Q-and-A

 1.  This photo floating around with Senator Fetterman and his wife (taken in the past two days)....is it fake?

What you see is a Fetterman who has lost weight (I'd suggest 20 pounds), smiling (first ever picture I've seen him grin) and he almost seems normal.  Some people suggest it's fake.

I think what they did at this clinic or the past six-odd weeks....was get him off all the various drugs he was taking....having a daily dose of exercise....control his diet....and this is the real Fetterman.  

Can he stay this way?  I'd question that.  People who have strokes usually don't go back to a 40-hour work-week.  

So it's not fake....as much as you'd like to believe that.

2.  Remaining banks all fine....after those three failures?

Well....banks are borrowing money at hefty levels to suggest to you that they are fine.  I'd say they are simply pushing the limit, and hope to survive this era.  Whatever issues they have....will just slightly disappear and wait until the next crisis period.

3.  Who is the best fact-checker?

You.

4.  Ukraine-Russia going into a odd stage?

Russians in the Crimea area (far south) are packing up and leaving. Some belief that a spring offensive will occur, and that the Crimea might be taken by Ukraine.

5. Did the prosecutor in NY City actually 'help' Trump by these actions to push charges?

Well....Trump went out and asked for campaign funds, and got a good bit.  Same thing will help with the fed prosecutor pushing secret document charges, and with the Atlanta folks working on their charges for Trump.  I don't think they've grasped this angle of them helping Trump.

6.  FAA guy that Biden nominated for chief's job....dropping out?

Yeah, during the Senate hearings....over and over, he showed limited knowledge of the FAA, travel requirements and the airline business.  If anything, I suspect the Senators were surprised just unqualified the guy was.  So he's out and Biden will have push another candidate (hopefully a female, or minority).

7.  Is $100,000 not of the value of $100,000?

Someone did a cost survey for NY City.  If you make $100,000.....it merely feels like $36,000.  So if you were making $50,000 in the city...it'd feel like $18,000.  

My advice....if you lived in NYC, this merely adds another reason to pack up and leave. 

8.  Lot more people with 'bad' teeth?

I'll just say over the past five years of watching TV news chatter with protest activists (up close and with my big screen TV).....one out of every three has awful bad teeth.  I almost wish the TV folks could create a filter to fake-up the teeth issue.  It's like they are anti-toothpaste as well as activist.

9.  People having an on-going mid-life crisis?

I have this theory that since Covid....people are creating wave after wave of mid-life crisis eras, with each peaking and within a couple of months....restarting again.  

No idea why....but it's just odd to observe this behavior from mature adults.

10.  Just seems like a lot of Twitter feed now includes black women fighting other black women?

I don't know what Elon did to the Twitter magic 'formula', but I probably get forty-odd fight sequences now via Twitter.

So of these even black women whooping up on their BF or husband.

11.  Is it simple to define Misinformation and Disinformation?

Yes.

When someone is giving 'facts', and things don't make sense (bogus or incorrect).....thats plain old Misinformation.  Once you tell them this is bogus or fake, and they continue without correcting themselves....that's Disinformation.  

Anyone....even a 11-year old kid....can produce Misinformation.  On a daily basis....you probably get a minimum of 20 bits of Misinformation.  Just watching some local news at 6 AM....you probably get two or three bits of Misinformation.  

12.  Time to review the Salem witchcraft trials?

Mass hysteria has taken over and a lot of people seem to believe in things without any facts or reality.  

Some Advice

 

There should be a book with about 500 pages that is issued out to 15-year old kids, with 1,000 things to consider in life.

This should be on page 8 (my humble belief).

A lot of things 'matter'....but the truth is....if you CAN'T control or maintain those things, then the bulk of things don't really matter.

The 80-percent group that you can't control?  They should be lesser prioritized and probably considered not that important.  

My Gut Feeling Over the Pentagon UFO Chatter And Where It Leads To?

 It's a simple theory of mine.

I think a number of Navy and Air Force pilots have seen 'X' occur, and have come to the conclusion that 'X' can't be them, or the Russians....so they can only be a UFO situation or a private commercial program.

So opens this discussion door that people have expressed for years...that in the early 1970s....most all of these 'hidden' programs were removed from the US government, and handed to a commercial organization to manage, with some cash moving from the gov't to the Pentagon....onto a commercial group for 'research'.

Without a lot of hype or finger-pointing....the military guys are dragging this discussion back to a central theme....it's not them with the craft....so who is it?

Standing behind a curtain....some commercial company is now wondering...just how long can you hide this 'act', and will someone eventually figure out this whole game.

The alien guys?  I think they are amused how their 'brand' or label has figured into this, and how a fake US program has consumed billions (each year), with nothing to really show.  

My Theory On The Trump Legal Cases 'Hype'

 In 2016, there were a total of 136.7-million people who voted in the United States election of Clinton/Trump.

In 2020, there were a total of 158.4-million people who voted in the United States election of Biden/Trump.

For reference in 2012, Obama/Romney had a total of 129-million.

So from 2012 to 2016, we added a total of 7.7-million.....from 2016 to 2020, we added roughly 22-million.

In my theory....for 2024....I don't believe the 2020 numbers can be sustained.  In fact, it'd would not shock me if we reverted back to around 2016's number of 136-to-138 million.

I don't think Joe Biden or any of the suggested candidates (AOC, Newsom, etc) can generate the hype to get 81-million votes.  

So a reset is needed....a cooling-off election where Trump is not in the landscape....either by x-charge or y-conviction.  Whatever formula comes to exist...Trump has to be excluded for a reset to occur.  

Am I saying anything was faked-up for 2020?  No....what I'm saying is that you can't reproduce the results again...even if you ran President Biden as the candidate.

If there are 20-odd-million votes missing in 2024....how exactly do you think the CNN or Fox analyst can explain this?  People just walked off or disappeared?  The homeless vote that came and went?  Russian involvement in creating votes out of thin air?  

Just a theory that I have.  

The Low IQ Discussion

 In my Air Force years, about every six months, I'd come across someone with exceptionally low IQ.  

They were competent enough to perform normal regular tasks.  If you came to them with a fresh new problem out of thin air?  Well....that usually became a major problem, and any resolution was long and drawn out.

I won't say they were unproductive or a major problem.  It's just that they wanted things to stay 'status-quo'....meaning if things just worked....don't screw it up by changing things.  

For a number of years, I didn't see a problem with these people or status-quo.  

At some point, this group 'morphed' into a weird state of mind....they were anti-status-quo and wanted to bring 'change'.  In most cases, they never considered consequences or assigned a 'cost-factor' to the crapped-up changes they were bringing. 

It hit me one day (1990s)...that they were no longer enlisted people....they were captains, majors, and even generals.  They were people with degrees in some cases.

My guess is....in the 1970s and 1980s....education was weakened enough...that folks with low IQs got into colleges, and were marginally accomplishing a degree.

The problem I now see developing....as long as these people were in the landscape and not in positions of authority....I didn't see a problem with them.  With them in leadership roles?  It starts to worry me a bit.  

Note: If you've never seen the movie 'Idiocracy', you might want to take some time and review it.  Excellent reference material.

The Two Problems With This NY City Trump Grand Jury Business

1.  The bulk of residents in the city are what I'd call 'working-class', and they know that probably over 3,000 incidents a year occur where some Wall Street guy, or some city hall manager, or some Broadway prominent person....pays off some guy or gal for a sexual affair.  

These same jury members are sitting and thinking....no one ever seems to get charged-up, so why does this come up now?  

They aren't stupid....they just see this as BOLD print on the daily newspaper, and ask themselves....will any of the 3,000 incidents ever get picked-up by the federal prosecutor?  

2.  Then we come to the problem of present day crime in NY City, and how no one seems to have a desire to prosecute on assaults or robbery.  This jury could view prosecution now as a joke.

I'm not giving Trump a pass, but when you view the past twenty years of fake news and public skepticism....a Grand Jury review might not have the strength it did....from the 1970s.   

My Two Cents On Micheal Cohen (Trump's 'Advisor')

 Trump has one unusual habit....which he shows over and over.  Fifty percent of the management people he hires....are totally and absolutely incompetent.  We aren't talking about low-level 'normal' incompetent....we are talking 'General George McClellen-incompetent'.  

The more you look at Cohen, I think Trump intentionally brought Cohen on....to fill the role of poor-performer....waiting for something like the Stormy business to occur, and he'd fill one simple role. 

If this NYC case moves forward and Cohen is called to testify?  I expect him to be up there for two days and fall apart on various pieces and parts of his testimony.  The conviction potential?  It totally relies upon a guy who hasn't really shown a lot of brilliant decision-making.