Stupidity Watch 1

First Alberta, then Saskatchewan, British Columbia, and Manitoba are all talking about joining the United States as a block, if they join they would each get 2 senators and some representatives. The total number of House representatives would be kept at 435 and everything would be redistricted in the United States with large states like California and New York losing House seats. Saskatchewan will likely get 2 representatives, Alberta 8 representatives, British Columbia 12 representatives, and Manitoba 2 representatives. Only Edmonton in Alberta and half of British Columbia are liberal, with all the rest being conservative, so I expect 2 representatives from Alberta and 6 representatives from BC to be liberal along with 1 Senator from BC, with the other 16 Representatives and 7 Senators being conservative, a net gain of 8 in the House and 6 in the Senate for conservatives that will caucus with the Republicans. The current balance of power in the Senate is 53 Republicans, 45 Democrats a...

     What are clawbacks? And why is Trump using them everywhere? Trump clawed back 80 million allocated by FEMA to go to the City of New York after he had issued an Executive Order stopping all payments to house Illegal Aliens. Trump and DOGE said that the 80 million should have been used for hurricane relief for Americans instead of being sent to luxury hotels to house Illegal immigrants. New York sued because the comptroller woke up and saw 80 million missing from their bank accounts, because the money had been clawed back. Clawbacks are built into most government contracts and private business contracts as a clause that says that if anyone breaks the law, or if profits drop, or if the employee fails to perform, or if the subcontractor fails to keep accurate accounting records the money can be clawed back, and 80 million can disappear as quickly as overnight like it did in New York.      In addition to clawing back that money, Trump has clawed b...

     So I'm going to have to write about the suspected shooter of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, Luigi Mangione, who by all estimates was always the smartest person in the room. he graduated as the valedictorian of his Prep School and finished a bachelor's simultaneous to a master's in computer engineering at Penn State. If his manifesto turns out to be really his, then the extremely short note says that he had to step up and do something because the denial rates in healthcare had been exposed for decades and nothing had changed.      And then there is the connection to Mangione’s review of Ted Kaczynski’s book critiquing capitalism, where again, Ted Kaczynski, more commonly known as the Unabomber was also the smartest person in the room, he was accepted into Harvard at the age of 16, became a mathematics professor and an author, but also terrorized universities and airlines from 1978 through 1995, killing 3 people in the process and injuri...

     As soon as Donald Trump won the 2016 election for President it was calculated that he had received around $5 billion dollars worth of free advertising from the Democrat Party mainstream media constantly saying his name. In sales there is the concept that there is no such thing as bad press, or there's no such thing as bad advertising. In fact Hillary Clinton chose the phrase "Love trumps hate," as her main campaign slogan in 2016, giving Trump even more free advertising than he would have had if anyone on the Democratic side had been a little smarter.      The only reason Joe Biden won in 2020 is because they allowed almost everyone in the United States to vote from home during the pandemic. Never before in America did over 155 million people walk into the polls or request mail from home ballots. Before 2020 the most any presidential candidate had ever received was in 2012 with Obama who received slightly under 70 million votes out of over 129 mill...