Just once it would be nice to be able to believe

Governments lie.  That is sad but true.  Sometimes government lies are meant to manipulate you.  During COVID governments manipulated people with fear.  The fear was created with lies.  Other times government lies just to cover up terrible or illegal things they have done.

The document has proven a bombshell to lawmakers, revealing for the first time that the FBI had a total of 274 agents deployed to the Capitol in plainclothes and with guns

Chalk one more up for the Tin foil hat crowd.  J6 was set up.  The American government manufactured a riot and then lied to cover it up.

I am not American so I can tell you lying is not exclusive to American politics.  Canadian politicians are also highly allergic to the truth.  I doubt Justin Trudeau has told the truth once in his lifetime and his replacement, Mark Carney, has shown no penchant for the truth either.  He is on a world tour of countries we do little to no trade with signing deals that are sold as “transformational”.  It is all al lie because Canada can’t increase trade by any measurable amount with any of these countries.  As I have discussed before, Canada does not have the infrastructure to trade with anyone other than the US.

Barry Prentice, the director of the Transport Institute at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, told me that he didn’t see much room for improving shipping by rail between Canada and Mexico.

“The infrastructure is pretty much in place,” he said.

Canada and Mexico, he said, have limited ability to bring improvements to other forms of transportation without the participation and cooperation of the United States.

In Carney’s defense, he might not know this.  He could be stupid rather than dishonest.  But I would put money on him being both.

When Donald trump got re-elected, I saw it as a win for the truth.  The Democrats in the US constant accuse Trump of being a liar but from what I see it is difficult for Trump to lie.  Anything that seems to be crossing Trumps mind in the moment immediately comes out of his mouth.  That is not a good trait for a liar to have.

I was also encouraged when Trump appointed Kash Patel and Dan Bongino. Outside of government these two firebrands were champions for truth.  I had hoped that they could bring that to government.  Sadly, I have been disappointed.

First Patel and Bongino told me that Epstein killed himself and that he did not traffic girls to anyone.  This means that Epstein was so despondent about the complete lack of evidence against him that he committed suicide.  This makes absolutely no sense.  Neither does what they are telling us about Charlie Kirk.

The surgeon who operated on Charlie Kirk said the bullet that killed him miraculously did not exit his neck, likely saving others from getting hit.

I have a tip for Patel and Bongino.  If your lie requires us to believe in miracles it is not a very good lie.

Full disclosure I am not a firearms expert, but I do know that a 30 06 is a large high velocity round.  The odds of it not passing straight though Charlie Kirk’s neck are very low.  Is it possible? Yes.  Is it probable? Not at all.  I do not think they found the bullet in Charlie’s neck.  Initially we were told the bullet was not recovered but that story was problematic.  If it wasn’t in Charlie’s neck, then where was it?  The hole in this narrative was plugged by claiming the coroner just did not see it at first.  I am not a doctor either, but I don’t know how a large chunk of lead can be that hard to see on an Xray.

This whole thing reminds me of another magic bullet.  The official story of JFK’s assassination also had a magic bullet.  In this case the bullet was unstoppable.  It passed through 2 people and was later found in pristine condition lying on a hospital gurney.  This unstoppable bullet did have one thing in common with the Kirk bullet.  It also could not be found until people started to question the narrative.

They might be telling me the truth about Charlie Kirk, but I doubt it.  And that is the problem, isn’t it?  Governments have lied to us so much that nothing can be taken at face value.  I wish I could trust information given to me by the government.  At the very least I wish the narratives could be more believable.