Today is Tuesday, July 15, 2025. Despite fervent backlash against a movie, a fucking movie, by Dump’s red hats, Superman has soared to first place among millions of Americans who have made this film this country’s No. 1 film in terms of summer revenue. Severely criticized by bigoted MAGAts for its embrace of immigrants, the film’s more all-embracing theme of kindness and charity toward the “other” has been accepted by moviegoers everywhere. In an online article for Daily Kos by Oliver Willis entitled “Americans reject MAGA meanness as ‘Superman’ soars,” the reality of the mean and stupid embrace of xenophobia has been totally rejected by those millions of Americans who have metaphorically flown to theaters across the country to see the film. This has made the film the No. 1 movie in the United States.

The movie’s success is another humiliating loss for the MAGA movement which campaigned against the film’s proimmigrant themes. Here is a direct quote from the article: “But the film is also a resounding rejection of the bitter, cynical meanness that’s been a hallmark of President Donald Trump’s second term.”

Since its release on July 11, the production has earned more than $122 million and received a rating of 83 percent from critics and 93 percent from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes. That resounding success comes on the heels of the right’s full-throated attack on the film for its being “woke” and their predicting overall failure for the film, which certainly hasn’t come true. Conservatives or the far right – “red hats,” as I call them – were angered by director James Gunn’s description of the film as an “immigrant that came from other places.” However, these idiots don’t know the origin story of the superhero as I know it since I’ve been buying Superman comics for a very long time. Of course, he’s an immigrant and is not from this Earth.

Those on the right were woefully wrong in predicting the movie’s failure, as in Fox News pundit Tami Lahren forecasting the “woke” film’s demise. This noncritic said this about the film: “The new ‘Superman’ movie went woke and will probably flop.” Boy, I wonder how this clueless host feels now since the film has literally soared since it was released?

For those who need a crash course on the history of the comics’ best-known creation, Superman debuted in Action Comics #1 in 1938. Superman is the sole survivor of the planet Krypton who landed in Kansas in a rocket designed by his father Jor-El and was adopted by a farm couple who pass him off as their own child, Martha and Jonathan Kent. The writer states uncategorically, “Superman is an undocumented immigrant – and he has been for all 87 years of his existence.”

The superhero is described as a “champion of the oppressed” and a champion of social justice since the very beginning of his launch.

As for the filming of this new incarnation of Superman, it was written and filmed before the Orange Ogre won the 2024 election, “but audiences can see the clear contrast between the film’s embrace of kindness and the daily meanness of the Trump administration.”

For Dump, cruelty is the point. But for Superman, that is absolutely not the way.

Thus Superman stands for truth and justice – the complete opposite of what MAGA is all about. Unfortunately, this comic book character is a fantasy, an ideal that doesn’t exist in the real world. And one must wonder why this stupid MAGA community got all ruffled over an ideal, a fantasy, anyway. Don’t they have other more serious things to worry about like losing their Medicaid, their Social Security benefits, and so on?

As for myself, I was almost ready to see Superman myself and I was looking forward to writing a review for it in this blog, but I didn’t go. My new friend from the Austin Street Diner who I’ll call “James” couldn’t commit himself to go and see it in the afternoon. So I’ll have to wait for another time. Be patient! I will get there eventually.

Tomorrow Elliot and I will be finally dining with my cousins “Rivka” and “Dillon.” We were supposed to have gotten together a little over a week ago, but we canceled owing to the severe weather forecast for that night and the extreme heat.

Have a good Wednesday.

I will also take the car out for a spin and I’m a little apprehensive since I’m driving to my comic bookstore, the site where the car was dented last Friday. I’ll be on the alert, but I have no control over what might happen to the vehicle once it’s parked. I have to believe what happened was quite rare.

Have a good Wednesday then.

Another little car trip is planned for Thursday, July 17, till Friday, July 18. We’re driving to Princeton, New Jersey, to visit “Zander” and his wife “Nalah,” as well as their two-year-old daughter “Naomi.”

So I’m not sure when I’ll see you again. If not tomorrow, then it’ll have to be either Friday or Saturday.

And so it went!