Stupidity Watch 1

     Does your government lie to you? Of course it does. It is silly to think anything else. As an American I actually think more like a Russian in the sense that Russians don't think that they have any rights to know anything about what their government is doing. I feel the same. Our government has to deal with things all over the planet including many bad players, and I don't think that I have the right to know about it. Apparently most Americans think differently than me, and feel somehow that their government is telling them the truth, and should tell them the truth, and should tell them everything.      In most cases I don't even want to know what our government is doing, but when it comes to the Ukraine it's a little bit different. Our government has been lying to us for over a year, telling us that Putin is crazy, that Putin is losing the war in the Ukraine, and that the casualties are so high that it is leading to dissent among the Russian pe...

     CPAC the conservative political action committee, which used to be the premier Republican meeting place, became a Trump-only zone for 2023. Most Republican governors skipped coming, and in previous years there would have been multiple candidates running for president, but this time there was only Trump and Trump loyalists. Nikki Haley showed up and spoke, but was greeted in the hall by chants of, "Trump, Trump, Trump!" Mike Pompeo also spoke, but to a tepid response, and Trump's only serious competition for the 2024 Republican nomination Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was nowhere to be seen.      In my previous blog post The MAGA Republican Party I pointed out that Trump had completely taken over the Republican Party by using the primary system to remove Republicans that opposed his agenda, and that the House of Representatives this year is the first MAGA Republican-controlled House of Representatives. On Saturday March 4th 2023 at CPAC Donald Trump to...