#but it's also the day that the Justice League find out Elle is the daughter(?) of the Ghost King

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It was the final hour. Doomsday at their door, with only hours left before the world was consumed entirely and every last living thing was devoured right along with it.

Summoning the High King of the Infinite Realms was the only option left, and even then felt more like choosing a firing squad rather than a noose at the end of the day. Pariah Dark might - might - accept the task of destroying the foe they faced, but tmit would come at a cost that was near equal to doing nothing at all. Provided the tyrannical ruler simply didn't let them all die, an entire planet dead was an entire planet to add to his endless armies.

They had to try. Stupid and suicidal as it was.

Zantanna and John worked in silence as they created the summoning circle, hands shaking and stomachs cramping as they worked under the apprehensive eyes of the rest of the League. They all understood that no matter what happened, they would all likely end up dead by the end of it. That the best case scenario meant that death was only the beginning of their problems.

Candles were lit. Insense burned. Blood spilled. Words spoken.

Nothing.

Nothing.

It failed, not so much as a flicker of magic. Which was impossible, they'd checked and confirmed a dozen times that they had the right ritual, that they were following the steps, they had done everything right way wasn't it working? What had they done wr-

"Ugh, gross is that blood?"

Elle Phantom, fifteen minuted late to the site of the ritual with both the boys Super, the most murderous Robin and a sugary abomination of an iced coffee from Starbucks, scrunched her nose in disgust as she looked at the summoning circle.

"This ritual is so out of date, where did you even find it? Wait is that Latin? Who tries to summon someone from the Ghost Zone in Latin?"

John had burned through every drop of alcohol and cigarette he owned hours ago while trying to find this bloody damn ritual and was very much not in the mood for the little hellspawn's color commentary on the process.

"I don't bloody well seeing you providing with any alternatives for summoning the Ghost King." He swore, turning away from the gremlin to tear through the ancient book he and Zantanna had discovered with the ritual inside.

There was a loud slurping noise as the undead hero sucked the last remnants of her drink through the straw. John's brow twitched, even Zantanna - who usually seemed endeared by the chaos goblin - looked at the end of her rope.

Then - "Oh, is that who you wanted to summon? Why didn't you say so?" She drifted over, handing her empty drink off to a disgruntled looking Batman, and began rummaging through the unused magival supplies left over from the - failed - summoning circle. "Here, give me like, five minutes."

John was fairly certain his head was about to explode.

"You know how to summon the Ghost King? You?"

Phantom rolled her eyes at him. "Duh, obviously."

"Obviously." Zantanna repeated, looking like she was half a moment away from having a breakdown. She didn't try to stop the ghostly girl, though, and to be fair neither was John. They were already fucked, might as well let the gremlin try her hand at it.

It took less than the five minutes Phantom had claimed she needed.

When she was done there was a significantly smaller circle on the ground. At the cardinal directions of the circle, written clockwise she'd drawn not any magical runes but instead what appeared to be the Roman Numerals for one, then two, then something akin to a sideways T with an additional mark rising upward from the long horizontal bar, then the letter L.

It had to have some kind of ancient magical significance John didn't know as Shazam made a noise like a dying goose and squeaked out the word Loss like it was a question. Phantom gave the Champion of Magic a sharp toothed grin before adding some words in a language John didn't know before she finally allowed gravity to pull her back to earth and plant her feet on the ground.

She wiped her hands together a bit dramatically, looking pleased with herself, but at that point John didn't care. He could feel the building magic, heavy and oppressive as she had begun her task. Unlike the circle he and Zantanna had attempted, this one was working.

He couldn't help thr nervous swallow he gave as Phantom then declared, with a strange amount of seriousness. "All that’s left are the words."

She took a deep breath, eyes closing for a moment, and the world went utterly silent around them. This, John could feel, this was the real deal. Fuck him sideways the hellspawn was actually doing it.

Phantom's eyes opened, glowing with that bright eerie green light of her power. Another deep breath and then -

"You are my dad! You're my dad!" He watched, any scraps of hope she'd instilled in him dying an undignified death as she gave a terrible little wiggle dance while she sang(?) Off key, "Boogie woogie woogie!"

Every last person on Earth was going to die and one of John's last moments was going to be spent watching the little undead shit do the Macarena. Well fuck him, he guessed.

Then there was the sound of the veil between the world's tearing in two and the fucking Ghost King was standing in Phantom's summoning circle screaming in a screeching falsetto:

"When will you learn? When will you learn that your actions have consequences!"

You know what actually at this point John would rather the apocalypse kill him.

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Legally Blonde (2001)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250494/ 

Relevance

In Robert Luketic’s 2001 film, Legally Blonde, audiences were introduced to the iconic, Elle Woods, played by Reese Witherspoon.  When this movie was released, I remember really connecting with Elle Woods on a personal level and the movies themes resonated with me in ways that are still important to me today. When Elle first decides to go to Harvard Law School, her motivations are complicated, but ultimately her merits are what makes her a success.

I’ve always related to ‘fish out of water’ movies, because I’ve felt like that before, too. Elle’s the first in her family to attend an Ivy League college, and she constantly feels like an outsider at Harvard. She doesn’t know there are certain degrees of preparedness expected of students on the first day of class and is humiliated by the experience when she is asked to leave the classroom until she is prepared. I’m a first-generation college student, and there are so many aspects of this experience that have left me feeling like an outsider, because I didn’t know what was expected of me. When I first when to college at UC Santa Cruz after high school, nobody wanted to drop me off. It was the opposite of those moments on movies where parents are unable to detach themselves. Even though Elle had Bruiser with her, she never had any scenes with her parents at all. She even spends Christmas with Paulette, her new friend and manicurist, played by Jennifer Coolidge. Even though Elle seems to come from a well off family (Aaron Spelling was her neighbor after all!), they aren’t visibly supportive of all of their daughters aspirations. This is also very relatable, to a lot of students, especially right now during the pandemic. Elle Woods doesn’t give up, and neither will the rest of us!

The awesome aspect of all this, is that Elle Woods rises to the occasion, and shows that she does have what it takes to be a lawyer. When Elle combines her knowledge of criminal justice she’s learned at Harvard with her expert knowledge of fashion and post-perm hair care procedures that cracks the case wide open. Elle is literally all of us who have ever been left out of some exclusive inner circle, that we have every right to be in based on the merit of our ability and skills.

Representation

I can relate to this as well because I’ll be majoring in criminal justice at Sac State in the Spring and I am thinking about law school afterwards. I used to think certain life experiences or beliefs made me not cut out for law school or law enforcement, but it turns out, they are actually my assets, just like with Elle. The criminal justice system is probably going to change in dramatic and necessary ways in the coming years, and its going to need more people like me, and those also inspired by Elle Woods, to bring more compassion to a system that isn’t working fairly for everyone right now, but absolutely can and will someday.

Representation

When Legally Blonde was released in 2001, it was just a few months before 9/11, and the landscape of pop culture was incredibly different than it is today. It was absolutely hailed as movie that would inspire girls to pursue their dreams. It also empowered women to forge destinies independent of male influence. The great thing that happens when film and culture celebrate this concept, it ends up having a far greater reach than could be anticipated. That’s what happened to me. The power of cinema is that even though I don’t literally see myself in Reese Witherspoon, when she is in character as Elle Woods (and yes, sometimes Tracy Flick when stressed), I absolutely find great comfort, and a lot of laughs in relating to Legally Blonde. In one of those hard to tell if its art imitating life or life imitating art, but I am now living in Sacramento, which puts me in a similar trajectory as Elle Woods at the end of the first film, possibly considering a career in politics. When you’re inspired by Elle and Bruiser Woods, anything is possible.

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Soros's Women's March of Hate The Left's rage unleashed on the streets of Washington.

By: Matthew Vadum

On Saturday, the nation's capital was inundated with masses of loud, obnoxious, foul-mouthed Trump-hating women (and some men) at what was billed the "Women's March on Washington." The Guardian called the event a "spontaneous" action for women's rights, while Vox spoke of a "huge, spontaneous groundswell" behind the march.

While the mainstream media bombarded news consumers with news stories claiming few Americans were interested in the inauguration festivities, television ratings for President Donald Trump's inauguration were the second-highest Nielsen has recorded in 36 years, drawing 30.6 million TV viewers across 12 networks. Factoring in live streams provided by the networks, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and other online portals adds millions more viewers to the total. But what happened Saturday at the "Women's March" was not spontaneous. No mass rallies are, especially on the Left.

This so-called "protest", like the violent attacks orchestrated by the DisruptJ20 coalition on pro-Trump events such as Friday's "DeploraBall" at the National Press Club, was not an organically generated demonstration.

The usual culprits were involved behind the scenes using the same fascistic tactics they used to shut down the massive Trump campaign rally at the University of Illinois at Chicago in March last year.

The groups that organized the Women's March on Washington on Saturday were underwritten by radical currency speculator George Soros, the same man who says Communist China's system of government is superior to our own and that the United States is the number one obstacle to world peace.

The Soros people brought in protesters from all over the country to express their displeasure with Donald Trump on his first full day as president of the United States. These left-wingers don't accept the votes of the 63 million Americans in 3,084 of the nation's 3,141 counties or county equivalents who chose Trump as president. They keep telling themselves the lie over and over again that Trump is somehow not a legitimate president even though he received a majority of Electoral College votes, as the Constitution requires.

Writing in the New York Times, Asra Q. Nomani writes that "the march really isn't a 'women's march.' It's a march for women who are anti-Trump."

Nomani is a former Georgetown journalism professor and Wall Street Journal reporter who describes herself as "a lifelong liberal feminist who voted for Donald Trump for president."

She continues:

As someone who voted for Trump, I don't feel welcome, nor do many other women who reject the liberal identity-politics that is the core underpinnings of the march, so far, making white women feel unwelcome, nixing women who oppose abortion and hijacking the agenda. Nomani burnt the midnight oil poring over, in her words, "the funding, politics and talking points of the some 403 groups that are 'partners' of the march."

She discovered that "Soros has funded, or has close relationships with, at least 56 of the march's 'partners,' including 'key partners' Planned Parenthood, which opposes Trump's anti-abortion policy, and the National Resource Defense Council, which opposes Trump's environmental policies."

According to Nomani, among the Soros grantees designated as "partners" in the Women's March on Washington are MoveOn, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Center for Constitutional Rights, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch.

In a spreadsheet she links to in her article she identifies plenty more organizations that are partners in the march that have received grants through the two major Soros philanthropies, the Open Society Institute and the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Some of the other left-wing Soros-funded groups involved in the women's event were: Advancement Project; American Constitution Society; America's Voice; Arab American Association of New York; Asian Americans Advancing Justice; Center for Reproductive Rights; Color of Change; Communities United for Police Reform; Demos; Economic Policy Institute; Every Voice; Green for All; League of Women Voters; Make the Road New York; MPower Change; NAACP; NARAL Pro-Choice America Fund; National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum; National Council of Jewish Women; National Domestic Workers Alliance; National Network for Arab American Communities; National Council of La Raza; PEN America; Psychologists for Social Responsibility; Public Citizen; United We Dream; and Voter Participation Center.

Muslim terrorist supporter Linda Sarsour, president of the Arab American Association of New York, was deeply involved in planning march-related events. Sarsour has familial ties to HAMAS and works with the terrorist front group Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

One of the angry women to show up in Washington was the entertainer Madonna who told the crowd of Trump-haters that she thought many times about "blowing up the White House" but had decided against it because it "wouldn't change anything." She is expected to be investigated by the Secret Service. On stage, Madonna wore a "pussyhat" created for the occasion and used the F-word four times. The vagina motif among leftist protesters is nothing new. Code Pink has been using it for years. But it was given new life after audio footage was published during the campaign that captured Trump's locker room remark, "grab 'em by the pussy."

The marchers took the vulvar vulgarity a step further. Apart from the usual pro-choice and male-bashing placards, they carried signs reading: "My neck, my back, my pussy will grab back"; "Stay cunty"; "Pussy trumps tyranny"; "Keep your politics off my pussy"; "Mike Pence has never satisfied a woman in his life"; "Support your sisters not just your cis-ters"; "We are the grand-daughters of the witches you could not burn"; and "It's feminist not feminazi[.]"

The atmosphere in downtown Washington wasn't much different from the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia last summer. The same in-your-face radicalism and hatred of cops and white people.

Radical documentary maker Michael Moore handed the microphone to actress Ashley Judd who read a goofy, childish poem aloud. "I feel Hitler in these streets," Judd said, "A mustache traded for a toupee. Nazis renamed."

So many washed-up celebrities turn to political activism as people stop caring about them. It's a coping mechanism Mother Nature invented to ease them into irrelevance. They shout and carry on and we forget about them.

Angela Davis, the academic and former Black Panther, spoke at the event. She was described by Elle as a "[c]ivil rights activist." The article left out that she used to be a fugitive and that she ran for U.S. vice president in 1980 and 1984, alongside Gus Hall, on the ticket of the Communist Party USA. In 1991 she was expelled from the CPUSA for opposing the coup against then-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. She joined an arguably more radical group called the Committees of Correspondence.

Davis's speech consisted of the usual tedious ultra-politically correct drivel, praising traitors, terrorists, and cop killers.

Women's rights are human rights all over the planet and that is why we say freedom and justice for Palestine. We celebrate the impending release of Chelsea Manning. And Oscar López Rivera. But we also say free Leonard Peltier. Free Mumia Abu-Jamal. Free Assata Shakur. "The next 1,459 days of the Trump administration will be 1,459 days of resistance," Davis said. "Resistance on the ground, resistance in the classrooms, resistance on the job, resistance in our art and in our music."

Davis saw no need to tone down her rhetoric because she was addressing true believers.

Her co-religionists were busy trying to burn down Washington in the days prior to her address.

Unrepentant terrorist and Obama pal Bill Ayers showed up in Washington for the inaugural festivities with his terrorist wife, Bernardine Dohrn.

"On our way to demonstrate for several days in Washington," Ayers wrote on his blog Jan. 19. The same day Ayers appeared on a TV show hosted by a fellow small-c communist, "The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann," on the Russian government controlled-RT America network.

Former President Obama launched his career in electoral politics in 1995 in the Hyde Park, Chicago living room of Ayers and Dohrn. They hosted a fundraiser for Obama for his run for the Illinois State Senate.

Austin, Texas-based anarchist Lisa Fithian also came to Washington to cause trouble. She led the union goons and anarchists who rioted during the 1999 World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle. She also organized riots as part of the Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter movement and community-organized in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans.

She was part of the "queer dance party" Jan. 18 that was intended to intimidate Mike Pence at his pre-inaugural home in the Chevy Chase neighborhood in Northwest Washington.

"We are here to celebrate the queer liberation and say that love will trump hate," Fithian told CNN. "Mike Pence needs to find his heart and recognize that this is a country that needs to be loving and welcoming to everyone. If they want to make America great again, we actually need to embrace our humanity."

Black mask-wearing rioters destroyed private property a few blocks from the White House, smashing windows at a Bank of America branch, a Starbucks, and a McDonald's. They set cars and trash cans on fire and assaulted police using crowbars, bottles, and sticks. They blocked uniformed Air Force officers from entering the inauguration grounds. They injured at least six cops. About 3,000 local, state, and federal law enforcement officers were stationed in Washington, along with 5,000 members of the National Guard.

Perhaps unaware that he works for their friends in the Russian government, rioters torched the limousine of RT America broadcaster Larry King.

At least 217 individuals were arrested and charged with rioting. The U.S. Attorney's Office said each offender is facing up to 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.

The violence in Washington and cities across the country was organized by fringe-left groups that wield a lot of influence in organizing circles.

And as my colleagues at Dangerous Documentaries, the documentary-making division of Capital Research Center discovered, organizers from two communist groups, the Workers World Party (WWP) and the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) were integral to planning DisruptJ20 demonstrations and riots across America during Inauguration Week.

Their research was highlighted in the popular 20-minute documentary, "America Under Siege: Civil War 2017," which is directed by Judd Saul, and written and narrated by eminent researcher of radicals, Trevor Loudon. It may be viewed for free online at Capital Research Center's website. At time of writing, the viral hit had been viewed more than 250,000 times on YouTube after being published Thursday at 11 a.m. Eastern time.

WPP First Secretary Larry Holmes, who adores the North Korean dictatorship of Kim Jong-un, vowed in a speech to prevent Trump from being sworn in as president. "Sisters and brothers, we are going to build through massive counter-inaugural protests on Jan. 20. We're going to shut this down. You know, Trump has started something. We're gonna finish it."

WPP youth secretary Ramiro S. Funez boasted in a speech that DisruptJ20 would be "one of the most important political events in modern history."

WPP youth leader Tom Michalak went to Moscow in 2014 as a guest of the Putin-funded group known as the Antiglobalization Movement of Russia. "The United States government is the greatest enemy of the peoples of the world," Michalak said.

Another WPP operative, Caleb Maupin, spreads anti-American propaganda as a journalist and political analyst for Iranian government-controlled Press TV and RT America, which is controlled by the Russian government.

"U.S. society born in racism, slavery, and the slaughter of the indigenous people, is now entering a deep political crisis," Maupin said at the New Horizon Conference in Tehran, Iran, in late 2015.

FRSO leaders Mick Kelly and Joe Iosbaker also helped organize DisruptJ20.

Losbaker helped organize the rioting at the March 11, 2016 Trump campaign rally at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Leftist violence forced Trump to cancel his appearance at the rally.

This is only the beginning. Get ready for four to eight years of nonstop violent activism and turmoil.

The Left never sleeps.