I liked this month of May. We completed our 53-day around the world trip, and came home healthy. I did gain 7 pounds, but by yesterday found out that I had lost 7.5 pounds of that. The World did okay too, if you are not Trump, Netanyahu or Red Lobster.
For example, that disquieting unified reich matter might have been a clerical error, but Truth Social did carry it, for a while, and any reference to Hitler can't help a presidential campaign.
Red Lobster was one of ten companies going bankrupt this month. I remember a bunch of new restaurant openings in Florida going back as far as 1968 with Red Lobster. Many of them, like Outback Steakhouse, LongHorn Steakhouse and Olive Garden seem to be having financial problems these days. Fast food chains are doing well, and so are high end restaurants. It is this middle category that is affected by consumer adjustments.
- They passed 50 measures in May, and all became public laws.
- We now have a bipartisan Congress, even the House.
- House Democrats this month rescued the House speaker, a Republican whom far-right members of his party wanted to topple after he helped pass a bipartisan foreign aid package.
- Into May, President Joe Biden has signed a more significant set of bipartisan bills — on infrastructure, semiconductors, gun violence, the electoral process and more — than any president in decades.
- Cannabis now tops alcohol as Americans’ daily drug of choice, a study found.
- If you have difficulty accessing that article, try CNBC, where they too say: daily or near-daily marijuana use is now more common than similar levels of drinking in the U.S. Americans are reaching for buds more than booze.
Time magazine has an article about The Apprentice, saying it is almost too real.
- I've never seen such a vicious movie review, which pretty much condemns Donald Trump.
- Trump called it GARBAGE.
- Sebastian Stan as The Donald and Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn, that despicable lawyer who trained Trump.
- Here is one quote:
Ali Abbasi The Apprentice, which premiered here in Cannes on May 20, arrives at just the right time. And if it isn’t a great movie, it’s at least a fascinating and thoughtful one, an even-handed film that doesn’t need to resort to extremes to paint an accurate picture of what America and the world are up against right now, in terms of one particular past and possibly future president. Sebastian Stan plays 1970s-and-'80s-era Donald Trump, at the time a socially clumsy, insecure underling in his bullying father’s real estate business. Jeremy Strong plays Roy Cohn, the cutthroat lawyer who’d served as Senator Joe McCarthy’s chief counsel during the Army-McCarthy hearings, and who’d earlier used questionable means to get Julius and Ethel Rosenberg convicted as Soviet spies, resulting in their 1953 execution. By the 1970s, he was gathering steam as a fixer extraordinaire, and this is where Abbasi’s movie begins.
- Now known as tubi.
- Launched in 2014, but bought out by Fox Corporation in 2020 for $440 million.
- As of September 2023 had 74 million monthly active users.
- Linked to South Korean entertainment company CJ ENM and Warner Brothers/Discovery.
- Now also in Canada, the European Union, Oceania and Central America.
- They have access to 50,000 films/television series, 250 provider and 200 live TV channels for local news and sports.
- Is a free streaming service.
- How do they do this for FREE? Well, actually, there are short ad breaks. But not too many, and they are really short.
- Competes against Netflix and Hulu.
- No sign-up. But need to activate.
- Is compatible with Sony, Vizio and Samsung smart TVs.
- Read this for a good explanation of tubi.
- While offerings are not the newest, you will wonder, why pay Netflix.
- Just go to THIS or https://tubitv.com/home.
- I typed in my favorite movie at the top, South Pacific, and there it was.
- Typed Casablanca. Nope, not there.
- Typed Play it Again Sam, not there.
- Typed Sound of Music, and got the 2015 version with no actor you know.
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