Games Over. Things Are Real Now…

by MyBaconPress

Look, it was one thing when people were debating the relative merits or demerits of trump’s policies or comparing his intellect to various fruits and/or rocks or pretending he might be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. The “My Team/Your Team” thing was obnoxious even then but we all seemed to be having some kind of fun with it. Still, we, the people, should never have aligned in teams just to be loyal to colors, red or blue. For all of us, our first loyalty should always have been to the principles of the US Constitution. We did, anyway.

But now? Now the conversation is about Federal agents gunning people down in the streets. No more games. No more gaslighting. It’s time to stand up and be counted. Do you support Federal agents gunning American citizens down in the streets without cause or don’t you? It’s a pretty straightforward question.

I ask because I saw a photo in social media of the murderer of Alex Pretti pointing his gun directly at Pretti’s head just before firing. A MAGA posted “AI” as a comment, trying to pretend the events went down differently than what we’ve all seen with our own eyes in video after video from every angle imaginable because everyone there had cameras.

Writing “AI” and nothing else in a drive-by post suggests the MAGA in question disapproves of the murders but can’t quite pull themselves away from the murderers yet. The person doesn’t WANT to be on the team that’s gunning American citizens down in the streets without cause. They just are on that team. So maybe they can convince somebody, somewhere that the murders weren’t murders or they were less intentional than they look in the photos and videos.

Oh, but then again, MAGA gonna MAGA. Right now there’s a struggle but the one thing MAGA has proven, over and over and over again, is that they will, eventually, reject the evidence of their eyes and ears. That is, after all, their most essential command…

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“One-way arguments that cannot be universally applied are bad arguments.”
– Rand Paul on Trump’s criminal invasion of Venezuela

Little Marco Rubio was trying to pretend that invading a foreign, sovereign nation and kidnapping their leader is somehow not an act of war. Rand Paul, a Republican, mind you, asked Rubio to reverse the situation. What if someone invaded the US and kidnapped the President of the US? Rubio, of course, couldn’t answer so he rambled and dissembled.

After Paul got tired of listening to Rubio’s lying sidesteps, Paul said, “Of course it would be an act of war. I’m probably the most anti-war person in the Senate, and I would vote to declare war if someone invaded our country and took our president.”

Paul insists it’s an act of war but he means it’s a war crime…

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I hear Melania’s movie is crashing and burning. You can tell because Donny is calling it the most successful film ever made. It keeps opening to empty theaters. That’s not hyperbole. It’s being screened to theaters with nobody in them (except the poor projectionist, that is). That’s going to cost the theaters a LOT of money. Maybe Donny should lower the price to get in by 500%, 600%, in some cases, 1,500%!

Naw! Nobody wants to see that garbage even if the theater paid the viewer to go in…

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Well, the Senate reached a funding deal! No government shutdown, right? All they have to do is get the newly passed bill over to the House of Representatives for their vote and – boom! – no government shutdown. Unexpected, sure, but a welcome development nevertheless. Okay, let’s get it over there and…

Wait, where the hell is everybody? There’s been no legislative activity in the House for a week, now? MAGA Mike, the Johnson put the House into recess for some reason. Someone probably wanted him to DO something and he’s not allowed, so he has mastered Sir Robin’s battle technique.

“Brave Sir Robin ran away! Bravely ran away, away!
When danger reared it’s ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled.”

So we get a shutdown after all. It will be short, we’re told. The Johnson might peak out of his hidey-hole come Monday and take the risk of coming out into public. They can vote on the bills then, reopening the government. Of course, they might opt to continue blasting away at their own feet. It’s hard to tell with this crowd…

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Speaking of cowardly retreats, I’m happy to know that The First Felon won’t be coming to California for the Stupid Bowel. We don’t need him here, we don’t want him here. In fact, now that the Trump/Epstein files are blatantly showing him to be a raper, maybe we should just deport him somewhere. The worst of the worst, you know. I hear there’s an appropriate facility in El Salvador…

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Cheater Bill Belichick didn’t make the Hall of Fame on the first ballot. What do you know? He shouldn’t have made it, of course. He should never make it. One shouldn’t get to be enshrined into any Hall of Fame if one’s “accomplishment” is predicated on cheating.

He will make it, though, eventually. Probably the next round. Professional sports associations don’t really care about the cheating. They care about the “accomplishment.” Remember the Mark McGuire/Sammy Sosa “race” to break the home run record? All we hear about is the “record.” All I remember about it is that both men were juiced to the max. Pump them full of steroids and watch them hit. The guy we’re supposed to pretend the record was taken from wasn’t juiced. He set the record with his own body, sans enhancements.

It’s the same deal with Belichick. Six Super Bowls – and all you’ve got to do is cheat! Anybody can cheat. That isn’t the way the other teams were competing. Why should he get credit for coloring outside the lines? I honestly think NONE of us should stand for this. We live the lives we live today because we overlooked one little trespass after another. After awhile, we can’t seem to distinguish between right and wrong. Then look what happens…

Living The Conservative Dream…

by MyBaconPress

I have a correction to make. I wrote that Mr. Pretti was murdered by ICEholes. That is incorrect. Mr. Pretti was murdered by Border Patrol ASSholes. MyBaconPress regrets the error – and the assholes! But this is interesting. This could be related. Greg “Shorty” Bovino is out as Border Patrol “Commander at Large,” with “large” being a particularly ironic title, like when you call your overweight friend “Tiny.” Bovino is being relegated back to a local player in El Centro.

Bovino took the line the Border Patrol agents were the victims in the Pretti shooting, not Alex Pretti. I mean, obvs. A mob of Border Patrol idiots subdued and disarmed an innocent man, then murdered him where he was. We all saw it. How could the murdered guy possibly be the victim? No, that would be the agents who did the murdering. (Hey, shouldn’t we deport them now, violent criminals that they are?)

The White House is walking back some of the earliest claims about Pretti. There’s just too much video. There are too many angles. At least with the Renee Good murder, there was one angle they could pretend was her hitting him with her vehicle – and they DID make contact as a direct result of his bad police work. She was trying to steer around him. But because of the that look, they had a story they could cling to.

There are no stories in the Pretti murder. This was a good guy, an upright American citizen, a VA ICU nurse who was just trying to help people. Alex Pretti was an innocent man…

UPDATE: New video has surfaced of Pretti clashing with agents eleven days before he was murdered. Apparently, during the confrontation, Pretti kicked the taillight of an ICE vehicle. The taillight appears to have fallen out of it’s position. I’m still trying to figure out how that happened. Those lights are pretty well secured, normally. One would not imagine a single kick could knock it loose. Maybe break the lens, sure, but to have the entire assembly fall out? Weird. Anyway, an agent attacks Pretti. They struggle a bit. Pretti gets away, but he doesn’t leave.

That’s why we get to see that he appears to be armed in this video, too. Like the day he died, he never once touched the weapon, even as agents were roughing him up. I presume the right will be told that’s the “proof” he was violent. I see it as proof that he had great restraint. He never touched his gun. But it does pose a new question: was Pretti’s murder predicated on an encounter eleven days before? Was it retribution? I STILL don’t see one thing that might justify the shooting of Alex Pretti…

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That kind of thing leads directly to this kind of thing: the Doomsday Clock, which, since 1947 has metaphorically represented the risk that humans will succumb to human-made threats, with midnight representing Armageddon, has been moved up to 85 seconds. That’s the closest it has ever been in it’s history. That’s the end of humanity, closer than ever. Thanks, MAGA. You did that!

The clock is moved based on the opinions and expertise of the members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The Bulletin members ask themselves two questions: is humanity safer than last year, and is humanity safer than it has been over the last 78 years from human-made threats? Based on their answers, the clock moves one way or the other.

They don’t just move it, of course. They explain their decision. They said, “Hard-won global understandings are collapsing, accelerating a winner-takes-all great power competition and undermining the international cooperation critical to reducing the risks of nuclear war, climate change, the misuse of biotechnology, the potential threat of artificial intelligence, and other apocalyptic dangers,” the Bulletin wrote in their statement.

That feels like a direct commentary on Donny, doesn’t it? I mean, Putin, too, what with his war of choice against Ukraine but Donny has done more worldwide damage than Putin in the last year so mostly Donny. They seem to have indicated Xi, too, but he seems content just to sit back, let the US blow it’s own brains out, then clean up the mess and claim the spoils.

Anyway, the Bulletin continues, “Far too many leaders have grown complacent and indifferent, in many cases adopting rhetoric and policies that accelerate rather than mitigate these existential risks. Because of this failure of leadership, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Science and Security Board today sets the Doomsday Clock at 85 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been to catastrophe.”

The clock originally started at seven minutes to midnight. It has been as far away as 17 minutes to midnight. Now? 85 seconds. Propaganda has increased conservative radicalism across the US and Europe. Cons have made gains and, in some places, have real power. They’re living their conservative dreams and as the conservative vision takes hold, experts agree: the world is a more dangerous place than it has ever been in history…

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We can fight the ‘Culture War’ all we want to – and if you’re like me, you really don’t want to. The so-called ‘Culture War’ is all about oppressing ideas some people don’t like. It’s the embodiment of taking away liberties. It’s all about keeping other people from doing things that have no effect on you. But do you know what does have an effect on you? The strength of the US dollar. When the strength of the US dollar drops, your buying power drops. That is, it takes more money to buy the same things. Wheelbarrow full of cash for a loaf of bread, anyone?

Since Donny stole his way back into power, the US dollar has dropped 10%. It’s the lowest it’s been since the US was trying to dig out of the economic hole created by Covid-19, only this time, there’s no disaster to point to. Well, no disaster beyond trump. Apparently, he’s all the disaster the world needs.

After falling at record rates for a couple of days, someone asked the Felon if he was concerned. “No, I think it’s great,” Trump said of the weaker dollar, during a visit to Iowa to promote his record on the economy. Asked whether he was concerned about the currency’s slide, he told reporters: “I think the value of the dollar – look at the business we’re doing. The dollar’s doing great.”

There’s the tell. A weaker dollar can be good for great big, multinational corporations. It’s terrible for you. Donny thinks it’s in great shape because he cares about great big, multinational corporations and he doesn’t give two figs about you…

I Need A Stronger Word Than ‘Stupid…’

by MyBaconPress

Okay, I’m not making this up. It’s from CNN. President War Criminal was blathering on about whatever it is he blathers on about when he mentioned that Venezuela’s President had been captured using a weapon he identified as a “Discombobulator.” Then he said, “The Discombobulator, I’m not allowed to talk about it.”

See why I think he’s a moron? That IS talking about it. And the ‘it’ in question doesn’t exist. A senior US official said the “president” (sic) may be conflating several capabilities into a single weapon that doesn’t exist. Even if such a weapon DID exist, I’d bet a lot of money the Pentagon would come up with a much better nomenclature than “Discombobulator.” That’s a truly stupid name coined by a truly stupid person…

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I’ve said in the past that it will be Donny coming for people’s guns. Now, after the Alex Pretti murder, 47 posted on social media, “HE HAD A GUN, ONLY CRIMINALS CARRY GUNS ON OUR STREETS, WE NEED LAW AND ORDER.” “Only criminals carry guns on our streets?” Really? I thought open carry was everyone’s right – no, obligation – because only a good guy with a gun can stop a bad guy with a gun. I thought the goal was to arm every American in every situation so that morons could start blasting away at the slightest provocation.

How many times have YOU engaged in some form of this conversation, “Hey, maybe some gun regulation?”
“F*CK YOU! What part of ‘shall not be infringed’ don’t you understand?!?”
Now they’ve switched to “He had a gun, what do you expect from the agents?”

The right thinks the left is suddenly supporting the Second Amendment, even as the right abandons their dedication to it. In truth the left is, once again, mocking the right for their complete lack of principles. But there IS some truth to the fact that if Federal agents can kill you for having your gun in public, you don’t have the right to bear arms anyway, right?

I think the whiplash as MAGA changes it’s position from ‘shall not be infringed’ to “He had a gun, what do you expect?” is going to be painful for them. One can hope, anyway. Stupid really should hurt…

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One shot… followed by approximately nine more. There was a delay. One shot… delay… then, Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Afterward, Pretti lay dead. My guess? The ICEholes thought they had a way cool trick. They shoot one shot, see, then they pause. Then they shoot lots of shots. Later, they lie. They say the first shot came from Pretti and the others came from ICE, in self-defense.

A clever ploy and a free path to murder – except for all of those damnable cameras! The cameras recorded the fact that Pretti had been disarmed before any shooting started. That didn’t stop Team Evil from claiming the killers were simply defending themselves. They’ve got to say something. They said that. They’ll stick to that story, no matter how many different camera angles appear, proving they’re lying…

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People are fleeing the US dollar. Have you seen the prices of an ounce of gold or silver? Silver went over $100.00/oz for the first time. Gold tops $5,000.00/oz for the first time. Investors have mostly lost faith in the US dollar. They’re looking for safer places to put their money and hard currencies are a common safe harbor. We might need to start thinking in terms of wheelbarrows full of money to buy a loaf of bread. Nice job, MAGA. We told you your moron didn’t have a clue…

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“This social media post crams a remarkable amount of inflammatory language and factually inaccurate assertions into a very short statement,” said climate scientist Daniel Swain of the California Institute for Water Resources. That’s polite talk for “The writer of this post is stupid and lying.” The social media post in question? Why, that came from the stupidest man on Earth. It read, “WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING???”

He’s referencing the winter storm that is blasting across the eastern part of the United States. He STILL thinks that if it snows, it disproves global warming. This has been explained over and over and over again. Weather is local and short term, climate is global and long term. It turns out, global warming is real and winter still happens anyway. If there’s still a MAGA out there that doesn’t understand that – and apparently, there’s at least that one – that person either stubbornly doesn’t WANT to understand what’s happening, or they’re suffering from a severe learning deficit that leaves them unable to comprehend even the most basic stuff.

There’s no other position possible at this point. The person asking that question – “WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING???” – is either genuinely, amazingly stupid, or pretending to be. In his case? The evidence points to genuinely, amazingly stupid…

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Well, I’m getting exactly the Super Bowl I didn’t want: the cheatin’-ass Patriots vs the Seattle Seahawks. If the Broncos hadn’t lost their their starting Quarterback the week before, they might have prevailed. But they did, so they didn’t. The Rams gave the Seahawks a better game than I expected, too. For a moment, it looked like they might pull it out. For a moment. They didn’t.

I have to confess, we are getting the Super Bowl I expected. I was pulling for the teams that lost this weekend. I didn’t get either one of them. So, now, I think I’m pulling for a tie in the Super Bowl. Yeah, I know, no ties in the big game. I guess I’ll be disappointed. Then again, I’m already disappointed so I guess I’ll be disappointed, no matter what. Might as well root for the impossible.

I guess most fans of the NFC West won’t pull for Seattle. Personally, I can’t support the cheatinest team in NFL history, the cheatin’-ass New England Patriots. No, I don’t think they cheated this year. I just get sick of listening to how “great” they were when they weren’t great – they were cheating. The Stupid Bowl is going to be chock full of “looks back” at their “great” years. It turns out, I’m not good at replacing actual events with preferred narratives, whether that’s in the arena of politics or sports.

The last coach of the Pats, Bill Belichick, has no coaching tree because he never had anything to teach other coaches. The only remnant of his “legacy” is Mike Vrable, the current coach of the Patriots. He wasn’t a coach under Belichick. He was a player. Vrable has a chance to be the first guy in NFL history to “win” a Super Bowl as a player, then as Head Coach for the same team.

I’ve been a football fan far too long to pretend I won’t have the game on. I will. I’m not sure I’ll be paying all that much attention to it, though. The outcome will be the outcome but neither possibility excites me. One team wins, one team loses. I’m disappointed either way…

Do Not Envy The Violent…

by MyBaconPress

Do not plot harm against your neighbor,
    who lives trustfully near you.
Do not accuse anyone for no reason—
    when they have done you no harm.
Do not envy the violent
    or choose any of their ways.
For the Lord detests the perverse
    but takes the upright into his confidence.
The Lord’s curse is on the house of the wicked,
    but he blesses the home of the righteous. – (Proverbs 3:29-33)

Alex Pretti. Say his name. He was murdered by ICEholes on the streets of Minneapolis. 37 years old. A Registered Nurse who worked the Intensive Care Unit of a VA hospital. Yes, he was armed. He was a properly licensed concealed carry permit holder. He did NOT draw his weapon. What he DID do was come to the rescue of a woman who had been pushed down by a big, bad ICEhole – “bad” enough to push women around.

The ICEhole nearest Pretti sprayed him with whatever chemical agent the ICEholes are deploying – more than once. Then he tackled Pretti and took him to the ground along with several other ICEholes. They disarmed him. You can clearly see Pretti’s gun in the belt of one of the agents before the shooting. Then they shot him. More than once. He had been disarmed and subdued – and they shot him to death.

The lying liars of Team Evil immediately came out and declared Pretti a threat, claiming the ICEholes fired “defensive shots.” They pretended the protestors on street there were obstructing law enforcement efforts. It’s their standard story. It’s the victim’s fault. The thing is, there really ARE lots of people out and about. They’ve all got phones. They’re all shooting video. ICE murders or maims someone. Team Evil tells a scary story about it. Then the flood of video comes out proving the story a lie and the perpetrator wearing a coward mask and an ICE vest.

By then, MAGA has moved on. They have their lying little story to cling to and argue in social media and that’s good enough for them. They don’t even WANT to know what really happened. There really ARE none so blind as those who will not see. Up until now, MAGA has enjoyed a kind of luxury in being able to keep their heads in the sand. Those days are behind us, now. The Federal government is killing Americans in the streets. Every American now has an obligation to ensure the information they’re using is accurate.

Americans have been amazingly patient, in my mind. Team Evil has been pulling our beards and flicking our faces in an effort to make us violent. So far, the only violence has been coming from the Federal government. But with this latest murder? Governor Tim Walz has called out the National Guard “to assist law enforcement in peace keeping and crowd control.” The tensions have ratcheted up. One nervous troop makes one mistake and the powder keg explodes.

Okay, so I know MAGA is comprised of the morally stupid being deceived and misled by the morally corrupt. Every non-MAGA knows this. But this isn’t a game anymore and stupidity, moral or intellectual, will not be an acceptable excuse. Federal agents are murdering people in the streets. This isn’t “My team, your team” anymore. This is the Federal government murdering Americans in the streets. All games aside, do you support this, MAGA?

Yesterday, I mentioned the little five-year-old boy arrested by ICEholes and used as bait to try to capture others living in his house. MAGA has been told the boy wasn’t arrested. He was taken into protective custody after being abandoned by his father, who ran from ICE. The father didn’t run. He had no reason to. He was in the US legally. He was going through the process “the right way,” just like MAGA always says they want. He wasn’t wanted for any crime – not even entering the country illegally – because he didn’t enter illegally.

He was just brown and vulnerable and the ICEholes used his five-year-old son, wearing a blue bunny ears hat, as bait. There were even people in the building who told the ICEholes they had legal permission to keep the boy safe. One woman said she had legal paperwork. The ICEholes took the kid anyway. MAGA? You have an obligation to know the truth about what you’re defending, because it really is high time you start to be held liable for the stories you choose to spread.

If you think it’s just part of the game, part of the fun to post memes that lie about who did what to whom or why, you’re wrong. Worse, now that Federal agents are murdering people in the streets, you’re complicit. Aiding and abetting. Aiding and abetting means you’re intentionally assisting, encouraging, or facilitating another person or persons in the commission of a crime. Aiding and abetting often results in similar penalties as the direct perpetrator under accomplice liability. MAGA can and should be charged, too.

Defending the actions of the ICEholes is enabling their actions. Eventually, the killers will face charges. MAGA should, too. Not all MAGA. Just look at the social media. If there are posts “explaining” why it was okay to murder this American citizen or that American citizen, charge the person who posted the meme with, at the very least, accessory after the fact.

Even if they don’t eventually get convicted, pay attention to who is posting support and defense of these murderous little men. Shun them. Maya Angelou taught us that when someone shows us who they are, believe them. These little MAGA mutts are showing us who they are. They’re a-okay with murder. They think it’s great to terrorize and kidnap five-year-old children. There is no outrage, no atrocity so bad they’ll change course – because they believe in the course.

Fundamentally, they’re okay with the kidnappings, assaults, maiming, and murders. They think it’s awesome the Feckless Fuckup is turning the United States of America into a war zone. Hell, they’re looking forward to the war – or so they think. It’s one thing to talk tough while you’re the only person in the crowd holding a weapon. The world changes dramatically when someone is pointing a weapon back at you.

Fundamentally, MAGA sucks at being human – and that’s what they’re telling you. Believe them. They should be prosecuted, along with the principals (the person who actually pulled the trigger). Even if they aren’t, they should be relegated to the darkest corners of society to live out their nasty little lives by their evil little selves.

There’s a religion out there known as the Bahá’í Faith. They teach that people WILL pay the price for their crimes, if not in this life, then in the next. They teach that it’s better to pay your dues down here, on Earth, in this life than to pay later. There are an awful lot of people who are going to find out if that’s correct or not.

MAGA politicians are running around telling people that if they lose the upcoming “elections,” MAGA will likely go to jail. There was an easy fix for that. All you had to do was NOT commit the crimes. But you DID commit the crimes and now it’s too late. If we ever succeed in putting this torment behind us, we’ll need to jail as many as these morally bankrupt, failed human beings as we can. Of course they have a right to their opinion, no matter how stupid their opinion might be. (And oh, MAN are their opinions stupid!) But they don’t have a right to aide and abet murder, kidnapping, or violence of any kind…

Stupid, Coward, Pervert Donny…

by MyBaconPress

…just is so atrocious. (Sung to the tune of “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious…”)

The Board of Peace, huh? What a… nother idea from the “mind” of the Grifter-in-Chief. For the low, low price of only one billion dollars, you, too, can be on the Board of Peace. Ooh, ah. You can tell your friends. You can say things like, “I’m a permanent member of the Board of Peace!” and your friends can take turns yawning.

FOR your billion dollars, you get to tell everyone you’re a permanent member of the Board of Peace! Why am I repeating myself? Because that appears to be the single “benefit” of paying a billion dollars to be on Donny’s Board of Peace. Fundamental structure of the board makes Donny Chairman for life and he has complete veto power over every decision the board makes.

So far, all the worst people on the planet have stepped up – but it looks like they’re on the free plan. It turns out, apparently, you can be a temporary member for free, if you’re invited. Of course, you’d have to sacrifice the glory of telling everyone you’re a permanent member of the board if you don’t pay, but you save a billion dollars. It’s a cost/benefit thing…

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Cadet Bone Spurs said US allies in Afghanistan “stayed a little back, a little off the front lines.” That’s likely to rankle our allies, most especially because the charge comes from a guy infamous for staying a LOT back, a LOT off of any front lines. He’s a coward from a long line of cowards. His family name IS his family name because his grandfather so disgraced the original family name.

Our allies lost over 1,000 soldiers in George’s stupid wars. That doesn’t sound like anyone staying back. Except Donny, of course. You won’t see him next to any battles. Ever…

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Speaking of Donny avoiding battles, Jack Smith testified before a Congressional committee, Thursday. He said he had all the evidence he needed to prove Donny instigated the January 6th insurrection. That’s probably the reason the cons wanted to have their “hearing” in private, behind closed doors. They prefer to be able to mischaracterize and demonize. It’s kind of their thing. Public hearings make that more difficult.

It’s not impossible, of course. There were plenty of sound-bites tossed into MAGA media for rotation to deceive those easily deceived or who prefer to be deceived. But because it was a public hearing, it will take some careful editing and some serious admonishments to the rank-and-file to NOT watch any video except that which is duly authorized by MAGA media. Can’t have the rubes knowing the truth, now, can we?

MAGA has done everything in their power to re-write January 6th. They desperately want people to believe it was a “day of love.” They show empty corridors – pictures of where the violence was NOT, then say, “See? Nothing going on.” Uh-huh. Now look at photos from where the attackers were.

They desperately want people to believe it was a spontaneous event. They desperately want people to believe our National Embarrassment had nothing to do with it. Re-write, re-write, re-write. If only it hadn’t been for all of those damned cameras everywhere, recording everything. If only it wasn’t for those, what, thousands of hours of video showing violence and destruction at the Capitol after Donny told them to “fight like hell…”

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On the one hand, you’d think he’d be a little more careful about optics, at least some of the time. On the other hand, game gotta recognize game. The Pedophile Protector is, well, protecting pedophiles again. Hmm, I guess that really should be “more.” The Pedophile Protector is protecting pedophiles more. He has already been – and continues to be – a fierce defender of the pedophiles in the Trump/Epstein Files.

Those pedophiles seem to include him and his friends but he also slashed funding to programs intended to battle child sex trafficking around the country, showing he understands the need to protect pedophiles he doesn’t even know – and he’s up to the task. Hell, Donny seems intent on protecting pedophiles who don’t even have any money. This guy doesn’t do ANYTHING for people who don’t have any money, but he’ll protect perverts, rich and poor alike. Wouldn’t you know? The ONE area he doesn’t see class differences.

This is from the Guardian, “The US Department of Justice has slashed funding and training resources for law enforcement working on investigations and prosecutions of sex crimes against children under the Trump administration, which limits their ability to carry out this work.”

And this, “The sweeping cuts, enacted soon after Donald Trump began his second term as US president, are putting vulnerable children at risk and impeding efforts to bring child predators to justice, according to four prosecutors and law enforcement officers specializing in cases of child sexual exploitation, speaking on the condition of anonymity…”

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Hey, I haven’t heard, was the five-year-old the ICEholes took into custody a murderer or a raper? MAGA insists only violent criminals are being detained and deported. A five-year-old has been detained to be deported. Either that five-year-old is on a violent crime spree, or MAGA doesn’t have even the tiniest clue as to what goes on in reality – and the five-year-old was not on a violent crime spree. He was coming home from preschool, wearing bunny ears…

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If I was going to guess – and I’m about to – my guess would be that the anti-American Roberts Supremely Corrupt, Kangaroo Court of the United States will rule against The Felon in the case of Fed Governor Lisa Cook. Our national nightmare wants to take over the Fed, controlling interest rates based on his personal whim. Such a move will destabilize the dollar and, likely, cause it to fail as the world’s reserve currency. It will crash the dollar. It will be ugly. And it’s coming.

But the corrupt cons on the corrupt court don’t give two figs about destroying the economy. Their ruling will be self-serving. (Selfish is the very best word to describe any MAGA at any time. It’s the one personality characteristic one can count on from a MAGA.) The thing the court is ruling on is whether Donny can just dismiss a person despite the fact that they’re serving, not at the President’s pleasure, but based on a predefined term.

Hey, quick question: who else serves in their jobs on predefined terms? If the court rules this “President” can simply dismiss someone working in a job like that, couldn’t some other President or “President” simply dismiss someone from, say, the way High court? If terms don’t mean anything, what do terms mean?

Right now, Donny is just being his hard-headed, petulant, temper-tantrum throwing, bone-numbingly stupid self. He gains control over the Fed in May. He gets to put the stake through the heart of the dollar then, anyway. He can wait another, what, four months now? I think he’ll have to. If the court rules some people working fixed terms can, instead, be dismissed on a whim, they open the door to any people working fixed terms being dismissed on a whim, as well. Perhaps even themselves?

The point, here, is that it doesn’t really hurt Donny to wait a few more months and allowing earlier intervention could create precedent for themselves being removed by a subsequent President at a later time. I suspect they’ll rule in favor of themselves and protecting their own, phony-baloney jobs…

TACO, In Davos…

by MyBaconPress

Remember, the Dow is not the economy. The Dow is a CEO happiness indicator – and on Tuesday, it took a plunge. It fell 870 points while the Felon bragged about all of the “accomplishments” he imagines during one of his many, “Ain’t I great?” speeches. (For the record: No, you ain’t.) The plunge is the result of our National Embarrassment’s threats to tax the crap out of American citizens in an effort to punish Europe for not letting him steal Greenland. Yes, of course it’s stupid, this is Donny we’re talking about. But that’s the plan. BIG tariffs, paid by Americans, until Europe surrenders Greenland.

Is that any MORE stupid than saying you’re taking Greenland from Denmark because Norway denied you a prize they don’t control? The man – and I use the term loosely – is losing his effing mind. Is the US really going to war because one madman can’t be mollified?

No. As it happens, it was TACO Wednesday yesterday. Donny spoke at Davos, where the rich divvy up the spoils. He started with firm resolve in his voice. No, he wouldn’t use military force, though, he assured our allies, they wouldn’t be able to stop us if he did. But by God, he would have Greenland. He would make a deal for Greenland. He had to make a deal for Greenland.

“I’m helping NATO and until the last few days when I told them about Iceland, they loved me.” Wait, what? Iceland? He blathered on a bit more then added, “They’re not there for us on Iceland, that I can tell you. I mean, our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland. So Iceland’s already cost us a lot of money.”

This, of course, was old-man-losing-his-mind stuff. Anybody can misspeak. But he said Iceland four times when he meant Greenland – and he never seemed to have noticed. Look, he’s genuinely stupid. Maybe he thinks Greenland and Iceland are the same place. As a sidebar, KKKarolyin’ Levitt tried to cover for him by claiming he meant ‘Icy land,’ merely a poetic description of Greenland. Nobody (but MAGA) is buying because everybody (but MAGA) heard his actual words.

Here’s the thing: most of Donny’s “policies,” if they might EVER have worked (they wouldn’t) might only have worked, like, seventy or eighty years ago. The world is a VERY different place, now. Yes, the US has the greatest military on the planet and in history. But in the 1970’s, rich people decided they didn’t want to pay their fair share in taxes anymore and our national debt has been ballooning at an unsustainable rate ever since.

We cover it by selling that debt to the world. They buy our bonds, which we then promise to repay over time. American promises used to mean something, so people bought, meaning they hold the debt. That debt makes us FAR weaker than our military makes us strong. If they should, I don’t know, sell those bonds all at once, guess what happens. If you guessed “Stock Market plunge,” you win. No, there are no prizes. Just enjoy your good feelings. Yay, you.

So, while the most self-important and greedy people on the planet were all coming together for their economic back-patting meeting – THEY, after all, are doing great – the world started hearing about a plan from the European Union called “Sell America” and the Dow dropped 840 points. That was Europe telling our National Embarrassment, “Nice country ya got there. Be a shame if something happened to it, economically.”

But, and this point is speculation, because Donny is as dumb as any rock, someone explained it to him in private too. They went slow. They gave his dinosaur-like reflexes time to assimilate the information. “Stand down on Greenland (AND Iceland, you moron) or we crash your economy.”

The next time we saw Donny – no more speculation here – he was announcing he was over Greenland. “They” had worked out a plan. No, a framework of a plan. Well, he had a concept of a framework of a plan. You know, in the future. That’s the soundbite that will be fed into MAGA media. They have a concept of a framework of a future plan. Sure, it’s TACO but MAGA will actually believe he did something. There ARE none so blind as those who will not see.

When Donny was asked if the concept of the framework for the future plan included the US owning Greenland, he stopped dead in his tracks and said, “Uhhh…” That’s true. I’ve never seen him so stuck for a lie. He locked up for a moment before saying, “Duh, it’ll be great for everybody.” When asked how long the concept of the framework of the future plan would apply, he said, “Infinity.” At least that part is true. He doesn’t get Greenland, ever. Then Donny tucked his evil little tail and ran away. He’s outta there.

It was a pretty effective distraction. It lasted for several days. The Trump/Epstein Files never went away but they fell off the front pages for a time. So did Ukraine, where Putin was bombing the crap out of that country. But for the moment, Greenland seems to be over…

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We don’t get too many bright spots these days but here’s one: There is no statute of limitations on murder. Jonathan Ross may look like he’s getting away with the murder of Renee Good today, but the future looms. Donny won’t last forever. Ross’s murder will. All we have to do is keep an eye on him for now…

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Wow, based on social media activity, I’d say MAGA is being whipped into a frenzy again. They’re hearing that if the Dems take back one or both houses of Congress in November, cons are going to jail. That’s probably true, but if it IS true, it will be done by fair trial, with convictions based on crimes they’ve actually committed and can be proven, not on assertions and speculation. MAGA is being assured that such convictions will be “Lawfare,” yet another example where the right accuses the left of doing that which the right is actually doing.

MAGA will be loud, but they’ll be wrong. I hope the US does the right thing and convicts criminals rather than taking some political long-view that pretends Team Evil “learned their lesson” by losing an election. If criminals don’t go to jail, they don’t stop committing crimes. It’s pretty simple, really…

Martin Luther King, Jr Day…

by MyBaconPress

Today is Martin Luther King Jr Day. I’d like to try to write only positive things to honor the messages he tried to bring. Unfortunately, we still have a megalomaniac moron infesting the White House so darkness prevails, these days. Still, here are some of his messages.

“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

“There comes a time when silence is betrayal.”

“A nation that continues, year after year, to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”

‘Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?”
Expediency asks the question, “Is it politic?”
Vanity asks the question, “Is it popular?”
But conscience asks the question, “Is it right?”‘

“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor.”

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

“Justice too long delayed is justice denied.”

That Martin Luther King, Jr was a pretty bright guy…

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Everybody is supposed to focus on Greenland so that we don’t focus on the Trump/Epstein files. So let’s focus on Greenland for a minute – then get back to the Trump/Epstein files. It seems to be a trick he can’t do, pay attention to two things at once. It’s likely he doesn’t know that other people can pay attention to two things at once. Sometimes more!

So, now, in his insane push to “own” Greenland for no good reason, he’s threatening extra tariffs on the EU. In order to force Denmark to hand over Greenland, he’s going to punish Americans with higher taxes. Lovely.

At this point, it’s pretty clear, there’s no good reason to do what he’s doing. He has a story or two but even his stories are stupid and they don’t hold up under even slight scrutiny. He DOES have a new angle, though. Now he’s writing the Norwegian Prime Minister and telling them that because Norway didn’t award him the Nobel Peace Prize, he no longer has to think “purely of peace.” As you read his letter, bear in mind that the Nobel Prize is awarded by a private committee, not the country.

“Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace,” the moron had someone write, adding he could now “think about what is good and proper” for the US. Apparently, that’s war with Europe, in his twisted pea-brain…

You know what, Donny? Even if they thought you deserved it – which you do not – maybe they denied you your coveted prize because you’re being such a dick around the world and it was a crappy thing they could do back to you. You know all about that, right Donny? Doing crappy things to people who irritate you just because they irritated you is right in your wheelhouse. Game should respect game, don’t you think?

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So, MAGA rank-and-file seem to have pretty much given up on the Trump/Epstein Files. The minute they realized Donny is ALL OVER those things, they’re like, “Oh, no, our Precious!” and decided the files don’t really matter, after all. Americans and other smart people, though? Our position remains unchanged. Release the files.

At this point, truth be told, I’m starting to have a little heartburn about the fact that the victims STILL have not named names. I know there are conflicts, here. Some of the victims want to remain in the shadows, and it’s hard to blame them. Others have already come forward, though. When MTG made her promise to read the names from the House floor – a promise she can no longer keep, having stepped down – she was surrounded by some of the victims. THOSE women are clearly okay with being known.

Why haven’t each of them made a list of the men who were forced upon them when they were underage? NO, you don’t give that list to this corrupt DOJ. But you could give such a list to a reporter or AOC or Thomas Massie. I understand 47 trying to protect himself and I understand his creepy little minions working so hard to protect their Precious.

Obviously, he’s concerned that when hard evidence comes out that he was not just a participant in the trafficking ring, but one of the ringleaders, he might lose support from MAGA – and he needs fools to sing his praises and provide him cover. But have you seen these fools? He needs to have a little faith. One could release a 100-photo essay showing him raping twelve-year-old after twelve-year-old and MAGA would spring to his defense, suddenly pretending raping twelve-year-olds made one an “Alpha.”

At least now we know where cons got the idea to accuse Hillary of running a pedophile ring: they just announced what they were doing, but pretended it was Hillary. Every accusation is an admission with these clowns. But I digress.

My main point is that we have many of the victims available. THEY know who abused them. They said they were going to make lists. Where the hell are the lists? Let’s get them out there. Remember Algebra? Remember how, sometimes, it was easier to find the answer in the back of the book, then work the problem backwards to show your work? Let’s do that with the Trump/Epstein Files.

Name the names. THEN, we can work the problem backwards from the Trump/Epstein Files. Cause I gotta tell you, I don’t CARE who knew Trump, Epstein, or Maxwell and didn’t rape kids. Let’s get the names of perpetrators from the victims and skip all the drama of the DOJ slow-walking the files…

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I’m surrounded by fellow Niner fans who think it’s some kind of betrayal to support a fellow NFC West team after the Niners are eliminated. Although I know I’m in the minority, I don’t share that attitude. I figure, once the Niners are out, they’re out. Maybe the NFC West should represent, to show WHY the Niners got bumped.

First and foremost, I’m a fan of the Red and Gold but I have other teams I like, too. I also have teams I don’t like. A LOT. When I was in the Air Force, the team I got to watch was the Denver Broncos. I developed an affinity for them. When I was a child, I was raised by an LA Rams fan to BE a Rams fan. (It didn’t take.) I support the Niners, but I have fond memories of the Rams. Yes, I know they’re a rival of the Niners but the Niners aren’t a factor anymore, right?

On the other hand, f*ck the New England Patriots. I’m so sick and tired of hearing about their “greatness” and all they accomplished. They cheated. For seven years! Because in the eyes of the NFL it was better for business, they got away with it with a slap on the wrist. (It didn’t hurt that Robert Kraft, the Patriots owner, is on the committee that pays the commissioner.) Then the league buried it. They swept it under the rug and now we’re all supposed to pretend it was just “greatness.” But as we all know, now, friends don’t lie. New England cheated.

SO, the Conference Championship games are set. The Broncos will host the Patriots and the Seahawks host the Rams. The Broncos just lost their star Quarterback to a broken foot so he’s out, making the road for New England much easier. BOTH the Seahawks and the Rams are in the NFC West. According to my friends… and family… and neighbors… and my barber and strangers I chat with in line at the grocery store and the teller at the bank and people I work with and it seems everybody else, I can’t support the Rams or Seahawks because they’re in the NFC West.

But that means I’d have to pull for New England, and I will not do that…

Stupid Memes For Stupid People…

by MyBaconPress

Recently, in response to the Renee Good murder, I’ve seen posts from MAGA in social media showing the faces of young women ostensibly murdered by undocumented immigrants set next to a photo of Good. The meme claims Good was trying to protect killers and the left mourns her loss, but ignores the murders of other young women. Have you seen this?

MAGA bullshit about murders.

In MAGA land, it’s big drama, a devastating burn. Typically, it’s MAGA stupid. It’s just false that Good wanted to “stop ICE from deporting illegals who kill American citizens.” If your position relies on a lie for support, your position doesn’t deserve to be supported. That’s a scare tactic. NOBODY is standing for murderers.

No, that’s wrong. NOBODY but MAGA is standing for murderers. Good was monitoring ICE harassment of people who are living and working here and contributing to society. Undocumented? Maybe. Maybe not. ICEholes regularly take American citizens into custody and rough them up. They’ve killed and maimed several American citizens.

I don’t know that all of the other women you’re showing were actually killed by immigrants, documented or otherwise, but for the sake of argument, let’s just agree they were. Also, it would be nice to have a time-frame on those deaths. Are we talking about last year or over the course of the last twenty-five years?

But all of that is nit-picking. Here’s your real answer: we all know that bad people do bad things and place of birth isn’t relevant. I would bet that on each day one of those women was murdered, so were a LOT of other people in this country – killed by Americans, probably a LOT of them white. MAGA ignores those people so they can focus on brown people only and pretend that if there were no “illegals,” there would be no crime. How stupid is that?

Also, we could only know that those women were, in fact, murdered by illegals if we know who the killers are, right? They’ve been, likely, arrested or identified but not around to be arrested, right? So, those killers are currently in the system and facing consequences of their actions. Bad people do bad things and face the consequences. What’s to protest?

On the other hand, and this is where it gets challenging for MAGA, Renee Good was murdered by a Federal agent practicing piss-poor police procedure. He was on Federal business, wearing a Federally-issued uniform, shooting Federally-issued bullets, from a Federally-issued firearm – then hiding behind his Federally-issued badge and driving his Federally-issued vehicle to make his cowardly escape.

See the difference, MAGA? If the government arrests murderers, there’s nothing to protest. When the government protects murderers? Yeah, count on some protest. It’s the proper response. If you loved your country the way you pretend you do, you’d be out there, too…

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This is tangentially related. MAGA is also posting memes that point out that Obama deported more people than 47 and that, for many, their only crime was to cross the border. So, Barack did a better job and he did it without all of this disruption and violence to the day to day lives of people? AND while Barack’s ICE agents wore windbreakers and not combat fatigues and how anyone could see their faces while they worked rather than coward masks?

“Barack did it better and we’re too stupid to understand.” Quality burn, there, MAGA…

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Have you noticed? Nobody wants to be associated with Donny. He doesn’t earn accolades – he steals them. And he’s SO reviled, he needs the power of the Presidency even to do that. We may not be able to stop him, right now, but it sure will be fun tearing his vile name off of every building and sign that ever bore it. Hell, his name is SO reviled, I expect the card game of Bridge to change their top category. How about ‘Biden?’ as in “Three no Biden?”

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Well, that was ugly. I wish I could say I was surprised. The team just reached the end of their run. They kept digging down, deeper and deeper. Finally, they reached, but there was nothing left. Yesterday, I predicted a Niner victory, 24-17. I DID qualify the prediction by saying, “but mostly that’s because I want them to win.” They never even sniffed the End Zone. As it happens, it was a perfect prediction. It’s just that I was predicting the Seahawks final total, 41, not the final score of the game. Genius, eh?

Our Niners gave us a better show than we had a right to expect. As usual, injuries hobbled the team nearly from the start. Injuries, alone, are bad enough, but in this case, WHO got injured was relevant, too. Worse, the injuries kept piling up during the game. It turns out, one cannot sit most of their first string and hope to be competitive. But the Niners were competitive through most of the season, anyway, and that says a lot.

If I’m being honest, I’m not sure the Niners could have beaten this Seahawks team even at full strength. They’re very good and they’re playing like it’s a sacred obligation. It’s a very well-coached team and they’re very disciplined. Having seen the remaining field of teams, I strongly suspect the Seahawks will win the Stupor Bowl. I thought that would be against the Denver Broncos, but their Quarterback, Bo Nix, broke his ankle in their playoff victory over the Buffalo Bills and he’s out for whatever is left.

The worse the beating became, the more befuddled Shanahan appeared to be. When he needed to have more answers, he had fewer. I’m confused by this guy. On the one hand, all praise to Shanahan for staying competitive during the season. That took some pretty solid coaching. On the other hand, injuries keep this team from ever taking the big prize and injuries have been a feature of his teams for years.

The Niners lead the league in injuries. Kyle overuses certain key players and just runs them until they break. Also, I find his play-calling frustrating when the team is losing. He gets locked into certain things and tries to force them. It has cost him games in the past. I suspect Kyle simply can’t get the Niners to the big game and win. But next season is coming, and I expect to be there…

His Contempt For Americans Is Showing…

by MyBaconPress

The Pedophile Protector got upset when someone called him a Pedophile Protector. Do you think a toaster gets upset when you call it a toaster? He’s just pretending, though. Gaslighting. Donny is doing everything in his power to protect pedophiles – allegedly including himself – by slow-walking the release of the Trump/Epstein Files.

Cadet Bone Spurs was on a photo-op at a Ford auto plant and an auto worker named TJ Sabula used the opportunity to pitch the nomenclature at Dim Leader. Donny, ever the clever word smith and inspiring orator, came back with exactly the third grade response one has come to expect from his putrid little mind: “Fuck you” and a middle finger.

Our classy and distinguished so-called 'President' demonstrating his feeling for Americans.

Sabula was suspended with pay from the plant. Someone set up a GoFundMe page to help during the suspension. As of Januray 15, the GoFundMe page had taken in $811,010 dollars! I suspect every one of those dollars had a “No, fuck you, Donny!” written on it. You either hate that evil weasel or you’re MAGA. There’s no in-between anymore…

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OMG, he’s beaming. He’s SO proud of his non-accomplishment. He hasn’t done one thing to deserve a Nobel Peace Prize – which is why he’s never won a Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel committee has been quite clear: No Peace Prize for Donny. He hasn’t earned it, he doesn’t deserve it.

Instead, he pressured María Corina Machado to hand over the Peace Prize she was awarded. She wants to run Venezuela, you see. Donny won’t let her because he’s so completely, absolutely jealous that she actually won the Prize and he didn’t. So, she made the same calculation everyone else makes: flatter his teeny-tiny, oh-so-fragile ego. She “gave” him her prize.

Bear in mind, as far as the Nobel committee is concerned, The Felon is merely holding Machado’s Peace Prize. It’s still hers. It’s still recorded only in her name. He just gets to hold it. Think of Michael Phelps letting you hold one of his Olympic Gold Medals. Obviously, you can hold it, but he earned it. 47 looks like he really thinks he’s done something and he claimed credit. He wrote: “María presented me with her Peace Prize for the work I have done.” I mean, just look at this beaming, pathetic loser:

The Stench and María Corina Machado.

Her ploy doesn’t seem to have worked, though. He gets her medal, but then he repeats his line that she doesn’t have the support. So she still doesn’t get to lead Venezuela (he hasn’t forgotten that she won the Prize and not him) and now she doesn’t even have her Nobel medal. She’s keeping the money, I presume…

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If every accusation is a MAGA confession, and MAGA is convinced Democrats are paying protestors, we can know for certain that MAGA pays protestors…

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I’ve been able to track the rise of MAGA by looking back in history at the rise of the Nazis. Checking Nazis to gauge MAGA has worked like a dream since the movement started, but MAGA hates that comparison. They’re not sure why, because they talked all through history class. They’re having trouble figuring out exactly how they’re like Nazis – because they know nothing of the Nazis. The rest of us see it as clearly as day, though. So, we mention yet another parallel to Nazis and they scream, “Waaaa!”

Tough. I’m in the, “If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck” camp and MAGA very definitely looks and quacks like ducks Nazis. The parallels have been startling, truth be told. One of the main reasons the Nazis got so powerful was nobody really knew what they were about. There was very little push-back. The good news?

Americans are pushing back. We DO know what MAGA is about. We’ve seen it in history. We’re not just standing on the sidelines in shock. We’re pushing back. That’s a difference from the rise of the Nazis and it’s a big one. All of the noise. All of the cameras. All of the eye-witnesses. ICEholes complain it’s harassment. Good of them to notice. But it’s not violence, is it?

So far, that hasn’t stopped ICE from using violence. They’ve killed a bunch of mostly defenseless people. They’ve hurt and harmed many more. One ICEhole shot a guy, Kaden Rummler, 21, right in the face with a “less-lethal” projectile – ALSO an improper use of the tool. He lost an eye. Then they did it again to a guy named Britain Rodriguez, 31, who said it felt like his “eye exploded in my head.”

A spokesliar from DHS described the protestors as a mob. She lied about what they’re doing and how they’re doing it. She tried to paint a, “They deserve what they get” picture but actual pictures keep making their way into the world and we can all see for ourselves that, really, the protestors are showing great restraint in the face of abusive force.

But the pushback is one difference between the rise of the Nazis and the rise of MAGA. It’s hopeful. It’s positive. It’s making their evil work more difficult. Keep pushing. Collect names where you can (Jonathan Ross). We’ll prosecute later. We can send these evil weasels packing if we just stick to it long enough…

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Here we go, Niners. This team, this year, has been the hardest team to evaluate that I’ve come across for a long, long time. On paper, the team has lost a plethora of starters. They’ve been playing with rookies, backups, and plug-ins. On paper, they should have been booted from contention some time ago. But they keep winning. Mostly.

They lost their Week 18 tilt against the Seattle Seahawks and, let’s be real, they lost BIG. The score wasn’t so lopsided but the game itself? Seattle looked like a lean, mean, fighting machine. They knew exactly what they wanted to do and they did it. The Niners looked like they weren’t sure the game had started. The Seahawks pushed our Niners around like the Niners were second-year players. It was ugly.

The Niners face the Seahawks again this afternoon. It will be their third meeting this year. The Niners won the first game, but lost the second. Now we get a third. The thing is, the Niners have lost in the past and sometimes lost big. It’s common for them to come back the next week and thrash whatever opponent they face. This third shot at the Seahawks comes only two weeks after the second. We have a lot of current game film to study. For our part, the Niners couldn’t do ANYTHING in that game – so the ‘hawks have very little to look at.

The Seahawks beat the Niners like an adult shaking a baby but those kinds of losses often cause the Niners to bounce back with a vengeance. For their part, the Niners are playing with their second string but they’re still finding ways to win. It’s really quite astounding. Everything I know about football tells me they can’t keep doing what they’re doing, but they DO keep doing what they’re doing. I’ve decided to “settle” the matter by… watching the game.

I want the Niners to win. I’ll pick them, 24-17, but mostly that’s because I want them to win. If they do, they move on to the Conference Championship game. If they don’t, they go home. But this year, I don’t think I’ll be too disappointed with a loss. This team has already given us more than we could have asked for. It hasn’t always been pretty but they’ve done so much with so little for so long now, I’ve come to believe anything is possible. We find out today, starting at 5:00pm…

Messing With The Fed Is A Bad Idea…

by MyBaconPress

Have you noticed how much money is fleeing to gold and silver as investments? Have you thought about why? Also, you might want to think about what YOU are going to do. You see, no matter how much damage 47 has done or harm he’s caused, things are about to get much, much worse. All of this heat he keeps raining down on Jerome Powell? Donny wants Powell out as Fed Chair. Powell’s term ends in May. Donny doesn’t want to wait and wants Powell to step down now, today.

Powell looks tired. He looks like the pressure is getting to him. But he’s hanging in there. We owe him a debt of gratitude. See, Powell knows, and you should be aware, the minute Powell is out? The US dollar collapses. The US dollar is the world reserve currency, in part, because our economic structure prevents politicians from messing with the money too much.

Once Powell is out, Donny installs a toady and the US dollar becomes subject to the whims of that madman. It will be as trustworthy as the tales they’re telling about the Minneapolis shooting. And, like that shooting, you can SAY anything you want but the world is going to respond to reality, not the fiction.

Powell can hold the line until May, but his term is up in May. That’s when Donny gets his toady Fed Chair anyway. That’s when Donny’s personal whims dictate the interest rates. That’s when faith in the US dollar collapses completely. And when the faith collapses? So does the dollar…

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It’s the class, you know? I mean, he’s a real classy guy. Like that time (Tuesday) when he was touring Ford’s River Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan and a worker started heckling him from the floor about the Trump/Epstein Files, calling him a “pedophile protector” – and he responded by flipping the bird. Great comeback, there, Donny. Now, release the files…

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From what I see, every decent person on the planet just absolutely hates these ICEholes. These petty little pricks thought that maybe they could gain some respect by putting on a uniform – then they hide behind their masks like cowering children. Maybe they could get even with all of their bullies. They’ve become the bullies they think they hated. Maybe they could finally, finally be a worthwhile person. Instead, they’re reviled and more isolated in life than ever before.

Every decent person on the planet hates their effing guts. Donny’s right about one thing: there’s a reckoning coming. Donny will die. MAGA will fade. Americans will remember. I hope we never, EVER let any of these ICEholes off the hook. EVER. Only we won’t be thugs in the streets. We’ll see you in court, then in prison…

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Speaking of which, I wonder why MAGA doesn’t hear what Team Evil is saying when they warn that if they lose the mid-terms, they’ll be impeached. It’s a line that has been repeated several times. Donny just used it again in a recent fundraising message.

That’s not a message one normally hears from politicians, “Ooh, I’m so close to being impeached.” I have noticed that NONE of the people who have expressed that concern have included the idea that maybe they shouldn’t be doing the things they’re doing that might GET them impeached. That concept never even crosses their minds.

At least it’s a kind of honesty. “Hey, we’re committing crimes over here but our toady Congress is looking the other way and we’ve seriously compromised the court system. We get to keep stuffing our pockets so long as Congress won’t stop us. Don’t let Congress stop us!”

Honestly, if we have fair elections – or any elections at all – I think Congress flips. Even if it’s just one chamber, sanity can have a say again. If we can take both chambers, the impeachments can begin immediately and the ICEhole trials can start right away, too.

Republicans are trying to frame political enemies by charging them with checking a certain box on mortgage applications. Americans will prosecute MAGA for crimes against humanity. MAGA rank-and-file will be outraged when people start going to jail just for committing the crimes they committed. MAGA prefers made up charges. But sanity will make a comeback, sooner or later. Here’s hoping it’s sooner…

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Many people are not aware of this but it remains true: new forms of what I might call “representational technology” are very quickly used for nudity. Archeologists have found carvings dating back thousands of years of nude women. Paintings depict nude women going back as far as paintings exist. Some of the earliest still photos are of nude women. Moving pictures followed the same path. Invent the camera, film a nude woman.

I submit that even the speed of the internet has been driven by nudity. In the earliest days of the internet, (I’m told) it took a long, long time to download one photo of a nude woman. I don’t mean to suggest nudity was the ONLY driver. But there can be no doubt it was a strong driver.

The thing about everything up to the internet is that the women depicted were likely willing participants or figments created in an artists mind. I suspect that’s how the internet started too. Then some small-minded moron posted some intimate photos of a woman who dumped him and a whole new nightmare was born: “revenge porn.”

Revenge porn is, more than anything else, proof that the woman was right to dump that useless waste of flesh in the first place, but that doesn’t lessen the shame a person might feel having their private bits exposed for all the world to see. There is some level of pushback now. The law is catching up and giving women the tools they need to protect themselves. Those tools don’t work too well. The speed of the internet is much faster than the speed of law, but at least it’s something. So, of course, now there’s a new danger.

There are several different AI engines out there. None of them operate as advertised. HUGE investments are being thrown at it. Maybe they’ll pay off, maybe not. Some people say the “success” of the Dow is riding almost entirely on AI investments. So far, it’s neither what the tech moguls want, nor the danger it represents to the work-a-day Joes.

Oh, but at least one of them is a definite danger to women and girls: Grok, Elon Musk’s AI engine. Grok is being used to “undress” women and girls in photos. Grok, which praised Hitler and called itself “Mecha-Hitler,” is the only engine that allows that process. But, as of this writing, Grok allows the process. One can undress and sexualize women and girls using Grok. It looks like Elon thinks it’s funny.

Clearly, women do not. It’s got to be weird. If a person who has never seen you naked draws you naked, they’re going to get some of the details wrong, right? But it’s still your face. YOU – the real you – are not being exposed. But it looks close enough that it still feels revealing. It’s still a violation, an invasion. YOU know the picture is wrong, but what about the guy sitting three cubicles down?

It has opened up a new question. Internet platforms are protected from actions against the platform over user-generated content. That is, if I paste your face on someone else’s nude body and post it to Brand X, you can’t sue Brand X. If an employee of Brand X does the same as official business, you CAN sue Brand X, because Brand X created the content.

So what happens when a USER (not the platform) directs an integral part of the platform to commit the crime? The user says, “Dress her in a piece of string,” but Grok does the actual work. Who did that, the user or the platform? Personally, I’d say it’s a conspiracy and both are complicit. That would allow me to hold Brand X responsible and THAT, in turn, would help me protect women who do NOT want to be nude on the internet – and that should be our highest priority in the matter. You know, IMHO…