

Liberals want "fairness" and/or to rectify past injustices, so we put into place something called affirmative action. But when you look at affirmative action you see there is a cost - a cost to the folks who would've otherwise gotten into college or a job without affirmative action. So this is unfair. But instead of acknowledging the issue and working toward a compromise, liberals change the language. They argue we don't need affirmative action, but rather - diversity. And now we are told that the "losers" of affirmative action policies are actually winners because "everyone benefits from diversity." It would be like saying we are doing the Palestinians a favor by letting Israel rid them of Hamas. Do any Palestinians feel this way? Even I doubt it. Liberals cannot admit there are trade offs. Or even choices to be made. They literally feel like they can engineer the world into being a better place with rhetoric.

Take homelessness. The liberal idea is that your can correct homelessness by calling them unhoused and pouring an ungodly amount of money toward the problem. Then, when it doesn't work, they think: we need to more 2x ungodly amount of money toward it. Then, a few normal people push back against their terrible policy ideas, and they turn around and blame the pushbackers of being the worst of all possible things: Republicans. And probably racist too. 

The liberal mind cannot solve problems because the liberal mind doesn't believe in natural forming hierarchy or priorities. So the Liberals will on the one hand will believe climate change is an existential threat, but then on the other hand not want to buy or support Tesla because Elon owns Twitter. Or, they will put tariffs on electric Chinese cars because they also recognize we need a domestic auto industry and all the union votes. So they can't ever decide upon what problem actually matters - does climate change actually matter? Or do auto unions matter? Or strategic industries?

I read some liberal semi-criticizing Musk on twitter and longing for a world where NASA was able to be as efficient as SpaceX. Feels like a weird way to critique Musk. Isn't the better case study - why isn't NASA able to do what Musk is able to do at cost? Does this have something to do with a design flaw in central organization? Answer this question first, it seems to me. 

 


Thursday, October 17, 2024

Sinwar

Good opportunity for the Middle East players to bring this war to an end. Return hostages for ceasefire. Some type of political settlement whereby Hamas must compete with Fatah and other Palestinian groups for who calls the shots going forward in Gaza. Let Palestinians decide if they like the way Hamas ran things.

Monday, October 14, 2024

Anti-War

Do the anti-war and ceasefire people realize what they're really saying is: let's do this thing over again in 5-10 years when Iran has nukes? 

Overlap

I wonder what percentage of people who think Columbus was a force for evil also think Elon Musk is a force for evil. My prediction: 80%. And the only thing in common: men with tangible accomplishments.  

Columbus Day

Rather than celebrate nautical accomplishment and being a brave, bold explorer of the world, we shall now criticize and judge a man who lived 530+ years ago as a way to make us feel better about sitting on the coach staring at phones. Congrats America, we've made a lot of moral progress by simply nodding along with the zeitgeist. Who knew it was so easy to be a good person?

Sunday, October 13, 2024

Of All The 20th Century Horrors...

Where would one rank the Nakba? I'm guessing in the 50s-70s. Why is this the only one the world doesn't want to move on from?

I wonder. A mystery wrapped in a riddle. 

Liberals

Called Reagan a fascist. Then called Bush 1. Then Bush 2. Then McCain. Then Romney. Then Trump. Now Elon.

Notice a pattern? Everyone who disagrees with the progressive agenda is by their account, a fascist. Cluster B personalities. 

Envy

Is what makes the world go round. This is right. 

The man could cure cancer, take us to Mars and miraculously walk on water and half this country would still hate Elon. Not surprising at all, unfortunately.

Saturday, October 12, 2024

Psychotic

It is psychotic to want to see men playing in women's sports at a competitive level.

Hamas Documents

These are the people Israel is dealing with. There will be no peace for Israelis or Palestinians until Hamas and Hezbollah are gone. It will be fake and temporary. If you care about the Palestinians the fastest path would be surrender. If you cared about the Israelis...come on, you don't care about the Israelis...

Fire The Entire Commission

CA state commission in charge of coastal wildlife rejects SpaceX plans to shoot rockets because they don't like Musk's politics. 

And you wonder why Donald Trump appeals to people.

Wednesday, October 09, 2024

Tragedy

Yes, there are horrors in Palestine - a terrible situation for all. But made so by the intractable and ridiculous demands of Palestinian political leaders and all those who support them. Imagine if the Chinese who lived in Taiwan demanded their lands and property back - confiscated by the Chinese Communists. What if they conducted suicide raids on the mainland. What do they think would be happening to them? Would Americans be supporting them? Not in a million years. Plus, they aren't so stupid to think this could ever work.

My Lovely Alma Mater

Protestors at Pomona College celebrate October 7th in numerous violations of student codes.  

1) Disrupting classes, not letting teachers and admin into their work

2) Vandalization

3) Wearing masks on campus (many of these "protestors" are not students but activists from the area)

Easy solution - kick all participants out of the school. Make they pay for destruction to property. No arrests needed. 

Tuesday, October 08, 2024

Lunatics

Think Saleh was fired as Jets coach because he wore the Lebanese flag. These fools no nothing about football and see the world through one lens - Palestine. No one in the US or football fans even cares about this stuff. Delusional.

So Lame

Bring me back to the 20th century, please...

Who wants to play VR games on an omni-directional treadmill? Begin on a treadmill is a metaphor for boredom - go outside, people!

Vibes

The vibe I get from Kamala -- drunken class President who organized the 30 year high school reunion. Goes around hugging and slurring and reflecting how much she misses everyone.

Lies

From Scientific American about inequities between males and females in sport. 

In my casual observations as a youth soccer coach, by age 6 I can see significant athletic differences between boys and girls - strength, speed, coordination so much so that 95% of girls would simply not enjoy playing real competitive sport against boys. And for the record, 25% of boys do not like competing against other boys their age simply because of the physical challenges. So if you want to get rid of this gender stuff - and did a simple thing like made soccer co-ed - you would see probably about 1 girl per team of 8 actually playing and enjoying it. 

Saturday, October 05, 2024

I Know

The Republicans are crazy, inept, and conspiracy-oriented. Yet there's quite a bit of evidence they'd be better at governing or at least not worse.

In Chicago, the public schools doubled per student spending over the past decade only to see test scores drop.

This is what happens when liberals govern. They spend more money for worse results. You see the same exact thing in California on both public schools and homelessness. Why? Because they create incentives for career bureaucrats to make up fake work for themselves in order to pay themselves more. The Republicans at least attempt to cut this stuff and do better by just not fixing what isn't broken.

All of DEI can be seen this way. It's all fake work. And costs money. To get worse results than if they had done nothing at all.

True

This is true about humiliation, but people also remember suicide bombings and fanaticism -- people know by instinct the order of things can be worse. Suicide terrorism is a glimpse into it.

Friday, October 04, 2024

Blacks and Browns

Are testing nearly six grades apart from Asian students in California. It seems like average black and brown students are 3 grades below grade level and average Asian students are nearly 3 grades above grade level. Even if you believe there might be some genetic and demographic aspect to these differences, I cannot think that could account for more than 1-2 grade levels at most. 

This is at least two trends - main one being a the total shit show of public education - bureaucrats trying to change how they teach basics like reading and math and no one in the system being held to any standards at all. And two, Asian parents not giving two fucks and insisting on their kids learning by paying for tutoring like Kumon to get it.  

My question: why not just outsource all math education to Kumon? It couldn't be worse than what the public school system is doing. Why won't they do it? Too many people making money for not doing shit.  

Thursday, October 03, 2024

The Sopranos: Johnny Sack doesn't like the shoes

Answers

Now seems to be a great time to get deep answers about dark American secrets. Ask Joe Biden, he will forget what he's not supposed to say. "Mister President, was there a second shooter when Kennedy was shot?" "Oh yeah, definitely...right on the grassy knoll. I've seen the film." "Mister President, are there aliens living amongst us?" "Not living amongst us right now, but there are alien artifacts being studied by scientists in Area 51. Next question?"

Woops

CNN says Nasrallah agreed to a ceasefire before he was killed. Now remember Hamas and Hezbollah both had a ceasefire with Israel on October 6th.

For all the folks who claim to stand with the Lebanese Shia and Palestinians on "moral" grounds - does it give them any pause to consider these are groups are allied, funded, and controlled by the mullahs in Iran? Does that reality sink into their mind at all? Does it give them pause? 

Bring It On

Some students at Tufts want to "bring the war home." These folks are so weird - desperate for their lives to have meaning, but at the same time too scared to step off campus. 

When They Tell You Who They Are...

Believe them. A US progressive organization wants to "Flood the Streets of NYC" on October 7th.

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

A Lie Agreed Upon

Both Israel and Iran are incentivized to lie about the damage done by the Iran missile attack. Iran, so it looks like they can retaliate. Israel, so it looks like they are under siege and continue their war on Hezbollah.

Weird times. 


 

Apparently, Charles Schulz had the same issues with organized kids sports that I have in 1972-1973. Hmmm...

Logging

Film: The Wild Robot

It would not surprise me to see this get a best picture nomination. I'm loathe to admit, but movie animation making large creative strides that cohere artistically unlike its live action counterparts.

Film: Megaopolis

I've encountered this phenomenon twice now in theaters where some part of the audience laughs, but I'm not sure whether it's at the movie or with the movie. Or perhaps both? For all the low audience numbers in the press, at the AMC on Monday night, this movie was half-full. Not bad although this might be the movie crowd sensing it won't last long in cinemas. One of these laughs was when a giant hand reached out of a cloud and grabbed the moon. Cut to Giancarlo Esposito sitting up in bed telling his wife "I just had a dream where a hand reached out of a cloud and grabbed the moon." Not sure what's going on here on a narrative, filmmaking, and audience level -- is it the equivalent of listening to drunk Uncle Bob on Thanksgiving? At another point in the movie Adam Driver says something to the effect, "Man should only love women," which elicited uncomfortable chuckles (I am assuming he was quoting Marcus Aurelius, btw).

I'm enjoying the contrarian takes on the film that its full of ideas and not boring, etc. But...come on now. What astonishes me is not all the clunky writing and uneven pace and plot holes but how the film wasn't all that pleasurable to look at. Consider the images in The Godfather films, The Conversation, or Apocalypse Now -- or even the documentary films he produced - Koyaanisqatsi or Powaqqatsi? It seems to me the quality of images has regressed.

For the first half of the movie I was thinking: this is brilliant - Coppola has managed at age 85 to make what feels like a first feature film. He's somehow regressed into his youth. But by the end, I no longer felt that way. 

I have one strange theory...this film was actually made to be re-cut by billions of people on the internet into their own remix versions of the film.

Film: Billy Madison

Kids loved it.

Film: Mission Impossible 

Kids weren't that into it, actually got frightened by first act since Ethan Hunt's entire team was murdered. I did not recall Emilio Estevez was in this film and gets impaled in the first act. That said, I think I'm doing them a service by showing them how DePalma places the camera...

I might start including the scene in the restaurant between Cruise and Henry Czerny as a scene study. Really awesome scene...