Tag: politics

  • Who’d A Thunk It?

    James Comey former Director of the FBI or as we like to call him, J. Edgar Comey, is facing an investigation by Congress and he might even be a subject in a Grand Jury proceeding.  But he’s unbowed and defiant.  He finds solace and strength in…  No, not what you’re thinking, as that was what we were thinking, Jesus.  No, no, he finds strength and solace in Taylor Swift and her music.  We’re not sure but maybe it’s the lyric.  “We are never ever getting back together.”  Or it could be.  “Look what you made me do.”

    We’re sure she’s flattered.  And, we hate to be the ones who tell J. Edgar Comey this but…  You’re no Travis Kelce!  Hell, he’s not even J. Edgar Hoover.  No one ever dared, to investigate, J. Edgar Hoover.

    And Hillary Clinton, HerHillaryness herself, has said that Donald John Trump POTUS 45 & 47 should be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, if he can arrange a peace treaty between Ukraine and Russia.  We’re trying to find out if anyone ever called for Hitler to be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.  Hitler was Time Magazine’s Man of the Year in 1938, so that might not be so far fetched as it may sound.  So far as we know, Hitler was never nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize but someone prominent, like HerHillaryess in that time period, might have called for it.  Why would someone have done that you ask?  Well something like Hitler called off the invasion of England for one.  Then when he withdrew his troops from North Africa.  Now we can’t find where anyone like HerHillaryness mentioned Hitler for the Nobel Peace Prize, but if anyone out there can, please let us know.

    Are you delulu?  Odds are if you are, you don’t know it, as it means delusional.  Now this could be skibidi which means bad or cool or nothing.  All of this we hope makes you insopo, which is inspired to go and do something because of something you saw on the internet, like this article.  What are we talking about?  Well these are all new words entered into the Cambridge Dictionary.  These words come from Tik Tok, other social media and the internet.  And these words, according to the Cambridge Dictionary, are changing our world.

    Now some people are stunned that the Cambridge Dictionary would put such silly words in their tome when no one will even remember them by next spring.  The Cambridge Dictionary is produced by Cambridge University founded in 1209 and it is one of the oldest and most revered Universities in the world.  How could they do such a thing!  Well we think, the whiners and complainers here are just skibidi or maybe even delulu.  They are most definitely not insopo.

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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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  • Who Would You Hire?

    Sydney Sweeney pictured above, has made a commercial for American Eagle Jeans.  We’ve watched it five times.  Hey, we have to do research.  But we can’t seem to find any inferences to the Nazis or the head Nazi, Adolph Hitler.  And since references to Nazis and the head Nazi Adolph Hitler, seem to pop up on almost a daily basis, we thought it was high time for a Hitler quiz.  We mean if you are going to compare A to B, you need to know what B is, otherwise your comparison is what?  So without further ado.

    Question 1.  What High School did Adolph Hitler graduate from?

    A. Vienna High School of the Arts.

    B. Braunau am Inn High School.

    C. Braunau am Inn Reformatory School.

    D. Hitler never graduated from High School.

    Question 2.  Before Hitler was Der Fuhrer what was his occupation?

    A. Hitler was a Dentist who didn’t use Novocaine.  He liked to watch his patients squirm.

    B. Hitler never had an occupation.  He lived in a Shelter.  He was a homeless, day laborer.

    C. Hitler was a Shoe Maker.

    D. Hitler was a Journalist and part of the fake news media of his day.

    Question 3.  Who was Geli Raubal

    A. She was Hitler’s niece.

    B.  She was Hitler’s girlfriend.

    C. She was Hitler’s niece and his girlfriend.

    Question 4.  Hitler’s ability to become Der Fuhrer, design economic policy for Germany, chart foreign policy, design military campaigns and run the entire government of Germany, came from his experience as…

    A. His tenure at Konigliche Preubische Kriegsakademie.  Germany’s West Point.

    B. His experience as a day laborer and homeless guy, who lived in a Shelter.

    C. His military experience.  He was a Corporal in WWI.

    D. Damned if we know.

    Answers.

    1. D.  Hitler was a dropout.

    2. B.  Hitler was a homeless guy who lived in a Shelter.  The only work he got was as a day laborer.

    3.  A. B. and C.  We like to make one question real easy and Geli was Hitler’s niece and his girlfriend, so no matter what you picked, you got it right.

    4. D.  Damned if we know.  We hate to put a big pin in the balloon that has Hitler as the Evil Genius and the face of Evil but based on his resume, before he was the Fuhrer of course, we have to ask you one question.  Would you hire this guy?  Not as Der Fuhrer but like, as anything?  Our own theory is Hitler was a guy who could speak extemporaneously for quite awhile, without notes or index cards.  Just like a lot of would be Hollyweird stars, who wait tables, while hoping for the big break.  Or one of the Housewives of New York, Beverly Hills or wherever you like.  We kind of think of Hitler, as the first Housewife of Munich.  Nothing else, makes any sense.

    But back to Sydney Sweeney.  She’s an Actress with an impressive resume.  She’s been in some big productions like ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’, ‘Euphoria’ and ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’. She’s also a producer.  She’s way more qualified to be hired for a job, any job, than Adolf Hitler.  In short, there’s no comparison here.

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  • Sorry?

    We were feeling sorry for Jerome Powell the Chairman of the Federal Reserve because DJT, POTUS 45 & 47 thinks Powell is a “stupid person” and talking to him “is like talking to a chair.  There’s nothing there.”  And a whole lot of people want Powell to resign.  He is definitely not going to be reinstated when his term is up next spring.  If that wasn’t bad enough, he was last seen shuffling along like an old homeless guy that DJT, POTUS 45 & 47 and Senator Tim Scott had picked up along the way, as they reviewed the new Federal Reserve Building.  A building whose construction has gone way overboard.  A building Chairman Powell will never sit in.  And the building’s construction is so over budget that a criminal referral was sent to the DOJ about it.  Fed Chairman Powell could have some ‘splaining to do. 

    Yeah we were feeling sorry for the old guy till we did a little research and found out he’s worth 55 million dollars!  Do we feel sorry for him now?  Fugettaaboutitt!

    And Ghislaine Maxwell is now talking to Deputy Attorney General of the Department of Justice, Todd Blanche! Why?  Well she’s doing 20 years for sex trafficking underage girls and she wants out of prison.  Most everyone in those places wants the same thing.  So why is this high ranking Deputy Attorney General talking to her?  Well, she can name, names.  She knows who she sent the little girls to go see.  This is something that Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, Pam Bondi and the rest of the FBI and DOJ haven’t got a clue about.  She was always happy to tell the DOJ, it’s just that no one ever asked before.

    Do we feel sorry for Ghislaine Maxwell?  Not hardly.

    And poor Dan Bongino.  In the course of his investigations he has uncovered such a shocking truth that it has “shocked him down to his core” and “he will never be the same.”  Most of the country believes that the government played some role in the assassination of President Kennedy, so it has to be bigger than that.  We have our money on LBJ by the way.  And since Dan Bongino is the Deputy Director of the FBI now, he probably knows who was shooting from the Grassy Knoll.  So what could these scandals ever be?

    BTW we all thought Bongino was a tough guy.  Tough guys can handle anything.  They don’t get shaken to their core.  We’re not sure what is going to be more shocking to us, getting the details on these scandals or us realizing that Dan Bongino, is a wuss.

    Do we feel sorry for Dan Bongino?  Well, maybe a little.

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  • Nobody

    CBS has cancelled the Colbert Show!  There are all kinds of conspiracy theories surrounding this and there is much gnashing of teeth in certain quarters.  But CBS says The Colbert Show is losing 40 million dollars a year!  OMG!  And that is why they are cancelling the show.  

    And people in certain quarters, who are gnashing their teeth, are bemoaning this cancellation as it just might be a harbinger of things to come for the other late night talk shows.  The old slippery slop thing.  With good reason too, as Colbert ironically, is the highest rated of the broadcast, late night, talk shows.  So you can imagine how much the other shows are losing.  Imagine that!  Corporations not wanting to lose 40 million a year?  “Oh, the humanity!”*

    We have a sneaky suspicion that the names of the Late Night TV show hosts will be a category on Jeopardy a decade from now and none of the contestants will get anything in that category right.  Nobody will remember or care.

    And they are picking on Harry and Meghan again.  No, not ‘South Park’.  Now it’s ‘Family Guy’, another animated series.  Why?  Meghan and Harry are not doing anything.  And, we sort of get the Royal Family back in Great Britain.  They represent the country, the culture.  They serve a purpose.  But Meghan and Harry?  What do they do?  They are sort of like the lilies of the field.  “They toil not, neither do they spin”**.  Well maybe not quite the lilies of the field but you get the picture.  They’re not doing much.

    Seth MacFarlane is the guy who runs ‘Family Guy’ and we sort of get it, as Harry and Meghan were almost somebody, but now?

    And Hunter Biden went on a F bomb fueled rant on X, where he bemoaned the illegal immigrants being deported to El Salvador.  He says if he’s elected President, he’ll demand they are all are brought back.  We didn’t know he was running.  Maybe that should have been the headline instead of all the F bombs.  But if El Salvador refuses to send back the illegal immigrants, he’ll invade El Salvador to get them back.  That’s when he’s President of course.

    But maybe what he’s really upset about is no one buys his paintings anymore.  And with his father’s pardon in hand, no one even investigates him anymore.  No one even talks about his Laptop anymore.  He’s a nobody.

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    *That is a quote from Herbert Morrison reporting the Hindenburg disaster.

    ** Matthew 6:27

  • 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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  • The Job

    Elon The Richest Man In The World and Donald Trump POTUS are feuding!  OMG!  It could even be double OMG or as readers of this column know it as OMG!! which is the absolute end of it all.  But that’s only if it is real.  Right now it seems too much like the WWE.  Maybe it will end with Trump hitting Elon over the head with a folding chair.  Maybe it will end with Elon writing a book ‘My Struggle’ detailing how he was humiliated and denigrated during his tenure at the White House.  How Trump is a meanie and how Elon endured the “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune”.  Then again, there has been a whole lot of those books and it might not sell at all.  Better to go with the folding chair over the head.  If they do it right, Elon won’t feel a thing.  If they do it wrong, it will only hurt Elon’s head.  His ego will be intact.

    BTW this all begins when Elon loses his job as the head of D.O.G.E..

    Then there is Karen Jean-Pierre she was Old Brains Biden’s Press Secretary.  She’s writing a book about how she is no longer a democrat but an Independent.  That’s the name of her new book, ‘Independent’.  And ‘Independent’ will tear the cover off the Old Brains Biden Administration, supposedly.  Some have speculated that there is no way she could have written a 300 page book between election night 2024 and now.  There isn’t enough time.  That presupposes that she wrote it.  We mean there are a whole lot of books out there with authors names on them that were written by someone else.  So maybe someone else started writing it as a plan B.  Plan A was Old Brains or Harris wins and she still has a job.

     And many of you may be wondering why a 41 year old Aaron Rogers signed with the Pittsburgh Steelers, for one more season.  We mean he’s a multi-millionaire and a shoo in for the Hall of Fame once he retires.  His last two seasons due to age and injury were nothing to write home about.  So why?  Why risk a season of mediocrity after so much excellence?  Why risk painful injury more prevalent with age?  Why?  

    Well, he’s an NFL  Quarterback and now he has a job.  And as we know now, it’s the job.  It is always the job.

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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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