Oh, Hey, Another Tantrum…

by MyBaconPress

I read an article that included this sentence: “Mr. Trump has repeatedly lashed out at critics of his Iran strategy.” My problem with the sentence? The suggestion that the Drumpfster has an “Iran strategy.” So far, the whole thing has looked like reaction and overreaction to whatever Iran does in response to the US/Israeli attack. He looks like he’s flailing, to me. And I’m not alone. Germany, for one, has noticed.

47 really is nothing more than a little petulant brat, isn’t he? If he doesn’t get his way, he comes up with some version of holding his breath until he turns blue. In this case, he’s mad at Germany’s Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, for saying that the US is being “humiliated” by Iran, based on nothing more than how badly the US is being humiliated by Iran. Have you seen the Lego man taunts? They’re really very good.

Donny starts an illegal war, a war nobody supported nor wanted. Then, when it wasn’t just a two-day cakewalk, like fools always believe wars will be, he needed help and started taunting our allies for not stepping in to his moronic illegal war, the war nobody supported nor wanted. Pretty much the whole world has been thrown into upheaval because of his stupid little illegal war that nobody supported nor wanted. Europe doesn’t see the value in aiding and abetting war crimes. Go figure.

Donny’s a bully. He’s used to saying horrible stuff about people, places, and things and being protected by his money or, now, the Secret Service, so he often gets his way. But the world is tired of Donny and the things Donny represents. The rest of the world is pushing back. He can’t bully the world, try as he might. And, oh, man, is he trying.

Pulling 5,000 troops from Germany is more of a symbolic gesture, sort of a low-key threat. It’s the guy coming in before problems start and saying, “Nice place you got here. Be a shame if anything happened to it.” 5,000 troops leaving will affect the local German economy. That’s the point. Don’t give Donny his way – especially when he’s egregiously wrong – and he punishes you.

Germany will be fine. 5,000 troops is a drop in the bucket. The US has something like 35,000 troops in Germany. This is just another tantrum. He might even draw them down. But they’ll go back. After the big headlines, someone will explain that those troops were there for a reason and he’ll quietly start redeploying them. TACO, you know…

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It really is toothless, the War Powers Act. Team Evil stands in violation of the Act. They’re supposed to seek Congressional approval for military actions within 60 days of deployment in combat situations. Donny keeps insisting the stupid war he started is over. Bombing continues, the Strait of Hormuz is still blocked and blocked again. Oil prices continue to rise. People are still dying.

Donny says he has no intention of asking Congress for approval. He points out that nobody else has done it, why should he? The truth is, he has a point. The War Powers Act was passed after the Vietnam debacle. The idea was to reassert Congressional authority over war, like the Constitution says. But Presidents tend to ignore it and Congress tends to let them.

You’ll hear a bunch of whining from the left on this but the truth is, both Obama and Clinton could be said to have violated the Act and gotten away with it. There are work-arounds…

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Have you heard that Mexico City is sinking? Not just a little bit, mind you. It’s sinking 10 inches a year! That’s a LOT. Mexico City, of course, was built on a lake bed. It has 22 million people. That’s a LOT of water being pumped from the aquifer and it finally collapsed. This one doesn’t seem like climate change. This one is overpopulation.

Florida is Climate Change. Florida is breaking out in sinkholes. The ocean is finding it’s way in under the ground, undermining the stability of the ground. Sudden holes just open up. I’ve been wishing and hoping and hoping and wishing for one under a certain, unnamed piece of (Mar-a-Lardo) property but so far, the devil continues to take care of his own. Hope abides, though. Climate change isn’t going anywhere any time soon…

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If you ask MAGA, 47 stands at the forefront of a successful administration, just chock full of promises made, promises kept. But then, if you ask MAGA, they’ll tell you trump is a competent leader, out-thinking everyone else in his game of, what, 5D chess?

Rational people also saw his rallies. We heard the promises. We know what he said. We know how often he said those things. As far as we can tell, his is a long, long, I mean really LONG list of promises made, promises NOT kept. The latest is his oh-my-god-how-stupid ballroom. This guy seems awfully focused on decorating, doesn’t he? Do you suppose all that raping of women and children was just over-compensation for his internal, secret desires?

He promised, over and over, that the ballroom would be paid for with bribes, known these days as “private donations.” According to him, the bribes were all paid. He collected the money. Now Congress is out there trying to give him the money for the ballroom. So what happens to the bri— er, “donations?” I’m guessing he keeps that and We, the People pay for the ballroom. Promise made, promise not kept…

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Hey, 8647 okay? As far as I know, the expression “86” traces it’s roots back to soda jerks. When the shop (or, perhaps ‘shoppe’) ran out of something, the guy behind the counter would say it was ’86’d.’ It just meant, “we’re out of that,” and I would LOVE to run out of trump…

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When it comes to the cost of gas, the Republicans have decided to stick to their favorite tried-and-true tactic: lying. They’re just going to TELL you gas prices are coming down and, since you have absolutely no way to discover the truth for yourself (unless you use gasoline), you’ll just believe them. Oh, gas prices are down.

Except gas prices are NOT down. They’re up. They’re WAY up. MAGA would want me to add that they were higher under Biden so I will, but they ignore the fact that Biden was digging his way out of the economic crisis created by our National Embarrassment in his first run at the thing. Biden inherited a mess that 47 just said was the best. On the other hand, Biden left 47 a pretty solid economy, though 47 lied about that, too.

In an interesting variation on the ‘price isn’t high’ lie, Republicans are also claiming that gas started off SO high when Donny started his illegal war that they’re actually down, now. Here’s the thing: I know what I see when I roll up to a gas pump. I don’t CARE how “affordable” politicians tell me gas is. It isn’t. It’s just another brick in the ‘promises made, promises not kept’ wall…

’86 47′ Isn’t Violence…

by MyBaconPress

What an incredible waste of time! One time, former FBI Director James Comey found a rock arrangement on a beach. It read, ‘8647.’ He took a picture and posted the thing. You likely know, ’86’ is slang for ‘throw away’ or ‘get rid of’ and Donny is the ostensible 47th President of the United States. ‘8647’ is code for ‘throw away trump.’

So now the DOJ has indicted Comey! They’re pretending that wanting that evil dumbass out of the White House is exactly the same as threatening violence. If that’s the case, they’re going to have to file charges against 4/5ths of all Americans (and, maybe the planet) since so effing many of us want him out of the White House as quickly as possible.

I’ve already said, I don’t want anybody to kill him and rob me of my pleasure at watching him face justice and do a perp walk for all of his many and varied crimes. But you could sure as hell 86 47 as far as I’m concerned. Let’s get him out of office and let the trials begin…

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It looks like the Sackler family is still getting a protective deal. The Sackler family is responsible for OxyContin. The Sackler family knew it was distributing an addictive, dangerous drug but they found it FAR more profitable to lie about it – so they did. Oh, AND, when word got around that OxyContin was making it’s way to the black market, the Sackler family kicked into high gear and – did nothing. They made no effort to address the problem.

Now, get this, THEY feel victimized. They’ll have to pay out $225 million dollars to the inJustice Department and their drug company, Purdue Pharma, will have to pay out as much as $7 billion dollars, mostly to governments that dealt with the fallout of associated problems. That payment is over time, from future profits. The Sacklers won’t feel it too badly at all, thank the gods – or a corrupt legal system, take your pick.

There isn’t much in the deal for individual families who lost loved ones to the con that OxyContin was safe. And if the Sackler family “agrees to the deal,” there won’t be, either. Any family member that signs off on the deal will be protected from future opioid prosecutions. Quick question: why do corporations get to “agree to deals?” If I got caught committing a crime, I doubt authorities would “offer me a deal” and see if I agree. In my case, the “deal” would be pretty much imposed and I’d “agree” to it, whether I did or not.

I really don’t care about Sackler happiness. I think they ruined a lot of lives and killed a LOT of people. Because they went out of their way to lie about their wonder-drug, I think they murdered a LOT of people. Every family member associated with Purdue should spend time in prison and every dollar gained from their poisonous drug should be confiscated and distributed to the families of the victims…

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What?!? Sports betting conspiracies? Heaven forfend! Who could possibly have known gambling problems might come back to professional sports when gambling was allowed in professional sports again? No, I mean besides everybody, because this was as predictable as sunrise.

It’s not just professional sports, either. College sports are infected, too. Hell, there’s probably illegal gambling in Little League and Pop Warner, too. Watch for the headlines, soon. “Little Jimmy Smith, aged 8 years, was arrested in a point-shaving scheme yesterday…”

The leagues have invested in some of the gambling sites, too. I can’t see myself betting on these sports. I can’t see how I could be sure it was an honest bet. The players have (secretly) made bets they can affect. The teams are invested in outcomes THEY can (secretly) affect. The last person on the list is me and because everybody upstream can affect outcomes, I’m reduced to a straight up guess. That’s not a good bet, if you ask me…

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This country just gets a little more shameful every day. The Roberts Supremely Corrupt, Kangaroo Court weakened the Voting Rights Act on Wednesday. The Voting Rights Act protected against racial discrimination in drawing voting maps. But, of course, ‘protecting against racial discrimination’ is now verboten, here in the Bizarro US. Enhancing racial discrimination seems to be all the rage, these days.

So, oh, MAN, did the south respond! They jumped to redraw maps to reduce minority representation. “C’mon, Cletus, let’s get ’em out of here!” The only question, now, is how quickly the states can implement their new maps. Many of them are running into time deadlines for this “election,” but by the next “election…” Next election. Hope springs eternal, I guess.

Louisiana was thought to be too late to rig their maps for this year since their primary is scheduled for May 16. No problem for racism in Louisiana, though. They’ll just postpone their primary – and that’s exactly what Louisiana’s Republican governor, Jeff Landry, told Republican House candidates he was going to do.

Tennessee has one – ONE – majority black district. The second this ruling was handed down, Republican senator and gubernatorial candidate Marsha Blackburn called for that one district to be abolished immediately. She wants a special session to get rid of it right now, no delay.

I believe this Supreme Court will go down in history as one of the most corrupt, least competent courts ever assembled anywhere on the planet, any time in history…

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The police can now issue tickets to autonomous vehicles, that is, driverless cars. They couldn’t for a while. It turns out, the ticket is issued to the driver, so who do you ticket when there IS no driver? In fact, they still don’t issue tickets. They issue notices of noncompliance.

Who knew those cars were violating the laws often enough for this to become an issue? That’s a bit unsettling, isn’t it? I mean, every driver out there has made a mistake. We’re only human, right? But these cars AREN’T human. They’re computers. They think faster. They react faster. They should get the rules right first time, every time.

So at least now, when an autonomous car chooses to ignore a red light and runs over you, you can take comfort there’s a citation it that car’s future…

Questions, Questions…

by MyBaconPress

I don’t know. The timing of the whole thing is just really suspicious. A judge blocks his ballroom unless he gets permission from Congress, which shouldn’t be too hard. The judge DOES allow work to continue on security elements of the project, though. KKKarolyin’ Levitt announces there will be “shots fired tonight.” There ARE shots fired that night. Donny’s first concern is the ballroom and how much more secure it could have been. What a coincidence.

Maybe unrelated. Maybe an attempted manipulation. The whole thing just feels like a nothing-burger. Yes, I know, Levitt was only referencing how much “fun” the evening was going to be and used a common reference for roasting-type jokes. But it IS also a commonly used phrase for actual shots, actually being fired. That’s called “plausible deniability,” but with Team Evil, “plausible” isn’t enough.

Oh, I also think it’s important to mention that the entire security breach occurred a floor below where the dinner was being held. The guy never got anywhere near the room where his ostensible target was. Hell, he never even got to the right floor. But this thing is being squeezed by the media for all it’s worth. More than it’s worth, it seems.

Apparently, the would-be shooter sent a “manifesto” to his family only minutes before the shooting. He wrote, “I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.” Norah O’Donnell, from ’60 Minutes’ asked 47 about that during an interview, after. “What’s your reaction to that?” she asked the president.

He didn’t like that. “Well, I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would, because you’re horrible people,” Donny replied. “Horrible people. Yeah, he did write that. I’m not a rapist. I didn’t rape anybody.”
“Oh, you think — do you think he was referring to you?” O’Donnell asked. Zinger. Apparently, it played well on the left but c’mon, everybody thinks the guy was referring to Donny. It wasn’t that much of an insight to make that leap.

Donny insists he’s not a raper or pedophile, just like every other raper or pedophile. He said, “I got associated with all the stuff that has nothing to do with me. I was totally exonerated. Your friends on the other side of the plate are the ones that were involved with let’s say Epstein or other things.”

Bear in mind, he was held responsible for sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll, an act the judge later agreed could be characterized as a “rape,” and he has gone to really extraordinary lengths to hide the Trump/Epstein files in what seems a gargantuan effort to protect himself from the consequences of the contents. Neither one of those things seems like “totally exonerated,” to me.

But the whole thing did offer one moment I won’t soon forget. I don’t mean to be making fun of the guy or anything. Who would ever do that? But there’s video of 47 during the White House Correspondent’s dinner evacuation – falling on his face! The Secret Service got him up and started hustling him out. They moved faster than old Peepaw can move – and he did a face plant. I kind of enjoyed that…

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Okay, so it’s a little thing and I know that but it’s kind of fun, right? King Charles is coming for a visit. The White House starts setting up all of the little niceties one does when a head of state visits. In this case, they wanted to display Great Britain’s flag, the Union Jack. So, obviously, one grabs and hangs the flag of Australia. “Close enough,” they seem to have thought. “Who will ever know?”

Turns out, people noticed. Then the White House had to go back and change them. Yeah, I know, a little thing. It’s just one more peek into the competence of this group in general. Or, you know, incompetence, as the case may be…

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Hey, is now a good time to remind you that Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein were best friends and likely co-conspirators in a sex trafficking scheme for years and years? He wants people to forget that. People are not forgetting that. Don’t you forget it…

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185. That’s the number of people Donny has killed with his “extra-judicial killings” (that is, “murders”) of people in boats the US is bombing and insisting – without evidence – must be drug runners. So far. Hell, even if they ARE drug runners, they deserve a trial, according to our Constitution, but there’s no evidence they are drug runners. It’s just as likely they’re fishermen who have to feed their families.

The reality is that Donny doesn’t care. It’s good political theater. It helps the rubes think he’s a tough-guy. He probably likes the big booms, too. He has a very immature, undeveloped sense of what it means to be a tough guy. Of course, he has a very immature, undeveloped sense of what it means to be a human being, too, so I guess I’m not surprised.

I maintain that, without evidence or trials, these are nothing but murders of innocent people. I hope these killings get added to his list of war crimes and crimes against humanity when the trials start…

I Guess They Ate Later…

by MyBaconPress

Look, I don’t like the White House Correspondent’s Dinner any more than anybody else, but to shoot at it? That seems a bit extreme, and it was rude. This guy clearly didn’t think about all the work the kitchen staff did to prepare that fine meal, all the effort that went into staging this annual blowhard bunk. People got dressed up and reporters made ready to hob-nob with politicians and their staffs. Then this guy selfishly messes the whole thing up.

I find myself wondering if it’s a real shooter, or are they staging things again? That’s clearly not beyond the realm of possibility for Team Evil. They’ve done it before. As of this morning, we’re told the shooter was “targeting members of the trump administration,” and that “likely included the President (sic),” but the shooter has not been charged with trying to kill 47 as of this writing.

47 will tell you of his harrowing, narrow escape, though, you just watch. Actually, what he did was use it to promote his “Militarily Top Secret Ballroom.” His words. It’s SO tippy-tippy, top-top secret, he keeps telling everybody about it, all the time. Way to keep a secret, there, Donny.

It sounds wrong, for some reason. The suspect was said to be armed with “a shotgun, a handgun, and knives,” and tried to simply sprint past a security checkpoint. He didn’t get far. At BEST, that’s a lousy plan, practically guaranteed to fail. What good did he think a shotgun was going to do? They’re very good at close range, lousy for distance shooting. Knives? After simply running past security, how close did this Bozo expect to get to President Pedo?

The one thing we can trust for sure is that this regime will do everything they can to capitalize on the fracas. We’ll hear all about the shooter, of course. The press is already using all three names, a sure sign he’s headed to the “attempted assassin” file. This is the propaganda regime. We likely won’t know the factual details until after Donny leaves office, however Donny leaves office.

I don’t mean to sound callous but this isn’t much of a news story to me. Nobody was hurt. Security held. At worst, the attendees had to swing by some fast-food joint on their unexpectedly early way home. I should add, I hope nobody kills him. I mean, I wake up every single day, hoping to see the headline, ‘Trump dead at 79,’ but I don’t want anybody to kill him.

If he survives, naturally, long enough, I’m looking forward to his days in court. I’m looking forward to him facing charges for his war crimes and crimes against humanity and I don’t want anybody to take that away from me. But if you’re going to try to save the world from his dark self, try to plan something a little more… possible than “grab my gun and charge!” You know what they say, anything worth doing is worth doing well…

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I saw a meme. It deciphered 47’s true message whenever he uses one of his catch-phrases. I thought it was very accurate so I thought I’d recreate it here.

When he says “Fake news,” he means, “This is true and I hate it.”
When he says “Low IQ,” he means, “Their intelligence intimidates me.”
When he says “Horrible person,” he means, “They tell the truth about me.”
When he says “Witch hunt,” he means, “I did it and hoped nobody would find out.”
When he says “Hoax,” he means, “This is a damning indictment of me and my criminal activities.”
When he says “Many people are saying,” he means, “I just made this up.”
When he says “Believe me,” he means, “What I’m saying is not true.”
When he says “Nobody knows more about <subject> than I do,” he means, “I know almost nothing about <subject>.”
When he says “Very unfair,” he means, “I’m being treated the same as everybody else.”
When he says “Total loser,” he means, “They criticized me or stopped supporting me.”
When he says “Great guy,” he means, “They’re loyal to me.”

One simply has to know the code to understand how 47 operates…

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Do these morons in the White House really think the commutative property applies to percentages? Wait a minute, do you? Okay, look. If something costs $10 dollars and the price jumps to $20 dollars, that’s a 100% increase. The cost has doubled. But if a $20 dollar cost drops to $10 dollars, that’s a 50% decrease. The cost halved. It doesn’t work both ways, no matter how many times they say otherwise. Thank you for your attention to this matter…

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Yesterday, I wrote, “The primary is a short time away and there’s a real risk that only Republicans might end up on the final ballot.” I’ve been asked to explain why that’s the case. California uses what is commonly called a “Jungle Primary.” We’re all going to go out and vote for the candidate of our choice. THEN, the top two vote-getters stand against each other in the November General Election, regardless of party.

There are only two Republican candidates. There is a field of Democratic candidates. The risk is that while Dems spread their votes around, cons will only have two guys to choose from. The concentration of votes means the two Republican candidates could end up the only two on the November ballot.

The state Democratic Party knows all of this, of course. They’ve been trying to get various candidates to stand down. Some have, some haven’t. I suspect they will, but the ballots are already going out with all of those names on them. Hell, even that pervert Swalwell is going to show up on the thing. We really could end up with a Republican governor again.

I don’t really have anything against Republican governors. We’ve had them before. But these two guys aren’t just “Republicans.” They’re MAGA, through and through. I don’t know how much damage either of them could do with a Democratic controlled state legislature, but I have some idea of how much good stuff they might stop – or try to stop just because it might help somebody…

California’s Next Governor…

by MyBaconPress

I’m not sure which direction I’m going in the California Governor’s race. I know which direction I’m NOT going: Republican. Steve Hilton has received Trump’s blessing. That’s good enough for me. Hilton couldn’t get MY vote if he were the only candidate running. I don’t support trump’s toadies, I’ve never supported trump’s toadies, and I’m not about to start supporting a trump toady now.

The other Republican, Chad Bianco, started seizing ballots in an effort to prove a recent special election might have been tainted somehow. That’s clearly a MAGA mind. He called it a “very, very basic, normal investigation.” The state Supreme Court called it a violation and made him stop. Now Bianco knows that “We’re never going to know if our elections are secure.” Yeah, Chad? Is that because Bozos like you keep seizing the ballots and insisting cheating is rampant, Chad? Screw you, Chad.

I don’t trust billionaire Tom Steyer. In fairness, I rarely trust billionaire candidates who fund their own campaigns. The dude made his money with a hedge fund that invested in some really nasty, unsavory things. Then he separated himself from the company and started investing his own money to combat some of those same nasty, unsavory things. Is that Scrooge, having found the true meaning of Christmas or was it Hitler, building the Autobahn to curry favor with a people he later destroyed?

I like Katie Porter. She’s smart. When she was in Congress, she was a very effective fighter. She’s a bit of a numbers wonk, but that’s not a bad thing. At least she knows what she’s talking about, unlike some Presidents we suffer today. But she was filmed being angry with one of her employees and has now been smeared as abusive to her staff. A woman who gets angry? Unforgivable.

During a recent debate, she gave Gavin Newsom a “B” on his handling of the homeless problem. That’s pretty generous, if you ask me. I think she felt she couldn’t “dis” the current Democrat but she certainly couldn’t endorse his tactics on homelessness, so she went with a “B.” I like Newsom but even I wouldn’t give him anything higher than a begrudging “D-.”

In fairness to Newsom, it’s not his fault. There’s ONE answer to the housing problem in California: stop Wall Street from buying single family homes and force them to divest in those they hold now. Newsom didn’t do that, but nobody else will, either. I mean, really, who’s going to tell Wall Street they can’t steal some money from ANY area of American life, right?

Anyway, that leaves former health secretary and California attorney general Xavier Becerra and San Jose mayor, Matt Mahan. Becerra has a record of standing up to 47 and can already work the hallways of the state legislature. Mahan is Mayor of a big city but is that the same as a big state? Hard to say.

I think I’m looking for the Democratic candidate that promises to shut down that stupid, effing kinda-fast train project. I think there’s truth in the notion that one-party rule can lead to problems but the Republicans have shot themselves in the foot on that. Republicans have collectively lost – no, it’s worse than that. They’ve voluntarily surrendered their minds. I won’t, I can’t, support that.

I’d better figure this out pretty quickly. The election is coming. The primary is a short time away and there’s a real risk that only Republicans might end up on the final ballot. We absolutely, positively don’t want that. So help me out, here. Who do you like, and why? Inquiring minds want to know…

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It’s late at night. You’re sleeping soundly in your bed, dreaming of Sugar Plum Fairies or whatever. Meanwhile, there’s a madman who can’t sleep, typing frantically away at his phone’s keyboard. Posting. Posting. ‘Schumer should resign.’ ‘Let’s ignore the 2020 election results.’ Posting. ‘Obama committed treason.’ (No details added.) ‘Hillary committed treason.’ (Again, no details.) Posting. Obsessing. ‘End the filibuster.’ Then, it looked like he was done.

But he wasn’t. About 90 minutes later, he started up again. This was just Thursday night. He did the same on Wednesday night, too. He posts memes. He posts rants. He posts wishes and hopes and always, always wishes and hopes for harm to someone he doesn’t like. His posts are random and disconnected, just like his thinking.

There’s plenty of reason to believe he has lost his battle with dementia. That’s a sad enough situation for anyone, but it’s downright dangerous for the President of the United States. The people around him, though, won’t do anything about it. He’s the source of their power right now. The result of him staying up all night shit-posting anything and everything is that old Pee-paw falls asleep during meetings when he’s supposed to be paying attention. He’s a terrible, terrible President…

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Cons like to speak all the time about crime in blue states. A recent study has determined that the city with the highest murder rate in the country is St. Louis, Missouri. You know, red Missouri. Hmm, it’s almost like everything they say is just made up on the spot. I guess it IS easier to “get your facts straight” when you just make ’em up as you go along…

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It’s not looking too much, to me, like a so-called cease-fire will hold in Lebanon. Netanyahu’s idea of a cease-fire is, “You guys stop shooting, but we’re not going to, k?” Generally, it is NOT ‘k.’ Gaza seems to have honored their cease-fire with several hundred dead Palestinians to show for it, the result of Israeli soldiers continuing to shoot.

Now Israel has exercised the same tactic in Lebanon. It was only a few hours after 47 declared an extension to the cease-fire in the region. Netanyahu’s response to Donny’s announcement, “Wanna bet?” Hezbollah has decried the whole cease-fire thing as “meaningless,” and that seems an accurate summary…

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TACO gonna TACO, I guess. 47 had his toady DOJ launch an “investigation” into Jerome Powell. He was trying to pressure Powell into retiring or, at least, to reduce interest rates. Powell and the Fed board set the rates based on economic conditions. Donny wants to set them base on whims. ONE of those two positions has a solid basis – and it ain’t “whims.”

Powell’s term comes to an end naturally on May 15. All President Pedo had to do was wait and he could order his new toady Fed Chair to do what he wants – throwing the entire world economy into a tailspin as the credibility of the dollar collapses. But no. Powell didn’t do as Donny demanded so Donny was angry. And, of course, he’s always stupid. Stupid and angry are a bad combination. This was no different.

It looked like a battle was gearing up between Powell and the Drumpfster. But a Republican named Thom Tillis (NC) blocked Donny’s choice of replacement, Keven Warsh, until the DOJ dropped it’s “investigation” of Powell. Yesterday, they did. I mention it because it’s a Republican that took a stand against Donny’s tantrum and that still feels new, to me, Republicans standing up to trump…

An Empty US Cup…

by MyBaconPress

A while back, I wrote that the one thing a person might be able to argue as a “success” for 47 was his “border control.” The reason I suggest it’s only an arguable success is that he accomplished his greatest achievement by being overtly cruel and unreasonable, but, it seems to have worked. NOBODY wants to come to the US anymore. One can only guess at how many want to get the hell out.

So, in a completely unrelated topic, the World Cup is getting ready to play out. Oh, I guess it IS related, since whole blocks of hotel reservations are being canceled at an alarming rate. Well, alarming to the hotel industry. They’re being canceled because of that line up there, ‘NOBODY wants to come to the US anymore.’

The World Cup is being played out this year among three different countries, Canada, Mexico, and the US. I’m thinking two of those countries are going to feel a real economic boom from the impact of tourism. That third country there? The US? Yeah, there’s going to be an economic impact there, too. I just suspect it’s not going to be so much of a boom and more of a bomb. Nice work, Donny. It seems like everything you touch turns to…well, you know…

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Kevin Warsh is the guy 47 wants to replace Jerome Powell as Fed Chair. 47 wants Warsh because Warsh is a loyal toady who will manipulate interest rates as dictated by 47, who destroys everything he touches, or, perhaps, Warsh’s own investment needs. He’ll be the richest Fed Chair in history. He sat for the Senate Banking Committee confirmation hearing and said, get this, that the Fed would be “independent of the White House.”

He managed to say it with a straight face, too. Nobody in the room believed him, of course, but the Republicans all acted like it was straight from God’s lips, near reverential. Powell’s term ends in the middle of May. He says he’s staying so long as he’s being investigated. 47 says otherwise. Sooner or later, 47 is going to get his way. When he does, the dollar is going on a roller coaster that likely ends with deadly crashes…

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I saw a clip of Fox Not-News mouthpiece Jessie Waters, whose own mother doesn’t seem to like him much, saying that Virginia had “gerrymandered the state” in the recent election where Democrats just won a new mid-term district mapping battle. He was close to right. What he meant to say was “RE-gerrymandered the state.” It had already been gerrymandered to the Republicans benefit. That’s okay in the Republican mind. That didn’t become a bad thing until Democrats did it back to them. Now it’s a real outrage…

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Climate change is real. A broad swath of people in our failing nation insist otherwise. Climate change doesn’t care WHAT they say and just keeps getting worse. It’s caused by lots of things but one of the main things is burning fossil fuels. Obviously, making gas and selling it is legal. It just also happens to contribute to environmental devastation, wreaking havoc where ever it goes.

The link between burning fossil fuels and climate change is clear and proven so various environmental groups are suing oil producers, trying to get them to take some responsibility for their actions. Mostly, they want the oil producers to clean up their act – literally. Republicans in Congress are currently working to shield large oil companies from their responsibilities.

They are trying to pass a bill called the ‘Stop Climate Shakedowns Act of 2026,’ because getting the oil companies to clean up their messes is a “shakedown.” If they succeed in this thing, the new federal legislation would dismiss pending climate accountability lawsuits, void all climate Superfund laws, and block similar future efforts. Good for oil. Bad for the planet, worse for humans.

It seems the industry is on the move. Right now, they know they have a small window to use a large-enough group of greedy but stupid people to protect them from their actions. To be clear, they want to keep doing what they’re doing, regardless of the cost. They just don’t want to be held responsible. And the Republicans are working overtime trying to help.

Remember when immoral Republicans in Congress passed the ‘Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act’ in 2005? That one protected gun makers from the consequences associated with the use of their product. Now innocent victims of gun violence can often NOT get redress through the courts because of that law and the oil industry is using it as a model to try and shield themselves from culpability.

Every day, it feels like the Republicans have gone all in. Every day it looks like the cons are close to losing power and they need to get all of their evil legislation passed and in place before that happens. Have you ever seen one of those boxes full of money blowing in the air? A person goes in and for a minute or so tries to grab and pocket as much of the money as they can. That’s how conservative lawmaking looks to me, today. They want it all and they’ve only got a short time left to try and get it.

I, for one, don’t think governments should be protecting industries from the effects of their businesses…

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Ah, Capitalism. “Build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door.” Right? Not so much. Still thinking about climate change, the world should be pushing to get off of burning fossil fuels as quickly as it can and electric cars are one good source to do that. If we continue the mousetrap-as-car metaphor, the best mousetrap in the world is made in China.

US car manufacturers DID beat a path to a door, too. The door to the White House, where a corrupt President slapped such high tariffs on the Chinese cars, they can’t be brought into the US. The US manufacturers know they can’t compete with the Chinese cars. Can’t? Won’t, more likely. And now, because of mealy-mouthed politicians, they won’t have to.

But nobody gets to tell me we live in a Capitalist society when competition is NOT king. If the Chinese build a better car, they build a better car. If competing car companies can’t match that car, the Chinese are going to clean up. Capitalism. The minute you ban that open competition, you’re banning Capitalism. Regardless of the stories you might hear, this is why American-made electric vehicles cost so much.

I suspect if this were a truly Capitalist nation, the Chinese car company BYD would have dealerships in every city and ‘Tesla’ would only describe Nikola again…

An Open Letter To MAGA…

by MyBaconPress

Dear MAGA, I get it. I do. You trusted the guy. That’s not on you. He told you things you wanted to hear. That’s not your fault. Oh, and “told you things you wanted to hear” isn’t intended as an insult. That’s what candidates do and that’s what voters do. They talk, we vote for the person who said what we wanted to hear, assuming one could believe them. The primary difference between you and me is that you believed trump and I didn’t.

I even get that. His style of speaking is such that he says pretty much everything, leaving the listener to pick and choose the phrases they like. The end impression is that he said the right things in your mind, and where he DID say something you didn’t agree with? You dismissed it as a joke. He was just kidding around, right? It happens. I watched some of his rallies. His audience laughs a LOT. They think the guy’s a hoot. Fair enough.

Your loyalty has been impressive. You’ve stuck with him through a LOT. Because he told you he and he alone held the answer to the problems that plagued you, you ignored things you wouldn’t ignore in any other person. It didn’t hurt that your media outlets helped by carefully curating his image. They’ve been very good at downplaying the mistakes and trumpeting the successes.

But it’s starting to look like some – or, worse, most – of those “successes” are not as they seemed at first. I mean, look, I never believed the guy but, like I said, I’ve seen some of his rallies. I heard his words. I know what he promised, the same as you. Because he’s not, to me, who he is to you, it’s easier for me to see that he hasn’t done what he said he was going to do. In fact, in pretty much every area, he’s done the exact opposite. Of all of the promises, you essentially have ONE THING, one promise, that he has kept.

About the only area that actually fulfills the ‘promises made, promises kept’ mantra you guys like so much is the border. Yeah, he closed it. Frankly, I’m not sure how much of a need still exists on that front. I feel like, soon, the Border Patrol’s primary mission will be to keep fleeing Americans in the country. The point is, it’s the ONE area he has done as he said he would do. One. On everything else?

Gas prices aren’t down. They’ve never been so high and there’s no end to the increase in sight. Housing isn’t more affordable. Since the election, he has said out loud that he’s not going to do anything to bring house prices down in order to protect investors. Not you. Investors. Drain the swamp? Really? Do you realize that there’s not one deal that goes down in Washington DC these days where Trump doesn’t insist on getting his little taste? Nothing. He hasn’t drained the swamp. He has only increased the net worth of the swamp monsters.

I’ve heard you say, “They all do it,” but you know that’s not true. Even where it IS true, it has never, ever been true to this extent in the history of the United States. No foreign wars? No wars for regime change? Yeah, it was easy to excuse Venezuela and it was possible to believe Israel was just responding to Hamas attacks in Gaza, but there’s no excuse for Iran. Even he doesn’t offer one. Well, he’s offered several. And he’s stuck there. He doesn’t have a clue how to get out of this mess. It looks very much like he has figured out a way to profit from it, though.

That’s another story he told that turns out not to be true. He and he alone can fix everything. It doesn’t look like he has fixed anything, not for the vast majority of Americans, anyway. Things are just fine if you’re in the One Percent, but you aren’t, are you? Lord knows I’m not. He’s not protecting you like he promised he would. He’s protecting the people who mean you harm, financially.

So it’s time, MAGA. It’s time to reconsider your loyalty to him. It’s time to let the scales fall from your eyes and see 47 for who he really is – what he can and cannot do. One other thing, and this is important. I’m not saying your only choice is to swing left. You don’t have to try to become liberal just because some politician misled you.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is out there talking up a new America First movement that actually stands for the things trump promised. She’s making clear she thinks MAGA betrayed the principles it stood for but maintains the principles, themselves, are sound. She says it’s time to turn your back on MAGA and turn toward this new America First movement.

Your loyalty to him has been over the top. Nobody can ever, honestly, say you didn’t give him every benefit of every doubt. You trusted him. You defended him. HE let YOU down, not the other way around. But you don’t have to just sit there and take it. Now that you can see – and I’m sure you can see now – that he has no intention of doing what he said he would do, it’s right and proper for you to rethink your support. He said he would help YOU if you supported him. You supported him. He helped somebody else, nobody so much as himself. That boy helps himself to anything that catches his eye.

Let’s say you married someone and then discovered that your newfound “partner” had slept with all of your friends – and several strangers – since the wedding – fifteen months ago. You’re not obligated to stay in that marriage. It isn’t what you expected. It isn’t what you were promised. You CAN, sure, if you choose. But you don’t have to.

All I’m saying is, think about it. I suspect you’re already thinking about it. You don’t have to confess anything to me or anyone else. You don’t have to turn blue. You don’t have to change any opinion except the one about who best will look to your needs. But you KNOW it ain’t him, now. You KNOW he lied. You KNOW he’s not the answer. It’s time to rethink your dedication to trump – since he clearly isn’t dedicated to you…

Uncorrupting Corrupted Elections…

by MyBaconPress

Okay, so there may be a tiny ray of hope on the horizon as far as our “elections” go. As we all know (or should know) the egregious ruling of the Robert’s Supremely Corrupt Court in 2010’s ‘Citizens United vs FEC’ seriously damaged the credibility of our elections. The ruling was written by a moron who once worked as a corporate lobbyist, Anthony Kennedy, may he soon burn in hell.

What makes me think he’s a moron? Well, he wrote as part of this assault, “Independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption.” Right? Hasn’t that been your experience? Come to think of it, wasn’t that exactly why political contributions were capped, because other, better people DID see that independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, DO give rise to corruption and the appearance of corruption?

Really, it was completely predictable and Kennedy’s comment proves without question he’s either a moron or straight up evil. ‘Moron’ is a grace, in this case. The thing about ‘Citizens United’ is that it basically created a nightmare election funding scenario that has allowed rich people to buy our “elections.” Or, um, did it? It turns out, not by itself.

‘Citizens United’ essentially created PACS and Super PACS, which let so-called ‘dark money’ into our elections. The story is, nobody knows where the money comes from in the PACS and Super PACS. Somehow, though, the politicians all seem to know who owns them and which favors must be granted by which politician to which rich person.

But there was another, subsequent case, called ‘SpeechNow vs FEC.’ If ‘Citizens United’ created the dark money pipelines, ‘SpeechNow’ ripped the caps off of the contribution amounts. Without ‘SpeechNow,’ the One Percent would have had a far harder time “anonymously” purchasing elections via Super Pacs over the last 16 years, because those entities would have had to rely on much smaller donations, meaning they would not have been able to grow so large and so fast.

So really it was the one-two punch of ‘Citizens United’ and ‘SpeechNow’ that created the corrupted election environment that has done so much damage to this once-great nation. Recently, I wrote about a challenge to ‘Citizens United’ coming out of Montana. Montana has taken the position that corporations might have the right to contribute (They don’t. They’re not people. If they can contribute, my car can contribute.) but they don’t necessarily have the power to do so. States define corporate powers and, in that capacity, can declare corporations do not enjoy the power to contribute.

Now Maine is ginning up a challenge to SpeechNow. In 2010, the Obama administration (classic ‘both sides do it,’ eh?) had an opportunity to challenge SpeechNow. Attorney General Eric Holder opted to not challenge the ruling. He said, and this puts him in the Kennedy camp – moron or evil, that ‘SpeechNow’ will “affect only a small subset of federally regulated contributions.”

‘Citizens United’ didn’t overturn contribution limits. ‘SpeechNow’ did. And, ironically, ‘SpeechNow’ might have been challenged under Citizens United. But, in my opinion, someone probably bought Holder off and no challenge was presented. The upside of Holder’s feckless failure? A challenge, then, might have enshrined ‘SpeechNow’ as Supreme Court precedent since there wasn’t 16 years of corruption to point to at the time. But there is now.

And that’s what Maine is trying to do, use all of the available evidence of corruption and chicanery from the last 16 years to challenge ‘SpeechNow.’ You see, in 2024, Maine overwhelmingly passed a ballot initiative limiting contributions to Super PACS. But rich people LIKE owning the elections and they don’t WANT limits on their power to enrich themselves by inflicting damage on work-a-day Joes. So, they filed a lawsuit against the initiative.

They cited ‘SpeechNow.’ They included an odd point in their suit. They pointed out that proponents of the ballot measure “designed it to prompt a test case, intended to reach the U.S. Supreme Court.” Well, you bet’cha they did. That’s HOW one challenges Supreme Court rulings; create another case. It happens all the time. (“All the time” being hyperbole, but it happens a lot.)

Okay, so this is where “I’m not a lawyer” becomes important. I’m not going to try to maneuver the legal weeds of this case. The upshot is, though, between Montana’s clever response to ‘Citizens United’ and Maine’s awesome efforts to overturn ‘SpeechNow,’ there’s a real and actual possibility we, the people, could regain our voices in “elections,” making them just elections again. That would be great…

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Did you hear the one about the moron from the USA trying to teach the Pope about Catholicism? Look, I don’t see the Pope as the moral leader most of the world does. One does not get to be a “moral leader” while protecting pedophiles and that’s a de facto part of the job of the Pope. When all is said and done, the Catholic Church is a business and no business can afford to have it’s retailers (Priests, in this case) all removed at once.

The Pope, any Pope, has no choice but to protect the Church by protecting the Pedos. I get that. I don’t like it, but I get it. I will not be lining up for moral guidance from the Catholic Church anytime soon, though. But to pretend you know MORE about religion that the Pope? That’s some brass, you know? This is one of their “What do experts know?” bits, and they’re seeing that experts know just tons and tons more than laymen. That’s what makes them experts. The Pope is an expert on religion. Whiskey Pete is a drunk.

Whiskey Pete started praying to God for the blessing to destroy human beings and kill as many as possible in an illegal war. The Pope pointed out that God probably is not on the side of the aggressors in this case. After invoking Jesus, over and over, after posting memes of Trump AS Jesus and then with Jesus, after saying prayers taken directly from the pages of the script from ‘Pulp Fiction,’ this regime thinks the Pope should “stay in his own lane…”

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47 was giving a speech in Las Vegas to promote his “no tax on tips” trumpery. He read from the teleprompter, which he never uses, “The great big beautiful bill (sic) also slashed taxes on millions of Americans, small businesses, including restaurants, dry cleaners, corner stores,” the president said, before pausing to add an aside.

“What is a corner store?” He asked the room. “I’ve never heard that term. I know what a corner store is, but I’ve never heard it described… A corner store. Who the hell wrote that, please?” He added, looking around as the audience laughed at him. There’s the ‘everyday Joe’ MAGA supports because he’s “one of them.” He’s never heard the term “corner store?” He’s 79 years old, fercrissakes. Somebody make sure he identified that giraffe correctly…

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Well, I hardly had a chance to write about the Strait of Hormuz being open before it closed again. Donny’s blockade blockade is the reason. As part of the negotiating process, Iran let up on the Strait. That’s called an act of good faith. 47, as always, misread the situation and responded like the incompetent moron we’ve all come to know and really, viscerally hate. He started turning back Iranian ships.

Iran stopped punishing the world as an act of good faith but Donny doesn’t understand the words “good” or “faith” and decided the beatings would continue until morale improved. Absolutely predictably, Iran closed the Strait again. I fear this war may continue for a long time for no reason other than Donny is too stupid to figure a way out of it…

Stories and Tales, Tales and Stories…

by MyBaconPress

“Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.” That’s the opening line to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem commemorating the ride where Revere warned everyone the British were coming. The poem is fine and all but it put a focus on Revere that was, maybe, overstated. He DID ride, but he did NOT ride alone. There were teams of people trying to get out the message.

We know of Revere mostly because Longfellow wrote a poem about him. The poem doesn’t cover the part where Revere was captured by the British, ending his particular part of the ride fairly early on. The Brits let him go the next morning but didn’t give him back the horse he rode in on, so he had to walk all the way back to Boston. It was a borrowed horse.

There were as many as 40 riders out, trying to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that the Brits were coming to arrest them, which they were not. He wasn’t shouting and making a bunch of noise. This was a discreet mission. He and his fellow riders snuck around British patrols.

Meanwhile, in New York, after learning that the British were attacking the Continental supply depot in Danbury, Connecticut, and setting the town ablaze, a 16-year-old girl named Sybil Ludington is said to have made the same ride, or, rather, that actual ride. She rode alone. She rode 40 miles. She didn’t get caught. Also, she made her ride on a different day and for a different reason. But we don’t hear much about her midnight ride. Apparently, she forgot to enlist a poet to write about her exploits.

No, I don’t really think Revere “enlisted” Longfellow. They didn’t even know each other. But most of us know of Revere because of Longfellow and we don’t know of Ludington because she didn’t have a Longfellow. But you know now. I don’t mean to take away from what Revere did. I just know there were others who participated and most did better than Revere. Good press goes a long way…

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I was watching 47 answer questions before getting onto Marine One, his helicopter. Someone asked him about the economy, how long people should expect to have to struggle with it. His answer – and I’m not making this up – his answer was that the economy is fine. For proof, he pointed to the Dow Jones Index. It’s not the first time he has done that. I’ve come to believe he thinks the Dow IS the economy. That is, if the Dow is doing great, the economy is doing great.

Here’s a rule: the Dow is not the economy. The Dow is not the economy. The Dow is not the economy. The Dow is a CEO happiness indicator. So, sure, the CEOs and other self-important blowhards might be doing just fine, but this economy sucks. The thing is, if he thinks the Dow is the economy, he doesn’t think he needs to do anything to help it. That is to say, help is not coming because the person infesting the White Houses doesn’t even understand there’s a need…

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The clown show continues. Did you hear the one about Whiskey Pete Hegseth leading a prayer service at the Pentagon? He invited the attendees to pray with him as he read something he apparently honestly believed was from the book of Ezekiel. Verse 25, Chapter 17, to be exact. Team Evil likes doing things like that. They’re wolves, hiding in sheep’s clothing. They pretend to be pious while they carry out their evil deeds.

The clown show part? Oh, yeah, that’s because the quote he repeated came from Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Pulp Fiction.’ One of the hit men recites it as being from the Bible before he murders people. Now, since this Trump/Hegseth war is illegal, he IS murdering his victims, too. In that sense, maybe it made sense.

There is a hint that maybe, just maybe, the quote isn’t from the Bible, a compilation of books written a couple of thousand years ago. The first words of Hegseth’s “quote” were, “the path of the downed aviator is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men…” Hey, I’M not the one who said it was Ezekiel 25:17. Whiskey Pete said it. But he had a hint.

I’m pretty sure there were no “aviators” during the time of the Bible, downed or otherwise. When the “Bible verse” you plan to quote starts with “the path of the downed aviator,” you might want to grab an actual Bible a check for yourself. It kind of reminds me of the time Donny said the American revolutionaries had “taken the airports” during the Revolutionary War. He’s really dumb…

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A ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon? Here’s hoping. On Friday morning, the thing was trying to take hold. My own question is about Israel. Will they honor it? When a “ceasefire” was announced in Gaza, Israel never ceased fire. They just kept on shooting. It’s like they don’t understand the concept of a ceasefire.

Conservative talk show host Bill Maher likes to defend Israel by pointing out that the Palestinians say “From the river to the sea.” It’s a kind of a mantra Palestinians use to object to Israel and the not-so-nice things that country does. I don’t think it’s just talk, but because they have no ability to carry it out, it’s just talk.

Thanks to US backing, though, Israel does have the ability to carry out the mantra – against the Palestinians. From everything I’ve seen, that appears to be their goal and they’ve decided to use the Hamas October 7th attack as their final solution. Bibi ain’t stoppin’. While Palestinians SAY ‘From the river to the sea,’ Israel is doing ‘From the river to the sea…’

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Oh, gods, he’s doing it again. He presents things upside down and backwards and pretends they mean something. In this case (there are so many) I’m referring to his assertion that gas prices aren’t high. In order to convince the rubes of that, he points out that they could have been higher. He says he expected them to be higher so when they came up to “just” what they are now, he thinks that means they’re not high.

Diesel where I live is running around $8.00 per gallon. That’s high. The fact that he could have gone for $12.00 per gallon doesn’t mean $8.00/gal isn’t high. This guy was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He was born on third base and he goes through life pretending he hit a triple. He didn’t. He has never known a day of adversity in his life. It’s why he has no character. It’s why he’s so completely out of touch with the day-to-day realities of being a work-a-day Joe…

He’s Evil, Not Sanctified…

by MyBaconPress

Boy, he started running from this pretty quickly, didn’t he? (If you’re one of my subscribers and you don’t see this picture in your email feed, would you please let me know? I hear some people aren’t getting the photos when I use them. If you’re not seeing it, it’s that picture of the Drumpfster pretending to be Jesus.)

Trump portraying himself as Jesus, cause Trump is a piece of shit...

HE posted this to his social media account. A handful of MAGA “Christian” Nationalists, of course, just thought it was beautiful. ACTUAL Christians, though? The word they used for this was ‘blasphemy.’ One definition of blasphemy is ‘irreverent or impious action or expression in regard to something considered inviolable or sacrosanct.’ Here’s another, ‘Contemptuous or profane speech or action concerning God or a sacred entity.’ I’d say blasphemy is the perfect word for this bullshit.

Once the backlash ignited, he went all TACO. He told a reporter he’s supposed to look like a doctor. Uh-huh. Do we see a stethoscope? Then he pulled the picture and pretended he doesn’t know what you’re talking about. Really, it’s disgusting. I’m not even religious and I wouldn’t do something like this. It IS, absolutely, disrespectful. I really, really don’t like this guy…

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It often seems, to me, like anytime Donald Dork “messes up,” someone already-rich makes money. That’s curious, isn’t it? The most recent is his illegal war-that’s-not-a-war in Iran. Not only are weapons manufacturers having a great time, his war has disrupted oil supply chains around the world. This creates both an actual need AND a convenient excuse to raise gas prices at the pump, which the gasoline companies are always happy to do, and have done.

According to an article in the Guardian, the major oil companies stand to take home an extra $234 billion dollars by the end of this year, so long as Donny can keep the price of a barrel of oil hovering at $100 dollars each. His blockade blockade can very likely do that nicely. Yeah, people make money under this regime. It just seems to always be the people who already have money and don’t need any more and not the people who could really use an infusion of cash…

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“What they have done is engage in this act of economic terrorism against the entire world. As the President showed, two can play at that game.” That’s a quote from Jarringly Dumb Vance. He likely doesn’t realize it, but he just admitted that the President – or in this case, Donny – is engaged in an act of economic terrorism against the entire world…

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I liked Eric Swalwell. I did. I thought he was probably a good guy. I was wrong. Damn. He IS a good politician. But, really, what a dumbass. I’ll tell you the truth, I can see some high school kid making an error in judgement, misreading a situation or making a dumb, crude joke. High school dudes can be really dumb. But grown men? A politician?

Politicians are extra vulnerable to public perception. Even the hint of a scandal can end a career. Look at Swalwell. (Don’t look at Donny. His base is immoral and LOVES his scandals.) From the time this story broke until he resigned was a matter of days. He didn’t know that taking his junk out around a female staffer with whom he had only enjoyed a professional relationship previously might cause him a political problem?

His was a bit of a non-denial denial. “There’s no way I did THOSE things, but, I have to admit, I did these things.” Uh-huh. The “these things” part of that statement means you lose anyway. “Sure, I had sex with them, but it wasn’t sexual assault,” is never going to play well with your spouse – nor your constituents. The Dems were quick to dump Swalwell. I presume they’re trying to show the cons how to handle sexual predators like Donald Trump. I understand the GOP won’t care what the Dems do…

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Do you remember when Donald Trump incited his followers to attack the Capitol building in an effort to overturn an election? It was January 6th, 2021. They followed his advice and attacked. Much damage was done. Several people died. Congress went into hiding for a short time. It was an ugly, embarrassing-to-be-an-American day.

Then Donny lied about it. MAGA media picked up the lie and put in on a repeating loop. MAGA rank and file started wandering around parroting the words they’d been conditioned to use. “No attack.” “Day of love.” The posturing became a political flashpoint and before long, you couldn’t find a MAGA who would admit the attempted insurrection was an attempted insurrection. Then? Just to make the point? Donny pardoned the J6 attackers. They got out of jail free.

Several of these fine, upstanding people have gone back to jail since. These were not the best and the brightest in the first place. Many of them were right where they belonged when they were sitting in the clink. In my view, every crime committed by a pardoned J6er is on Donald Trump’s head. He didn’t care if these were good people or bad. He didn’t care if they belonged in jail or not. He ONLY cared about political optics.

Now there are two children out there, sexually molested by a pardoned J6er, that can only have been sexually molested by that J6er because Donny let the son-of-a-bitch out of jail for political reasons. He’s just the latest in a long line of criminals, marauders, perverts, and pedophiles Donny let out of prison. That’s not hyperbole. Many of these guys are back to prison or on trial right now preparing to head back. Thanks, Donny.

I only mention it to highlight the fact that trying to force one’s fantasy alternate reality on actual reality always comes with real-world consequences. Donny corrupted one moment in time for politics. Those kids will pay for that for the rest of their lives…

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Closely related to that, 47 is about to kick off a campaign move to try and convince people things aren’t expensive after all. He’s heading to Nevada and Arizona so he can tell everybody to ignore their own reality. Disregard anything you learn when you, say, stop at a gas pump or go grocery shopping and replace it with his preferred vision.

“Everything is affordable,” he says. “You are getting very sleepy. You are under my control. When I snap my fingers, you’ll believe. Keep your eyes on the watch.” <Snap!> “Everything is affordable. Prices are down. You’ve never paid less for gas.”

Apparently, the GOP is becoming concerned with the price of, well, everything, really. It’s not related to concerns for you, the squeezed consumer. Instead, it’s all about elections and keeping their own phony-baloney jobs. The GOP cares about making rich people richer. Period. Full stop. They’ll pay lip service to affordability until the ballots are cast but they won’t care when they’re talking and they won’t care later, when it’s time to address the problems…