Day: August 15, 2025

All Those Conspiracy Theories

It is a Friday and this is a fun post  for my last one of the day….

The US is full of conspiracy theories and this article shows which ones are the most popularly searched on the internet by state.

My state the most popular is “New Coke’….

Mississippi

Most Searched Conspiracy Theory: New Coke

Other Searched/More Local Conspiracy Theories: Organ trafficking starting in Tupelo and COVID-19 vaccine theories

Check out your state and see who is looking for the next bit of bullshit to pass on…..

https://247tempo.com/this-is-the-most-googled-conspiracy-theory-in-every-u-s-state/

Conspiracy theories are a lot of fun to think about and research. You’d be surprised at the strangest ones that exist and are most believed. While most know about the Illuminati, have you heard of the one about the Denver International Airport (DIA)? Or how about that dragonflies aren’t real, but instead spy cameras?

Even if you don’t actually believe in any big conspiracy theories, it’s hard to ignore them when so many people do. According to a YouGov survey, about half of Americans believe that Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t kill JFK alone. Another popular conspiracy theory in the survey was that Obama wasn’t born in the United States (31%).

Interesting, right? Each state, though, and even city/county, believes in one conspiracy theory over the other. For this slideshow, we used data compiled from the DIRECTV provider, USDIRECT, along with Google Search autofill to view what each state searches the most. Although there are thousands of conspiracy theories, a few specific ones come up over and over again.

Note: 24/7 Tempo is just displaying information on conspiracy theories. None of these are our beliefs, nor are we stating they are correct/real.

There are suckers born every minute.

Have a great weekend and as always….Be Well and Be Safe….

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

What Happened To DOGE?

For months after Donny took office and tagged in Elmo to lighten the government of personnel the media was fixated on his movement and his actions….then Elmo blew out of town after creating governmental chaos and the reports lessened and then seemingly to disappear.

So how was DOGE doing at making government lighter?

Good question that needs a good answer.

Elom promised to save the country $2 trillion.

That target quickly dropped to $1 trillion. Then in April, Musk started intimating that the savings would only be in the region of $150 billion, making it clear to all but his most diehard supporters that DOGE was failing on its own terms — even going by its own dubious estimates of its progress.

Now, it’s looking like those purported “savings” are somehow even more pitiful than once believed.

A new investigation by Politico found that of the $52.8 billion that DOGE claims it’s saved by cancelling federal contracts through July, its actual savings were closer to a paltry $1.4 billion — which is barely two percent of what it’s boasting to the public.

The books, it seems, have been well and truly cooked — but how? According to Politico, DOGE is using the maximum spending possible allocated for some of the 10,000 contracts it axed as of last month, a “ceiling value” that’s often way higher than what the government ends up spending.

“That’s the equivalent of basically taking out a credit card with a $20,000 credit limit, cancelling it and then saying, ‘I’ve just saved $20,000,'” Jessica Tillipman, associate dean for government procurement law studies at George Washington University Law School, told Politico. “Anything that’s been said publicly about [DOGE’s] savings is meaningless.”

DOGE took a “move fast and break things,” take-no-prisoners approach to gutting the federal government. It gleefully pushed for firing tens if not hundreds of thousands of federal employees, demanded access to sensitive and private data, hollowed out the Social Security Administration, and targeted funds for science, education, and healthcare.

https://futurism.com/elon-musk-doge-even-more-failure

So the stats are out and DOGE was NOT nearly as effective as promised….to be real it was a dismal failure.

Like many of the campaign promises many things are falling way short of their promise….but that is okay for Donny is taking revenge on all the people and groups that have defied him in the past…..and is not that what a president is suppose to do instead of putting the country on a positive footing?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

The Donny & Vlad Show

Today is the big event (their words not mine) the showdown between Little Donny and Vlad the Invader on the shores of Alaska….there is lots of speculation on just what this will accomplish….

Even Donny has weighed in….

So what are the odds that Friday’s summit between President Trump and Vladimir Putin will bring peace to Ukraine? In an interview on Fox News Thursday morning, Trump floated a surprisingly specific prediction: He told Brian Kilmeade he sees a “25% chance that this meeting will not be a successful meeting,” reports the BBC. Trump didn’t elaborate on potential snags, though territorial concessions were seen as the biggest hurdle. The summit is scheduled to begin at 3:30pm ET, and it appears the world will know quickly how things went.

Trump told Fox he’d fly back to Washington if the summit is a bust. “If the meeting doesn’t end well, I’ll just have a press conference and get out,” he said, per the Washington Post. But if things go well, Trump and Putin could hold a joint news conference, and Trump even suggested that Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky could immediately fly to Alaska for a three-way follow-up meeting. “I don’t know where we’re going to have the second meeting, but we have an idea of three different locations, and we’ll be including the possibility, because it would be by far the easiest of staying in Alaska,” Trump said.

Then there is Vlad and what he will possibly bring to the negotiating table….

When Vladimir Putin and President Trump meet in Alaska, the Russian leader is set to tempt Trump with financial incentives to back Moscow over Ukraine, the Guardian reports. Putin’s adviser said the “huge untapped potential” of Russia-US economic relations will be up for discussion, and said the leaders would talk about the possibility of “further developing bilateral cooperation, including in the trade and economic sphere.” He noted, “This cooperation has huge and, unfortunately so far, untapped potential.”

The quickly scheduled talks, held at Putin’s request, mark the Russian leader’s first meeting with a US president on US soil since 2007. Putin is reportedly bringing prominent economic advisers, including his finance minister, to appeal to Trump’s business interests, sources tell the newspaper. The Kremlin’s message, according to one former official who spoke anonymously: “Putin knows Trump sees the world through a business lens, and will pitch a peace on his terms as the gateway to lucrative opportunities.”

If happens will those financial benefits favor Donny or the country?

Does anyone think this will be a success?  Or will it be another infamous Donny ambush of a world leader?

This is a scenario on how things could go in Alaska….(a well thought out scenario)….but a short history of the two leaders meetings over a few3 years….

If you consider the history of Donald Trump’s public relationship with Vladimir Putin, you won’t be surprised that there’s a fair amount of concern in Ukraine and among Ukraine’s European allies at what might happen when the two meet in Alaska tomorrow for their summit.

While it’ll be their first face-to-face meeting of Trump’s second presidency, the pair has met previously on six occasions and, as we know, spoken fairly frequently over the phone.

The first face-to-face meeting was at the G20 summit in Hamburg in 2017, just months into Trump’s first term. The pair spent two hours of a scheduled 35-minute meeting talking about all things from Syria to North Korea. It was constructive and cordial, they said. Later they talked during a summit dinner in an exchange that was only witnessed by Putin’s interpreter, the nature of which was not reported.

https://theconversation.com/how-the-trump-putin-summit-could-play-out-263220

What will be the end game this time?

Or will this just be another rally demonizing someone that Donny does not like?

Any thoughts?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”