Big Blitz

This was my sense as well from everything I’ve been told about the movie. My kids said people were laughing at the ridiculousness of it - not taking it seriously and it came across as satire. I’ll probably end up watching it on demand with my wife. Not at all because I want to I swear.

Nothing good happens in July and August. Put them all in bubble wrap.

This exposed more about the current makeup of our people in this country then it did the people who are in charge of it.

CRE Storm: Over $800 Billion In Office Space In Nine Cities Could Become Obsolete By 2030 In a recent Bloomberg interview, Barry Sternlicht’s Starwood Capital Group warned that the CRE space is in a “Category 5 hurricane.” He said, “It’s sort of a blackout hovering over the entire industry until we get some relief or some understanding of what the Fed’s going to do over the longer term.” The current downturn in CRE could persist for years, if not through the end of this decade. Jan Mischke, a partner at the McKinsey Global Institute, along with Olivia White, a senior partner at McKinsey, and Aditya Sanghvi, a senior partner and leader of McKinsey’s real estate special initiative, published a note in Fortune, warning “$800 billion of office space in just nine cities could become obsolete by 2030.” The authors of the report blame the CRE downturn on the “shift to remote and hybrid work prompted two further shifts in people’s behavior”: First, many residents, untethered from their offices and therefore less fearful of long commutes, moved away from urban cores. New York City’s urban core (that is, the dozen densest counties in the metropolitan area) lost 5% of its population from mid-2020 to mid-2022. San Francisco’s urban core (San Francisco County, Alameda County, and San Mateo County) lost 6%. Second, consumers began shopping less at brick-and-mortar stores–and far less at stores in urban cores, where people were now less likely either to work or to live. Foot traffic near stores in metropolitan areas remains 10 to 20% below pre-pandemic levels, but the differences between urban and suburban traffic recovery are substantial. For example, in late 2022, foot traffic near New York’s suburban stores was 16% lower than it had been in January 2020, while foot traffic near stores in the urban core was 36% lower. “The reduced demand will have major impacts on urban stakeholders. For example, in just nine cities that we studied especially closely, $800 billion of office space could become obsolete by 2030. And macroeconomic complications could make matters even worse,” the authors continued. Without office workers in downtown areas, economic recoveries in major cities will be a “U” shape or, in some cases, an “L.” The unraveling of downtowns is already underway. We shared a video this week of scenes of San Francisco’s downtown transformed into a ‘ghost town.’ Building owners in the crime-ridden metro area are already giving up and defaulting as vacancies rise, crime surges, and refinancing is near impossible in today’s climate as the Federal Reserve keeps interest rates sky-high to tame the worst inflation in a generation. https://confoundedinterest.net/2023/07/22/cre-storm-over-800-billion-in-office-space-in-nine-cities-could-become-obsolete-by-2030-office-vacancy-rates-soar-as-fed-went-crazy-with-stimulus/ This is going to reshape the electoral map and how they tax you. Without their big city tax base to fund state and local governments, you’ll start to see new tax proposals or plans that will do nothing but anger everyone that already can’t afford anything …. BUT what I’ve been saying is much more likely is you State workers that think you’re safe, the Ds will turn on you so fast if left with no choice due to the electoral shifts and no longer a need to prioritize programs (education) that over half the public is fed up with.

My 2 oldest saw Barbie this weekend. They’re in high school and arguably more conservative then me. Went with groups of friends. They didn’t think it was some lib indoctrination film. They actually thought it was neutral. I continue to find the disconnect between what young people think vs the adults fascinating. Sometimes things are more complicated. The movie didn’t market itself as anything but live action Barbie. At least not that I saw. We knew it was going to do anything but glorify the dam doll - and that women should just want to be pretty and wear expensive clothes. I don’t believe it’s core audience was supposed to be 9 year olds but rather 40 something moms who took their kids, and high schoolers.

I thought “woke” wasn’t a real thing?

So, not Snow White

And that’s a major problem - that there aren’t any potentially iconic young leading men. Even the Rock is a collective failure (not as far as making money) but he doesn’t have ONE memorable role. Keep casting for diversity sake and write scripts and characters no normal person can relate to - that’s all contributing to Hollywoods demise.

Nolte: ‘Indiana Jones 5’ a ‘Disaster of Epic Proportions’ for Disney Dial of Destiny “could potentially rival John Carter as the Mouse House’s worst-ever live-action commercial bomb,” continues the report, “and call into question the future of [Lucasfilm] boss Kathleen Kennedy, a former Fortune Most Powerful Woman.” ….As of Tuesday, after 20 days in theaters, Dial of Destiny has only grossed $307 million worldwide. At this point, it will be lucky to reach $350 million. Do the math: cost $425 million minus $175 million in net box office receipts (theaters take about half), and you’re looking at a $250 million loss. That is a quarter of a billion dollar loss — not on a risky and obscure John Mars, a property no one under the age of 100 was familiar with. No, that is a quarter of a billion dollar loss on an Indiana Jones movie, one of the most beloved and iconic franchises in Hollywood history. In 1981, more than 40 years ago and without adjusting for inflation, Raiders of the Lost Ark grossed $380 millionworldwide. Adjusted for inflation, that’s $1.275 billion with a “B” in today’s dollars. In 1984, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom grossed $333 million worldwide. Adjusted for inflation, that’s $977 million. In 1989, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade grossed $474 million worldwide. Adjusted for inflation, that’s $1.166 billion with a “B.” In 2008, the dreadful Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull grossed $790 million worldwide. Adjusted for inflation, that’s $1.12 billion with a “B.” When you factor in inflation, you are talking about Dial of Destiny flopping in ways that seemed inconceivable a couple of months ago: a $250 million loss and an anemic box office haul $700 to $900 million lower than its predecessors. But that’s what happens when you use a sexless, unappealing woman to emasculate a beloved screen hero. John Carter was a legitimate risk. But until Kathleen Kennedy got her grubby, talentless, sex-obsessed, leftist hands on it, Indiana Jones was one of the surest things in the world. But, then again, so was Star Wars, and look at what Kennedy did to that. Can the fact she’s a chick still save Kathleen Kennedy’s job after this fiasco? I don’t know. Transitioning into a black man might be her only hope. https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/07/20/nolte-indiana-jones-5-a-disaster-epic-proportions-disney/

He’s going to win it’s just a matter of what Trump does after he loses the primary. I expect he’s going to drop out while he thinks he’s “on top” of the GOP field. Well, if he believes those polls here’s one for him.

But January 6!

RUN TO IMAX AND SEE OPPENHEIMER

K.

Um…..because a good chunk of the electorate is voting on “no more drama please and stay off Twitter.”

No, but AG Cruz will. Wooooooo hoooooooo lawfare forever! ‘Merica!!! Sometimes it takes awhile to make up crimes. Another good question. This is why they’re fleeing to State Run Threads.

And all of this is complete bull ***t. Banana Republic level embarrassing. Stormy Daniels Classified documents that is beyond laughable January 6 - go ahead quote the other things he said about going home.

Attorney General Cruz is going to be very busy in DeSantis first term…… Libs don’t understand the actions of this administration set a precedent they haven’t even contemplated yet.

Literally every conservative on this board has said they aren’t voting Trump or at least rushed to his defense. Trump isn’t what’s being defended or scrutinized. It’s the police state that’s going after him - the political opposition - of all this was reversed what would you say about Trump. We all know. “This is worse then Nazi Germany.” And they are dragging out the soap opera to coincide with elections. But I’ll ask again since you didn’t answer the first time - what’s Trump guilty of?

This isn’t about defending or justifying Trump for me either. I’m not voting for him in the primary and think he needs to disappear. This is about the blatant abuse of power by Democrats in what has been an (checks calendar) EIGHT YEAR crusade to end Trump and it’s disgusting. Claim all you want what a con man he is - it’s unfortunate the same con men and sleaze in media and the government will never see any scrutiny or ever face serious investigations that aren’t mocked by said media and the Democrat party because they control the narratives. For proof of that look only at their pathetic whining about Elon Musk and subsequent retreat to State Run Threads - suddenly there is competition (laughable as it is) to Twitter. Those protesters represented people that were silenced and censored from those platforms. Who’s kids lost education they will never recover. Jobs lost they may have never got back. TIME loss they’ll never get back. And an election that was absolutely rigged. Quite frankly it’s disgusting that Americans left and right weren’t gathered on the capitol months before demanding to know wtf is going on. But Orange Man was bad so shut up and mask up.

What has Trump been found guilty of?