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April 19, 2024
BUT OTHER THAN THAT, HOW DID YOU ENJOY THE SHOW? Hollywood Out of Ideas, Money, Jobs.
I understand there’s a certain amount of irony in complaining that all the trailers were a sequel or a reboot before a movie that was a sequel to a sequel to a sequel to a sequel to a reboot, but usually Alamo has more varied trailer fare.
But that lack of originality, along with wokeness, the red ink carnage of the streaming wars, and the lingering effects of the most recent strikes, has led to a deep recession in Hollywood, so much so that Deadline has a regular Hollywood Contraction feature.
How bad is it? “Employment in “motion picture and sound recording” has grown nationwide, but the share of workers in LA or New York went from just under half at the beginning of 2023 to just one-third earlier this year.”
If the movies were worth going to the theater for, this wouldn’t be a problem.
SKYNET SMILES: Boston Dynamics New Fully Electric Humanoid Robot.
EVEN THE KANGAROOS ARE IMPRESSED: Judge Merchan Let an Anti-Trumper Who Lied Onto the Jury.
THERE BIDEN GOES AGAIN, RESTORING YET MORE OF OUR STANDING ON THE WORLD STAGE: ‘They wouldn’t just eat any white men that fell from the sky’: Outraged Papua New Guinea academics lash out at Biden’s ‘unacceptable’ suggestion that cannibals ate his WW2 pilot uncle.
AN INTERVIEW WITH MY FRIEND, SECOND AMENDMENT SCHOLAR BOB COTTROL: This Professor is Not Politically Correct.
NOW OUT FROM HAMPTON SIDES: The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook.
His Ghost Soldiers was a work of nonfiction that read like a thriller novel.
FAIL, BRITANNIA: UK Police Arrest Man for ‘Hamas Is Terrorist’ Sign.
TRANS-RIGHTS ADVOCATES FEAR NORMAL SENSE: Trans-rights advocates decry Scottish clinic’s decision to stop puberty blockers for children.
WE CAN STILL FACT-CHECK YOUR A**:
Hi @Reuters,
I am not a pro-Palestinian protestor
I am an Israeli Arab who is surrounded by policemen to protect me after I was attacked at a demonstration by terror supporters, I am on the way to file a complaint about the attack…
And one more thing you forgot to mention -… pic.twitter.com/xIEwXVJwCU— יוסף חדאד – Yoseph Haddad (@YosephHaddad) April 19, 2024
Spoiler: Reuters has no desire to be a credible news outlet.
CHRISTINE BLASEY FORD’S MEMOIR: A Hallucinogenic and Unrepentant Rant.
GOODER AND HARDER, CALIFORNIA: A Funny Thing Happened on California’s Road to Recovery…
CENSOR WIKIPEDIA, GET HIRED BY NPR: Larry Sanger Speaks Out. The Wikipedia co-founder discusses NPR’s Katherine Maher and the corruption of the Internet.
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NICE OF THEM, THREE YEARS AFTER DISMISSING TRUMP’S ABRAHAM ACCORDS: White House Makes Fresh Push for Historic Deal to Forge Saudi-Israel Ties.
YOU DON’T SAY: IMF sounds alarm on ballooning US national debt: ‘Something will have to give.’
Under current policies, public debt in the U.S. is projected to nearly double by 2053. The IMF identified “large fiscal slippages” in the U.S. in 2023, with government spending surpassing revenue by 8.8% of GDP – a 4.1% increase from the previous year, despite strong economic growth.
If this trend continues, the Congressional Budget Office anticipates the national debt will grow to an astonishing $54 trillion in the next decade. Higher interest rates are also compounding the pain of higher debt.
Should that debt materialize, it could risk America’s economic standing in the world.
The IMF is talking down to Washington like we’re a Third World country because that’s the direction Washington is taking us.
LOL, EVERYONE THEY DISAGREE WITH IS A RACIST: Study claims ‘racism’ drives opposition to DEI statements.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT [VIP]: White House Blows Up as Israel Hits Iran. “There’s an old joke about how the New York Times would announce the end of the world. ‘World to End Tomorrow; Women and Minorities Affected Most.’ I’m here to tell you today that the real ‘victims’ of Israel’s Thursday night airstrikes on Iran are in the Biden White House — and just two miles away in Washington’s exclusive Kalorama neighborhood.”
THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE BUBBLE DEFLATES: Tesla shares tumble below $150 per share, giving up all gains made over the past year. “On Thursday, Deutsche Bank joined other industry analysts in voicing concern over Musk’s big bet on autonomous vehicles as it stripped the company of its ‘buy’ rating, citing Tesla’s ‘change of strategic priority to Robotaxi.'”
LOOK OUT RFK, JR., YOU’RE A GENUINE THREAT TO THE MACHINE: Look out, Joe: RFK, Jr. is on the Michigan Ballot.
With no Secret Service protection.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Joe Biden and the Wawa Cannibals—An American Tragedy. “One of the most galling results of the mainstream media’s dereliction of duty is that every syllable that Donald Trump utters is fact-checked seven or eight thousand times, while Biden is given carte blanche to keep repeating stories that are truth-free garbage. They don’t even call him on his oft-recited lie that his son Beau was a casualty of war. This isn’t merely an elderly man’s confusion about a date or a place; either he’s so addled that he truly doesn’t remember where and how his son died, or he knows he’s deliberately lying.”
HMM…: Might Turn Out That POTATUS’ Gonzo Gaza Pier Plan Was a Blessing in Disguise.
Last October I wrote about the potentially catastrophic state of our country’s maritime support system, the U.S. Maritime Support Fleet. Biden has someone in charge right now they mockingly refer to as “The Ghost Admiral.” We have already lost the capacity to mobilize a tanker fleet to fuel our naval vessels at sea in event of a large scale conflict.
CDR Salamander, along with other experienced naval and maritime observers, have been raising alarms for years about the state of readiness of our vessels, and the shrunken posture of our force. You cannot continue to carve and carve away and still expect there to be meat on bones or good morale in overtaxed, understaffed, over-deployed ships companies.
We’ve all been railing against the money wasted on high-tech, whizbang boondoggles instead of maintaining a healthy, viable, lethal fleet (looking at YOU, LCS class).
What this exercise attempting to cross the Atlantic has proven is that we may not need tankers. Our poorly maintained and continually neglected naval vessels, be they Navy or Army, may not be capable of making it to the conflict to begin with.
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