Stories from Saturday, March 9, 2024

SIKESTON —The entertainment lineup for the 72nd Annual Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo was announced over the weekend during the Jaycees' public rodeo kickoff at the Sponsor Barn on the rodeo grounds.

It doesn’t take much to fool a fool. If you were a brutal, murdering dictator who fixes his eletions so he can’t lose and is one of the most recognized enemies of the United States and you really want your puppet and partner in a quest to destroy the United States so you can remake the USSR and win an election to elect Trump, you would seek a gang of low-information followers who don’t worry about thought and facts but still get most of their information from the propaganda system led by FOX News who just paid $750 million to settle a lawsuit against them for knowingly lying to their listeners and also had to fire Tucker Carlson when they introduced the emails that supported the case against thenm. You could pretend to endorse your opponent as a tactic. Biden laughed. I laughed. Most of the people in the country laughed, but it really seems to work on some folks who aren’t smart enough to see this for the joke that it is. Evidently, some of the low-information folks have really bought into it. Yeah, endorse Putin. That’ll do it every time.