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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Real Deal Or Steal?

We've all seen the headline on the Youtube clip, so and so destroyed, so and so blown up.  It's where one Newscaster, Talking Head  or Cognoscenti Of The Known World is arguing with another and one of them might have made a good quip.  The other one looks bad.   Nothing more than that.  The destroyed or blown up Newscaster, Talking Head or Cognoscenti Of The Known World is all in one piece, still talking and more importantly, is still getting paid.  The headline is just hyperbole.  

Well the other day in Tehran a woman Newscaster was broadcasting the usual stuff.  Death to Israel and America, when the studio she was in got blown up.  It got destroyed.  Israel dropped a bomb on it.  It was the real thing.  The Newscaster managed to walk away as the place began to fall apart around her, but we're pretty sure the bomb got the payroll department.  Even if it didn't, there's nothing to broadcast from so no pay for the Newscaster.  Now she still might be yakking away but it doesn't much matter, as no one can hear her.  Every once in a while, it's the real deal.

When Great Britain stood alone against Nazi Germany back in 1940, Winston Churchill made a very famous speech in which he declared that Great Britain, would "never surrender".  But we've also noticed over the years that most everyone else who announces they will "never surrender" kind of does so a few weeks or even a few days later.  This comes to mind as the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Capo di tutti capi of Iran announced that he would never surrender.

Now we don't know of a place that we could get a bet down on this but if anyone knows, please in turn let us know.  Because as the bombs both Israeli and the U.S of A are making big holes in the ground out of what used to be the Iranian nuclear program, we're thinking that this Ayatollah Khamenei ain't no Winston Churchill.  We think this bet is so good, it's a steal.

From the beginning of The Diddy Trial there has been a chorus of legal zealots who on a daily basis proclaim that the "Prosecution has over reached!  It's not R.I.C.O!  That all the women were happy to be with him and in the Freak-offs!  It was all consensual!"  

One of the last witnesses was Brendan Paul who has been advertised as "The Diddy's Drug Mule" but when he gets on the stand he says he's not really a drug mule.  He did a lot of different things for The Diddy while he was employed by him for 18 months.  He only transported cocaine for The Diddy like 5 or 10 times.

Upon hearing this the Legal Zealots went crazy.  "The guy's not a drug mule!  He only did it 5 or 10 times at most!  Brenden Paul sounded like a defense witness!"   Of course transporting cocaine is a felony.  Even if you only do it once.  The way we look at it is the same as committing any felony like Burglary, Fraud or Rape.  It's probably better to only do it 10 times rather than 20 or more but 10 or even 5, is still a lot of felonies.  Then again maybe we're wrong.  Maybe in the illicit Drug business 5 or 10 times isn't significant.  What do you think?  Was this a Steal for the Defense or The Real Deal for the Prosecution?

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BTW That's a picture of Cassie Ventura, her husband and their two kids at the top of the column.  We could have gone with an image of the Iranian Newscaster but it was too creepy.  We could have gone with Ayatollah Khamenei but who wants to look at that old fossil, if you don't have to.  We think this picture of Cassie and family is uplifting, as it shows you can pretty much survive anything.  And we like to be uplifting whenever possible.

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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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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