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  • Conspiracies and Coverups

    Now we don’t like taking bows here but just a few weeks back, November 9th to be exact, we published an article asking Where Are the Conspiracy Theories?  Low and behold just a few days later Tucker Carlson late of Fox News, lists a whole bunch of things about Thomas Matthew Crooks!  Crooks in case you have forgotten, was one of the would be POTUS 45 & 47 assassins.  Seems this Crooks guy was all over Social Media with all kinds of nutty ideas.  And this after the FBI had proclaimed that Crooks had very small digital footprint.  Maybe the FBI doesn’t know much about Digital Footprints and Social Media?  Or should we begin to think of those two dirty words…  Conspiracy and Coverup? 

    And as usual a day late and a dollar short, the rest of the Mass Hysteria begins to chime in.  Just remember you read it here first!  Why here?  Because we ask the tough questions.  And that is what this Journalism thingy is all about.

    And the House of Representatives is going to release their Epstein files!  They are going to name names!  And the names if they belong to anyone you heard of before, will say.  “Yes I knew him.  We did charity work together.”  “We talked about investments as Epstein was a financial whiz.”  “Epstein knew a lot of people.  He knew a lot of things.”  Will anyone say.  “I did not have sexual relations with those little girls!”  Will anyone get arrested?  Will we see or hear any of those supposed sex tapes with famous people in them?  Fugettaboutitt!

    One new thing we did learn about Jeffrey Epstein even though it didn’t come from the House report was,…  He had a little wee wee.  Similar information was given about another great sex abuser, Harvey Weinstein.  Does anyone see a pattern here?

    And as the anniversary of the assassination of JFK creeps upon us once again, the conspiracy theories will rear their ugly heads.  Our favorite has always been, the one put forward by our own Financial Editor Carmine S.  Carmine’s conspiracy is, Lee Harvey Oswald was one of Joseph P. Kennedy’s (father of JFK and well known philander ) many illegitimate kids.  And Oswald had had it.  JFK got to be President with a beautiful wife and kids, not to mention all the money the Kennedys had, while poor Lee Harvey, had to work in a Book Depository in Dallas for a buck twenty five an hour.  How would you feel, if you were poor old Lee Harvey?

    We know we’ve mentioned this conspiracy theory before but everyone trots out their conspiracy theories every year, and this one bears repeating.  It’s a goodie.

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  • Where Are The…

    the Conspiracy Theories?

    Donald John Trump POSTUS 45 and 47, had one assassin shoot him and another assassin lay in wait ready to shoot him.  The first guy who was killed on the scene and the other guy has already been convicted but where are the conspiracy theories?  The guy who lay in wait, Ryan Roush had his place all staked out in the grassy knoll.  No need to speculate whether or not there would have been shots fired from it.

    Was Thomas Matthew Crooks a lone gunman?  Have they accounted for all the bullets?  Did he actually hit POTUS 45?  Was there a second gunman?  a Third even?  Thomas Matthew Crooks whose first shot  nicked DJT’s ear. didn’t seem to be able to come close with any of his other shots.  What makes anyone think he hit DJT with that first shot?  Why was he killed at the scene?

    Why are we the only people asking these questions?  Does anyone care?  If we hadn’t put these guys names in this article, could you have named them in a quiz?

    Yes we know that conspiracy theories historically take time.  First there is the investigation and then the official report.  And after all that, the conspiracy theories begin to rear their ugly head.  But this 2025 not 1961 or 1968!  No one much believes anything the government says any more.  Especially in official reports.  Besides we have Facebook, X, Tik Tok, Instagram, Podcasts and Blogs like this one.  There is no reason to wait!

    Now we could speculate as to why there are no conspiracy theories but that would be a conspiracy theory.  And as readers of this Blog know, we don’t engage in conspiracy theories.

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  • A Hill To Die On

    We keep hearing and reading this phrase “that’s a hill to die on”.  Now we are used to political speech being filled with hyperbole and meaningless verbiage and one of our all time favorites will always be “a thousand points of light”.  But this “hill to die on” thing, really has us confused.  We get the idea.  A place to make a last stand.  And it sounds like it’s trying to be a historical reference too but what hill?  There was Bunker Hill which was actually Breed’s Hill but a lot of the Colonials retreated.  They didn’t all die up there.  Was Custer on a hill at the Little Big Horn?  Was the Alamo on a hill?  Do they mean San Juan Hill which was actually Kettle’s Hill?  Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders took that hill.  So, where is this hill?  We mean if you’re going to die somewhere, you might want to know.  We want to know too.

    And the Jeffrey Epstein story has become “a nothingburger”, according to Harry Enten, a data analyst for CNN.  Now we don’t believe CNN or any of the WOWTMSM, especially when they give us numbers.  But according to this Enten guy, these numbers are from Google searches.  Not some fake group of people they supposedly called on the phone, who think exactly as CNN wants them to.  Nor are they numbers from the government, which can be changed whenever anyone wants them to.  No, this came from Google searches, which could be faked once anyone begins to use them too often.  But for right now, the Google searches on Jeffrey Epstein have fallen by 89%.  Not too many people are much interested in him anymore.

    It could be, because we pointed out that the government convicted him and Ghislaine Maxwell, without ever mentioning a client, so why would his files still have any of those names?  Or it could be as we pointed out, that even if those names became public, so a few meaningless, narcissistic nitwits would fall from various screens we look at.  Soon to be replaced by another group and BFD.  So it could be our observations, that put this story to bed.  So with that in mind, we have two more.

    One, that Epstein was blackmailing powerful and famous people.  Fugettaboutitt!  Try it yourself and see what happens to you.  Only beat up, if you’re lucky.  But the more obvious pin to that balloon is, would anyone keep hanging around with him? Would you?  We mean after you beat the bleep out of hm.  Epstein would have been the loneliest guy on the planet.  Even Ghislaine, would have left him.  Who wants to be the only guest at the party?

    Two, you have to live in New York City to know this one and you have to have a sharp eye because you could miss this, if you walk by too fast.  But you can see it in the picture above, if you look closely.  The  Metropolitan Correctional Center where Epstein died, is on a hill.  So in spite of, or because of, the cameras not working, the guards falling asleep, Jeffrey Epstein found his hill to die on.  Even if he didn’t want to.

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  • We Were Wrong

    Every once in a while we get things wrong in the Journalism Matrix.  When we do that we feel we have to apologize.  We might be the only ones who do this, as certainly no one else comes to mind right now.  But we got two things wrong in our assessment of the shooting of Minnesota State Legislators.  First thing is only one Minnesota Legislator got killed.  The other deceased individual was her husband.  The other Minnesota Legislator was shot and survived as did his wife.  But the big thing we missed was we thought this shooting would bring on a onslaught of the various ideologues blaming the other side because of the mud they all sling.  It didn’t happen.

    Now that might have been because the shooter Vance Luther Boelter wrote a letter in which he confessed to the shootings and said the Minnesota Governor and failed VP candidate Tim Walz told him to do it.  Thus making all other theories null and void.  Or possibly it could be that a whole lot of people realized the guy Vance Luther Boelter, is off his nut.  But either way, we were wrong and we apologize.

    Now this other thing we got wrong goes back aways.  Back past the election when Donald John Trump was facing over 90 felony counts in four different legal proceedings.  We speculated as to what he could do if elected.  We thought he could either govern from a jail cell in Ossining State Penitentiary or maybe he could be President in Exile, and govern from someplace like Dubai.  Well three of the cases just fell apart and even though he got convicted of 34 felony accounts in New York, the Judge said.  “Have a nice day.”  No jail time or even a fine.  Makes you wonder why they bothered with this but then this is a column about us being wrong not about the machinations of the legal system.  That is fodder for another day.  Donald John Trump POTUS 45 & 47 as you can see from the picture above, is governing from the White House, not Ossining State Penitentiary or Dubai.  We were wrong and we apologize.

    Trust us that wasn’t so hard and we feel better.  Sort of like you had a fight with your wife.  You apologized and it’s a whole lot better than sleeping on the couch.  Maybe everyone in this Journalism Matrix, should do the same thing.

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  • Random Thoughts

    What is it with L.A. and fires?  First it was the wild fires of 2024 which they finally put out but now when everything is nice and quiet well…  They start burning cars.  Is it something primal in the nature of the citizenry?  Is it a sacrifice to the Gods?  Will they offer up sheep or goats next?  Or perish the thought, Virgins?

    And the Iranians have pulled out of negotiations with the U.S. over their nuclear program.  The United States has been trying to stop Iran from getting The Bomb, the Atom Bomb.  Negotiations have been going on for decades.  Now some may say Iran pulled out of the negotiations because they are angry with the U.S..  The U.S. backs Israel and Israel just bomb, bomb, bombed Iran.  But we’re kind of guessing that the Iranians can only negotiate their would be Atom Bomb when it was a would be bomb, not a gone baby gone bomb.  It seems the ace they had tucked in their sleeve, just slipped out and blew away.

    One good thing The Diddy has done is; no matter how many guys get caught cheating with interns or other women, no matter how many guys get caught going to a strip club, no matter how many guys get caught with escorts, no matter how many guys get caught doing illegal drugs, it will all seem tame and even nostalgic.  The Diddy has pushed the boundaries of illicit behavior way, way out there.

    And Vance Luther Boelter has been caught.  He shot and killed two Minnesota State politicians and wounded two others.  Both ideological sides will try desperately now, to show how the Assassin was motived by the other side.  This is all the result of what somebody or somebodies have said.  Forgetting as always, that the Assassin is just your usual garden variety Psychopath.  The ideology invoked by the Assassin might sound somewhat rational but it comes from an irrational mind.  Try to remember that as the Talking Heads all weigh in on the subject from left to right and all points on the compass

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  • Wonder

    This just in.  Dan Bongino and Kash Patel, they are the Deputy and the Director of the FBI by the way, have found boxes, that’s right boxes of evidence!  Stuff that has been hidden and when it is released Dan and Kash say, you will be shocked!

    Now we don’t want to pour cold water on you but our first reaction was, who keeps paper files anymore?  That’s what you put in boxes, paper.  It’s the 21st Century.  We don’t have any paper around here and we’re just a single voice in the wind.  It was a little hard at first to give the paper up but once we did, we found a lot of mess went with it and well, we are better organized too.  And we’re not the world’s preeminent law enforcement agency.

    But Dan and Kash are going to release these files and the Epstein files too!  Brace yourselves people, the shock is coming.

    In ancient Tribal societies the people in charge, the inner circle, the Politburo if you will, had secrets.  It turned out that the secrets weren’t much of a big deal, it’s just that the Politburo had them.  The rest of the Tribe, was just left to wonder.

    And as the Diddy trial unfolds, the people who say that the Prosecution has overreached have not relented or changed their minds.  Of course they have to believe that not only Cassie but another 12 or 15 other people are also lying.  Everybody is lying.  While we don’t think that’s possible, it’s not out of the realm of possibility.  Nothing is.  But that crowd thinks Diddy will walk.  Then there is a whole lot of us who think Diddy is going straight to hell.  Well straight to hell after he spends the rest of his life in a 6 by 8 cell.

    But we also realize that Diddy might be able to buy off a few jurors and get a hung jury.  It was uncovered that John Gotti had bribed one juror in one of his acquittals.  Then again he had two other trials that ended in acquittals.  We’re not saying that he bribed jurors in those cases but he obviously was not allergic to the idea.

    Then there is the wisdom of Suge Knight who thinks Diddy is better off in his 6 by 8 because  “Diddy can get all the baby oil he wants in prison.”.  And that “Diddy will be safer in prison than out on the street.”.  Who can argue with that?  Certainly not us.

    But no matter how this trial ends, guilty on all counts, an outright acquittal or a hung jury, a whole lot of people will have been right.  A whole lot of people will have been wrong.  And either way, many of us , will be left to wonder.

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    P.S. That is a picture of Cassie Ventura at the top of the page.  We figured you’d rather look at her than Dan Bongino, Kash Patel or even P. Diddy, Puff Daddy, Puffy Daddy, Brother Love, Love, Sean Combs.

  • Bad Choices and Mistakes

    We’re pretty sure you’ve seen Dateline or 48 Hours, so you know the scene where the killer is convicted and he gives an interview from Prison.  He gets interviewed by someone like Josh Mankiewicz.  They set up all the lights and the microphones.  The Convicted Killer is sitting laid back in his chair.  His arms are just hanging at his sides like he’s all relaxed.  But it’s really because he’s a psychopath and doesn’t really care about anything.  Including the dead victim.

    J.M.  “At sentencing you showed no remorse and still said I’m innocent.  Do you still say that now?”

    C. K. is short for convicted killer.  C.K.  “Yes.  I’m innocent.  They’ve convicted the wrong guy.  This has been a miscarriage of justice.”

    J.M.  “But they found your DNA all over the crime scene.”

    C.K.  “Well she was my girlfriend.  I just about lived there so of course my DNA would be there.”

    J.M.  “But they found your bloody finger prints on the kitchen knife that was the murder weapon.”

    C.K.  “I was set up.”

    J.M.  “But you have a history of violence, two convictions for assault and one was with a deadly weapon.  You did three years for that.”

    C.K.  “I made bad choices.  But I’ve taken responsibility.  I own it.”

    J.M.  “Your girlfriend, the victim here, had an order for protection against you.”

    C.K.  “I made bad choices.”

    J.M.  “You didn’t testify and you don’t have to but if you didn’t do it, wouldn’t you like to have told your side of the story?”

    C.K.  “Yes.  I should have.  That was a mistake.”

    This type of interview came to mind because Jake Tapper pictured above has just written a book about the mental decline of Old Brains Biden.  Jake Tapper is also a Talking Head and one of The Cognoscenti Of The Known World over there at CNN.  If anyone had mentioned that Old Brains was losing it while he was President, Jake Tapper would insist that Old Brains was just fine.  And, Jake Tapper like a good Pit Bull would go on the attack calling Old Brains’ detractors a lot of bad things, including “conspiracy theorists”.

    Then Old Brains was forced out because well a whole lot of people realized he was non compos mentis.  Then Jake Tapper decided to write his book about it.  Forgetting of course, how he had said Old Brains was just fine and he attacked anyone who said otherwise.  Now of course, he’s making the rounds to sell his book.  And he’s got to answer questions about it.

    Interviewer or I.  “You’ve written a book about the mental decline of Joe Biden but while he was in office you said he was fine.  You even attacked people who pointed out his mental decline.  I think you referred to them as “conspiracy theorists.”

    J.T.  “That was a mistake.  I was wrong and they were right.  I’ve even called Lara Trump and apologized to her  I’ve taken responsibility for that.”

    I.  “But don’t you think you should have noticed the mental decline of President Biden?”

    J.T.  “I made mistakes.”

    I.  “But you attacked anyone who dared to say President Biden was losing it.”

    J.T.  “I made bad choices.”

    I.  “But why should anyone believe you?”

    J.T.  “Well everyone makes mistakes.  And I take responsibility for mine.  I own them.  I should have paid more attention.  I should have listened.  I made bad choices.  I should have seen President Biden’s mental decline.  That was a mistake.”

    Now we don’t like comparing Jake Tapper, Talking Head and one of The Cognoscenti Of The Known World, to a convicted killer  but it’s eerie how their answers are just, so similar.

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  • Are They Missing Something?

    While the media is all stimulated to the nth degree over all the allegations coming out of the P. Diddy, Puff Daddy, Puffy Daddy, Brother Love, Love, Sean Combs trial, we have to ask, are they missing something?

    First off the people you see on the various screens and in print media are getting paid to say whatever they are saying.  And it’s not a few shekels either.  Not that anyone is lying but if the Producers of whatever show you are watching tell the people speaking to say this that or the other thing, that’s what they are going to say.  Some of us here would never do that but a some of us would and happily so.  Also if you can play up what is sensational or lurid and get more eyeballs, well a whole lot of people will say whatever is necessary.  This goes not just for the Diddy drama but all things you see.

    So while the Talking Heads, the Know It All’s, and the Cognoscenti of The Known World tell you that Cassie Ventura is the STAR WITNESS and the Defense tries to show that she was a willing participant and Combs is not charged with domestic violence.  Not charged with being a sex freak or even a bad guy.  And for all those reasons, the prosecution is having a hard time proving their case.  Well, they might be missing something.

    The Prosecution has only called five witnesses and they have already established that Combs orchestrated these Freak-Offs on a regular basis.  That he planned these Freak-Offs right down to the smallest itty, bitty detail.  That he procured MDMA, Cocaine, Pink Cocaine and other drugs, all of which are illegal.  It is illegal to procure, possess and distribute illegal drugs.  That he hired prostitutes.  That’s illegal.  That he brought some of these prostitutes across state lines.  That’s illegal.  That he recorded Cassie engaging in sex acts.  The jury saw the recording.  That he threatened to release that recording unless Cassie did what he wanted.  That is blackmail.  That is illegal.  Will his attorneys try to say he didn’t make the recording and didn’t threaten her with it?  Who is going to believe that?  And he also offered to bribe people to cover up these crimes and he did all of this, over and over and over again.  And that he employed a whole bunch of people in order to carry out these illegal acts.  That, is the very definition of a, Racketeering Influence, Corrupt Organization.  And that is what he’s charged with.

    So it doesn’t matter if Cassie Ventura is a willing participant or not.  Unless the Defense can show that there were no drugs, no Prostitutes, no offers of bribes, no recording that the jury already saw, no threat of releasing that recording and give a big no to all the other illegal acts.   Well, we’re sorry to have to report that Mr. Combs is guilty.

    So it’s not like the defense lawyers will just say anything and their sycophants in the media repeat it.  It’s just that they all get paid regardless of the outcome.  They bill by the hour.  They get paid no matter what the jury decides and they are getting paid on this one, big time.

    And, we don’t know what a jury will do and we don’t make predictions.  But it’s only week one of a proposed six weeks of the Prosecution’s case.  We’re sure there will be a whole lot of witnesses who will also establish that P. Diddy, Puff Daddy, Puffy Daddy, Brother Love, Love, Sean Combs orchestrated and ran an organization that committed crimes over and over again.  By the end of all this, it is not going to matter whether you, or the jury believe Cassie was or was not, a willing participant.  It will be did he orchestrate all these crimes?

    In closing as they say in the legal business, we’d just like to point out that Cassie Ventura has the kind of courage, that you can live a long time and never see.

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