People against the idea of feeding poor people have no empathy.

All these arguments against Zohran Mamdani (D) come from Islamophobes, DINOs, and defenders of the sclerotic status quo that brought us to this point.

Hollywood is choc-a-bloc full of plagiarists and idea stealers.

Japanese culture was victimized several times: Star Wars, The Magnificent Seven, etc.

Music composer John Williams lifted from the masters for his Hollywood epics as well.

You can hear Gustav Mahler's The Planets (Opus 32) in his theme for Star Wars.

John Williams admitted he was influenced (he lifted) from previous masters: Igor Stravinsky, Richard Wagner, Gustav Holst, Erich Wolfgang Korngold.

His pre-Hollywood TV work seemed more original.

Faux Christian Franklin Graham defends Trumpf's Jesus image:

"I had received some questions about President Trumpf's recent idiotic posts, and here are my inane and useless thoughts.

"I do not believe President Trumpf would knowingly depict himself as Jesus Christ-- that would certainly be inappropriate.

"I'm thankful the Dotard-in-Chief backtracked, blatantly lying that this was not at all what he thought the AI-generated image was representing-- he wanted the American sheeple to think it was a doctor helping someone, and when he learned of the concerns, he immediately removed the post after good-for-nothing House Speaker Mike Johnson told him to delete it.

"When I looked at the sacrilegious illustration, I didn't jump to the same conclusion as some. There were no spiritual references-- no halo, there were no crosses, no angels, and surprisingly no references to underage girls that resemble Trumpf's comely daughter with the God-help-me awful name, Ivanka.

"It was a flag, soldiers, a nurse, fighter planes, eagles, the Statue of Liberty, and I think this is a lot to do about nothing, like my worthless social post that you are wasting your time reading.

"There is so much ill-intended speculation. I think his enemies are always foaming at the mouth at any possible opportunity to make the draft dodging oligarchic hypocrite look bad.

"And the illustration from someone else he reposted on Truth Social yesterday, I must say that I like the fact that this is a picture of Jesus whispering sweet nothings in Trumpf's ear like a lover, or at least His hand knocking dandruff flakes off his shoulder.

"We all need that-- we all need to be listening to Jesus, and that includes Sikhs, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, atheists, Zoroastrians, and super-wealthy oligarchs. Again, I think there is an attempt to spin this into something that it isn't.

"Remember, Dummkopf Trumpf didn't draw this, he didn't create it, he reposted it on his social media because he thought it was nice-- I would have to agree.

"I'm not a Catholic, I'm an evangelical phony Christian making money selling Christ to dopes, but I appreciate how the morbidly obese geriatric draft dodging pedophilic president has defended religious freedom for people of all faiths except for Muslims, including millions of evangelicals and Catholics in the US and around the world.

"He is the most pro-Christian, pro-life president in my lifetime, and he doesn't shy away from it. His ICE thugs have profaned churches, separated families, killed innocent people, all in a Christian manner Jesus would have approved of.

"I would hope that the Blasphemer-in-Chief and Pope Leo can meet at some point, and that the Pope would have the opportunity to scold the worst president in history for his pretend efforts to protect religious liberty for Catholics and people of all faiths."

"Esse! Mira!"

In an average year in Virginia, 1,226 people die by guns; 1,624 are wounded.

59% of gun deaths in Virginia are suicides.

Nationally, every eleven minutes someone is killed with a firearm, either by an assailant, by their own hand, or by accident.

FTA:

"Senior defense officials have held talks about producing weapons and other military supplies with the top executives of several companies, including Mary Barra of General Motors and Jim Farley of Ford Motor.

The Pentagon is interested in enlisting the companies to use their personnel and factory capacity to increase production of munitions and other equipment as the wars in Ukraine and Iran deplete stocks.

The talks were preliminary and wide-ranging, the people said. Defense officials said American manufacturers might be needed to backstop traditional defense companies and asked whether the companies could rapidly shift to defense work.

GE Aerospace and the vehicle and machinery maker Oshkosh were among the companies involved in the talks with defense officials."