The Real Reason Is...

A man self immolated himself right outside the courthouse where Donald John Trump former President of The Unites States was about to go on trial.  The Mass Hysteria complete with the Talking Heads and The Cognoscenti Of The Known World will try to tell you that it's either Trump's fault or Biden's.  This they can do with ease, as the guy had a sign that blamed both of them.  It read 

'TRUMP IS WITH BIDEN AND THEY'RE ABOUT TO FACIST COUP US'

He also left a manifesto complaining of a worldwide fascist plot to take over the world.  But we know the real reason.  The rent is too damn high.  Housing Court is right around the corner from the Trump trial.  Maybe we need a sign too.

'THE RENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH'

Have you checked the rental listings in Manhattan lately?  Besides all good Fascists Coup Conspiracy Theorists know, the Coup begins with the rent being too damn high.

And speaking of Coups, Woody Allen if you remember him, has made a movie called Coup de Chance which means stroke of luck in French.  The movie is in French and we wonder how Woody did that since he grew up in Brooklyn.  Woody if you remember was the darling of Hollyweird way back when.  His movies won Academy awards and he was considered a cinematic genius.  But that all went down the tubes, when he decided to have an affair and then marry the adopted daughter of his long time girlfriend, Mia Farrow.  Her name in case you forgot is Soon Yi.  He wasn't just old enough to be Soon Yi's father but her grandfather too.

This was followed by accusations, never proven that Woody had sex with another of Mia's adopted daughters, way before she reached the age of consent.  Woody kept making movies but his audience kept shrinking, till no one pays much attention to his movies anymore.  It's been a slow death.  Now this  long term demise could be due to his amorous misadventures or he could just be getting old and losing his touch.  The guy is closing in on 90.  Then again, it could be because he's lived most of his adult life in Manhattan, where as you now know, the rent is too damn high!

And while this is not a Coup, it might as well be.  The House and now the Senate will vote to force the owner of Tik Tok to divest or sell.  Why?  Well it seems that there are all kinds of fake news and hateful stuff on Tik Tok.  How the Congress differentiates between what happens on Tik Tok, from the rest of what goes on in The Fog, we're not sure.  But that's the rationale or so they say.  And we're pretty sure they'll keep saying that.  But we're pretty sure that the clock began ticking for Tik Tok's eventual demise back  on February 16, 2023.  That pun was not intended.  But 2/16/23 was the day Tik Tok moved it's offices into the H&M building on 151 West 42nd Street, New York, N.Y..

Do we have to spell it out for you?  Okay, okay.  That's midtown Manhattan and...

THE RENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH!

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O.J And Sammy The Bull

O.J. passed away and we got another glimpse of the whole Brouhaha all over again, complete with replays of the slow car chase that seemed to take forever and was the single most watched event in the history of T.V..  Every channel decided to put it on the air, so if your T.V. was on, it was the only thing you could see.  You may have wondered why none of the many black and white L.A. patrol cars trailing behind the infamous white Bronco, didn't just pull him over?  Well they were all on T.V.  Why spoil a good thing?

And news of his death brought about much gnashing of teeth once again, as people recalled the year long trial with the parade of witnesses and the not guilty verdict.  

All of which brings us to Sammy The Bull Gravano.  O.J. if he did it, yes we're co-opting the title of the book that he was going to write in an attempt to cash in on the whole Brouhaha, so if we get any money out of this article above our expenses, will share it with his kids.  No wait, guess we'd have to share it with the Brown/Goldman crew, who managed to win a civil case for wrongful death against him but not collect too much money.  But if O.J. did it, he would have killed 2 people.  Sammy The Bull Gravano killed 19 people.  There never seems to ever, be, too much gnashing of teeth over that and no wrongful death suits brought against him either.  Guess the families of his victims knew it wasn't such a hot idea to try and get any money out of him.  And, one of those families was his own, as one of the guys he whacked, was his brother-in-law.  And, while O.J. has been the subject of much scorn and ignominy, Sammy The Bull, has his own Podcast.  It's called "Our Thing".  Sammy is cashing in.  And while O.J. was looking at Life in Prison if convicted, Sammy got a complete walk.

While the O.J. trial dragged on for a year, Sammy didn't even go to trial.  While O.J. and a lot of his supporters claimed he was innocent, Sammy said no such thing and was never, even, tried.  He admitted it all in a plea deal because the Feds wanted his Boss John Gotti so bad, they let him walk.

So you maybe wondering what is the difference?  Okay, okay 17.  That's for all you wise guys out there.  But we think it's the dead, blond model, Nicole Brown Simpson, pictured above.  And, if you want make someone dead in America, well take your shot, just don't make the blond model, dead.

We're pretty sure if  O.J.'s first wife had been found stabbed to death, a middle aged black woman at the time, the media, the L.A. Police and the L.A. Prosecutors would not have given two bleeps.  Even if O.J. did it.  Oops there we used his title again.  We'll definitely send something, if we get something.  And the Brown/Goldman crew might get more out of us, than they did out of O.J..  But if O.J.'s first wife had been murdered, there might not have been an arrest or even a trial but if there had been, complete with a guilty verdict, you wouldn't have heard, nor seen, much of it.

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Earthquakes

For those of you wondering about the earthquake in New York City, we didn't feel a thing.  We're not saying that it's fake news just that we didn't feel a thing and can't find too many people who did.  If you watch the WWTMSM aka as What Was The Main Stream Media, you saw New Yorkers who were interviewed on the street saying things like.  "I thought it was the guys working on the building across the way."  Or "I thought the elevator stalled for a few seconds."  These things were said after the people on the street were told there had been an earthquake.  We're not saying that their first impressions were correct, just that we didn't feel a thing.,

Now there was a guy in Jersey with a camera that was pointed at the New York City Skyline and you could see it all shaking.  That was supposed to be the camera shaking, we think, not the NYC Skyline.  And we're not saying someone would just shake a camera but up in the Bronx one of the Yankees was taking batting practice at the same moment and he didn't miss a swing.

And talk about earthquakes, some think there is a major one brewing out of L.A. Florida and New York as there are supposedly videos of big time Rap artists, Singers, Actors, Celebrities, Politicians and some say even Preachers caught in flagrante delicto by the secret cameras of one P. Diddy.  Of course there are always rumors of these things, black books, client lists, secret videos of famous people having illicit sex and once everyone sees this, it will bring about the shocks of magnitude and aftershocks too.  

But then these things never seem to find the light of day.  Unless you're still waiting to see Jeffrey Epstein's client list  But even if they do and there really are Rap artists, Singers, Actors, Celebrities, Politicians and even Preachers caught in the act.  They will all just fade away into the recesses of The Fog, along with Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, R. Kelly, Matt Lauer, Charlie Rose...et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Now wait, there might be someone in this latest imbroglio that you actually like.  If the story breaks on a Monday, you'll feel bad on Monday.  But then you have a job, a family, friends, other things to do and by Tuesday you'll be busy with the real things, in your real life.  Okay, okay maybe it's somebody who's albums and or movies you really liked.  You might feel bad on Tuesday too.  But by Wednesday, you won't feel a thing.

It's not like we'll be losing Cardio Vascular Surgeons or Doctors, Dentists, Therapists of all kinds, Nurses, Medical Assistants, Teachers, Firefighters, EMS, Police Officers or the many other people, who do things of real value.  You know, people we really need.

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Wondering???

As the accusations accumulate about P. Diddy, Puff Daddy, Diddy, Brother Love. Love, oh these are all the same guy whose real name is Sean Combs, we started to wonder if this case might get bigger than O.J..   We mean you have all these charges and all these characters and then we realized that the only thing missing, is a dead, blond model.  If you remember Nicole Brown Simpson.  That would get the Mass Hysteria into hyper hysteria and then P. Diddy, Diddy, Puff Daddy, Brother Love, Love, Sean Combs, would be bigger than O.J.

And with all the travails that Fani Willis, Fulton County,  Attorney General is facing, we're wondering if she's going to wind up like other Attorneys who went after Donald John Trump, former President of the United States.  Attorneys like Michael Cohen and Michael Avenetti both of whom wound up in prison.  Maybe there's a Curse here.  Sort of like the Curse of King Tut that said whoever opened his tomb would die and the guys who opened it, did.  Or the Curse of the Billy Goat that kept the Chicago Cubs from winning a World Series for 108 years.  Fani is being investigated by the Georgia State Legislature and the Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives.  Maybe there's a Curse of Donald John Trump, former President of the United States, where you go from being a member of the BAR to being behind a bunch of them.

As we flipped through our cable tv channels we've noticed this oddity.  There are these reruns of old tv shows that are on all the time and on multiple channels too.  Shows like 'Two And A Half Men'.  It's got to be on three or four different channels all day, everyday.  Then there's 'Last Man Standing', that's on three or four channels all day, everyday.  There's got to be a dozen of these shows, maybe more.  We just have to wonder who is watching these things?  I mean the shows have all been cancelled years or even decades ago.  Their casts have all drifted away or gone on to bigger and better things.  In some of the older ones like 'The Andy Griffith Show' almost everyone in the cast has gone on to that great TV channel in the sky but the shows keep running.  Okay, okay some of these shows were on for over 20 years so there's a lot of episodes but sooner or later, each episode had to have been shown at least 50 or maybe even a 100 times and yet...   They keep showing them!  Who's watching?  If anyone knows, leave the answer in the comments section.  Puhleezee!

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Rearing Its Ugly Head

If you watch the clips on Youtube, Rumble, TikTok or some other platform with videos you will see a blurb under some of them that says 'So and So destroyed'.  Or it might even say 'So and So' annihilated.  If you then watch the clip, you will see two people sort of debating.  If you want to call it that and one of them might get a good quip in.  The other might in turn, have a lame answer or no answer at all.  But after the clip finishes, you might have noticed that the 'So and So' who was destroyed is still there and in one piece too.  You might also notice them showing up in another clip where their new opponent might be getting destroyed or annihilated or they might be getting destroyed or annihilated all over again.  But then as that clip comes to an end, everyone is still in one piece.

Now just for the record.  Destroyed: 1) to ruin the structure, organic existence or condition of.  2) to ruin as if tearing to shreds.  Annihilated: 1) to cause to cease to exist : to do away with entirely so that nothing remains.

Yet as we previously noted these destroyed and annihilated people are still there and in one piece too.  And sometimes these are people we don't like too much.  Talk about being disappointed.

And Puff Daddy, P. Diddy whose real name is Sean Combs who we all thought was some genius music mogul, rapper artist and big time entrepreneur, is just a run of the mill, garden variety Sadist.  If we are to believe just a modicum of the allegations that have been leveled against him.  Maybe like his illustrious predecessor the Marquis De Sade, Puffy Daddy will do his best work in prison.  So maybe not all is lost.  But we, like a whole lot of people, really thought he was somebody.  Talk about disappointment.

And the Major League Baseball season opened.  By the end of the season only two teams will win a League Championship and only one will win the World Series.  So most fans will wind up gnashing their teeth.  As they say, Baseball will break your heart.  It is part of its endearing charm.  But right now every fan can dream.  Their team wins it all.  The final out clutched firmly in one of their heroes glove.  The players dousing each other with Champagne and the victory parade down the main through fare of their City.  Everyone can just about see it, taste it, touch it.  Let's leave it like that.  We want to end this article on a positive note.

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The...

For a while now we have been trying to come up with a term that encompasses all the various things we  tune into everyday to find out what's going on in the world; the internet, cable and broadcast T.V. podcasts, streaming, social media and what was the mainstream media or WWTMM as were going to call it from now on.  We think it needs an anacronym, as it's old, archaic even and if you're under 70, you may never have seen much of it.  From time to time, we've been referring to all these platforms as the Mass Hysteria, the Talking Heads and The Cognoscenti of the Known World.  All of those terms we still like, as they are apropos about certain aspects but none of those terms seemed to encompass it all.  We were thinking Infosphere but that wasn't quite descriptive enough and many times it's not even  information.  Then we realized that we sort of stumbled on this term a few weeks back, when talking about how the WWTMM covered the war in Gaza, wars in general and that was it... The Fog.

We really like this term because it can also cover Reality Shows not so Reality Shows, The WWE, Podcasts, Blogs, Social Media Platforms, Social Media Influencers and Politics.  Maybe you can tell the difference between these entities, sometimes we can too but  sometimes, we can't.

Webster's Dictionary describes The Fog as. 1. vapor condensed to fine particles of water suspended in the lower atmosphere that differs from cloud only in being near the ground. 2. a state of confusion or bewilderment.

Now we're not looking down our noses at the various entities in The Fog, as we are firmly in The Fog.  We are a Blog.  And we're not trying to say that The Fog makes everything murky and indefinable.  When you get close to an object in The Fog it is very clear, even crystal clear.  Like some movie star who has a series of hit movies and he's on every platform.  He's front and center everywhere.  But then he descends into a haze of drugs, divorce, sex scandals and fades back into the mist, never to be seen or heard from again.  Think Johnny Depp here.

Or faces come out of The Fog, many of them all at once, to scream and pontificate about something and then...  Well it all just fades back into the mist, like the war in Ukraine, the Federal Deficit or all the people running for President in a given election year.  Has anyone heard from or remember Jeb Bush?

We'd like to ask what is it all about?  Does any of it have real merit?  And we strive to Tell It Like It Is for the Public Good but then...  Like we said we're in The Fog too.  We're part of it.  Trust no one.

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Alternatives

Maybe it is time for some alternatives.  Instead of the current prospective Presidential nominees of both the democrat and republican parties, how about Martha Stewart?  She's over 80.  She's had a successful TV show.  She's a successful business woman.  And, she can still read from the teleprompter.  And she, unlike the other two, has not just been accused, or impeached or just indicted.  She's been convicted.  She's done time.  She's the real deal.  This works for either party too.

And for the independents we think it should be Tucker Carlson, late of Fox News fame, now in charge of his own podcast and someone who has been proffered as Bad, Bad Orange Man's running mate.  We say why not go for the number one spot big guy?  Again, another guy who has made a lot of money as the Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Caller and obviously another guy with his own TV show.  Now some may say he has no relative experience but we say that quaint idea, like Elvis, left the building a long time ago.  RFK Jr. is the current leading Independent candidate with enough money in his campaign coffers to run an ad during the Super Bowl.  In case you're wondering the cost of an ad during the Super Bowl was 7 million for 30 seconds.  And, this guy RFK Jr. has never, even, had a job.

And speaking of the Super Bowl it was pretty good if you didn't get too sick of watching Taylor Swift jump up and down every time the Chiefs did something.  Some of the commercials were even funny again.  And, the Zebras didn't seem to drop flags to help one team or the other.  The game even dramatically, ended in a tie and went into overtime.

And one thing we've noticed about overtime games.  The players are so exhausted, that it seems as if whoever gets the ball last, scores and wins.  The other team is too worn out to put up much of a defense.  It might be a good idea for some future team, to not let their players jump up and down like they're King Kong every time they make a tackle.  Hey they could even try to take things in stride after an interception, a fumble recovery or even a touch down.  That way, if the game goes into overtime, they might have a little gas left in their tanks and be able to stop the other team while they are on defense.  This is just an alternate idea, which may only be played out in an alternate universe, not this one.

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