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.